Name checking Marc Bolan and David Bowie with a riff hijacked from Steve Nieve and rewritten for a guitar, and a lyric like an explosion of teen cult references for the year 2010, there is every reason to have expected this might be yet another off My Chemical Romance, Helen Bach’s album of the year, predictably iffy follow up to the Black Parade.
I’ve been ragging on the well intentioned but ultimately dull Danger Mouse or whatever it’s called. But it took Mary Magpie to send along a song that proves the error of my ways. “Vampire Money (a reference to the FB game) is a streamlined, sequinned rocker of so much forward propulsion you might be excused for closing your eyes and holding on for dear life and Gerard takes the curves way too fast and still manages to not flip the song onto its back.
This glammy hard rock punkette number is so easy to flip up: it has to be exactly where it needs to be at every second, it’s like comedy: all timing. And the timing here is awesome, it tears along and you try to keep up.
At the end the 21st Century are knocked into place and you breathe a long sigh of relief before bucking up and taking the ride again.
Keep your ears open for the tinny titanic guitar solo.