My Chemical Romance Band • Page 33

demos

 

Living With Ghosts is the demos. The cover album is "Rock Sound Presents The Black Parade"

 

Oooooh

 

I have waited over 10 years to have a listenable version of "Shut Up and Play" (Disenchanted) and that day has finally come. I'm so happy.

House of Wolves version 1 certainly is interesting...haven't made it to any of the others yet.

 

House of Wolves version 1 isn't even house of wolves lol

 

wonder how some of these songs would of turned out if they had kept them for the album because all the songs that made it to TPB sound completely different on this

 

I found the release kinda pointless for me. I liked hearing Shut Up and Play cause I always wanted a semi-decent version of it, but I don't see myself relistening to any of that ever and idek if I'd say it was that interesting. I think them being live demos made it hard for me to hear much so it was like cool, I guess??

 

A bunch of unreleased My Chem demos and we've still never gotten Stay/Someone Out There Loves You. Go figure.

 

That's not from these sessions though.

 

I realize that, but considering the band had little to nothing to do with this release it would have been an easy way for WB to drum up some hype.

 

Wouldn't have really made sense though so I'm not surprised they didn't.

 

My radio show is recapping the year 2006 in music from 6-9 PM by playing The Black Parade and brand new's the devil and god in full and discussing both. Listen if you feel like it, www.wtsr.org

 

New song by Gerard and Ray based on one of Gerard's new comics.

 

Is Frank the only member Gerard hasn't collaborated with since 2013?

 

i dig this

 

today's the 10th anniversary of Black Parade

 

NPR has a nice writeup for the anniversary

 

The podcast/round table in that link is really interesting too and goes over what it was like to be a non-white fan of MCR in 2006 which really resonated for me.

 

The Black Parade will always be such an important and defining album for me. I was a senior in high school when it came out, and MCR was pretty much my favorite band leading up to its release. I remember the summer leading up to its release - I had never been so excited for an album to be released before. First it was all the cryptic messages, then trying to listen to bootleg recordings of their first Black Parade show in London, then waiting for 30 second clips of the songs to be released, to waiting for the album itself. The Black Parade Tour where they played the album front-to-back I will never forget.

This album resonated with me in ways music never had before. For the first time in my life, I felt the music was speaking directly to me. I had never been able to associate music on a personal level like that before - where it felt like someone else could put the feelings and emotions I was experiencing into thought. To feel like you're not alone going through the things you're going through. I know this is why MCR was so important to so many people, and that feeling of unity among the fanbase these songs and this band created still hits home for me today. It's not even my favorite MCR album (Danger Days takes the edge for me personally, but we can cross that bridge in four years...) but still so very important to me. "Famous Last Words", however, might still be my favorite song of all time.

It's hard to put how I feel about this band and this album into words sometimes, so that's the best I can do.

 

Another good write up on the anniversary / the critical narratives around the band in general: 10 Years Later, My Chemical Romance’s The Black Parade Still Speaks To Emo Internet Kids | SPIN

 

"When I grow up, I want to be NOTHING AT ALL!"

 

Good lord I can't believe it's been 10 years. Well let's see, that means 10 years ago today I spent the morning sitting in front of the Virgin Megastore in Union Square amongst a sea of other fans waiting to get a wristband for the show at Webster Hall where I took a plethora of blurry, awful photos I'm sure were gonna look amazing later (they didn't) and attemped to not whine too much about how cold it was or how woefully unprepared I was to deal with said cold. It was amazing, I loved almost every second of it and now looking back over those photos I wish I could go back to do it all again.

 

writer of that piece makes some really great music in dc, he's in a dc "supergroup" that i'm very very highly anticipating their first release

 

In honour of me buying that dumb vinyl I want to pop in and say Disenchanted is huge and should have been more popular. The ending of that album is great.

 

Probably an unpopular opinion/taste, but this time of year I love listening to Danger Days: The True Lives of the Fabulous Killjoys.