My Chemical Romance Band • Page 448

Yo wtf this song whips and I just found out about it

 

Y’all were living with this glorious new song for a day and I’m jealous

 

Hoping I'm not too late for the sharing experiences portion of the program.

First show was at SportsPlus in 2002, with MCR opening for Thrice and The Used. Fire marshal shut down the show before The Used played. I had never heard an MCR song but my 7th grade self was instantly hooked.

Next one was June 2003 at Knitting Factory, the day of my middle school graduation. Boys Night Out set to open but got caught at customs. Insane show. I'm 99% sure this is where the bootleg rehearsal record of "Sister to Sleep" leaked from...

Other fun ones:

-2003 opening for Sick of It All on a boat going around Manhattan. The entire pit falling over during the show because of...the fucking boat. The picture of Gerard and I is from this show. Pretty sure he gave me those skeleton gloves!

-2003 Oil City in front of around 20 people total. Stage was on the ground and everyone was running all over it, kicking the monitors, going nuts. Pure chaos.

-2003 at The Downtown in Farmingdale opening for Coheed and Cambria. Gerard drunkenly recorded my voicemail message which I kept forever. Disposable camera photo of Gerard screaming is from that. I think the setlist might be too?

-Halloween 2003: played Bullets in full at Club Krome in New Jersey. Crazy bill: MCR, Senses Fail, Vaux, Murder By Death and A Static Lullaby. We organized a meetup for all the board members of the MCR boards back then. Bottom photo.

-Downtown 2004 show, which was the live footage used in the original "I'm Not Okay" video. This was the moment I had a feeling things were about to get insane. Frank screaming photo is one I took there.

Have a lot more fun 2002-2004 photos and things I can dig up if people want to see!

 

this is the only way it shakes out for me

 

i wouldn’t be surprised if it’s like the gang of youths one where we get this now but the album isn’t announced for like three months and it’s on it

 

A few of the tickets from my post above. If you wanna laugh, check out the prices...

 

bullets and bullets only. drowning lessons changed my life.

 

I still only ever got to see them once, on the Honda Civic Tour when they opened for Blink. And now they're not coming to the DC area on their otherwise fucking massive comeback tour and I am really sad

 

Drowning Lessons was the first song I ever heard from these guys.

 

bullets is an insanely good record and it's still these guys's worst

 

Anyone ever watch the movie Turbo Kid? Danger Days could be the soundtrack to the movie.

 

pretty sure same. i think i heard it on a random burnt cd and didn't even know the song / artist.

 

There was a festival that used to exist here in Florida that I went to a few times, and I remember back when MCR was first getting big, they went from headlining the second stage one year to headlining the main stage the next. Good times.

 

i'll be honest, i don't understand how people that like screaming grow out of it. i think it's the most raw form of emotion in terms of music unless you want to hear a dude crying.

 

Doesn't that depend on whether we are talking Full Collapse era Thursday or, like, Memphis May Fire or some shit?

I don't think it's inherently more raw and emotional than anything else. I'm way more emotionally impacted by something like For Emma, Forever Ago or Skeleton Tree than I am anything involves screaming, for example.

 

i was going to edit: not just screaming like most of the shit out now but back when it was used properly. gerard, just like many others would sing a word but end that same word as a scream and i think that's the most beautiful use of vocals. it's not done the same way anymore so that's why records like bullets remain important. i can listen to anyone sing but it just sounds too copy / paste for me.

 

luv 2 gatekeep unclean vocals

 

sorry you don’t like rock

 

Bullets is their best. Their albums are ranked by release. First is their best, last is their least best.

 

Yeah I don’t get it bummed, might have to travel and pay a ton.

 

I really just cannot stop listening to this lol

 

Late to the party but I’m digging it. First listen was in the car and I didn’t get it at all, legit thought it was shit, but then after a couple headphones listens I’m totally in. Impressed cause I’ve never been a huge fan. Obviously Black Parade is a classic album at this point, but I don’t think I’ve listened to any of their others in full.

 

Obviously you should listen to them all but by god listen to Three Cheers in full

 

Def doing it now. I rediscovered BP after reading the My Chem chapter of Sellout and this is the push I need to finally see what it’s all about. I’m assuming chronological order would be best?