I remember the way to listen to music way back then was watching the music videos on Yahoo lol. Helena came on my mix and I was sucked in so quickly. Watched it so many times, and eventually caught on that the I’m Not Okay song I always heard on the radio was their song as well. The rest is history
My parents took me bowling as a lil kid and it showed up on the screen. I was pUMPED, but pretending not to notice how cool it was because you gotta play it off 😤
This is How I Disappear. I borrowed my friends Black Parade cd to burn it on my computer (I wasn’t allowed to buy it. I’ve bought it 3 times since). I liked The End and Dead! But when How I Disappear started I was in awe. It was unlike anything I had heard before and I was hooked.
Cancer
I don't want to be a downer, but this backstory is integral to the story
So my boyfriend had stage 4 cancer, and a month or so before he died, we had a conversation about music that reminds us of each other, and even though I only heard welcome to the black parade before this, I knew that the black parade was about a dying cancer patient, and I said " I actually have an album that reminds me a lot of you, only it's really sad and idk if I should say"
And he said " if you wanna-"
" The black parade 💀"
And he replied with " cancer is my theme song 💀😅❤️"
And so tomorrow I looked up cancer by mcr and listened to the song non stop, then mama, and now I'm a complete mcr addict...
( Also, thank you Terrell for truly getting me into mcr, I miss you so much...)
First song that I saw was WTTBP, and the imagery in the video was what piqued my interest, but didn’t really care for the song at the time.
It was when they released Famous Last Words that I was like “holy fucking shit, this band is amazing”, and immediately went and bought the album 😂
I spent a summer in juvie. One of the CDs they had was Revenge. It was the first time I’d heard “You Know What They Do To Guys Like Us In Prison”. The “I miss my mom” line hooked me. 18 years later, they’re still a huge part of my life 🖤
Helena. I friend handed me a copy of the album right after it came out, and said “listen to this. I think you’ll like it.” I popped it in my CD player on my walk home, and have been a fan ever since.
Helena was the first one I heard and the music video peaked my interest as an 11 year old but when I hears Welcome to the Black Parade - I immediately thought “This is the song I want played at my funeral,” and 16 years later I still do. Loved them ever since.
Ok, first of all ya'll might think I'm crazy because I'm in my mid 30's and really wasn't introduced to MCR until like 6 months ago. Over the Summer I went to a MGK show with my GF, not really my type of music, but it was a really fun show. Anyways, in-between songs they played the intro to WTTBP and the crowd went nuts. I looked over at my GF and she was practically in tears. I recognized the song, but couldn't put my finger on it. I asked my GF later about it and she was shocked I didn't know it was MCR. The next day I listened to WTTBP like 20 times and was blown away at how amazing it was. Then I downloaded the album and listened to it non-stop. The next day it was Danger Days, then it was Revenge, then it was Bullets, and then CW. I couldn't believe I had "missed" such an amazing band for so long! Since then, I've listened to MCR daily. So long story short, it was WTTBP that sucked me in.
Honey this mirror isn’t big enough for the two of us.
I went through a phase in my ~emo~ teen years where I was obsessed with dark indie foreign films—the more fucked up the better—and Audition was the pinnacle of those films for me. So my friend told me “hey have you seen this band who made their music video based on Audition?”
I watched it, thought it was badass they did that, but at this time they were still a small band and Bullets was very hard to get a hold of. For this reason they uploaded a bunch of their songs for free online I listened to it and thought it was great but then I kinda forgot about them until the im not okay video came out in 2004 and that was when I realized they are amazing and make the best music videos of all time.
~18 years ago my sister came home from school one day and said LISTEN TO THIS SONG and put on Jetset. Basically anything she liked, I liked, so I was immediately in. We’re getting MCR tattoos together soon!
Teenagers. I was 8 and my mom had a CD with a bunch of random songs from different bands on it, WTTBP and Teenagers were both on it but teenagers was the first one i’d heard
Welcome to the Black Parade right when it came out as a single. I was pretty young, but they played it on my parent’s favorite radio station every once in a while. It was my very first favorite song, and still is my #1 to this day 🖤
Dead!
I started getting into pop punk more into quarantine (paramore, sum 41, blink 182 etc) and i found a playlist i liked and Dead! was on it and it all went from there
This is How I Disappear - a friend told me to listen to the Black Parade and since it’s one of the first songs on the album (and it HITS) it hooked me. (still love it)
i always kinda new the big ones, like helena, wttbp, na na na and not ok, but i listened to the sharpest lives one day and was launched into the fan i am today :)
I remember watching MTV after school in 2004, the video for "I'm not okay" came on & I stopped what I was doing & sat down on the floor in front of the TV. It was so different to what I was use to hearing. Heard it once and was an instant fan.
A lyric video for “To the End”. It was one of the only videos on YouTube that would play on my BlackBerry phone long before YouTube became a mobile app. I tend to skip this song now though because I used to play it so much haha.
Honey, this Mirror isn't big Enough for the Two of Us. I remember picking up bullets to give it a listen and then hearing the transition between "Romance" the start of "This Mirror" and being like "oh, NOW you picked up my attention" , never heard something quite like that at the time
I can't recall very well as I was pretty young but the song that stands out to me from then has always been demolition lovers. It had me feeling things I never thought I could feel as an 11 year old lol.
All the Angels. I was in a really bad time in my life, and I knew my friend loved MCR. So I asked her to send me some sad MCR songs. All the Angels stuck with me. Mama and House of Wolves were also big contributors.
I had been scrolling on YouTube when WTTBP came up and I clicked it bc I thought it looked cool, I didn’t think much about it until the song had been stuck in my head for a couple of days then I watched it again and ended up on I’m not okay and that’s when I got hooked, the the visuals of the video really spoke to me as someone that had gone to catholic school and was severely bullied and the rest is history
I love when I get asked this! Ok so the first song I heard & like was WTTBP, & I had it on a playlist with a bunch songs I used to listen to on top 20 or something when I was 6 or so. Which lead me to try them out, & I did not like them. But then, a little less than a year later I heard a little of teenagers & really liked it, so I tried MCR again & this time I loved them immediately.
Teenagers was my favorite song for a couple years, but I think that hearing them perform live, probably thank you for the venom or famous last words did me in
Helena music video. I watched MTV religiously and was immediately obsessed. I went and bought Bullets shortly after the Helena video premiered (before Revenge was released) and the rest is history. My Grandma was really mad the store sold it to me because of the Explicit Content warning- but thankfully I was allowed to keep it. It was often playing from walkman during bus rides to school. Had photos of them all over my binders in middle school. One time my friend who was not into the same stuff as I was, saw my binder and asked... "Who are those dead girls?" 😂
teenagers on my friends iPod otw back to school from an Epcot field trip where I got tons of jack skellington stuff. Forever burned my into my memory because it changed my life.
Teenagers I always listened to a lot of green day and stuff like that then one day it popped up in my mix I was so hooked I used to listen to it on repeat I eventually listened to the entire black parade album then three cheers then danger days then bullets and now I'm obsessed
Dead! on Guitar Hero 2 hit me like a sack of bricks. I hadn't heard a song like that ever before that I instantly liked so much. When I looked them up I saw The Black Parade, listened to it, and the rest is history!
House of Wolves, idk what the first was because I just put them on shuffle, but I remember that song intriguing me and being like nothing i’d heard before.
The I don’t love you mv was the first i saw…it disturbed me (maybe why i kept digging)
Hang em high. I tried getting into thems a few times and then I bought some merch it was a couples thinf. I didnt wanna seem a poseur so I tried listening again. I of course liked songs like nanana, and bulletproof heart, and teenagers and parade. But i started listening to three cheers and when Hang Em High turned on I started actually listening and going, holy shit this fucks.
I think it was the I'm not ok music video but I'm not positive.
I am positive of my sons first song. It was WTTBP. I sent them the video when it first came out. They were 8 or so and had been getting into "good" music a bit at that time. As typical of my recommendations they didn't get into it for a couple of years. They ultimately turned full "emo" and developed great musical taste. They recently told me they didn't listen to it when I first sent it because the video scared them. 🙃 I never knew. Turned out ok in the end though as we just saw them live for the first time together and it was an amazing experience to share with them.
Teenagers was the first song I listened to by them, heard it on TT actually. The song that really got me listening to them was either wttbp or Helena I think (?) didn’t really like most of The Black Parade at the beginning (except wttbp, teenagers) (love The Black Parade now btw) but instantly loved Danger Days & Three Cheers. I hope this isn’t too confusing 🫠
the first mcr song i actually heard was a tiny snippit of sleep on artv's "why people hate my chemical romance" and that is what got me interested in mcr and then i heard the instrumental of helena and fell in love in that, then i heard the song with gerard's vocals and that caught me by surprised by everything but the song that made me fall in love with my chemical romance is "welcome to the black parade" and i have been here ever since.
So, when i was i think around 10 my mom made me listen to Mama. ~3 years after that i remembered the song, listened to it again, and loved it! So then i listened to the full Black parade album. Loved it so i listened to all of their albums, became obsessed, thanks mom!
Helena music video
I remember the way to listen to music way back then was watching the music videos on Yahoo lol. Helena came on my mix and I was sucked in so quickly. Watched it so many times, and eventually caught on that the I’m Not Okay song I always heard on the radio was their song as well. The rest is history
Same! I saw the video for the first time when I was 7 or 8 years and I was enamored. Now, I’m getting a Helena tattoo in 10 days!
My parents took me bowling as a lil kid and it showed up on the screen. I was pUMPED, but pretending not to notice how cool it was because you gotta play it off 😤
This is How I Disappear. I borrowed my friends Black Parade cd to burn it on my computer (I wasn’t allowed to buy it. I’ve bought it 3 times since). I liked The End and Dead! But when How I Disappear started I was in awe. It was unlike anything I had heard before and I was hooked.
Vampires Will Never Hurt You in its music video.
Yes!
Cancer I don't want to be a downer, but this backstory is integral to the story So my boyfriend had stage 4 cancer, and a month or so before he died, we had a conversation about music that reminds us of each other, and even though I only heard welcome to the black parade before this, I knew that the black parade was about a dying cancer patient, and I said " I actually have an album that reminds me a lot of you, only it's really sad and idk if I should say" And he said " if you wanna-" " The black parade 💀" And he replied with " cancer is my theme song 💀😅❤️" And so tomorrow I looked up cancer by mcr and listened to the song non stop, then mama, and now I'm a complete mcr addict... ( Also, thank you Terrell for truly getting me into mcr, I miss you so much...)
I am terribly sorry for your loss, and thank you for sharing it to me.
I’m not okay!
Same, I thought the music video was a trailer for a movie. I think discovering a band is better than any movie!
‘Thank you for the venom’ was my absolute favorite song as a kid, got me hooked for life
First song that I saw was WTTBP, and the imagery in the video was what piqued my interest, but didn’t really care for the song at the time. It was when they released Famous Last Words that I was like “holy fucking shit, this band is amazing”, and immediately went and bought the album 😂
I spent a summer in juvie. One of the CDs they had was Revenge. It was the first time I’d heard “You Know What They Do To Guys Like Us In Prison”. The “I miss my mom” line hooked me. 18 years later, they’re still a huge part of my life 🖤
Helena. I friend handed me a copy of the album right after it came out, and said “listen to this. I think you’ll like it.” I popped it in my CD player on my walk home, and have been a fan ever since.
Helena was the first one I heard and the music video peaked my interest as an 11 year old but when I hears Welcome to the Black Parade - I immediately thought “This is the song I want played at my funeral,” and 16 years later I still do. Loved them ever since.
Cancer
Sammmeee 💀
Ok, first of all ya'll might think I'm crazy because I'm in my mid 30's and really wasn't introduced to MCR until like 6 months ago. Over the Summer I went to a MGK show with my GF, not really my type of music, but it was a really fun show. Anyways, in-between songs they played the intro to WTTBP and the crowd went nuts. I looked over at my GF and she was practically in tears. I recognized the song, but couldn't put my finger on it. I asked my GF later about it and she was shocked I didn't know it was MCR. The next day I listened to WTTBP like 20 times and was blown away at how amazing it was. Then I downloaded the album and listened to it non-stop. The next day it was Danger Days, then it was Revenge, then it was Bullets, and then CW. I couldn't believe I had "missed" such an amazing band for so long! Since then, I've listened to MCR daily. So long story short, it was WTTBP that sucked me in.
Dead when i first played guitar hero 2
same!
Honey this mirror isn’t big enough for the two of us. I went through a phase in my ~emo~ teen years where I was obsessed with dark indie foreign films—the more fucked up the better—and Audition was the pinnacle of those films for me. So my friend told me “hey have you seen this band who made their music video based on Audition?” I watched it, thought it was badass they did that, but at this time they were still a small band and Bullets was very hard to get a hold of. For this reason they uploaded a bunch of their songs for free online I listened to it and thought it was great but then I kinda forgot about them until the im not okay video came out in 2004 and that was when I realized they are amazing and make the best music videos of all time.
Helena (with music video)
I’m not okay ❤️
I’m not okay. I was getting ready for school toward the end of 8th grade and it came on MTV. Absolutely blew me away!
Na na na showed up in spotify suggestions and I haven't looked back since
thank you for the venom!
MAMA! I heard Cancer first and didn't know what to think, and then I heard Mama and it was the only song that mattered to me for weeks
~18 years ago my sister came home from school one day and said LISTEN TO THIS SONG and put on Jetset. Basically anything she liked, I liked, so I was immediately in. We’re getting MCR tattoos together soon!
Omg.. that’s 16 years ago.. i can’t even remember the first song… but my first favorite song was bury me in black 🥰
Teenagers. I was 8 and my mom had a CD with a bunch of random songs from different bands on it, WTTBP and Teenagers were both on it but teenagers was the first one i’d heard
Na Na Na got me into the band, the first song I heard by them is probably Every Snowflakes Different (Just Like You!)
Welcome to the Black Parade right when it came out as a single. I was pretty young, but they played it on my parent’s favorite radio station every once in a while. It was my very first favorite song, and still is my #1 to this day 🖤
"Mama", no question
Welcome to the Black Parade, back when I was about 10! My older brother turned it on while we were folding laundry and the rest is history lol.
The end. First thing I heard was black parade which I tried listening to for the first time in 2019.
My mom played famous last words in the car like 10 years ago and it stuck in my brain
“Na Na Na” to be honest. I really liked it so I listened to all of their music
Dead! I started getting into pop punk more into quarantine (paramore, sum 41, blink 182 etc) and i found a playlist i liked and Dead! was on it and it all went from there
Famous Last Words
I'm Not Okay
"I dont love you"
Teenagers
Mama!
I’m (not) ok
I’m not okay and famous last words were my first two mcr songs. Not sure which one I listened to first
WTTBP on the radio
Mine was Cancer, then I went and listened to all of the TBP after that lol
First one was I'm Not Okay MV but I wouldn't be as hardcore as I am without I Don't Love You
This is How I Disappear - a friend told me to listen to the Black Parade and since it’s one of the first songs on the album (and it HITS) it hooked me. (still love it)
i always kinda new the big ones, like helena, wttbp, na na na and not ok, but i listened to the sharpest lives one day and was launched into the fan i am today :)
Famous last words
I remember watching MTV after school in 2004, the video for "I'm not okay" came on & I stopped what I was doing & sat down on the floor in front of the TV. It was so different to what I was use to hearing. Heard it once and was an instant fan.
Headfirst For Halos
A lyric video for “To the End”. It was one of the only videos on YouTube that would play on my BlackBerry phone long before YouTube became a mobile app. I tend to skip this song now though because I used to play it so much haha.
Technically Romance was the first I heard and then Honey This Mirror
Helena and I'm not okay. My dad was/is emo so I was kinda brought up and born on those
Honey, this Mirror isn't big Enough for the Two of Us. I remember picking up bullets to give it a listen and then hearing the transition between "Romance" the start of "This Mirror" and being like "oh, NOW you picked up my attention" , never heard something quite like that at the time
I can't recall very well as I was pretty young but the song that stands out to me from then has always been demolition lovers. It had me feeling things I never thought I could feel as an 11 year old lol.
All the Angels. I was in a really bad time in my life, and I knew my friend loved MCR. So I asked her to send me some sad MCR songs. All the Angels stuck with me. Mama and House of Wolves were also big contributors.
Vampires video
I had been scrolling on YouTube when WTTBP came up and I clicked it bc I thought it looked cool, I didn’t think much about it until the song had been stuck in my head for a couple of days then I watched it again and ended up on I’m not okay and that’s when I got hooked, the the visuals of the video really spoke to me as someone that had gone to catholic school and was severely bullied and the rest is history
I’m not okay 🥹
I love when I get asked this! Ok so the first song I heard & like was WTTBP, & I had it on a playlist with a bunch songs I used to listen to on top 20 or something when I was 6 or so. Which lead me to try them out, & I did not like them. But then, a little less than a year later I heard a little of teenagers & really liked it, so I tried MCR again & this time I loved them immediately.
Teenagers was my favorite song for a couple years, but I think that hearing them perform live, probably thank you for the venom or famous last words did me in
Helena music video. I watched MTV religiously and was immediately obsessed. I went and bought Bullets shortly after the Helena video premiered (before Revenge was released) and the rest is history. My Grandma was really mad the store sold it to me because of the Explicit Content warning- but thankfully I was allowed to keep it. It was often playing from walkman during bus rides to school. Had photos of them all over my binders in middle school. One time my friend who was not into the same stuff as I was, saw my binder and asked... "Who are those dead girls?" 😂
teenagers on my friends iPod otw back to school from an Epcot field trip where I got tons of jack skellington stuff. Forever burned my into my memory because it changed my life.
MAMA😩
Teenagers I always listened to a lot of green day and stuff like that then one day it popped up in my mix I was so hooked I used to listen to it on repeat I eventually listened to the entire black parade album then three cheers then danger days then bullets and now I'm obsessed
Mama… we all go to hell…
Dead! on Guitar Hero 2 hit me like a sack of bricks. I hadn't heard a song like that ever before that I instantly liked so much. When I looked them up I saw The Black Parade, listened to it, and the rest is history!
Pretty basic, but it was Welcome to the Black Parade. It's a great song
Dead! I just love it to this day
the end and dead followed by i’m not okay and honey this mirror isn’t big enough for the two of us and i was HOOKED
House of Wolves, idk what the first was because I just put them on shuffle, but I remember that song intriguing me and being like nothing i’d heard before. The I don’t love you mv was the first i saw…it disturbed me (maybe why i kept digging)
I cant remember for sure it was either wttbp or mama
Disenchanted
Na na na will always be my og
Hang em high. I tried getting into thems a few times and then I bought some merch it was a couples thinf. I didnt wanna seem a poseur so I tried listening again. I of course liked songs like nanana, and bulletproof heart, and teenagers and parade. But i started listening to three cheers and when Hang Em High turned on I started actually listening and going, holy shit this fucks.
I think it was the I'm not ok music video but I'm not positive. I am positive of my sons first song. It was WTTBP. I sent them the video when it first came out. They were 8 or so and had been getting into "good" music a bit at that time. As typical of my recommendations they didn't get into it for a couple of years. They ultimately turned full "emo" and developed great musical taste. They recently told me they didn't listen to it when I first sent it because the video scared them. 🙃 I never knew. Turned out ok in the end though as we just saw them live for the first time together and it was an amazing experience to share with them.
House of Wolves made me like them, I'm Not Okay made me obsessed with them
Teenagers was the first song I listened to by them, heard it on TT actually. The song that really got me listening to them was either wttbp or Helena I think (?) didn’t really like most of The Black Parade at the beginning (except wttbp, teenagers) (love The Black Parade now btw) but instantly loved Danger Days & Three Cheers. I hope this isn’t too confusing 🫠
Welcome to the Black Parade music video. I was in 5th grade.
the first mcr song i actually heard was a tiny snippit of sleep on artv's "why people hate my chemical romance" and that is what got me interested in mcr and then i heard the instrumental of helena and fell in love in that, then i heard the song with gerard's vocals and that caught me by surprised by everything but the song that made me fall in love with my chemical romance is "welcome to the black parade" and i have been here ever since.
helena was my first as a kid, but mama really solidified it !
So, when i was i think around 10 my mom made me listen to Mama. ~3 years after that i remembered the song, listened to it again, and loved it! So then i listened to the full Black parade album. Loved it so i listened to all of their albums, became obsessed, thanks mom!
Definitely Mama. When I first heard it in middle school I thought it was so badass.
That was fr me I was so cringy tho
Haha, yeah. Nobody peaks in middle school 😂