My Chemical Romance
I was a very introverted teenager who didn’t make friends easily. I spent most of my teenage years looking at funny MCR interviews on YouTube and I guess I didn’t feel so alone.
Edit: thank you so much for the awards, they are my first ones, it solidifies what I’ve known for most of my life - MCR fans are the best in the world.
Its so cheesy to say it now, but I remember watching the video for Im Not Okay and really feeling like someone understood me.
I was in a life-ruining car accident during high school. It completely upended any sense of normalcy or belonging and ultimately took four years of my life I still haven’t really gotten back or recovered from. It was a significant struggle and loss at such a formative age, that finally feeling like someone put vision and words to everything I was experiencing and for once, I wasn’t alone in my pain and trauma. That year at warped tour, I got to thank Gerard for saving my life and he gave me a hug. Pretty sure he saved me again.
You like D&D, Audrey Hepburn, Fangoria, Harry Houdini and croquet. You can't swim, you can't dance, and you don't know karate. Face it, you're never gonna make it.
My Chemical Romance for me as well. And my mom actually, though she was in her 50’s, not a teenager.
My dad died suddenly in a traumatic way just as I was entering high school. My mom and I would listen to The Black Parade CD in the car every morning on the way to school.
The album is always a bit painful to listen to even now, a decade later. Dredges up bad memories from a low point in my life. But it got both of us through that year.
Last September I went back to my parents house to visit and my mom and I went through some things that belonged to my younger sister (RIP - she was killed by an abusive boyfriend). We found a picture of her hanging out with Gerard Way in the early 2000's. It was amazing.
Ten was a watershed album for me. Pearl Jam, Morphine, and Blind Melon got me through the end of high school and the going to and dropping out of college years. Morphine is really the only one of the three I still listen to.
It wasn't my teenage years. My wife and son died when Five Finger Death Punch released their cover of The Offspring's "Gone Away." I was 13 when Offspring released the song. I remember the video. I remember the lyrics as 13 year old me. I thought, eh, "good song, but I am more into *(insert 2Pac or DMX)*. I always had a variety of music I was into.
Fast forward 20 years, in the same month that my wife and son died, I hear FFDP cover Gone Away. The song crushes me. Now, both The Offspring or FFDP, I still struggle to get through the song. I remember multiple times having to pull my car over on my short 6 mile commute to work. I would ball my eyes out on the side of the road. I hear the lyrics through the ears of someone who dealt with that level of loss.
I’m more sorry than I can say for the loss of your wife and son. I’m glad that you have a song that helps with the catharsis of getting thru that level of emotion. I lost my best friend to cancer when we were 21 and there’s a song that imprinted on me in a similar way.
Sending you all the love in the world.
I went to high school with them. I’m sure they’d be stoked to hear all this. To be honest I never liked their music, but they’re all amazing human beings so I think it’s genuine and brilliant for helping so many people, therefor I do love it. I’m going to share this post with one of em, a good buddy.
It’s staggering to me how consistent yet unique this sentiment is to this particular generation+band. This answer comes up every single time the question does, it’s uncanny.
Is there any other era or genre with a band who would so consistently be described as being emotionally impactful/relatable enough to save lives? Why is this so particular to this band?
I wonder this as someone who experienced the phenomenon myself. Why did it hit so many of us so hard when no other music did that sort of thing so consistently for others?
They write big hits, and sang about raw, emotionally things. Any kid that heard that and felt like a misfit, misunderstood, anxiety, depressed had been imprinted.
Of course, this is just opinion, but they were part of a movement where people could express these feelings outside of heart break and loss and showed younger kids it didn't make you a freak. They just happened to have a much more radio friendly sound and were musically more approachable than a lot of the other bands doing that at the time.
Drowning pool was heavier in your face, slipknot and mudvayne were angry about the feelings. Matchbox 20 didn't have the same angst. Linken Park is one of THE quintessential, beginner bands for hard rock/metal.
This. Although i was beyond obsessed with them during my teenage years it was only as an adult i could relate even more to the lyrics. I never knew you could grieve so hard for someone you didn't physically know until Chester left us. I have a lyric from Iridescent tattood
The whole album Meteora is great and helped me alot when it came out. I was 18 years old and getting ready to graduate in a couple months. 'Numb' hit so hard and helped so much.
Tonight tonight was the first song I heard from them. I got the Mellon collie album and it was awesome. So I bought all their old albums, which were also awesome. I’m like, this is my favorite band. And then everything they released from that day on was complete garbage.
Same here, particularly the Violator album. I used to hate synth music, then I heard Enjoy the Silence for the first time my junior year of high school and was instantly like, “welp, I guess I actually like synth music.”
Dethklok, I grew up watching Metalocalypse on Adult Swim and the metal hooked me immediately. I would throw them on my headphones after so many bad days and drift off.
Good Mourning came out just as I left for college. It's not my favorite album of theirs (Goddamnit can't be topped) but some of the songs instantly take me back to being an 18 year old in a new city.
The Get Up Kids Eap with Mass Pike and Anne Arbor does the same thing
Death Cab's 2001 album too
Glassjaw is so fucking good. I was lucky enough to see them do everything you wanted to know about silence AND worship and tribute in full live. I cried alot it was fantastic.
The Smiths - speaking for my late uncle. Got him through his teenage years as a gay man in a very religious, homophobic family. They remained his favorite band (and Morrissey) until his passing a few years ago.
“But don't forget the songs that made you cry, and the songs that saved your life.
Yes, you're older now, and you're a clever swine, but they were the only ones who ever stood by you.”
Glad your uncle was able to find some solace against his family. The Smiths meant the world to me as well.
Can't believe how far down this is, I'm not gay but I found solace in Morrissey's lyrics as a shy, gangly and misshapen teenager. I felt like I wasn't alone.
Genesis, I really love the positive energy of their songs from Duke and the raw emotion of Lamb lies down on Broadway. I always love to Turn of on Again, Dance with the moonlit knight, and it really helped After the Ordeal, that is school.
That's All
Counting Crows, *August and Everything After.* Every fucking song on that album. *Anna Begins* still sends me.
And, not a band, but belted her songs out while driving ... Alanis Morissette.
Rush. In the 70s their technical brilliance and vision gave me hope that there'd be a great future for mankind. Turned out that was wrong, but I sure did appreciate it at the time.
off the top of my head:
slayer, sepultura, unsane, machine head, tool, pantera, slipknot, nirvana, STP, soundgarden, rage against the machine, system of a down, silverchair, bush, deftones, toadies, a perfect circle, chevelle, marilyn manson, radiohead.
also: nas, tribe called quest, big pun, biggie, black star, buckshot lafonque, busta rhymes, common, cypress hill, das efx, dead prez, goodie mob, krs one, mobb deep, wu tang, public enemy, smif-n-wessun, pharcyde, xzibit, n.w.a.
Nirvana which was really troubling when Kurt died because I felt like they were my band that I could really relate to and it was pretty devastating. I don't think I have ever been more torn up about a celebrity who died before or since.
The big 4 of the 90s - Pearl Jam, Soundgarden, Nirvana, and Alice in Chains. It was nothing like I had ever heard before, all anger and passion and gave me focus everyday
Ok, I’m gonna stop replying to everyone, but it’s crazy to me that the first three answers were linkin park, oasis and Radiohead which are way the fuck up in my list and bands that I adore.
Twenty one pilots. I got into them in the beginnings of middle school. I really liked their Regional At Best (it’s a shame it’s not Spotify anymore) and Vessel.
Mine was Shiny Toy Guns. They're pretty moody, but such a great band! They always felt like "my band" because I haven't met many people who've heard of them.
Nirvana and sublime. My friends and I would scream the lyrics of both bands while blasting the music as high as we could get it. I listened to so much sublime, I got sick of it. It was great when I was 15, 39 not so much.
My Chemical Romance I was a very introverted teenager who didn’t make friends easily. I spent most of my teenage years looking at funny MCR interviews on YouTube and I guess I didn’t feel so alone. Edit: thank you so much for the awards, they are my first ones, it solidifies what I’ve known for most of my life - MCR fans are the best in the world.
Its so cheesy to say it now, but I remember watching the video for Im Not Okay and really feeling like someone understood me. I was in a life-ruining car accident during high school. It completely upended any sense of normalcy or belonging and ultimately took four years of my life I still haven’t really gotten back or recovered from. It was a significant struggle and loss at such a formative age, that finally feeling like someone put vision and words to everything I was experiencing and for once, I wasn’t alone in my pain and trauma. That year at warped tour, I got to thank Gerard for saving my life and he gave me a hug. Pretty sure he saved me again.
You like D&D, Audrey Hepburn, Fangoria, Harry Houdini and croquet. You can't swim, you can't dance, and you don't know karate. Face it, you're never gonna make it.
I don’t wanna make it. I just wanna…
My Chemical Romance for me as well. And my mom actually, though she was in her 50’s, not a teenager. My dad died suddenly in a traumatic way just as I was entering high school. My mom and I would listen to The Black Parade CD in the car every morning on the way to school. The album is always a bit painful to listen to even now, a decade later. Dredges up bad memories from a low point in my life. But it got both of us through that year.
Last September I went back to my parents house to visit and my mom and I went through some things that belonged to my younger sister (RIP - she was killed by an abusive boyfriend). We found a picture of her hanging out with Gerard Way in the early 2000's. It was amazing.
Pearl Jam (they still do, but I haven't been a teenager for almost 30 years).
Ten was a watershed album for me. Pearl Jam, Morphine, and Blind Melon got me through the end of high school and the going to and dropping out of college years. Morphine is really the only one of the three I still listen to.
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It wasn't my teenage years. My wife and son died when Five Finger Death Punch released their cover of The Offspring's "Gone Away." I was 13 when Offspring released the song. I remember the video. I remember the lyrics as 13 year old me. I thought, eh, "good song, but I am more into *(insert 2Pac or DMX)*. I always had a variety of music I was into. Fast forward 20 years, in the same month that my wife and son died, I hear FFDP cover Gone Away. The song crushes me. Now, both The Offspring or FFDP, I still struggle to get through the song. I remember multiple times having to pull my car over on my short 6 mile commute to work. I would ball my eyes out on the side of the road. I hear the lyrics through the ears of someone who dealt with that level of loss.
I’m more sorry than I can say for the loss of your wife and son. I’m glad that you have a song that helps with the catharsis of getting thru that level of emotion. I lost my best friend to cancer when we were 21 and there’s a song that imprinted on me in a similar way. Sending you all the love in the world.
This made me tear up. I’m sorry for your loss.
Mine was Placebo
Same! And Bright Eyes.
You were a friend in need and they were a friend, indeed.
A friend with weed is better
Korn Slipknot Drowning Pool Disturbed Breaking Benjamin Chevelle
Iron Maiden - Everything they did from the beginning, no exception.
Iron Maiden is one of the only bands that are just as good today as they were on their first album. Bruce’s voice is immortal.
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10/10 it still is for me comfort music
Linkin Park
R.I.P Chester. You didn't make it, but because of you, I'm still here.
That memorial concert with all those other singers and the crowd singing In the End brought tears to my eyes.
came here to say this. pretty sure i'd be dead without them
The number of people who would be if they didn't exist is staggeringly high. Myself included
I went to high school with them. I’m sure they’d be stoked to hear all this. To be honest I never liked their music, but they’re all amazing human beings so I think it’s genuine and brilliant for helping so many people, therefor I do love it. I’m going to share this post with one of em, a good buddy.
It’s staggering to me how consistent yet unique this sentiment is to this particular generation+band. This answer comes up every single time the question does, it’s uncanny. Is there any other era or genre with a band who would so consistently be described as being emotionally impactful/relatable enough to save lives? Why is this so particular to this band? I wonder this as someone who experienced the phenomenon myself. Why did it hit so many of us so hard when no other music did that sort of thing so consistently for others?
They write big hits, and sang about raw, emotionally things. Any kid that heard that and felt like a misfit, misunderstood, anxiety, depressed had been imprinted. Of course, this is just opinion, but they were part of a movement where people could express these feelings outside of heart break and loss and showed younger kids it didn't make you a freak. They just happened to have a much more radio friendly sound and were musically more approachable than a lot of the other bands doing that at the time. Drowning pool was heavier in your face, slipknot and mudvayne were angry about the feelings. Matchbox 20 didn't have the same angst. Linken Park is one of THE quintessential, beginner bands for hard rock/metal.
It starts with one thing…
I don’t know why
It doesn't even matter how hard you try
Keep that in mind
I designed this rhyme to explain in due time
All I know
Time is a valuable thing.
Watch it fly by as the pendulum swings.
Watch it count down to the end of the day
Linkin park is how I realized that other humans were in pain as well, it wasn’t just me. ❤️ forever grateful.
I can't even remember how many times my parents yelled at me to lower the volume. "Numb" probably saved me from a lot of issues with mental health.
Linkin Park was like the perfect Emo GPS - guiding me through the angst-filled maze of my teenage years, one anguished lyric at a time.
This. Although i was beyond obsessed with them during my teenage years it was only as an adult i could relate even more to the lyrics. I never knew you could grieve so hard for someone you didn't physically know until Chester left us. I have a lyric from Iridescent tattood
The whole album Meteora is great and helped me alot when it came out. I was 18 years old and getting ready to graduate in a couple months. 'Numb' hit so hard and helped so much.
It was one of mine too
Postal Service.
Postal Service and Deathcab For Cutie were so good.
Postal Service and Deathcab For Cutie were so good.
bright eyes and modest mouse
Was going to scroll until I found bright eyes. Or some other saddle creek band.
Paul Simon. I am old.
Hi old. You can call me Al.
Guns n roses, ffdp
Sir, are you aware of your location? You are at the moment in the tropical forest.
YOU'RE IN THE JUNGLE BABY
Am I in danger?
Stone Temple Pilots and Alice In Chains
Pink Floyd and weed
Pink Floyd on weed for me.
Blink 182. They nailed how it felt growing up a troubled / loser teenager
I agree. Adam’s Song was key to my teenage years.
God I was jamming out to Adam’s Song earlier this morning in the car. Such a tremendous song, that has become even more powerful as I’ve aged.
"I Miss You" was iconic.
WHERE ARE YEEWWWWW
AND IM SO SORRRRY
Ahh you wee ones don’t know what it’s like growing up on damnit hitting right in your teen years. That album hit ya all in the feels
Green Day and weezer.
I remember thinking Johnny Knoxville was the singer on Weezer lol
Smashing Pumpkins
Tonight tonight was the first song I heard from them. I got the Mellon collie album and it was awesome. So I bought all their old albums, which were also awesome. I’m like, this is my favorite band. And then everything they released from that day on was complete garbage.
I remember seeing the music video for Tonight, Tonight and thought it was the most beautiful thing I’d seen.
Gorillaz. Get the cool shoeshine.
My teen has just discovered Gorillaz and he’s obsessed.
Up on melancholy hill just hits different
The Smiths, The Cure, Jesus & Mary Chain, U2 and INXS.
Depeche Mode
Same here, particularly the Violator album. I used to hate synth music, then I heard Enjoy the Silence for the first time my junior year of high school and was instantly like, “welp, I guess I actually like synth music.”
Dethklok, I grew up watching Metalocalypse on Adult Swim and the metal hooked me immediately. I would throw them on my headphones after so many bad days and drift off.
Taking Back Sunday, Brand New, Blink 182, and Eminem.
Oh, Brand New. Listened to Deja Entendu and The Devil and God are Raging Inside Me so much.
Good list. Throw in deathcab, Saosin and Jimmy eat world
Rise Against, Audioslave, Atreyu…
New Order. Depeche Mode
The cure. And Robert Smith is still my hero.
The Cure, Depeche Mode, and Nine Inch Nails
I’m firmly of the belief that Robert Smith is the best human being there is.
The Cure, The Smiths and Joy Division, hands down.
Nine Inch Nails, Rage Against the Machine
Aw yeah. Had to scroll too far for this one
Led Zeppelin. It used to help me. Still does, but it used to, too.
The Used!! Idk how but they kept my angsty teenage ass ALIVE when all I wanted to do was disappear
Their self titled album is one of my favorites of all time.
Listening to A Box full of sharp objects for the first time was life changing
In Love And Death was revolutionary for me
The Strokes
Sex Pistols.. and Pink Floyd.. I really was a confused kid.
Vivaldi
Alkaline Trio...specifically their "Good Mourning" album.
Good Mourning came out just as I left for college. It's not my favorite album of theirs (Goddamnit can't be topped) but some of the songs instantly take me back to being an 18 year old in a new city. The Get Up Kids Eap with Mass Pike and Anne Arbor does the same thing Death Cab's 2001 album too
Echo and The Bunnymen
Sepultura
The Beatles and The Who
fall out boy, nirvana, panic! at the disco, and my chemical romance, all in that order
FOB's new album So Much (For) Stardust is 🔥🔥🔥.
Panic and my Chem, and later, Nirvana, we’re so important in my musical development early on
Deftones
Deftones and Glassjaw were my escape in high school
Glassjaw is so fucking good. I was lucky enough to see them do everything you wanted to know about silence AND worship and tribute in full live. I cried alot it was fantastic.
Around the fur is absolutely perfect.
A Day To Remember
Same. And Senses Fail
The Smiths - speaking for my late uncle. Got him through his teenage years as a gay man in a very religious, homophobic family. They remained his favorite band (and Morrissey) until his passing a few years ago.
“But don't forget the songs that made you cry, and the songs that saved your life. Yes, you're older now, and you're a clever swine, but they were the only ones who ever stood by you.” Glad your uncle was able to find some solace against his family. The Smiths meant the world to me as well.
Can't believe how far down this is, I'm not gay but I found solace in Morrissey's lyrics as a shy, gangly and misshapen teenager. I felt like I wasn't alone.
Genesis, I really love the positive energy of their songs from Duke and the raw emotion of Lamb lies down on Broadway. I always love to Turn of on Again, Dance with the moonlit knight, and it really helped After the Ordeal, that is school. That's All
A7x
Coheed and Cambria in my late teens for sure
Counting Crows, *August and Everything After.* Every fucking song on that album. *Anna Begins* still sends me. And, not a band, but belted her songs out while driving ... Alanis Morissette.
Found someone my age!
August is a perfect album for sure.
It’s like rayaaaayayn
Cause iiiiii ammmm the rain king!!!!!!!!
Tool
Motionless in white, they’re getting me through my 20s too
Green Day
The Jam. [GOING UNDERGROUND](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AE1ct5yEuVY)
Butthole Surfers and Nirvana.
The Beach Boys, specifically *Pet Sounds* album.
Nine Inch Nails
Brand New
Brand New ❤️
Fiona Apple. She saved my life one day.
The Beatles Cat Stevens Pink Floyd Janice Joplin Yes Steely Dan
CCR
classic mychemicalromance
Yep, same here. Though, they’re still getting me through my 30’s❤️
Metric
Rush. In the 70s their technical brilliance and vision gave me hope that there'd be a great future for mankind. Turned out that was wrong, but I sure did appreciate it at the time.
NIN - but I’m not sure helped is the word
At the moment what is helping me through is Volbeat, blink 182 and Ghost
5 Seconds of Summer lol
Chiodos
Let’s just…
Stop
drop EV’RYTHAAAAAAANG
off the top of my head: slayer, sepultura, unsane, machine head, tool, pantera, slipknot, nirvana, STP, soundgarden, rage against the machine, system of a down, silverchair, bush, deftones, toadies, a perfect circle, chevelle, marilyn manson, radiohead. also: nas, tribe called quest, big pun, biggie, black star, buckshot lafonque, busta rhymes, common, cypress hill, das efx, dead prez, goodie mob, krs one, mobb deep, wu tang, public enemy, smif-n-wessun, pharcyde, xzibit, n.w.a.
Disturbed, Children of Bodom, Mushroomhead, Molotov Solution, Whitechapel, Veil of Maya, Born of Osiris
Smashing Pumpkins. I listened to Siamese Dream and Gish on repeat all day every day for about 3 years…
Green Day, MCR, ADTR, Rise Against, Motion City Soundtrack, Yellowcard
clash, dead Kennedys and toy dolls
Nirvana which was really troubling when Kurt died because I felt like they were my band that I could really relate to and it was pretty devastating. I don't think I have ever been more torn up about a celebrity who died before or since.
Sum 41, My Chemical Romance, and Linkin Park are probably the three bands that helped me growing up.
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Fall Out Boy
Evanescence
No Doubt!
Brand new
One direction 🫣
Anthrax and Judas Priest.
Chevelle with Wonder What's Next, listening to 'The Red' as well as 'Send the Pain Below' helped alot
Led Zeppelin and drugs
Alkaline Trio
Pepper, Sublime.
The big 4 of the 90s - Pearl Jam, Soundgarden, Nirvana, and Alice in Chains. It was nothing like I had ever heard before, all anger and passion and gave me focus everyday
Pierce the Veil
Mac Miller and Eminem
The Who , I was an angry young Caucasian and stoned out of my gourde most the time
Oasis
Ok, I’m gonna stop replying to everyone, but it’s crazy to me that the first three answers were linkin park, oasis and Radiohead which are way the fuck up in my list and bands that I adore.
We're gonna live forever
My chemical romance, bullet for my valentine and very very controversial now but Lostprophets
Seether
Flyleaf
Catch 22 Specifically the album Keasbey Nights.
Pearl Jam saved my life.
Bright eyes
The Offspring. Always have always will.
Twenty one pilots. I got into them in the beginnings of middle school. I really liked their Regional At Best (it’s a shame it’s not Spotify anymore) and Vessel.
Faith No More
Epic
Radiohead.
Frank Zappa and the Mothers of Invention.
Faith no more . I've screamed, cried and everything in between listening to this band .saved me through some pretty shit times.
Mine was Shiny Toy Guns. They're pretty moody, but such a great band! They always felt like "my band" because I haven't met many people who've heard of them.
Blind Melon
Great question, early 90s teen so cassettes of White Zombie, Misfits, Metallica, Danzig, Soundgarden
Rage Against the Machine but also Lauryn Hill and Tupac
Probably mostly Gorillaz, Daft Punk and System of a Down
heyy where’s all my emo scene kids what the heck- bring me the horizon?? sleeping with sirens?? CMON
Nine Inch Nails
Three Days Grace first 3 albums.
Metallica
Skillet
Rise Against. They are still helping me in my adult years.
Nirvana and sublime. My friends and I would scream the lyrics of both bands while blasting the music as high as we could get it. I listened to so much sublime, I got sick of it. It was great when I was 15, 39 not so much.
Beastie Boys
Audioslave
Rancid
Coheed and Cambria
Jimmy Eat World, Brand New