Good Times

Dammit

I don't know what to say. I'm gonna go play American Idiot on repeat.

Eulogy from a fan

MCR has been my favourite band for 20 years now. Maybe I’m weird, but I love their music to the point where I have trouble just putting on one of their songs casually or placing one of their songs on a playlist with multiple artists. I like to listen to their albums in full, or at least have a rotation going specifically of just their vast and varied music. I adore just about all music, and they’re the only artist I do this with.

When I first fell in love with MCR—and I fell for them hard—they were a group of five: Gerard, Frank, Ray, Mikey, and Bob. 14-year-old me was absolutely crazy about all of them. I thought they were the coolest people in music, and any small piece of legit information about any of them got me so excited.

Before social media was standard, everything I learned about them I learned from interviews and performance footage. I’ve always remembered Bob as that silly and immensely talented blond guy in the group who was the only one not from New Jersey (Chicago). They did so many group interviews together, and behind-the-scenes music video specials for Fuse, and Bob was always smiling and laughing with the rest of them. They were clearly a family of many talents, and Bob got to finally showcase what he was capable of on The Black Parade.

There is no understating how memorable and standout the drums are on The Black Parade. I don’t know the technical terminology and I’m definitely not a music student, but the drums on that album hit me in the heart, especially on Welcome to the Black Parade. Bob clearly knew what he was doing, loved what he was doing, and as far as the rest of us know, the only reason he wasn’t with My Chemical Romance to the end was because of issues with his wrists.

I loved Bob’s work so much, I went to the trouble of learning which songs on Danger Days had kept his contributions; not surprisingly, they were all my favourites on the album (Na Na Na, Bulletproof Heart, The Only Hope for Me is You, Party Poison, and Save Yourself, I’ll Hold Them Back (my number one fav from DD)). I didn’t hear Conventional Weapons until after they’d broken up completely, but again every song was a banger and again Bob’s work was excellent.

I saw them live twice when Bob was in the band, but the only time I saw all five of them together on stage was in December 2005 (during their TBP tour, at least one of the band members was taking a break for health reasons when I saw them, but I don’t remember who). I’ll never forget how excited I was that first time I saw them, and I’ll never forget how much love I had for all five of them.

I’m not going to speculate about what happened. This is meant to be a respectful message about how much Bob meant to me as a fan during the height of MCR’s career. I’m writing all this knowing as much as the rest of the fan base about his passing, which isn’t much. I read that disgusting announcement by TMZ, same as all of you, and it made me so angry.

Within the first hour of the announcement of his passing, there were already (presumably AI-generated) compilation videos of Bob on YouTube. This is the only reason I’m not bothering to put a video together myself, I can’t compete with robots, so instead I’m here to say that Bob Bryar was and always will be one of the best drummers of the 2000s era of music, and whether you want him to be or not, he is iconic.

I was so sad when I heard he wasn’t in the band anymore, and I’m sad now. He deserved so much better, at the very least he deserved love and support, as we all do.

Rest In Peace Bob.

If I'm Mikey Way, You're Pete Wentz

So I was listening to My Chen’s spotify playlist of the songs they listened to as teens and yo Blur is legitimately pretty fire I am now listening to them

*Mutual reblogs something you posted*

Me: They still like me. Thank God.

The next time I see Donald Trump trending on this god forsaken website, it better fucking look like this.

average mcr interview is like

interviewer: so what’s your guys favorite place to eat out at?

ray: i really like red robin’s. love their robin burgers!

frank: under this fascist government there’s no where safe to eat. (cup o noodle)

gerard: 🚬 🚬 🚬 uhhhm… hmmm.. well that’s a tough one.. hmmm . 🚬 yknow i think that like. well really the best place for US to eat out yknow as a band of fucked up normal guys who do gay shit is like an olive garden… 🚬 they’re really free over there… you can get breadsticks and nobody asks who you are or where you’re going… they never ask what your pro-

mikey: i fucking love eating dude like straight up i’ll eat anywhere

To any suicidal followers I may have: This is a sign to not kill yourself. You are loved and the world is special because you are in it. Keep holding on.

Reblog this when it’s on your dash. You will save someone’s life.

My iPod with the entire MCR Discography is ruining my brain

Scenario 1: *Does Honors Geometry homework angrily being mad at my geometry teacher for giving us double homework on Halloween* *"It's Not a Fashion Statement, It's a Death Wish" comes on* *Somehow finds a way to link the lyrics in the beginning to my anger with her*

Scenario 2: *Is reading poem to analyze in class* *"I'm Not Okay (I Promise)" comes on* *Reads poem and sees the word "honesty"* *The part where the lyrics start comes on and I have a fucking stroke*

Scenario 3: *Is in Social Issues* *Listening to "You Know What They Do To Guys Like Us in Prison"* *We're learning about what life in private prisons is like.*

Like what is happening 😭 Ignore that all the songs come from Revenge because I accidentally had that album playing on repeat without really thinking about it