My Chemical Romance call it a day

mallpunk

oh come on

not heard three cheers.
guess i should fix that ..

OTM. "Helena" 4eva.

From an interview I did with Alice Cooper in 2008:

"I hear, like, 'Teenagers' by My Chemical Romance and I'm pissed off I didn't write that song...You get one like that, and I'm going, boy, if the whole album was like that, this would be a Def Leppard album, or this would be an album that you could play all the way through without taking it off. But I heard that one song and I said, that is great...Every once in awhile you hear one that you just kick yourself for not coming up with yourself."

<3

mallpunk

oh come on

I WOULD LOVE TO SEE THE ARGUMENT AGAINST THIS.

Sudden (way overdue) flash of insight that I muttered about, namely that they were a better New Jersey mainstream rock band than Bon Jovi ever has been. (Mall AOR metal vs. mallpunk, mallpunk wins.)

how about Mall Jingle Bell Bullshit?

Ha, what if it were Def Leppard vs MCR, Ned?

haha

That's actually a good question! Then again I don't think of DL as mall AOR metal, I think of them as pop gods, so. :-D

Best NJ band since the Misfits.

Well, OK, gotta fit Monster Magnet in there, too, but notice what all three of those bands have in common - conceptualism, larger-than-lifeism, a commitment to awesomeness (however defined).

In looking over their Wikipedia entry

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/My_Chemical_Romance

I'm having a sudden 'where has the time gone' moment realizing that a band specifically formed in response to 9/11 has had an entire mainstream career from start to finish since. Just a year younger than ILX as a whole.

Hm, listening now, Black Parade does seem to hold up a little better as an album than Cheers.

grabbing this dn before someone else gets it

hahah

I really liked My Chemical Romance. Sad to see them go. They were one of the ultimate if I had have been 14 or 15 when they came out I would have loved them.

otm I always felt this way about them as well.

Three Cheers is the only album of theirs I own - really fun record. also, "Helena" and "I'm Not OK" are two of my favourite videos of the 00s.

Yeah, the videos got me interested at first. They had a good sense of humour about the emo pomp.

This video still rules:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dhZTNgAs4Fc

mostly hyped about this because it gives gerard way more free time to work on his amazing comics

ok .. i keep reading re the comics ..
are these proper dc/marvel etc comics ?
i.e. i know nothing, so someone please point me in the necessary direction ...

oh not superhero comics at all, random sci-fi type w/ popish humor type stuff. "the umbrella academy" is out on dark horse comics and i'm struggling to remember the name of the other more recent one that was also great (but i got into late and had to jump around issues of)

I'm Not Okay <3 <3 <3

oh, the other comics i was thinking of was casanova starring casanova quinn but it's not by way, gerard ba worked on it (who also worked on the umbrella academy)

*gabriel ba

Very fond of MCR, not least because they always seemed to have a good sense of their own ridiculousness. "I'm Not Okay" is still a go-to for when I want something loud in the car, and the last album has held up really well. Otoh, I probably have all the MCR I'll ever need, so the timing is probably good.

disoriented by this thread....always thought these guys were a step above staind, puddle of mudd, etc. maybe i should watch the helena video again. sigh

good troll

yeah they were at least 3 steps, 5 steps being deftones

nice

good riddance

i hope you had the time of your life

Deftones aren't 5 steps above anyone because they are garbage

Didn't know they'd covered "Desolation Row." As far as punked-up Dylan goes, it's OK but no Jason and the Scorchers.

does everyone just get a job at a cafe now? genuinely curious what people do after this.

if you don't think they're all millionaires by now you're a moron.

liked a lot of their music but they were total narcissistic vengeful assholes to a friend who worked for them, hope they all die tbh

Jeez, that sucks.

i kind of don't really know how much a band of their stature can be reasonably expected to earn or hold onto. maybe each member of the band is sitting on a single solitary million right now, kinda doubt it's much more than that, though.

all their songs are about narcissism and revenge so i will take some perverse comfort in the knowledge that they really are bout that life

Lol at being a better rock band than bon jovi being a big accomplishment.

also their teenage fan base are legion. (and insane)

yeah i mean if they're wealthier than i speculated upthread it's probably because their merch sells like hotcakes

gerrard has a p lucritave comic book career too

well i have even less of an idea of what kind of money people make in that business

tempted to go look at one of those 'what celebrities are worth' sites to see whether they've added up the most optimistic profit figures from everything he's ever done to an $80 million total or something

!: http://www.celebritynetworth.com/richest-celebrities/rock-stars/gerard-net-worth/

Didn't even know these sites existed tbh. Not sure what methodology they use.

But yeah, I would not have expected so high of a figure either.

yeah those sites all have ludicrously high figures that seem predicated on the assumption that entertainers and athletes save and wisely invest every dollar they've ever made which uh

oh not superhero comics at all,

although it's the most blatant Grant Morrison Doom Patrol tribute band ever

gerrard has a p lucritave comic book career too

the last issue of Umbrella Academy sold under 21k copies, in May 2009; at 4% of cover he would have made $2500. how many houses do you think he bought with that in the last four years?

yeah but he's just one Hollywood studio option away from his big payoff

just saw him live and realize that he's the greatest guy ever. awesome speech supporting transgender people and all those who don't fit in the binary norm. and also his acknowledgment that young women take with all the shit privileged guys

Was just watching this "making-of" short for the Millions video. The director says something about how "we both decided we wanted to represent the Transylvanians".

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZO5UMB54vfU

he makes an appearance in the new Sleater-Kinney video, which made me really happy

What? Awesome!

Lola about halfway makes me want to look into building a fursuit.

https://fbexternal-a.akamaihd.net/safe_image.php?d=AQDGciacBPmbwivf&w=440&h=230&url=http%3A%2F%2Fstatic.guim.co.uk%2Fsys-images%2FGuardian%2FPix%2Fpictures%2F2014%2F10%2F6%2F1412585053722%2Fcd11406f-ddff-4ed3-94e5-7bc469ebab70-620x372.jpeg&cfs=1&upscale=1&sx=0&sy=0&sw=620&sh=324

ayo

Fuck. I guess this means we won't be seeing any new Gerard Way solo material in the near future.

could just be reissue news but i'm optimistic, even though i'd also like another gerard solo record (which iirc he was recording a little over a year ago)

Yeah, it's obviously going to be awesome news for zillions of mcr heads. Probably a 10th Anniversary tour for Black Parade.

!!!

and it's definitely only a black parade reissue

When I was a young fan
My father took me into the city
To see a touring band

He said son when you grow up
Will you be the buyer of the vinyl
A gatefold in your hand

He said will you order them
These records, from all the eBay sellers
The money they have made

Because one day I'll join you
In the line to own it in the summer
I love The Black Parade

If you hear one note of the intro, it could either be "The Black Parade", or "Children" Robert Miles.

Two notes confirms which one it is.

Somehow I missed this Cave Carson related picture disc from RSD.

http://store.gerardway.com/dc-s-young-animal-picturedisc-comic-book-1.html?eml=2017December5/4199127/6259150&etsubid=31392749

low key the best mcr song

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BQndQV9E8C8

love the Pixies-ish intro on that one

also I only just heard the Japan bonus tracks for Danger Days and it's criminal that they didn't make the album proper

this was the greatest band of all time

none of their albums were perfect but: the sheer volume of ideas in each one! they were accused at the time of (and i even thought of them as) being another indistinguishable mass of mall emo but: no one sounded like them, especially by three cheers, that hybridized glam/arena rock/hardcore thing was theirs, and they made three very different albums that somehow found a new way to explore that dynamic every time. (and they also shelved a pretty decent one!) sidenote the jump in quality from the debut to three cheers, the feeling that their music had been sharpened down into this perfectly-edged thing, is so fun to experience

lmao I tweeted this this morning, in a deliberate attempt to be inflammatory (though I do actually believe it)

MCR released more worthwhile music than Hole and Nirvana combined.

— pedantic pissant (@hollowmines) December 20, 2018