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

Scarily, I've actually known of them since they weren't famous. My family and I were on a beach in NJ, and guess who were there playing? MCR. But I being so young didn't actually like the music until a good year or two later sadly. I could of met them then if I had been my age now! I began to totally love them after watching the I'm Not Okay vid a good few times.. The first time Gerard actually scared me! xD (which made me go into hysterics and fall on the floor when I remembered that yesterday.)

1. I've liked them since they relesead 'Three Cheers for Sweet Revenge' that was when my dad (who has a habit of randomly buying tix to concerts of bands he doesnt even know) and I went to a MCR concert.
2. I LOVED THEM from the first song they played on that stage. I just felt like someone finally understood.
3. I actually kinda hate the fact that they're famous now. They aren't the same anymore. And besides, half of their fans are posers now.

*sigh* ok, what happened was, I met a friend who had a friend that eventually became my friend. She's all, "Have you ever heard of MCR?" After a few months I watched their Famous Last Words video on Fuse and from then on I've gone CRAAZY over them!

i foudn out abou them NOV 2002, wen I was going to chill at my friends house and he was playing Bullets. I remember thinking 'These guys fucking rock'.

HeavenHelpUsxx:

Scarily, I've actually known of them since they weren't famous. My family and I were on a beach in NJ, and guess who were there playing? MCR. But I being so young didn't actually like the music until a good year or two later sadly. I could of met them then if I had been my age now! I began to totally love them after watching the I'm Not Okay vid a good few times.. The first time Gerard actually scared me! xD (which made me go into hysterics and fall on the floor when I remembered that yesterday.)

You could have met them?!?!? luckii, lol. I've never gotten the chance. =[[

1. First saw it on MTV (the I'm not okay video) on 2005
2. I was like "woah..., they're cool... the guitarist looks like david desrosiers from SIMPLE PLAN?!!"
3. not really. because then, I didn't really know about mainstream-ness. but now..., I'm just glad that they're making cool music together.

1. I was watching t.v. and the Im Not Okay video come on
2. I was like absolutely in love with video and the song and I thought Gerard had the most perfect hair...ever
3. Mainstream is good and bad...I mean I want them to make money because they completely deserve it and I want them to be able to save other lives in the process butttt....i hate all the neg. attention that becoming mainstream brings them...like all that "emo" bull and all of those people who like them because of how hott they are or because they are what's in right now...

1.A friend of mine asked me to download some stuff and make her a mix CD. One of the song she wanted was I'm Not Okay, i took a listen and the rest is history!
2.I loved it! It was the most amazing song id ever heard!
3.Mainstream has its pro's and con's, so its hard to tell if its good or bad

1. i heard i'm not okay (i promise) on the radio or w/e
2. i was like woah. these guys are cool. when i got into them was when i watched the "welcome to the black parade". then i was like dude, these guys aren't cool, they're fucking sick. when i got completely and scarily obsessed with them was when i listened to bullets though.
3. like i said, bullets is my favorite record..so im obviously a little upset that they went mainstream and made revenge and tbp (dont get me wrong, those records are sweet), gathering a staggering amount of teenies on the way.
but then again, if they weren't mainstream, i probably wouldn't have heard of them.
so it's a good thing, i guess.
but...i miss them.

I learned about MCR through the Helena video. And I hate mainstream. I wish they'd be mainstream but rock out like before.

Wow these accounts were interesting! Here's mine...

Apparently, my brat was all turned onto MCR while we were still in Florida - in 2004; he said INO and Helena were on MTV all the time. But he never told me anything about them (boy was I mad when I realized how much we missed being away - Gee living in our neck of the woods (Queens) their last coupla shows, 3 Cheers etc.)

We moved back to NY in 2006; Damie was reading his myspace one day and INO was playing in the background. He'd just been dumped and I heard him singing along and remarked "That would be a good song to dedicate to that girl!"

Nothing again until February 2007 (now Damie has an iPod with them on it but I hadn't been paying attention to that.) Damien mentioned to me that MCR was on tour and we could get tix for $27. I was like "Cool." I always like a good show. I barely knew any of the material (I crammed literally on the way in with the iPod.) The next day, wanting to relive his first show together, we listened to MCR all morning. Once the weekend was out, I started taking the iPod to work and found myself listening only to MCR and trying to learn all the words - it took me about 2 days to realize I was hooked. I told Damien I may have to join that MCRmy that Gerard mentioned at our show.

I then proceeded to read every article I could get my hands on, found this MB and the MCRmy one, learned what was out there on the band and bought it (magazine covers, cds, dvds etc.) and now here I am - one full month later and almost all caught up!

I loved the Helena vid the first time I saw it; the dancing dead girl and umbrella part was unforgettable, but for the band itself, it was kind of okay.

Then I heard Ghost of You, and loved it a lot.

And I had their 3cheers CD, and sometimes I queue-it-up and stuff, but never really listened. I did know the next intro to each song after one ended, but that's about it.

And then I heard Welcome to the Black Parade and at first only memorized the first par, until 'Sometimes I get the feeling she's watching over me' and the chorus.

Then I got the Black Parade, then skimmed through it. The title Cancer caught my eye and the first time I heard it I immediately fell in love.

And I think that's what started the obsession.

Soon, I was collecting pics and listening and loving all the songs, then got a copy of Bullets (read the lyrics beforehand) and loved it... then I was piling up MCR files on my PC like lyrics and fics and quotes and pics and vids... and I went to sites and collected more stuff...

OMGee I love em so much. It hurts and makes my heart swell.

And I welcomed the New Year with 'em, and broadcast my love to the world...

I could go on for how long... ü

it was about 10 years ago, i was flipping through the t.v. channels, and saw the music video of Helena. while i was watching it, i totally fell in live with Gerard Way & MCR . i have loved them ever since.

It was when Rock Sound did an article with Adam Lazzara (Taking Back Sunday) and "some other guy" which turned out to be Gerard. I didn't think much of him in the article, but it came with a free CD that had Thank you for the Venom on. So that was the song that got me hooked on MCR.

I heard about them threw my Best friend. She was seriously obbsessed.=P (not that tahts a bad thing, its actually rlly awsome!!) I went over to her place and heard Prison, and i fell in love with it. Threw Prison i heard about Helena and listened to that, and loved it, and then I'm not okay.. and so on=P

well i saw em on tv but i wasnt 2 interested. but my BEST cousin, Danielle, got me hooked on them. lol

gothic_chick12:

it was about 10 years ago, i was flipping through the t.v. channels, and saw the music video of Helena. while i was watching it, i totally fell in live with Gerard Way & MCR . i have loved them ever since.

.....Uhhmmmmmmmmmm.
10 years ago was 1997.

Try again.






Anyway. I saw them for the first time on TRL a few days after Revenge came out. I was literally like, "Where have you been all my life, huh!?"

i heard Helena when it first came out and i fell in love with it...even though i had no sense then and wasn't into that kind of music. after that i heard im not okay, ghost of you...i really liked those. then when WTTBP came out i bought the CD and i was amazed...been obsessed ever since