#listen boy division is my favorite mcr song i want to see it live so bad

[fulminare-art]

okay I know I've talked about this before but I need to be a hater for a sec I FUCKING hate the concertgoers that make up a majority of the crowds these days I remember when I saw MCR last year there was a total of like three popular songs that got sung along and danced to and I ended up being just filled with bitterness while listening to my favorites live because of the secondhand embarrassment I got from the entire crowd just going completely silent and still for everything else like I was so excited when they played boy division and gerard went quiet for some of the lines for the crowd to fill in and they, just, didn't? and it was so awkward? and I was so just like man this crowd sucks I remember the band finished a song and commented on how the crowd could like participate more or something (this is not a direct quote and I'm not gonna try and see if I can find a recording of it online however I went to the September 8th 2022 concert at the TD garden in Boston if someone wants to seek it out themselves) and AGH yeah I got it out of my system exiting hater mode now

[greengrungeemo]

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Since I’ve shared much of my Starset concert, I’d love to share my experience with this amazing MCR concert I went to back in September! This video showcases the opening song - their newest banger of a song, Foundations of Decay, and a quick follow-up song of Boy Division! The other two talented bands that played before MCR were amazing, too!

The concert itself was in an arena, and we were on the balcony above with a pretty good view! I had to zoom in the video, which caused the pixilation, so I’m sorry for that! It’s like an early 2000s video recording! xD

Halfway through nearing the end of FoD, I was SHAKING. Gerard’s rawrs were so f*cking cool to listen to live, SERIOUSLY, go listen at the 3:54 mark (3:17 remaining)! I don’t know why, this same sort of thing happened at the Starset concert too, where when they’re able to screamo roar, it makes the whole thing a thousand times better and I got shakey with pure hype! It’s no wonder people pass out LOL.

All in all, the songs showcased throughout the entire event were perfect choices. Every classic you can think of was there, and I’ll try and get the rest uploaded whenever I’m able to! Also, to be able to share this with someone so special in my life, I’ll never forget it. Cross another one of my favorite bands from the bucket list, I definitely want to try and see Paramore next if I can. (⁄ ⁄-⁄ ∀ ⁄-⁄ ⁄)ฅ

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“You must fix your heart, And you must build an altar where it rests, When the storm decays and the sky, it rains, Let it flood, let it flood, let it wash away, And as we stumble through your last crusade, Will you welcome your extinction in the morning rays? And as the swarming calls, we lay in the foundations”

[deadinandout]

About me!

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I’m Sophie! 21 unsure about gender. she/he if u want. I’ve been into post punk and post punk adjacent music for about the last 6 years. Thought I’d make a sideblog dedicated to this everlasting hyper fixation. Maybe make some fellow post punk friends while I develop a collection of my favorite shit on this blog.

So here’s a bit about me (sorry I’m thorough):

Favorite post punk artists

The Damned

Clan of Xymox

Depeche Mode

The Cure

Skinny Puppy

Thrill Kill Kult

OMD

Siouxsie and the banshees

Alien sex fiend

Joy division/new order

The Mission

The Chameleons

Ghost dance/anne-marie’s skeletal family

Early Peter Gabriel

Concrete blonde

Every Daniel Ash project lmao

I love throbbing gristle but don’t listen to them much. I appreciate their influence on industrial music a lot. I had researched them for a class project! know a lot about them, side projects, and coum transmissions they kinda became a fixation of mine lol.

Other musicians I like

Oingo Boingo, Duran Duran, Pet Shop Boys, Gary Numan, Kate Bush, Phil Collins, Pink Floyd, Chvrches, Mcr fob (emo to goth pipeline yall get it), The Used, Thursday, Linkin park, Mitski and laufey enjoyer

Twin tribes, harsh symmetry, boy harsher, nuovo testamento, soft kill, ADULT., spike hellis, Lebanon Hanover for current post punk/80s sounding artists

Other post punk and adjacent bands I would like to get into more: Lycia, corpus delicti, virgin prunes, nin, lowlife, interpol, for against, slowdive, fad gadget, specimen, coil, front line assembly, Gang of Four, lush, nitzer ebb, the sound, and more I’ll stop there.

Other interests

Horror films (80s and Japanese) faves include pulse, ringu, reanimator, they live, saw 1-3, lost boys, near dark, from beyond

Art and tattooing (art blog :p @soiscla )

Video games! Especially horror and story games. faves include resident evil, silent hill, until dawn, tlou, sallyface, life is strange, beyond two souls, and dreadout

Big trekkie

Hannibal tv show :)))

Bats

Vampires

Goth and 80s fashion

Record collector

Random facts

Username:

5’2 and almost always wear my 4 inch demonias to shows

Almost ate shit at a Danny Elfman show

I have a DM strangelove tattoo with their hands spelling ‘love’ :)))) first 80s band that meant a lot to me so I dedicated my first tattoo to my love for dm and music in general.

I almost met Dave Vanian in the Mandalay Bay casino in LV but I had a panic attack and chickened out. my biggest regret

Although @ same show Dave did talk to my dad from stage so that made me happy maybe I’ll share that video some time

I have a captain sensible pick 😎

Going on 70 concerts. The live show grind don’t stop can’t stop

Fave shows I’ve been to include mcr reunion show, dm, ministry, OMD, thrill kill kult w/ ADULT., skinny puppy, and randomly Halsey in 2022 she was fantastic

After my ministry show I saw bill leeb of FLA getting take out, again walking through a casino, I thought this was funny so Ill put it here

Cruel world fest enjoyer. Got to see Bauhaus, Siouxsie, ministry play with sympathy, love and rockets, and tones on tail. All dreams of mine to hear live

Saw morrissey for like 3 songs at CW and got bored and left early. Too bad so sad

Welcome to my brain rot :)

[agentemo]

this is a pretty big sacrifice but...it's one I'm willing to make

I'll trade Boy Division for two whole Bullets songs

[weaponsofclairvoyance]

Bonus: top 10 mcr songs?

deathwish - ultimate trauma song, best interpretation of the concept of revenge, possibly my favorite mcr song

mama - sometimes i just listen to the instrumental version cause it's crazy. the sirens! the layers! also i know its like a meme but it really is so transgender. if you could coddle the infection they can amputate at once. right now theyre building a coffin your size. you should have raised a baby girl i should have been a better son. the way they almost but not quite blame their mother and then turn it back on themself (you should have been - i could have been). also it's emo klezmer :)

you know what they do to guys like us in prison - gerard's fiona apple criminal moment. sardonically breaking apart a dangerous cultural idea about gay men but also its just a song about being in a band with dudes who dont shower. and bert from the used is there. and it opens with some cool jazz chords. one of their best

vampires will never hurt you - transports you to another realm... gerard said on twitter once that vampires is still his favorite song by anyone and i dont think that's egotistical at all. they took very classic kind of goth rock vibes and mixed it with... whatever they mixed it with and it turned out so unique and timeless. songs to preserve in amber

boy division - the original penis music

- catholic zone - contained for our safety

thank you for the venom - mr toro shredding, preach all you want but who's gonna save me i keep a gun on the book you gave me hallelujah lock and load. also i love the guitar tone in this song

heaven help us - catholic trauma, idolatry and martyrdom, joan of arc imagery, theee song. i wrote a post going insane over this a while back

house of wolves- songs where frank clearly had heavy influence writing always fuck and involve wolves somehow (see also: kiss the ring)

our lady of sorrows - the song with the clearest hardcore inspiration & one of their best! really excellent lyrics too. i love watching them perform this live

- catholic zone end -

planetary go! - they sell presentable, young, and so ingestible, sterile and collectable, safe and I cant stand it!!!!!!!!

[sharkeysnight]

11, 15, 16, 30, 33! 😁

11. what’s a song that your favorite band doesn’t perform live, but you really wish they would? not to be the person that i am but it is indeed a crying shame that mcr never performed like. boy division or gun or make room. conventional weapons my beloved...

15. have you ever traveled outside of your area to see a concert? if not, would you want to? sorta? i went to chicago to see punch brothers once but that was combined w my yearly visit to my best friend, pbros wasnt the Entire reason for the trip

16. have you ever been in the first row for a concert? if not, what was the closest seat you’ve ever had?: i was first row for punch brothers the first time i saw them! and i was pretty close for both the used and paramore

30. name an album you really love that you haven’t listened to in awhile: hmm. the two albums that come to mind almost simultaneously are thick as a brick by jethro tull and avenged sevenfold self titled

33. do you wear a lot of band t-shirts? if so, do you like it when strangers comment on them?: i literally only own striped t shirts and band shirts lol. i do like it!

[allthattheycandrink]

Hey Connor, I'm here to talk to you about mcr, or rather ask you some questions about your opinions, if that's okay? 1. When did you get into them? 2. Favourite/least favourite song? 3. Favourite/least favourite album? 4. Whose solo stuff do you like more? 5. Have you ever seen them, do you plan to see them live? 6. Fave my chem aesthetic? So glad you're active again! Sending good vibes! ❤️

Ah!!! Thank you so so much! 💖💖💖💖💖

1.) I got into them pretty early. In elementary school I was super into Green Day and that took up all the space in my tiny head, until I heard Welcome to the Black Parade sometime around 2009-2010? And then I was VERY INTO Nanana when it came out in 2010. I only actually got into the band itself in around 2012, and I kick myself every day for being into Green Day when I was young instead of mcr. Not that Green Day is bad, but.......... yknow.

2.) Like asking me to pick a favorite child 😰 in terms of least favorite song they’ve done ever??? Uhhhhhh .... honestly probably Sing, as sad as it is to say. In terms of favorites, I have to go with Mama, Boy Division, and their cover of Desolation Row. Mark Desolation Row as one of my favorite music videos, too.

3.) This is so hard. When it comes down to it, I think Black Parade is my favorite, followed by Three Cheers, followed by Bullets, followed by Danger Days. Conventional weapons holds a special place in my heart and it cannot simply be represented on a list such as this <3

4.) Gerard’s, 100000%. The absolute versatility! Frank’s comes second. But god, the way Gerard can switch around his sound, going from Millions on Hesitant Alien to his single Pinkish!???? Amazing!! I remember listening to Pinkish when it first came out and the way it reminded me of mcr almost made me CRY

5.) I’ve never seen them live and I would sell multiple body parts just to be able to. I want to see my chemical romance live more than quite literally anything. On their tour happening well over a year from now, they aren’t even coming to my city. I have to really debate here on whether I wanna drop several hundred dollars on a single ticket for a show out of state.

6.) Three Cheers!!!!! They all really knew what they were doing when they said [REPRESSED CATHOLIC] [REPRESSED CATHOLIC] [REPRESSED CATHOLIC] and I think that’s sexy of them!

Thank you so much for this ask, and sorry to anyone who follows me who had to see this on their dash 💖💖💖

[gothiero]

what're ur favorite mcr songs and uhh why

ohoohoho yum ok this'll take awhile and theyre not gonna be in order but okokok

cubicles- the. the fucking guitars at the beginning are what made me fucking fall in love w this song but also just the imagery it puts in my head is so nice. like all i see when i hear that song is like mossy green and smoke and. okay so basically the picture gerard posted on insta yesterday that's basically what i see. it makes no sense bc it doesn't sound like that picture but. i love it. cubicles is a hard #1 for me i would die to hear that song live.

early sunsets- good lord. i fuckjng. the emotion in gerard's vocals fucking rip me to shreds every time i hear this song. i. and the way all the instruments fade out one by one in like the last 2 minutes of the song to have it end off with "but does anyone notice there's a corpse in this bed". fucking. i. i will never not get emotional listening to early sunsets.

give 'em hell, kid- ADRENALINE. THE. THE ENERGY. THE POWER. THE FLAVOUR.. and the INTRO!!! w the guitars that go WEEOOQEOEOWOEOWOOEOWOE LIKE. AND THE B A S S L I N E. AND . GERARD. I. "YOU'RE BEAUTIFUUUUUL" WHAT IS THERE NOT TO LOVE ABT THAT FUCKING SONGF UHHHH im sorry im emotional

DESTROYA- "king rat on the streets in another life, they laugh, we don't think it's funny". that's it. i just. i just like how they say that part. and also the pretty outro w the harmonics on guitar and. the drums. the power that song has. it makes me want to shave my head and scream into a crowd of people just for the fun of it. also trans rights

interlude- i dont know if this is avtually one of my favorites but id just like to bring some attention to it.., fucking.. gerard's voice is fucking hyponotic. i wish there was like a whole ass like 3-4 minute song of something that sounded like interlude. i would fall asleep 2 it like every night for sure. and like it's so thrilling bc like tyftv comes righr after it. its like the calm before the storm and i think thats really beautiful. like its all "angellLlaLlsss" and then tyftv is like "HUHEGRHRGGRRR" and i love. i love interlude.

house of wolves- OOHOHOHOH BOY. OH BOY. THE. THE STRUCTURE OF THIS SONG. THE LAYERS. THE HARMONIES. THE VOCALS. THE GUITARS. THE DRUMS. ALL OF IT. FUCKING FLAWLESS. and.. i. i love the lyrics so much. i've never been one to analyze lyrics so honestly i don't know the meanings to any of mcr's songs other than like skylines and turnstiles and helena and prison bc those are the ones everyone talks abt but. i just like how gerard writes lyrics in a way that like. u can perfectly picture what's going on. and like it ties into the music to better amplify the image i . i guess ? i'm not making sense but i just love LOVE love house of wolves. the bridge is my favorite part lmao

ok sorry fir the essays i got invested very quickly.,, these arent all of my favs but i didnt wanna type forever so i'll just mention and couple other of my favs here: prison, blood, F.T.W.W.W., black dragon fighting society, mastas of ravenkroft, boy division, our lady of sorrows, emily

[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.

[rgr-pop]

I need an ENTIRE afternoon wall of noise. 4/3 music library on shuffle until I hit a killdozer song.

the thermals - “god and country” reset - "double cross" nirvana - "polly" (1986-88 home recording) nirvana - "radio friendly unit shifter" (2013 mix) peterbuilt - "sateliteyes" the dickies - "got it at the store" apocalypse hoboken - "box of pills" fiona apple - "slow like honey" tex & the horseheads - "big boss man" everclear - "the drama king" anti-flag - "america got it right" neil young - "tonight's the night, pt. ii" everclear - "brown-eyed girl" noooooooooo oh my god no please millencolin - “israelites" listen you know that i'm p tolerant when it comes to this subject but why specifically did you boys do this. specifically you useless id - "note" never accuse me of pop punk nationalism again! that's three of global pop punk the selecter - "selling out your future" built to spill - "some things last a long time" holidays - "proof" let's wrestle - "bad mammaries" radhos - "one breath" ween - "boing" bracket - "g-vibe" local h - "'cha!' said the kitty" sublime - "40oz to freedom" failure - "saturday saviour" blink-182 - "don't leave me" (tmtts live take) why did they make this live album, they were so bad live shrimp boat - "melon song" interpol - "not even jail" the ataris - "angry nerd rock" 50 million - "superhero" skankin pickle - "violent love" the breeders - "put on a side" all - "honey peeps" the commandos (suicide commandos) - "weekend warrior" suicide machines - "friends are hard to find" the eclectics - "laura" good ska block! love this band pansy division - "jack u off" rocket from the tombs - "ain't it fun" dynamite boy - "devoted" young pioneers - "downtown tragedy" the breeders - "so sad about us" fenix tx - "jean claude trans am" fuck i love this song nofx - "bob" hickey - "happily ever after" bob dylan - "tangled up in blue" (bootlegs vol. 2) gas huffer - "king of hubcaps" tullycraft - "crush this town" atom and his package - "goalie" faith no more - "the real thing" carly rae jepsen - "tell me" bis - "listen up" one direction - "still the one" mtx - "she's no rocket scientist" eugene chadbourne - "roger miller medley" grouvie ghoulies - "carly simon" white town - "thursday at the blue note" gas huffer - "moon mission" rx bandits - "sleepy tyme" everclear - "rocket for the girl" failure - "kindred" blood on the saddle - "johnny's at the fair" the distillers - "red carpet and rebellion" cruiserweight - "dearest drew" stp - "plush" everclear - "wonderful" (live, from the closure ep) (don't hate it) new found glory - "sonny" everclear - "otis redding" (impure white evil demo) (BEST song) stp - "adhesive" incubus - "have you ever" cub - "tell me now" everclear - "short blonde hair" i simply do not hate it letters to cleo - "happy ever after" amazing transparent man - “the ocean is a fuck of a long way to swim” nerf herder - “(stand by your) manatee” kitty kitty - “ab tokeless” osker - “the mistakes you made” perfume genius - “hood” radhos - “shut up & deal” (welcome to the jungle take) osker - “the body”  gas huffer - “the sin of sloth” the fall - “bombast” excuse 17 - “code red” mad season - “lifeless dead” unwritten law - “differences” hanson - “two tears” the eyeliners - “anywhere but here” moby grape - “lazy me” brian wilson - “wonderful” 88 fingers louie - “something i don’t know” sicko - “wisdom tooth weekend” the replacements - “love you till friday” suicide machines - “green world” midtown - “another boy” hickey - “cool kids attacked by flying monkeys” the roman invasion suite - “carnations” the beat - “tears of a clown” local h - “24 hour break up session” okay i’m awake i want to end this now toots & the maytals - “funky kingston” local h - “strict-9″ his name is alive - “her eyes were huge things” nirvana - “frances farmer will have her revenge on seattle” slapstick - “almost punk enough” urge overkill - “bionic revolution” janet jackson - “you want this” piebald - “long nights” small brown bike - “now i’m a shadow” the story so far - “left unsaid” crj - “more than a memory” tracy + the plastics - “my friends end parties” liz phair - “6′1″“ fastbacks - “555, pt. 1″ this mix is feminist now swindle - “one track” shockabilly - “burma shave” temple of the dog - “say hello to heaven” amazing transparent man - “shove” cool soul asylum cover from dekalb illinois :)) the vindictives “eating me alive” midwests only!! the judys - “radiation squirm” gulfs only!! frogpond - “sleep” flipp - “rock-n-roll star” throwing muses - “red shoes” everclear - “santa monica” throwing muses on summerland??? mekons - “atone & forsaken” holidays - “take me home country roads” this is a good tone to lead up to killdozer... true believers - “all mixed up again” prince - “adore” beulah - “queen of the populists” eveclear - “rocky mountain high” (99x live acoustic--I don’t have a date for this actually) of montreal - “dustin hoffman thinks about eating the soap” heatmiser - “stray” rickie lee jones - “woody and dutch on the slow train to peking” tar - “viaduct removal” common rider - “carry on” the frogs - “u bastards” mudhoney - “this gift” hammerbox - “outside” fuck my mom would have loved this song if it had gotten the airplay it deserved in 1993... hammerbox on summerland!!!! letters to cleo - “little rosa” kay hanley on summerland!! nine pound hammer “wrongside of the road” hanson - “with you in your dreams” (3cg demo) hamson on summerland!!! fastbacks - “555, pt. 1″ again... fastbacks on summerland!!! face to face - “sensible” soul asylum - “happy” soul asylum on summerland!!!! television - “see no evil” pinq - “careful not to mention the obvious” the dickies - “nights in white satin” tar - “mel’s” truly - “chlorine” babes in toyland - “deep song” hole - “berry” hellbender - “half driven” hammerhead  - “new york? ...alone?” everclear - “malevolent” guzzard - “last”  archers of loaf - “tatyana” hum - “stars” hum on summerland die kreuzen - “don’t say please” this is not fair joanna newsom - “sadie” down by law - “peace, love and understanding” nirvana - “aneurysm” (1990 demo) hovercraft - “endoradiosonde” modest mouse - “cowboy dan” rage against the machine - “born of a broken man” skatalites - “scandal ska” pylon - “driving school” the vindictives - “babysitter” jimmy eat world - “ten” the get up kids - “lowercase west thomas” oh we’re doing this now? hot rod circuit - “knees” fine triple fast action - “the rescue” FINE  full disclosure i do skip emo diaries tracks at my discretion the amps - “bragging party” everclear - “am radio” this is not fair mxpx - “middlename” MXPX ON SUMMERLAND chokebore - “your let down” bob dylan - “you’re a big girl now” helmet - “primitive” pond - “filterless” blink-182 - “all the small things” local h - “ralph” tar - “over and out” pearl jam - “black” the gits - “sniveling little rat faced git” local h - “eddie vedder” >:) tar - “flow plow” i always misremember this as a subpop single so i’m like “i’m not amphetamine reptile biased?” but it was an a/r release, lol. brad wood produced it. lake michigan as hell  unicorns - “jellybones” this song makes me sad ever since i didn’t get to adopt the jellybones cat oblivion - “clark” desmond dekker - “jeserene” veruca salt - “one last time” veruca salt on summerland!!!! dead moon - “dead moon night” extremely dead moon on summerland fishbone - “i like to hide behind my glasses” dead moon - “on my own” paw - “sleeping bag” tar - “goethe” doc dart - “casket with flowers” smashing pumpkins - “zero” i don’t want billy corgan on summerland and i am sorry for that kicking giant - “&” kicking giant on summerland lmao shockabilly - “pile up all architecture” ween - “sorry charlie” sublime - “april 29, 1992 (miami)” heatmiser - “blackout” the clash - “pressure drop” hellbender - “pissant’s retrospective” the queers - “i won’t be” the vindictives - “circles” the beat farmers - “selfish heart” screaming trees - “end of the universe” 7 year bitch - “second hand” bourgeois filth - “above” nirvana - “scoff” the breeders - “cannonball” saturday looks good to me - “save my life” cara beth satalino - “good ones” communique - “dagger version” soul asylum - “sometime to return” sublime - “jailhouse” tullycraft - “twee” nuns - “wild” beyonce - “countdown” the replacements - “sixteen blue” living colour - “what’s your favorite color” britney - “why should i be sad” mdc - “church and state” alice in chains - “junkhead” rage against the machine - “mic check” everclear - “nervous and weird” soundgarden - “fresh tendrils” helmet - “army of me” the gits - “it all dies anyway” pansy division - “smells like queer spirit” mtx - “i’d do anything for you” 5 year sentence - “just a punk” pennywise - “nothing” mudhoney - “thirteenth floor opening” yesterday’s kids - “eighteen” mxpx - “punk rawk show” small brown bike - “zerosum” incubus - “trouble in 421″ hanson - “speechless” incubus - “circles” dead moon - “my time has come” (!!!!) first of all is this killdozer blink-182 - “here’s your letter” everclear - “electra made me blind” (nervous & weird take) saves the day - “through being cool” groovie ghoulies - “don’t go out into the rain (you’re gonna melt)” babes in toyland - “never” husker du - “target” guzzard - “biro” fairweather - “next day flight” mcr - “house of wolves” broadcast - “until then” liz phair - “never said” the dicks - “rich daddy” quasi - “the iron worm” mustard plug - “not again” janitor joe - “boyfriend” snapcase - “new academy” neil young - “someday” blindsided - “spaceman” placebo - “without you i’m nothing” the creeps - “lakeside cabin” solomon grundy - “time is not your own” the clash - “the card cheat” silversun pickups - “common reactor” lagwagon - “leave the light on” denali - “where i landed” system of a down - “highway song” sprinkler - “personality doll” the vindictives - “structure and function” unplugged” the queers - “ursula finally has tits” we’re entering no repeats territory  buffalo springfield - “expecting to fly” hit squad - “pictures of matchstick men” cows - “almost a god” hop along - “young and happy” pixies - “i’ve been tired” the fall - “spoilt victorian child” camper van chadbourne - “knock on the door” queens of the stone age - “tension head” choking victim - “war story” cool that we have gotten to drop by the greatest song ever recorded :) guttermount - “happy loving couples” audio karate - “nintendo 89″ tad - “pork chop” the kelley deal 6000 - “where did the home team go” colorfinger - “hateful” :} man or astroman - “evil plans of planet spectra” pere ubu - “arabian nights” accepting repeats for  new found glory - “my friends over you” cool moving on american steel - “optimist” tom petty & the heartbreakers - “even the losers” meat puppets - “another moon” black cat music - “wine in a box” wallside - “ready” crucifucks - “pig in a blanket” the bananas - “my charmed life”

KILLDOZER - “EARL SCHEIB,” UNCOMPROMISING WAR ON ART UNDER THE DICTATORSHIP OF THE PROLETARIAT, 1994. KILLDOZER ON SUMMERLAND

[golddplatedd]

50 Questions

tagged by @tonyrights

1. What takes up too much of your time? watching movies and scrolling through tumblr lmao

2. What makes your day better? talking to my gf! talking to my sister! thinking about oswald! lots of things!

3. What’s the best thing to happen to you today? its 12:29 am so im gonna say the best part of yesterday was getting to see so much of my family and giving my mom some pretty silver hoops that i bought for her at disneyland i love my mom

4. What fictional place would you like to go to? hhhh asgard maybe? i wanna meet heimdall

5. Are you good at giving advice? generally no but i am a god listener!!

6. Do you have any mental illness? yeah i have certified™ major depressive disorder and anxiety! probably some other stuff too but i prefer not to think about it ;V

7. Have you ever experienced sleep paralysis? nah but i kinda want to

8. What musician inspired you the most? .......fall out boy.........they have gotten me through so much its astounding

9. Have you ever fallen in love? literally every time i see a cat on the street. oh you mean with a person? maybe but id prefer not to talk about it 

10. What’s your dream date? uhhh going somewhere cute like an aquarium or a museum and then going for a walk and getting ice cream! im a simple girl.

11. What do others notice about you?

usually how short i am which is rude tbh im 5′1″ thats NOT that short

12. What is an annoying habit you have? almost everything i do is annoying!!  kidding (sorta) but i think the most . annoying thing i do is like everything obsessively and then talk about it nonstop. like i cant just. mildly enjoy something. its all or nothing babey

13. Do you still talk to your first love? no not really! that train has sailed . or however the saying goes. we are like on good ish terms though i suppose

14. How many exes do you have? 2. and a half

15. How many songs are in your playlist? i . have like 50 spottify playlists but my main one (jams from my Barbie™ Jeep™) currently has 1140 songs

16. What instruments can you play? i played flute but i dont anymore, i currently play oboe and saxophone and im trying to teach myself ukelele and thinking about trying english horn but its so expensive!!!

17. What do you have the most pictures of? i have a lot of memes, pictures of loki and oswald, and pictures of new york lmao

18. Where would you like to go before you die? the Pyramid of the Sun in Teotihuacán!!!

19. What is your zodiac? leo sun, gemini moon, aquarius rising

20. Do you relate to it? not the leo sun so much but the rest of it, yeah!!

21. What is happiness to you? coffee.

22. Are you going through anything right now? im goin thru IT man im just trying to survive till june but life is testing me

23. What’s the worst decision you ever made? everything i did in high school!

24. What’s your favorite store? goodwill or rhino records!!

25. What’s your opinion on abortion? i am pro-choice wtf kinda question is this

26. Do you keep a bucket list? yes, here is a list of my favorite buckets:

im joking i dont have one lmao

27. Do you have a favorite album? I HAVE TOO MANY here are a few:

infinity on high -  fall out boy // disintegration - the cure // three cheers for sweet revenge - mcr // saturation trilogy -  brockhampton // unknown pleasures - joy division

28. What do you want for your birthday? i like books and money

29. What are most people’s first impression of you? i have literally no idea i think people usually think im weird. im a weirdo. i dont fit in

30. What age do you seem according to most people?

like 16 people still think im in high school ;(

31. Where do you keep your phone while you’re sleeping? charging next to my bed

32. What word do you say the most? worm or yeehaw (its awful)

33. What’s the oldest age you would date? like 25 tbh

34. What’s the youngest age you would date? 19 (i am 19)

35. What job/career do most people say would suit you? surprisingly, psychiatry (which im interested in)

36. What’s your favorite music genre? it varies from moment to moment (generally indie or emo or new wave lmao)

37. If you could live in any country in the world, where would it be? maybe canada or france

38. What is your current favorite song? baby boy - kevin abstract

39. How long have you had this blog for? like 5 years lmao  yikes

40. What are you excited for? GOING TO PARIS AND THEN SCOTLAND TO STUDY ABROAD THIS SUMMER!!!

41. Are you a better talker or listener? definitely listener.im . an emotional bottom

42. What is the last productive thing you did? hhhh i looked over lecture slides for tomorrow

43. What do you want for christmas? world peace. halloween 2. a sense of purpose. a new brockhampton album.  simple things really

44. What class do you get the best grades in? oof . generally my cognitive science classes or like writing classes surprisingly.

45. On a scale of 1-10, how are you feeling right now? like 7  im tired

46. What can you see yourself doing in ten years?

living in new york city baby!!

47. When did you get your first heartbreak? sophomore year of hs babey!!

48. What age do you want to get married? like 27-30 ish? idc

49. What career did you want to have as a child? i wanted to be a teacher and now i cant stand the thought jskjs

50. What do you crave right now? woter

i tag: @gebbylee @moonnddust @panoscosmatoes @jobaisnotreal @lokisfatpussy @vamploki  @pixelpastry @twentycuntpilots @ink-like-starlight and whoever else wants to do it lmao

[sweetbabyfrank]

i'm gonna answer mcr related questions cuz im bored af

1) what era had your fave looks? revenge, they were the most sweaty

2) which member is your favorite? frank frank frank

3) gerard’s best hairstyle/color? red and long

4) favorite Bullets song? honey is a recent favorite

5) favorite Revenge song? oh man when i discovered them i never told you was my fucking JAM but today i'd have to say desthwish

6) favorite Black Parade song? house of wolves bc in this house we love rough puppy play and catholic guilt

7) favorite Danger Days song? summertime always makes me cry and it's my fave song to play

8) favorite Conventional Weapons song? BOY DIVISION

9) favorite song not on an album (b-sides, demos, etc)? Stay is a big re-discovered favorite

10) Danger Days or Bullets? Bullets

11) Revenge or Black Parade? Revenge for when im alone, black parade when i'm with ppl

12) most recent My Chem song you listened to? something from tbpid i think this is how i disappear

13) have you watched Umbrella Academy? not all episodes, honestly i got a little bored but i don't watch that many shows to begin with

14) favorite Frank solo album? somachaches but recently parachutes has come up in my mind

15) favorite Gerard solo song? action cat, i just KNOW somethings good is coming after hearing this song

16) favorite Ray solo song?

17) did you watch the reunion livestream? not when it was live but ive seen it three times now

18) do you own any merch? nope but i'll make me some when this epidemic calms the hell down

19) favorite lyric(s)? a light to burn all the empires//so bright the sun is ashamed to rise and be. she said you aint no son of mine. wake up.

20) favorite Conventional Weapons release? (number 1, number 2, etc) number 1 cuz it's the best but also remember the excitement to see new mcr songs come up on your youtube suscriptions tab?

21) how old were you when you discovered MCR? 12 or 13 i always forget

22) name a song that makes you sad: oh shit man probably CW2 and tbp

23) name a song that makes you motivated: *takes in a deep breath* IFALLTHEENEMIES THREW A PARTYboy division.

24) name a song that makes you want to dance: party poisonnnnn

25) name a song you love but don’t know any lyrics to: all CW oops

26) name a song you love and know all the lyrics to: i'm not okayYES IM BASIC AND LOVE THIS SONG

27) Welcome to the Black Parade or Famous Last Words? famous last words, i think it's the best closing line to a conceptual album ive ever heard

28) SING or Na Na Na? nanana all the way, sing is kinda depressing for me

29) Vampires Will Never Hurt You or Our Lady of Sorrows? WE COULD BE PER FECT ONE LAAAAST NIGHT lady and i can't wait for the moment to listen to it live and break some shit

30) I’m Not Okay or Helena? i'm not okay just sends me

31) favorite album cover? revenge, ive drawn it 3 times in my life, it's so iconic

32) listen to mcr on headphones or out loud? OUT FUCKING LOUD

33) do you have irl friends who like MCR? not really :/ i have one internet friend and we see each other every now and then but thats it

34) who do you think is in the skeleton picture? Mikey for sure

35) Desolation Row or Every Snowflake is Special? Desolation row, what is this?

36) vampires or angels? vampires

38) are you more of a punk or an emo, or neither? emo, but i don't show it lol

39) have you ever worn eyeliner in public? every now and then, hell im wearing eyeliner rn

40) favorite MCR music video? oof, um, teenagers, desolation row and i'm not okay (version 1)

41) favorite Killjoy? Kobra Kid is my child

42) favorite one of Frank’s tattoos? the one he got done in my city is fucking awesome, but i also really like the hopeless/romantic cuz same

43) have you read any of Gerard’s comics? unbrella academy and killjoys

44) have you read any of Mikey’s comics? not yet!

45) have you ever been to an MCR concert? Lol no i was too young to go to concerts when they came to my city, and even then one of them couldnt play that date so

46) how did you react when you heard MCR were reuniting? i think i got a bit happy, i didnt really realized what was going on until the reunion concert came and i watched it and all the love and devotion i had came back like a flod

47) Desert Song or Emily? desert song is really special to me but emily is extremely beautiful as well

48) Have you watched Life on the Murder Scene? like three times, and everytime i see it i realize i forgot something

49) All I Want For Christmas Is You or Under Pressure (with the Used)? ba da dee da dee

50) Should MCR cover I’m Going to Kill the President of the United States? fuck yeah.

so yeah thats all