"My Chemical Romance is this generation's Nirvana"

tried to take a stab at a POX for fun but realized it literally had to be at least a POXV just to scratch the surface. insane density of great songs.

Headfirst for halos
I never told you what I do for a living
You know what they do to guys like us in prison
Hang 'em high
Helena
Teenagers
This is how I disappear
Disenchanted
Kill all your friends
Bulletproof heart
Save yourself, I'll hold them back
s/c/a/r/e/c/r/o/w
Summertime
We don't need another song about california
Make room

i love how every song on Danger Days sounds completely different from the one preceding it but as an album, is laserlike in concept and execution. really wish i had given them a chance sooner.

The idea that My Chemical Romance is this generation's Nirvana is ridiculous to them. It's probably ridiculous to most of the people who read this blog, but to the average 16 year old kid, Nirvana is irrelevant in comparison to My Chem.

I don’t think it’s that ridiculous to compare My Chemical Romance to Nirvana, but I do think that the notion that Nirvana should be somehow more relevant to a 16 year old in 2006 than My Chemical Romance is. Is the writer expecting music to get stuck in 1993 for the rest of its existence?

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The idea that Billie Eilish is this generation's Madonna is ridiculous to them. It's probably ridiculous to most of the people who read this forum, but to the average 16 year old kid, Madonna is irrelevant in comparison to Eilish

In light of last week's announcement, I have been listening to Danger Days and I'm finally coming around on MCR being something more than just the prequel to Gerard Way's solo career. Otoh, I tried getting into I Brought You Bullets and it still reminds me of budget Thrice.

i brought you my bullets is the worst mcr album easily. it sounds like those were the first eleven songs they wrote together, which iirc was the case

three cheers, black parade, and danger days are all differently amazing

the only record i can think of that matches three cheers's manic energy is i get wet

Also, hey they are headlining the Download Festival next year, which seems like more evidence in favor of "oh wow, I keep forgetting that these guys are fucking huge."

I will move on from Bullets and try out Three Cheers again, then. Thanks Brad.

The lineup for that festival is nuts.

Show is tonight.

https://i.redd.it/hsrn8hwnop541.jpg

In the past couple months I've become a huge fan of Black Parade and Danger Days. Really excited to hear what they've come up with now. Apparently this has been quietly in the works for about 2 years.

meant to post this piece here the other day https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/12/18/arts/music/my-chemical-romance-black-parade.html

Cool! I remember reading something about the Black Parade when it came out, how it mixed emo (which I liked, although was pretty much over at the time) with musicals and Queen and Pink Floyd The Wall and cancer. On paper that just sounded like the worst combination for me.

I'll be sure to check out the post-Black Parade stuff on there that the article recommends. Most of which I haven't heard.

I remember not so long ago WGW did a similar feature with the B-52s first album. Has he done any other articles like that? The format is pretty cool and they're great tributes.

rock sound is livetweeting the show:

My
Chemical
Romance pic.twitter.com/fxNYxqCjtN

— Rock Sound (@rocksound) December 21, 2019

they're playing Mariah's "Fantasy" as warm up music <3

i bet they do their mariah cover. also they debuted “make room!!!” tonight !!!

Great setlist:

What a band.

What a show.

What a setlist.

It's good to have you back, My Chemical Romance. pic.twitter.com/OAGxZfipXA

— Rock Sound (@rocksound) December 21, 2019

'summertime' made the setlist! i really hope they come to europe.

if I had to pick an ideal 20-song setlist mine would be almost identical, goddamn

It’s been months and I literally cannot stop listening to these guys now wtf. Can’t imagine how insufferable I would have been if I had discovered them when I was 15 like I was supposed to.

Also as a new-ish fan, I’ve been low-key fascinated by their viral marketing strategy - all the cryptic posts and elaborate teasers designed to generate as much discussion and conspiracy theorising as possible. It’s kind of k-pop ish too, having distinctive visual and sonic concepts to mark each era of the group (which explains why so many kpop fans are former emo kids I guess).

It’s been months and I literally cannot stop listening to these guys now wtf. Can’t imagine how insufferable I would have been if I had discovered them when I was 15 like I was supposed to.

Yeah, coming from the same place basically and they are so good it's ridiculous.

I finally got around to the Conventional Weapons stuff this week and jesus, I can't believe they scrapped that album - most of it is as good as anything else they've ever done. But at the same time really glad that they did? Because freaking Danger Days.

"Boy Division" is the best track title in the world lol.

let's hope for a new gerard way solo album:

https://www.instagram.com/p/B-kuORqpAFK/

That's what I was genuinely hoping for prior to the reunion announcement. The way that's worded, and with an MCR record probably coming soon as well, I don't think we'll be seeing a full record in the near future. But maybe? I love the new song.

You busy yourself with fashion
I busy myself with fun
I’m busy painting these mini metal skeletons and
You say I’m dressed like a bum

Fiiinally checking out Black Parade after years of only hearing a song now and then in the wild. Pretty great album! But I also like Panic at the Disco so I suppose that makes sense

I think Three Cheers is my favourite now. Black Parade has some of their best songs (Teenagers, Mama, Sharpest Lives) as well as some of their worst (Cancer, WTTBP, Disenchanted). Danger Days with a few songs replaced by some of the Conventional Weapon tracks would have made a killer album.

sucks that their reunion plans had to be put on hold - was supposed to go see them in March but of course it didn’t happen.

"WTTBP" and "Disenchanted" are probably my two favorites haha! "Cancer" is not great, but I think it's a really solid album otherwise. I'll check out Three Cheers next

"Sleep" is my least fave just because the climax sounds hopelessly squashed to me. (good song tho)

I get what you mean about squashed but I blame the production for that - "Sleep" sounds great live. 

"WTTBP" kept me from actively checking them out for years lol. I like it when they lean more T. Rex/Bowie than Queen, though I've come to accept that the Queen influence is a huge part of their sound.

It's amusing how blatant they were with their hero worship too - Gerard's vocal runs at the end of "The Sharpest Lives" are a pitch perfect impression of Matt Bellamy/Muse, who I suspect he was listening to a lot while they were recording this. But not terrible! One of their best choruses. And then there's like "Kill All Your Friends" which is so clearly "Where is My Mind?" run through a Britpop filter lol.

anyway at their best, MCR takes a lot of things that on paper should sound terrible and somehow makes them good.

Hard to unhear the squashing on "Sleep" now that you point it out. It starts right out with it. Good song still

I gave Three Cheers a few listens, another solid album. The songs are more uniform in style compared to Black Parade, and I have a harder time remembering songs where the title is not in the song, so I probably need a few more listens before it all sinks in. I can understand now why you may not like "Disenchanted", Roz - it's like a half-speed rewrite of the even-better "I'm Not OK". That and "Helena" and "Ghost of You" are really strong. And speaking of hero worship, the interlude straight up sounds like Radiohead

The first time I "got" Three Cheers, what hooked me was the one-two punch of Ghost of You and Jetset Life is Gonna Kill You. Both of those choruses are just so ultra-processed and saturated that I just felt like I was in a hurricane. You just get done being completely wrung out by Ghost of You and Jetset comes on like "let's do that again, shall we?"

Eyes. pic.twitter.com/LUK9DmduYC

— My Chemical Romance (@MCRofficial) December 8, 2020

You know, I was wondering what the hell this was about and it turns out they’re putting out a Revenge-era makeup line: https://www.allure.com/story/hipdot-my-chemical-romance-makeup-collection

Only 16 years too late, lol.

Gerard provides guest vocala for the new song from Ibaraki - a black metal project of Trivium's Matt Heafy and Ihsahn from Emperor.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v7rn2BhWHAg

This thread is now older than Nevermind was when this thread was started.

Annie Zaleski making a convincing case: https://www.theguardian.com/music/2022/may/10/my-chemical-romance-how-the-vilified-band-turned-antipathy-into-triumph?CMP=share_btn_tw

All of this may be a passing fad – but the alternative rock realm MCR left behind has expanded in their image: it’s a place where greater honesty, empathy and a willingness to understand mental health difficulties are flourishing, and in which boundaries of gender and genre are dissolving. The late rappers Lil Peep and Juice Wrld continue to have large followings thanks to their deeply vulnerable, personal lyrics. After two years plus of the pandemic, a crop of songwriters known for talking frankly about mental health – such as Phoebe Bridgers, Julien Baker, Lucy Dacus, Soccer Mommy and Japanese Breakfast – have elevated profiles.

Today, MCR’s legacy is arguably comparable to that of Nirvana, another group of scrappy underdogs who proudly identified with the outcasts. Both bands drew on underground punk influences for inspiration and spoke to the marginalised; both became cultural forces by accident. Like Kurt Cobain, Way is an outspoken feminist (and fan of riot grrrl). These parallels weren’t lost on him. “I found myself in a position where I was obviously not nearly at the level that Kurt was, but I was speaking to a young generation of people,” he told GQ last year. “It doesn’t mean you have to play the fame game or the red carpet game or anything like that … Nirvana inspired us to reject those things.”

They'll be starting their tour in less than a week! Hope all goes well for them.

well-timed revive bc....

NEW SONG

https://mcr.lnk.to/thefoundationsofdecay

IT'S FUCKING AMAZING

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V2kWUJkRvVs

HOLY SHIT THANK YOU BRAD!

Wow, wasn't expecting this. Cool song, goes back to the Three Cheers-era sound a bit. I loved pretty much everything I've heard from this band from Three Cheers on and I hope hope hope there is a new album coming

Surprisingly good

oh wow this is pretty fantastic! gerard’s vocals are weirdly buried in the mix though (not that I’m complaining, I kinda prefer it like this?)

it’s like a polished version of their Bullets era, right up to the 9/11 references

Very, very good indeed.

gerard’s vocals are weirdly buried in the mix though (not that I’m complaining, I kinda prefer it like this?)

Vocals were pretty low in Hesitant Alien, although that was a while ago now. Then he did that black metal thing a couple months ago.