My Chemical Obsession

When do you begin liking a band a bit too much? Header credit: @demetriamivida

[gardun-of-josh]

Killjoys, make some noise!

(People sprites are edited from Pokemon sprites found here~)

(Sprite sheets for each individual character (and desert junk) found here~)

[lynzs-remade-deactivated2019121]

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[mymychemobsession]

If you play blood at 23:59:50 on New Year's Eve the first thing you'll hear in 2018 is silence and that's all you're getting out of MCR for the year

[mymychemobsession]

If you play literally any My Chemical Romance song (apart from Blood) at 23:59:59 on New Year's Eve then the first thing you'll hear in 2018 is an MCR song and what better way to start a new year?

[kindofadowner]

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Sing with only the bass and vocal tracks, by My Chemical Romance from their 2010 album, Danger Days: The True Lives of The Fabulous Killjoys.

[crackinthecoffin]

Some MCR facts that I never knew until like 10 minutes ago

You Know What They Do To Guys Like Us In Prison:  •Gerard recorded the song in his underwear  •It features backing vocals from Bert McCracken (The Used), who Gerard thanks in the album credits for being his ‘cell mate’  Hang ‘Em High:  •It features vocals from Keith Morris (Black Flag)… Frank actually stalked him to get him to sing on the record, because he is one of his idols  Demolition Lovers:  •Gerard dedicated it to his girlfriend at the time, Kat, in the album credits, saying “sorry I wrote all this stuff about killing you. I hope the last one makes up for it.”  Drowning Lessons:  •It is their least favourite song to play live. They’ve only played it live about four times, but according to the band, every time something has gone wrong  Summertime:  •Gerard wrote it for his wife, Lynz, who he married in the summertime of 2007 on the Projekt Revolution tour. Throughout that tour they wrote cryptic messages to eachother on their skin, and one day Lynz had “run away with me” written on her arm, and Gerard had “anytime you want” on his neck  The Only Hope For Me Is You:  •Gerard called it “a cousin to Famous Last Words” and said it was looking at the beginning of his life, which he considers to be 9/11  Party Poison:  •It was originally titled ‘Death Before Disco’, and at the time Gerard told the press it was the “best song MCR have ever written”  •They describe it as an ‘anti-party rock song that you can party to’  Vampire Money:  •Frank doesn’t know what he says at the beginning, because was “drunk” at the time  Planetary (GO!):  •“Fame is now injectable” is one of Gerard’s favourite lyrics he’s ever written  •The band describe it as ‘the dance song they’ve been trying to write for years  Kids From Yesterday:  •It is everyone in the band’s favourite song off the record  •Frank heard the final recording for the first time coming back from the hospital with his newborn babies in his arms  Na Na Na:  •Gerard wrote it with Lynz in the desert  •Frank came up with the guitar riff  The End:  •It used to just be called “Intro”  •The line “when I grow up I want to be nothing at all” is a direct response to people who used to tell Gerard he would never make anything of his life  Dead!:  •They started work on this song in 2005  •Frank pushed for the ‘tuba part’ in the bridge, and said “if you hate it, come see me about it. ****’s tough, I don’t care what you think!”  This Is How I Disappear:  •The song was the first time Ray and Frank wrote different chorus melodies and then smashed them into one part  The Sharpest Lives:  •Gerard told Frank to write a ‘spy guitar part’ for the pre-chorus, and Frank said yes (“because that’s what you say to a dude you love and respect.”) But he realised he was screwed as soon as Gerard left the room, because he’s “never seen a 007 movie”  Welcome To The Black Parade:  •Frank came up with the original title ‘The Five Of Us Are Dying’  •They started work on it in 2002 and re-wrote it four times before finally releasing it in 2006  I Don’t Love You:  •At the end of the ‘Life On The Murder Scene’ DVD there’s a clip of Gerard and Ray singing the original version of the song  Cancer:  •Ray played bass on the studio record, not Mikey  •It’s Frank’s favourite song MCR have ever written – every time he hears it, he has to “fight back tears”  Mama:  •Liza Minelli sings on the track, as does Donna Way, Donald Way and Linda Iero (and Frank found out his mom “sings like a gypsy, which is the coolest thing in the world.”)  •It’s Frank’s second favourite song on the album.  Sleep:  •The tape recording at the start was inspired by the night terrors Gerard was having in the Paramour Mansion, where he would wake up in the middle of the night and feel like somebody’s hands were around his neck, choking him. (“It feels like somebody’s gripping my throat and squeezing.”)  •And the recording creeps Frank out  Teenagers:  •Gerard wrote the lyrics when he was on a busy subway, to distract himself from a panic attack he was having due to the number of teenagers surrounding him  Disenchanted:  •It was originally called ‘Shut Up and Play’ and there are live versions of it on Youtube, from 2005  •It is Mikey’s favourite song on the record: he fought to have it on there. He used to go up to the guys in the band when they were sleeping and just whisper ‘Disenchanted’ to them  Famous Last Words:  •Gerard wrote the song for Mikey when he left the band during the making of The Black Parade. The line “I see you lying next to me” refers to Mikey sleeping on the floor in Gerard’s room in the Paramour Mansion (because he was too scared to sleep in a room alone)  •Mikey said when he heard it, he knew he couldn’t leave the band

[houseofwolvcs]

emo as told by the “old af legend of emo” himself

[mymychemobsession]

Danger Days has sold over half a million copies. This has been a public service announcement.

[destrroya]

[kornfanmeow]

my chemical romance’s websites throughout the eras (i used the wayback machine)

2002, bullets era

2004, revenge era

2006, life on the murder scene

2006, the black parade era

2010, danger days era

2017, current era

[joyridjng]

u can be extra but you’ll never be ‘my chemical romance during the black parade tour’ extra

[animalbody]

I’m fucckign crrying you guys I was just chilling in the living room and my mom yelled from the kitchen “maci come in here I just found the mikey way of apples!” and I come in and she’s holding this really tall skinny apple and I just fuckin burst out laughing because it Totally Was the mikey way of apples and mom was like “wait we have to find the rest of them” and she looked over the bag of apples really carefully and picked out ones for gerard and ray and then she was like “wait” and she went back in the fridge and got a Tiny Ass plum for frank and put them all in a line and I can’t stop fUCKIGN LAUGHINGN AT MY APPLE FUCKING ROMANCE

[missilekid]

2001 - 2013

[xcaffeinebulletsx-deactivated20]

Healing. Haven’t felt at all ”I have a new tattoo!” feeling, here it is like it’s always been up there. Tattooed day after meeting Gerard at Thought Bubble 2017 in Leeds.

@sevenclowds

[hopelesscobwebs]

Me having fun with my new CD and poster…

[mymychemobsession]

My experience of meeting Gerard Way

I was lucky enough to be able to go to this years thought bubble comic convention in Leeds, UK this year pretty much specifically just so I could go to the Gerard Way Meet and Greet. After literal hours of queuing I got my brief period to meet him and get him to sign a couple of things for me. This is where I gained a whole new level of respect for him. We'd already been told by the events staff that he wasn't doing selfies with fans cos he was feeling anxious (fair enough, if he doesn't want to then he doesn't have to, he doesn't owe people a selfie) but when I spoke to him it was pretty clear he was uncomfortable. He'd already been sat there for hours and had probably had the same conversation with each fan a thousand and one times, he was tired and you could tell he was feeling a bit off. Despite this when I met him he still put on a smile, asked my name, shook my hand and was generally just a really lovely kind person. Considering his rather well documented struggle with mental health issues and the fact that he was doing a two day signing nobody could have held it against him if he'd called it a day and gone back to his hotel but even though he was uncomfortable he soldiered on through for his fans who'd come all this way to see him because of his respect and love for them.

We do not deserve this man.

[vacationadventuresociety]

just a lil preview of the photos i took today at Gerard’s signing at Thought Bubble