this album gets better every time i listen to it, which motivated me to search for its thread but it turns out we talked about this record exclusively in an mcr thread
― who is extremely unqualified to review this pop album (BradNelson), Monday, 17 October 2016 17:43 (seven years ago) link
anyway i could vote for at least five of these lol
― who is extremely unqualified to review this pop album (BradNelson), Monday, 17 October 2016 18:00 (seven years ago) link
probably "maya the psychic"
― who is extremely unqualified to review this pop album (BradNelson), Monday, 17 October 2016 18:02 (seven years ago) link
There isn't a song on here I don't like.
I haven't checked out his Doom Patrol comic or any of the other Young Animal stuff. It seems like that's just what he's up to these days though? I've been hoping for another solo record from him for a while.
― how's life, Monday, 17 October 2016 18:08 (seven years ago) link
what a great record
― maura, Monday, 17 October 2016 21:13 (seven years ago) link
Yep this is the best record.
My picks would be "Brother" which I always have to play 3 times in a row, or "How It's Going To Be" (YES to the synth solo) or "Maya The Psychic".
― Tim F, Monday, 17 October 2016 22:13 (seven years ago) link
Could vote for almost anything, but wanna raise some support for the big dumb obvious vaseline'n'glitter-smeared "No Shows" & "Action Cat".
― etc, Monday, 17 October 2016 23:24 (seven years ago) link
i had a thought last night that this record's ambitions seem parallel to stp's tiny music 20 years later, i.e. trying to retrofit glam onto '90s rock forms (here it's shoegaze ("action cat"), the pixies ("zero zero," "juarez"), pulp ("drugstore perfume")) but it's way stronger and more confident about it.
― who is extremely unqualified to review this pop album (BradNelson), Tuesday, 18 October 2016 18:44 (seven years ago) link
had to go for "Millions"
― a serious and fascinating fartist (Simon H.), Tuesday, 18 October 2016 21:58 (seven years ago) link
not sure about his solo music, and i was never a my chemical romance fan. but this guy's comics are pretty damn great. he's currently writing the reboot of dc's doom patrol. the first issue's cover was an homage to vu & nico, but with a gyro. sticker and everything.
http://i.onionstatic.com/avclub/5858/67/original/640.jpg
― BringTheAuBonPain, Tuesday, 18 October 2016 23:58 (seven years ago) link
Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.
― System, Thursday, 27 October 2016 00:01 (seven years ago) link
"Action Cat" is the one I keep putting on playlists, so that. Good album!
― Mike Pence shakes his head and mouths the word ‘no’ (tipsy mothra), Thursday, 27 October 2016 02:20 (seven years ago) link
Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.
― System, Friday, 28 October 2016 00:01 (seven years ago) link
new song alert
― flamenco drop (BradNelson), Friday, 8 December 2017 16:21 (six years ago) link
Where? Don't see anything in the expected spots.
― Simon H., Friday, 8 December 2017 16:30 (six years ago) link
i think it was mistagged on spotify?? or there was a song that came out last year named "into the cave we wander" that's brand new to me
― flamenco drop (BradNelson), Friday, 8 December 2017 17:09 (six years ago) link
oh i guess it was from record store day!
― flamenco drop (BradNelson), Friday, 8 December 2017 17:10 (six years ago) link
yeah I expect he's probably busy with that whole netflix thing
― Simon H., Friday, 8 December 2017 17:17 (six years ago) link
http://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=19&v=TaxHIYOzMUQ
really wish this could have scored a Hill House credit sequence
― wayne trotsky (Simon H.), Friday, 26 October 2018 14:04 (five years ago) link
oh man this song rules, i need another gerard solo record IMMEDIATELY
― princess of hell (BradNelson), Friday, 26 October 2018 15:17 (five years ago) link
another single out today, co-written by Ray Toro among others
― wayne trotsky (Simon H.), Friday, 16 November 2018 12:40 (five years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XvWVWPfCAfI
― princess of hell (BradNelson), Friday, 16 November 2018 14:32 (five years ago) link
btw i love this song
― princess of hell (BradNelson), Friday, 16 November 2018 14:34 (five years ago) link
more slinky britpop songs with flute please
― princess of hell (BradNelson), Friday, 16 November 2018 14:38 (five years ago) link
Just caught up on the two recent tunes, glad he's back to writing songs. They're both good!
― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Sunday, 2 December 2018 20:42 (five years ago) link
I love the flute on Germs. Its whole vibe is more chill than he usually is, he wears it well.
― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Sunday, 2 December 2018 20:44 (five years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2quKUSaPi9E
album of the year 2019
― jolene club remix (BradNelson), Friday, 14 December 2018 15:54 (five years ago) link
he's gonna have a big year huh
― resident hack (Simon H.), Friday, 14 December 2018 16:01 (five years ago) link
man, ILM had NO time for MCR, all the threads are like 20 posts
― rip van wanko, Friday, 14 December 2018 16:11 (five years ago) link
it's criminal. they placed remarkably low in the emo poll as well
― resident hack (Simon H.), Friday, 14 December 2018 16:14 (five years ago) link
Felt like MCR got better w/every album (and would include Hesitant Alien in that trajectory).
― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Friday, 14 December 2018 19:09 (five years ago) link
Everything about this family is insane. Don't trust us? Watch the official trailer now. The Umbrella Academy premieres February 15. pic.twitter.com/vJvxhebCqR— Umbrella Academy (@UmbrellaAcad) January 24, 2019
so this looks... great. and that's gerard way and ray toro covering "hazy shade of winter" in the background
― jolene club remix (BradNelson), Thursday, 24 January 2019 18:31 (five years ago) link
background, hell...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZTCrqXpKHec&feature=youtu.be
― peace, man, Friday, 25 January 2019 00:07 (five years ago) link
er
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZTCrqXpKHec
― peace, man, Friday, 25 January 2019 00:08 (five years ago) link
this would have slotted in nicely on Hesitant Alien imo
https://youtu.be/e425i81YVLc
― k*r*n koltrane (Simon H.), Wednesday, 8 July 2020 17:10 (three years ago) link
very nice, very fuzzy
all this gerard way/mcr action has made me somewhat excited about umbrella academy season 2, and I didn’t even like the first one that much.
― Roz, Wednesday, 8 July 2020 18:04 (three years ago) link
same, hope it comes together this time. some improved dialogue would really really help
― k*r*n koltrane (Simon H.), Wednesday, 8 July 2020 18:09 (three years ago) link
He's really starting to look like a younger Jeff Tweedy
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Thursday, 9 July 2020 13:24 (three years ago) link
https://loudwire.com/doug-mckean-engineer-my-chemical-romance-producer-dead-54/
I missed this news when it hit last week, but Doug McKean died of a brain hemorrhage in late June. He had been a longtime engineer for the band, and produced all of Gerard's solo stuff as well as the new MCR single. R.I.P.
― peace, man, Monday, 8 August 2022 15:17 (one year ago) link
Here's a note that Gerard wrote about Doug from one of his soundcloud songs.
https://soundcloud.com/gerardway/phoning-it-in
Phoning It In. I’ve always loved the phrase and I was just inspired to write a song with it. To keep in spirit with the title of the song, I made sure not to try too hard on any one element. I wrote the riff quickly, wrote the lyrics quickly, we got the guitar sound quickly, and there was no overthinking or really changing anything. My only complaint about it is that I think it is a little too fast, so it forces me to sing harder to keep up, and it doesn’t fully sound like I’m phoning in the vocals. So I thought about slowing it down and delivering a more laid back vocal take. Just ever so slightly. I played the guitar, sang, No bass yet. Doug programmed the drums. Every once in a while we will have someone play drums on the songs, but usually only when we are finishing something for release. Otherwise, all the drums in the demos are programmed by Doug, and I think he does a really good job of making them sound kind of real and natural. I get attached to them. All of Hesitant Alien started as demos with programmed drums by Doug. He and I have a cool relationship, and have evolved together over the years since he engineered Black Parade, Danger Days, and engineered and produced Hesitant Alien. We work in the same space, the studio at my house, called Milk Friends. I just let him have the space I’m not using and he brought in all of his gear and works on various projects, recording, and mixes, and I would be in the other room, the office, writing comics. And every so often, when neither of us is too busy, we record things. I like sharing artistic spaces with people, especially Doug. It’s nice to have a friend that can record you when you have an idea, because I’m terrible at recording and I barely even know how to use Garage Band. So all the singles you have gotten from me over the last couple of years have been done with Doug and I, and then various musicians who would replace certain things, making them real, and sound better.
― peace, man, Monday, 8 August 2022 15:21 (one year ago) link
this album is so important to me
― ivy., Monday, 8 January 2024 16:10 (three months ago) link
It's a beautiful, rockin' record, and it still holds up. I'm just sad that we never got a proper follow-up.
― peace, man, Monday, 8 January 2024 17:17 (three months ago) link
This record should’ve been huge (I know that’s true of many records)
― Marten Broadcloak, mild-mannered GOP congressman (Raymond Cummings), Monday, 8 January 2024 20:38 (three months ago) link
Perfect album
― Tim F, Tuesday, 9 January 2024 07:57 (three months ago) link
i really love "Don't Try", which was left off HA but released later:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=usEHacWtR6o
important tip from youtube comments: Put play speed at 1.25x it sounds like a MCR song
― Roz, Tuesday, 9 January 2024 09:35 (three months ago) link