I don't really care about this, rather have some new 30STM. His voice is great, but the rest is just meh.
Well, I listened to it again, and it's not too bad. It's really atmospheric like their first CD, which I loved, and that's something I think A Beautiful Lie lacked tremendously.
Listening a little more it's not as WTF, but it's still a very weird song for them to cover. *loling at Jared dramatically singing "I would do anything for a Klondike".*
Listening to this from the perspective of somebody who's never listened to more than 15 seconds of Kanye's version, this is really good. Try listening to it and thinking of it as an original song, as if Kanye never did it in the first place, because that's almost the perspective I have. I like to pretend Kanye doesn't exist.