official thread for My Chemical Romance - Danger Days: The True Lives of the Fabulous Killjoys

Thought this would be a Whiney thread but, hey, this makes sense too!

Maybe if we're lucky we'll get a nice single or two outta this album. Not crossing my fingers, though.

this is from ontd! who i believe may have stolen it from nme? no idea what really goes on there

anyway

‘Sing’
Starting off synthy, slinky and just a little bit funky, ‘Sing’ then erupts into another call to euphoric call to mass doing-stuff-together as waves of filthy bass cascade around Gerard as he sings, “You’ve got to be what tomorrow needs” as he dodges elephant-stomp drums. This is the likely second single.

‘Planetary (Go!)’
More straight-ahead rock underpinned by a slight Giorgio Moroder thing going on in the background, giving way to scattershot machine-gunny guitars as the album hits its masculine stride.

‘The Only Hope For Me Is You’
The original version we heard of this was a big emotive ballad in the vein of ‘I Don’t Love You’. Here it’s synthed up and theatrical, almost turning into a 4/4 house tune at one point before morphing into sabre-toothed gonzoid, robotic thrash. Amazing.

‘Jet-Star And The Kobra Kid / Traffic Report’
Dr Death Deft is back with a traffic report, and an instruction to “die with your mask on if you have to.”

‘Party Poison’
Live versions of this are all over the internet in its original incarnation as ‘Death Before Disco’. The new version is less Hives-y and more bloodcurdling. “This ain’t a party / get off the dancefloor / you wanna get down / I wanna gang war.”

‘Save Yourself, I’ll Hold Them Back’
A massive FM rock love-letter to fans, (♥) taking off from the message left at the end of ‘Famous Last Words’ last time round. Lyrically this is familiar territory to what MCR have always done, imploring, “This ain’t a room full of suicides,” giving way to the band’s renewed sense of determination: “We can live forever if you’ve got the time.”

‘The Scarecrow Blues’
This is the best song. A ludicrously gay lighters-aloft Starship style ANTHEM. Except nothing being that simple, it’s buried beneath swathes of thick, filthy crude oil and feedback such that you can barely even hear the vocal. BRAVE.

‘Anytime You Want’
A great big pop song with an irresistible Hall and Oates sheen and very possibly the most memorable chorus on an album not exactly short of them.

‘Destroyah’
Huge tribal goth guitar groove, repeated over and over again like a heavy metal Stone Roses doing something from The Rocky Horror Show, culminating in Gerard screeching the title over and over and over and over again. Insanely heavy, and therefore brilliant.

‘The Kids From Yesterday’
Can’t remember much about this one was cos was still picking self up off the floor after ‘Destroyah’. It’s a bit slow and windswept.

‘Goodnite Dr Death’
And our compere signs off, followed by something so hilarious and brilliant it would be considered a spoiler if we were to reveal it to you now.

‘Vampire Money’
Classic bastard Stooges garage rock, by way of the Tazmanian Devil from Looney Toons. My Chem goof up, freak out, screech off into the sunset. RESULT.

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ilxor,
do you write whiney/nu-metal erotic fanfic in your spare time?

black parade is easily one of my 25 favorite albums of the decade fwiw, ilxor

a slight Giorgio Moroder thing going on in the background

THIS BETTER NOT BE BRIT HYPERBOLIZIN

lol, probably is

u_u

THOUGHT YOU WAS BATMAN

Okay this song is wonderful.

dumb spoken word part is dumb and so, so great.

it sort of sounds like what would happen if manic street preachers acknowledged that every platitude they ever broadcasted was dumb as hell and just embraced that with keyboards.

SO EXCITED

i have the office to myself today! i can listen to Na Na Na as many times as I like!!

This song is pretty damn great. Makes me think I should actually go back and listen to more of their stuff. I've never really given them a fair shot.

listening to three cheers right now, so fucking good

wow, i really like it. i always liked them better when they just made everything seem fun as hell (like teenagers) instead of ridiculously melodramatic*. hopefully the album is in the same vein.

*not that their melodrama is bad, but in long doses (i.e. album form) i can't stomach too much of it.

yeah "Teenagers" was the one burst of fast mean fun on the last album that felt like the band I fell in love with on Three Cheers, "Na Na Na" is making me really excited about the prospect that they got their mojo back.

"Teenagers" sounded too much like the Sex Pistols' "Friggin in the Rigging" for me.

not instantly loving the 2nd single like "Na Na Na" but this is pretty good:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9xAzqKEYaCs

the proper video with laser guns, dayglo hair, fast cars and such, looks like something out of an old pre-gorillaz jamie hewlett would have dreamt up.
this is a good thing.
having never paid any attention to the band before, i have to admit the song is great for 5 plays.
just concerned that by the time the album hits it will have become annoying.

'na na na' is super lame imo but i like the 2nd one

though i did think it was gonna be a cover of berri 'sunshine after the rain' when the first verse started :/

shit "na na na" is WONDERFUL. if they actually sounded like that, i'd buy their records and wear a patch on my jacket. hives + didjits = ! then i listen to "the only hope for me is you" and i'm reminded... brief fan reviews of a few of the songs up there are kinda encouraging though. "Classic bastard Stooges garage rock, by way of the Tazmanian Devil from Looney Toons." okay!

just found out : comic book look = grant morrison involvement.

no wonder i was hooked within seconds of seeing the visuals.

"na na na" is WONDERFUL. if they actually sounded like that, i'd buy their records

what does this mean exactly? I mean, "Na Na Na" is their song and it sounds like lots of their other songs, especially on Three Cheers For Sweet Revenge, that's what they actually sound like.

^ was kidding, half. only know them through the black parade which does not, for the most part, sound like that. TBP, iirc, sounds like mopey/romantic emo drool, like "the only hope for me is you" (a song that quickly stomped my "na na na" buzz).

should check out three cheers, though. i love the more upbeat punk-pop stuff, and you're not the first to talk it up on this thread.

The Black Parade was pretty much their "let's pretend we're a completely different band" move, "Na Na Na" is much closer to their 'core sound'

sounding good so far imo

just found out : comic book look = grant morrison involvement.

cool! grant morrison is a fantastic writer. might have to actually buy this album now. :o

the proper video with laser guns, dayglo hair, fast cars and such, looks like something out of an old pre-gorillaz jamie hewlett would have dreamt up.
this is a good thing.
having never paid any attention to the band before, i have to admit the song is great for 5 plays.
just concerned that by the time the album hits it will have become annoying.

― mark e, Wednesday, October 13, 2010 10:37 AM (1 week ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

just found out : comic book look = grant morrison involvement.

no wonder i was hooked within seconds of seeing the visuals.

― mark e, Wednesday, October 13, 2010 3:59 PM (1 week ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

can i just

http://www.bleedingcool.com/wp-content/uploads//2010/09/m4-570x320.jpg
http://www.bleedingcool.com/wp-content/uploads//2010/09/m7-570x320.jpg

Man, that's some compression.

new one

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tpZvaSuYn70

& this one is a single

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1DZjkd1YG14

S.I.N.G. is generic but STILL GREAT power ballad

i'm kinda holding out for the whole thing to leak, it's gotta be any day now

^^^^

Interview at the Quietus. Love this bit:

While rumours of the band splitting can easily be put to rest, some other tags can't be shifted so easily. Danger Days is possibly one of the boldest and most exuberant sheer rock records of 2010, but that won't be enough, you fear, to stop them from being dismissed as emo by the close-minded. Is that frustrating for the band? Because you could argue that using 'emo' as a catch-all term to describe your previous output is a bit of a misnomer anyway, so is…

"Thank you!" says Mikey excitedly, interjecting halfway through the question. "That's awesome…"

Gerard, meanwhile, pauses at length, before revealing: "I guess what bothered me about it, and made me so mad, was that it was lazy. It was such an easy way to take this band that's really special and unique, and give it a tag. Especially to tag it with shit that I abhor. That would infuriate me. So you're saying that what we do - the work we put into this, the 3am nights, the things we sacrificed - is this the same as this fucking record? This fucking band? You're out of your mind if you think these things are remotely close to each other."

"It made it easy to pick out which people are actually journalists and which people just go straight to your Wikipedia page," says Frank.

Back to Mikey: "Some of them will almost have this weird glow in their eyes when they say the word," he says, before impersonating an eager hack. "'I just said it'… it's like they're laying a mine in front of you."

"I don't think Eddie Vedder ever appreciated the word grunge," ponders Gerard, "but I don't think it bothers him anymore because he's still making music. Now granted they've been a band for 20 something years and we've almost been a band for 10, so I'm starting to understand - maybe - how he feels. Like, 'Oh, that crap is gone'. He's not dealing with people saying 'So, you sound like Candlebox, right?'"

All the band break out into laughter, as Gerard adds in disbelief. "Imagine him thinking about that? Fucking Candlebox."

Decent dudes, imo.

S.I.N.G. is generic

this * 10K. it isn't memorable, either. but (a) i'm not a fan of this band and, tbf, (b) the song is better than i expected. there's something distinctively "major-label" about the production/sheen, i think, but i can't put my finger on it (and maybe i'm hearing what i want to hear).

wkiw

whole album streaming on their site, apparently

this feels so so so out of place in 2010 but i love love love it

i am really happy about this album.

it's not perfect but it's pretty consistent. the ballads are kind of meh but scattered enough that you kind of just ignore them and wait for the next big glammy destroya to strike.

Picking this up after work tonight, can't wait.

i am a terrible sucker for everything they do and would pretty much have been satisfied with 'ridiculous album concept, big pop-rock choruses, mandatory song about vampires' and-- it is that! but bigger!

and more ridiculous!

and slightly less about vampires.

yeah "Vampire Money" isn't really about vampires, it's making fun of the bands on the Twilight soundtracks. love this album!

mcr only takes big blue dong money i guess (for their dylan cover in that hollywood abortion of watchmen)

re vampire ..

my fave part is the bass drone at the end (don't get me wrong, the song is a total belter)

the whole album is so crisp and sharp (which for once i really think works .. ), and then at the very end they drop this almighty bass drone at the end as if to say, "yeah, we know .. "

f*ckin' love this album ..

cranking the volume a little louder each time

post bottle of red wine, this can never be loud enough.

though suspect my kids/neighbours would disagree.

3 2 1 WE CAME TO FUCK

a couple of weeks ago i was in a car with my dad, driving back from the countryside, and put this on and TURNED IT UP and for a little while everything was perfect

Yeah I had a similar experience a month or two ago. Great car music.

KISS ME YOU ANIMAL

am always kinda surprised by the sustained love on this thread since a) i felt a little alone in my enthusiasm for the record at the time, iirc i was one of only a handful of people to vote for it in Pazz & Jop and the only ilxor and b) i haven't really gone back and listened to it as much as other people since then

http://robot6.comicbookresources.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/morrison_mcr.jpg

You weren't the only ilxor, I'm pretty sure I voted for it too. I still get a kick out of it.

oh ok cool, dunno your irl name so i wouldn't have known

Yeah, no reason you would. Just checked, I voted it #7, between Marnie Stern and Killing Joke. Seems about right.

I have recently discovered an unexpected love for esp. the last couple of MCR records. That awesome interview upthread made me feel less weird about it.

They strike a really great balance btwn sincerity and sneer that reminds me of, well, y'know.

no, i don't know!

http://userserve-ak.last.fm/serve/_/37057013/Billy+Corgan++Mellon+Collie+era.jpg

Hahah I knew who that would be a photo of.

So MCR is releasing 10 of the songs that were scrapped during the Danger Days sessions over the next couple of weeks. The first two, "Boy Division" and "Tomorrow's Money," came out today and they are nice and snarly!

http://open.spotify.com/album/2RCPu5qyaDPWIeWdy4WJCU

that's pretty cool to hear! i like most of the songs on this better than the stuff on the proper album, worth checking out for anyone who hasn't heard it:

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/1/1f/The_Black_Parade-_The_B-Sides_cover.jpg

i think i might put this album on literally every time i remember it exists

boy division!

"Boy Division" is good! I'd be happy w/ that as a teaser for a new record.

second pair of outtakes is out -- "AMBULANCE" and "Gun." are both great

on cursory first listen the latter seems to stray into quasi-"political" territory, not sure how I feel about this development

well they shelved it so it's not really a development at this point haha

I'm just now hearing the DD outtakes on the Mad Gear and Missle Kid EP and they're pretty good!

Tunes on CW vol. 3 are pretty huge.

Gerard put a song on soundcloud under the name 'Danny The Street,' pretty good: http://kroq.cbslocal.com/2012/12/07/my-chemical-romances-gerard-way-releases-punk-track-as-danny-the-street/

OK on sober listen "The Light Behind Your Eyes" is just too broad/soppy for me. Just a step too far into saccharine. On the other hand "Gun" remains ludicrously catchy, though I imagine they'd be in heaps of trouble had it been a single rather than a c-side.

i like all of these songs a lot but i'm also glad they scrapped them and did danger days instead

are these offcuts going to get a physical release at some point ?

As some sort of boxset, I think.

number four is out today

'kiss that ring' is very QOTSA

thanks for the heads up; #3 was the first set that did nothing for me, those guys really love their boring power ballads

Tim's Continuing Emo Adventures Part Seventeen: my god "Summertime" is just the best thing.

i am glad you are here with me on this

there is something so natural and easy to the movement of the tune, that radio sweetness

also i will forever love the whole concept's art: http://varnishstudio.com/work/danger-days

after you remove yourself from the drip, the conventional weapons eps are good methadone

there is something so natural and easy to the movement of the tune, that radio sweetness

― Dora Viola G. I. de Orellana Dysart Plantagenet Tollemache-Tolle (c sharp major), Saturday, October 5, 2013 12:29 PM (4 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Yes, the movement. The rises and falls in this tune are so seductive.

last song

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tiJzCahaN8w

tim "summertime" is my favorite mcr song ugh

the tracklist to the hits comp underlines for me that though they had a solid run of singles, they weren't really a singles band, except for in the Black Parade era, which is funny because that's when they made their most obvious Big Statement Album attempt.

'new' song sucks, wish they'd left it at Conventional Weapons

Yeah it's not great.

“bulletproof heart” and “summertime” are the best songs in the world

yes, and also S/C/A/R/E/C/R/O/W

I greatly prefer the version of Sing they released for Japan

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B-CpQ_fJeK4

honestly i’ve made my peace with “sing.” this is their best album

I actually like "Sing"! It's "Planetary" that doesn't work for me

but yeah on balance I think you're right