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

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)

well yeah it's a silly beef to have, but i enjoyed gerard's justification in an interview about how he's basically a snob about how vampires are portrayed and thinks they should be gross and scary and not young and sexy

only a few songs in but I may have a new favorite album of 2010

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=egG7fiE89IU

love the music video, even if I don't get any of the references at all

"gravity don't mean too much to me" is such a great lyric

i have decided to take the outfits in that video as my new style concept. all that yellow!

yeah "Vampire Money" isn't really about vampires

but see they have a vampire reference on every album, and, you know, i respect that in a band.

Finally listened the whole thing on the drive to Michigan last night, this is pretty goddamned great. I love this band.

I successfully introduced this to my kids as a possible substitute so we don't have to listen to Green Day on the way to kindergarten every day. Now it's, "Can we hear the Na-Na-Na song?" (Just hoping I don't get a note home about him yelling "fuck like a Kennedy!" on the playground.)

oh come on, you want that note

man this is a great record

also the rockist in me probably thinks the second side > the first side because there aren't any singles, but those last four or five songs hold gorgeous surprises

man this is a great record

― mutant slow drum (BradNelson), Wednesday, August 17, 2011 2:54 PM (10 months ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

agreed.

picked this album up a few hours ago and cant remember the last time i listened to an album 3 times in a row back to back.

so good.

it is the best.

oh awesome i am totally going to listen to this album today

DO IT

it will make you happy.

thats it isn't it.

not many rock albums make you smile and feel as good as this ..

listened to "vampire money" three times in a row this morning, cranking the volume a little louder each time. my ears are still ringing. great album.

LADIES AND GENTLEMEN, TRUTH!
IS NOW ACCEPTABLE
FAME!
IS NOW INJECTABLE

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.

'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