How you discovered mcr! (and is mainstream really that bad!)

My friend got me into them, she burned me a life changing CD. =)
I didn't really listen to it, and then when I saw the Helena video I was totaly blown away. It touched me so deeply. And I sound realy mushy right now XD

I saw the Helena video in my living room...and i was like,"Wow! I need a get my hands on more of this!"

i just want to ask you all how you all encounted this band for the first time and 2. your first reaction ? and 3. are you dissapointed they have gone into the mainstream?

1.saw the video for helena when it first came out and was really depressed because i didn't see it again for ages
2.that is what i wanna do IF i grow up and hell. they're awesome and that means so much to me they know how my messed up mind works
3. a lil bit. especially now my most chaverish friend has 3 mcr songs on her ipod

1.saw the video for helena when it first came out and was really depressed because i didn't see it again for ages
2.that is what i wanna do IF i grow up and hell. they're awesome and that means so much to me they know how my messed up mind works
3. a lil bit. especially now my most chaverish friend has 3 mcr songs on her ipod

sorry boout the double post

stupid computer

and a HUGE thanks 2 chris the best friend a girl could have- he got me into them BIGTIME. thanx xx

i saw vampires will never hurt you. this was my exact expression:
"O.O!!!!!! wow......!!!!"
disappointed...? a lil bit.

I haven't liked them for very long...The first song I heard with them where WTTBP when it was on TRL on MTV... Then I realised it was the band My best friend always asked me if I had heard... Man where I proud of saying I had heard them! Then I started to listen to them more and more... Now I'm addicted

I heard of them when two ppl in my clas wouldn't stop talking about them. I admit that I hated MCR first, but they made me listen to Helena and I just.. No, I dont care really. Not my problem.

1 helana
2 gerards hot lol
3 i dont no

This sounds really teenie and weird but waaay back in awesome '04, I first saw a clip of "Helena" in a commercial. I was thinking, "Cool, another No Doubt. Except that girl's kinda got a low-ish voice. Maybe she sings like Christina Aguleira or P!nk. So I watched the thing on T.V. ( It was some weird show called "The 10 Spot." ) and I thought, hey, that's a weird girl to be looking like a guy and all that. So I looked up My Chemical Romance on the wonderful Google world, and I got to this place, and it gave me all the names of everyone and I was thinking, "Why is her name Gerard?" Then I figured out Gerard was a guy. Now, three interestingly painfully weird years after my experience with Gerardina, I'm a HUUUGE fan of MCR. Hooray for me thinking Gerard was a girl. But there was an intersession from late '04-'05, when I liked Fall Out Boy. That was an interesting mention that gave me the idea of liking MCR. I pity myself for thinking that one of the awesomest band ever's Lead Singer was a girl.

1. in 2004, i saw the video Helena on MTV one day when i was flipping through the channels.
2. i liked the song as soon as i heard it. and i also thought gerard was a girl. heh.
3. i'm glad that they've gone to mainstream. it's good for them.

i just want to ask you all how you all encounted this band for the first time and 2. your first reaction ? and 3. are you dissapointed they have gone into the mainstream?

1. first time ever was in 2004 when i saw Helena. man was i creeped out. a year later, i got hooked.
2.first thing that popped into my head when i saw Helena was "guns 'n roses" and i have no idea why.
3. people who are really upset MCR are really famous needs to pull their head out of their asses. after about 6 years of hard-ass work, it's about time, don't ya think? sigh, but it's always been inevitable that they would have annoying teenies and it'd be incredibly hard to meet them.

1) i just want to ask you all how you all encounted this band for the first time

Searching for hardcore, I think. Tell you the truth, I don't really remember. It was something around the release of "Three Cheers," though. (Does that make me new school? Heh.)

2. your first reaction ?

Not good. I think the words I used were "posers" "cheap theatrics" and "why the hell is that guy wearing so much red sh*t with his mascara?"

Then I took a moment to sit down and dissect the "image", and actually listen to the music. Privately, I'm still a little ashamed of those first judgements, and I'm glad I savoured them for a little while. It took "Cemetery Drive" to really solidify my feelings for them - summarized briefly as a few tremulous sniffles followed by subsequent sobbing in front of my keyboard after hearing it through.

Really beautiful, that.

3. are you dissapointed they have gone into the mainstream?

NO. Feel free to argue me constructively on this, but I've been under the impression that part of MCR's mission was to change the way people think about their lives, especially in the cases of those who are suffering for whatever reason, be it self-hatred, or being in a bad situation. Part of the way they've been spreading that message is through their notoriety and their celebrity, and that keeps the music and the message pure. The theatrics are part of it. It's attention-grabbing, it holds your attention, and whatever reaction these guys get (postive or negative) it's memorable.

They leave a lasting impact.

Mainstream? Who gives a shit about labels. It's all about the intent and how they express it creatively; how many people they reach.

I think they're doing a damned fine job.

The first time I really discovered them was through all the good reviews "The Black Parade" was getting. There's always gonna be a mainstream cuz there's always gonna be something most ppl like.

'YKWTDTGLUIP' (catchy acronym!) was on a free kerrang cd in 04. I really loved the track, saved up my pennies and got the album.

First impression was that it was like nothing I had ever heard before (I was more into avril lavingne at this point). It was incredibly catchy and just gave me a warm fuzzy feeling inside. There's just something about the revenge album that I connect with, not the concept or anything, just something about the sound that I can't really explain.

I always thought that they'd go mainstream and I think they deserve the sucess. The only downside is people (mainly my mates) saying that they're rubbish and that they're manufactured. They don't know anything about the band, they've only heard WTTBP but because it's on the radio all the time they feel qualified to say that. When I point out that I've been telling them about mcr for the last 3 years when they werent all over the radio/mtv all my mates go suddenly deaf. Grr!