I'm a fan of old Punk Rock, so I was just browsing through a selection of original vinyl at Punk Records when I came across this, and it just seemed so fitting for some of the religious discussions I've had lately. MDC was a band with many names, I'm not sure if MDC really stood for anything or if it just stood for what-ever they felt like at the time.According to Wiki they had the following names, Millions of Dead Cops, More Dead Cops, Millions of Deformed Children, Multi Death Corporations, Millions of Damn Christians, Magnus Dominus Corpus and Missile Destroyed Civilization.
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MY CHEMICAL ROMANCE SETS OUT FOR SECOND LEG OF 2007 U.S. HEADLINING TOUR
Burbank, CA — Reprise Records' My Chemical Romance will launch the second leg of their extensive tour in support of their Number One Rock album, the RIAA gold-certified, The Black Parade. The second round of the U.S. arena tour, produced by Art Show - a national touring division of Goldenvoice - will kick off in Houston, TX at the Reliant Arena. Tickets went on sale Saturday, February 10, 2007 via Ticketmaster.
The Black Parade, an epic theatrical concept album about mortality, has been named “Album Of The Year” by Blender Magazine, stating “My Chemical Romance transcended the cliché…to craft a grandiose epic that just might make them the biggest band in the world." Rolling Stone says "The Black Parade is the best mid-Seventies record of 2006, a rabid, ingenious paraphrasing of echoes and kitsch from rock's golden age of bombast."
The week after its release, The Black Parade claimed the Number One spot on SoundScan's Rock, Alternative, Top Albums Retailers, Indy/Small Chain, Internet, and Digital Album Charts. It also shot to Number 2 on Billboard's Top 200 album chart, selling more than 240,000 copies its first week of release. The first single, "Welcome To The Black Parade," has enjoyed eight weeks at the top of the Alternative / Modern Rock Radio Charts in the U.S. and the singles chart for two consecutive weeks in the UK.
I leave a picture of MDC and you respond with my chemical romance? I'm not even a fan of MDC but I know people who would straight curb stomp you for that. I'm don't condone violence so thats not the route I would take, but seriously I'm talking about punk. Music that actually had ideals, and one of the foremost ideals was fuck corporate music, fuck the big over produced sounds of the disco/hair metal 70's. So I'll completely agree that the black parade (which advocates killing all non-believers) does sound like a mid-70's power ballad, the difference is you make that sound like a good thing.
It's not that I have anything against emo per-se. its just crappy radio music, nothing worth getting upset about. I mean after the spice girls/ britney spears/ boy band era I'm just happy to hear musical instruments on the radio. The problem is that people label emo as punk. now yes its quite obvious that emo spun off from punk. But my take on the whole thing is that punk rockers didn't want to sell out, they refused to go one the radio or MTV, with a few exceptions like green day and the offspring. So they realized that the punk sound was great but they needed softer lyrics anyway and these damn punkers didn't seem to be swayed by huge checks. an example of that was when NOFX was told that they must put a video on mtv or else no use for a name wouldn't be played anymore (same label) and they said, sorry guys, we don't want to screw you over, but we're not going on mtv.
So emo was created, it had similar musical styling to punk, but with goth like ideals, and lyrics that they don't need to bleep and nothing political, we wouldn't want the young people to pay attention to the world around them now would we. Also I'm not a fan of anything where being a cutter is an acceptable part of the scene.
So go ahead and listen to emo if you want, its a free country, but if you mention it here, I'll talk shit about it, cause its a free country.
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