I couldn't write off My Chemical Romance. I don't think they're great. However. Songs like the one you posted stood out to me from them. The ideas that band had, some of them were pretty good. And you could do much worse in terms of a mainstream band that liked to mix in several genre's.

I just realized i didn't post the original vid for Ghost of you :p:

One of the main reasons that song grew on me is cause of the video, originally i thought MCR was a little too emo for me to like but that video added alot more meaning to the song and eventually won me over.

I don't hate MCR btw, i always thought they were good band i just never really liked any other song they made except Ghost of you.

I was a big fan of MCR's first album back in the day when it first came out. It's kind of shallow, but I feel like their entire image and their fanbase really kind of ruined it for me, as well as the whole, overly theatrical, emo-queen thing they had going on.

I think they were a band that relied too heavily on their image. Their first album was really cool and visceral, but with each following album, they had this weird transformation. I'm all for heavily visual artists. I'm a big fan of Death Grips and The Knife and iamamiwhoami, but MCR's entire visual aesthetic has always felt very contrived and shallow to me.

This coupled a with blood on the dancefloor / brokencyde level fanbase just put me off.

^ well put, that theatrical emo queen thing did get a little stale but idk it still kinda appeals to me cause i like other songs with that same vibe, exmpl



I hate Fall Out Boy but for some reason i like this.
in fact i remember when i first heard this song i knew right away it was commercial emo crap but i still liked it, i couldn't deny that.

I went as far as to try giving Panic at the disco a shot but all they did was remind me of everything i hate about that kind of music.

They did sort of heavily emphasize that image you speak of, depended on it. A bands image to me should never be as important as how the band sounds, or the way they approach their music. MCR could have produced better music than they did that appealed to me more if they didn't put their growth second to their image.

Just spent $18 on eBay buying Alan Parsons Project's "Tales of Mystery and Imagination" and "Eye in the Sky". Been a while since I've bought new records. :)

Edit: totally posted this in the wrong thread.