Helena-My Chemical Romance
OK let’s be real here you damn well knew that one of the big
3 emo acts had to be mentioned at some point this week and in asking around
what to cover it occurred to me that this week should end with probably the
more semi consistent of the big 3 which for those unfamiliar would be Fallout
Boy, Panic! At the Disco, and of course My Chemical Romance.
Now what always surprised me about that time frame in retrospect
is how of all the bands to just kind of break out these guys were one of them
and that of all the songs they did this song in particular was the one that
broke them really into the mainstream and it’s not that I’m discrediting the
song itself but it’s just kind of interesting to think that while I’m not OK
kind of got them recognition this song got MTV rotations and people to go pick
up Three Cheers for Sweet Revenge which is really a solid album but it also did
eventually lead to the vastly superior Black Parade album which was the real
commercial and creative peak for this band because like their contemporaries
they had to expand their songs to be something more than slopped together
rockers and they did which sadly that didn’t go to Danger Day’s which was the,
“oh Shit our fans moved on and now we’re playing to young kids that don’t get
it,” album and like their contemporaries things just kind of moved on.
All that critique aside this song still has an oddly amusing
charm to it that hasn’t been to diluted to terrible follow up records like
Panic! or Fallout Boy’s more recent
records though there’s a charm to going back to this semi knock off Misfits
inspired act every once in a blue moon because they actually crafted plenty of
good tunes that you forget just how good they actually are and it’s the fact
that they just kind of said fuck it split up and have been doing there own
musical adventures with Gerard Way making a semi alright solo record that’s
knocking off glam rockers instead of Billy Corgan and Frank Lero is making
music from his garage this band didn’t go some odd electronic direction which I
can more then appreciate.
Well I guess that wraps up emo week time to bandage your
cuts and remember that you’re a grown up now people but maybe in due time I can
do this again because it’s kind of fun to throwback and of course there’s a
shit load of acts that I didn’t cover but until then time to extra not act my
age…
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