![]() So when it came time to do My Chem again, I had said to myself, ‘OK, I’m not gonna control the audience. And we did always try to keep our shows really authentic, almost like you didn’t know what was gonna happen up there night to night, even if we played the same songs. “So I started to kind of examine my own part in that, and think about playing big shows and kind of working a crowd and hyping a crowd up. ![]() “After the band broke up and I had a lot of time to think and change and grow and all that stuff, I started to have a real issue with control,” added Way. “And the depth he gets into on the stories behind the song ‘Welcome To The Black Parade’ are incredible for any proud music geek.”Īsked about the New Jersey band’s triumphant, sold-out reunion show at Los Angeles’ The Shrine in 2019 - right before the pandemic - Way said: “It was the most fun I’d ever had playing a My Chem show.” The show was the venue’s highest grossing gig, clearing nearly $1,500,000. “As soon as you tune in, you can hear we have known each other a long time, so it was, like all of my interviews, incredibly conversational,” Baltin adds. Whatever, I’m done now.Baltin - who has known Way since first interviewing the MCR frontman on a Warped Tour stop in 2000 - had plenty of ground to cover, including Way’s decision to take a breather after the band broke up in 2013, the triumphant reunion shows six years later, his friendship with Smashing Pumpkins frontman Billy Corgan, and stories about My Chemical Romance’s landmark album, “Welcome to The Black Parade.” Fine, I guess “Disenchanted” doesn’t kick that much ass. Play on repeat: “Welcome To the Black Parade” Skip it: Do I really have to pick something to skip? I do? Fuck. You know what, I don’t actually hate that analogy. ![]() “The Black Parade” is “Freewheelin’” for a smattering of baggy Hot Topic pants clad millennials. I don’t know what to compare it to, so let me take another big swing and say, uh, “Freewheelin’.” There you go. For the life of me I have no idea what that record would be for 2000s emo kids, but “The Black Parade” kicks a whole lot of ass so screw it, let’s say this is it. Once in a generation an album comes around that completely redefines our cultural appreciation of music. Play on repeat: “Thank You For the Venom” Skip it: “Interlude” This album is the equivalent of finally being cool enough to sit all the way in the back row where the bus driver can’t see you and getting to do some over-the-clothes hand stuff with the grade-up girl who is way too hot for you. “Three Cheers For Sweet Revenge” sounds the way riding the bus in middle school feels, but in a good way. Play on repeat: “Bulletproof Heart” Skip it: “DESTROYA” 2. Anyways, what was I talking about? Oh yeah, “Killjoys” is pretty good. Like we have some sort of cultural amnesia that just takes us over and we stand, dumbfounded with mouth agape just ready to be fed whatever the next compliance-induced morsel the producers decided to drop down on us. I get that growth is hard but c’mon! Wasn’t this exactly what you were just trying to avoid? Probably the dumbest part is that we all buy into it all the same. What is it with really successful punk bands that feel they need to change up their image or style and so they do and it works really well and then for the next thing they do after that they pretty much do the same fucking shtick over again. Danger Days: True Lives of the Fabulous Killjoys (2010) Play on repeat: “Skylines and Turnstiles” Skip it: “Our Lady of Sorrows” 3. Christ, that CD really did smell like Jersey. I don’t know what the hell that was about and MCR, if you’re reading this (yeah, you’re reading this), I’m glad you were able to avoid that literal disc stench for future releases. Like the actual CD that I had as a kid, it was stinky. ![]() For a first record it is quite strong and all the other things you’re supposed to say about a good band that’s still developing. “I Brought You My Bullets, You Brought Me Your Love” is a fine album. Let’s just get this one out of the way awhile. I Brought You My Bullets, You Brought Me Your Love (2002) Here’s our definitive ranking of every My Chemical Romance album. MCR did what we all should have been focusing on while instead, we curated our Top 8. Sex it up right and you’ll play shows sold out stadiums, look cool in a marching band uniform and have access to all of the eyeliner you could ever possibly eat. My Chemical Romance proved to the world just how far an oversexed MySpace profile could take you in this world.
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