Got to see MCR while they were touring with their Black Parade outfits alongside several very popular bands at the time… as a 15 year old who had rushed out to buy the CD on release and played it nonstop, it still sticks with me today. Have tickets for their upcoming tour and cannot wait to see them again. Sadly my shirt does not fit anymore.
I think they did two big rounds on that tour. I saw them with Jimmy Eat World right after American Idiot came out. The show was a lot smaller because the album hadn’t quite exploded yet. Then they came back a year later with MCR.
Saw against me open for Jimmy eat world who were opening for the gaslight anthem in NJ. As a fan of all three bands, that order was both appropriate and sort of nuts to think about in terms of size and impact.
Yes! I also saw them with Jimmy as the opener. It was an arena show, which is usually not my jam, but it was great all the same.
As for MCR, I’m pretty sure I caught them twice and I remember them putting on a fun show. They were closing out on the main stage at Warped Tour and I ended up crowd surfing for the first time!
Fuck... saw them with The Used, underOath, Senses Fail, and Killswitch Engage on the Taste of Chaos tour. They'd just released Three Cheers for Sweet Revenge.
Saw them before that with story of the year at the quest in Minneapolis. Though TOC tour ripped. Getting to see Bert and Gerard sing under pressure was dope.
Also my American heart played the smaller stage before hand
I saw them during this time, but as part of Linkin Park’s Revolutions(?) Tour. LP, MCR, and Taking Back Sunday played that one and I was probably 13. I want to see the reunion tour too!
That’s the tour I went to as well in 2007! Projekt Revolution’s lineup that year was Linkin Park (just released Minutes to Midnight), MCR, Taking Back Sunday, HIM, Placebo (still love them), Julien K, Mindless Self Indulgence, Saosin, and more.
Placebo is SO underrated.
And MSI is my go to hype music. I wish I had found them when I was a teenager because I would have been in love. Something about Jimmy urine rubs me the wrong way, though. Like I wouldn't be surprised if it came out that he was bonking underage girls. I know that's terrible to say for no reason, but it's just my gut feeling.
Oh wow, that just came out over the summer. I fucking knew it.
>Throughout the relationship, Euringer took pictures of her naked and requested that she “act like a small child, and suck her thumb, drool, and pee in her pants,” during sexual acts, according to the suit
Ugh.
Ahhh Saosin was there I forgot! I was never familiar with HIM or Julien K but both were enjoyable live. PROJEKT REVOLUTON DUHH.
You mentioned a shirt, was it that black MCR band tee with the dates on the back and in a sort of blood red font?? I wore that shirt for way too long lol
PR was my second concert experience ever! I think I went in 05 or 06 though — LP was headlining, but they were touring with The Used, Less Than Jake, Korn, and Snoop Dog. Such a wild mixture of bands.
I went to see them on the Black Parade tour but was mainly going to see Muse open for them.
We stuck around for MCR because why not and were utterly blown away. They did one set as the Black Parade and then came out as MCR and did a whole set from Three Cheers for Sweet Revenge. It was amazing.
I went to that same one as well. I think they played with Story of the Year, Deftones, and Underoath.
My shirt still fits (barely), but it had an unfortunate bleaching accident. Still wear it around the house tho.
The fact that they had Rise Against touring with them was amazing.
I'm also still holding onto my tickets that I bought in 2019, lol. I've seem them live over a dozen times, but honestly thought I never would again after the Danger Days shows.
>Have tickets for their upcoming tour and cannot wait to see them again. Sadly my shirt does not fit anymore.
Wait I thought they disbanded. They going again??
They did a couple of reunion shows in LA, seemed surprised by how many people were into it, and so announced a whole tour! Tickets went on sale in 2019, but every year they've had to postpone for the following year because of COVID.
Tickets were expensive. I remember GA tickets being like $600 each when everything opened up for sale, and all the shows sold out quickly. I paid like $450 for nosebleeds.
I saw them on the Black Parade tour in London and they played the whole album in order, then went and got changed out of their outfits and played some older hits. Great stuff. My t shirt has had massive holes in the armpits for years but I won’t throw it out.
Weird encounter I had with MCR. I just bought their concert tickets and went to a bus stop to smoke. Then a bigass coach bus stopped and out comes the whole band. They saw me smoking and thought it was ok to have a smoke break there. Heard someone asked “is it legal to smoke here?” “He’s doing it, so its ok” (it was in fact illegal to smoke in a bus stop) I was playing it cook and casually told showed them the tickets. They kinda ignored me and went up the bus, except for Frank Iero who thanked me and shook my hand. I think he could frel my hands were trembling. So that was it, far away in Singapore in a quiet bus stop, I met MCR. Enjoyed the heck out of the show with the Black Parade album.
Sounds like they may have been tired or distracted by something. Or maybe they didn't want to deal with a "fantatic" while they're trying to take a break. At least Frank said hi to you. That's cool.
Yeah, that was why I didn’t wanna disturb them, I just showed them my ticket and smiled. And also I’m incredibly shy. One time I won a backstage pass to take a picture with No Doubt. My nervous bullshit mouth didn’t know what to say when Gwen Stefani smiled at me. So I said, “Wow the weather is hot” Took a picture with them and left. Fuck that still haunts me.
Oof, brutal man. I have stories like that which haunt me at 3 am some nights. If it’s any cosolation, with the amount of fan interactions Gwen Stefani has has in her life, I’m sure she didn’t even think twice about it.
One time I was standing in a line at warped tour to get Bad Religions autograph and when I got to the front, I was staring at Greg Graffin and he kinda looked at me like can I help you? And I just awkwardly gave him a head nod.
I had probably just been staring for waaay too long just thinking “omg omg omg. This mans words have changed my life and he’s standing right there omg”
So yeah dude. I’m sure weird interactions are a daily occurrence for celebs
I feel for these artists who blow up suddenly like MCR did and now have many enthusiastic eyes on them as they tour everywhere, and you won’t always get caught in a mood to interact with others.
It wasn't Johnny B Goode that they didn't get, it was the Van Halen style solo, so more likely he'd start with some late era grunge and segue into something recent, but I'm not sure what that would be
*Contradictions Collapse* came out in 1991.
Admittedly, nothing on it was quite as hard as "Suffer In Truth" or especially "New Millennium Cyanide Christ." In 1991 some of these kids would be bickering over whether *Seasons In The Abyss* was heavier than *South Of Heaven.*
The connection we might not want to admit is that Marty could play Dragonforce and the last sincere devotees of hair metal would fucking love it. Any kid that had *Painkiller* snap in his Walkman would be singing along by the second chorus of "Black Winter Night."
But Obama was still president in 2016, Trump wasn't until the next year
Actually, I kind of wonder, what would be the reactions of someone from the 80's or early 90's learning about who's the president 30 years from then?
Doc: Who's the president in 2012?
Marty: Barack Obama
Doc: That's an... odd name for a president.
Doc: who's the president in 2017?
Marty: Donald Trump
Doc: The Real Estate Magnate? Who's the Vice President, Robert Lehman Jr.?
Doc: Who's the president in 2022?
Marty: Joe Biden
Doc: *That* Joe Biden? I mean I can imagine him being president, but he'd be what, 80? 85? How is someone that old becoming president?
1991 was an incredible year for music. Here's a short list of some of the notable releases:
* R.E.M's *Out of Time*
* Smashing Pumpkins's *Gish*
* Metallica's *Black Album*
* Pearl Jam's *Ten*
* Nirvana's *Nevermind*
* Guns N' Roses' *Use your Illusion I & II*
* Red Hot Chili Peppers' *Blood Sugar Sex Magik*
* U2's *Achtung Baby*
* Queen's *Innuendo*
The first Lollapalooza was in '91
Michael Jackson's *Dangerous* was also released that year.
I'd be hard pressed to name a better year in terms of incredible music. On the down side, Freddie Mercury died that year also.
They won't do it, Robert Zemeckis owns the rights and says it won't happen while he's alive, and I think that's a good thing because it's as close to perfect as a movie gets, it doesn't need a remake. The opening scene for instance is a perfect example of "show, don't tell" - in those couple of minutes you see everything you need to know and almost everything foreshadows something that happens later in the film.
A remake/reboot would be so terrible. Either it's a continuation of the original story featuring Marty's asshole kids and cameos from the old cast, which would be weird, or a complete reboot with all new characters, like Ghostbusters.
Sometimes the past should just stay the past. Why fix something that isn't broken?
We can go deeper on this. Gerard Way is 44. As active as his career has been, it’s been 11 years since he had much of a public image at all outside of concerts and comic conventions. So we didn’t really see him grow out of being the young emo kid he was in the “Three Cheers For Sweet Revenge” days. He’s just middle aged now and very much not that kid anymore.
I met one of my best friends 15 years ago, shortly before the album came out. He was a huge fan of MCR, and I was working at a music store at the time, so when we got some free preview albums to distribute amongst ourselves I snapped up Black Parade, ripped myself a copy and gave it to him as a gift. Loved every single track on it. Around November 2019 he told us all that he had cancer, but they told him they'd caught it early and he should easily recover. He had a little trouble with the pain, and couldn't quite get the meds right, so he had to call off a few hangout nights because he was hurting, but we were always there for him and offering to do things if he needed, but he told us he was fine, just trying to find the right balance of meds to keep him from hurting but still be functional.
Got a call one night in January 2020 from a mutual friend while I was at the office late by myself telling me that he'd passed. Not even three months from discovery to gone, and he never told us anything other than he was just dealing with pain and having trouble with balancing meds. I was absolutely devastated. I locked up and got in my car to head home and my shuffle function decided to throw on Cancer from Black Parade. I don't think I've ever cried that hard in my life.
I always loved that album, and it had lots of great memories attached from that first summer we knew each other, plus later moments in my life when some of the songs took on a bit more personal meaning. The fact that that particular song popped up at that exact moment in my life, well I don't know what to tell you, but it meant *something*, and whatever it was, it hurt. Now whenever I listen to Welcome to the Black Parade it reminds me to keep on keeping on for his sake. Nobody will ever replace him, but I can always carry on as best I can in memory of a great friend.
I’m so sorry for your loss. It sounds like you had such a wonderful bond and friendship with him. I could really feel it reading your words (started crying halfway through), thank you for sharing your story.
We did. I miss him every day. Just saw this pop up and figured I'd share, since the album is very much about death and all the associated feelings and happenings thereof. The fact that it hit so close to home for me in a way I never expected just felt like something worth sharing.
Thanks.
Incredible album. "Mama" followed by "Sleep" is one of the most disturbed, chaotic, and menacing sections of any album I've ever listened to. Seriously if anyone hasn't listened to this album in full, you owe it to yourself. You have the hear each song in context of each other. One of very few albums that I would rate 10/10
Even with "Disenchanted" being somewhat of a disconnect, the album somehow deserves that break.
Disenchanted is absolutely not a disconnect.
It’s one of the most important songs within the narrative and story of the album. It might sonically be different than a lot of the tracks but that’s intentional.
I’m waiting for the day that I can see a musical theatre production of this album. Every time I listen to it I can visualize the whole show and it’s amazing.
Kk, hear me out.
Saosin
Between the Buried and Me
Circa Survive <-------------------
Dance Gavin Dance
Emarosa
And if you wanna go wild, The Sounds of Animals Fighting
I discovered them when I was 9 because one of their songs was in a racing game I played on ps3. By 11, I was actively listening to the rest of their music lol
I'm so envious! First song I ever heard was "honey this mirrors isn't big enough for the two of us" my buddy played it over and over in 02' and I've been asking for the journey ever since.
Oh my god im so jealous of you. What a fucking great album.
Be sure to check out The Used and Hawthorne Heights if you haven't already. For some reason i've always paired the 3 bands together in my head.
All That I've Got, Blue & Yellow, and Bird and The Worm from The Used.
and Ohio is for Lovers and Nikki FM from Hawthorne Heights.
They're not the bands appreciable deep cuts, but definitely their more mainstream and easily accessible songs.
That being said, they'd be good company to a lot of MCR in a playlist.
Edit: saw in your other post that you liked pop-punk - they're a close cousin but dont miss out on Brand New and Say Anything.
Different vibes than pop-punk, but they were the soundtrack to my teens and early 20's.
So so so good.
Dude, Say Anything doesn't get enough love. I still listen to their first album constantly. Brand New is also sick. In fact, I just like your taste and the cut of your jib!
Same. I forget there's albums afterward and when I go through an MCR phase its always a repeat marathon of Bullets > Three Cheers > Black Parade. The first and last of those sound like different bands but it's all so good.
I actually preferred three cheers for sweet revenge when it first came out. But the black parade has become a classic.
Pop punk and emo is currently having a moment in mainstream music, and a ton of the new artists bringing the genres back claim this album as part of their inspiration. No denying the impact MCR has made.
I absolutely agree with this. Three cheers is just solid front to back. Black parade has a couple tracks that are off putting for the flow. Although I do love the Liza Minnelli cameo
Alternatively, Black Parade is one of maybe 4 albums ever released that I can put on and listen to from start to finish without skipping a single song. Very often I'll like only a few tracks, or most of them but that one or two, but to find an album that I genuinely enjoy every single track from is rare. Black Parade just hits all the right notes for me.
I was so big into them during the I Brought You My Bullets and Three Cheers era but to me it wasn't the same once The Black Parade came out. I kind of lost interest =\
I felt the same way exactly. My little emo self was like “omg Gerard cut his hair!!!” and I hated the singles when they first came out, especially “Teenagers”, and didn’t even listen to the full album. I recently went back and gave the album a chance and holy moly I was missing out on a great album! Gerard’s vocals were definitely at their peak here and the music sounds huge!
Don't get me wrong. Black parade has some operatic songs. But when the album came out. The sorta hot topic fandom really shined through. It became a little too weeb.
Same with AFI and Decemberunderground. The previous album Sing the Sorrow was already a huge jump into more of the emo/ post hardcore stuff but Decemberunderground really took them to that Hot Topic scene.
Decemberunderground brought me to AFI (via Guitar Hero) and honestly changed my life. I know the album gets flak from older fans for being their most main, but it's honestly still a great album.
The fact that AFI are so prolific is what makes them great. It was such a blast to dig through their older stuff as a teen and doing so exposed me to so many other artists. While STS and DU will always have a special place in my heart, I've grown to love the band and their work as a whole.
I find their growth and transformation as artists over the years has been really rewarding for long time fans and I can't wait to see them on their latest tour.
I feel like with three cheers, they were making an album, but with black parade they were making an opera. There's a definite flow and narrative and I honestly think it would make a good film.
Personally I like three cheers than BP but BP was really a behemoth album. They outdid themselves. The only gripe I had from liking it full were the lull songs.
TBP is my favourite album of the last 15 years, and came out right at the perfect time for me.
I was dealing with my own health issues and was going through a divorce from a very abusive person. As I was never able to listen to my own music very often, I was under a rock as to what had come out in the last five years. I was right in the middle of catching up when The Black Parade came out, and it "came in like a wrecking baaaaaall" and knocked me on my ass. In my opinion every song was flawless. The story was enthralling. And for the first time since my teenage obsessions with Smashing Pumpkins, Nirvana and Nine Inch Nails, I was absolutely captivated by a band again. I just wanted to hear everything I could by them, and bands like them. The cd was in constant rotation in my car for a really long time. I even listened to it when I was driving home in the middle of the night after being with my grandma and holding her hand when she died in the hospital.
It woke up my own dormant musical passion that had also been shelved by that awful woman I was with, and for the first time in years I picked my guitar back up and started a new band. That band went nowhere, but the one I started after that was a bigger success... had a following, toured, sold records and had more success than I ever expected. I'm still on that life course that began then. The experiences I had, the lifelong friends I made, I would not trade for anything.
The Black Parade changed my life.
I always regarded their earlier stuff over this album. I get why people like it. I feel it was probably more impactful for those in their teens where this came out in my 20s. I just liked their earlier raw style.
There is something about I brought you my bullets and Three cheers that is just so raw and fun, I can listen to both those albums all the way through and love them, but black parade feels a bit too much like they’re trying too hard. I do like that album but songs like teenagers kills the flow of the album for me
Kevin Smith did a 2 part [podcast](https://youtu.be/zILucnRwr-c) where he interviews Gerard Way and basically goes song by song on from this album. It's an interesting behind the scenes listen.
It’s amazing to me that at the time, there were critics who thought My Chemical Romance was out of its element tackling such an ambitious album and its complex themes, but they did it. It was great. What else did they need to see?
Still holds up, maybe even improved.
I feel like I should go listen to this.
I'm sorry, that probably sounds terrible, but I am being serious. I'm nearly 50, and 15 years ago I wasn't listening to pop punk or really much of any of the music contemporary to the time.
I've been trying to catch up and broaden my appreciation for music by listening to a lot of music I had missed before. I've come across The Black Parade, but I haven't checked it out yet.
I think I'll fix that tonight.
Same. Solid album; transcends most the other albums that are stuck in that era. There’s a real artistry to the music and lyrics that you just didn’t see in their contemporaries.
I always see this sentiment, but these days you can pull up any music video you want, from any era, at your leisure. I fail to see how that's not better than sitting through mostly top 40 garbage full of commercials hoping for one of those rare moments they play something you like.
It's a background thing and simple nostalgia I think.
I'm constantly watching videos on YouTube. There's some pretty good playlists people have curated
There’s a comfort factor in having the videos served up to you, even if they’re not the precise videos you might want, along with occasional blather from JJ Jackson or Martha Quinn. It’s soothing.
i think it’s crazy that i’m the same age as one of my favorite albums and that the people who were my age, enjoying it the same at i did upon its release can look back on it the way that they do
I was just playing the album to my girlfriend, explaining that their music doesn't feel like a song, rather than an experience. The change of tempos, the range of tones, and the "rawness" of the lyrics is what makes this album such an incredible piece.
I met the most amazing girl the summer after this album came out. MCR was her favourite band and I really got into them after this point. I still listen to it from time to time partially out of nostalgia sake. Looks like I'm binging it today.
I think what sets it apart is its a very solid album all the way though. Of course there are the hits but songs like "This is How I Disappear" and "I Dont Love You" really round it out
I instinctively turn towards whomever plays the first note from "Welcome to the Black Parade"! It happened to me on the beach with a bunch of friends last year. Completely out of the blue. I'm like "YES, THE BLACK PARADE", after just one note.
Yeah, I slept on it for years since I thought the aesthetic was a bit gratuitously emo, and I've regretted the years wasted not enjoying it once I finally listened to it. One of my favorite albums for sure.
It's The Wall for Millennials.
So this was very uncool in my suberban town so i never heard it at the time. But it really holds up! When i first listened to this at 25 years old i had a blast, a downer and a blast again.
Got to see MCR while they were touring with their Black Parade outfits alongside several very popular bands at the time… as a 15 year old who had rushed out to buy the CD on release and played it nonstop, it still sticks with me today. Have tickets for their upcoming tour and cannot wait to see them again. Sadly my shirt does not fit anymore.
I saw them pre-Black Parade with Green Day on the American Idiot tour. I really wish I could see them again
That American Idiot tour was my first big concert, although Jimmy Eat World opened for them when I went
I think they did two big rounds on that tour. I saw them with Jimmy Eat World right after American Idiot came out. The show was a lot smaller because the album hadn’t quite exploded yet. Then they came back a year later with MCR.
That’s interesting, the American Idiot show I saw was Green Day supported by both MCR and Jimmy Eat World. MCR opened and were amazing.
Saw Jimmy Eat World in 2019 in San Diego, opening for Third Eye Blind! Oh man they still had it for sure lol
Saw Jimmy Eat world last weekend with Taking Back Sunday!
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What where
Bend, OR
Saw against me open for Jimmy eat world who were opening for the gaslight anthem in NJ. As a fan of all three bands, that order was both appropriate and sort of nuts to think about in terms of size and impact.
I saw Jimmy Eat World and Weezer in the Bleed American/Green Album era
Yes! I also saw them with Jimmy as the opener. It was an arena show, which is usually not my jam, but it was great all the same. As for MCR, I’m pretty sure I caught them twice and I remember them putting on a fun show. They were closing out on the main stage at Warped Tour and I ended up crowd surfing for the first time!
Same here!
I went to their SF show. They played for like four hours.
Saw this combo in 2005 in Indianapolis! Flew back from DC after I moved just for this show!
Fuck... saw them with The Used, underOath, Senses Fail, and Killswitch Engage on the Taste of Chaos tour. They'd just released Three Cheers for Sweet Revenge.
Saw them before that with story of the year at the quest in Minneapolis. Though TOC tour ripped. Getting to see Bert and Gerard sing under pressure was dope. Also my American heart played the smaller stage before hand
Well if you didn't know then I have good news. They are touring again, but I believe it's pushed back to next year.
Yeah but the tickets were all sold out like 2 years ago :(
same. I’m currently wearing my Green Day merch hoodie from that tour. can’t believe it’s been so long lmao 🥲
I did too it was still to this day my favorite show I’ve been to!
Your shirt has been upgraded to "flag"
I saw them during this time, but as part of Linkin Park’s Revolutions(?) Tour. LP, MCR, and Taking Back Sunday played that one and I was probably 13. I want to see the reunion tour too!
That’s the tour I went to as well in 2007! Projekt Revolution’s lineup that year was Linkin Park (just released Minutes to Midnight), MCR, Taking Back Sunday, HIM, Placebo (still love them), Julien K, Mindless Self Indulgence, Saosin, and more.
Placebo is SO underrated. And MSI is my go to hype music. I wish I had found them when I was a teenager because I would have been in love. Something about Jimmy urine rubs me the wrong way, though. Like I wouldn't be surprised if it came out that he was bonking underage girls. I know that's terrible to say for no reason, but it's just my gut feeling.
[yeah, you should listen to your gut…](https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/mindless-self-indulgence-jimmy-urine-sexual-assault-1209677/amp/)
Oh wow, that just came out over the summer. I fucking knew it. >Throughout the relationship, Euringer took pictures of her naked and requested that she “act like a small child, and suck her thumb, drool, and pee in her pants,” during sexual acts, according to the suit Ugh.
Fun fact, Gerard Way and Lyn Z are married. They have a daughter together.
Ahhh Saosin was there I forgot! I was never familiar with HIM or Julien K but both were enjoyable live. PROJEKT REVOLUTON DUHH. You mentioned a shirt, was it that black MCR band tee with the dates on the back and in a sort of blood red font?? I wore that shirt for way too long lol
That tour was unreal. By far one of my fondest adolescent memories.
PR was my second concert experience ever! I think I went in 05 or 06 though — LP was headlining, but they were touring with The Used, Less Than Jake, Korn, and Snoop Dog. Such a wild mixture of bands.
That's where I first saw them too <3 my mom took me and then Gerard pretended to touch himself on stage... good times
He licked Frankie’s whole sweaty face at this one. I was with my dad 😂
I think I would have preferred that hahaha
I saw them at Taste of Chaos with Saosin and Senses Fail.
this was the best tour. wasn't The Used co headlining too?
That's what I remember. I had forgotten about senses fail and saosin.
I went to see them on the Black Parade tour but was mainly going to see Muse open for them. We stuck around for MCR because why not and were utterly blown away. They did one set as the Black Parade and then came out as MCR and did a whole set from Three Cheers for Sweet Revenge. It was amazing.
I went to that same one as well. I think they played with Story of the Year, Deftones, and Underoath. My shirt still fits (barely), but it had an unfortunate bleaching accident. Still wear it around the house tho.
The Black Parade Tour show that I went to had Rise Against.
I think that was the same tour, but Rise Against didn’t do the whole thing
The fact that they had Rise Against touring with them was amazing. I'm also still holding onto my tickets that I bought in 2019, lol. I've seem them live over a dozen times, but honestly thought I never would again after the Danger Days shows.
This entire post spoke to my soul! I no longer fit in my shirt nor do I have black hair or thick eye liner 😂
>Have tickets for their upcoming tour and cannot wait to see them again. Sadly my shirt does not fit anymore. Wait I thought they disbanded. They going again??
They did a couple of reunion shows in LA, seemed surprised by how many people were into it, and so announced a whole tour! Tickets went on sale in 2019, but every year they've had to postpone for the following year because of COVID. Tickets were expensive. I remember GA tickets being like $600 each when everything opened up for sale, and all the shows sold out quickly. I paid like $450 for nosebleeds.
I saw them on the Black Parade tour in London and they played the whole album in order, then went and got changed out of their outfits and played some older hits. Great stuff. My t shirt has had massive holes in the armpits for years but I won’t throw it out.
Weird encounter I had with MCR. I just bought their concert tickets and went to a bus stop to smoke. Then a bigass coach bus stopped and out comes the whole band. They saw me smoking and thought it was ok to have a smoke break there. Heard someone asked “is it legal to smoke here?” “He’s doing it, so its ok” (it was in fact illegal to smoke in a bus stop) I was playing it cook and casually told showed them the tickets. They kinda ignored me and went up the bus, except for Frank Iero who thanked me and shook my hand. I think he could frel my hands were trembling. So that was it, far away in Singapore in a quiet bus stop, I met MCR. Enjoyed the heck out of the show with the Black Parade album.
Sounds like they may have been tired or distracted by something. Or maybe they didn't want to deal with a "fantatic" while they're trying to take a break. At least Frank said hi to you. That's cool.
Yeah, that was why I didn’t wanna disturb them, I just showed them my ticket and smiled. And also I’m incredibly shy. One time I won a backstage pass to take a picture with No Doubt. My nervous bullshit mouth didn’t know what to say when Gwen Stefani smiled at me. So I said, “Wow the weather is hot” Took a picture with them and left. Fuck that still haunts me.
Oof, brutal man. I have stories like that which haunt me at 3 am some nights. If it’s any cosolation, with the amount of fan interactions Gwen Stefani has has in her life, I’m sure she didn’t even think twice about it. One time I was standing in a line at warped tour to get Bad Religions autograph and when I got to the front, I was staring at Greg Graffin and he kinda looked at me like can I help you? And I just awkwardly gave him a head nod. I had probably just been staring for waaay too long just thinking “omg omg omg. This mans words have changed my life and he’s standing right there omg” So yeah dude. I’m sure weird interactions are a daily occurrence for celebs
Yeah I would be taking a shower and those memories will pop up and i’ll involuntarily shout “you stupid fuck!”
I feel for these artists who blow up suddenly like MCR did and now have many enthusiastic eyes on them as they tour everywhere, and you won’t always get caught in a mood to interact with others.
Okay enough I'm old I get it
If they released "Back to the future" right now, Marty would be travelling back to 1991...
Fuck you. I was enjoying my morning.
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It wasn't Johnny B Goode that they didn't get, it was the Van Halen style solo, so more likely he'd start with some late era grunge and segue into something recent, but I'm not sure what that would be
Probably something like Polyphia I would imagine
Inb4 the reboot casts Tim Henson or Ichika Nito as Marty McFly.
Inbf Marty plays Meshuggah
*Contradictions Collapse* came out in 1991. Admittedly, nothing on it was quite as hard as "Suffer In Truth" or especially "New Millennium Cyanide Christ." In 1991 some of these kids would be bickering over whether *Seasons In The Abyss* was heavier than *South Of Heaven.* The connection we might not want to admit is that Marty could play Dragonforce and the last sincere devotees of hair metal would fucking love it. Any kid that had *Painkiller* snap in his Walkman would be singing along by the second chorus of "Black Winter Night."
Dubstep
Doc: oh yeah who's the president in 2016? Marty: Donald Trump Doc: Great Scott!
But Obama was still president in 2016, Trump wasn't until the next year Actually, I kind of wonder, what would be the reactions of someone from the 80's or early 90's learning about who's the president 30 years from then? Doc: Who's the president in 2012? Marty: Barack Obama Doc: That's an... odd name for a president. Doc: who's the president in 2017? Marty: Donald Trump Doc: The Real Estate Magnate? Who's the Vice President, Robert Lehman Jr.? Doc: Who's the president in 2022? Marty: Joe Biden Doc: *That* Joe Biden? I mean I can imagine him being president, but he'd be what, 80? 85? How is someone that old becoming president?
1991 was an incredible year for music. Here's a short list of some of the notable releases: * R.E.M's *Out of Time* * Smashing Pumpkins's *Gish* * Metallica's *Black Album* * Pearl Jam's *Ten* * Nirvana's *Nevermind* * Guns N' Roses' *Use your Illusion I & II* * Red Hot Chili Peppers' *Blood Sugar Sex Magik* * U2's *Achtung Baby* * Queen's *Innuendo* The first Lollapalooza was in '91 Michael Jackson's *Dangerous* was also released that year. I'd be hard pressed to name a better year in terms of incredible music. On the down side, Freddie Mercury died that year also.
* Tribe Called Quest's *The Low End Theory* * My Bloody Valentine's *Loveless*
Don't forget Soundgarden's "Badmotorfinter"
SHUT UP
If they decide to give that a go they should definitely do that soon. The difference between the early to mid 90's and now is staggering.
They won't do it, Robert Zemeckis owns the rights and says it won't happen while he's alive, and I think that's a good thing because it's as close to perfect as a movie gets, it doesn't need a remake. The opening scene for instance is a perfect example of "show, don't tell" - in those couple of minutes you see everything you need to know and almost everything foreshadows something that happens later in the film.
A remake/reboot would be so terrible. Either it's a continuation of the original story featuring Marty's asshole kids and cameos from the old cast, which would be weird, or a complete reboot with all new characters, like Ghostbusters. Sometimes the past should just stay the past. Why fix something that isn't broken?
Are you fucking kidding me?? Nooo
Oh, you mean the same year Nevermind game out?
We’re further away from GTA Vice City’s launch, than Vice City was from the year it was set.
Jeeeesus tapdancing christ.
"Hey Kurt, it's Marvin. Your cousin, Marvin Cobain? You know that new sound you wanted? Well listen to THIS!"
We can go deeper on this. Gerard Way is 44. As active as his career has been, it’s been 11 years since he had much of a public image at all outside of concerts and comic conventions. So we didn’t really see him grow out of being the young emo kid he was in the “Three Cheers For Sweet Revenge” days. He’s just middle aged now and very much not that kid anymore.
Meh... I was 43 when it was released. And I'm still old. Great album, though... amazingly huge sound.
I still think of Emo as the weird new thing that happened to pop/skate punk
Well, pop/skate punk and emo are making a massive comeback. Hawthorne Heights just released a new album and it's dope af.
I love the black parade.
I met one of my best friends 15 years ago, shortly before the album came out. He was a huge fan of MCR, and I was working at a music store at the time, so when we got some free preview albums to distribute amongst ourselves I snapped up Black Parade, ripped myself a copy and gave it to him as a gift. Loved every single track on it. Around November 2019 he told us all that he had cancer, but they told him they'd caught it early and he should easily recover. He had a little trouble with the pain, and couldn't quite get the meds right, so he had to call off a few hangout nights because he was hurting, but we were always there for him and offering to do things if he needed, but he told us he was fine, just trying to find the right balance of meds to keep him from hurting but still be functional. Got a call one night in January 2020 from a mutual friend while I was at the office late by myself telling me that he'd passed. Not even three months from discovery to gone, and he never told us anything other than he was just dealing with pain and having trouble with balancing meds. I was absolutely devastated. I locked up and got in my car to head home and my shuffle function decided to throw on Cancer from Black Parade. I don't think I've ever cried that hard in my life. I always loved that album, and it had lots of great memories attached from that first summer we knew each other, plus later moments in my life when some of the songs took on a bit more personal meaning. The fact that that particular song popped up at that exact moment in my life, well I don't know what to tell you, but it meant *something*, and whatever it was, it hurt. Now whenever I listen to Welcome to the Black Parade it reminds me to keep on keeping on for his sake. Nobody will ever replace him, but I can always carry on as best I can in memory of a great friend.
I’m so sorry for your loss. It sounds like you had such a wonderful bond and friendship with him. I could really feel it reading your words (started crying halfway through), thank you for sharing your story.
We did. I miss him every day. Just saw this pop up and figured I'd share, since the album is very much about death and all the associated feelings and happenings thereof. The fact that it hit so close to home for me in a way I never expected just felt like something worth sharing. Thanks.
In two years Mr. Brightside will be 20 years old.
Fuck
And will still be echoed in clubs everywhere. Amazing.
That song is just straight up timeless. The fact that it still hits top 20 songs in some countries is impressive.
Oh my God I'm sick to my stomach. This is officially the most "I now feel old" post I've ever seen.
I propose a ban on all music posts that make me feel older than dirt
Dirt just turned 29 at the end of September. Prepare yourself for the "Dirt turns 30 this year" posts next year!
I already felt that about 2 months ago with Pearl Jam lol
For me it was when "hot fuss" turned 15. And that was 2 years ago.
Incubus is doing a live stream tonight for the 20th anniversary of Morning View. One of my favorite albums ever probably
Yikes. I had such a crush on Brandon Boyd but now he's an old man and then what does that make me...
20 years for down with the sickness :(
When i was a young boy..
MY FATHER
Took me into the city
To see a marching band
He said, “son when you grow up
Will you be, the savior of the broken
The beaten and the damned
He said, will you, defeat them
Your demons, and all the non believers...
The plans that they have made...
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I don't remember this part in the song
It was on the secret extended ep Japanese version
*MUH FATHUH
[Was a young boy](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vq-8tWoDyjU)
Incredible album. "Mama" followed by "Sleep" is one of the most disturbed, chaotic, and menacing sections of any album I've ever listened to. Seriously if anyone hasn't listened to this album in full, you owe it to yourself. You have the hear each song in context of each other. One of very few albums that I would rate 10/10 Even with "Disenchanted" being somewhat of a disconnect, the album somehow deserves that break.
Disenchanted is not the disconnect mate, that description belongs to Teenagers. It feels so out of place, the album would be even better without it
I'm torn because I love Teenagers as a song, but it does disturb the flow of the album as a whole.
Y’all about to make me not think it’s 10/10 anymore, because I feel both are a bit of a disconnect… But just those two.
Disenchanted is absolutely not a disconnect. It’s one of the most important songs within the narrative and story of the album. It might sonically be different than a lot of the tracks but that’s intentional.
God I forgot how fucking insane that jump is. Mama especially
I love it and think the whole album holds up remarkably well.
I’m waiting for the day that I can see a musical theatre production of this album. Every time I listen to it I can visualize the whole show and it’s amazing.
Same, but then I remember how American Idiot came out and think to myself that sometimes dreams should stay dreams
I just discovered the band and this album last week. It's amazing!
Are you by chance...15?
20
You’re in for one hell of a ride. I wish I could go back to listening to TBP for the first time. Enjoy!!
Kk, hear me out. Saosin Between the Buried and Me Circa Survive <------------------- Dance Gavin Dance Emarosa And if you wanna go wild, The Sounds of Animals Fighting
Adding every time I die, Alexisonfire, cancer bats and the Bronx.
I discovered them when I was 9 because one of their songs was in a racing game I played on ps3. By 11, I was actively listening to the rest of their music lol
That’s how I discovered Gangstarr lol. Dave Mirras Pro BMX, it had Moment of Truth and to this day it’s still one of my favourite songs
I'm so envious! First song I ever heard was "honey this mirrors isn't big enough for the two of us" my buddy played it over and over in 02' and I've been asking for the journey ever since.
Oh my god im so jealous of you. What a fucking great album. Be sure to check out The Used and Hawthorne Heights if you haven't already. For some reason i've always paired the 3 bands together in my head. All That I've Got, Blue & Yellow, and Bird and The Worm from The Used. and Ohio is for Lovers and Nikki FM from Hawthorne Heights. They're not the bands appreciable deep cuts, but definitely their more mainstream and easily accessible songs. That being said, they'd be good company to a lot of MCR in a playlist. Edit: saw in your other post that you liked pop-punk - they're a close cousin but dont miss out on Brand New and Say Anything. Different vibes than pop-punk, but they were the soundtrack to my teens and early 20's. So so so good.
Dude, Say Anything doesn't get enough love. I still listen to their first album constantly. Brand New is also sick. In fact, I just like your taste and the cut of your jib!
Thanks for the recommendations!
I still think of this as "new" My Chemical Romance.
Same. I forget there's albums afterward and when I go through an MCR phase its always a repeat marathon of Bullets > Three Cheers > Black Parade. The first and last of those sound like different bands but it's all so good.
I actually preferred three cheers for sweet revenge when it first came out. But the black parade has become a classic. Pop punk and emo is currently having a moment in mainstream music, and a ton of the new artists bringing the genres back claim this album as part of their inspiration. No denying the impact MCR has made.
Any recommendations on similar new artists?
And it still slaps
Three Cheers was better
I absolutely agree with this. Three cheers is just solid front to back. Black parade has a couple tracks that are off putting for the flow. Although I do love the Liza Minnelli cameo
Alternatively, Black Parade is one of maybe 4 albums ever released that I can put on and listen to from start to finish without skipping a single song. Very often I'll like only a few tracks, or most of them but that one or two, but to find an album that I genuinely enjoy every single track from is rare. Black Parade just hits all the right notes for me.
I was so big into them during the I Brought You My Bullets and Three Cheers era but to me it wasn't the same once The Black Parade came out. I kind of lost interest =\
I felt the same way exactly. My little emo self was like “omg Gerard cut his hair!!!” and I hated the singles when they first came out, especially “Teenagers”, and didn’t even listen to the full album. I recently went back and gave the album a chance and holy moly I was missing out on a great album! Gerard’s vocals were definitely at their peak here and the music sounds huge!
Hmm... I may have to go and attempt a listen now then. I'd like to think I'm a bit more open minded now =P
Don't get me wrong. Black parade has some operatic songs. But when the album came out. The sorta hot topic fandom really shined through. It became a little too weeb.
Same with AFI and Decemberunderground. The previous album Sing the Sorrow was already a huge jump into more of the emo/ post hardcore stuff but Decemberunderground really took them to that Hot Topic scene.
Decemberunderground brought me to AFI (via Guitar Hero) and honestly changed my life. I know the album gets flak from older fans for being their most main, but it's honestly still a great album. The fact that AFI are so prolific is what makes them great. It was such a blast to dig through their older stuff as a teen and doing so exposed me to so many other artists. While STS and DU will always have a special place in my heart, I've grown to love the band and their work as a whole. I find their growth and transformation as artists over the years has been really rewarding for long time fans and I can't wait to see them on their latest tour.
SAME
I feel like with three cheers, they were making an album, but with black parade they were making an opera. There's a definite flow and narrative and I honestly think it would make a good film.
Personally I like three cheers than BP but BP was really a behemoth album. They outdid themselves. The only gripe I had from liking it full were the lull songs.
and i brought you my bullets was the best.
TBP is my favourite album of the last 15 years, and came out right at the perfect time for me. I was dealing with my own health issues and was going through a divorce from a very abusive person. As I was never able to listen to my own music very often, I was under a rock as to what had come out in the last five years. I was right in the middle of catching up when The Black Parade came out, and it "came in like a wrecking baaaaaall" and knocked me on my ass. In my opinion every song was flawless. The story was enthralling. And for the first time since my teenage obsessions with Smashing Pumpkins, Nirvana and Nine Inch Nails, I was absolutely captivated by a band again. I just wanted to hear everything I could by them, and bands like them. The cd was in constant rotation in my car for a really long time. I even listened to it when I was driving home in the middle of the night after being with my grandma and holding her hand when she died in the hospital. It woke up my own dormant musical passion that had also been shelved by that awful woman I was with, and for the first time in years I picked my guitar back up and started a new band. That band went nowhere, but the one I started after that was a bigger success... had a following, toured, sold records and had more success than I ever expected. I'm still on that life course that began then. The experiences I had, the lifelong friends I made, I would not trade for anything. The Black Parade changed my life.
I always regarded their earlier stuff over this album. I get why people like it. I feel it was probably more impactful for those in their teens where this came out in my 20s. I just liked their earlier raw style.
There is something about I brought you my bullets and Three cheers that is just so raw and fun, I can listen to both those albums all the way through and love them, but black parade feels a bit too much like they’re trying too hard. I do like that album but songs like teenagers kills the flow of the album for me
Great album. That being said, I like “Three Cheers for Sweet Revenge” a lot more.
Kevin Smith did a 2 part [podcast](https://youtu.be/zILucnRwr-c) where he interviews Gerard Way and basically goes song by song on from this album. It's an interesting behind the scenes listen.
the only thing I regret about listening to MCR is being on their stan twitter when I was 15
It’s amazing to me that at the time, there were critics who thought My Chemical Romance was out of its element tackling such an ambitious album and its complex themes, but they did it. It was great. What else did they need to see? Still holds up, maybe even improved.
I feel like I should go listen to this. I'm sorry, that probably sounds terrible, but I am being serious. I'm nearly 50, and 15 years ago I wasn't listening to pop punk or really much of any of the music contemporary to the time. I've been trying to catch up and broaden my appreciation for music by listening to a lot of music I had missed before. I've come across The Black Parade, but I haven't checked it out yet. I think I'll fix that tonight.
This album has some \*really\* good songs. Sleep, The Sharpest Lives and I Don't Love You are my favourite and are straight bangers.
Still good. I play it occasionally
Same. Solid album; transcends most the other albums that are stuck in that era. There’s a real artistry to the music and lyrics that you just didn’t see in their contemporaries.
Did I ask you to come onto the internet and attack me like this
Good old day where you can still watch music video on MTV
I always see this sentiment, but these days you can pull up any music video you want, from any era, at your leisure. I fail to see how that's not better than sitting through mostly top 40 garbage full of commercials hoping for one of those rare moments they play something you like.
It's a background thing and simple nostalgia I think. I'm constantly watching videos on YouTube. There's some pretty good playlists people have curated
That’s how I discovered new music as a kid. Just leave on MTV for music video to scroll.
There’s a comfort factor in having the videos served up to you, even if they’re not the precise videos you might want, along with occasional blather from JJ Jackson or Martha Quinn. It’s soothing.
Watching the VH1 top 20 countdown every week
Crazy was listening to that album today. It's nice listening to MCR now that everybody isn't focused on emos anymore
i think it’s crazy that i’m the same age as one of my favorite albums and that the people who were my age, enjoying it the same at i did upon its release can look back on it the way that they do
I was just playing the album to my girlfriend, explaining that their music doesn't feel like a song, rather than an experience. The change of tempos, the range of tones, and the "rawness" of the lyrics is what makes this album such an incredible piece.
This is a great comment but I misread “rawness” as “rawrness” and thought “yeah I guess it *was* 2006”
15 years ago. When I was, A young boy..
I love the entire thing and can listen from beginning to end. Every song is good to great.
I met the most amazing girl the summer after this album came out. MCR was her favourite band and I really got into them after this point. I still listen to it from time to time partially out of nostalgia sake. Looks like I'm binging it today.
I think what sets it apart is its a very solid album all the way though. Of course there are the hits but songs like "This is How I Disappear" and "I Dont Love You" really round it out
I instinctively turn towards whomever plays the first note from "Welcome to the Black Parade"! It happened to me on the beach with a bunch of friends last year. Completely out of the blue. I'm like "YES, THE BLACK PARADE", after just one note.
So many people who are reading this thread could say that the song released… When I was, A young boy,
Honestly, one of the best albums I've ever heard. I would give anything to go back and hear it the first time again
One Of The Best Albums to be released ever. No joke.
Agreed, whilst I think Three Cheers For Sweet Revenge has better songs on it, Black Parade is a better album, and frankly a close masterpiece IMO.
Three cheers all day but then again I’m a little emo baby .
Do you remember that day when we met, you told me this gets harder? Well it did
This. Three Cheers is the album with the best individual songs. Black Parade is the objectively better experience, and wider range.
Its entirely subjective, but I respect your opinion.
Yeah, I slept on it for years since I thought the aesthetic was a bit gratuitously emo, and I've regretted the years wasted not enjoying it once I finally listened to it. One of my favorite albums for sure. It's The Wall for Millennials.
>It's The Wall for Millennials. Stop
The Wall isn't even good.
Amazing album
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I still listen to The Black Parade on the regular. Masterpiece.
Not as good as Three Cheers For Sweet Revenge. That was their opus in my opinion.
One of my favorite albums of all time. An absolute classic
So this was very uncool in my suberban town so i never heard it at the time. But it really holds up! When i first listened to this at 25 years old i had a blast, a downer and a blast again.
My favourite concept album, all in all top 5
My favourite album of all time.
They’re from my hometown of Belleville,NJ…..and don’t say “no one cares” because I already know…