My Chemical Romance Band • Page 536

Happy Birthday to the best album of all time!!

 

I have a very vivid memory of being in 6th grade.. Summer of 2005 and in one single day... I went to my best friends house, we were getting ready to go see Revenge of The Sith for the first time..Our small town, the best thing to do as a middle school kid was get dropped off at the movies and get picked up later.. My friend went to go shower and left me with 2 CD's he had been listening to... Hot Fuss by The Killers and Three Cheers.... I heard Helena and Mr. Brightside for the the first time, on the same day, and then went to see ROTS.... One of the best days and formative of my life.

 

three cheers to twenty years. put me down as another vote for "that record changed my life"

 

this morning I've been trying to remember the first time I heard mcr...I know I heard "helena" on rock radio at some point before I knew who it was, probably in '05 actually after we'd moved away from mississippi (just top 40 and country radio down there). and then I think I had seen the three cheers artwork and heard a girl in my grade who was really into nu-metalish stuff talking about mcr before I heard the record. anyway I do remember being very surprised that the catchy song I heard on the radio was by the same band with the gothy artwork that sydney liked when I finally put it together hahaha

 

Man I think I had one of those karaoke singstar games on the PS2 that had the music video for Helena

 

I know I FOR SURE had like a sub-144p file of the helena music video I got from frostwire in like 2006 and watched over and over lol. didn't have cable growing up bc my parents were kinda-sorta hippies so no mtv or fuse or whatever

 

I’m Not Okay music video on Fuse was my first exposure to the band.

 

I was 10 and definitely not into their music yet but I still remember seeing Helena on TRL as my first exposure to them. Little did I know they’d become one of my favorite bands.

 

This came up on my feed:

 

I liked Linkin Park and Eminem singles I heard here and there and that was about it. I heard I’m Not Ok on the radio in the car and a switch clicked on my brain or something and I knew I needed to hear every song they made.
I bought the cd from Best Buy and it changed my music taste.

 

Same, bought the cd as soon as it was out because of that. Fuse was so formative for me in the early 2000s, it literally shaped my music taste

 

Same! I watched it the second I got home from school until my parents made me turn it off for dinner.

 

First heard this band in IT class in high school. I was sat with a bunch of NOFX fans who scoffed at the music video for I'm Not Okay...but I still knew I was onto a winner. Some people suck, you know? lol

 

I don’t think it gets talked about enough how lame it was to like pop punk back in the day haha. My whole school was listening to either country or rap and used to disparage me for liking Fall Out Boy.

 

Absolutely. With this particular band (I guess with FOB, too, cause of Wentz's "guyliner") there was added prejudice because of people seeing men wearing make-up and rejecting the idea. I know for sure that's what these NOFX fans were scoffing at in my own personal experience. Unfortunately, it reflects what happens in general society as a whole, it's not just within the "scene".

 

The NOFX thing specifically is wild to me, because hasn’t Fat Mike been performing in drag for the last 20 years?? Some fans they were!

 

I went to high school in the early 2010s and being an MCR fan was like having a target on your back lol. Glad everyone came around to them

 

I think we’re the same age and I totally agree. Danger Days was a tough sell to 15 year olds haha

 

Fan poll: 5 best Three Cheers For Sweet Revenge songs of all time (altpress.com)

 

Lol yeah the nostalgia thing I feel has made it seem like they were more "acceptable" to like but it def felt like a lil subculture where there were a few kids per grade but it def wasn't popular at least at my lil rural school. Like I hear the old big FOB and Paramore songs now on the big pop stations but at the time they were released and peaked and were on MTV the radio stations here still would never have played them. Not gonna pretend like I was a marginalized person for it or anything haha but it's wild seeing people my age come around to it who never enjoyed it and thought they were too cool at the time.

 

i played football in high school and thankfully had a couple teammates that also liked mcr to back me up, but i was getting chastised by a group of players after practice in 9th grade when their leader grabbed my three cheers cd before i could put it in my sony cd player and were like what is this crybaby shit

good times

 

Didn't know many people who listened to MCR but one of my best buddies in middle school went to a concert with me anyways and we still had a blast

I made up for it to him by attending a Mastodon concert with him. That was an interesting experience in the pit

 

It's good having a sister the same age as you. We got to be angsty scene kids together when nobody else in our town was lol