I just bought the new My Chemical Romance disc used for four dollars ...or....C/D: Buying Music that is Clearly Designed for someone Younger than Yourself.

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Based solely on the video for "I'm Not Okay (I Promise)" and the fact that it costed less than my lunch. Should I feel ashamed?

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Monday, 4 April 2005 19:16 (twenty years ago)

You should feel ashamed for wondering if you should feel ashamed.

― David R. (popshots75`), Monday, 4 April 2005 19:19 (twenty years ago)

Hahahaha

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Monday, 4 April 2005 19:20 (twenty years ago)

Well, David, shame is a part of my daily routine, so there's no helping that.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Monday, 4 April 2005 19:20 (twenty years ago)

you should neither feel ashamed for buying the CD or for feeling ashamed about buying the CD.

― The Good Dr. Bill (The Good Dr. Bill), Monday, 4 April 2005 19:20 (twenty years ago)

You only bought it cause of the dude who wears the Maiden and Slayer shirts. Oh I know.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 4 April 2005 19:20 (twenty years ago)

I bought it because I dearly love the concept of hitting someone -- particularly a lacrosse player -- with a croquet mallet.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Monday, 4 April 2005 19:23 (twenty years ago)

Dud, because they suck and because as you say yourself it was "designed"

― jmeister (jmeister), Monday, 4 April 2005 19:28 (twenty years ago)

i like them!

― charleston charge (chaki), Monday, 4 April 2005 19:30 (twenty years ago)

Ugh. From reading their liner notes, apparently they're big pals with the Used. Most unfortunate, this.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Monday, 4 April 2005 19:36 (twenty years ago)

and because as you say yourself it was "designed"

...

― adam (adam), Monday, 4 April 2005 19:36 (twenty years ago)

Dude, they look just like the Used. I don't even know if I can tell them apart.

― adam (adam), Monday, 4 April 2005 19:36 (twenty years ago)

http://www.straight.com/images/MUS_Chemical_1_1915.jpg http://www.sptimes.com/2003/07/24/photos/wk-popused.jpg

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Monday, 4 April 2005 19:48 (twenty years ago)

Actually, there are a few really excellent songs on the first Used album. Not on the second. I think Yanc3y is the one who first told me MCR is good stuff.

― Je4nne ƒury (Jeanne Fury), Monday, 4 April 2005 19:49 (twenty years ago)

Do you consider geeky/weird non-mainstream music fans of genres like RAVER CRAP and METAL to be as intellectual as you and your peers?

― absolutego (ex machina), Monday, 4 April 2005 20:10 (twenty years ago)

Do you consider geeky/weird non-mainstream music fans of genres like RAVER CRAP and METAL to be as intellectual as you and your peers?

― absolutego (ex machina), Monday, 4 April 2005 20:35 (twenty years ago)

MCR & The Used to a cool "Under Pressure" live.

Plus "Take It Away" is awesome.

― The Good Dr. Bill (The Good Dr. Bill), Monday, 4 April 2005 21:20 (twenty years ago)

I just do not understand why ILM gives My Chemical Romance a free pass. Where is the hate?! They so deserve it.

― Mickey (modestmickey), Monday, 4 April 2005 21:26 (twenty years ago)

They have a sense of humor. Or at least their video director does.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Monday, 4 April 2005 21:27 (twenty years ago)

yeah, that's really the key.

The music is fun too, goes unexpected places but not in a boring or unwelcome way.

― The Good Dr. Bill (The Good Dr. Bill), Monday, 4 April 2005 21:29 (twenty years ago)

Although the lead singer thanks his therapists (that's right -- plural) in the liner notes = DUD.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Monday, 4 April 2005 21:30 (twenty years ago)

their nouveau-goth look is miles closer to the ideal than their face-metal-sportin' peers —Jaz Coleman & the ChemRo dude pretty clearly consult the same eyeliner tactician

― Thomas Tallis (Tommy), Monday, 4 April 2005 21:32 (twenty years ago)

Jeanne OTM. "The Taste Of Ink" is grand. The MCR album is a lot better than either of the Used's, though still a little rote by the end.

― miccio (miccio), Monday, 4 April 2005 21:34 (twenty years ago)

when i first heard "Im not ok (I promise)" i thought: "Wonderful, somebody has finally combined 74th generation emo with Meatloaf"

after the 5th or 6th listen to the song, i downloaded on iTunes, and now im intensely jelous Alex found it used for four bucks.

― JD from CDepot, Monday, 4 April 2005 21:49 (twenty years ago)

DIY My Chemical Romance corset top PUNK ROCK

― daria g (daria g), Monday, 4 April 2005 22:49 (twenty years ago)

the cover of "under pressure" doesn't work because they can't sing. i saw the used and mcr on mtv2 live and they both sucked. i sort of like mcr and hate the used.

― sovietpanda (sovietpanda), Tuesday, 5 April 2005 03:55 (twenty years ago)

I mean, they're no Bowie or Freddy but I think they pulled it off.

― The Good Dr. Bill (The Good Dr. Bill), Tuesday, 5 April 2005 04:18 (twenty years ago)

one month passes...

I'm coming to think this may be a perfect (if a little samey) album.

― Sundar (sundar), Thursday, 2 June 2005 19:25 (twenty years ago)

I can't say I've listened to it twice.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Thursday, 2 June 2005 19:43 (twenty years ago)

So what's wrong with PROPER boy bands?

― Sociah T Azzahole (blueski), Thursday, 2 June 2005 19:54 (twenty years ago)

They're for girls.

I think I listened at least twice just yesterday.

― Sundar (sundar), Thursday, 2 June 2005 20:00 (twenty years ago)

I think my favourite album tracks right now are "To the End" and "Thank You for the Venom".

― Sundar (sundar), Thursday, 2 June 2005 20:06 (twenty years ago)

I'm inclined to give them a pass because I like the idea of a baroque-emo band with an evil preppie for a frontman.

― joseph cotten (joseph cotten), Thursday, 2 June 2005 22:10 (twenty years ago)

"Hang 'Em High" is really good too.

― Sundar (sundar), Friday, 3 June 2005 00:39 (twenty years ago)

I'm definitely cool with "side one."

― miccio (miccio), Friday, 3 June 2005 00:40 (twenty years ago)

Where does that end? At "Interlude"?

― Sundar (sundar), Friday, 3 June 2005 00:57 (twenty years ago)

I'm down with 'It's Not A Death Wish, It's a Fashion Statement'. As much for the title as the cool intro. They have some nice metal intros here and there, I've noticed.

― VegemiteGrrl (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 3 June 2005 00:59 (twenty years ago)

I'm definitely down through that ballad after "I'm Not Ok." There's some decent songs afterwards and I think it's a Good Album, but if I owned this as a hypothetical LP it's "side one" I'd spin like a mf.

― miccio (miccio), Friday, 3 June 2005 03:47 (twenty years ago)

this is such a camp album.

― Hari A$hur$t (Toaster), Friday, 3 June 2005 10:08 (twenty years ago)

two months pass...

Dug it out again not too long ago, prompted by the video for "Helena" (which is a bit too much like that awful AFI video for my taste, until the crying-carrrying-the-casket scene, which I find quite well done). Despite their inarguable rinkydinkiness, I have to say that the album has started to grow on me (like a fungus). I'd have my precious collection of Killing Joke badges ripped off my lapells in abject disgust by my frowny brethren on the Gathering for admitting so, but I'm starting to warm to this stuff. I absolutely hate the Used and cannot stand any of the neo-emo bands (not that I'd call My Chemical Romance very "emo," or at least not "emo" in the way I believe the genre is defined), but they guys do have a knack for big hooks and choruses. For all their slavishly appropriated style sensibility, I'd say they owe more to vintage fat-assed mainstream pop like Meat Loaf than to, say, someonly punkily credible like 45 Grave or whomever. I'm sure I'll go off it again in a week, but if you had to listen to ultimately vaccuous pop that strenuously pretends to have tactile ties to credible rock (or in other words, MICCIOROCK!), you could do much, much worse than My Chemical Romance.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Monday, 8 August 2005 17:13 (twenty years ago)

That said, I downloaded a live recording of "Helena" from iTunes (from the Warped tour, I believe), that is flimsy and embarassing.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Monday, 8 August 2005 17:21 (twenty years ago)

"I'm Not OK" is the greatest pop punk breakthrough since "Dammit". I'd say something similiarly hyperbolic about the album but I haven't spent enough time with my girlfriend's copy of it yet.

― Al (sitcom), Monday, 8 August 2005 17:53 (twenty years ago)

my girlfriend's copy

Hahaha. Says it all right there, doesn't it.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Monday, 8 August 2005 18:13 (twenty years ago)

Alex, someone else made the oh so novel Meat Loaf comparison in this thread about 4 months before you.

also, you're a sexist dickwad and you can eat my ass.

― Al (sitcom), Monday, 8 August 2005 19:09 (twenty years ago)

They did? Oh well. If the shoe fits...

Oh, and I wasn't being sexist. I was just merely suggesting that they're ultimately a teenybopper band aimed at girls. Sorry. I'll abstain from eating your ass, thanks.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Monday, 8 August 2005 19:17 (twenty years ago)

when i first heard "Im not ok (I promise)" i thought: "Wonderful, somebody has finally combined 74th generation emo with Meatloaf"

Ah, there ya go. I agree completely.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Monday, 8 August 2005 19:17 (twenty years ago)

Kiss fans don't get to decide what "credible rock" is and what a "teenybopper band" is, Alex.

― Al (sitcom), Monday, 8 August 2005 19:32 (twenty years ago)

Kiss were never in Tiger Beat. Granted, they were never in Forced Exposure either.

Lighten up.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Monday, 8 August 2005 19:33 (twenty years ago)

I'm not really mad! I'm just having fun ridiculing your completely subjective, worthless value system. you're cool, though, Alex, I really should lighten up on you a little.

― Al (sitcom), Monday, 8 August 2005 20:04 (twenty years ago)

Don't be sad. Tiger Beat and Kiss ain't bad.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 8 August 2005 20:14 (twenty years ago)

Don't throw words like sexist (or racist or misogynist) around if you don't honestly mean them. Call me a dickwad and invite me to eat your asshole all you want, but those other tags are a different matter entirely. Oh, and your opinion doesn't amount to a stack of tepid, flea-besotten yak dung, Al.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Monday, 8 August 2005 22:24 (twenty years ago)

hahahahaha. ok, dude, i've invoked the wrath. I gotta admit though, your insults are way more creative. respect.

― Al (sitcom), Monday, 8 August 2005 23:12 (twenty years ago)

Cheers. I'd have beer number four in your honor, but I just got some news that has rocked my world that no amount of alcohol will be able to cure.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Monday, 8 August 2005 23:30 (twenty years ago)

i just had weird deja vu reading this. i'm not even being sarcastic. (this is a great album.)

― strng hlkngtn, Tuesday, 9 August 2005 00:29 (twenty years ago)

yeah it's definitely not the first time I've willfully provoked AINYC lately, if that's what you mean. but yeah, it's good! like i said, i need to hear it more.

― Al (sitcom), Tuesday, 9 August 2005 00:44 (twenty years ago)

The lead singer's makeup artist is phenomenal.

― Tape Store (Tape Store), Tuesday, 9 August 2005 01:12 (twenty years ago)

Alex I hope the news that rocked you is nothing horrible or nothin'!

― Banana Nutrament (ghostface), Tuesday, 9 August 2005 01:21 (twenty years ago)

Sorry to be so cryptic, but along with some family stuff that's going on with me these days, yesterday I got an e-mail from a friend that I've been estranged from since about 2001 (which is, of course, a positive thing), and then later in the day, I found out that a former colleague/friend who I'd fallen out of touch with over the past seven or eight years just passed away from a brain tumor.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Tuesday, 9 August 2005 12:48 (twenty years ago)

The crescendo of the middle-eight of "Helena" (..."when both our cars COLLIDE!") is pretty fucking great in terms of pure, purple-faced histrionica.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Tuesday, 9 August 2005 15:04 (twenty years ago)

two years pass...

God damn. 'The Ghost of You' (wrong album?) is pretty fucking glorious. These guys are, like, Nirvana.

― humansuit, Wednesday, 22 August 2007 01:56 (eighteen years ago)

most "intellectuals" I know make a living working shitty retail!
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― Eisbaer, Wednesday, 22 August 2007 02:01 (eighteen years ago)

? Why must people post such obtuse shit on here?

― humansuit, Wednesday, 22 August 2007 02:02 (eighteen years ago)

Welcome to ILM.

― Alex in NYC, Wednesday, 22 August 2007 03:42 (eighteen years ago)

Welcome to the ILM, bitch!

― Jeff Treppel, Wednesday, 22 August 2007 03:58 (eighteen years ago)

the al/alex smackdown on this thread is classic!

― M@tt He1ges0n, Wednesday, 22 August 2007 04:05 (eighteen years ago)

early Tape Store sighting in this thread

― Curt1s Stephens, Wednesday, 22 August 2007 04:08 (eighteen years ago)

― humansuit, Wednesday, 22 August 2007 16:04 (eighteen years ago)

("The Ghost of You" is on Three Cheers, the album Alex in NYC was talking about.)

― Sundar, Wednesday, 22 August 2007 16:06 (eighteen years ago)

Thanks yeah I looked it up on wiki. This has really grown on me, sort of.

― humansuit, Wednesday, 22 August 2007 16:08 (eighteen years ago)

"The Ghost of You" may be my favorite single of theirs. After such dark, tortured, tightly wound stuff on Three Cheers, all the classic-rock pomp of The Black Parade is a big disappointment.

― jaymc, Wednesday, 22 August 2007 16:34 (eighteen years ago)

Yeah, there I agree. I think the reason I missed this band in the first place is because I could never get past the intro on Black Parade ("son when you grow up" etc.) and so I just assumed these guys were in the Fall Out / Good Charlotte pool.

― humansuit, Wednesday, 22 August 2007 16:42 (eighteen years ago)

wow the ghost of you is my least favorite! maybe i just can't get past the video to give it a fair shake

― A B C, Wednesday, 22 August 2007 16:47 (eighteen years ago)

I don't think I've ever been so disappointed by a follow-up album!

― Sundar, Wednesday, 22 August 2007 16:49 (eighteen years ago)

Yeah, Black Parade was a big disappointment and "The Ghost Of You" was a so-so album track and bad single choice (should've been "Cemetery Drive").

― Alex in Baltimore, Wednesday, 22 August 2007 16:55 (eighteen years ago)

I don't think I've ever been so disappointed by a follow-up album!

BINGO!

I so abhored every nauseatingly self-indulgent nanosecond of "The Black Parade" (the single), that it immediately negated anything positive I used to have to say about the album that preceded it. I have no kind words left for MCR. Throw them to the hyenas, please.

― Alex in NYC, Wednesday, 22 August 2007 19:28 (eighteen years ago)

Why should that be? So what if the new one kind of stunk things up. Doesn't negate the feeling in my head when I hear some of the older stuff. No way.

― humansuit, Wednesday, 22 August 2007 19:41 (eighteen years ago)

Not MCR related, but thread-title related. A few months ago, I really tried to get into contemporary rap. Not having a lot of money, I checked the library's online catalog. Lo and behold, they had Clipse and Young Jeezey. When I got out to the library though, they had big yellow stickers on 'em marked "Young Adult." I felt the mark of shame, like I was checking out the Babysitters Club.

― kingkongvsgodzilla, Wednesday, 22 August 2007 19:47 (eighteen years ago)

I like the current MCR single, "Teenagers."

― unperson, Wednesday, 22 August 2007 19:58 (eighteen years ago)

Yeah it's a good high-school song. I don't think it has the punch of the previous album (songs on the ...), but it's alright, you're right.

― humansuit, Wednesday, 22 August 2007 20:04 (eighteen years ago)

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