#ambulance -> save yourself i’ll hold them back/bulletproof heart

[tranquilitybasehotelcasino]

once again listening to conventional weapons my favorite part of the whole collection is being able to like. instantly tell what songs got reworked into which songs off danger days

[x-ladydisdain-x]

vampires will never hurt you / thank you for the venom / bury me in black / the end. / my way home is through you / heaven help us / na na na / bulletproof heart (x2) / party poison (x2) / save yourself, I’ll hold them back / boy division / ambulance / fake your death

[natileroxs]

All the songs MCR hasn’t played yet

My Chemical Romance has played a lot of new and old songs throughout their recent tour but here’s a list of all their songs and which ones haven’t yet been played. All these stats are as of the 20th September 2022. Source

I Bought You My Bullets You Bought Me Your Love -

Romance - (not played) since 2005 (part of medley 2019) Honey This Mirror Isn't Big Enough For The Two Of Us - (not played) since 2010 Vampires Will Never Hurt You - Aug 29th (13 times) since 2012 Drowning Lessons - (not played) since 2004 Our Lady Of Sorrows - May 16th (19 times) since 2012 (also 2019) Headfirst For Halos - May 17th (7 times) since 2009 Skylines And Turnstiles - May 19th (9 times) since 2011 (note - not played since 2004) Early Sunsets Over Monroeville - (not played) since 2005 This Is The Best Day Ever - Aug 20th (11 times) since 2005 Cubicles - (Never played) Demolition Lovers - Sep 20th (1 time) since 2004

Sister To Sleep - (not played) since 2003

Three Cheers For Sweet Revenge -

Helena - May 16th (41 times) since 2012 (also 2019) Give 'em Hell Kid - May 16th (33 times) since 2012 (also 2019) To The End - (not played) since 2006 You Know What They Do To Guys Like Us In Prison - May 16th (14 times) since 2011 (also 2019) I'm Not Okay (I Promise) - May 16th (42 times) since 2012 (also 2019) The Ghost Of You - May 17th (24 times) since 2011 The Jetset Life Is Gonna Kill You - (not played) since 2008 Interlude - (not played) since 2005 (medley in 2019) Thank You For The Venom - May 16th (25 times) since 2012 (also 2019) Hang 'em High - Aug 21st (8 times) since 2011 It's Not A Fashion Statement It's A Deathwish - May 19th (10 times) since 2007 Cemetery Drive - May 17th (12 times) since 2012 I Never Told You What I Do For A Living - Sep 20th (1 time) since 2008

Desert Song - Sep 11th (3 times) since 2008 Bury Me In Black - Aug 20th (10 times) since 2003 Heaven Help Us - Jun 11th (2 times) since 2008

The Black Parade -

The End - (not played) since 2007 (medley in 2019) Dead! - (not played) last 2011 This Is How I Disappear - May 16th (14 times) since 2009 The Sharpest Lives - (not played) since 2009 Welcome To The Black Parade - May 16th (42 times) since 2012 (also 2019) I Don't Love You - (not played) since 2010 (also 2019) House Of Wolves - May 17th (20 times) since 2011 (also 2019) Cancer - May 22nd (3 times) since 2012 Mama - May 16th (39 times) since 2012 (also 2019) Sleep - May 16th (21 times) since 2012 Teenagers - May 16th (42 times) since 2012 (also 2019) Disenchanted - (not played) since 2007 Famous last words - May 16th (42 times) since 2012 (also 2019) Blood - (Never played)

Someone Out There Loves You - (not played) since 2008 My Way Home Is Through You - (not played) since 2008 Kill All Your Friends - (not played) since 2008 Desolation Row - (not played) since 2011 The Drugs - (not played) since 2009

Danger Days: Lives Of The Fabulous Killjoys -

Na Na Na (Na Na Na Na Na Na Na Na Na) - May 16th (43 times) since 2012 (also 2019) Bulletproof Heart - May 21st (8 times) since 2011 SING - (not played) since 2012 Planetary (Go!) - (not played) since 2012 The Only Hope For Me Is You - May 17th (9 times) since 2012 Party Poison - (not played) since 2011 Save Yourself, I'll Hold Them Back - May 28th (6 times) since 2011 S/C/A/R/E/C/R/O/W - May 17th (9 times) since 2012 (also 2019) Summertime - May 16h (24 times) since 2012 (also 2019) DESTROYA - May 16th (34 times) since 2012 (also 2019) The Kids From Yesterday - May 16th (17 times) since 2012 (also 2019) vampire money - May 16th (29 times) since 2012 (also 2019)

Zero Percent - (Never played) F.T.W.W.W - (Never played) Mastas Of Ravenkroft - First time May 17th (11 times) Black Dragon Fighting Society - (Never played)

Conventional Weapons -

Boy Division - First time May 16th (36 times) Tomorrow's Money - First time May 24th (5 times) AMBULANCE - (Never played) Gun. - (Never played) The World Is Ugly - Aug 23rd (8 times) since 2008 The Light Behind Your Eyes - (Never played) (medley in 2019) Kiss The Ring - (not played) since 2009 Make Room - May 16th (9 times) first time 2019 Surrender The Night - First time May 16th (9 times) Burn Bright - First time Aug 26th (3 times)

Fake Your Death - (Never played)

Living With Ghosts -

The Five Of Us Are Dying - (Never played) Party At The End Of The World - (Never played) Not That Kind Of Girl - (Never played) House Of Wolves (Version 1) - (Never played) Emily - (Never played) All The Angels - (Never played)

The Foundations Of Decay - First played Jun 12th (42 times)

[lostjulys]

ok im tired as shit and i can't sleep here's the definitive crimeboysclingyduo + my chem poast.

c!clingyduo: our lady of sorrows (take my fucking hand and never be afraid again / you can trade me for an apparition / oh how wrong we were / to think immortality meant never dying) save yourself, i'll hold them back (we can leave this world, leave it all behind / we can steal this car if your folks don't mind / we can live together if you've got the time / i'm the only friend that makes you cry) skylines and turnstiles (and after seeing what we saw / can we still reclaim our innocence? and if the world needs something better / lets give them one more reason now), the world is ugly (are you thinking of me / like i'm thinking of you? / one day, like this / we'll never be the same) this is the best day ever (well i thought i heard you say 'i like you, we can get out / we don't have to stay in this place) i never told you what i do for a living (and never again, they gave us two shots / to the back of the head and we're all dead now) summertime, (if you stay, i would even wait all night / or until my heart explodes. how long until / we find our way in the dark and out of harm? i'll run away with you any time you want)

c!crimeboys: this is how i disappear (can you hear me cry out to you? words i thought i'd choke on / i'm really not with you anymore / i'm just a ghost, so i can't hurt you anymore / there's things i've done / that you should never ever know / and without you is how i disappear / and live my life alone, forever now), AMBULENCE (and if you save my life, i'll be the one who drives you home tonight / and if i ever let you down / i'll be the one who drives you home tonight) the light behind your eyes (if i could be with you tonight / i would sing you to sleep / never let them take the light behind your eyes / one day, i'll lose this fight / just remember you will always burn as bright / we'll say goodbye today, and i'm sorry it ends this way) the ghost of you (at the end of the world, or the last thing i see / you are never coming home, never coming home / and all the things you never ever told me / and all the smiles that are ever gonna haunt me)

c!wilbur: the sharpest lives, (give me a shot to remember / and you can take all the pain away from me / the sharpest lives are the deadliest to lead / so you can leave like the sane abandoned me / if it looks like i'm laughing, i'm really just asking to leave / you're the one that i need, i'm the one that you loathe) you know what they do to guys like us in prison (like a bullet throught a flock of doves / to wage this war against your faith in me) thank you for the venom (give me all your hopeless hearts and make me ill / you're running after something that you'll never kill / if this is what you want, then fire at will / preach all you want, but who's gonna save me? i keep a gun in the book you gave me / you wanna follow something, give me a better cause to lead / give me a reason to believe)

c!tommy: heaven help us (the punchline to the joke is asking / someone, save us) bulletproof heart, (i'm who i've got to be, these pigs are after me / and though i know how much you hate it / are you gonna be the one to save us? hold your heart into this darkness / will it fail and leave you stranded?) scarecrow, (make a wish when your childhood dies / count to seventeen and close your eyes / i'll keep you safe inside)

c!tubbo: burn bright (so give me all you've got, i can take it / they always told me i'll never get to heaven with a life like yours, little boy / it's like a chemical burn, i'm peeling off your skin / and when you see your face / well, you'll never be the same again) the light behind your eyes, (so long to all my friends / every one of them met tragic ends) destroya, (what have you become / when they take from you almost everything?) the only hope for me is you (what have we learned, other than people burn in purifying flame? / i'll say it's okay, i know you can tell / and though you can see my smile / i still think of the guns they sell)

[transmascfrankiero]

all of mcr’s songs ranked out of ten based on whether or not you can strip to them:

romance: could work if you were going for a Super Melancholy smiths-esque vibe but overall too slow and pretty. 1/10

honey: headbanger soundtrack to showcase your revenge body to ur ex. bonus points for underlying ‘gonna murder shitty boyfriend’ context thanks to audition-inspired video. but slightly too angry to be seductive. 5/10

vampires: too goth, too many feelings. reminds me of pot dreads frank. would not work. 0/10

drowning lessons: this song is cursed and cannot be listened to in public unfortunately 0/10

sorrows: if u were going to do a strip routine while beating the shit out of someone for trying to stealing ur tip money this would be a gr8 choice 6/10

halos: it’s about blowing your own head off and taking too many pills to cope w/ wanting to die all the time. 0/10

turnstiles: please do not!!! strip!!! to a song!!! about 9/11!!!! what is wrong w/ you!!! -100000000/10

monroeville: if u were doing a private lil strip dance for your george a. romero-obsessed s.o. where u both cry over the idea of having to kill the other person b/c they turned into a zombie then sure??? but other than that no. .5/10

best day ever: ehhhhhh. too fast. kinda weird to get sexy to unless u have a hospital kink. 0/10

cubicles: wow the thought of doing a strip routine to a song about pining for ur coworker who doesn’t know u exist is too sad to even joke about -20/10

demolition lovers: it’s a long song but it’s got cool tempo changes for variety and if u got the stamina then go for it. 4/10

helena: so, like, i get it. it’s a bop. u could dance to this beat for sure. the costumes and color scheme from the video make for gr8 stage pictures and the dancing corpse lady is v pretty. i could understand why if u were doing an emo strip routine u would want to use helena. but please for the love of all that is holy do NOT strip to a song gerard way wrote about his dead grandmother okay i am BEGGING you -∞/10

give ‘em hell kid: FUCK YEAH YOU LOOK PRETTY WALKIN DOWN THE STREET IN THE BEST DAMN DRESS U OWN. 10/10

to the end: this would be a hilarious choice for a bachelor party ngl 7/10 for that alone

prison: absolutely you could strip to this song but u gotta COMMIT okay u gotta light something on fire onstage and challenge gender norms while screaming your head off 8/10 but only if ur not a coward

i’m not okay: it’s a bop, but can u strip to it? no. 0/10

ghost of you: mikey way did not die on a beach in fake normandy for u to strip to ghost of you. seek help -5/10

jetset life: dude this song like. actually works??? for a strip routine??? so long as you don’t actually listen to the words, from a musical perspective, u could totally strip to this 10/10

interlude: what kinda weird catholic shame kink do u need to have to strip to this song. also it’s too short and too pretty. -5/10 (unless ur into catholic shame idk)

venom: this would require such a high energy routine but if u can make being sweaty work then this is a gr8 choice 7/10

hang ‘em high: this is a BATSHIT INSANE choice for a strip routine but if u want to do it then PLEASE do. i like ur style. 8/10

deathwish: u can strip to this only if u introduce ur routine by dedicating it to everyone who ever said eyeliner on dudes was gay. 5/10

cemetery drive: i think not. 0/10

never told you: if u are a highly theatrical highly murderous stripper then yes definitely 7/10

desert song: this song is Way Too Beautiful to strip to sorry you can’t have it -300/10

the end.: the only sexy thing about this song is how good gerard’s voice sounds so no. 0/10

dead!: this is a bold fucking choice but u have to play your cards just right. high risk high reward but SO much to potentially get wrong 6/10

how i disappear: u could. but why. 2/10

sharpest lives: holy SHIT yes ABSOLUTELY u should strip to sharpest lives. the drama. the beat. the spy rock guitar that frank accidentally nailed. this is one of THE choicest options from their catalog. why aren’t u stripping to this right now 50000000/10

wttbp: cute idea but don’t actually 0/10

i don’t love you: again, a bold fucking choice. u could strip to this in an edgy, meta sort of way but it’s missing the trashy factor so it’d have to be part performance art and part strip routine. if ur into that then totally 5/10

house of wolves: i mean i would pay money to see someone strip to this song so 7/10

cancer: LMAO YIKES -2000000/10

mama: this would be GLORIOUS if u fully embraced the sheer insanity and went Bonkers in Fuckin Zonkers burlesque-show-in-hell w/ it. 100/10 but u gotta pound the floor wailing at some point

sleep: i’m conflicted on this one like on the one hand it’s a good tempo for stripping but on the other hand it’s a song about being cruel to ur loved ones in order to force distance between u and them b/c you’re terrified of them getting hurt and it being all your fault. so maybe don’t strip to this one actually 0/10

teenagers: a bop w/ a great beat and fun costume ideas from the video but two major drawbacks being 1. ur getting naked to a song about teenagers which is uhhhh sort of Inappropriate and 2. it’s kind of also about school shooters which is also Inappropriate to get naked to. 0/10

disenchanted: why would u want this. you sad fuck. idek what to say except if you want to strip to this song i’m crying on your behalf -100000000/10

famous last words: don’t????? don’t. Do Not. stop that. -12/10

blood: this is HILARIOUS omg please strip to blood 10/10

kill all your friends: sure?? no objections but it’s an odd choice. this goes for the demo too. 2/10

heaven help us: if u want to strip to this then you definitely just read unholyverse for the first time and while u are valid, Don’t 0/10

my way home is through you: not an especially sexy song but it’s fun!! you do you 3/10

astro zombies (cover): uhhhhhh it’s a no from me dawg. i’d be thinking about danzig, like, the whole time. 0/10

desolation row: sure but u gotta be willing to get punched in the face by the riot squad for maximum effect 4/10

common people (cover): just b/c gerard would strip to britpop doesn’t mean u can. 0/10

emily: NO!!!! -50000/10

party at the end of the world: nah. 0/10

not that kind of girl: literally please consider the subject matter of this song and rethink ur life choices. -10/10

all the angels: it’s a cool song but don’t strip to it that’s weird -2/10

jack the ripper: you and the person who wants to strip to astro zombies can go sit in the suicidegirls corner together how about that. 0/10

na na na: a banger!! strip away my friend 9/10

bulletproof heart: a good song but not a strip song 1/10

sing: sorry this song is [REDACTED] it gets no score

planetary (go!): you could try to strip to this but it’s such a classic four-on-the-floor that i think you’d end up just regular dancing to it and forget to be sexy so 4/10

the only hope for me is you: are you doing a strip tease for michael bay. stop. put ur shirt back on shia lebeouf 0/10

party poison: like this is a hilarious option and i support you but realistically it’s pretty fast for a strip song 3/10

save yourself, i’ll hold them back: this is a safe option. Too Safe. almost soulless. a person who’d strip to this would avoid eye contact the entire time and never smile and later when you went out for a smoke break you’d overhear them on the phone with their ex arguing over child support payments. 4/10

s/c/a/r/e/c/r/o/w: the more i think about it the more fun the idea of stripping to this becomes so i say go for it 6/10

summertime: i’m Certain that gerard would prefer if you didn’t -5/10

destroya: is this objectively the best mcr song to strip to? Absolutely. it’s got everything you could possibly want right down to built-in moans and fever dream drums. but the only person in the universe who Can Must and Should strip to this song is gerard. sorry them’s the breaks. ∞/10 but only if you’re gerard way

kids from yesterday: don’t. 0/10

vampire money: 100% yes you should strip to this. bonus points for stealth twilight references 1000000/10

we don’t need another song about california: do i like this song? yes. is it sexy? no. 0/10

black dragon fighting society: i can’t understand what the FUCK gerard is saying in this song AT ALL so i can’t recommend that u strip to it b/c i have no fucking idea what it’s ABOUT 0/10

f.t.w.w.w.: i mean. this song is about eating pussy. and robots that are built specifically to fuck. so yes you can strip to this but you gotta dress up like a pornbot 100/10

mastas of ravencroft: again i cannot understand most of the fucking words and the ones i do understand are something something RICKETY BONES RICKETY HANDS so like. probably not the one 0/10

boy division: i could go either way on this one like it’s really fast but it’s also about cocaine so??? 3/10

tomorrow’s money: while this song slaps overall violent nihilism does not a strip song make 1/10

ambulance: no. 0/10

gun.: antiwar messages are sexy but not the right kind for stripping 1/10

the world is ugly: PLEASE no. 0/10

the light behind your eyes: oh my god this is so DEPRESSING why would you want to strip to this who hurt you -2000000/10

kiss the ring: yes yes yes it’s got built-in audience participation conceit factor if u let ur audience kiss ur ring, totally works 10/10

make room!!!: again, slaps, but not a strip song 1/10

surrender the night: dude we talked about this!!! dying violently w/ ur loved ones is Not Sexy!!! 0/10

burn bright: i guess you could strip to this but again it’s Too Safe tread carefully 3/10

fake your death: i want frank iero to strip to this song so i can throw tomatoes at him for being a LYING SACK OF SHIT FOR TWO YEARS i’m not gonna rate this one but frank if ur out there i have a basket of slightly squishy heirloom tomatoes and i am COMING FOR YOU

[lesbiangiratina]

MCR tier list version 2.0

S tier:

Our Lady Of Sorrows

Demolition Lovers

Helena

The Ghost of You

The Jetset Life is Gonna Kill You

I Never Told You What I Do for a Living

This Is How I Disappear

The Sharpest Lives

Welcome to the Black Parade

House of Wolves

Mama

Sleep

Famous Last Words

Save Yourself, I’ll Hold Them Back

Summertime

Boy Division

Burn Bright

A+ tier:

To the End

You Know What They Do to Guys Like Us in Prison

Thank You for the Venom

Hang ‘Em High

It’s Not a Fashion Statement, It’s a Deathwish

Bury Me in Black

I Don’t Love You

Teenagers

Heaven Help Us

DESTROYA

AMBULANCE

Kiss the Ring

Surrender the Night

A tier:

Early Sunsets Over Monroeville

Give ‘Em Hell Kid

Cemetery Drive

Desert Song

The End + Dead!

Disenchanted

My Way Home Is Through You

Kill All Your Friends

Vampire Money

Tomorrow’s Money

Gun.

Make Room!!!

B+ tier:

Honey, This Mirror Isn’t Big Enough for the Two of Us

I’m Not Okay (I Promise)

Cancer

Bulletproof Heart

Planetary (GO!)

Party Poison

The Light Behind Your Eyes

Fake Your Death

B tier:

Drowning Lessons

Na Na Na

Sing

S/C/A/R/E/C/R/O/W

The Kids from Yesterday

C+ tier:

Skylines and Turnstiles

Vampires Will Never Hurt You

Cubicles

The Only Hope for Me Is You

C tier:

Headfirst For Halos

This Is the Best Day Ever

D tier:

The World Is Ugly

F tier:

Nothing <3

[v-t-holmes]

MCR songs rated by how many of the Bandori bands could and/or should cover them

romance: no lyrics, but it has roselia vibes 1/5

honey: afterglow vibes, but also popipa (and also I want Rimi for the screaming parts), they might be kira kira doki doki but they also covered a song entirely about sex and god knows ... is pretty dark too, 2/5

vampires: roselia and afterglow both seem like the type to cover this, 3/5 for the third possibility of yukina and ran covering it together

drowning lessons: once again, afterglow and roselia or a yukina and ran cover vibe, but also RAS, 3/5 + 1

sorrows: afterglow, and RAS and glitter*green vibes and also ran, layer and yuri deserve to say fuck 1/5 + 2

halos: lets just go ahead and say that most of the bullets album has afterglow vibes, but this one also has hello happy world! vibes, harohapi is the kind of band to cover stuff you wouldn't expect them to 2/5

turnstiles: it does have afterglow vibes but should any of them really be covering this song 0/5 + 1 bc I trust yukina's dad with it (also i googled him after writing this, why is he so pretty excuse me)

monroeville: afterglow/5, ran has the range

best day ever: clearly, afterglow, 1/5

cubicles: just like approximately 100 times previously, this has clear afterglow vibes, but also roselia, maybe glitter*green too, 2/5 + 1

demolition lovers: everything but screaming in this song says roselia bc screaming is very un-yukina-esque, 1/5 + ran would totaly scream

helena: fits roselia the best, but it also has afterglow or glitter*green vibes, maybe even RAS, but at the moment they don't have the emotional depth for that yet, 2/5 + 1.5

give ‘em hell kid: realized that bullets and three cheers have afterglow and roselia vibes respectively, but their imagery is exactly the opposite. that being said, both roselia and afterglow could do a great cover of this song, 2/5

to the end: just like a bunch of times before, roselia and afterglow, 3/5 for a possibility of yukina and ran cover

prison: Hello!!!! Happy!!!! World!!!!! I do not take constructive criticism on this one, 1/5 let kokoro tsurumaki say motherfucker

i’m not okay: guess the band it starts with a and ends with fterglow (also can somebody put this song over the tied to the skies mv i have a theory they fit together), also roselia, but only for the 'i'm okay (trust me)' part bc i want ako to have the 'trust me' line, 3/5, popipa, harohapi and pasupare together give the song another point

ghost of you: it could very easily be a roselia song, 1/5

jetset life: una otra cancion para roselia to cover por favor 1/5

interlude: it may be a short song but yukina's vocals and roselia's sound would fit it way too well 1/5

venom: realistically, afterglow and roselia would be most likely to cover it, but someting about it says 'cutesy idols should get away with singing it', so I'd want pasupare to cover it, but also popipa or harohapi, 5/5, *please*

hang ‘em high: oh yeah afterglow totaly, but more importantly, harohapi, 2/5

deathwish: nobody will be surprised if I say Roselia and Afterglow would cover this, right? also I just noticed there's lots of christian motives in the three cheers songs, 2/5 + Jesus

cemetery drive: why are most of the songs so fitting for Roselia and/or Afterglow (i mean it's fitting but please give me more to work with mcr), 3/5

never told you: it has strangely popipa and harohapi vibes, and I'd fear for my thumbs if it was a harohapi song and was added to the game, also afterglow 3/5

desert song: this song is too sad. -9293838382/5, or I'll cry

the end.: I mean yeah, afterglow and roselia, but it has Poppin'Party vibes but Dark 3/5

dead!: well since the end. transitions to this one, afterglow, roselia and popipa already have this song rights, but this one also has pasupare and harohapi vibes, and maybe even glitter*green, 5/5 + 1

how i disappear: the intro alone says roselia and the rest of the song keeps and keeps saying roselia. roselia. did i mention roselia? 1/5

sharpest lives: afterglow for this one, and maybe harohapi, 2/5

wttbp: hello happy world is legally required to cover this song, 1/5

i don’t love you: idk this song made me think of pasupare, but more realistically, afterglow or popipa, 3/5

house of wolves: the vibes say pasupare and popipa, the song says afterglow, 3/5 + i spent about 5 minutes trying to roll that R in 'i said ashes to ashes'

cancer: pasupare or roselia but please no. -2/5 I would cry and miss all my notes on the easy difficulty

mama: god. please. hello happy world. 3/5 bc pasupare and popipa also seem like they'd make a great cover

sleep: something about it just say afterglow and nobody else, 1/5

teenagers: there's something about imagining kokoro singing the chorus ... but really any of the bands could do it Well so 5/5 + 2, please

disenchanted: yukina's voice. it's made for this song. please. bushiroad do something about this. roselia/5

famous last words: yes. feels like one for all the vocalists to get together and sing, all/5

blood: fun! hello happy world! 1/5

kill all your friends: it has the afterglow vibes, but I can also see harohapi and popipa cover it what else can I say, 3/5

heaven help us: saying roselia and afterglow gets boring, popipa and harohapi is in, 4/5

my way home is through you: Poppin' Party (also afterglow but really they already have enough songs on this list) 2/5

emily: i got so focused on the comment section on youtube that I almost forgot to think of which band this would fit. most likely pasupare or harohapi, 2/5

party at the end of the world: finally we're getting to the more popipa/pasupare/harohapi vibe songs, also afterglow 4/5

not that kind of girl: i spoke too soon, this clearly has ran vibes, 1/5, afteeglow type of song through and through

all the angels: uh tough one. it sounds nice but has Very Dark lyrics, so popipa and harohapi could both cover it, but like, also roselia vibes? and maybe even pasupare, 4/5

na na na: out of the main bands, harohapi, but really, it has more RAS vibes, 1/5 + 1, let layer say fuck

bulletproof heart: it even has roselia-esque song title, what else is there to say, 1/5 + 1 actually, i feel like it also has guriguri vibe

sing: this has very uplifting vibes actually, and popipa, pasupare and harohapi have very uplifting vibes, ran is made to sing songs like that too, and god knows yukina could sing this so well, another one for all the main bands 5/5 + 2 because also RAS and guriguri

planetary (go!): HELLO HAPPY WORLD/5 AND NOBODY ELSE

the only hope for me is you: definitely a roselia type of song, 1/5

party poison: oh this simply has afterglow + aya vibes, 1.2/5

save yourself, i’ll hold them back: same as the previous one, but yukina instead of aya, 1.2/5

scarecrow: pasupare seem like the band for this song. it also has popipa vibes. maybe collab with ran? ran could honestly sing all the mcr songs. 2.2/5

summertime: the only of the main bands i can't see singing this song is harohapi, 4/5

destroya: just saying afterglow would be boring. it's popipa and harohapi you should worry about. 3/5

kids from yesterday: i mean it would be a good song for roselia or pasupare to cover, but the emotional toll this song would take on me if it was chosen on multi live is not worth it, -2/5

vampire money: listen it has kira kira doki doki vibes of popipa, and cute idols should be allowed to say fuck, and afterglow would clearly do a cover, but really, the best one for this song would be harohapi, but even more really, a 5-way collab between the five bands would be the best, all/5

we don’t need another song about california: my first thought with it was popipa, but it also has pasupare and roselia vibes, 3/5

black dragon fighting society: this song is clearly a job for harohapi and nobody else/5

f.t.w.w.w.: roselia and afterglow and harohapi show up a lot huh, 4/5 for a possible collab between ran, yukina and kokoro

mastas of ravenkroft: well, considering what this song is about, the only band who should do it is popipa, 1/5, kira kira doki doki vibes didn't stop them from covering romeo&cinderella, it won't stop them from covering this song

boy division: another one with harohapi vibes, but also more afterglow vibes (i mean look at them, they're the most emo band in the game), 2/5

tomorrow’s money: afterglow and roselia would definitely cover it, but who i really want to cover it is pasupare, 3/5

ambulance: really any of the main bands could cover this, but especially pasupare or popipa, 5/5

gun.: it has the vibes of every band honestly, and all the bands could make it sound good, 5/5 + 2 for RAS and glitter*green

the world is ugly: i mean they all could, and the covers would be nice, but is crying and eventually dying while playing a live really worth it? -5/5

the light behind your eyes: what is this, songs that would make me die before the fever chance bar showed up from making me cry? -728282/5 I don't want to die in a multi live just bc of crying

kiss the ring: can't see roselia or pasupare cover it, but popipa, afterglow and harohapi definitely could, it has them vibe, 3/5

make room!!!: it doesn't have roselia vibes, but it does have RAS vibes, 4/5 + 1

surrender the night: clearly a roselia vibes song, although afterglow and popipa have a similar vibe too, 3/5

burn bright: can't decide if roselia or afterglow would make a better cover, 3/5, maybe they should do it together

fake your death: 6/5 bc the special band should be the one covering that, even if all the main bands could do it well separately

[dentalrecordsmusic]

Tomorrow Needs You - A Look Back on Danger Days: The True Lives of the Fabulous Killjoys

Words by Ari Jindracek

As everybody, their mothers, and their distressed and confused cats probably know by now, My Chemical Romance is alive again and it's not a fever dream. The new era is upon us and fans are seemingly coming out of the woodwork to experience it. We've talked about My Chemical Romance before here at Dental Records, but not as a group who collectively couldn't get tickets to their reunion show before it sold out in under ten minutes. However, I'm not here to talk about the reunion. This November of 2019 is another time of importance in the MCR calendar: the ninth birthday of Danger Days: The True Lives of the Fabulous Killjoys, an album set in California 2019 (by design or not, the exact time and place of the reunion show). I got into MCR because of Danger Days. I have also, in recent months, heard from more people who hate it than I usually do. A few weeks ago, I read a very well written article that I will not name that was all about how good MCR was… until the "embarrassment" that was Danger Days. I started worrying if my favorite album of all time was actually awful and universally hated, and that liking it made me somehow a bad fan. 2019, the year I daydreamed about in 2010, is here. Does Danger Days still hold up?

Long story short: yes.

That doesn’t mean that every song is perfect. It doesn’t even mean that I love it as much as I used to. Frankly, I don’t. I will not say that Danger Days is the best album ever written because that would make me a liar. However, the important things are still the same. “Look Alive, Sunshine” still fills me with a burst of energy and affection, and its transition into “Na Na Na (Na Na Na Na Na Na Na Na Na)” is still, despite the choppiness of Spotify, smooth and perfect. The poppy repeated chorus of “Na Na Na” may ring a bit asinine now, but the fact that it comes up again later in the album justifies it, and the bridge stolen from the scrapped song “Make Room!!!” (“everybody wants to change the world but no one wants to die, wanna try?”) feels more poignant now than it did when I was fourteen and had no way of changing anything. “Bulletproof Heart” is one of the songs that doesn’t hold up as well as it could have; the bouncy guitar-and-bass riff is fun, to hear and to play (Danger Days contains many of the few songs I can play on my bass guitar), but, apart from joining up with the Killjoy theme of running away from the oppressive city, I never felt a huge amount of affection for it. Talking about “these pigs” and “this world” being on the speaker’s tail--the speaker, in my mind, is very much not Gerard Way--in a world where police brutality has been in and out of the spotlight is strange as an allegory, because in my maturity, I am aware of its reality for many members of my community. The bridge is better than I remember it, though. There’s a hope that mirrors the introductory verse of “Welcome to the Black Parade”: “are you gonna be the one to save us...are you gonna be the one left standing?” While there is a question here, there is also faith in the listener, that, if enough fans listen to the record, someone will be the one left standing.

On the note of hope, I want to spend a lot of time on “SING,” the song that got me into My Chemical Romance, and, if I can be cliche, the first song that saved my life. Musically, my love for it has waned; the only part that I really like anymore is the bridge, which has enough of an anti-corporate, anti-establishment message that it got Glenn Beck of Fox News to call it propaganda, and enough rhythmic and melodic difference from the rest of the song to really grip my interest. However, its message follows beautifully from the bridge of “Bulletproof Heart.” There is a pleading hopefulness in “SING” that had been present in a variety of My Chemical Romance songs since Three Cheers for Sweet Revenge, but this is its most obvious, smack-in-the-face incarnation. Will you see what tomorrow brings, be what tomorrow needs? The song positions it as a choice, but as one where the necessary answer is yes, and the “you” is as personal as it is universal. There are two halves to the song’s hope, it seems: tomorrow needs you (so you have to stay alive), and tomorrow needs you (so you have to help make the world a better place). In words I could easily understand, at a time when I sorely needed it, an artist I respected was telling me that I could, and should, make something of myself, for the rest of the world. No wonder I have a savior complex; no wonder I peeled off my adolescent thoughts of suicide and put on a Killjoy mask. Musically, no, “SING” is not My Chemical Romance’s best song, I’ll admit that. I cannot, however, dismiss what it meant and still means to me: that I can and must improve myself and do whatever I can to help the rest of the world, because I am needed.

“Planetary (GO!)” is more bouncy-fun than it is meaningful, at least in my ears. With the spunky bassline and funky ambulance-siren synths, it’s a rave song more than it is a song that makes you change the way you change your life, which means it fulfilled its purpose as My Chemical Romance’s best try for a danceable song. It goes well with the narrative of neon-bright desert outlaws; the fact that the video for “Planetary (GO!)” is just a recut of live footage is a crime because it deserved a Killjoy smash-grab bank robbery narrative to go behind it. “The Only Hope for Me Is You” is, frankly, the most forgettable song on the album, in that, Danger Days superfan though I am, I sometimes forget it exists. It hearkens back to “Skylines and Turnstiles,” the first My Chemical Romance song, in some ways: the mentions of embers, ash, and “people burn[ing] in purifying flame” remind me, at least, of the falling of the Twin Towers that sparked the band’s creation. It does not do nearly as good a job as “Skylines and Turnstiles” if that was what it was trying to do. The theme of hope comes back--obviously, it’s in the title--but in a more romantic way, as in the later “Summertime.” It doesn’t feel like the “you” in this song can be me, like it did in “SING.” The listeners are not Gerard Way’s only hope. The bridge, especially, is weak, as it just repeats the title of the song over a basic build-up-drop-off dynamic structure.

The first “story arc” ends here, and the second, more emotionally intense, arc picks up with “Jet Star and the Kobra Kid / Traffic Report,” where Dr. Death Defying states, barely saddened under his made-up slang, that Ray Toro and Mikey Way’s Killjoy personas have been killed. In the end, a Doppler-effect synth rips into the drums intro to “Party Poison.” The Japanese dialogue over the intro here doesn’t match with anything else from the album, though I do remember live shows from this era starting with similar narration in Japanese (if my memory has failed me, I cite the nine intervening years). “Party Poison” is danceable like “Planetary (GO!)” but with bite behind it-- “this ain’t a party,” Gerard Way sings, “get off the dance floor.” Narratively, two of the people closest to him, one of them being his brother, have died, of course, it’s not a party! I love this song for its head-bopping guitars and the near-egomania of the lyrics. Titular character Party Poison is at a point in his narrative where he’s out of his mind with rage and has fallen into an adolescent sense of invulnerability. In “Save Yourself, I’ll Hold Them Back,” that crashes down with a bitter reprise of the “na na na”s from, of course, “Na Na Na.” The joyous colorful energy from before is gone, replaced with “a heart attack in black hair dye.” I personally think “Save Yourself” is one of My Chemical Romance’s best songs. The lyrics stun me still. There’s hope in it-- “not a victim of the victim’s life” and “we can live forever if you’ve got the time.” There’s barely-concealed fear-- “the good guys die and the bad guys win / who cares?” There’s anger in how, during the bridge, Gerard Way’s terse vocals become screams. It’s a mess of emotion and it’s amazing. 

Which makes it disappointing that it's followed by "S/C/A/R/E/C/R/O/W" and "Summertime,” which I thought, even at the time when I was creepily obsessed with Danger Days, were two of the weakest tracks. I can barely tell what kind of genre "S/C/A/R/E/C/R/O/W" is trying to emulate. The instrumentals (aside from the bridge) are far too simple for a band with the highly skilled Toro in its corner, there's more chorus than there is verse, and the lyrics read like a nonsensical nursery rhyme. However, I don't think "S/C/A/R/E/C/R/O/W" is the weakest song on the album because of how well it fits into the narrative; it's a goodbye-be-safe for the girl who features in the music videos as her guardians run off on a suicide mission. "Summertime,” in contrast, doesn't fit that narrative. It's Gerard Way's spunky, synthed-up version of the classic love song, obviously written to his wife, who he exchanged messages with by writing cryptic messages on his skin--"you can write it on your arm,” anyone? It's cute; the saccharine love is obvious, the solo gets its due time, and the bassline is fun. I like what the song is about more than I like, well, the song. I'm glad it exists, but although I'd never do so now, I used to actually skip past it in my iPod Classic days. I grew into "Summertime" when I got my first boyfriend, but as a My Chemical Romance song, it feels much too generic. "DESTROYA" pops the bubblegum idyll from its first few notes: something, represented by the drums, has come crawling up into the narrative of fun, and it's howling mad. The song is named after the robot god of the comic adaptation, but in the fandom at the time, many, myself included, assumed that Destroya was some sort of horrific, destructive force, based exclusively on the song. The fast pace of the rhythm and the vocals is furious. The verses scream out sickness and the main chorus spits the disillusionment from "Save Yourself" anew, culminating in the bridge, where "luck" and "love,” "us" and "you" are doubled on top of each other, the only constants God and The Enemy. "If what you are is just what you own / what have you become when they take from you / almost everything?" is simply put but absolutely rips through me sometimes, usually when I'm already in the throes of an identity crisis. The song feels like it's about to tear itself in half. Strange but fitting, then, that it segues into what would be, for nine years, My Chemical Romance's final credits. 

I didn't get what "Kids From Yesterday" meant in 2010, but "this could be the last of all the rides we take" is, in retrospect, as subtle as a brick to the eye (I remember reading people theorizing that this could, in fact, be the last of My Chemical Romance’s albums on the MCRmy forums in 2010 or 2011 -- we all laughed it off). Acclaimed by several of the band members as among their favorite songs, “Kids From Yesterday” isn’t necessarily my cup of tea, but I can see why people love it so much. The rhythm is steady and easy, with the synths and guitars floating over it like puffy clouds over the sprawling desert, and the vocals soar even above that; it’s a song you pan out for. The lyrics, beyond the obvious farewells, are easy to pick out and easy to like. “You only hear the music when your heart begins to break” meant something indescribable to me in my teens, and I routinely wore one of those slim rubbery bracelets with the lyric on it. “Does the television make you feel the pills you ate / or every person that you need to be?” wraps up the themes of Danger Days neatly--the Better Living Industries medication and the necessity of being someone for somebody. “Goodnight, Dr. Death” wraps up the actual narrative by taking the one speaking character from the Killjoy universe and pulling him off the air with one last message and a glitched-out version of the national anthem (again: how did we miss that?). The final song of My Chemical Romance’s final full, complete album, “Vampire Money,” is a middle finger to the Twilight movies, a break from the Killjoy personas--the band members speak under their own names, no more pseudonyms--and a high-power, over-caffeinated, airport-bar-fight beat with a shrieking guitar solo, pointed pop cultural references, and a breakdown like someone actually broke the drum kit. If a song makes you want to simultaneously dance on the street and light up Molotov cocktails, it’s a good song. At the end of an era, it’s a good song, and the clatter at the end a fitting way to go out: with a bang, or a series of them. I don’t know if My Chemical Romance knew, at the time, that this would be the last album they would record--possibly ever, if the reunion does not come with a new album. If they did, hey, they picked a good song to play during the final straightaway.

Besides the messages of hope and fun, my favorite thing about Danger Days was the story. My Chemical Romance is a band of concept albums, and if you use the music videos for “Na Na Na” and “SING” as jumping-off points, the concept of Danger Days is the easiest to follow--no wonder, since it was based on a comic Gerard Way wanted to, and later did, write. Before the comic came out, though, it was still a great source of creativity for me. The world of the Killjoys was just fleshed out enough to give me, and others like me, a starting point to build the world on our own, but just bare-bones enough to give its fans room to add to the story however we wanted. I have written things on and off since I was about six, but once I started working within the Danger Days universe, supplementing the canon story with my own characters and ideas, I feel as though I became a writer. About half of the characters I work with today were originally Killjoys or Draculoids. I believe that Danger Days specifically stimulated the creative process as well, because the meta-text to the album was all about creativity. The slogans “art is the weapon against life as a symptom” and “would you destroy something perfect to make it beautiful?” were and still are influential in how I feel about the importance of artistic expression in the world. I was in a bad place when I first heard Danger Days; the hopefulness gave me a glimpse of better feelings, and the encouragement to create gave me a method to get the feelings I was having out of my head.

When I was fourteen, when Danger Days: The True Lives of the Fabulous Killjoys came out, I would daydream about what life would be like in 2019. It got me through a lot of bumps in my life, cliche as it is. I am glad that I am able to look back on it, in 2019, and see it past the fog of nostalgia, and still love it, even though I can tell that the legs it stands on are somewhat wobblier than I remember. Is it a perfect album? No. I’m not going to make that decision. However, it’s not an embarrassment, and it doesn’t deserve the hate it gets just because it’s more colorful than the rest of the My Chemical Romance canon. I truly think that the real beauty of Danger Days doesn’t necessarily lie in every song individually but in the narrative as a whole and in its message: be loud and angry when faced with injustice, be loud and joyous when faced with love, and, most importantly, be loudly yourself as you face down a future that needs, specifically, you.

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[ozymandiasdirge]

mcr lyrics about being fucking perceived/seen™️ 👀

honey, this mirror isn’t big enough for the two of us // cubicles // demolition lovers // helena // i’m not okay (i promise) // the jetset life is gonna kill you // thank you for the venom // it’s not a fashion statement, it’s a fucking deathwish // cemetery drive // i never told you what i do for a living // bury me in black // desert song // the end // dead! // this is how i disappear // the sharpest lives // welcome to the black parade // i don’t love you // house of wolves // cancer // mama // sleep // teenagers // disenchanted // famous last words // blood // kill all your friends // heaven help us // my way home is through you // bulletproof heart // planetary (GO!) // the only hope for me is you // party poison // save yourself, i’ll hold them back // s-c-a-r-e-c-r-o-w  // summertime // DESTROYA // the kids from yesterday // goodnite, dr. death // boy division // AMBULANCE // GUN // burn bright // fake your death // the five of us are dying // not that kind of girl // 

[anthonycrowleymoved]

anyway here’s a list of mcr songs in order of how much i like them. i made this because i want to get into a fight with my friend i guess please note 1. this includes demos i could find easily on spotify 2. it includes like one cover because i like it a whole lot but otherwise i didn’t bother 3. i didn’t include Emo Motherfuckers Have Snowflake Fun but know that it is one of my favorite videos on earth. if i forgot something else obvious call me out. please enjoy roasting me thanks

Early Sunsets Over Monroeville

House of Wolves

Helena

The World Is Ugly

Fake Your Death

Disenchanted

You Know What They Do To Guys Like Us In Prison

The Kids from Yesterday

Demolition Lovers

Mama

Vampires Will Never Hurt You

The Light Behind Your Eyes

Thank You For the Venom

All the Angels

Desolation Row

Headfirst for Halos

I Never Told You What I Do for a Living

Desert Song

Heaven Help Us

Mastas of Ravenkroft

Famous Last Words

Cubicles

House of Wolves (Version 1)

This is How I Disappear

Dead!

The Five of Us Are Dying

Party Poison

Look Alive Sunshine / Na Na Na

Surrender the Night

Summertime

Emily

Skylines and Turnstiles

Vampire Money

Our Lady of Sorrows

Not That Kind of Girl

Welcome to the Black Parade

Give ‘Em Hell, Kid

The Sharpest Lives

Drowning Lessons

The End.

Kill All Your Friends

Black Dragon Fighting Society

We Don’t Need Another Song About California

Cemetery Drive

Romance

Boy Division

I’m Not Okay (I Promise)

Burn Bright

My Way Home is Through You

Interlude

Hang ‘Em High

Blood

F.T.W.W.W.

Gun.

Planetary (GO)

Honey, This Mirror Isn’t Big Enough for the Two of Us

Zero Percent

To The End

The Jetset Life is Gonna Kill You

Sleep

Teenagers

Party at the End of the World

DESTROYA

Make Room!!!!

My Way Home is Through You

The Only Hope for Me is You

Save Yourself, I’ll Hold Them Back

Ghost of You

Kiss the Ring

I Don’t Love You

SING

This is the Best Day Ever

Bury Me In Black

S/C/A/R/E/C/R/O/W

AMBULANCE

Cancer

Goodnite, Dr. Death

It’s Not a Fashion Statement, It’s a Deathwish

Bulletproof Heart

Jet-Star and the Kobra Kid / Traffic Report

Tomorrow’s Money

[borealhauntings]

my favorite mcr songs that aren't talked about enough (in no particular order):

save yourself, i'll hold them back

party poison

ambulance

gun

the sharpest lives

bulletproof heart

disenchanted

cemetery drive

sleep

s/c/a/r/e/c/r/o/w

fake your death

literally all of the black parade b-sides

party at the end of the world

kiss the ring

[bo0zey]

What are your favorite songs from MCR?

bless ur soul for this ask; i am MORE than happy to answer:

Bullets

early sunsets over monroeville

demolition lovers

Revenge

helena

i’m not okay

to the end

the ghost of you

cemetery drive

Parade

the end

dead!

this is how i disappear

the sharpest lives

i don’t love you

house of wolves

mama

sleep

disenchanted

famous last words

kill all your friends

heaven help us

Danger Days

bulletproof heart

sing

the only hope for me is you

save yourself, i’ll hold them back

summertime

destroya

the kids from yesterday

Conventional Weapons

boy division

ambulance

the world is ugly

the light behind your eyes

surrender the night

burn bright

Misc

desolation row

desert song

fake your death (ik i shouldn’t support this one but it’s good okay!!)

these are the songs that invoke the inner emo in me and bring her out to her fullest potential!!

[iridescentoracle]

OR MAKE A SAINT OF ME

a my chemical romance playlist

listen on spotify →

[vampire-himbos-of-santa-perdita]

the only mcr songs i’ve listed to r black parade and na na na na na but u make me wanna listen to them lol do u have any suggestions? what r ur favorite songs of theirs?

Oh boy. Alright. Ok. Everybody sit down, we’re about to have a masterclass in everything MCR.

The thing about My Chemical Romance is they’re a concept album band, which means each of their albums tell a story as a whole. For that reason, I can’t just recommend my personal favourite songs because they’re all part of a big whole. I’ll do my best to break them down in order of personal preference.

TL;DNR: For those of you who don’t have all day to scroll through full album analyses:

My Faves:

(Absolute all time faves are in bold; *** indicate I love these songs too much for my own good and I must be stopped.)

The Black Parade:

***Teenagers***

***Mama***

***Welcome to the Black Parade***

Famous Last Words

Cancer

Disenchanted

The end. / Dead! (you can’t really listen to one without the other)

Kill All Your Friends (TBP B-side)

Heaven Help Us (TBP B-side)

Three Cheers for Sweet Revenge:

***Helena***

***I’m Not Ok (I Promise)***

Ghost of You

***Cemetery Drive***

You Know What They Do to Guys Like Us in Prison

Thank You For the Venom

To the End

The Jetset Life is Gonna Kill You

Hang Em High

I Never Told You What I Did for a Living

Danger Days: The True Lives of the Fabulous Killjoys:

***Planetary [Go!]***

***Na Na Na***

SING

Bulletproof Heart

The Only Hope For Me Is You

Party Poison

Vampire Money

Conventional Weapons:

***Tomorrow’s Money***

Boy Division

AMBULANCE

Kiss the Ring

Make Room!!!

Miscellaneous:

***Desolation Row***

Fake Your Death

Common People (BBC Radio 1 Live Lounge Pulp cover)

***Hazy Shade of Winter***

Happy Together*

*these last two are just Gerard Way covers, but considering they’re featuring Ray Toro, that’s half the band right there…

The Black Parade

Concept: A man known as The Patient dies and accounts his life and death, dealing with his struggles with war and disease, and his fears about where he’s going to go in the afterlife.

Track Listing:

The end.

Dead!

This is How I Disappear

Sharpest Lives

Welcome to the Black Parade

I Don’t Love You

House of Wolves

Cancer

Mama

Sleep

Teenagers

Disenchanted

Famous Last Words

Blood

The whole album is honestly so good. It’s worth a listen from start to finish at least once. I’ve got absolutely no bad things to say about the songs that aren’t my faves, as they’re equally as explosive as everything else. That said…

Personal Faves:

Mama

Teenagers

Cancer

Famous Last Words

Welcome to the Black Parade

Dead!

Disenchanted

If you want the stuff that’ll psych you up/empower you, go for Welcome to the Black Parade, Teenagers, Famous Last Words, Mama, and Dead. If you want some real sad shit, go for Cancer, Disenchanted, and I Don’t Love You. I have yet to find out how to not weep all the way through WttBP, Famous Last Words, or Cancer, so you have been warned.

Dip your Toe in the Water With…

Welcome to the Black Parade

Teenagers

Famous Last Words

Things to Keep in Mind

Mama’s got an extra special guest appearance by one Liza Minnelli, and oh man, is it absolutely worth checking out. Next to Welcome to the Black Parade, this one might just be the most theatrical song in the entire album??? Bold statement, but I like to call it the Bohemian Rhapsody of MCR. It’s SO. GOOD.

Blood is the hidden track at the end of the album. There’s about 2 minutes of silence in the original album before it starts. If you want the version without the false start, nab the version from The Black Parade is Dead live album.

If you’re madly in love with this album, you can find their Black Parade concert live in Mexico, The Black Parade is Dead for free on their youtube channel. Throw it up on your tv screen and it’s like you’re there in person.

B-Sides

Kill All Your Friends

Heaven Help Us

My Way Home is Through You

All the Black Parade B-sides are great, but Kill All Your Friends is the real standout (and has the biggest connection to Umbrella Academy, if that excites you reference-wise).

Three Cheers For Sweet Revenge

Concept: This is a bit of a split narrative, partially a loving tribute following Gerard and Mikey Way’s grandmother’s passing, and partially a revenge plot. The full plot Gee had in mind took a bit of a backseat after they shifted focus on the grief side of things, but the full original concept is worth the price of admission either way. The revenge plot follows a man who makes a deal with the devil to reunite with his lost lover, if he can collect 1,000 evil souls. He sets out on his murder quest and finally reunites with the woman he loves, only to find she never loved him. He vows to take her down with him, but discovers he’s the 1,000th soul.

Track Listing:

Helena

Give ‘Em Hell, Kid

To the End

You Know What They Do to Guys Like Us in Prison

I’m Not Okay (I Promise)

The Ghost of You

The Jetset Life Is Gonna Kill You

Interlude

Thank You for the Venom

Hang 'Em High

It’s Not a Fashion Statement, It’s a Deathwish

Cemetery Drive

I Never Told You What I Do for a Living

This one is loud and dark, and fast as fuck. I use it almost exclusively as workout music because it will make you want to punch everything in the face. You wanna feel like you could take down all your enemies at once? Listen to this album. This one’s a lot easier to break down in terms of listening to songs here and there instead of all at once.

Personal Faves:

Cemetery Drive

You Know What They Do to Guys Like Us in Prison

Thank You For the Venom

I’m Not Ok (I Promise)

Helena

Ghost of You

Some Underrated Gems:

The Jetset Life is Gonna Kill You

To the End

Hang Em High

I Never Told You What I Did for a Living

Dip Your Toe in the Water With…

Helena

I’m Not Ok (I Promise)

Ghost of You

Things to Keep in Mind

Helena is essentially what got the band off the ground. The music video is really something and really set the tone for what early 2000s emo culture would become. If I didn’t love The Black Parade as much as I did, I’d recommend starting with Helena above everything else.

The Ghost of You music video is also a masterpiece. Gerard went to his director and asked for Saving Private Ryan, and that’s what he got! This video also happened to come out around the same time Green Day’s Wake Me Up When September Ends video came out and Gee was worried the anti-war rethorics in both would be too similar, but Billie Joe Armstrong sat him down and gave him a pep talk about how even though their concepts are similar, they’re always going to be coming at it in different ways. 

If you want to get a really solid insight into where the band came from, see the boys goofing off, and see how Gerard’s struggles with mental health and addiction drives so much of what he does, check out Life on the Murder Scene, also free on youtube. It also gives a brief sneaky peek about early days concepts for the Umbrella Academy comics!

Danger Days: The True Lives of the Fabulous Killjoys

Concept: In a post-apocalyptic California in 2019(!!!), four rebels who call themselves the Killjoys (Party Poison, Fun Ghoul, Kobra Kid, and Jet-Star) set out to recover a young girl from the evil corporation, BL/ind. Their progress is narrated by Dr. Death Defy, a radio dj who maintains public morale in an otherwise gloomy new world where electricity is a rare commodity and people worship at the hands of Destroya, a giant dormant robot expected to deliver everyone from evil.

Track Listing:

Look Alive, Sunshine

Na Na Na (Na Na Na Na Na Na Na Na Na)

Bulletproof Heart

SING

Planetary (GO!)

The Only Hope For Me Is You

Jet-Star And The Kobra Kid/Traffic Report

Party Poison

Save Yourself, I’ll Hold Them Back

S/C/A/R/E/C/R/O/W

Summertime

DESTROYA

The Kids From Yesterday

Goodnite, Dr. Death

Vampire Money

This album is radically different than the others in that it’s much mellower. The songs are interspersed with narrative interludes by Dr. Death Defy to better explain the storyline. Danger Days came after one scrapped compilation album (which I’ll get to soon enough…) At this point, Gee’s comic career had started to take off with Umbrella Academy, and things had started to naturally wind down with the band. Gee’s mindspace was clearly in comic-mode, and he upcycled a comic book idea he had kicking around with a comic writer friend of his, Shaun Simon for the new album. After the band’s breakup, Gerard took whatever concepts they couldn’t realize through the lyrics and music videos back to Shaun Simon to make a Killjoys comic. Much of the concept backstory explained above is pulled from this.

Personal Faves:

Na Na Na (Na Na Na Na Na Na Na Na Na)

Bulletproof Heart

SING

Planetary [GO!]

The Only Hope For Me Is You

Party Poison

Vampire Money

This is the album where I tend to get bored halfway through and switch over to The Black Parade (whoops…) But it is 100% worth listening to it from start to finish, again, at least once, if anything, because Destroya and Vampire Money are something else… Bulletproof Heart, SING, and The Only Hope for Me Is You are, at least in my opinion, the standouts of the more mellow songs. S/C/A/R/E/C/R/O/W, Summertime, and The Kids From Yesterday are also super mellow if you’re into the vibe of the previous three and want more of that. 

Planetary Go! is… possibly one of my favourite MCR songs of all time??? (Considering how much I love The Black Parade, that’s a pretty bold statement). It’s the only dance track they ever made, and is it ever a Bop. This is one of my go-to’s when I just need to take a break from whatever’s stressing me out and have a silly little dance party. 

Dip Your Toe in the Water With:

Na Na Na (Na Na Na Na Na Na Na)

SING

Planetary [Go!]

The Only Hope for me is You

Bulletproof Heart

Things to Keep In Mind:

Danger Days is an incredibly visual album! You really need the music videos to get the whole story. Na Na Na and SING tell the whole story pretty succinctly.

If you’re really feeling that cliffhanger from the end of the SING music video, check out the Killjoys comics. It’s a single volume under the same name as the album, following The Girl a few years after the music videos’ timeline.

S/C/A/R/E/C/R/O/W was inspired by Lucy in the Sky With Diamonds by the Beatles, which really speaks to the overall vibe of the song.

Something I literally just discovered now, looking up the album, there’s an EP of basically fight scene tracks off a special edition of Danger Days called The Mad Gear and Missile Kid. I’ve not listened to them yet, but from the looks of things, it’s got a pure punk rock vibe and they’re apparently what the band imagined the killjoys listened to on the road.

Fun trivia that I personally get a kick out of: Vampire Money was written out of spite after Gerard refused to contribute a song to the New Moon soundtrack for Twilight (Stephenie Meyer was a huge MCR fan and approached them numerous times to get involved in the films). 

Conventional Weapons

Here it is! The scrapped compilation album! These songs were written pre-Danger Days and were presented at a concert in Japan, at which point, Gerard realized it wasn’t the sound they were after and it was promptly nixed. It’s a real shame, because there are some jams up in here, but at least they (or their record label, I can’t remember which at this point) eventually did decide to release the full “album” in 5 two-single EPs at a time.

Number One:

Boy Division

Tomorrow’s Money

Number Two:

AMBULANCE

Gun.

Number Three:

The World is Ugly

The Light Behind Your Eyes

Number Four:

Kiss the Ring

Make Room!!!

Number Five:

Surrender the Night

Burn Bright

Personal Faves:

Tomorrow’s Money

Boy Division

AMBULANCE

Kiss the Ring

Make Room!!!

Things to Keep in Mind:

I often like to give a shout out to AMBULANCE and Kiss the Ring for having opening chords that sound exactly like they’ve come straight off a Queen and Green Day album respectively.

See Tomorrow’s Money for the spectacular way they rhyme “vampire/empire/brush fire/tap wire” all in one verse.

See also Gun. for the far sillier way they rhyme “gun/sun/fun/run”. 

You can tell with some of these songs that there was the stirrings of Danger Days in here. Make Room!!! is the most obvious, with the same mantra of “everybody wants to change the world” from Na Na Na making an appearance toward the end.

I think in some iteration between Conventional Weapons and Danger Days, there were some songs that did make it to the Danger Days album that were called something else. Party Poison, for example, had originally been Death Before Disco.

Covers

My Chemical Romance, in one form or another, have done some spectacular covers over the years. I’m including the Umbrella Academy covers Gerard did with Ray because that’s basically half the band right there.

Desolation Row (Watchmen soundtrack)

Hazy Shade of Winter (Umbrella Academy)

Happy Together (Umbrella Academy)

Common People (BBC Radio 1 Live Lounge)

Under Pressure (ft. The Used)

Those are the ones I’m aware of. If there are more good-quality covers I’m missing, please, send them my way– I would love that!

I Brought You My Bullets, You Brought Me Your Love

Ok, look, I’m gonna upset some people by having this on the bottom of my list. I’m sorry, I feel bad about it, but the fact of the matter is, I’m only now getting into their earliest stuff. Bullets is a bit of an acquired taste because it’s incredibly raw both sound-wise and in terms of content. They recorded it before they had the resources to really put out a crisp sounding album, and they were still learning about how to construct songs, but there’s still a lot of beauty in that that I know plenty people appreciate far more than I do. MCR wouldn’t have gained an underground following without this album, after all!

I have exactly zero stakes in this album, so I’m sure someone else out there has a better grasp of this one than I do.

Concept: I know very little about what’s going on in this album, aside from the fact that Gerard was driven to create the band after being in New York, watching the Twin Towers fall during 9/11. A bunch of his more end of the world storylines from many of his works (including Umbrella Academy) are inspired by 9/11. This is a prevalent thread throughout the album, though I’m not familiar with the how beyond Skylines and Turnstiles.

Track Listing:

Romance

Honey, This Mirror Isn’t Big Enough for the Two of Us

Vampires Will Never Hurt You

Drowning Lessons

Our Lady of Sorrows

Headfirst for Halos

Skylines and Turnstiles

Early Sunsets Over Monroeville

This Is the Best Day Ever

Cubicles

Demolition Lovers

Personal Faves:

Headfirst for Halos

Honey, This Mirror isn’t Big Enough for the Two of Us

Vampires Will Never Hurt You

Our Lady of Sorrows

I’m playing fast and loose with my faves here. I’ve only heard these songs a handful of times, but they’re the ones I’m inclined to at least listen to for the guitar work, which at times, is quite fantastic. I will say though, from what I’ve seen of the lyrics, there’s some stellar stuff in here I hope to properly get into some time soon.

All the guys are still plugging away and releasing music either in their own bands (most recently, Frank Iero andthe Patience and Mikey Way’s band, Electric Century) or solo (in the case of Gerard Way and Ray Toro). I wish I was more well-versed in their goings-ons, but I’ve not been following their musical careers beyond Gerard’s (come back and talk to me if you want to get into his Hesitant Alien solo album and his more recent releases).

And that is your crash course in all things MCR.

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MCR songs in order of release

Jack the Ripper

Skylines and Turnstiles

Honey, This Mirror Isn’t Big Enough For The Two Of Us

Cubicles

Drowning Lessons

Romance

Demolition Lovers

Headfirst for Halos

Our Lady of Sorrows

Early Sunsets Over Monroeville

Vampires Will Never Hurt You

This Is The Best Day Ever

All I Want For Christmas Is You

I’m Not Okay(I Promise)

The Jetset Life Is Gonna Kill You

Interlude

Cemetery Drive

I Never Told You What I Do For A Living

Helena(So Long and Goodnight)

Give ‘Em Hell, Kid

Bury Me In Black(Demo)

You Know What They Do To Guys Like Us In Prison

Bury Me In Black

It’s Not A Fashion Statement, It’s A Deathwish

The Ghost Of You

Hang ‘Em High

Thank You For The Venom

To The End

Under Pressure

Astro Zombies

Desert Song

Emily

Not That Kind Of Girl

Heaven Help Us

Party At The End Of The World

All The Angels

My Way Home Is Through You

Dead!

Kill All Your Friends

Welcome To The Black Parade

Mama

The Five Of Us Are Dying

I Don’t Love You

Disenchanted

Sleep

The End

Cancer

Blood

This Is How I Disappear

Teenagers

The Sharpest Lives

House Of Wolves

Famous Last Words

Desolation Row

Common People

F.T.W.W.W.

Party Poison

Look Alive, Sunshine

Mastas Of Ravenkroft

Planetary(GO!)

DESTROYA

The Only Hope For Me Is You

Black Dragon Fighting Society

We Don’t Need Another Song About California

Vampire Money

Na Na Na (Na Na Na Na Na Na Na Na Na)

Summertime

The Kids From Yesterday

S/C/A/R/E/C/R/O/W

Jet-Star and the Kobra Kid: Traffic Report

Save Yourself, I’ll Hold Them Back

Zero Percent

Goodnite, Dr. Death

Bulletproof Heart

Sing

Boy Division

Tomorrow’s Money

AMBULANCE

Gun.

The World Is Ugly

The Light Behind Your Eyes

Make Room!!!!

Kiss The Ring

Burn Bright

Surrender The Night

Fake Your Death

Knives/Sorrows

Every Snowflake Is Different(Just Like You)

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My Ranking of MCR Songs (So Far, that I could find)

TBH Probably only the first 3 are accurate because it really depends on vibe and like all of them are amazing or at the very least solidly good! I ranked covers separately, and I didn't include the interludes from Danger Days because even though I love them they aren't songs per se. I did this completely for fun and it's based on personal tastes, so it's what I like best, not me trying to objectively rank them by quality! (Which would be pretty impossible, even moreso than this already was.) Also the more I look at it the more I want to change things Lol

Na Na Na

Thank You For the Venom

The Sharpest Lives

It’s not A Fashion Statement, It’s a Deathwish

Planetary (GO!)

Surrender the Night

Sing

Burn Bright

Summertime

The Light Behind your Eyes

AMBULANCE

The Ghost of You

Mama

The Jetset Life is Gonna Kill you

Famous Last Words

Helena

Teenagers

Bulletproof Heart

Kill all Your Friends

Give ‘Em Hell Kid

Cemetery Drive

I’m Not Okay (I Promise)

Desert Song

Hang ‘Em High

Welcome to the Black Parade

To the End

I Never Told you what I Do for a Living

Someone Out There Loves You

Disenchanted

Zero Percent

DESTROYA

S/C/A/R/E/C/R/O/W

Save Yourself, I’ll Hold them Back

Foundations of Decay

You Know What they Do to Guys Like us in Prison

Boy Division

The Five of Us are Dying

Vampire Money

Early Sunsets Over Monroeville

This is How I Disappear

Dead!

Emily

Every Snowflake is Different (Just Like you!)

House of Wolves

The End

Heaven Help Us

The Kids from Yesterday

All the Angels

Demolition Lovers

Blood

Party at the End of the World

Skylines and Turnstiles

Headfirst for Halos

I Don’t Love You

Gun

Kiss the Ring

The World is Ugly

Tomorrow’s Money

Bury Me in Black

Interlude

Not that Kind of Girl

Sleep

The Only Hope for Me is You

Vampires Will Never Hurt You

Make Room!!!

Drowning Lessons

Mastas of Ravenkroft

We Don’t Need Another Song about California

Party Poison

F.T.W.W.W

The Drugs

Knives/Sorrow

Our Lady of Sorrows

Sister to Sleep

Honey, This Mirror isn’t big enough for the two of us

This is the Best Day Ever

Black Dragon Fighting Society

COVERS RANKED (Not Included with the Rest)

1. Desolation Row

2. Under Pressure

3. Romance

4. Common People

5. Song 2

6. All I want for Xmas is You

7. Astro Zombies

8. Jack the Ripper