Artist: My Chemical Romance
Genre(s):
Rock
ROck: Alternative
Pop: Pop-Rock
Discography:
Teenagers
Year: 2007
Tracks: 2
My Chemical Romance Piano Tribute
Year: 2007
Tracks: 10
The Black Parade
Year: 2006
Tracks: 14
Life on the Murder Scene
Year: 2006
Tracks: 11
Live At Download 2005
Year: 2005
Tracks: 7
Three Cheers for Sweet Revenge
Year: 2004
Tracks: 13
Headfirst For Halos
Year: 2004
Tracks: 2
I Brought You My Bullets, You Brought Me Your Love
Year: 2002
Tracks: 11
Based in New Jersey, My Chemical Romance is an alternative pop/rock and punk-pop dance band that has been compared to Thursday and, to a lesser level, Cursive. Their name was divine by author Irvine Welsh (of Trainspotting fame), and piece many of their songs ar tacky, fast, hyper, and aggressive, My Chemical Romance's work besides tends to be melodic and pop-minded. My Chemical Romance got started in the early 2000s, when lead vocalist Gerard Way and drummer Matt Pelissier distinct to try committal to writing some songs together. The first base strain that Way and Pelissier -- world Health Organization had been friends since high school -- came up with was called "Skylines and Turnstiles" (a post-9/11 birdcall written after Way witnessed the Twin Towers fall piece working at his animation job in New York City). Way and Pelissier both felt well close to the song, and Way asked guitar player Ray Toro if he would be interested in running with them. My Chemical Romance's five-man lineup was complete when Way, Pelissier, and Toro united forces with bassist Mikey Way (Gerard's small brother) and guitar player Frank Iero. With that lineup in place, the banding started acting all around the Northeast Corridor and made plans to begin working on their first gear album.
In 2002, Eyeball Records (the New York-based indie for which Thursday had recorded) released My Chemical Romance's debut album, I Brought You My Bullets, You Brought Me Your Love. The record album was often compared to Thursday -- a comparison that, for several reasons, was inevitable and ineluctable. Both bands were from New Jersey, both had recorded for Eyeball, and both combined punk-pop's musical aggression with self-examining, confessional lyrics. Plus, I Brought You My Bullets, You Brought Me Your Love was produced by Thursday vocalist Geoff Rickly. But Thursday isn't their only influence; reviewers have cited the Smiths, Morrissey, the Cure, and the Misfits as influences, piece the old Way has regular cited British heavy alloy icons Iron Maiden.
Lyrically, I Brought You My Bullets, You Brought Me Your Love is as non-white as it is introverted and psychotherapeutic; Way has been quoted as locution that the band's lyrics were a big way for him to consider with the problems he had been departure through (which included terrible depression, drug/alcohol misuse, and a serious illness in his family). The 2002 discharge included Way and Pelissier's first-class honours degree sung, "Skylines and Turnstiles," and many of the album's other vocal titles were evenly intriguing, including "Honey, This Mirror Isn't Big Enough for the Two of Us" and "Vampires Will Never Hurt You." In 2003, My Chemical Romance signed with Reprise/Warner Bros. and released the sharply slick magazine Troika Cheers for Sweet Revenge one year later. Proving to be tremendously popular, the record album boasted several successful singles on commercial radiocommunication and MTV, including "I'm Not Okay (I Promise)," "Capital of Montana," and "The Ghost of You," as the record album climbed the Billboard charts.
Amid their ontogenesis popularity, Pelissier gone from the band in mid-2004, and he was shortly replaced on drums by Bob Bryar; they'd antecedently met while touring with the Used, as Bryar was doing well-grounded for the Utah act. Relentless touring continued to increase their fanatical winnow following; the lot headlined dates with Alkaline Trio, scored an initiative slot for Green Day, and shared bills with Story of the Year, Taking Back Sunday, and the Used, among many others. As My Chemical Romance fain to embark the studio for their third base album, they issued Life on the Murder Scene in March 2006. The CD and double-DVD parcel extensively documented much everything MCR, including demos, music videos, live footage, interviews, and more; it sufficiently tied fans over until My Chemical Romance (now boast a sober and bleach-haired Gerard Way) issued the in darkness conceptual and extremely ambitious The Black Parade that October. Anticipation for the record album could scantily be contained at the release of its highfalutin first single, "Welcome to the Black Parade," whose refine attendant video looked and sounded wish the solvent of Tim Burton directional Queen. The record went pt by early 2007.
Ivan Ferreiro
