"My Chemical Romance is this generation's Nirvana"

i will 2nd that emotion.

"without a sound and i wish you away!"

Poetry classes with you must be a real blast.

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/5/54/2004-11-06-mcr2.jpg

I finally bought Three Cheers today! I'm digging it an awful lot; something about the way they scrrreeEEEEEAAAMMMM!!! really gets me excited. I like that they're constantly on overdrive. It has a few too many songs though.

ILM cited yet again

"Dead!" >>>>>> "Teenagers"

Fuck this Dennis DeYoung shit.

that issue once warranted hot debate on the music-insider message board I Love Music

lol @ this giving the debate any sort of legitimacy

Isn't "Dead!" way more DeYoung than "Teenagers," though? And more blatant "Mr. Blue Sky" than anything else? I liked "Teenagers" a lot as an album track and prayed for it to be a single throughout the terrible reigns of "The Black Parade" and "Famous Last Words" but now I can barely listen to it.

lol @ this giving the debate any sort of legitimacy

We're bigger than Jesus.

hahahaha Kate is "one jokester"

Jesus Fucking Christ, My Chemical Romance is this generation's Poison, Fall Out Boy is Warrant and Panic At The Disco is Winger. Get it straight.

it really is all about hairstyles.

that said I like MCR but can't really stand the other two. FOB have their moments, I guess

Poison & Warrant > Nirvana (You just had to throw in Winger, didn't you.)

WTF r u guys talking about? also, i watched an interesting documentary in my pop culture class starring coban when he was alive
He said something like "i dont know why people are trying to interpret our music. Its just crap that comes out of my mouth"
This is why i dont like nirvana. If he cant take music seriously especially involving himself, why listen to them?
Also, i watched a nelly videoclip (rapper for players unfamiliar) in which he and his "gangster buddies" were throwing cash at bikini wearing (some were naked) women. This to me is degrading to females
Lead singer Gerard Way (of MCR) said "you dont want people to like you because for how you look. You want them to like you for what you have to say and what you do"
This is why MCR is better than Nelly & other rappers (kanye west is ok), and nirvana suck! and MCR rule!

This is top ten.

"gangster buddies"

Some major points of consideration:

*BAN HUMANSUIT. Beat you to it. It's like tying your hands behind your back with and old jacket, dragging you onto a railroad track, and then - well, we all know the rest of that story.

* MCR are the Smashing Pumpkins of this generation. That's even Billy Corgan up there.

* Kanye West is this generation's Nirvana.

* MCR is this generations Cult. From there, I'll leave it to you to solve the equation to find The Doors + remainder.

* The lead singer of MCR is 30. Therefore, he is out of touch with his own music and his own fan base. I wouldn't trust him.

how do MCR in any way resemble the Cult?

"We Whine Wanktuary."

Exactly.

UNCLE CURT'S FUN FACT OF THE DAY: Jeffrey Lewis is also the name of the first man to stick a camera up my rectum

-- Curt1s Stephens, Friday, July 27, 2007 2:48 AM (36 minutes ago) Bookmark Link

By the way you have more pressing issues to deal with than the similarities between MCR and the Cult.

let's not dig up my old posts here

Naaah, she's right. For reasons connected mainly to my work and my label/artist associations I know a lot of MCR fans and soundalike bands, half my age, and yes, this band is as big with them as Nirvana was for us (well, you - I was listening to acid house), and for much the same kind of reason (ie the voice of a generation thing married to exceptional pop songwriting). MCR is huge with the kids and you're all a bit old and out of touch. Sorry. Cheer up, you're not as old and out of touch as I am.

OK. But I remember now where I was going with this now.

What was the Cult greatest hits collection appropriately titled? High Octane Cult my son. Because they took what had come before (lot of Doors, lot of Zep, blues) and condensed it into these amazing little pop songs. What band serves that function now? MCR, of course. Black Parade, Helena - you tell me I'm wrong. Sure, a lot of bands steal crap from the past to make shit - Nickleback, Good Charlotte - but this is the good stuff. Right?

Now, MCR has a very dark edge to it, as you know, with a subtle but never outright political vibe to it, which brings us, tah dah, to the Doors (an interesting comparison upthread that got me thinking).

So, the next time you watch that Black Parade video, the drumming at the end, tell me you don't consider the similarity to Unknown Soldier. Dare you.

xpost. As to the last post, MCR is not Nirvana. Demographics and everything have shifted.

In that case they're even LESS like the Doors.