My Chemical Romance call it a day

i am so buying this album tomorrow

(gerard way, i mean - i already have mechanical animals)

Still listening to this. There's a lot to dig into.

ned have you heard this yet

DO NOT PAIN ME. (Money's a little tight; waiting on payday on Wednesday.)

nedddd

NED GODDAMMIT

Ahem. People. I don't get every promo.

sb

Complaints complaints.

hard to describe why i'm so enthusiastic about it but it's just a great pop rock record idk

― emo canon in twee major (BradNelson), Monday, 22 September 2014 19:05 (2 weeks ago)

^^
Love the way Gerard's a rebooted/fixed Billy Corgan re: US glam anglophilia; glittery Roxy-Music-at-the-mall vibes.

In stuff like "Brother" I also get a strong Todd Rundgren in classicist pop mode vibe.

It occurred to me while listening for the Nth time today that I want Gerard Way and Sky Ferreira to team up for an album.

hard to describe why i'm so enthusiastic about it but it's just a great pop rock record idk

― emo canon in twee major (BradNelson), Monday, 22 September 2014 19:05 (2 weeks ago)

^^
Love the way Gerard's a rebooted/fixed Billy Corgan re: US glam anglophilia; glittery Roxy-Music-at-the-mall vibes.

― etc, Monday, October 6, 2014 1:50 AM (57 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

whoa otm

"You said we'd all be dead by twenty-fiiiive!"

<3 <3 <3

Been spinning this on my ipod every couple days, but just got back from my first long-haul fast-lane nighttime highway driving session with it and well goddamn.

the live shows have also been really wonderful

the record really deepens the more you listen to it

Yeah, I've been enjoying all the show reports for sure. (And yes I did get the album and yes it is great, so there.)

https://vine.co/v/MlI2D9wUxiM

This is nice.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IiRJ64dscko

I thought I had shared that over on the active s-k thread, but apparently not! Off to remedy that.

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