Music

Listen to My Chemical Romance's cover of Pulp's "Common People"

by Tyler Munro

There’s something about Pulp‘s “Common People” that just begs for it to be covered. In 2004, William Shatner enlisted Joe Jackson for an usual, half-spoken rendition of the brit-pop classic and earlier today pop-punks and purveyors of manic panic My Chemical Romance gave a snot-nosed performance of the track on BBC 1’s “Live Lounge”.

Watch and listen below, and be sure to note singer Gerard Way’s increasingly British inflection. He’s from New Jersey.