Why My Chemical Romance Are...Shit!!

In which the Curmudgeons pulverize one of this century's most revered rock bands. And also perhaps its stupidest.

 

Bandleader Gerard Way claims in interviews he formed My Chemical Romance after witnessing the Twin Towers fall from his native Northern New Jersey on 9/11. That's bad enough. Way and his mates then unleashed a torrent of disgustingly celebratory stories of vampires who enjoy suicide and cancer patients nearing their afterlives. All while screeching, squelching and stealing from Queen, KISS and...Coldplay?!

 

Yet Rolling Stone lists their 2006 album The Black Parade as the 361st best of all time. So hey, what do we know? 

 

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(0:54 - 4:07): Arturo sets the episode's parameters.

 

(5:31 - 15:23): The Parallel Universe--reviews of The Men's New York City and JPEG Mafia & Danny Brown's "Scaring the Hoes, Vol. 1."

 

(16:22 - 33:57): My Chemical Romance's origin story and deep, dark, smelly dumps on the albums I Brought You My Bullets, You Brought Me Your Love (2002) and Three Cheers for Sweet Revenge (2004). 

 

(35:36 - 01:03:00): Deep, dark, smelly dumps on the albums The Black Parade (2006) and Danger Days: The True Lives of the Fabulous Killjoys. Plus, a discussion of how social media has seemingly young people from appreciating the historical lineage of bands like this one. 

 

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