The idea that My Chemical Romance is this generation's Nirvana is ridiculous to them. It's probably ridiculous to most of the people who read this blog, but to the average 16 year old kid, Nirvana is irrelevant in comparison to My Chem.
I don’t think it’s that ridiculous to compare My Chemical Romance to Nirvana, but I do think that the notion that Nirvana should be somehow more relevant to a 16 year old in 2006 than My Chemical Romance is. Is the writer expecting music to get stuck in 1993 for the rest of its existence?
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Monday, 4 November 2019 06:55 (four years ago) link
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The idea that Billie Eilish is this generation's Madonna is ridiculous to them. It's probably ridiculous to most of the people who read this forum, but to the average 16 year old kid, Madonna is irrelevant in comparison to Eilish
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Monday, 4 November 2019 06:59 (four years ago) link
In light of last week's announcement, I have been listening to Danger Days and I'm finally coming around on MCR being something more than just the prequel to Gerard Way's solo career. Otoh, I tried getting into I Brought You Bullets and it still reminds me of budget Thrice.
― ☮ (peace, man), Wednesday, 6 November 2019 12:56 (four years ago) link
i brought you my bullets is the worst mcr album easily. it sounds like those were the first eleven songs they wrote together, which iirc was the case
― american bradass (BradNelson), Wednesday, 6 November 2019 12:56 (four years ago) link
three cheers, black parade, and danger days are all differently amazing
― american bradass (BradNelson), Wednesday, 6 November 2019 12:57 (four years ago) link
the only record i can think of that matches three cheers's manic energy is i get wet
― american bradass (BradNelson), Wednesday, 6 November 2019 12:58 (four years ago) link
Also, hey they are headlining the Download Festival next year, which seems like more evidence in favor of "oh wow, I keep forgetting that these guys are fucking huge."
― ☮ (peace, man), Wednesday, 6 November 2019 12:59 (four years ago) link
I will move on from Bullets and try out Three Cheers again, then. Thanks Brad.
The lineup for that festival is nuts.
― Simon H., Wednesday, 6 November 2019 15:23 (four years ago) link
Show is tonight.
https://i.redd.it/hsrn8hwnop541.jpg In the past couple months I've become a huge fan of Black Parade and Danger Days. Really excited to hear what they've come up with now. Apparently this has been quietly in the works for about 2 years.
― ☮ (peace, man), Friday, 20 December 2019 13:17 (four years ago) link
meant to post this piece here the other day https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/12/18/arts/music/my-chemical-romance-black-parade.html
― american bradass (BradNelson), Friday, 20 December 2019 14:59 (four years ago) link
Cool! I remember reading something about the Black Parade when it came out, how it mixed emo (which I liked, although was pretty much over at the time) with musicals and Queen and Pink Floyd The Wall and cancer. On paper that just sounded like the worst combination for me.
― ☮ (peace, man), Friday, 20 December 2019 15:44 (four years ago) link
I'll be sure to check out the post-Black Parade stuff on there that the article recommends. Most of which I haven't heard.
I remember not so long ago WGW did a similar feature with the B-52s first album. Has he done any other articles like that? The format is pretty cool and they're great tributes.
― ☮ (peace, man), Friday, 20 December 2019 15:47 (four years ago) link
rock sound is livetweeting the show:
MyChemicalRomance pic.twitter.com/fxNYxqCjtN— Rock Sound (@rocksound) December 21, 2019
― Roz, Saturday, 21 December 2019 05:40 (four years ago) link
they're playing Mariah's "Fantasy" as warm up music <3
― Roz, Saturday, 21 December 2019 05:46 (four years ago) link
i bet they do their mariah cover. also they debuted “make room!!!” tonight !!!
― maura, Saturday, 21 December 2019 07:05 (four years ago) link
Great setlist:
What a band.What a show.What a setlist.It's good to have you back, My Chemical Romance. pic.twitter.com/OAGxZfipXA— Rock Sound (@rocksound) December 21, 2019
― Roz, Saturday, 21 December 2019 09:37 (four years ago) link
'summertime' made the setlist! i really hope they come to europe.
― Nourry, Saturday, 21 December 2019 22:18 (four years ago) link
if I had to pick an ideal 20-song setlist mine would be almost identical, goddamn
― Simon H., Monday, 23 December 2019 14:23 (four years ago) link
It’s been months and I literally cannot stop listening to these guys now wtf. Can’t imagine how insufferable I would have been if I had discovered them when I was 15 like I was supposed to.
Also as a new-ish fan, I’ve been low-key fascinated by their viral marketing strategy - all the cryptic posts and elaborate teasers designed to generate as much discussion and conspiracy theorising as possible. It’s kind of k-pop ish too, having distinctive visual and sonic concepts to mark each era of the group (which explains why so many kpop fans are former emo kids I guess).
― Roz, Thursday, 23 January 2020 13:41 (four years ago) link
Yeah, coming from the same place basically and they are so good it's ridiculous.
― ☮️ (peace, man), Thursday, 23 January 2020 13:54 (four years ago) link
I finally got around to the Conventional Weapons stuff this week and jesus, I can't believe they scrapped that album - most of it is as good as anything else they've ever done. But at the same time really glad that they did? Because freaking Danger Days.
"Boy Division" is the best track title in the world lol.
― Roz, Thursday, 23 January 2020 14:05 (four years ago) link
let's hope for a new gerard way solo album:
https://www.instagram.com/p/B-kuORqpAFK/
― Nourry, Sunday, 5 April 2020 18:31 (four years ago) link
That's what I was genuinely hoping for prior to the reunion announcement. The way that's worded, and with an MCR record probably coming soon as well, I don't think we'll be seeing a full record in the near future. But maybe? I love the new song.
― ☮️ (peace, man), Sunday, 5 April 2020 22:08 (four years ago) link
You busy yourself with fashionI busy myself with funI’m busy painting these mini metal skeletons andYou say I’m dressed like a bum
Fiiinally checking out Black Parade after years of only hearing a song now and then in the wild. Pretty great album! But I also like Panic at the Disco so I suppose that makes sense
― Vinnie, Tuesday, 16 June 2020 07:51 (four years ago) link
I think Three Cheers is my favourite now. Black Parade has some of their best songs (Teenagers, Mama, Sharpest Lives) as well as some of their worst (Cancer, WTTBP, Disenchanted). Danger Days with a few songs replaced by some of the Conventional Weapon tracks would have made a killer album.
sucks that their reunion plans had to be put on hold - was supposed to go see them in March but of course it didn’t happen.
― Roz, Tuesday, 16 June 2020 11:05 (four years ago) link
"WTTBP" and "Disenchanted" are probably my two favorites haha! "Cancer" is not great, but I think it's a really solid album otherwise. I'll check out Three Cheers next
― Vinnie, Tuesday, 16 June 2020 12:49 (four years ago) link
"Sleep" is my least fave just because the climax sounds hopelessly squashed to me. (good song tho)
― k*r*n koltrane (Simon H.), Tuesday, 16 June 2020 12:56 (four years ago) link
I get what you mean about squashed but I blame the production for that - "Sleep" sounds great live.
"WTTBP" kept me from actively checking them out for years lol. I like it when they lean more T. Rex/Bowie than Queen, though I've come to accept that the Queen influence is a huge part of their sound.
It's amusing how blatant they were with their hero worship too - Gerard's vocal runs at the end of "The Sharpest Lives" are a pitch perfect impression of Matt Bellamy/Muse, who I suspect he was listening to a lot while they were recording this. But not terrible! One of their best choruses. And then there's like "Kill All Your Friends" which is so clearly "Where is My Mind?" run through a Britpop filter lol.
― Roz, Tuesday, 16 June 2020 14:05 (four years ago) link
anyway at their best, MCR takes a lot of things that on paper should sound terrible and somehow makes them good.
― Roz, Tuesday, 16 June 2020 14:09 (four years ago) link
Hard to unhear the squashing on "Sleep" now that you point it out. It starts right out with it. Good song still
― Vinnie, Wednesday, 17 June 2020 11:39 (four years ago) link
I gave Three Cheers a few listens, another solid album. The songs are more uniform in style compared to Black Parade, and I have a harder time remembering songs where the title is not in the song, so I probably need a few more listens before it all sinks in. I can understand now why you may not like "Disenchanted", Roz - it's like a half-speed rewrite of the even-better "I'm Not OK". That and "Helena" and "Ghost of You" are really strong. And speaking of hero worship, the interlude straight up sounds like Radiohead
― Vinnie, Tuesday, 6 October 2020 03:58 (three years ago) link
The first time I "got" Three Cheers, what hooked me was the one-two punch of Ghost of You and Jetset Life is Gonna Kill You. Both of those choruses are just so ultra-processed and saturated that I just felt like I was in a hurricane. You just get done being completely wrung out by Ghost of You and Jetset comes on like "let's do that again, shall we?"
― 📺👁️ (peace, man), Tuesday, 6 October 2020 10:27 (three years ago) link
Eyes. pic.twitter.com/LUK9DmduYC— My Chemical Romance (@MCRofficial) December 8, 2020
You know, I was wondering what the hell this was about and it turns out they’re putting out a Revenge-era makeup line: https://www.allure.com/story/hipdot-my-chemical-romance-makeup-collection
Only 16 years too late, lol.
― Roz, Wednesday, 9 December 2020 17:20 (three years ago) link
Gerard provides guest vocala for the new song from Ibaraki - a black metal project of Trivium's Matt Heafy and Ihsahn from Emperor.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v7rn2BhWHAg
― peace, man, Saturday, 26 March 2022 14:34 (two years ago) link
This thread is now older than Nevermind was when this thread was started.
― jaymc, Saturday, 26 March 2022 20:06 (two years ago) link
Annie Zaleski making a convincing case: https://www.theguardian.com/music/2022/may/10/my-chemical-romance-how-the-vilified-band-turned-antipathy-into-triumph?CMP=share_btn_tw
All of this may be a passing fad – but the alternative rock realm MCR left behind has expanded in their image: it’s a place where greater honesty, empathy and a willingness to understand mental health difficulties are flourishing, and in which boundaries of gender and genre are dissolving. The late rappers Lil Peep and Juice Wrld continue to have large followings thanks to their deeply vulnerable, personal lyrics. After two years plus of the pandemic, a crop of songwriters known for talking frankly about mental health – such as Phoebe Bridgers, Julien Baker, Lucy Dacus, Soccer Mommy and Japanese Breakfast – have elevated profiles.
Today, MCR’s legacy is arguably comparable to that of Nirvana, another group of scrappy underdogs who proudly identified with the outcasts. Both bands drew on underground punk influences for inspiration and spoke to the marginalised; both became cultural forces by accident. Like Kurt Cobain, Way is an outspoken feminist (and fan of riot grrrl). These parallels weren’t lost on him. “I found myself in a position where I was obviously not nearly at the level that Kurt was, but I was speaking to a young generation of people,” he told GQ last year. “It doesn’t mean you have to play the fame game or the red carpet game or anything like that … Nirvana inspired us to reject those things.”
― Roz, Wednesday, 11 May 2022 04:12 (two years ago) link
They'll be starting their tour in less than a week! Hope all goes well for them.
― peace, man, Wednesday, 11 May 2022 11:45 (two years ago) link
well-timed revive bc....
NEW SONG
https://mcr.lnk.to/thefoundationsofdecay
― flamenco drop (BradNelson), Thursday, 12 May 2022 22:16 (two years ago) link
IT'S FUCKING AMAZING
― flamenco drop (BradNelson), Thursday, 12 May 2022 22:20 (two years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V2kWUJkRvVs
― flamenco drop (BradNelson), Thursday, 12 May 2022 22:21 (two years ago) link
HOLY SHIT THANK YOU BRAD!
― peace, man, Thursday, 12 May 2022 22:42 (two years ago) link
Wow, wasn't expecting this. Cool song, goes back to the Three Cheers-era sound a bit. I loved pretty much everything I've heard from this band from Three Cheers on and I hope hope hope there is a new album coming
― Vinnie, Thursday, 12 May 2022 23:22 (two years ago) link
Surprisingly good
― No purposes. Sounds. (Sund4r), Friday, 13 May 2022 03:50 (two years ago) link
oh wow this is pretty fantastic! gerard’s vocals are weirdly buried in the mix though (not that I’m complaining, I kinda prefer it like this?)
it’s like a polished version of their Bullets era, right up to the 9/11 references
― Roz, Friday, 13 May 2022 07:18 (two years ago) link
Very, very good indeed.
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 13 May 2022 08:18 (two years ago) link
gerard’s vocals are weirdly buried in the mix though (not that I’m complaining, I kinda prefer it like this?)
Vocals were pretty low in Hesitant Alien, although that was a while ago now. Then he did that black metal thing a couple months ago.
― peace, man, Friday, 13 May 2022 11:32 (two years ago) link
i don't know why i resisted i brought you my bullets for so long. i've definitely listened to it more than a few times, but it's only now dawning on me what an emo classic it is
i think from three cheers-on they become more distinguished, more of their own thing that i can't get other versions of, but also: they started off with an awesome regular-ass emo album
― flamenco drop (BradNelson), Friday, 13 May 2022 16:28 (two years ago) link
more of their own thing
That's the thing about Bullets for me - it's really good, but it reminds me so much of bands that I was already a fan of, like Thrice and Thursday and Saves the Day.
― peace, man, Friday, 13 May 2022 16:35 (two years ago) link