"My Chemical Romance is this generation's Nirvana"

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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When I was a teenager I was listening to

no Chemical Romance, no credibility.

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!

^^^I actually support this shit wholeheartedly.

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that guy's always gonna get laid.

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

buck the world I am 35 !

"did you know you've seen my dick"

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http://www.imnotokay.net/board/topic/17044/1/

If someone said this to my face i would non regrettbly punch them in thier face and beat the living shit out of them. then dance around them singing Prison and when i finish I would write "i like it in the ass" on the back of thier pants, just to make sure they understand the meaning of irony.

I'm sorry if i go to the extreme, but if people talk shit, i say, an eye for an eye. Especially when it comes to family, my loved ones and my chem.

lol @ "Waycest"

One of their songs is titled "You Know What They Do To Guys Like Us In Prison", which explains it all really.

It seems dumb to me to say that critics should embrace MCR just because that's what rich white teenagers are listening to. If critics are supposed to like something just because it's popular why have critics at all? We can just buy what is in the charts. I think critics have a function beyond that.

^vnp

At least they should get their fact straights before they make fun of them

I think any jackass who dies his hair white and cuts it short in order to look like a chemo patient for a stage act is one of the few human beings who'd deserve cancer.

hmm, i never made any connection between the dye job and the cancer thing. it did look stupid, though, and that whole album/concept pretty much ruined this band.

Jesus. If people put as much energy into hating politicians as they do third-rate popstars, maybe this country wouldn't be in such a sorry state.

ur 35 btw

Ha, not quite. It just never fails to amuse me when people get all worked up and spend so much time on something they hate. I'd much rather spend that energy on something I like. Then again, I am on this thread.

http://www.imnotokay.net/data/board-smilies/icon_mad.gif Grrrr....this person is an asshole. If people dont like My Chemical Romance, then thats their choice, I dont care, but to do something like this makes me want to find them and beat them up. http://www.imnotokay.net/data/board-smilies/icon_mad.gif Also, the idiot doesnt seem smart enough to come up with any other 'insult' than fag. http://www.imnotokay.net/data/board-smilies/icon_rolleyes.gif They're just jealous because My Chemical Romance is an amazing band with loads of talent.

My Chemical Romance is this generation's Nirvana Kiss.

My Chemical Romance is this generation's Nirvana Kiss Twisted Sister.

My Chemical Romance is this generation's Nirvana Kiss Twisted Sister Ugly Kid Joe.

A lot of people are very personal about pop music, whether that's right or wrong. To most people pop stars mean a lot more than politicians. The optimist in me says that maybe that's because most people have little faith in our political systems (that's optimistic?). But I think it's more likely people just find it uninteresting and don't care. Anyway, considering the amount of people who think they relate to MCR I think we need to keep an eye on our pop stars too.

Myspace is the place where teenagers are hanging out and spending all their time, trying to meet other people like themselves. It's where many people live their life.

As posted by Doran just now over on the Avenged Sevenfold thread, in reference to when he met MCR for a story:

I was so gauche when I first met them in Manchester. I had this idea 'Punk band over from New Jersey. I know Manchester like the back of my hand, I'll take them out on the town. It'll be amazing.'

Then I got on to the tour bus about midnight after the gig (with Gerrard Way's exhortations about doing lines and getting wasted and punk rock still ringing in my ears) and *literally* one of them *was* wearing pyjamas and they were all arguing over which D&D DVD to watch. You know: the kid's animated series. I went out with their drummer (who didn't remain in the band long afterwards) and the two support bands and, did, literally meet them on the way to see a 9am showing of the new Harry Potter movie as we were crawling out of some post-Jilly's Rock World hell hole in China Town.

It wasn't a Damascene experience but I did kind of get then how big they were going to be and did admire them in a way I hadn't previously. I liked the fact that they were geeks who were into Pulp and Flock Of Seagulls as well as the non-violent 'message' of Black Flag and comics and tats and all the other stuff. Sooner that than some bunch of Dawn of the Dead style Babyshambles group.

that is the greatest story in the world.

emo dorks >>> indie dorks

Don't know who comes off worse here http://www.twitter.com/lukelewis

Lewis should have said "more like My Chemical TOILET" amirite?

My Chemical Romance sack drummer for 'stealing'

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FOuSxal8pf4&feature=player_embedded

that's not new for the dylan tribute alb, it was originally on the watchmen sdtk a couple years ago

thread title otm

especially in regard to t-shirts

5 years since Hesitant Alien.

hmmmmmmmmm

Is something happening

hard to confirm whether people have actual information or are just leading me on, as if halloween were april fool's day part 2. it's not!!!!

(but there are more reunion whispers than usual online)

(i still don't believe it)

(but *x files voice* i want to)

"We're coming back together...to back Gerard's cousin Joe Rogan on tour."

all right, i'm p sure it's happening

So joe jonas wasn’t lying huh?

joe jonas never lies

Gerard is never gonna release any of last year's solo singles on vinyl is he?

At least one official reunion show.

https://pitchfork.com/news/my-chemical-romance-announce-reunion-show/

happy halloween to me

i'm not ok (i promise)

My Chemical Romance is this generations Bullet For My Valentine.

Doesn't sound like a proper reunion tbh

in what way, beyond only one show being announced