So is that "My Chemical Romance" track going to be an 'unexpected' number one?

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Only, I'm expecting it.

― mark grout (mark grout), Friday, 13 October 2006 08:42 (nineteen years ago)

Perhaps Jonathan King wasn't expecting it.

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Friday, 13 October 2006 08:47 (nineteen years ago)

I fucking love this. More pomp-emo, plz.

― Rodney is a group! (R. J. Greene), Friday, 13 October 2006 13:12 (nineteen years ago)

haven't heard it but saw a photo of the band and thus don't want to.

― benrique (Enrique), Friday, 13 October 2006 13:14 (nineteen years ago)

lexrique morelike

― Sadly, he will be the next Alexis Petridish. (Dom Passantino), Friday, 13 October 2006 13:16 (nineteen years ago)

ha ha

― Britain's Obtusest Shepherd (Alan), Friday, 13 October 2006 13:16 (nineteen years ago)

i quite like their get-up in the video

― ;_; (blueski), Friday, 13 October 2006 13:21 (nineteen years ago)

i've been ignoring guitar music since the lower sixth, son.

― benrique (Enrique), Friday, 13 October 2006 13:23 (nineteen years ago)

We all know you're ignorant, pal.

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Friday, 13 October 2006 13:26 (nineteen years ago)

i think these people are almost as bad as the arctic monkeys. really disgusting, awful music. they make me want to bully them.

― The Lex (The Lex), Friday, 13 October 2006 13:29 (nineteen years ago)

lex otm

― benrique (Enrique), Friday, 13 October 2006 13:30 (nineteen years ago)

God they must be really wussy.

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Friday, 13 October 2006 13:30 (nineteen years ago)

you indie kids hate us emos

― Britain's Obtusest Shepherd (Alan), Friday, 13 October 2006 14:02 (nineteen years ago)

it's ALL indie, i'm not being taken in by this hair-splitting flim-flammery.

― benrique (Enrique), Friday, 13 October 2006 14:03 (nineteen years ago)

It is so not indie.

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Friday, 13 October 2006 14:04 (nineteen years ago)

enrique otm. it's all indie, it's all disgusting, and it should all be bullied off the dancefloor with sticks (where sticks = paris hilton).

― The Lex (The Lex), Friday, 13 October 2006 14:06 (nineteen years ago)

MCR are American and the word "indie" actually means something in America, so no, they are not indie.

― Rodney is a group! (R. J. Greene), Friday, 13 October 2006 14:07 (nineteen years ago)

just look at them. it SCREAMS indie.

― benrique (Enrique), Friday, 13 October 2006 14:08 (nineteen years ago)

They don't look like any indiekids I've ever seen.

― Rodney is a group! (R. J. Greene), Friday, 13 October 2006 14:08 (nineteen years ago)

They have different fanbases, totally. This is very important.

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Friday, 13 October 2006 14:09 (nineteen years ago)

(They look worse, but that's neither here nor there.)

― Rodney is a group! (R. J. Greene), Friday, 13 October 2006 14:09 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.emohairstyles.info/my-chemical-romance.php

― Britain's Obtusest Shepherd (Alan), Friday, 13 October 2006 14:10 (nineteen years ago)

different kinds of indie but indie nonetheless. it's like a subgenre of indie which against all the odds seems to be based on being even more pathetic and kickable than indie itself. the existence of emo serves only to prove that the BULLIES WERE RIGHT ALL ALONG.

― The Lex (The Lex), Friday, 13 October 2006 14:11 (nineteen years ago)

They have different fanbases, totally.

moody teenagers vs... other moody teenagers?

― benrique (Enrique), Friday, 13 October 2006 14:12 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/news.html?in_article_id=400953&in_page_id=1770

EMO cult warning for parents

― Britain's Obtusest Shepherd (Alan), Friday, 13 October 2006 14:12 (nineteen years ago)

you got to love a picture caption writer who comes up with "Parents warned over the new EMO goth danger"

― Britain's Obtusest Shepherd (Alan), Friday, 13 October 2006 14:13 (nineteen years ago)

Moody teenagers listen to indie? I always associated indie with smartass college students in dorky glasses.

― Rodney is a group! (R. J. Greene), Friday, 13 October 2006 14:14 (nineteen years ago)

MCR = goth (image, themes) emo (whininess) pop (OTT bluster and prettiness of it all) convergence

― ;_; (blueski), Friday, 13 October 2006 14:15 (nineteen years ago)

I actually think the post-Strokes haircut indie fanbase has gone beyond the teenage things now. It's now music for people who were 14-16 when the first Strokes album came out - they've grown up with the music.

Emo is to 00's indie what nu-metal was to 2000 Britpop hangover indie.

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Friday, 13 October 2006 14:15 (nineteen years ago)

rodney, what happens to moody teenagers when the go to college?

― benrique (Enrique), Friday, 13 October 2006 14:15 (nineteen years ago)

They turn 20?

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Friday, 13 October 2006 14:15 (nineteen years ago)

Discover girls that actually want to have sex with them?

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Friday, 13 October 2006 14:16 (nineteen years ago)

only if they join a band

― ;_; (blueski), Friday, 13 October 2006 14:17 (nineteen years ago)

Realise the music they thought was cool outsider music is what everyone else likes and start playing one Kompakt CD really loudly in order look different?

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Friday, 13 October 2006 14:18 (nineteen years ago)

Give the Paris Hilton album 5/5 in the campus magazine?

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Friday, 13 October 2006 14:19 (nineteen years ago)

some of those things possibly... but moody teenagers and college smartasses (who often used to be moody teenagers right?) are both core indie demographics.

― benrique (Enrique), Friday, 13 October 2006 14:20 (nineteen years ago)

Drop out after the first year and go to Cardiff?

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Friday, 13 October 2006 14:20 (nineteen years ago)

Start writing for Plan B?

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Friday, 13 October 2006 14:20 (nineteen years ago)

Enrique, can I take that as a concession that me & Matt are right? But anyways, I don't think I knew anyone who listened to indie when I was in high school. People were into.....um.....Limp Bixkit and Korn and stuff.

― Rodney is a group! (R. J. Greene), Friday, 13 October 2006 14:20 (nineteen years ago)

major x-postness

― Rodney is a group! (R. J. Greene), Friday, 13 October 2006 14:21 (nineteen years ago)

hahaha matt

― benrique (Enrique), Friday, 13 October 2006 14:24 (nineteen years ago)

also everyone's like "the nme hates emo" but MCR were mentioned about a grillion times on the front page of the website last i looked. this is further evidence they are indie.

like muse.

― benrique (Enrique), Friday, 13 October 2006 14:30 (nineteen years ago)

aren't muse, nu-prog now?

― Britain's Obtusest Shepherd (Alan), Friday, 13 October 2006 14:33 (nineteen years ago)

Muse are MCR's #1 Myspace friend!

― Sadly, he will be the next Alexis Petridish. (Dom Passantino), Friday, 13 October 2006 14:33 (nineteen years ago)

right, i had guessed they pobably sounded muse-y.

― benrique (Enrique), Friday, 13 October 2006 14:34 (nineteen years ago)

they are supporting muse will be why, dom

― Britain's Obtusest Shepherd (Alan), Friday, 13 October 2006 14:35 (nineteen years ago)

i blame mansun

― Britain's Obtusest Shepherd (Alan), Friday, 13 October 2006 14:35 (nineteen years ago)

I'm assuming that's in the UK and/or Russia rather than in America.

― Sadly, he will be the next Alexis Petridish. (Dom Passantino), Friday, 13 October 2006 14:35 (nineteen years ago)

yes, mansun too. their (mcr's) guy was dressed like the guy from mansun. too shaming.

― benrique (Enrique), Friday, 13 October 2006 14:37 (nineteen years ago)

all the points of reference being bandied around are so ghastly that i have no idea who is pro this shit and who is sane and anti it.

― The Lex (The Lex), Friday, 13 October 2006 14:39 (nineteen years ago)

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lol at guy on extreme right of Trivium's self-harm scars. EMO.

― Sadly, he will be the next Alexis Petridish. (Dom Passantino), Friday, 13 October 2006 15:33 (nineteen years ago)

mcr will never ever ever come up with a hookline like "loosen up my buttonz" and neither will they provoke 'big' snoop dogg to say "yeah i tawt i taw a pussycat"!

this is, i think, one of their strengths.

but surely the awesomeness of buttonz -and of everything PCD do - partly lies in how unexciting they are? that they're so bald and straightforward a genre exercise, and that genre is vaguely-orientalist-sinuous-r'n'b, it's not something to make your heart leap into your throat (which is the affect that MCR are trying to recreate and focus on, using the tim-honoured method of big slamming guitars and shouty-but-not-screamy singing and big pop choruses). man cannot live by knockoff scott storch productions alone.

― ampersand, hearts, semicolon (cis), Friday, 13 October 2006 15:33 (nineteen years ago)

Scott Storch is the Great Satan.

― Rodney is a group! (R. J. Greene), Friday, 13 October 2006 15:34 (nineteen years ago)

LOL @ Trivium clip on "youtube" where they sound exactly like THERAPY.

― Pashmina (Pashmina), Friday, 13 October 2006 15:38 (nineteen years ago)

in comparision to mcr are trivium minimal?

― pscott (elwisty), Friday, 13 October 2006 15:38 (nineteen years ago)

Scott Storch is Great.

-- Rodney is a group! (rodneyjgreen...), October 13th, 2006 4:34 PM. (R. J. Greene)

fixed.

the tim-honoured method of big slamming guitars and shouty-but-not-screamy singing and big pop choruses

but only GIRLS can ever get away with this! in fact i think only GIRLS can ever get away with self-pity, not just in pop but in ALL ART EVER: when a boy does it i just get irritated by how FEEBLE he is.

man cannot live by knockoff scott storch productions alone.

this is where one turns to the BOBBINS! the knife and the allien and so on.

― The Lex (The Lex), Friday, 13 October 2006 15:39 (nineteen years ago)

time-honoured, even; I cannot type. (maybe tim-honoured as well? i don't know.)

Lex why are you such a sexist! Girls are allowed to be weak and boys aren't? You are such a victim of traditional gender roles. :((

― ampersand, hearts, semicolon (cis), Friday, 13 October 2006 15:44 (nineteen years ago)

Haha

― Rodney is a group! (R. J. Greene), Friday, 13 October 2006 15:44 (nineteen years ago)

I really want to know who's kissin' Kristin and if Ashley's dating Zac now. Kogan to thread!

(on second thoughts, don't bother Frank)

(MCR are totally teenpop tho' - in that they have a huge teenage gothgirl fanbase in UK)

― zebedee (zebedee), Friday, 13 October 2006 15:46 (nineteen years ago)

What will happen next:

a) Mr Snrub turns up making an utterly bemused comment
b) US poster turns up going "this thread is so fucking British"
c) Lex and Dom lez up while listening to Morningwood

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Friday, 13 October 2006 15:48 (nineteen years ago)

Lex why are you such a sexist! Girls are allowed to be weak and boys aren't? You are such a victim of traditional gender roles. :((

girls are allowed to be strong as well! and boys aren't unless they're 50 cent.

all the boys i like in pop music are one, some or all of a) rappers b) gay c) silent (as in DJs)

― The Lex (The Lex), Friday, 13 October 2006 15:48 (nineteen years ago)

all the boys i like in pop music are one, some or all of a) rappers b) gay c) silent (as in DJs)

(LL Cool J joke)

― Sadly, he will be the next Alexis Petridish. (Dom Passantino), Friday, 13 October 2006 15:49 (nineteen years ago)

Who is the gay rapper?

― Rodney is a group! (R. J. Greene), Friday, 13 October 2006 15:53 (nineteen years ago)

Here's a photo of Pete Wentz from Fall Out Boy wanking off onto his webcam. NSFW:

http://www.jossip.com/gossip/200603-petewentzx4-thumb.jpg

― Sadly, he will be the next Alexis Petridish. (Dom Passantino), Friday, 13 October 2006 15:58 (nineteen years ago)

http://squat.net/images/lock.jpg

― Rodney is a group! (R. J. Greene), Friday, 13 October 2006 16:02 (nineteen years ago)

ah, so lex doesn't like pop men. except PSBs? (who are indie)

― Britain's Obtusest Shepherd (Alan), Tuesday, 17 October 2006 07:40 (nineteen years ago)

Well, there you go.

― mark grout (mark grout), Tuesday, 17 October 2006 07:50 (nineteen years ago)

15/10/2006: EVERYTHING CHANGED

― Sadly, he will be the next Alexis Petridish. (Dom Passantino), Tuesday, 17 October 2006 10:43 (nineteen years ago)

ah, so lex doesn't like pop men. except PSBs?

i like pop men if they are gay, or if they are hip-hop, or if they are house dudes. psb fit into category 1.

― The Lex (The Lex), Tuesday, 17 October 2006 10:45 (nineteen years ago)

more gay hip-hop house dudes please

― ;_; (blueski), Tuesday, 17 October 2006 11:12 (nineteen years ago)

Do you allow non singing non-house people (ie- dubstep) then The Lex? And I thought you liked the latest Scott Walker too, neither gay,(to my knowledge) house, nor hip hop! But of course he doesn't sing of his OWN angst, does he? Yr not sposed to identify with it...

― gekoppel (Gekoppel), Tuesday, 17 October 2006 18:25 (nineteen years ago)

ok i heard this so-called song over the weekend. or about half of it. and the green day comparison is about right.

but in some ways it just reminded me of 'christmas time (don't let the bells end)'. just because there are lots of guitar bands doesn't mean they're not all the same. anyway it sucks.

but sadly i can't go for this:

people need more pussycat dolls in their lives. unfeeling sexbots with NO EMOTIONS WHATSOEVER.

-- The Lex (alex.macpherso...), October 13th, 2006.

and i saw the knife on saturday and was more impressed by the interior of the venue than anything...

wasn't made for these times, holmes.

― benrique (Enrique), Tuesday, 17 October 2006 18:36 (nineteen years ago)

i saw the knife on saturday too nrq! i really enjoyed it apart from feeling a bit ill.

― The Lex (The Lex), Tuesday, 17 October 2006 20:18 (nineteen years ago)

I've only just heard this on the radio today - the opening bit is quite interesting, then it promptly turns into a Lostprophets b-side. Eugh.

― Si.C@rter (SiC@rter), Tuesday, 17 October 2006 21:10 (nineteen years ago)

Lex-abian!

― Sadly, he will be the next Alexis Petridish. (Dom Passantino), Tuesday, 24 October 2006 20:26 (nineteen years ago)

more gay hip-hop house dudes please

http://image.com.com/mp3/images/cover/200/drc500/c580/c58070dvi23.jpg

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 24 October 2006 20:29 (nineteen years ago)

indie bands be shook

― pscott (elwisty), Tuesday, 24 October 2006 20:29 (nineteen years ago)

Singer Tom Meighan said: "It's like ventriloquists' music. It's weird and dark. They don't have anything positive to say. The only good news is that it won't last. These clowns won't be around for much longer.
"Their make-up will flake off and the scene will die out. And it can't happen soon enough."
Guitarist Serge Pizzorno added: "I just can't relate to it. We are about decadence, having a good time and getting off your head. We champion youthful rebellion.
"We're into peace and love, spreading harmony and having respect for people. But these people are the absolute opposite. It's sad.

"These emo kids should get out more and try and have a good time instead."

Such stupidity!

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 24 October 2006 20:30 (nineteen years ago)

both kasabian and mcr should be locked in a room with nothing to listen to except yummy bingham. they might learn something.

that, or their faces should all be stamped on.

― The Lex (The Lex), Tuesday, 24 October 2006 20:33 (nineteen years ago)

I SECOND THE MOTION.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 24 October 2006 20:34 (nineteen years ago)

I can see why the kids are all emo and depressed when the other option is to listen to Kasabian.

― The Real Esteban Buttez (EstieButtez1), Tuesday, 24 October 2006 20:35 (nineteen years ago)

the OTHER option is to listen to ciara!

thankfully most proper kids have chosen this.

― The Lex (The Lex), Tuesday, 24 October 2006 20:42 (nineteen years ago)

Yeah, Ciara totally has higher record sales among the 13-18 year old demographic than My Chemical Romance.

― Sadly, he will be the next Alexis Petridish. (Dom Passantino), Tuesday, 24 October 2006 20:44 (nineteen years ago)

"proper kids" dom

― pscott (elwisty), Tuesday, 24 October 2006 20:46 (nineteen years ago)

are you suggesting that she is not popular with 13-18 yr olds?

as you know i am not one for putting much stock in chart positions but i do note that no ciara single has failed to make the top 5.

― The Lex (The Lex), Tuesday, 24 October 2006 20:47 (nineteen years ago)

my point would stand even better with beyoncé as an example! haha are you going to try and claim that the kids prefer MCR to beyoncé?

― The Lex (The Lex), Tuesday, 24 October 2006 20:49 (nineteen years ago)

or pussycat dolls? or sean paul? haha

― The Lex (The Lex), Tuesday, 24 October 2006 20:49 (nineteen years ago)

as you know i am not one for putting much stock in chart positions but i do note that no ~~ciara~~Steve Brookstein single has failed to make the ~~top 5~~ number one.

― Sadly, he will be the next Alexis Petridish. (Dom Passantino), Tuesday, 24 October 2006 20:49 (nineteen years ago)

beyoncé

She should totally go Russian.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 24 October 2006 20:50 (nineteen years ago)

as you know i am not one for putting much stock in chart positions but i do note that no ciaraSteve Brookstein single has failed to make the top 5 number one.

are you saying that this MCR no 1 is meaningless? poor the MCR

― The Lex (The Lex), Tuesday, 24 October 2006 20:54 (nineteen years ago)

Goodies is double-platinum in the U.S. and gold in the U.K. Three Cheers for Sweet Revenge is platinum in the U.S. and not certified in the U.K. Of course, we can't prove who's buying the records.

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 24 October 2006 20:56 (nineteen years ago)

Aliens.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 24 October 2006 20:57 (nineteen years ago)

ah but who has sold the more merchandise...

― pscott (elwisty), Tuesday, 24 October 2006 20:57 (nineteen years ago)

YEAH LIKE HETEROSEXUAL TEENAGE BOYS ARE GOING TO LISTEN TO CIARA, LEX!!

I guess they might have a wank over her, through.

― The Real Esteban Buttez (EstieButtez1), Tuesday, 24 October 2006 20:59 (nineteen years ago)

YEAH LIKE HETEROSEXUAL TEENAGE BOYS ARE GOING TO LISTEN TO CIARA, LEX!!

I guess they might have a wank over ~~her~~Gerard Way, through.

fixed

― Sadly, he will be the next Alexis Petridish. (Dom Passantino), Tuesday, 24 October 2006 21:03 (nineteen years ago)

They'll listen to her on the radio and like her songs (I've witnessed ostensibly straight teenage boys sing along to her), but won't buy her albums.

― Rodney... (R. J. Greene), Tuesday, 24 October 2006 21:12 (nineteen years ago)

ostensibly straight

Only one way to find out.

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 24 October 2006 21:30 (nineteen years ago)

I guess they might have a wank over Gerard Way, through.

lol u thought the guys from hanson were really girls lol

― The Real Esteban Buttez (EstieButtez1), Tuesday, 24 October 2006 21:31 (nineteen years ago)

x-post I'll leave that up to you. : D

― Rodney... (R. J. Greene), Tuesday, 24 October 2006 21:51 (nineteen years ago)

field mobb feat. ciara has the distinction of being the only single that fell from its download position after its single release on the chart so far. It didn't even make the top 40.

― danzig (danzig), Wednesday, 25 October 2006 01:57 (nineteen years ago)

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