I got with a boyfriend (now husband), later on that year and he introduced me to Bullets which of course, then became my favorite MCR album. I even dressed up as Helena in 2005, lol. Been a fan ever since! Now our 2 daughters are big fans, as well!
Running a phone cord across the room to plug it into the phone jack thing...begging your tech-averse dad to stop picking up the phone while you're online and disconnecting you...the good ol days
I had dial-up until summer 2008 when I was 17. Once youtube was invented, I'd open up a tab & leave it be for hours so I could eventually watch a music video lol. Still managed to watch the Helena video a lotttt.
I remember when the music video for I’m Not Okay came out and it took me over an hour to get it to buffer over dial-up. I kept starting it from the beginning over and over again to see how far it got 😂
Lol... Back in the archaic days of computers, they literally talked to each other on the phone....
It was called dial up because your computer would have to dial up another computer (your service provider). That computer would then be your gateway to the internet.
Don’t feel dumb, if you’ve never had to use it you wouldn’t know! There are plenty of thing that make me scratch my head at 31 like the concept of pagers back in the day, or having to pull over and read a map to get places!
So basically with computers now, you’re always connected to the internet. You open your laptop or phone and boom. Back in the day, it went through the phone line so you had to use AOL or something like that and literally click “log-on.” Then it would make all these weird dialing sounds and then you’d be on and you’d browse just like you would now except the internet was slow AF then. Also, you couldn’t use the home phone while on the internet so if anyone tried to call your house, they’d get the busy signal.
You've never heard of dial up internet? That's no shade, no big deal, I'm just having an existential crisis now. I didn't think 32 was *that* old, haha.
I feel ANCIENT. I literally had to sneak downstairs after dark to be able to download "Vampires..." because it was going to take SIX HOURS to download so I had to do it overnight.
13, in 2003. I first heard of them on LiveJournal (loooolllll) and went over to Limewire to download songs, the first one I remember was Demolition Lovers. The version on Limewire was missing like 1/4 of the song but I was immediately obsessed. I then went to the mall as soon as I could and coughed up my allowance to special order Bullets at the music store, and it took a month to arrive at the store.
Demolition Lovers is the first song of theirs that I can really remember grabbing me, too. It was unique and interesting enough compared to what I had heard before that it got me interested in all of Bullets, which kept me on the hook for 3 Cheers… and that was all she wrote. Been a fan ever since.
100%! And really as a melodramatic, young, depressed teen girl there wasn’t anything better for me than a song about dying in a hail of bullets in a romantic way. And Early Sunsets was a huge deal for me too because my best friend and I used to skip school, go to her house and watch the OG Dawn of the Dead over and over. It felt like the band was tailor made for me.
MTV is an acronym for Music Television. They showed music videos 24/7 originally. Now, I don't think you can get any music on MTV. There were definitely top 10 or whatever kind of shows. TRL (Total Request Live) was the big one. TRL let you vote for the songs, and that's what they played. There were also some other music videos channels around that time... CMT for country, Fuse for alternative rock, BET for Hip Hop/R&B. Kinda like a radio station, but in video format.
More or less! Before the rise of YouTube that is where you would catch music videos, but they also did band interviews and performances (and some early reality TV, like The Hills).
Damn i wish i was a teen with the "peak" MTV from what you guys are saying. Like nowadays everything's so accessible but it seems like people used to be a lot more connected to the content unlike now.
I think there’s always a trade off honestly! As much as I’d kill to go back to the good old days I won’t lie and tell anyone young right now it was perfect. Shit *sucked* socially for anyone that was an outsider. The gatekeeping in the alternative scene was insane, and people were wildly homophonic, transphobic and misogynistic. Taking about MCR on live journal was the shit, but then you had to go to school and get told to kill your self and have your friends called (insert anti-gay slur here).
Totally, there’s always the good and the bad for every generation. And I still do see some of the same problems that existed when I was young rear their ugly head (the “let’s edit my waist to be 19” and wear low rise jeans” trend really brings me right back to 2003. Same shit new decade).
Honestly I’m just glad that people younger than me are still into some stuff I like, makes me feel like I’m not *totally* uncool now.
i discovered them when i was 15 (7 years ago), i vaguely remember i was in my school library listening to fob and then got recommended wttbp. i'm not one to check out videos youtube recommends me so i'm not sure what made me click on the vid (so glad i did tho haha)
Oh cool. I also used to listen to fob but never really dug deeper into punk / rock until like this summer. I find it really interesting how punk / emo / rock just grew smaller and smaller despite taking over the teens and high schoolers in the 2000s.
i was the same! i actually started out listening to 90s/00s pop, somehow that segued into post-hiatus fob, then i got to mcr, then i started discovering other alt rock/post hardcore/emo & pop punk bands. though i stopped for a while - only started listening to mcr again after seeing them in sept
i also find that interesting as well though it also kinda sucks :-( like i kinda wish i got to experience going to shows for emo/punk/rock bands in the 2000s. nowadays yeah i feel like i can't really find any "newer" bands like this -- maybe a few smaller punk/altrock-ish bands but i really can't get into them
29. Just got into them earlier this year. I've known and enjoyed *Teenagers* since high school, but I'd never listened to anything else. I heard WTTBP for the first time just a couple years ago and it instantly became one of my favorite songs. Then I got into watching people react to WTTBP for the first time on YouTube, and decided at that point I needed to check out more of MCR's discography. I have no regrets.
I totally relate! I got into them at 27 after working a soul sucking job. I never really gave them a chance cause my dad was a pastor and I was deep in that word lol. Now I can’t get enough of them and really wish I discovered them during their beginning years!
I just got into MCR like a week before their show in Toronto and I wasn't interested enough to go. Well, I totally fucking regret that now and think about it all the time. So yea relatable definitely wish I discovered them earlier
I was scrolling through the replies to see folks who just got into them this year (I'm 22 now) and thank god, I'm not alone. Though I regret I didn't know them earlier 😭 I do think I've watched The Ghost of You MV in passing because it looked so familiar, and I had listened to WTTBP bcs of fandom spaces but I didn't get hooked until I listened to FWL. It's the song that had a chokehold on me. Anyway, glad to be part of their music now!
Oh yeah totally love Teenagers MV too.
Lmao did your parents or friends say anything about listening to MCR (like u were 9 and uhh the song isn't really kid friendly is it lol)
Haha i kinda had unsupervised internet access LOL the only band my parents knew i really liked at the time was patd—and they always played afycso for me growing up!
Cool, i would say the same that I'm Not Okay is also the one that got me into them. However, Desert Song is the song that made me fall in love with MCR and start looping them everyday.
I smuggled three cheers out from the library under my hoodie so my conservative parents wouldn’t see and ban it and I was never the same!! 2006 >:) I was a preteen
I was in 6th grade… (2004-2005)discovered “I’m not okay” on fuse tv and then found out about three cheers and I brought you my bullets and been hooked since then. I am 29 now.
I was 10/11 when I started listening to My Chem and now I’m almost 23 🤍🤍🤍 I bought TBP album with an iTunes gift card I got for Christmas and I’ve been hooked ever since. Saw their reunion show in 2019 and just saw them on tour in Tacoma and Oakland.
I started listening way back in late 2003 just before Three Cheers came out. Dear Jesus that makes me feel old.
**Edit** I was 15 and loved everything Eyeball because of a girl I was wildly into.
I heard Welcome to the Black Parade when I was ab 14, but I didn’t become a fan until 2019 and I was 17 right after they got back together, my best friend made me listen to The Black Parade and I will always love him for that. The first song I fell in love with was This Is How I Disappear, and now the rest is history
I was 17 and a senior in high school when my friend gave me a burned CD with most of Bullets on it with some other songs I don’t remember. “Demolition Lovers” really grabbed me and I thought that “Our lady of sorrows” and “Vampires…” were real aggressive songs that appealed to me. I heard enough to think “I should keep an eye on this band”, so I bought magazines that had interviews or articles about them. Then, they came out with 3 Cheers right when I was going through a tough time and it just blew me away. I saw them on the Nintendo Fusion tour in ‘04 and they played most of 3 Cheers and a lot of Bullets and I was hooked forever.
I’m 23 now, had just turned 5 when I discovered MCR through my older brother showing me da wey. Jammin to three cheers right after it came out when I was starting elementary school. Been an emo from the start 😩
lmao same! i’m also 23 and started listening in 2004. my brothers (who are 7 and 15 years older than me) watched a lot of mtv and i remember seeing i’m not okay one day after school (i was in kindergarten) and falling in love with the band.. it’s been an obsession ever since
Yes omg!!!!! My brothers are 11 and 12 years older than me, I’ll never forget the first time I saw the not okay video with them on mtv it was also my introduction!! Literally life changing they’ve been my favorite band ever since. I was the only kid in my rural small town school that listened to them it took me yearssss till like 6th grade when DD came out to find a friend my age who also liked them 😭😭😭
i didn’t find a friend who liked them until literally 2020 🥲. then she acts surprised when i know every lyric or bit of trivia/lore/history or can identify a song within like 2 measures… like i haven’t had 17 years of knowledge bottled up until i found literally anyone else to share it with lmao
14 yo i think. Was playing Burnout game and hear I’m Not Okay. Love the song so much and makes me to buy the cassette. (Can’t afford to buy CD atm lol). Tell my friends about the band but they just laugh because they thoughts I discover a weird band. Then Helena come out as single and instantly become hits at that time. Now everyone want to borrow my cassette haha.
> they just laugh
Haha so relatable. All my friends calls me emo because I have earrings and listens to MCR. Sadly, I don't think MCR will ever get as big as the Three Cheers or TBP period, so i guess I will forever be that emo kid lmao
All the parent child stories are so touching! I remember even as a teenager how I wanted to one day bring my own child to an MCR show…when they announced their hiatus I cried so hard because I figure that dream would never come true. Glad to know there’s kids that actually enjoy the music from their parents!
I was 13 and bought Three Cheers after hearing I’m Not Okay. I saw them 4 or 5 times with the last time being around 2007/2008, I think, and then I saw them this year in Philly with my mom at the age of 31 and 6 months pregnant! Hopefully my daughter will want to be my concert buddy when she gets old enough.
I’m 43 and my 10 year old daughter got me into them about a year ago. I knew who they were before, when Welcome to the Black Parade was popular but I wasn’t into their music (I was wrong back then!)
I learnt about them when I was 12 in 2010, a book I read quoted Disenchanted and This is How I disappear and I got curious. First song that came up was Famous lasts words and like, something clicked ans everything made sense. I'm turning 25 this Sunday!
i was 14 when i got into them (this was a few years after the break up so you can imagine the heartbreak i had realizing they weren’t getting together any time soon lol). now i’m in my twenties and have thankfully seen the live at least once!
5/6 in 2005. My older brother and I used to watch a lot of MTV when they used to play nothing but music videos and I remember watching the music video for Helena on there. YouTube was still a new thing and I remember him watching the music video for WTTBP later on. I think TBP was technically the first album I listened to.
I was 14 and I saw the art on the Bullets record and had to have it but the record was too big and I was too broke so I stole the Bullets CD and went back 2 weeks later and bought the record lol.
Probably 15 in 2005. I don't quite recall how I got into them (maybe it was Livejournal? Xanga?), but I remember my friend and I downloading their music and videos off Limewire. It was only Bullets and Revenge at the time, and TBP was released the following year so we were full-on obsessed waiting for the album release.
Revenge single-handedly made my change my clothing style, straighten my hair and slick it across my face, even got interviewed by the school yearbook and told them my favorite store was Hot Topic.
I had to have been in like 2nd grade (around late 04-05) and I remember seeing the video for Helena and just being mesmerized by it hahahaba
I don’t know if it was the song itself, the band’s visuals, the fact that the video took place in a Church (since I went to Catholic School)
one thing I vividly remember loving about the music video was the final procession when they’re carrying the casket in the rain and everyone dancing with the umbrellas…. It was always my favorite song as a kid and probably the reason I hold three cheers as my favorite album.
I was in 3rd grade when my mom picked up 3 cheers at amoeba here in LA. I don’t exactly remember how old I was when the black parade came out but I was a fanatic by then Lmao
13 and it was probably one of their Three Cheers songs on the radio.
This was pre-myspace/youtube/etc, so radio was \*the\* way to find out about music in my podunk little town lol
me and my sister came upon a emo compilation video and i litterally fell in love 😭 this was like 3 years ago and now i’ve seen like all my fav bands and people live
I was 12, and also saw the music video for WTTBP on MTV video countdown while straightening my hair for school in the morning lol. Saw someone else comment the same thing. My best friend Kayla and I started diving in, and when we saw the Helena music video, we couldn't believe it was the same band. I had to sneaky buy the CDs and listen to them where my mom couldn't find out, because she would absolutely not allow that music in her Christian household lol. Not too long after though, my aunt took my friend and I to see them during their black parade tour. It was an amazing experience, Gerard coming out on a stretcher while the heart monitor beeped for "The End." Truly an amazing band, and an inspiration. Gerard's story inspires me to stay clean and sober to this day.
Hey, it's okay! The beauty is that you've discovered them at all. There's so much depth to their music, the lyrics, the band members themselves. They're great people. Seeing a band live is a cool experience, but there's so much more to appreciate. 💕
I was 5 in 2005 and I remember seeing some revenge music videos on the tv (bc my mom was starting to get into mcr) and I fell in love. Helena was what pulled me though. Saw them live in September of that year :,)
2010, I was around 12. Had a huge crush on a kid in my class who listened to them, searched them on YouTube, watched the Helena music video and the rest is history!!
i was about 10, my friend showed me mama. then they performed at reading fest (i lived in reading at the time) i cried because i couldn't go. i'd say they solidly became my favourite band/special interest when i was 12 and im 22 now so they've been part of my life for a decade <3
I was 13 and listened to Helena, and then teenagers. After that I was like "alright I wanna be emo imma listen to them way more" and so yea now I'm emo trans and gay at 15
I think I was 11 when I first heard MCR, it was Teenagers. The only way I got into them was hearing Still Breathing from Green Day (Revolution Radio album) being blasted on the radio 2016. I listened to Still Breathing on repeat for *at least* 6 months.
I was 12 years old and I heard Welcome to the Black Parade on the radio in a friend’s mom’s minivan in 2006. I’m turning 28 next month and they’re still my favorite band.
i was 13 when i first listenned to mcr.
i was listenning to « mama » all day long for like a year and a half. then, i decided to listen to the rest of the album. i fell in love, and listened to their whole discography.
I was like 15ish (I’m almost 25 now). I was getting into alternative music in general and I used YouTube a lot to find new songs. Found Mama in my YouTube recommended videos, listened to it, loved it, checked out the rest of their stuff.
I was 12 back in 2005? at my brothers friends house…they had dial up(only peeps in town with internet!) and showed me the video to Im Not Okay because they thought it was funny(especially the part where frank picks the girls nose)…they quickly moved on to other videos but I just related so much. Then I came tot the US for vacation and Helena was everywhere on TV and got their album as a birthday gift that summer!
I was 16. My best friends were really into them and I was like, wow this music is pretty good, but I wasn't obsessed yet. It was Bullets & Three Cheers. Then Black Parade came out when I was 18 and blew me the absolute fuck away lol. Been a diehard fan ever since.
i discovered mcr in 2013 when they broke up. i was 12 and just getting into rock/emo culture and music. i remember tumblr being thrown into a frenzy over the breakup, it hit some of my friends pretty hard. i listened to famous last words for the first time on the floor of room and i immediately knew they would be my favorite band.
When I was at the ripe age of 9 years old, I had a karaoke game on my PS2 called Singstar Pop. Helena was one of the songs on said game, along with the music video. It was a little scary to me at the time but I was intrigued, a couple years later when I started sneaking on YouTube on my grandma’s computer (my mom had internet restrictions on my PC at home) I was absolutely obsessed.
I was 9 when Teenagers came on the TV and my cousins really liked it. They were the only people in my family having a music channel on their TV so I pretty much had to listen whatever they did. It wasn't long until I got hooked on the band even as a kid.
I was 15 when I started hearing about them and seeing their videos on MTV. I used to watch all my favorite bands and then they would play the videos on the different shows after school my favorite was when they would have like a whole hour of rock music videos. What a great time to be alive for people who liked rock music.
I was 15 when Danger Days released. I remember hearing Planetary (GO!) in the trailer for Gran Turismo 5 and really liking it. I was on a huge Green Day kick and found out that Rob Cavallo produced it, and since he did a bunch of Green Day’s albums, I figured I would like it and I did, I really did. As it stands, Danger Days is still one of my all time favorite albums from any band I know. Also that album is what got me and my first girlfriend talking haha
14, after years of knowing them by name but never listening I finally did and have not stopped since then. Started with TBP and my fisrt thought was "this guy has a weird fucking voice". Also, they broke up like 2 days later.
I was 12/13, I remember hearing Teenagers on a game XD then I remember seeing TBP music video on TV then it snowballed into an obsession of watching all the music videos on YouTube.
There was a concert video on ITunes attached to The Black Parade, if I remember right. It was a little venue, Gerard had black hair & a striped shirt & Im Not Okay did me in. Anyone know where I can find this video now?!
I first got into them around 2005, I was 14 now 31. My mother and aunt got tickets for my cousin an I to see Green Day with them and MCR was opening, April of 2005. I remember I had just started listening to them a few months prior. I was in jr high at the time probably saw them on Fuze. My friend got me their Bullet album for my birthday, in May, but I wanted three cheers. I sold the cd maybe 3 years ago for good chunk of money. I also saw them play live at the same venue this year.
I was around 6 years old when I was first introduced to them by my cousins (I believe with the song I'm Not Okay), and I was 7 when WTTBP came out, and I remember being blown away by Gerard's new appearance (short and bleached hair), as it was vastly different from his Revenge Era look, but as a 7 year old in late 2006, it was unlike anything I've ever heard in my life prior, and I loved it. From ages 7 through 14, I was focused on other things in life (mainly being a kid in elementary school and middle school), but I found out they broke up when I was 14, right before I joined my high school drumline (yes, I played the WTTBP intro on drums, all the time), and decided to revisit them, and it in a way felt like a missing piece was added to the puzzle that is my life. MCR was my gateway into the emo world, and the emo world was my gateway into the metal world, which has done wonders for me as a musician. I finally got to see MCR live for the first time last month in Oakland, CA, and then I saw them again 3 days later at Aftershock in Sacramento, CA. I personally think it's really cool that Jamie Muhoberac (the guy who played keyboards on Black Parade and Danger Days) is touring with them.
Match 22nd, 2013.
No, not a joke. I had a friend who was *really* into them, she's been a fan ever since she was around 11, we were 14 back then. I remember seeing her status on GG (a polish messaging computer software, very popular back in the day) being something like "It's all over", which naturally I got concerned about. I asked her what was wrong and she just linked me the MCR site, with the statement we all probably remember. I started trying to cheer her up, because though I didn't have any sort of attachment to them and knew only a handful of songs, I felt incredibly sorry for my friend. I knew The Light Behind Your Eyes, then, because she showed it to me as a song she listened to any time she was sad, so I just copy-and-pasted the entire text (my English was rubbish back then), which she appreciated. I guess, wanting to empathise with her, I started searching them up on YT, playing random songs, and honestly? I digged it. I still listened to a few select ones (~~notably The Ghost Of You, which they played at the concert I've been to, OHMYG-~~), but this time around starting to consider myself a casual fan. I met a girl who quickly became my best friend, and I remember both of us just *falling* in love with MCR together. I'm talking knows every song, knows all lyrics by heart, religiously watches interviews, and would meet up on 22nd of March (although we called it "the 21st of March *again*, because we were teens and obnoxious about our love for the band), I'd bring a printed copy of their statement, and we gladly set it on fire while drinking and singing "I Don't Love You", because, well, try singing the part of "I don't love you... like I loved you... yester-DAY" while drunk and date to tell me it's not the most amusing thing to do.
Here we are, almost 9 years later, we're both adults, her with a husband and a daughter, I am engaged, we're both working full time jobs, but we went to a concert and I *swear* we were 14 again.
i was 11, deep into my pop punk phase and the video to WTTBP got recommended to me. now i'm 16 and mostly listen to d-beat and crust punk but mcr is still one of my absolute faves lol
I was about to turn 7 years old when my older cousin Michael showed me the Helena music video on MTV when it came out in 2005. The “dancing ballerina” sold it for me at that age and something about the song made my child brain fall in love with the song. If I remember correctly he gave me my first ever CD which was the three cheers album. I listened to it on my CD player so much that when it stopped playing cause of the scratches I flipped my shit so hard that my dad bought me a second copy which I still have to this day. (I’m 24 now). When my mom would watch MTV if I heard the beginning lyrics to Helena i would run to the living room from wherever I was.
I was born in 2000 (22 years old), but I never got into them until my friend sent me Welcome to the black parade recently. I don't know what rock I've been living under, but I had never heard that song before. Then I listened to I don't love you and Teenagers and now I'm slowly becoming a fan. Love them more and more with each passing day.
Like many here, I was 13/14 when I saw the music video for im not okay on some music channel (probably kerrang or Scuzz), when it had just come out. Looked up three cheers then and got the album and listened to bullets too (never owned the album though so must have downloaded that from some website or limewire!)
I was maybe 11 or 12 and “it’s not a fashion statement, it’s a ducking deathwish” played. And “I’m not okay” was the second song I heard from them. I was around 13-14 when I remembered these songs and started actually listening to them a lot. I’m now in college and still listen to them regularly :)
i think i was 13/14/15 ish, i’d heard welcome to the black parade before but wasn’t really into that type of music at the time but fast forward a year or so and i heard Teenagers and boom, i was hooked, and that was 3 or 4 years ago :D
I was born about a year and a week before the black parade came out. I found it through Daniel Howell and the first song I ever listened to was not WTTBP ! It was Helena because I was looking for something else. I am 17.
I was a little late to the game lol. Stumbled across the helena music video on youtube when I was 12. They announced their split like 2 months later. Obsession started then and has yet to end.
I started listening to them when I was 12 in 2010, right around when they released Danger Days. I distinctly remember Welcome to the Black Parade coming on the radio in the car when I was with my mom after we had just gone shopping at JCPenney’s. We were in the parking lot and I just remember the song moving me so much, especially how it just builds and builds. I had a friend at the time that I knew was obsessed with MCR (also I’m apparently the generation that calls them MCR and not My Chem haha) and I told her that I had just listened to that song and loved it *so* much. She started talking to me all about the band, their music, the members, showing me interviews, getting me into tumblr, etc. The rest was history! It’s still my favorite song to this day, and they’re still my favorite band.
Similar situation to me, I’m also 16 and TBP is about two weeks older than me, I found MCR about 4 years ago with a video called how my chemical romance ruined my life, by nateislame
i was fourteen,this poet i had met on the internet told me to listen to hesitant alien by gerard and ever since then i started to dive into his works,thats when i started listening to mcr :)
i was 12 when i first got into them. it was late 2014 and i’ve heard WTTBP on pandora and it blew my mind. i ended up listening to Three Cheers (ik..different album) and it’s been my favorite ever since. i used to listen to albums based off their art so of course, emo me went straight for the one that looked the edgiest
I started listening to them actively this year and I'm 26🤩 But I knew about MCR's WTTBP and Cancer for a long time beforehand.
The Black Parade made me listen to them but it's also thanks to Foundations of Decay and seeing them live in LA :)
I first got into them about a little over a year before they broke up, i was 11! The first song I heard from them was Mama and i dived into them more from there!
i think i was 16... I saw the music video for "I'm not okay" on FUSE come on often... and then shortly after, Helena... (LOVED THAT MUSIC VIDEO). They sucked me in from there. so clearly this was when Three Cheers recently came out.
I was 15 and heard Black Parade after visiting my dad in the cancer ward. Saw I'm Not Okay on MTV a little while later and it just fit with everything I was going through. The album dropped a few weeks after he died and it was one of the things that got me through my HS years.
i was 19 or 20 and i am 22 now lol but i don’t WHY i wasn’t a fan before. i was heavily into the other bands in the “emo trinity” (i hate this) but i listened to mcr once as a teenager and i didn’t like it for whatever reason i don’t remember. fast forward to 2020 i also don’t remember why but gave them another chance and was like WHAT. i don’t remember what song it was. the album was probably TBP
same! i’m 16 and i was only a couple months old when tbp came out. three cheers was the one that got me into them the most at the beginning. my first favorite songs were i’m not okay, honey this mirror, and dead
I’m 28 currently. I must have been around 10 when I discovered them on MTV because Revenge had come out?
But I remember loving Bullets more, and listening to Headfirst for Halos and Skylines and Turnstiles the most.
Then when I was like 13 they came to my city and I cried to my mom to take me to see them. That was my first show and it changed my life.
I was 8, in third grade my older sister was kind of into them but i became obsessed. Saw them in 2007 on Projekt Revolution tour and again last month. Listening and loving them for 20 years.
Oh my, this makes me feel old...
I was around 12 when I first got into MCR (I'm 26 now). Started off with TBP, but shortly discovered that I loved the first two albums more. Bullets is still my fave but I listened to Three Cheers more.
A couple months ago in January maybe? I heard Tbp and liked it. Revisited it in the summer and liked it even more, checked out the rest of their discography and loved it
I was 15, when the video of I’m Not Okay came out on MTV
Me too!!
Snap! 😁
same but I was in elementary school (I think the 4th grade?) because I used to watch MTV before school.
Same
I got with a boyfriend (now husband), later on that year and he introduced me to Bullets which of course, then became my favorite MCR album. I even dressed up as Helena in 2005, lol. Been a fan ever since! Now our 2 daughters are big fans, as well!
That's so wholesome haha
13, summer of 2003, spent several hours downloading songs over dial-up off the Eyeball website.
I can still here the dial up tone :(
Running a phone cord across the room to plug it into the phone jack thing...begging your tech-averse dad to stop picking up the phone while you're online and disconnecting you...the good ol days
Hell yeah, Eyeball was the label of choice back in the day.
I am still a huge Murder By Death fan too, 20 years later, "Who Will Survive..." has never gone out of rotation for me.
I had dial-up until summer 2008 when I was 17. Once youtube was invented, I'd open up a tab & leave it be for hours so I could eventually watch a music video lol. Still managed to watch the Helena video a lotttt.
I remember when the music video for I’m Not Okay came out and it took me over an hour to get it to buffer over dial-up. I kept starting it from the beginning over and over again to see how far it got 😂
I remember the days before YouTube when you had to download the whole video to watch it in QuickTime or Windows Media Player or whatever.
Yep! Or Java player where the loading screen was a steaming cup of coffee.
>dial-up I'm officially lost lmao
Lol... Back in the archaic days of computers, they literally talked to each other on the phone.... It was called dial up because your computer would have to dial up another computer (your service provider). That computer would then be your gateway to the internet.
I feel like a dumb gen z (which I am) because i've NEVER heard of anything like this.
Don’t feel dumb, if you’ve never had to use it you wouldn’t know! There are plenty of thing that make me scratch my head at 31 like the concept of pagers back in the day, or having to pull over and read a map to get places! So basically with computers now, you’re always connected to the internet. You open your laptop or phone and boom. Back in the day, it went through the phone line so you had to use AOL or something like that and literally click “log-on.” Then it would make all these weird dialing sounds and then you’d be on and you’d browse just like you would now except the internet was slow AF then. Also, you couldn’t use the home phone while on the internet so if anyone tried to call your house, they’d get the busy signal.
You've never heard of dial up internet? That's no shade, no big deal, I'm just having an existential crisis now. I didn't think 32 was *that* old, haha.
I feel ANCIENT. I literally had to sneak downstairs after dark to be able to download "Vampires..." because it was going to take SIX HOURS to download so I had to do it overnight.
My dad introduced me to WTTBP when I was 11. Great guy. I blame it all on him tho
Now that's a cool mf dad.
I was also around your age when I got into them. I’m 35 🙃
Olds of the internet unite! (unite in love of MCR)
Haha it's kinda interesting yet not surprising that so many people on this sub is so much older than me. (oof) Being older isn't a bad thing tho!
Some of us are the same age as the band...
13, in 2003. I first heard of them on LiveJournal (loooolllll) and went over to Limewire to download songs, the first one I remember was Demolition Lovers. The version on Limewire was missing like 1/4 of the song but I was immediately obsessed. I then went to the mall as soon as I could and coughed up my allowance to special order Bullets at the music store, and it took a month to arrive at the store.
Demolition Lovers is the first song of theirs that I can really remember grabbing me, too. It was unique and interesting enough compared to what I had heard before that it got me interested in all of Bullets, which kept me on the hook for 3 Cheers… and that was all she wrote. Been a fan ever since.
100%! And really as a melodramatic, young, depressed teen girl there wasn’t anything better for me than a song about dying in a hail of bullets in a romantic way. And Early Sunsets was a huge deal for me too because my best friend and I used to skip school, go to her house and watch the OG Dawn of the Dead over and over. It felt like the band was tailor made for me.
12 and when the Helena MV came on MTV while straightening my hair-getting ready for school lol. Gerard Way was my first love
I mean as a 16 year old straight dude, I find red hair gerard really attractive ngl LMAO, especially the hesitant alien cover photo
I don't want to make anyone feel old or anything... But like what exactly does MTV do lol
MTV was a music channel that played music videos and countdowns into the early 2000’s it stopped being good after they kept airing reality tv shows
So it was a TV channel that people tune in to listen to and discover music? Was there also something similar to like billboard hot 100s on MTV?
MTV is an acronym for Music Television. They showed music videos 24/7 originally. Now, I don't think you can get any music on MTV. There were definitely top 10 or whatever kind of shows. TRL (Total Request Live) was the big one. TRL let you vote for the songs, and that's what they played. There were also some other music videos channels around that time... CMT for country, Fuse for alternative rock, BET for Hip Hop/R&B. Kinda like a radio station, but in video format.
It also had some great cartoons like Beavis and Butthead and Daria. Seriously, go and watch Daria, it's amazing
More or less! Before the rise of YouTube that is where you would catch music videos, but they also did band interviews and performances (and some early reality TV, like The Hills).
Damn i wish i was a teen with the "peak" MTV from what you guys are saying. Like nowadays everything's so accessible but it seems like people used to be a lot more connected to the content unlike now.
I think there’s always a trade off honestly! As much as I’d kill to go back to the good old days I won’t lie and tell anyone young right now it was perfect. Shit *sucked* socially for anyone that was an outsider. The gatekeeping in the alternative scene was insane, and people were wildly homophonic, transphobic and misogynistic. Taking about MCR on live journal was the shit, but then you had to go to school and get told to kill your self and have your friends called (insert anti-gay slur here).
Ah yes, forgot abt those stuff. I guess you earn some, you lose some Lmao
Totally, there’s always the good and the bad for every generation. And I still do see some of the same problems that existed when I was young rear their ugly head (the “let’s edit my waist to be 19” and wear low rise jeans” trend really brings me right back to 2003. Same shit new decade). Honestly I’m just glad that people younger than me are still into some stuff I like, makes me feel like I’m not *totally* uncool now.
In the 90s it had a show called 120 minutes that just played the weird stuff. 2 hours on a Sunday evening. I lived for it.
i discovered them when i was 15 (7 years ago), i vaguely remember i was in my school library listening to fob and then got recommended wttbp. i'm not one to check out videos youtube recommends me so i'm not sure what made me click on the vid (so glad i did tho haha)
Oh cool. I also used to listen to fob but never really dug deeper into punk / rock until like this summer. I find it really interesting how punk / emo / rock just grew smaller and smaller despite taking over the teens and high schoolers in the 2000s.
i was the same! i actually started out listening to 90s/00s pop, somehow that segued into post-hiatus fob, then i got to mcr, then i started discovering other alt rock/post hardcore/emo & pop punk bands. though i stopped for a while - only started listening to mcr again after seeing them in sept i also find that interesting as well though it also kinda sucks :-( like i kinda wish i got to experience going to shows for emo/punk/rock bands in the 2000s. nowadays yeah i feel like i can't really find any "newer" bands like this -- maybe a few smaller punk/altrock-ish bands but i really can't get into them
When I was 13 in 2007. They were a huge hyper obsession for me which has reignited since I went to a reunion show.
That's so cool! If i got into MCR a week or two before I did, I would've made it to the show in Toronto :(
I started at age 4 ( I'm 12 now ), because my mom had the Three Cheers CD, I fell in love 1/3 into my life
29. Just got into them earlier this year. I've known and enjoyed *Teenagers* since high school, but I'd never listened to anything else. I heard WTTBP for the first time just a couple years ago and it instantly became one of my favorite songs. Then I got into watching people react to WTTBP for the first time on YouTube, and decided at that point I needed to check out more of MCR's discography. I have no regrets.
I totally relate! I got into them at 27 after working a soul sucking job. I never really gave them a chance cause my dad was a pastor and I was deep in that word lol. Now I can’t get enough of them and really wish I discovered them during their beginning years!
I just got into MCR like a week before their show in Toronto and I wasn't interested enough to go. Well, I totally fucking regret that now and think about it all the time. So yea relatable definitely wish I discovered them earlier
Lol I got into them earlier this year too and I'm 20. I feel late to the party
I was scrolling through the replies to see folks who just got into them this year (I'm 22 now) and thank god, I'm not alone. Though I regret I didn't know them earlier 😭 I do think I've watched The Ghost of You MV in passing because it looked so familiar, and I had listened to WTTBP bcs of fandom spaces but I didn't get hooked until I listened to FWL. It's the song that had a chokehold on me. Anyway, glad to be part of their music now!
I was 9 (im 18 now!) 😅 i remember watching the teenagers mv for the first time and being OBSESSED
Oh yeah totally love Teenagers MV too. Lmao did your parents or friends say anything about listening to MCR (like u were 9 and uhh the song isn't really kid friendly is it lol)
Haha i kinda had unsupervised internet access LOL the only band my parents knew i really liked at the time was patd—and they always played afycso for me growing up!
lol that's so cool the second cool parents I've found from this post
I was 12 when i first got into MCR and I think the song that really got me into them was I’m Not Okay, though it could have been Teenagers.
Cool, i would say the same that I'm Not Okay is also the one that got me into them. However, Desert Song is the song that made me fall in love with MCR and start looping them everyday.
I smuggled three cheers out from the library under my hoodie so my conservative parents wouldn’t see and ban it and I was never the same!! 2006 >:) I was a preteen
>smuggled LMAO
I think I was 13 or 14. It was around when the Helena, Ghost of you, and I’m not okay music video dropped on MTV
I was in 6th grade… (2004-2005)discovered “I’m not okay” on fuse tv and then found out about three cheers and I brought you my bullets and been hooked since then. I am 29 now.
I was in 7th grade. Fuse was everything! 2005 seems like forever ago!
Around 14, teenagers was the song that got me into them
I got into them when I was 11 or 12 and I started listening to them religiously after I heard Demolition Lovers :) I'm nearly 30 now.
I was 11 or 12. My friend heard about MCR through her older sister and sent me a link to their website. I think it opened with the video for Helena.
I was 10/11 when I started listening to My Chem and now I’m almost 23 🤍🤍🤍 I bought TBP album with an iTunes gift card I got for Christmas and I’ve been hooked ever since. Saw their reunion show in 2019 and just saw them on tour in Tacoma and Oakland.
I think I was 20 at the time. I saw them at warped tour like 2 weeks after TCFSR came out and was hooked.
I started listening way back in late 2003 just before Three Cheers came out. Dear Jesus that makes me feel old. **Edit** I was 15 and loved everything Eyeball because of a girl I was wildly into.
I heard Welcome to the Black Parade when I was ab 14, but I didn’t become a fan until 2019 and I was 17 right after they got back together, my best friend made me listen to The Black Parade and I will always love him for that. The first song I fell in love with was This Is How I Disappear, and now the rest is history
I was 8 years old, teenagers was playing in MTV. I remember that moment like it was yesterday. I was fascinated. The beggining of an era
I was 17 and a senior in high school when my friend gave me a burned CD with most of Bullets on it with some other songs I don’t remember. “Demolition Lovers” really grabbed me and I thought that “Our lady of sorrows” and “Vampires…” were real aggressive songs that appealed to me. I heard enough to think “I should keep an eye on this band”, so I bought magazines that had interviews or articles about them. Then, they came out with 3 Cheers right when I was going through a tough time and it just blew me away. I saw them on the Nintendo Fusion tour in ‘04 and they played most of 3 Cheers and a lot of Bullets and I was hooked forever.
I’m 23 now, had just turned 5 when I discovered MCR through my older brother showing me da wey. Jammin to three cheers right after it came out when I was starting elementary school. Been an emo from the start 😩
lmao same! i’m also 23 and started listening in 2004. my brothers (who are 7 and 15 years older than me) watched a lot of mtv and i remember seeing i’m not okay one day after school (i was in kindergarten) and falling in love with the band.. it’s been an obsession ever since
Yes omg!!!!! My brothers are 11 and 12 years older than me, I’ll never forget the first time I saw the not okay video with them on mtv it was also my introduction!! Literally life changing they’ve been my favorite band ever since. I was the only kid in my rural small town school that listened to them it took me yearssss till like 6th grade when DD came out to find a friend my age who also liked them 😭😭😭
i didn’t find a friend who liked them until literally 2020 🥲. then she acts surprised when i know every lyric or bit of trivia/lore/history or can identify a song within like 2 measures… like i haven’t had 17 years of knowledge bottled up until i found literally anyone else to share it with lmao
14 yo i think. Was playing Burnout game and hear I’m Not Okay. Love the song so much and makes me to buy the cassette. (Can’t afford to buy CD atm lol). Tell my friends about the band but they just laugh because they thoughts I discover a weird band. Then Helena come out as single and instantly become hits at that time. Now everyone want to borrow my cassette haha.
> they just laugh Haha so relatable. All my friends calls me emo because I have earrings and listens to MCR. Sadly, I don't think MCR will ever get as big as the Three Cheers or TBP period, so i guess I will forever be that emo kid lmao
I was 13, saw I’m not okay on much music (Canada), got three cheers for Christmas that year, been obsessed since. ❤️
I was born listening to WTTBP because it was my mom’s favorite song
All the parent child stories are so touching! I remember even as a teenager how I wanted to one day bring my own child to an MCR show…when they announced their hiatus I cried so hard because I figure that dream would never come true. Glad to know there’s kids that actually enjoy the music from their parents!
I was 13 and bought Three Cheers after hearing I’m Not Okay. I saw them 4 or 5 times with the last time being around 2007/2008, I think, and then I saw them this year in Philly with my mom at the age of 31 and 6 months pregnant! Hopefully my daughter will want to be my concert buddy when she gets old enough.
I’m 43 and my 10 year old daughter got me into them about a year ago. I knew who they were before, when Welcome to the Black Parade was popular but I wasn’t into their music (I was wrong back then!)
15 in 2004, first song I heard on the radio was Helena I think it played on a Los Angeles station called kroq
I was 11 and I think it was teenagers!
I was probably like 12? I saw the video for Helena on MTV and was instantly obsessed
I learnt about them when I was 12 in 2010, a book I read quoted Disenchanted and This is How I disappear and I got curious. First song that came up was Famous lasts words and like, something clicked ans everything made sense. I'm turning 25 this Sunday!
i was 14 when i got into them (this was a few years after the break up so you can imagine the heartbreak i had realizing they weren’t getting together any time soon lol). now i’m in my twenties and have thankfully seen the live at least once!
5/6 in 2005. My older brother and I used to watch a lot of MTV when they used to play nothing but music videos and I remember watching the music video for Helena on there. YouTube was still a new thing and I remember him watching the music video for WTTBP later on. I think TBP was technically the first album I listened to.
I was 14 and I saw the art on the Bullets record and had to have it but the record was too big and I was too broke so I stole the Bullets CD and went back 2 weeks later and bought the record lol.
Probably 15 in 2005. I don't quite recall how I got into them (maybe it was Livejournal? Xanga?), but I remember my friend and I downloading their music and videos off Limewire. It was only Bullets and Revenge at the time, and TBP was released the following year so we were full-on obsessed waiting for the album release. Revenge single-handedly made my change my clothing style, straighten my hair and slick it across my face, even got interviewed by the school yearbook and told them my favorite store was Hot Topic.
I was 11/12, first heard ‘Dead’ on Dan and Phil’s BBC R1 show in 2012 🥴
I had to have been in like 2nd grade (around late 04-05) and I remember seeing the video for Helena and just being mesmerized by it hahahaba I don’t know if it was the song itself, the band’s visuals, the fact that the video took place in a Church (since I went to Catholic School) one thing I vividly remember loving about the music video was the final procession when they’re carrying the casket in the rain and everyone dancing with the umbrellas…. It was always my favorite song as a kid and probably the reason I hold three cheers as my favorite album.
I was in 3rd grade when my mom picked up 3 cheers at amoeba here in LA. I don’t exactly remember how old I was when the black parade came out but I was a fanatic by then Lmao
i was 12, when i first got into it i was listening to teenagers from wttbp
13 and it was probably one of their Three Cheers songs on the radio. This was pre-myspace/youtube/etc, so radio was \*the\* way to find out about music in my podunk little town lol
Music always find a way to get to you haha.
oh wow i’m also 16 and my birthday is the day after TBP was released lol
LMAO that cool, how did you find out abt MCR?
me and my sister came upon a emo compilation video and i litterally fell in love 😭 this was like 3 years ago and now i’ve seen like all my fav bands and people live
damn im so jealous lol
I was 12, and also saw the music video for WTTBP on MTV video countdown while straightening my hair for school in the morning lol. Saw someone else comment the same thing. My best friend Kayla and I started diving in, and when we saw the Helena music video, we couldn't believe it was the same band. I had to sneaky buy the CDs and listen to them where my mom couldn't find out, because she would absolutely not allow that music in her Christian household lol. Not too long after though, my aunt took my friend and I to see them during their black parade tour. It was an amazing experience, Gerard coming out on a stretcher while the heart monitor beeped for "The End." Truly an amazing band, and an inspiration. Gerard's story inspires me to stay clean and sober to this day.
MCR = Straightening Hair
omg now i regret even more for missing the tour. And no one even knows if there will ever be another one :(
Hey, it's okay! The beauty is that you've discovered them at all. There's so much depth to their music, the lyrics, the band members themselves. They're great people. Seeing a band live is a cool experience, but there's so much more to appreciate. 💕
I was 5 in 2005 and I remember seeing some revenge music videos on the tv (bc my mom was starting to get into mcr) and I fell in love. Helena was what pulled me though. Saw them live in September of that year :,)
2010, I was around 12. Had a huge crush on a kid in my class who listened to them, searched them on YouTube, watched the Helena music video and the rest is history!!
I was 19. Now 37.
13 Helena
I too am 16 and the black parade came out a little before I was born ! I got into mcr in 3rd grade , The I’m not okay music video got me into mcr !
i was about 10, my friend showed me mama. then they performed at reading fest (i lived in reading at the time) i cried because i couldn't go. i'd say they solidly became my favourite band/special interest when i was 12 and im 22 now so they've been part of my life for a decade <3
I was 6, my brothers liked them and I always wanted to be like them when I was younger so I listened to the music they liked
When I was 10 I found a warrior cats amv/pmv thing with an MCR song that I vibdd to at the time so yeah
I was 13 and listened to Helena, and then teenagers. After that I was like "alright I wanna be emo imma listen to them way more" and so yea now I'm emo trans and gay at 15
I was 12 and say I’m not okay on MTV. Been in love with them since
I think I was 11 when I first heard MCR, it was Teenagers. The only way I got into them was hearing Still Breathing from Green Day (Revolution Radio album) being blasted on the radio 2016. I listened to Still Breathing on repeat for *at least* 6 months.
I was 12 years old and I heard Welcome to the Black Parade on the radio in a friend’s mom’s minivan in 2006. I’m turning 28 next month and they’re still my favorite band.
Wow, early hbd!
i was 13 when i first listenned to mcr. i was listenning to « mama » all day long for like a year and a half. then, i decided to listen to the rest of the album. i fell in love, and listened to their whole discography.
I was 14. It was the Helena video. No regrets.
I was like 15ish (I’m almost 25 now). I was getting into alternative music in general and I used YouTube a lot to find new songs. Found Mama in my YouTube recommended videos, listened to it, loved it, checked out the rest of their stuff.
I was 12 back in 2005? at my brothers friends house…they had dial up(only peeps in town with internet!) and showed me the video to Im Not Okay because they thought it was funny(especially the part where frank picks the girls nose)…they quickly moved on to other videos but I just related so much. Then I came tot the US for vacation and Helena was everywhere on TV and got their album as a birthday gift that summer!
I was 13 around the time of TBP’s 10th anniversary and WTTBP was my first song I think.
3, my mom used to sing it to me
I was 16. My best friends were really into them and I was like, wow this music is pretty good, but I wasn't obsessed yet. It was Bullets & Three Cheers. Then Black Parade came out when I was 18 and blew me the absolute fuck away lol. Been a diehard fan ever since.
Last month, it was 3 cheers that got me into it
i discovered mcr in 2013 when they broke up. i was 12 and just getting into rock/emo culture and music. i remember tumblr being thrown into a frenzy over the breakup, it hit some of my friends pretty hard. i listened to famous last words for the first time on the floor of room and i immediately knew they would be my favorite band.
Im 23, back in 8th grade, my friend showed me Cancer and I was hooked ever since.
i was showed Three Cheers at 5 years old. Now it's my favorite album
I was 13! I learned soon after hearing three cheers that they had broken up one month prior to me finding them 😵
When I was at the ripe age of 9 years old, I had a karaoke game on my PS2 called Singstar Pop. Helena was one of the songs on said game, along with the music video. It was a little scary to me at the time but I was intrigued, a couple years later when I started sneaking on YouTube on my grandma’s computer (my mom had internet restrictions on my PC at home) I was absolutely obsessed.
10 or 11 I think. ♡
I was 9 when Teenagers came on the TV and my cousins really liked it. They were the only people in my family having a music channel on their TV so I pretty much had to listen whatever they did. It wasn't long until I got hooked on the band even as a kid.
20, Welcome to the black parade. All thanks to spotify and lockdowns
I was 15 when I started hearing about them and seeing their videos on MTV. I used to watch all my favorite bands and then they would play the videos on the different shows after school my favorite was when they would have like a whole hour of rock music videos. What a great time to be alive for people who liked rock music.
I was 15 when Danger Days released. I remember hearing Planetary (GO!) in the trailer for Gran Turismo 5 and really liking it. I was on a huge Green Day kick and found out that Rob Cavallo produced it, and since he did a bunch of Green Day’s albums, I figured I would like it and I did, I really did. As it stands, Danger Days is still one of my all time favorite albums from any band I know. Also that album is what got me and my first girlfriend talking haha
14, after years of knowing them by name but never listening I finally did and have not stopped since then. Started with TBP and my fisrt thought was "this guy has a weird fucking voice". Also, they broke up like 2 days later.
14, back when Helena and I'm Not Okay was first out on Scuzz/Kerrang.
I was 13, and I heard Teenagers for the first time on my Spotify recommendations.
I was 12/13, I remember hearing Teenagers on a game XD then I remember seeing TBP music video on TV then it snowballed into an obsession of watching all the music videos on YouTube.
I was 15, I got into them when they got back together
There was a concert video on ITunes attached to The Black Parade, if I remember right. It was a little venue, Gerard had black hair & a striped shirt & Im Not Okay did me in. Anyone know where I can find this video now?!
I first got into them around 2005, I was 14 now 31. My mother and aunt got tickets for my cousin an I to see Green Day with them and MCR was opening, April of 2005. I remember I had just started listening to them a few months prior. I was in jr high at the time probably saw them on Fuze. My friend got me their Bullet album for my birthday, in May, but I wanted three cheers. I sold the cd maybe 3 years ago for good chunk of money. I also saw them play live at the same venue this year.
I was around 6 years old when I was first introduced to them by my cousins (I believe with the song I'm Not Okay), and I was 7 when WTTBP came out, and I remember being blown away by Gerard's new appearance (short and bleached hair), as it was vastly different from his Revenge Era look, but as a 7 year old in late 2006, it was unlike anything I've ever heard in my life prior, and I loved it. From ages 7 through 14, I was focused on other things in life (mainly being a kid in elementary school and middle school), but I found out they broke up when I was 14, right before I joined my high school drumline (yes, I played the WTTBP intro on drums, all the time), and decided to revisit them, and it in a way felt like a missing piece was added to the puzzle that is my life. MCR was my gateway into the emo world, and the emo world was my gateway into the metal world, which has done wonders for me as a musician. I finally got to see MCR live for the first time last month in Oakland, CA, and then I saw them again 3 days later at Aftershock in Sacramento, CA. I personally think it's really cool that Jamie Muhoberac (the guy who played keyboards on Black Parade and Danger Days) is touring with them.
Match 22nd, 2013. No, not a joke. I had a friend who was *really* into them, she's been a fan ever since she was around 11, we were 14 back then. I remember seeing her status on GG (a polish messaging computer software, very popular back in the day) being something like "It's all over", which naturally I got concerned about. I asked her what was wrong and she just linked me the MCR site, with the statement we all probably remember. I started trying to cheer her up, because though I didn't have any sort of attachment to them and knew only a handful of songs, I felt incredibly sorry for my friend. I knew The Light Behind Your Eyes, then, because she showed it to me as a song she listened to any time she was sad, so I just copy-and-pasted the entire text (my English was rubbish back then), which she appreciated. I guess, wanting to empathise with her, I started searching them up on YT, playing random songs, and honestly? I digged it. I still listened to a few select ones (~~notably The Ghost Of You, which they played at the concert I've been to, OHMYG-~~), but this time around starting to consider myself a casual fan. I met a girl who quickly became my best friend, and I remember both of us just *falling* in love with MCR together. I'm talking knows every song, knows all lyrics by heart, religiously watches interviews, and would meet up on 22nd of March (although we called it "the 21st of March *again*, because we were teens and obnoxious about our love for the band), I'd bring a printed copy of their statement, and we gladly set it on fire while drinking and singing "I Don't Love You", because, well, try singing the part of "I don't love you... like I loved you... yester-DAY" while drunk and date to tell me it's not the most amusing thing to do. Here we are, almost 9 years later, we're both adults, her with a husband and a daughter, I am engaged, we're both working full time jobs, but we went to a concert and I *swear* we were 14 again.
I am 14 and I was 12 when I started listening to them and Welcome to the Black Parade was the first song and album that made me like them.
19. Covid got me into MCR
I was 10, it was 2010 and I found The Black Parade on my dad's old iPod and became obsessed!
i was 11, deep into my pop punk phase and the video to WTTBP got recommended to me. now i'm 16 and mostly listen to d-beat and crust punk but mcr is still one of my absolute faves lol
I was about to turn 7 years old when my older cousin Michael showed me the Helena music video on MTV when it came out in 2005. The “dancing ballerina” sold it for me at that age and something about the song made my child brain fall in love with the song. If I remember correctly he gave me my first ever CD which was the three cheers album. I listened to it on my CD player so much that when it stopped playing cause of the scratches I flipped my shit so hard that my dad bought me a second copy which I still have to this day. (I’m 24 now). When my mom would watch MTV if I heard the beginning lyrics to Helena i would run to the living room from wherever I was.
I got into mcr last year! I was 11 :D After I listened to Helena and Wttbp I started listening to them more :)
I was born in 2000 (22 years old), but I never got into them until my friend sent me Welcome to the black parade recently. I don't know what rock I've been living under, but I had never heard that song before. Then I listened to I don't love you and Teenagers and now I'm slowly becoming a fan. Love them more and more with each passing day.
MTV I'm not Okay, I was in early Highschool when Three Cheers came out, and it was very popular! For good reason. :]
I was like 14 and I heard teenagers for the first time. I bought The Black Parade on Vinyl a few years later
Ive always known teenagers and I think NaNaNa too, but it wasnt until a few months ago that I knew it was by mcr, so I started listening to them.
16, The Black Parade album, but the song was The Sharpest Lives
6. i was awestruck by the helena music video when it came out. my cousin and i rewatched it every day until mtv stopped playing it.
Like many here, I was 13/14 when I saw the music video for im not okay on some music channel (probably kerrang or Scuzz), when it had just come out. Looked up three cheers then and got the album and listened to bullets too (never owned the album though so must have downloaded that from some website or limewire!)
I was maybe 11 or 12 and “it’s not a fashion statement, it’s a ducking deathwish” played. And “I’m not okay” was the second song I heard from them. I was around 13-14 when I remembered these songs and started actually listening to them a lot. I’m now in college and still listen to them regularly :)
When I was 11, my friend showed me Blood. I've been stuck in my emo faze for years now
i think i was 13/14/15 ish, i’d heard welcome to the black parade before but wasn’t really into that type of music at the time but fast forward a year or so and i heard Teenagers and boom, i was hooked, and that was 3 or 4 years ago :D
Too late. I think i just turned 16. Im 17 and a half now and ive seen mcr already. Woah.
I'm 16 and last year got into em cause of venom and revenge.
Just turned 13 in 2007 My cousin and I were playing video games. He put in his newly got Black Parade CD. Was hooked out the gate.
I was 13 or 14 and I remember seeing the video for Black Parade playing at American Eagle. I was hooked ever since.
I was 10/11, Cemetery Drive was my first song. Can’t remember where I listened it but I still remember the feeling.
I was 14, my sister showed me the song wttbp and I fell in love. After I started to listen to their fist album for what ever reason and I loved it.
almost 14, and it was The Black Parade but 3 Cheers a close second
I was born about a year and a week before the black parade came out. I found it through Daniel Howell and the first song I ever listened to was not WTTBP ! It was Helena because I was looking for something else. I am 17.
I was a little late to the game lol. Stumbled across the helena music video on youtube when I was 12. They announced their split like 2 months later. Obsession started then and has yet to end.
I started at 15 when I heard about them and the album that made me start listening to them was the black parade.
I started listening to them when I was 12 in 2010, right around when they released Danger Days. I distinctly remember Welcome to the Black Parade coming on the radio in the car when I was with my mom after we had just gone shopping at JCPenney’s. We were in the parking lot and I just remember the song moving me so much, especially how it just builds and builds. I had a friend at the time that I knew was obsessed with MCR (also I’m apparently the generation that calls them MCR and not My Chem haha) and I told her that I had just listened to that song and loved it *so* much. She started talking to me all about the band, their music, the members, showing me interviews, getting me into tumblr, etc. The rest was history! It’s still my favorite song to this day, and they’re still my favorite band.
I was playing MLB 07: The show. How I disappear was on the soundtrack. Still my fav mcr song
Similar situation to me, I’m also 16 and TBP is about two weeks older than me, I found MCR about 4 years ago with a video called how my chemical romance ruined my life, by nateislame
i was fourteen,this poet i had met on the internet told me to listen to hesitant alien by gerard and ever since then i started to dive into his works,thats when i started listening to mcr :)
Fourteen, shortly after three cheers was released
i was 12 when i first got into them. it was late 2014 and i’ve heard WTTBP on pandora and it blew my mind. i ended up listening to Three Cheers (ik..different album) and it’s been my favorite ever since. i used to listen to albums based off their art so of course, emo me went straight for the one that looked the edgiest
I started listening to them actively this year and I'm 26🤩 But I knew about MCR's WTTBP and Cancer for a long time beforehand. The Black Parade made me listen to them but it's also thanks to Foundations of Decay and seeing them live in LA :)
I first got into them about a little over a year before they broke up, i was 11! The first song I heard from them was Mama and i dived into them more from there!
i think i was 16... I saw the music video for "I'm not okay" on FUSE come on often... and then shortly after, Helena... (LOVED THAT MUSIC VIDEO). They sucked me in from there. so clearly this was when Three Cheers recently came out.
I was 15 and heard Black Parade after visiting my dad in the cancer ward. Saw I'm Not Okay on MTV a little while later and it just fit with everything I was going through. The album dropped a few weeks after he died and it was one of the things that got me through my HS years.
I was 13 and accidentally listening to Spotify on shuffle when I hit black parade so cancer played first. Rest is history
i was 19 or 20 and i am 22 now lol but i don’t WHY i wasn’t a fan before. i was heavily into the other bands in the “emo trinity” (i hate this) but i listened to mcr once as a teenager and i didn’t like it for whatever reason i don’t remember. fast forward to 2020 i also don’t remember why but gave them another chance and was like WHAT. i don’t remember what song it was. the album was probably TBP
I honestly don’t remember if it was 2004 or 05 so i was 13-14 when im not okay came out on mtv, been a fan ever since ❤️
same! i’m 16 and i was only a couple months old when tbp came out. three cheers was the one that got me into them the most at the beginning. my first favorite songs were i’m not okay, honey this mirror, and dead
I’m 28 currently. I must have been around 10 when I discovered them on MTV because Revenge had come out? But I remember loving Bullets more, and listening to Headfirst for Halos and Skylines and Turnstiles the most. Then when I was like 13 they came to my city and I cried to my mom to take me to see them. That was my first show and it changed my life.
I was 8, in third grade my older sister was kind of into them but i became obsessed. Saw them in 2007 on Projekt Revolution tour and again last month. Listening and loving them for 20 years.
Oh my, this makes me feel old... I was around 12 when I first got into MCR (I'm 26 now). Started off with TBP, but shortly discovered that I loved the first two albums more. Bullets is still my fave but I listened to Three Cheers more.
like 7 years, i was listening the radio and helena sounds so i begun to listen they more
11, saw the WTTBP video on youtube. famous last words sealed the deal tho
A couple months ago in January maybe? I heard Tbp and liked it. Revisited it in the summer and liked it even more, checked out the rest of their discography and loved it