#im like from the black parade mv

[guusagi]

My nurse Gerard costume is here, woopie!!

It's my favorite mcr look from 2022, ugh it's too cute!

edit: I ended up wearing these shoes instead

[leave-your-body]

hiiii juno :)))) ive been getting really into mcr lately and with you being my Certified MCR Mutual tm i thought you could give me some recs maybe .............. so far I've only listened to the black parade and i really liked it :))))

HI ARI how have u been!!!!!!!!! i love u my king i hope u are Well.

now.. HEAVY BREATHING. Yes i will give u recs.. THANK YOU FOR THINKING OF ME this made me really really happy!!!! sorry if this is way too in depth btw unfortunately i cant be casual about Anything

so for recs, it really depends on what music u like!! i OBVIOUSLY recommend like, the entirety of three cheers for sweet revenge. its The mcr album imo (tho not my fav, but we'll get to that in a sec), like its the one that feels the most Them and there is not a single song i would skip. i recommend watching the music videos for these too (for this album, they have mvs for helena, the ghost of you and im not okay)

NOW. my FAV album is their first one. bullets is a MASTERPIECE and even tho Objectively i have to say its not their best one, in my heart it totally is. this is the album that got me hooked on them. im obsessed. OBSESSED!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! post-hardcore emo masterpiece... again this is a no skip album but like, more so than 3 cheers. i dont just listen to these songs i fucking Feel them. BUT that being said it depends on what kind of music u like!! for specific song recs, listen to vampires will never hurt u and skylines and turnstiles (<- this is the FIRST SONG gerard wrote for the band after 9/11... Wow), but my personal favs on that album are drowning lessons and demolition lovers and honey this mirror. Smiles

aside from that, youve already listened to black parade (the bsides are ALSO worth listening to, theres only 3: my way home is thru you, kill all yr friends, and heaven help us). danger days is their most hated album but i think those ppl just hate Joy and Whimsy and Fun. i recommend watching the music videos for na na na and sing bcuz they have a Storyline but thats a whole other post. and other than that i also rec listening to bulletproof heart, summertime and vampire money

LAST ONE I PROMISE. this is REQUIRED READING: listen to foundations of decay. their newest single..it changes lives i Promise. i say 'i must fix my heart' once a day at LEAST

AGAIN SORRY THIS WAS SO LONG!!! I HOPE U ENJOY MCR let me knwo what u think :) obviously dont feel pressured to listen to all of these or even any of them!! but thank u for giving me an excuse to talk about them haha. and if u need anything else mcr-related i unfortanetely know everything about them and am more than willing to help out. okay bye

[toffeeklown]

HAI U DONT KNOW ME BUT I SAW UR POST ON MCR N I WILL ALWAYS JUMP AT THE OPPORTUNITY 2 TALK ABT THAT BAND 😭

1st of all, idk what songs u’ve listened 2, but i defo recommend listening 2 their entire discography, the order in which u do doesnt rlly matter tho !!!!

ITS SO IMPORTANT U LISTEN 2 THE ENTIRETY OF THREE CHEERS 4 SWEET REVENGE BTW I MIGHT B BIASED BC THATS 1 OF MY FAV ALBUMS BUT ITS A CONCEPT ALBUM N THE STORY IS BEST RECEIVED IF U LISTEN 2 IT IN ORDER ,,, A FEW TRACKS ON 3 CHEERS ARENT RELATED 2 THE OVERALL STORY (LIKE IM NOT OK N ARGUABLY HELENA, ALTHO SOME PPL WOULD SAY IT IS SO THAT 1’S UP 2 INTERPRETATION TBH) I CAN SEND U ANOTHER ASK ELABORATING ON THE STORY IF U’D LIKE!!!!!! 1 OF MY PERSONAL FAVS FROM THAT ALBUM IS ITS NOT A FASHION STATEMENT, ITS A FUCKING DEATHWISH BUT TBH ALL OF THE SONGS R GOOD I LIKE CEMETERY DRIVE A LOT 2 ���️

OKAYYYY I YAPPED ENOUGH ABT THAT ALBUM MOVING ON 2 THEIR FIRST RECORD, BULLETS!!! BULLETS DOESNT RLLY HAVE A STORYLINE SO THE ORDER IN WHICH U LISTEN 2 IT ISNT AS IMPORTANT BUT OBVI ITS ALWAYS A GUD EXPERIENCE 2 LISTEN 2 AN ALBUM IN ORDER ‼️‼️‼️ 4 THAT ALBUM ID RECOMMEND EARLY SUNSETS OVER MONROEVILLE, VAMPIRES WILL NEVER HURT YOU, HONEY THIS MIRROR, N DEFO SKYLINES N TURNSTILES

OOO U SHOULD ALSO LISTEN 2 DEMOLITION LOVERS WHICH IS RELATED 2 THE STORY IN 3 CHEERS

IM SURE UVE HEARD A LOT FROM THE BLACK PARADE BC ITS KNOWN AS THEIR BEST ALBUM AND OBVI THEIR MOST FAMOUS 🤓 BUT U SHOULD LISTEN 2 SLEEP, FAMOUS LAST WORDS, N MAMA. N ALSO PROLLY THIS IS HOW I DISAPPEAR BC I LUV THAT SONG A LOT LOL THE BLACK PARADE IS ALSO A CONCEPT ALBUM BUT I DONT THINK ITS RLLY IN ORDER LIKE 3 CHEERS IS ‼️ THE BLACK PARADE FOCUSES A LOTTTT ON DEATH N IS BASICALLY ABT A MAN DYING FROM CANCER OOOO U SHOULD LISTEN 2 CANCER 2 THAT SONG IS SO TRAGICALLY GOOD N TBH U SHOULD CHECK OUT HOUSE OF WOLVES 2

NEXT WOULD BE DANGER DAYS WHICH IS ANOTHER 1 OF MY FAV ALBUMS I LISTEN 2 IT SO OFTENNNNN ITS POPPIER THAN THEIR OTHER ALBUMS BUT I DEFO STILL ENJOY IT. ITS ALSO A CONCEPT ALBUM SO U SHOULD PROLLY LISTEN 2 IT IN ORDER??? BUT TBH U’LL PROLLY PICK UP ON THE MAIN THEMES EVEN IF U DONT GO IN ORDER

AAAA ALSO DANGER DAYS HAS COMICS WRITTEN BY THE LEAD SINGER OF MCR, GERARD WAY, THAT TELL A STORY WITHIN THE SAME UNIVERSE AS THE ALBUM 🗣️🗣️🗣️ I LUV THOSE SM N DEFO RECOMMEND THOSE IF UR INTO THE ALBUM OOO ID ALSO RECOMMEND WATCHING THE SING N NA NA NA MVS IF U HAVENT BC THEY INTRODUCE THE KILLJOYS N GIVE U A STORY 2 FOLLOW

OMG I HAVENT EVEN RECOMMENDED SONGS YET LOL SRRYYYY BUT 4 DANGER DAYS, I RECOMMEND U LISTEN 2 NA NA NA, SUMMERTIME, SCARECROW, THE ONLY HOPE 4 ME IS U, N PLANETARY (GO) ALTHO I RLLY RECOMMEND EVERY SONG LOL I LUV DANGER DAYS A LOT 😭😭

OKAYYYYYYY IM SO SRRYY I TALKED 4 SO LONG N I HOPE U DONT MIND ME INVADING UR INBOX LIKE THIS IM JST VERYYYYY INTO MCR 😣😣😣 OBVI U DONT HAVE 2 LISTEN 2 THE SONGS I RECOMMENDED BUT I DEFO THINK U SHOULD ‼️

ps pls check out foundations of decay 2 ,,,, its their most recent song which they released after they got back 2gether n its SO FUCKING AWESOME

Omg that is a lot but ty sososososo much for the recommendations! Ive just been listening to all their stuff on shuffle so i dont know a lot of the story :P nevertheless i will check out all those songs X3

[xo8ball]

OK OK OK FAVR SONG FROM EVERY FOB/MCR ALBUM (if I listed MV's too I'd be here all day :] )

FOB

TTTYG: Dead on Arrival (my grandpa likes this one so I like it too!!)

FUTCT:Dark Alley, or Get Busy Living!!

IOH: I'm Like a Lawyer, or G.I.N.A.S.F.S!!

Folie á Deux: Headfirst Slide, 27, or West Coast Smoker!

SRAR:,,,the entire album,,,

AB/AP: ...the entire album is such a fucking banger

MANIA: The Last of the Real Ones, HOLD ME TIGHT OR DONT, Stay Frosty Royal Milk Tea

SM(F)S: THE ENTIRE ALBUM IS SUCH A FUCKING BANGERRRR AUGH

MCR

Bullets: Honey, This Mirror isnt big enough for the both of us, Our Lady of Sorrows, and vampires will never hurt you!!

Three Cheers:The Ghost of You, To The End, It's not a fashion statement, it's a deathwish (it's not on the actual thing but I love Desert Song)

Black Parade:This Is How I dissapear, Dead!, Mama

DD:TLOTFK: EVERY SINGLE SONG ON HERE FUCKS.

Conventional Weapons: Boy Division, Tommorows Money, The World is Ugly, AMBULANCE

Black Parade/Living With Ghosts:All The Angels, Emily, Not That Kind of Girl!!

(Sorry if this list is kinda long, I'm just normal about these albums :]]] )

you're on tumblr who is normal here :3 (positive)

granpa has taste me thinks!!!!! AND I GETTT ITT its so hard choosing from srar and abap theyre INSANELY cool <3 SMFS MY BELOVED THEY DID DROP A BOMB LIKE THAT AND PRETEND I WAS GOING TO BE ALRIGHT. NO IM NOT I'M BETTER THAN EVER

for mcr, YES desert song deserves that spot from here to the moon (and from the earth to the morgue) ALL THE ANGELS AND EMILY MY ULTRA BELOVEDDDDSSS <3 love that living with ghosts is there you just get it buddy

nows my turn heehaaa!

fob

tttyg : postcards specially has my whole heart, sounds so... TEENAGER. special mentions to : saturday, chicago, dead on arrival, and calm before the storm

futct : i definitely have a fave and it's XO can you see.... but as corny as it is, i love dance dance, and also nobody puts baby, 7 minutes, snitches and talkers, music or misery, and get busy! never gets old :]

ioh : SO HARD BECAUSE ITS BANGER AFTER BANGER ..... defo hum hallelujah because i love her so bad! golden too, carpal tunnel, fame > infamy, youre crashing, ive got this ringing, after life of the party and dont you know who i think i am :3 (DID I LIST ALL OF THEM IDK... LOL LMAO)

FOLIE... you cabt do this to meeee..... literally cant stop listening to the whole album its all good! but top top top Mega Top faves are headfirst slide, suitehearts, 27, what a catch, shipped gold standard and disloyal order, but cant pity 13 queens against eachother<3

ON SRAR ITS SO BAD FOR ME its really good but the mighty fall wins by far it just does it for me. ALSO I REALLY LIKE THEM ALL but tmf.. shes special

abap is crazy good and twin skeletons will always kill me as uma thurman dances on my dead body. cant choose too much, Novocaine, 4th of july and jet pack blues also are very <3 IRRESISTIBLE WINS MV CATEGORY HERE first time i saw it i almost frew up from laughing its so good for my humor

mania will be forever my close to first fave post hiatus! wilson expensive mistakes GETS IT and also sunshine riptide <3

on a special note : believers never die! dear future self and from now on we are enemies are ingrained so bad in me <3

for the newest addition in the family, smfs is a good album back to back! so good right now, i am my own muse, flu game, what a time to be alive and the title track are the ones i find myself singing the most, but i do like every single one!!

Well that's a lot! now for the vampires :3

bullets : this one album hits close! but early sunsets made a home in me, as well as drowning lessons, headfirst for halos, skylines and turnstiles and well demolovers too because!!

revenge : BOMB album will say that. every single song is SO good<3 i never told you will always be mine mine and forever mine! but i really like every single song in there, jetset life is good too, helena and ghost of you also win! oh no THEYRE ALL GOOD also best demo is i never told you. "covered in blood and piss" forever.

tbp is my second favorite album ever, the theatrics, the feeling, the instrumentality....... <3 i dont love you, the sharpest lives, mama and sleep go by far to be my adored most repeated ones, but cant really choose! mcr you put a curse on me

dd is AMAZING the comics are CRAZY GOOD it was the FIRST INTRODUCTION I HAD TO MCR whatever so cool so dancey so party <3 SING IS MY BABY GIRL NOBODY TOUCH HER everynyan hates her but i love her. save yourself, destroya, scarecrow are soooo good too.......... my baby girls

conwep IS MY girl she gets me. gun is the only one i dislike as i said but mdhfjejemwnwb <3333 so much love to her <33333 ambulance, surrender the night, burn bright, kiss the ring and make room! my babies

living w ghosts KILL ALL YOUR FRIENDS FOREVER <3 emily, my way thru home is you and all the angels get it<3

mention to foundations because i still cant heal and cope I LOVE FOUNDATIONS REALLY REALLY BADDDDDD SO MUCH WO M7CH IM SO PUMPED UP FOR MCR5 <3

oh thats longer now. OKAY ALRIGHT drop me your fave era or looks :3

[izzy-b-hands]

I've activated the FUSE mv marathon nostalgia too much im so sorry y'all but also if u share the nostalgia pls join me in reminiscing aksnkdnf

Like. fkn Saosin & that angsty mv for You're Not Alone (i think? was the song name lol.) Immediately song stuck in head along with images from the mv

The Helena mv. My god. The White Stripes with Icky Thump which my grandma HATED bc it was Loud and Heavy and I think she legit still is concerned I had such a crush on Jack White then lmao (grandparents could afford the channel package w/FUSE so i watched it there after school almost every fkn day)

Seeing the mv for The Black Parade on there for the first time i think may be a foundational memory fr

I remember too watching the marathons so often I got mad they weren't updating the marathon playlist, and ended up occasionally adding in the VH1 mv marathons going on around that time of the afternoon. Got introduced to Pop Up Video that way (fuck it, I'm gonna post one in a minute. They're silly and cheesy and really fun tho. I think Prince had at least one? If not him i KNOW Queen and Elton have at least one each. YT must have them, brb)

[raytorosaurus]

Has literally anyone in the band ever said they dont like danger days?? I've seen some gatekeepers getting on their high horse about how they only played one dd song last night and how the "posers must be fuming" and one specific person tried to argue that the members don't like it. But I physically can't find any evidence of it beyond the tour being a generally shitty time for them?? If anything theres more evidence that they DO like it? Sorry if this is weird or pointless but I can't tell if this person has actual proof or are just pulling shit out of their ass because they don't like danger days lol

UGH. im on mobile rn so im not gonna link to specific interviews but they all love the album and talked a lot about how proud they were of it when it came out, and how writing it was actually a very fun and harmonious process. it was controversial in the fan base at the time of its release (partly because of the major aesthetic change the band underwent, partly bc it was pretty heavily advertised in a way some fans felt was disingenuous i guess) and it undersold the black parade, and then their world tour following it also didn't sell as well as expected. they even ran out of money to make the third mv they'd planned in the na na na/sing universe, so compared to the black parade it was technically a commercial failure. in hindsight, gerard especially has said that tour was a very bad time mentally. it was certainly hard for both him and frank to be away from their children. but they were never anything but proud of the album itself and made that clear in interviews. the only vague negativity from the band i can think of was when frank did a lengthy interview for...i believe ap? in late 2020, where he spoke about his whole career, and touched on the breakup of the band. he mentioned being disappointed that they didn't end up releasing the conventional weapons songs and said he thought in hindsight they should have worked on danger days for a little longer because some of the songs as they are feel slightly incomplete to him, and that was one of his only regrets relating to my chem. The ONLY other thing is an offhanded comment their producer, rob cavallo, made when speculating potential reasons for the breakup, when he said that maybe in hindsight he thought frank was struggling to find parts to play on danger days. but frank himself never confirmed that (he actually made a point of saying there was no tension between him and ray during dd), and in my opinion his guitar parts are much more interesting and less sparse on most danger days songs than they are on most conventional weapons songs, so i'd take it with a grain of salt. i think the gritty simplicity of cw is just kind of more to frank's taste than the more instrumentally conceptual sound of dd, so offhanded comments he's made about that have stuck in people's minds as negativity towards the album maybe.

i for one am very grateful we got to hear conventional weapons in the end because some of those songs are up there among my very favourite mcr songs, but im inclined to agree with what the band said over and over again at the time that scrapping cw as an album to release danger days instead was definitely the right choice. it sounds cliche to say but it was definitely a bit ahead of its time. if my chem had come back from the hiatus with an album that was just a collection of really good songs, and not an actual event with a concept and aesthetic and clear thematic thread, i think it would have been a disservice to the band's core mission statement, which was always to be subversive and unexpected, and to lean into the weird and take the risk even if it meant being misunderstood. conventional weapons is great, and it even kind of addresses some themes similar to danger days (dissolusionment with the state of the music industry, life in that side of LA etc) but it does it without any of the grandiose metaphor and pageantry and uniting aesthetic that's gerard's biggest strength and a huge appeal of the band, yk? anyway. it's fine to not love danger days of course, everyone has their opinions, but it annoys me to see people putting words in the band's mouth. "that was a bad time in our lives" =/= "we don't like that album we created together." also they've played sooo much dd at other shows...you don't see anyone going around saying they hate bullets when they've played entire shows this tour with zero bullets songs on them 🙄🙄

[angstics]

a long introspective post because i know with time i will forget this and i want to remember it all.

night of june 30th, technoblade's death was announced. i didnt believe it for a few minutes because i couldnt watch the video (i still havent). but it was true -- he passed away age 23 from cancer he discovered *less than a year* before his death. i keep quiet about how much i liked minecraft youtubers 2020 - 2021 because that turned out to be a DISASTER. but technoblade was one of the shining beacons. genuinely always the best, completely outside of post-death rose-tinted glasses. always.

before that, i was kind of getting into my chemical romance. id known of them my whole life. from dan and phil references to annoying ass g-note jokes to the twenty one pilot's cancer cover. i heard the Big Three hits but couldnt tell you what they were (except for "welcome") before listening to three cheers for the first time at the end of june. i dont know why i decided to start them. i wasnt really into music -- my top albums the last couple years included burnham's inside, starkid's twisted, and falsettos (2016). i wish i remembered better. if listening to them for the first time isnt a core memory, this is:

after 6 months of relative stability, i understandably hit a depressive episode in july. i would lie on my couch into the early morning for no reason. i wasnt trying to distract myself from his death ... there were no thoughts to be distracted from. it isnt a headspace i understand, especially since i never left it.

but for another unknown reason i thought to watch those mcr live shows. mind, at this point id only listened to three cheers. no exaggeration, i was betwitched by their performance. i most vibrantly remember gerard's eyes. crazy fucking eyes.

i'd forgotten cancer was an mcr song. when top released their cover, i listened to the original. i decided i liked twenty one pilots' more. i switched on that when i saw my chem on snl (i didnt watch BPID all the way through til a week later). it's the stripped down song, it's the direct lyrics, it's the crazy eyes. like he's trying to communicate EVERYTHING through his eyes.

the intro to BPID was like that too. when he ripped the hospital dress off and did the ghoul scream. had that feeling when i saw frank perform vampire money in glasgow. just. completely uninhibited. performace to say something truthful. unlike anything ive ever seen. from someone who wasnt very into music or live performance or theatre, much less the mechanics of it, i suddenly understood it all.

that screenshot is an abridged version of my actual search history. this is how it went.

june 26 i watched ->

side bar, thinking about it now, my interest in pink floyd directly lead to my interest in mcr. early morning july 1st, this is what i was watching (alan parsons project great reccomendation from my friend bink bonk):

july 2 i was watching videos a friend of techno's publicized to commerate him. the mcr video was in the reccomended tag -- a combo of the live pink floyd video and the im not okay mv. crazy how influenced my life is by where youtube leads me.

then i saw a LITTLE bit of BPID before seeing my chem in 2022 for the first time. this was just weeks after bonn. i didnt watch the full eden either. but i did watch all of "welcome" at milton keynes, based on the time stamps

this whole fucking day spent watching mcr videos. reading 2011, zack sang clip frank iero explains reading 2011 drama, mcr iceberg explained, "mcr best perfomance", "mcr best moments", mcr on letterman, mcr snl, "understanding the black parade" (i had not listened to black parade) -- then i left at 4pm. probably to sleep.

july 2nd was The day. i remember while watching these videos a realization hugging me. i knew that i was struck. from july until november, the majority of my conversations had something to do with my chem.

at the very beginning, i texted people about them to gage modern attitudes. growing up, they were adjacent to bands i thought sold out or lost their spark -- panic!, twenty one pilot, fall out boy. as ive said a million times, there is a Reason i didnt get into my chem earlier. just the other day on a SPECIFICALLY EMO SUBREDDIT there were people talking about how they "weren't ashamed to like mcr". where does this shame come from!!!!!! too mainstream for punk, too punk for mainstream. everyone knows this.

well anyway, july 2nd was just the first layer: the performance. july 11 (/early july 12) was another big day. the second layer: gender and sexuality. literally my tags on the first mcr post i reblogged ->

then i saw the great collection by flockofdoves and. well.

same day i found out about "i wanna be your joey ramone" and sleater-kinney, though i wouldnt listen to the song for a short while. that's layer 4: branching out to other music.

layer 3 was music appreciation. i listened to each of their albums in full sequentionally (KIND OF since i relistened to bullets 3 times were i only listened to the others in full 2 times max), purposuefully holding off for weeks between each album. i remember the first time i sat down to listen to black parade. i was buzzing at like 12:30 am because id decided that was the night. the end -> dead rocked my whole world. never got the instinct to bang your head around til those songs. the whole album was fucking amazing but something aboout famous last words got to me. id be sitting in the car with my sister and singing the bridge over and over. the perfect string of words -- with words i thought id never speak: awake and unafraid, asleep or dead.

i used to hate live performances because the music sounded worse than the studio version while giving me nothing performance-wise. id never wanted to go to a concert in my life. but not only did they sound GOOD live, it was a whole different experience. an adaptation that added to the experience in ways entirely different to what is lost. like i said, crazy eyes. and smiles like flowers and the audience louder than the amps and movement led by sound and memory. like. like nothing else. you cant understand this unless youre in love -- completely dedicated to it.

sometime in august i discovered they were coming to my town the next month. the first concert i ever wanted to go to. my parents were a nightmare about it the whole month until i got the permission to go. ive said also said this a million times: it was like rapture.

i dont understand why you would want to do anything that doesnt work towards that same feeling. my parents didnt get that feeling and i couldnt go to another show. it's been months and it still drives me insane. it drives me fucking insane. it drives me insane.

so those are the core memories related to my chem that got me here. it's a lot of love. love so big i cant even hold. it's belief. something close to religious. it's a lot of fear too -- fear the feeling will go away, that i'll "wake up", fear that they'll be taken. one reason i dont like music is the feelings i attach to it are so profound that i cant listen to it without feeling what i felt in the past. it's why i limit how much i listen to my chem. that's another fear -- though i attach positive feelings to the band, im engaging in it while depressed. more than engaging, obsessing. i cant focus on much else.

i hope as i get better mentally, this doesnt leave me. i got into it to cope. it showed me another dimension of art and life and emotion. it's a hard thing to navigate. i want the good, healthy parts of this to be my life. i hope i can figure that out. i hope it works out.

july 26 2020, i looked this up:

i have no memory of this at all.

the night before, i was on a technoblade binge that ended with me watching one of his seminal videos that i remember beat for beat.

i love technoblade forever. i cant watch his videos right now, but i hope i can someday. i love my chem forever. i hope-

[commajade]

omg amber can u do recommendations for new listener for f(x) and boa too? for boa i know like 3 songs and i like it all, for f(x) i really really like rppp and dracula but i tried some other songs and they dont vibe with me, i feel like im missing out haha. thank youu

omg!!! i would love to!!!!!! honestly for getting into them i recommend just skipping whatever songs u feel like skipping, with older kpop ur ear starts to change and u start to appreciate different things at different times once ur more familiar with the genre/era.

let's go f(x) first!!!!! definitely start with 4 walls (2015) it's the twin of view by shinee and they're both such a cultural reset it started the house music trend in kpop and are kind of the best of kpop house music still tbh. definitely a good first album to try though it's not my fave from them, it's a good way to ease into their sound. watch the 4 walls mv then try glitter, deja vu, and papi.

then i would recommend red light (2014) the title track/mv is so iconic and PLEASE watch the live rock version with luna's incredible bridge it's amazing. if u like dracula you'll like the rest of red light it has most of my favorite bsides, milk butterfly all night vacance dracula spit it out summer lover are all BRILLIANT. all the songs are so successful in experimentation and so well rounded. they use such unexpected sounds in cool ways and the composition/production is so clever.

then u gotta go the myth the legend the unbeatable pink tape (2013). i'm glad u already like rppp!!! if u don't like that kind of pop it's hard to recommend f(x) cuz half of their songs r that kind of high energy edm. pink tape is one of the finest most complete and coherent kpop albums of all time, a lot of people cite it as an example of the ideal kpop album. it has a good balance of edm midtempo pop experimental and ballad and the album sequence tells a complete story. i don't love every song on it but it's one of my top kpop albums of all time. shadow has been my favorite f(x) song forever, it's their best bside for sure. signal, goodbye summer, no more (look up the lyrics for this one it's hilarious) and snapshot are my other recs.

and then the mvs hot summer and electric shock for the iconic catchy choruses and then move on to NU ABO. the sequence of nu abo to mr. boogie to ice cream is like the best sequence of songs in their discog like the first time i heard mr. boogie i had to listen to it 40 times just to get over how much i love it and luna's yelling in the back of ice cream is what made her replace krystal as my bias.

if u listen through the songs i listed u should find at least something u like and you'll have a good base for getting into the rest of the discog if u want to!

now boa!!! for f(x) i just kinda went through most of their discog but it is not possible to do that for boa and so many of her songs are great and i haven't even heard half of them yet so i'll just list some of my faves! this is gonna be both korean and jpn.

start with better!! and try the whole album it's amazing.

then go back to her early hits so u can appreciate her consistent excellence and sheer iconicity. watch the mvs for no. 1, atlantis princess, listen to my heart, my name, girls on top, eat you up, hurricane venus, only one, one shot two shot, and woman. that's literally just all her career defining smash hit genre shaping title tracks.

then for slightly deep cut high profile tracks with mvs try eien, valenti, moto, the shadow, sweet impact, camo, nega dola.

she has so many good bsides it's very difficult but just try putting on the no. 1 album and love and honesty album and kiss my lips album. also watch the live stage for fox (the one with her red flannel fit) and the dance studio video for black! misc other bsides i love: lookbook, always all ways, GARDEN IN THE AIR, rock with you, midnight parade, SOME DAY ONE DAY, like it!, love and hate, all that jazz.

[skautism]

hiiiiiii I wuz tagged by @mausoleumdoorz to do these 30 questions abt me!!! thanx dude

name: mostly brody, but also keys and rzr

gender: something androgyne/bigender but the girl part is more he/him than the dude part but the dude part is more prevalent. both want to look like 2005 william beckett.

sign: aquarius sun/scorpio moon/capricorn venus

height: like 5'4.5

time: 647pm

bday: feb 19

fav bands: the academy is..., cobra starship, the hush sound, also a lot more but esp those ^~^

fav solo artists: mostly pop queens like kesha, tswift, n carly rae jepsen :D

song stuck in my head: swing swing by aar

last movie I watched: uhhhhh idk :( i watch tv shows more than movies. maybe the clockwork orange??? i didnt like that movie

last show I watched: either rick and morty or spn. ur allowed to judge me

when I made this blog: early 2018 when I got my first phone!! i was 12 :) dont make a tumblr if ur 12/13 I beg of you. leave now.

what I post: bands and absolute bullshit

last thing I googled: reaction images

any sideblogs: the only one I actually use is @rzrskttlz and also a bunch of hoarded urls

do I get asks much: not rly xP

why I chose this url: look at him. cmon.

following: 4492 blogs and I bet most of them are inactive and from my theatre phase

followers: 1038 and I bet most of them are inactive and from my theatre phase

avg hours of sleep: who the fuck knows

lucky number: 19

do I play any instruments: mostly bass and piano, also guitar and alto sax, and im learning drums

what im wearing: skinny black tripp jeans that are built for someone way taller and and with wider hips, a tapestry belt from disneyworld (ew ik), and a shirt from this annual halloween parade (the 2018 one tho, I obv didnt go this year)

dreamjob: singer and/or bassist of a band <3 if I get good enough I wanna write lyrics too

dream trip: idk xP maybe japan or nyc

fav food: this weird spaghetti my mom makes a couple times a month and its basically a perfect meal (like with the nutrition in it). its spaghetti, butter, parmesan, olive oil, onions and red peppers, chicken, and artichoke hearts and its fucking awesome

nationality: southeast american (I like the waffle houses here I have to specify)

last book I read: lily and dunkin

fav song: it changes every 2 business days but uhhhh paparazzi by lady gaga

fav fictional universe: the a little less sixteen candles a little more touch me mv

tagging uhhh @mikeyraygun @stupidblue @themadgearandkobrakid @itswarmerinthebasement if yall wanna

[miserybegins]

how did you discover mcr/what was it like? im sure youve answered this before but i saw your tags and now im curious

a friend introduced them to me in 7th grade. we used to call each other and play music back and forth over the phone lmao and one day she played welcome to the black parade and i loved it. immediately. then she showed me famous last words and told me it was the sequel to welcome to the black parade (cause of the mvs) and i remember watching the flw music video over the phone and being so entirely enthralled. both of them became my favorite songs like overnight.

then one day i was watching mtv by myself which was really rare cause i wasnt really allowed to watch mtv?? but i was home alone and the teenagers video played and i was like wtf...these guys are like teenagers themselves why are they saying teenagers scare the shit out of them....didnt compute.

so the next day in school i asked her if she had ever heard teenagers and she hadn’t and i was like omg i’m so cool....i’ve discovered this really amazing music that no one else in school knows.

so for a while i only knew those three songs but they were my favorite songs i had on my ipod and i listened to them constantly and one day in 8th grade i discovered the gaia message boards and i found the mcr thread and i saw everyone talking about songs i hadn’t heard of like everyone was talking about the helena music video i remember...anyway i made a post that was like i only know these 3 songs but i love them so much they’re unlike anything i’ve ever heard before

and i got death threats. people telling me i wasn’t allowed to post there cause i wasn’t a real fan. literally they were all SO MEAN to me it was unreal.

but it motivated me. that night i torrented the black parade and i layed down in my room at my dads house and i listened to the full thing from start to finish and i was blown away. id always loved music but i never had anything make me so emotional. when it was done i didn’t even know what to do with myself, i felt like a different person. i’ll literally never forget it.

and as soon as that happened i went all in. tried to find all the information i could find on them, joined imnotokay.net and started talking about them all the time and discovered frerard and made a bunch of friends and the rest is history!

[alittlebitblockbbias]

I can't with Kwonnie's hair. I just can't. The mullet sadly fits Kyung's personality.

a lot of people can’t with his hair. i really didn’t like it when it was long but the one thing that bothers me the most is his sides. his shaved sides and then the braids made him look bald in a way. like he didn’t have any hair. i really didn’t like it. but anyways for me i don’t think braids fit him personally. 

and for the overly sensitive people/pc/sjws this is coming from a poc. black hairstyles don’t offend me unless the hairstyle doesn’t fit them, not taken care of, or they are doing it as a literal joke. like jiho grills i love them but when i watched the snl skit made me upset. no i didn’t finish the skit because it was all cringe. the whole skit made me uncomfortable. jiho having braids doesn’t phase me, having grills doesn’t either, even when he speaks in slang at times. at times it’s cringe and out of place but im also sure rap music is how he learned a lot of his english. but it doesn’t also because off stage or not in mvs he doesn’t change his style. It’s not night and day you’ll still see him wearing the same things minus the more over the top stuff. everyone different and if other pocs that are ACTUALLY black and not 1.5% black has an issue they have a right like i do in saying something. but this white people parade that includes pocs that are not black as well have this feeling like you need to defend black people you don’t. we got it. you heard that some people get offended and blah blah blah negativity really gets far especially when it becomes a race issue. at the end of the day there are issues so many issues but i find these issues looked over because the average person doesn’t wants to listen because now a days no one can breath on anything without someone getting mad and getting everyone to gang up because it hurt their feelings. i’m not sticking up for ukwon or jiho before someone that’s mad thinks I am. all im saying it doesn’t matter to me as long as they don’t look like idiots and they are not running around saying dumb shit about the hair (texture), style, or now they are actually “black” because of it. I don’t become Korean if I get the Korean magic perm and you don’t become African (American) because you know have braids. Or even worse do the style but look down on black people for the same style (thinking your hair texture is better than blacks or anything that is actually racist and hypocritical).

[angelvenin]

this was done so well and im so happy that they represented each album in their own way, honoring the concept and aesthetics behind each one. you can also clearly see how the fandom influenced some of the scenes, (remember those tumblr posts from way back when about the black parade jacket on the skeleton in the mv for nanana? or that meme about ‘summoning’ mcr through a pentacle of their albums? at least that’s what i’ve thought of). this doesnt feel real. it feels like an amazing fan-made trailer but it’s actually by them. and i’m so happy it is. i’m so happy they’re back. 

Album references, “A Summoming,” My Chemical Romance.