ILM cited yet again
― Shakey Mo Collier, Thursday, 26 July 2007 19:07 (sixteen years ago) link
"Dead!" >>>>>> "Teenagers"
Fuck this Dennis DeYoung shit.
― da croupier, Thursday, 26 July 2007 19:09 (sixteen years ago) link
that issue once warranted hot debate on the music-insider message board I Love Music
lol @ this giving the debate any sort of legitimacy
― Curt1s Stephens, Thursday, 26 July 2007 19:09 (sixteen years ago) link
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.
― Alex in Baltimore, Thursday, 26 July 2007 19:23 (sixteen years ago) link
We're bigger than Jesus.
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 26 July 2007 19:26 (sixteen years ago) link
hahahaha Kate is "one jokester"
― marmotwolof, Thursday, 26 July 2007 20:51 (sixteen years ago) link
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.
― billstevejim, Thursday, 26 July 2007 20:57 (sixteen years ago) link
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
― marmotwolof, Thursday, 26 July 2007 21:02 (sixteen years ago) link
Poison & Warrant > Nirvana (You just had to throw in Winger, didn't you.)
― The Reverend, Thursday, 26 July 2007 23:07 (sixteen years ago) link
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.
― The Reverend, Thursday, 26 July 2007 23:10 (sixteen years ago) link
"gangster buddies"
― Curt1s Stephens, Thursday, 26 July 2007 23:24 (sixteen years ago) link
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.
― humansuit, Friday, 27 July 2007 03:16 (sixteen years ago) link
how do MCR in any way resemble the Cult?
― Curt1s Stephens, Friday, 27 July 2007 03:21 (sixteen years ago) link
"We Whine Wanktuary."
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 27 July 2007 03:23 (sixteen years ago) link
Exactly.
― humansuit, Friday, 27 July 2007 03:24 (sixteen years ago) link
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, 27 July 2007 03:26 (sixteen years ago) link
let's not dig up my old posts here
― Curt1s Stephens, Friday, 27 July 2007 03:45 (sixteen years ago) link
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.
― moley, Friday, 27 July 2007 03:52 (sixteen years ago) link
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.
― humansuit, Friday, 27 July 2007 03:59 (sixteen years ago) link
In that case they're even LESS like the Doors.
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 27 July 2007 04:00 (sixteen years ago) link
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.
― The Reverend, Friday, 27 July 2007 04:38 (sixteen years ago) link
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.
― da croupier, Friday, 27 July 2007 05:32 (sixteen years ago) link
-- humansuit, Friday, July 27, 2007 3:26 AM (2 hours ago) Bookmark Link
-- Curt1s Stephens, Friday, July 27, 2007 3:45 AM (2 hours ago) Bookmark Link
"pressing" "issues" "dig"
― latebloomer, Friday, 27 July 2007 06:11 (sixteen years ago) link
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.
― Jeff Treppel, Friday, 9 May 2008 19:30 (sixteen years ago) link
it's the fucking parents retards not the music
― Curt1s Stephens, Friday, 9 May 2008 19:32 (sixteen years ago) link
She could be a bit moody but I thought it was just because she was a teenager.
gee I wonder why she felt misunderstood
― Curt1s Stephens, Friday, 9 May 2008 19:36 (sixteen years ago) link
<i>it's the fucking parents retards not the music</i>
This, holy shit this.
― Kath, Friday, 9 May 2008 19:45 (sixteen years ago) link
lol html
― Kath, Friday, 9 May 2008 19:46 (sixteen years ago) link
I guess emo has replaced metal as the new scapegoat genre.
― Jeff Treppel, Friday, 9 May 2008 19:49 (sixteen years ago) link
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?
― Mark Rich@rdson, Friday, 9 May 2008 19:55 (sixteen years ago) link
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)
― Curt1s Stephens, Friday, 9 May 2008 19:56 (sixteen years ago) link
though I guess the point of scares like these is to keep parents concerned & involved in their kids' lives
― Curt1s Stephens, Friday, 9 May 2008 19:57 (sixteen years ago) link
Sure, agreed all around.
― Mark Rich@rdson, Friday, 9 May 2008 20:00 (sixteen years ago) link
http://i32.tinypic.com/beymtd.gif
― StanM, Friday, 9 May 2008 20:06 (sixteen years ago) link
thanking u
― Curt1s Stephens, Friday, 9 May 2008 20:07 (sixteen years ago) link
What the...
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 9 May 2008 20:10 (sixteen years ago) link
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.
― Jeff Treppel, Friday, 9 May 2008 20:22 (sixteen years ago) link
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.
― steampig67, Saturday, 10 May 2008 13:27 (sixteen years ago) link
Fuck emo man,listen to proper metal,grindcore and crust!
― electricsound, Saturday, 10 May 2008 13:27 (sixteen years ago) link
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.
― wesley useche, Sunday, 11 May 2008 07:54 (sixteen years ago) link
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.
― Charlie Howard, Sunday, 11 May 2008 10:39 (sixteen years ago) link
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― Bodrick III, Sunday, 11 May 2008 10:53 (sixteen years ago) link
When I was a teenager I was listening to
no Chemical Romance, no credibility.
― StanM, Sunday, 11 May 2008 11:15 (sixteen years ago) link
http://www.whatthefrank.co.uk/details.html
Location: Outside: Northcliffe House 2 Derry Street London W8 5TT
Time: Full day on Saturday, May 31st 2008 (from 10am till 10pm).
What to bring: Money for food, anything you need for the day. Please don't bring signs which you hold above your head in a picketing protest (the standard ones which are on a wooden stick and have slogans on them). The reason for this is that there is a small chance we will could get in trouble with the law if we have these signs. Instead, we urge you to bring signs that you can hang around your neck (much like some people have 'free hugs' signs hanging around their neck on string at shows) with slogans like 'MCR SAVE LIVES' and 'MCR SAVED MY LIFE' (if they did, of course x]) or positive MCR lyrics such as 'I AM NOT AFRAID TO KEEP ON LIVING'. Remember guys, big and bold so that people can read it from far off. If you want to write your own slogan, that's fine, just please have it to the point and promotional of MCR, rather than insulting the Daily Mail. Remember, no curse words or derogatory insults. Keep things positive and legal, guys. x]
What to wear: As well as the signs, please consider dressing to suit the day. We've heard of people intending to deck themselves out in 'emo attire' for the day, please don't do that as - even though we know you are making fun of the Daily Mail - the general public won't. Please don't try to dress stereotypically. Please consider wearing home-made shirts with positive slogans written on them in big letters (much like the famous 'MCR saved my life' shirt featured at the beginning of Life On The Murder Scene). If you don't want to make a shirt, you can buy shirts with 'choose life' written on them here. It'd be awesome to see tons of you turn up in them.
Where to meet: Seeing as people are coming and going all day, the main place is as above but we're having an initial march to start the protest. We'll be meeting at Hyde Park, Round Pond (it's the pond nearer the western side of Hyde Park) between 9:30am or so and 10am. Then, at 10am we'll march to the Daily Mail HQ. Watch out for people during the march. We are going down high streets with cars and we don't think it'd help our cause if anyone ended up in hospital.
Travel information: The nearest tube station to Derry Street is Kensington High Street. The nearest tube station to Round Pond (in Hyde Park) is Queensway.
PLEASE NOTE: This protest is a peaceful protest. The following is so that we do not get in trouble with the police and do not get arrested. Do not come if you intend to start violence or fights, apart from the fact that we don't think that'd impress MCR so much, it could get us in serious trouble with the law if any trouble breaks out. We don't want too much yelling and do not drop litter while you are there. People will be there with bin bags for you to put your litter in if there is no bin around so don't be lazy, just hold on to it for the time being. For more information on a legal, peaceful protest in which no one gets arrested, please check out the peaceful protest information, linked above.
Above all, please remember that this is a protest to prove MCR are a positive influence and spread their message. Let's keep it to the band's standards and not do anything that they wouldn't do (and not do some things that they would). We are trying to give MCR a good name here!
― DJ Mencap, Friday, 23 May 2008 09:51 (fifteen years ago) link
^^^I actually support this shit wholeheartedly.
― Dom Passantino, Friday, 23 May 2008 09:54 (fifteen years ago) link
http://www.audiostereo.pl/zalaczniki/931494_1.jpg
― am0n, Friday, 1 August 2008 21:06 (fifteen years ago) link
that guy's always gonna get laid.
― strgn, Friday, 1 August 2008 21:25 (fifteen years ago) link
ha ! this is the funniest article I have read this year / decade !
is this the most moronic statement EVER:
"I find it incredibly hard to imagine that the average 35 year old rock journo can relate to MCR. But you know, it's not for them to understand or relate to. It's for them to accept, and until they do, they will be absolutely irrelevant to anyone who matters."
LMAO
MCR = streaming pile of cliched crap
by the way I am 35 !
When I was teenager I was listening to Big Black, The Pixies, Husker Du and Masters of Puppets
-- DJ Martian (djmartian), Wednesday, March 8, 2006 5:55 AM (2 years ago) Bookmark Link
btw i'm white35
― and what, Friday, 1 August 2008 21:28 (fifteen years ago) link
buck the world I am 35 !
― am0n, Friday, 1 August 2008 21:38 (fifteen years ago) link
"did you know you've seen my dick"
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Friday, 1 August 2008 21:38 (fifteen years ago) link