Which is better? The Old or the New MCR?

personally i prefer the "old" MCR...
I like the new look,but prefer the rawness of the old Gee,less polished,more RAW!!!!

The old MCR, just cause as the albums have progressed, they've become a little bit more pop. But revenge is still my fav album!

I prefer MCR around the Revenge era. Bullets was a good time for them, but the album isn't THAT amazing. TBP is a great album, but I don't like the album verison of Cancer, and I don't like Disenchanted. I can listen to Revenge over and over and over again and not skip one song off of it nor will I get sick of it. Although, I do prefer their live shows now as opposed to then, only because I am way into the fire and explosions and stuff.

I like the old MCR. The best album is Revenge, thats just amazing

in my opion both.

i like the new mcr
but i like the old more they were so orginal
but i love the way they are but i dont know there music was so honest:p

i love the new because its so "grown up" in a way
and i love the old because its raw.

Buried Wreckage:

I prefer the Revenge time. Their music was more rock/punk.
In The Black Parade they are now more popish with softer music and less screaming. I mean the Black parade was good when it first came out, but it just got boring to me after the album was out for 2 months. I mean I like The Black Parade but just revenge better

I also liked their look when they didn't have one outfit to wear to every show and everyone in the band had their own style.

I TOTALLY agree.

same cute boys , with the same sweet talent....I'm just glad that the drug & drinking additions have dissempated.....

okay well im probably going to ramble alot so erm yeh your warned
this is what i think:
i love both old and new.. im probably leaning more towards the old though i mean bullets is just woah! well its amazing when i first got it i was like ooo eh this is different (i got it after revenge which is also brilliant) but yeh the more i listened to it the more it blew me away i mean its just so raw and rough around the edges and our lady of sorrows was and still is my favourite mcr song.
don't get me wrong the black parade is incredible i just i dunno really.. i kind of wished they hadn't got so big so fast i mean i hate the fact that i'm sick of hearing welcome to the black parade but its just everywhere. The shows are incredible and mind blowing now but while this is great there is also a downside. now you get alot more "teenies" who only go to shows to see gerard and are "mcrs biggest fans" even though they only downloaded famous last words and welcome to the black parade...this kind of annoys me (i dunno about everyone else)
and also mcr are quite hard to meet im really desperate to meet them but now they don't come out after shows because they play big arenas so can't possibly meet everyone waiting and the only way someone could meet them is either getting VIP passes or going to a signing but someone told me at signings you can only meet one member (is this true?)
but yeh also its just black parade merch everywhere i wanted a ring of fire armband but theyve stopped doing them now and on their website it is nearly all black parade (which kind of surprised me to be honest) i would of thought they would of kept a few of the older merch but obviously not.
but yeh i dont mind what they look like its still mcr and they will always make amazing music and now i really cant wait for their next album and its concept

I dont think theres much difference between new and old MCR.
They just grew up and evolved in many ways. And with TBP, they are acting as alter egos; theyre still the same 4 guys from Jersey and 1 guy from Chicago, ya know?

EDIT: Though recently they have changed a bit...but fame and having everyone know your bloody name will do that to a person.

I love both, love old more, except for Gerard's addictions. Glad he kicked those.

Aliss In Grievance.:

Did they come up with this new sound on purpose?

I mean, Did they make this album to attract a certain type of fan?
Did they mean to make themselves big?

Music in general is returning to the late 80's sound. Whether they did it consciously or subconsciously they kind of jumped on the band wagon with the old 80's sound.

williamshatner:

Bullets is their best album by far. Matt was a much better drummer than Bob, but I still love everything they've done.

I have to agree with you here, though Bob might be better for the TBP sound, Matt seemed to add an incredible fusion sound that they now lack . I dont know if the difference was just due to Matt or not but since he was involved with the first two its a reasonable assumption.

Personally I loved the fusion sound better with the first two albums. TBP is a good album and they took a lot of risks(by combining polar opposite sonic genres), which any musician can appreciate, but their first two albums were extremely exciting just because of the combination of fusion and the intense emotional sound they are famous for. Which had never been done before.

I prefer Way's vocals in the first two. I dont appreciate his new polished sound at all, its very 80's and there really wasnt anything good about vocals in the 80's. It sounds fake compared to his old vocals, though his lyrics are 100x better in TBP.

Taking the entire TBP album as a whole the sound is a bit boring. But if you listen to the songs individually they are incredible.

So, my vote is for the first two albums. I saw Way wearing a t-shirt in a magazine interview that said "music dorks love us" thats because of the fusion sound which is why many fans(the music dork ones) felt they sold out because it disappeared in TBP.

old or new it's still the same