"My Chemical Romance is this generation's Nirvana"

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.

I get the Smushing Pampkins (which makes way more sense than Nirvana) and Cult comparisons, but the Doors? You lost me there.

Gerard Way is 30? Woah. I would have pegged him for about 23-24.

Isn't "Dead!" way more DeYoung than "Teenagers," though?

it's ALL too Dennis Deyoung, but I think "Dead!" has more of their old school pop-punk energy.

haha I just refered to "old school" MCR.

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.

-- humansuit, Friday, July 27, 2007 3:26 AM (2 hours ago) Bookmark Link

let's not dig up my old posts here

-- Curt1s Stephens, Friday, July 27, 2007 3:45 AM (2 hours ago) Bookmark Link

"pressing" "issues" "dig"

Emo Music Blamed For Suicide Of MY CHEMICAL ROMANCE Fan - May 9, 2008

The Pulse of Radio reports that a British coroner has raised concerns that emo music played a role in the suicide of 13-year-old MY CHEMICAL ROMANCE fan Hannah Bond (photo), according to NME.com. Bond hung herself from a bunk bed in her bedroom after informing her parents that she was going to kill herself and leaving a note signed "Living Disaster". The coroner investigating the girl's death, Roger Sykes, speculated that the girl was obsessed with bands like MY CHEMICAL ROMANCE, saying, "The emo overtones concerning death and associating it with glamour I find very disturbing."

Bond's father, Ray, said at the inquest that his daughter had inflicted harm on herself previously as part of what she told him was an "emo initiation ceremony." Bond had also posted a picture of an emo fan with bloody wrists at her personal web page.

Her mother, Heather, said, "She called emo a fashion and I thought it was normal. Hannah was a normal girl. She had loads of friends. She could be a bit moody but I thought it was just because she was a teenager."

NME.com has received a number of responses to the case from fans of emo music, who largely rejected the coroner's suggestion that emo was a factor in Bond's death. One wrote, "I find it disgusting that small-minded people would assume that music has that much of an influence, that someone would kill themselves because of it," while another fan said, "I listen to MY CHEM, as do many of my friends, and we are happy people with happy lives."

Emo has been the center of controversy lately in Mexico as well, where fans of the music have been subjected to violence at the hands of other Mexican youth. MY CHEMICAL ROMANCE singer Gerard Way called for an end to the attacks during a recent concert in Mexico City.

it's the fucking parents retards not the music

She could be a bit moody but I thought it was just because she was a teenager.

gee I wonder why she felt misunderstood

<i>it's the fucking parents retards not the music</i>

This, holy shit this.

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I guess emo has replaced metal as the new scapegoat genre.

Parenting a teenager seems very difficult. Only thing I ever wonder about stuff this is-- If music can make someone's life better and improve their psychological well-being (which it seems like it can), why can't it also make their lives worse and hurt them?

I'm not saying music can't affect someone's mood profoundly, but it's a bit ridiculous to blame musicians who have never met this fucking girl for indirect murder before examining her close relationships (e.g. that with her parents)

though I guess the point of scares like these is to keep parents concerned & involved in their kids' lives

Sure, agreed all around.

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What the...

it's kind of amazing the level of effort some people put into denying the fact that people have negative feelings and that artists, whose job it is to express emotions, are going to address those feelings. And "emo initiation ceremony" -- LOL.

If music can make someone's life better and improve their psychological well-being (which it seems like it can), why can't it also make their lives worse and hurt them

People seek out things that make them feel good or stop pain. If you seek out things that hurt you it is more a symptom of something else going on. Not the problem itself. I know it's more complicated than that but I think you can see what I'm trying to say.

Fuck emo man,listen to proper metal,grindcore and crust!

As a teenager I would be offended if that shitty band were ever associated with my generation....

(well I'm 19 but I still clammor for this shit)

When I was a teenager I was listening to Wilco, NMH, Sufjan Stevens, Iron and Wine, and Modest Mouse. Not this shit.

i tend to have mistrust for any band that preaches a close connection to a particular audience but remains heavily reliant on the existence of a scene or movement to sustain impact and meaning. how personal and deeply founded can an individual's response to this sort of music be if it's so blatantly and shamelessly masquerading under the blanket of 'emo'? in brief, emo is a term/fashion i've always had a beef with cuz i've never been able to scrape through the airy bubblegum to the core of it. leads me to believe there's no core to it, just a channeling of contrived emotions written with the young audience's expectations and narrow visions as the starting point and working upstream from there.

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