My Chemical Romance call it a day

http://www.mychemicalromance.com/blog/mcr/my-chemical-romance

THERE IS A GOD

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They actually won me over in the end. Maura's evangelizing helped there.

The Black Parade is a fucking badass album. Seriously.

does everyone just get a job at a cafe now? genuinely curious what people do after this.

So much for the Nirvana of our times...

rip!

:(

lol thought "call it a day" was the name of a new album and this thread was hyping it and i was all wth

The Black Parade is a fucking badass album. Seriously.

I'll rep for that one as well as Three Cheers. I wish they were produced differently though.

I loved, LOVED Black Parade. Three Cheers had a few good tracks too.

i loved the last one to death

They actually won me over in the end.

Yeah, this happened to me as well.

I really liked My Chemical Romance. Sad to see them go. They were one of the ultimate if I had have been 14 or 15 when they came out I would have loved them. The Black Parade is the really good album but I didn't even mind the weird pop album they did a couple of years ago either. In my experience, always unfailingly nice guys as well.

so long and goodnight

THERE IS A GOD

― Algerian Goalkeeper, Saturday, March 23, 2013 3:32 AM (7 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

lawl

finally an end to their reign of terror

just remembered I saw them on the Black Parade tour actually. it was ok I guess but I thought there was gonna be more bells and whistles

does everyone just get a job at a cafe now? genuinely curious what people do after this.

― Poliopolice, Saturday, March 23, 2013 12:15 AM (6 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

um, start new bands? every high profile breakup seems to produce 2-3 splinter bands/solo projects.

the fact that they've only made one album in the last 6 years should've been a tipoff, i guess. loved everything they did except The Black Parade, RIP.

they were fantastic in a "never change, you adorable babies" sort of way

;_;

I super loved MCR but at least this way they're not going out on a disappointing record, I appreciate that.

i definitely o_0 at people who flat out hate them, like how is that possible, i can't really think of a big rock band in the past decade that made such great pop songs so consistently

they totally won me over with the last 2 albums ...

aw man i'm super fucking bummed out

also people itt who only rep for TBP but not three cheers...get out. GET OUT

^^^

not heard three cheers.
guess i should fix that ..

lol @ acting like it's hard to hate on mallpunk

mallpunk

oh come on

not heard three cheers.
guess i should fix that ..

OTM. "Helena" 4eva.

From an interview I did with Alice Cooper in 2008:

"I hear, like, 'Teenagers' by My Chemical Romance and I'm pissed off I didn't write that song...You get one like that, and I'm going, boy, if the whole album was like that, this would be a Def Leppard album, or this would be an album that you could play all the way through without taking it off. But I heard that one song and I said, that is great...Every once in awhile you hear one that you just kick yourself for not coming up with yourself."

<3

mallpunk

oh come on

I WOULD LOVE TO SEE THE ARGUMENT AGAINST THIS.

Sudden (way overdue) flash of insight that I muttered about, namely that they were a better New Jersey mainstream rock band than Bon Jovi ever has been. (Mall AOR metal vs. mallpunk, mallpunk wins.)

how about Mall Jingle Bell Bullshit?

Ha, what if it were Def Leppard vs MCR, Ned?

haha

That's actually a good question! Then again I don't think of DL as mall AOR metal, I think of them as pop gods, so. :-D

Best NJ band since the Misfits.

Well, OK, gotta fit Monster Magnet in there, too, but notice what all three of those bands have in common - conceptualism, larger-than-lifeism, a commitment to awesomeness (however defined).

In looking over their Wikipedia entry

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/My_Chemical_Romance

I'm having a sudden 'where has the time gone' moment realizing that a band specifically formed in response to 9/11 has had an entire mainstream career from start to finish since. Just a year younger than ILX as a whole.

Hm, listening now, Black Parade does seem to hold up a little better as an album than Cheers.

grabbing this dn before someone else gets it

hahah

I really liked My Chemical Romance. Sad to see them go. They were one of the ultimate if I had have been 14 or 15 when they came out I would have loved them.

otm I always felt this way about them as well.

Three Cheers is the only album of theirs I own - really fun record. also, "Helena" and "I'm Not OK" are two of my favourite videos of the 00s.

Yeah, the videos got me interested at first. They had a good sense of humour about the emo pomp.

This video still rules:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dhZTNgAs4Fc

mostly hyped about this because it gives gerard way more free time to work on his amazing comics

ok .. i keep reading re the comics ..
are these proper dc/marvel etc comics ?
i.e. i know nothing, so someone please point me in the necessary direction ...

oh not superhero comics at all, random sci-fi type w/ popish humor type stuff. "the umbrella academy" is out on dark horse comics and i'm struggling to remember the name of the other more recent one that was also great (but i got into late and had to jump around issues of)

I'm Not Okay <3 <3 <3

oh, the other comics i was thinking of was casanova starring casanova quinn but it's not by way, gerard ba worked on it (who also worked on the umbrella academy)

*gabriel ba

Very fond of MCR, not least because they always seemed to have a good sense of their own ridiculousness. "I'm Not Okay" is still a go-to for when I want something loud in the car, and the last album has held up really well. Otoh, I probably have all the MCR I'll ever need, so the timing is probably good.

disoriented by this thread....always thought these guys were a step above staind, puddle of mudd, etc. maybe i should watch the helena video again. sigh

good troll

yeah they were at least 3 steps, 5 steps being deftones

nice

good riddance

i hope you had the time of your life

Deftones aren't 5 steps above anyone because they are garbage

Didn't know they'd covered "Desolation Row." As far as punked-up Dylan goes, it's OK but no Jason and the Scorchers.

does everyone just get a job at a cafe now? genuinely curious what people do after this.

if you don't think they're all millionaires by now you're a moron.

liked a lot of their music but they were total narcissistic vengeful assholes to a friend who worked for them, hope they all die tbh

Jeez, that sucks.

i kind of don't really know how much a band of their stature can be reasonably expected to earn or hold onto. maybe each member of the band is sitting on a single solitary million right now, kinda doubt it's much more than that, though.

all their songs are about narcissism and revenge so i will take some perverse comfort in the knowledge that they really are bout that life

Lol at being a better rock band than bon jovi being a big accomplishment.

also their teenage fan base are legion. (and insane)

yeah i mean if they're wealthier than i speculated upthread it's probably because their merch sells like hotcakes

gerrard has a p lucritave comic book career too

well i have even less of an idea of what kind of money people make in that business

tempted to go look at one of those 'what celebrities are worth' sites to see whether they've added up the most optimistic profit figures from everything he's ever done to an $80 million total or something

!: http://www.celebritynetworth.com/richest-celebrities/rock-stars/gerard-net-worth/

Didn't even know these sites existed tbh. Not sure what methodology they use.

But yeah, I would not have expected so high of a figure either.

yeah those sites all have ludicrously high figures that seem predicated on the assumption that entertainers and athletes save and wisely invest every dollar they've ever made which uh

oh not superhero comics at all,

although it's the most blatant Grant Morrison Doom Patrol tribute band ever

gerrard has a p lucritave comic book career too

the last issue of Umbrella Academy sold under 21k copies, in May 2009; at 4% of cover he would have made $2500. how many houses do you think he bought with that in the last four years?

yeah but he's just one Hollywood studio option away from his big payoff

he probably made more money doing that song for the Watchmen soundtrack than every comic book he's ever written combined

he's married to the woman from MSI who's basically one kickstarter away from $1.2m

Deftones aren't 5 steps above anyone because they are garbage

LOL righttt in a thread hyping MCR this makes my day. keep it comin' champ.

the last issue of Umbrella Academy sold under 21k copies, in May 2009; at 4% of cover he would have made $2500.

not that i have any actual idea of how much he's making on anything but the original collected TPB reps over 45,000 copies, if the 4% cover thing stands that's $32000. then there was volume 2 tpb . ...and the limited edition hardcovers of both (~1500 copies, no idea what the original price was but LOL some are being resold on amazon for $900!). ...then add in the 6 individual issues of the first volume. the 4 of the second volume. just saying he's probably made a bit more than $2500 off them.

wikipedia mentions hollywood was already tryin' to movie it but it's gotten fizz-ly and is back to just alks.

*talks

original collected TPB reps over 45,000 copies, if the 4% cover thing stands that's $32000

damn, spread out that's over $6000 a year he's pulled in - no wonder he's splitting up the band

^loll right since that's what i said. you're not too good at comprehension (or math) huh. anywayyyy

haha is this some kind of I Love Comics goon beef spillover?

made a spotify playlist of mcr DEEP CUTS: http://narrowcast.blogspot.com/2013/03/deep-album-cuts-vol-4-my-chemical.html

nah fauxmarc's not an ILC-er

since that's what i said

well I quoted you directly. you're arguing specifically for his comics career being so "lucrative" that it would be a significant factor in making him a millionaire (with significantly higher than one solitary million dollars).

I cited the figures from his last published comic bcz this would be the best pointer as to what his "career" would be bringing in if it actually existed, and hadn't been something he last did four years ago. if you want to throw in the sales on the Dallas tpb, go ahead! and I'll work out some totals and we can see how high over $1,000,000 they'd bring his net wealth, but they do have to get broken down over six years to represent a career, ie ongoing income even if there's no new output

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^^^

i can't really think of a big rock band in the past decade that made such great pop songs so consistently

― This is called money bags. (zachlyon), Saturday, March 23, 2013 7:33 AM (Yesterday) Bookmark

linkin park~

there really aren't many big rock bands in the past decade period. much less ones that had pop hits over a prolonged period of time (arguably MCR didn't).

didn't say hits tho

fair enough. i don't really think of their songs as "pop songs" but i mean they're catchy as fuck so i can't quibble.

I have to say "Vampire Money" is a pretty good tune to go out on. Though it would have been pretty amusing if they'd had the stones to make "Gun." the radio single off Conventional Weapons.

ha i wouldn't be surprised if they were in the middle of writing another album full of bloody shootouts and then Sandy Hook happened and they were like "y'know what, fuck it"

They won me over after a show. I didn't become a fan but it was enough to not hate them anymore

gerard way's been livetweeting the mcr records since last night. so far he's done danger days and conventional weapons. he digs out a lot of fun references in the former; biggest revelation for the latter is that it's mostly about his experiences in the band during and immediately after black parade

oh i guess he tweeted about black parade and three cheers even earlier!

i really like this new frank iero track

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rMTvTRITbn0

also if you haven't heard this gerard way track you are missing out. album due next month!!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gbk72F10Vgo

I'm old and I love MCR. The Black Parade is on my list of Top Ten Albums of All Time.

both songs sound great, looking forward to the solo album era

Black Parade is so good

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FsDSIEq7O08

into this. very danger days

uh the gerard way record rules

nice -- the first two singles were great

feel like this is a "fans of the patrick stump solo album unite" situation

hard to describe why i'm so enthusiastic about it but it's just a great pop rock record idk

just great pop rock

i'm glad to hear it's good, I was hoping it would be!

i have a piece about it coming out tomorrow

but i like it

http://www.wonderingsound.com/feature/gerard-way-hesitant-alien-reprise-review/

sold :D

Streaming here:

https://soundcloud.com/gerardway

ah jeez i fucking love this record

I've had a listen to a bit of it and I'm feeling it

Gonna hold off listening to much more til release day, feel like this one will be a keeper

not sure how I feel about the production yet but there are definitely some tunes in there, "Millions" and the closer really stuck out on first listen

OMG this album

best glam album since danger days which was the best glam album since mechanical animals

See, I'm glad YOU remember that Mechanical Animals is a brilliant as fuck glam album, some days I feel very alone on that point.

the mid/late 90s glam revival must have been a big deal to Gerard. hell, his album title is pretty close to the title of that Spacehog album.

*starts mechanical animals appreciation thread*

PLEASE DO

Mechanical Animals is so fucking great

i am so buying this album tomorrow

(gerard way, i mean - i already have mechanical animals)

Still listening to this. There's a lot to dig into.

ned have you heard this yet

DO NOT PAIN ME. (Money's a little tight; waiting on payday on Wednesday.)

nedddd

NED GODDAMMIT

Ahem. People. I don't get every promo.

sb

Complaints complaints.

hard to describe why i'm so enthusiastic about it but it's just a great pop rock record idk

― emo canon in twee major (BradNelson), Monday, 22 September 2014 19:05 (2 weeks ago)

^^
Love the way Gerard's a rebooted/fixed Billy Corgan re: US glam anglophilia; glittery Roxy-Music-at-the-mall vibes.

In stuff like "Brother" I also get a strong Todd Rundgren in classicist pop mode vibe.

It occurred to me while listening for the Nth time today that I want Gerard Way and Sky Ferreira to team up for an album.

hard to describe why i'm so enthusiastic about it but it's just a great pop rock record idk

― emo canon in twee major (BradNelson), Monday, 22 September 2014 19:05 (2 weeks ago)

^^
Love the way Gerard's a rebooted/fixed Billy Corgan re: US glam anglophilia; glittery Roxy-Music-at-the-mall vibes.

― etc, Monday, October 6, 2014 1:50 AM (57 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

whoa otm

"You said we'd all be dead by twenty-fiiiive!"

<3 <3 <3

Been spinning this on my ipod every couple days, but just got back from my first long-haul fast-lane nighttime highway driving session with it and well goddamn.

the live shows have also been really wonderful

the record really deepens the more you listen to it

Yeah, I've been enjoying all the show reports for sure. (And yes I did get the album and yes it is great, so there.)

https://vine.co/v/MlI2D9wUxiM

This is nice.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IiRJ64dscko

I thought I had shared that over on the active s-k thread, but apparently not! Off to remedy that.

just saw him live and realize that he's the greatest guy ever. awesome speech supporting transgender people and all those who don't fit in the binary norm. and also his acknowledgment that young women take with all the shit privileged guys

Was just watching this "making-of" short for the Millions video. The director says something about how "we both decided we wanted to represent the Transylvanians".

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZO5UMB54vfU

he makes an appearance in the new Sleater-Kinney video, which made me really happy

What? Awesome!

Lola about halfway makes me want to look into building a fursuit.

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ayo

Fuck. I guess this means we won't be seeing any new Gerard Way solo material in the near future.

could just be reissue news but i'm optimistic, even though i'd also like another gerard solo record (which iirc he was recording a little over a year ago)

Yeah, it's obviously going to be awesome news for zillions of mcr heads. Probably a 10th Anniversary tour for Black Parade.

!!!

and it's definitely only a black parade reissue

When I was a young fan
My father took me into the city
To see a touring band

He said son when you grow up
Will you be the buyer of the vinyl
A gatefold in your hand

He said will you order them
These records, from all the eBay sellers
The money they have made

Because one day I'll join you
In the line to own it in the summer
I love The Black Parade

If you hear one note of the intro, it could either be "The Black Parade", or "Children" Robert Miles.

Two notes confirms which one it is.

Somehow I missed this Cave Carson related picture disc from RSD.

http://store.gerardway.com/dc-s-young-animal-picturedisc-comic-book-1.html?eml=2017December5/4199127/6259150&etsubid=31392749

low key the best mcr song

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BQndQV9E8C8

love the Pixies-ish intro on that one

also I only just heard the Japan bonus tracks for Danger Days and it's criminal that they didn't make the album proper

this was the greatest band of all time

none of their albums were perfect but: the sheer volume of ideas in each one! they were accused at the time of (and i even thought of them as) being another indistinguishable mass of mall emo but: no one sounded like them, especially by three cheers, that hybridized glam/arena rock/hardcore thing was theirs, and they made three very different albums that somehow found a new way to explore that dynamic every time. (and they also shelved a pretty decent one!) sidenote the jump in quality from the debut to three cheers, the feeling that their music had been sharpened down into this perfectly-edged thing, is so fun to experience

lmao I tweeted this this morning, in a deliberate attempt to be inflammatory (though I do actually believe it)

MCR released more worthwhile music than Hole and Nirvana combined.

— pedantic pissant (@hollowmines) December 20, 2018