My Chemical Romance Bottled Too
Another rowdy Reading report from NME:
My Chemical Romance have been subjected to a heavy bottling while performing on stage at the Carling Weekend: Reading Festival today (August 27).Cute Is What We Aim For may wanna rethink that UK tour.The band were pelted repeatedly by the audience throughout their set on the main stage.
However while the group tried to battle through and continue their performance, the constant shelling clearly upset frontman Gerard Way.
After sarcastically asking for the crowd to boo and hiss, the singer declared: "We might be outsiders today, but we represent every outsider out there".
He then introduced a track saying, "This song is called thanks for all the bottles, thanks for all the piss, thanks for all the golf balls, thanks for all the apples and thanks for all the sticky shit."
UPDATE: Maybe they didn't like Gerard's hair? Pic via AOL...
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Posted at 11:44 PM
Tags: My Chemical Romance
good!
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Alright, at this risk of sounding like I actually think "MCR" or "Panic" are in effect decent, worthwhile bands to listen to...I think it's ridiculous that ANY performer should have to endure this kind of ridicule and downright ASSAULT simply because they agreed to play a given festival.
Unfortunately, the kids winging these bottles are just reinforcing that stereotype of the "elitist indie kid" that so many younger kids pin on people simply because they fall into a certain style of dress and musical taste.
Do Panic, MCR, and Fallout Boy, and Pete Wentz's penis blow? In my opinion, YES. Would I ever throw a glass bottle at any one of the members of the above listed bands (genitals included)? NO.
They do what they love, they get paid big bucks for doing it.
I can't fault them for that. I will never RESPECT them as I do legitimate acts, but I cannot fault them. Taste is all relative, sure-- but it should never implore violence.
Maybe these kinds of people should hop in Doc Brown's Delorian and travel back to 1994, so they can go to a Warzone show and carve X's into the backs of kids who clrealy aren't straight edge. It's the same dim witted, bigot mentality. Franky, I expect than that from people who listen to the same kind of music I listen to.
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go UK!
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UK > USA
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The blame goes on the people that coordinate the line-up for these things. My Chemical Romance was playing after Slayer for the love of God.
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Portugal > UK > USA
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vQzhOyHTarU&mode=related&search=
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yea my chemical romance deserves it....... just the way they look pisses me off.
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He actually said that? What world is this guy living in? I don't think the outsiders want such a terrible group representing them.
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i agree UK>USA.
more heroes in the uk, im mucho impressed!
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frederick, I agree that nobody on stage should be pelted simply because they play crappy music. However, Reading/Leeds (and most of the festivals) usually attract mainstream acts and the kind of people who go to act like idiots and do stuff like that. I haven't seen this year's lineup but I imagine it's very similar to years past.
I guess what I'm saying is that it's probably not "elitist indie kids" (although I am a bit elitist and I think MCR/et all are garbage) but rather just jackasses. Think back to Woodstock '99 (granted, that was in the states, but I think that the same kind of general asshole is found in high concentration whenever you get large groups of people together).
I guess what I'm saying is that unless you're a headliner, dodging projectiles is just part of playing a festival, unfortunately.
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i wouldnt put woodstock 99 and bottling two shit spewing bands that deserved it, in the same sentence
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this is just proof that people are sick and tired of all these crappy ass bands (esp. emo) that got popular for what? reason
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Do bands that don't suck get stuff thrown at them at this festival? So far I've only heard of these two, 50 cent and the others mentioned on the other post.
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as if bands like the rakes and razorlight are any better? come on now.
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To reiterate (again), fuck you Gerard. Fuck you and your stupid action figures.
frederick, neither would I bottle or throw my own shit at a band like MCR, or any band for that matter. That's what heroes are for.
And to think, MCR apparently had a barrage of shit hurled at them from bottles to vegetable matter. To think that Panic! at the Disco only got one bottle.
And for the record, Razorlight sucks ass.
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yes. they are hopeless in my opinion.
but it is a tad worrying.if people get in the groove of it.
what if someout there loathes sufjan and decides to bottle him...would all be so comfy in your lazy boys or would you be erect in action.erect!
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Years ago, back in my younger, more foolish days I went to see Green Day play live at Cardiff Castle. The support was Iggy Pop. He got pelted for his entire set. I was so angry. Okay, Iggy Pop might be a douche, but he's a douche that is in some way responsible for the music that these stupid kids were going to see. There'd be no Green Day without the Stooges. Sigh.
Also, all this Reading bottle-throwing business is really stupid, and awfully pretensious of festival-goers who will probably be going to see The Kooks later on in the day.
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I'd like to act above throwing bottles at shitty bands, but I totally nailed OAR at a street party one time.
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But then again, what band doesn't get pelted with bottles at the Reading Festival? It's expected, even though this bottle/piss-throwing shit is getting as overrated as bands covering Gnarls Barkley.
At least that fucker didn't get knocked out unlike Brandon Urie.
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To set everything straight, MCR, Panic!, FOB, Bloc Party, John Mayer, K. Fed, Rakes, Razorlight, Sufjan Stevens, Green Day, The Kooks, OAR, Clap Your Hands Say Yeah, Cute Is What We Aim For, Death Cab For Cutie, Muse, All American Rejects, Yo La Tengo, ALL deserve to get pelted with bottles, urine, and shit.
frederick is a Yankee pussy.
Everyone should go listen to Rocky "The Motherfucking Man" Votolato.
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That earnest "outsider" crap is nauseating. Your band has sold X million records and has made a career of pandering to the lowest common denominator. You are not outsiders. It's hard for me to condone throwing things, but if it makes these bands go away a little faster than it might be worth it.
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The fact that everyone is saying this band sucks and that band rules and wasting a great deal of time doing it is crazy. They are bands trying to make a living. You would not go to a play that is more commercial than another and toss shit at the stage. These types of bands(commercially driven) will always be around. Everyone has the decision to like them or not, but to assault them and then write about how cool these people are who did it is so wrong. How can you people not see that?
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When did the majority of readers of Stereogum become little kids who think it's somehow "cool" to throw bottles at bands on stage? This is cool? It's somehow okay to try to injure people who are performing?
I can only guess that everyone who thinks this is in anyway acceptable are 12 year olds who play too many video games.
My god. I never thought I would feel any kind of empathy for MCR, but you idiots are making it very easy.
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If i've learned anything from all these attacks, it's that the british have much better taste in music than the americans...
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I know, I know bottling isn't big and it's not funny....
Unless it's a rapper with an over-inflated ego
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SWvvF95ju9k
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this just keeps getting better!
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Now there's a great idea: Allow BOTTLES at a f**king rock show. What is this, 1972?
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They've been bottling the un-metal offstage at Reading since the 70s.
What the ace reporting has yet to uncover is whether they were filled with p*ss.
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Bands should start performing with chain link fences in front of the a la The Blues Brothers.
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both bands should fire their booking agent(s). totally predictable for both bands given the history over there.
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I don't like Panic, MCR, Fall Out Boy, 50 Cent or Nickelback. In fact, I have a hard time thinking of something kind to say about their message/attitude as musical artists.
That said, I also choose to not pay money to attend any of their shows. If you go to a festival where a band you dislike is playing, then take it up with the concert organizers -- not the artists.
Do you know what other bands I dislike? Pantera and Damageplan. I can't stand the headbanging, overdriven bass, muttered/screamed lyrics... And I can't think of many kind things to say about their music.
But Dimebag Darrell is still dead. Granted, the fan who shot him was insane. But where do we go from knocking frontmen unconscious with glass bottles? Getting bottled at Reading and getting shot on a Michigan stage aren't that far apart.
Awful displays of anger < Respect for human life
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Wasn't it Bonnie Tyler who was repeatedly pelted with bottles of piss at Reading when it was still a metal festival in the 80s?
My favourite story of this kind, however, was when Steps played at Creamfield (at least I think it was Creamfields.) Not only did people pelt them with bottles of piss, but they actually emptied to fluid from their glow-sticks into the bottles too, thus pelting the hapless pop act with LUMINOUS piss.
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Just in case there are some people getting confused out there, the bottles being thrown are made of plastic, not glass, and I think that only water is sold in bottles at these festivals, all beer and other liquid comes in a plastic pint-sized cup (usually branded).
I did get hit in the head with one filled with sand once, when Taking Back Sunday performed after Slayer, excellent festival planning there.
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Dimebag was shot in Columbus Ohio (woot woot, represent!)
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why the hell didn't fall out boy get bottled? shame on you Reading!
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i think it's great that serious rock fans are taking a stand against this whiney emo bullshit. i don't know why a booking agent would bother lining up these acts at a festival like reading. these saddos should be confined to their own festival... free tissues, eyeliner, and blank notebook for your crappy poetry at the door.
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I think if there is an action figure of you being sold in a mall somewhere, you should be permanently banned from referring to yourself as an outsider. Whether or not the punishment should be a public stoning (or bottling), I cannot say.
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Everyone should go listen to Rocky "The Motherfucking Man" Votolato.
yeah uhhh that's a joke right? cuz he's just like half of the artists you listed in there...and he was on the OC as well...
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i love how all the commenters are praising the british for pelting these "terrible bands".but right now fall out boy are the biggest and most beloved band in england. so its like, these people are pelting panic! at the disco so they can sing along teary-eyed to "sugar we're goin down"
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england rawks
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Since when were Fall Out Boy the biggest act in 'England'?
I have you know they were so bad the crowd gave up trying to bottle the band and instead started bottling each other in one huge mass suicide.
See...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b1t8HihFAvI
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they're no oasis, that's for sure.
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Seriously...how funny is it that you fuckwits take issue with anything that gets any top 40, Fuse, or MTV airplay, and then spend the next ten seconds of your life obsessing over five sentences about Britney Spears, Kevin Federline, etc.?
Look, I dislike Panic! at the Disco as much as the next man...but does the band deserve to have glass bottles and piss thrown at him? Half of you are going to say yes, whilst passing out flyers to raise awareness of school bullying or genocide in Darfur.
Oh, and Surfjan Stevens' "Illinois" was a lot better when it was called "The sountrack to the Motion Picture THE MUSIC MAN". You fucking hipsters are so predictable; you cream in your pants every time a white person does a cover of Gnarls Barkley's "Crazy".
Hipster girls nowadays dress like ragamuffin orphans torn from the pages of "Oliver", with leggings, skirts, and frocks. Hipster males and their oh-so-clever Urban Outfitter t-shirts and poorly coiffed hair.
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How many times a day does some dude write a rant to let us all know how hypocritical and naive hipsters are? Thanks Shawn, you've just officially become old.
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oasis is a great band, nick should blow it
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hey, am i the only one who thinks gerard rocks the blonde hair? reminds me of brad pitt when he dyed his hair platinum blonde. i think pretty people can get away with any hair color. it's not fair but that's the way it is.
the real sad thing about this is that mcr is getting pegged with mediocre bands like fob and panic! when they're levels above these bands. mcr, though i don't think they'll allow themselves to be called "emo," carried the flag well when they had their 2nd album released. after which, the likes of fob and panic! came along and they ruined the whole thing, but i hope mcr's 3rd album would elevate the emo music genre.
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is that Gary Numan waering some of Adam Ant's clothes?
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NO ONE SHOULD EVER HAVE ENDURE THIS SORT THING HAPPENING TO THEM AT ALL NO MATTER WHO THEY ARE OR WHAT THE REPRESENT.
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fuck all of you. mY cheMicAL roMaNcE is the greatest band alive. you should not diss them, you're the ones who need the making fun of you stupid assholes.
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mcr is pretty cool they sound pretty good 4 a new band. y do people always have to hate on successful people? awww losers
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I actually love My Chemical Romance, big fan, and they being bottled is a sound of jealous idiots. Call them what you please, dislike them if you want to. Fine by me, its not going to change any true fans opinion, and the only effect is going to cause on the population of haters ~like yourself~ is... well.. them yelling. "Yeah dude, emo sux and so does MCR".. Come on now haters, find something better to do with your time.
If you hate them so much, the fans obviously do not care nor want to hear you complain about them. I'm a big Greenday fan too and yes I do admit that I became a fan when "American Idiot" was released. I was too young to care about GD in the 90s anyway.
I'm 17 for future reference and so I simply decided to listen to old Greenday songs like "When I Come Around" and "Longview" about a year ago, I love them as much as I do BOBD and WMUWSE. But back to MCR and your emo complaints, I'm a fan of some Panic! At the Disco songs.
Most people just don't understand that people are going to like what they like and dislike what they dislike. So there really shouldn't be any insulting of bands of all genres (emo, punk, hardcore, metal, etc etc) There really isn't any point to it. I might hate Britney Spears but you don't see me complaining of how she "sucks" or how people should throw things at her.
I can't tell you how many times I heard some hater speak of how Avenged Sevenfold (my favorite hardcore band) sucks. But how can a band suck? Do they even look up the definition of words before they use them? Suck does not mean lame or insignificant in anyway.
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I actually love My Chemical Romance, big fan, and they being bottled is a sound of jealous idiots. Call them what you please, dislike them if you want to. Fine by me, its not going to change any true fans opinion, and the only effect is going to cause on the population of haters ~like yourself~ is... well.. them yelling. "Yeah dude, emo sux and so does MCR".. Come on now haters, find something better to do with your time.
If you hate them so much, the fans obviously do not care nor want to hear you complain about them. I'm a big Greenday fan too and yes I do admit that I became a fan when "American Idiot" was released. I was too young to care about GD in the 90s anyway.
I'm 17 for future reference and so I simply decided to listen to old Greenday songs like "When I Come Around" and "Longview" about a year ago, I love them as much as I do BOBD and WMUWSE. But back to MCR and your emo complaints, I'm a fan of some Panic! At the Disco songs.
Most people just don't understand that people are going to like what they like and dislike what they dislike. So there really shouldn't be any insulting of bands of all genres (emo, punk, hardcore, metal, etc etc) There really isn't any point to it. I might hate Britney Spears but you don't see me complaining of how she "sucks" or how people should throw things at her.
I can't tell you how many times I heard some hater speak of how Avenged Sevenfold (my favorite hardcore band) sucks. But how can a band suck? Do they even look up the definition of words before they use them? Suck does not mean lame or insignificant in anyway.
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I feel sorry for anyone who gets hit in the head with said bottles. I don't care if it's MCR or whoever. I really agree w/ the person who said that he/she never thought to have empathy for a band like MCR...but people like that make it difficult.
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I can't believe people here are actually just to justify meaningless violence. Nobody DESERVES to be bottled. Although I do agree the line-up was ridiculous, you can't justify something like that..
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what a load of bullshit...
i love both MCR and Panic!at the disco MCR and Panic! at the disco have helped me so much recently.Nobody deserves to be bottled and MCR are amazing and help so many people through really difficult times.They are one of the best bands around at the moment..i dont understand how anyone could not like them...they look and sound amazing live which most people and bands dont
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what a load of bullshit...
i love both MCR and Panic!at the disco MCR and Panic! at the disco have helped me so much recently.Nobody deserves to be bottled and MCR are amazing and help so many people through really difficult times.They are one of the best bands around at the moment..i dont understand how anyone could not like them...they look and sound amazing live which most people and bands dont
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i actually luv mcr but das not y im posting dis think about it if you loved what you did and had a group of people who luved wat u did as much as you did but u also had a group who h8ed it would you stop? why do you think they care about what you think anyway n throwing bottles wat do you hope 2 achieve? pathetic it really is
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i actually luv mcr but das not y im posting dis think about it if you loved what you did and had a group of people who luved wat u did as much as you did but u also had a group who h8ed it would you stop? why do you think they care about what you think anyway n throwing bottles wat do you hope 2 achieve? pathetic it really is
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i agree with the people above me i love mcr they are the best band ever and they never deserved to get pelted with bottles (nor did any other band). mcr helps a lot of people get through a lot of difficult times and for the people who didnt know they said that they are outsiders because when they were at school they were always outsiders and even now they are because there music is very different from other popular artists today. unlike a lot of other bands mcr acctually arent in it for the money and the fame they are in it because thats what they love and believe in and also because they want to help people (which they do). so really whats the point of throwing bottles at them its not going to solve anything and its certainatley not going to make them stop singing. its pointless!
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This bottling shit is stupid!
To me,My Chemical Romance is one of the greatest
bands out there.
If you don't like them...fine
but don't throw piss at them!
geez!
I most likey sound pretty damn lame right now
to all you who think MCR is some "emo bullshit"
but what the freak!
why would you even bother going to this Reading
Fest. if your gonna do something as childish as that?
Although,I do agree that when he said
how they were outsiders was pretty stupid
I hated him for a second there.
But come on now,
if your here saying how crappy they are
and making it seem like throwing piss at someone
is "cool"
that makes you no better than those "emo faggots"
as you like to call them
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hey! i love my chemical romance but if i hated them i dont care!! nobody deserves what happened to them..
how they look or what they do is THEIR PROBLEM. if u don't like them cause you think they're interested just in money don't listen to them. However it is not important how they look cause the important thing is their music..
you may not understand it cause you listen to stupid bands that have no sence in their lirycs, only cause they wear dark clothes and they are dirty hippies.. so don't speak.. if u don't like just live your life and leave them alone okay??
so just don't bother ok??
TAMM
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If I find out who threw all that shit at my man, Gerard, their ass is mine.
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I <3 MCR I DONT GIVE A SHIT IF THEIR COMMERCIAL THEY STARTED OFF LIKE ANY DOWN RIDDEN BAND IN A BASEMENT AND THEY ROCKED.
Being a UK fan Im just appalled by they were treated, I hate the fact that my fav band gets so much abuse but my seconf fav band coheed and cambria wouldn't get any of their shit, they worked hard for their sucess so if us kids (Jesus Im 19) understand and appreciate them then its up to us I'll be seeing them at Download even if Im the only one cheering them on.
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actually i love mcr and i am going to the black parade concert in pensecola! they are one of the best bands in the world!
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these people are just trying to show that not everybody is a timberlake person, not everybody is the same and if you are goth, then you are not alone, you should not get things thrown at you for being yourself. I admire them for being differrnt and their music rocks and because of them people understand who i really am with out me having to scream it at them. they are just another band just like anyone else doing their thing and nobody else's. They show who they are and dont care what people say. they are not afraid to show they're true colors (black) and they do represent every outsider out there even if that person isnt goth, they show that not everyone is alike and that is ok. I admire them. I am also a HUGE fan. If you have a prob email me , my email is sister_sister13@yahoo.com
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and if you do email me , tell me what you hate about them.
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MCR ROCK! Period. Thy are one of the greatest bands around, possibly the best. If you dont like them, leave them alone and thats fine with me, but dont go round dissing them! Jesus christ! Just because someone had a few problems and wants to express them through music, you cant just take one look @ them and say that theyre rubbish! Please, leave little Gerard alone.
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its okay to like MCR if your under the age of say.. 15, going through your 'nobody understands meeeeeee' phase. Any older than that and you should be gassed.
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i dont care wat ppl say mcr rox!and gerard ur really hot 2 bad ur getting married but im still happy 4 u
melissa
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I've got nothing against EMO and I am a half-emo but I just cannot stand MCR, the singer has absolutely no voice (he can't sing), even that goddamned Billy with no Talent (Benjamin ) is better, and the band made the EMO style "in"! Now everyone want to look like EMO and to be one, but they have NO(!!!) idea what it does mean to be an EMO. Sorry pals, but there's no way I'm gonna like MCR. Yeah I forgot to say that those songs may eb catching and some people may like his voice, but the second reason I hate them is too great.
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ok I love MCR and all I have 2 say is even if you don't like the band you don't have 2 see them andnobody even famous people/bands don't deserve to get bottled that is just wrong!
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This is really, really sad. Okay, I can totally understand- the organizers were complete IDIOTS for organizing them after SLAYER of all groups. It was (what I'd expect as extreme boo-ing) much worse than anyone could anticipate, because violence is ironically one of those things that the band is strongly against. I'm not a crazy MCR fan, neither am I against them. I'm just appalled at how dim-wittedly people are handling the situation, even today, one year later. To Fredrick, and Brian, I prop you as one of the few open minded people here among the commenters. True, things are different here in America, true, Woodstock '99 is... erm, irrelavent to this in most ways, but seriously, can we please just stop with the insulting and name-calling? Wannabees, or not, the band does what they love and share their music with the world. If you don't like it, fine, boo, hiss, mock, whatever- BUT DON'T GO THROWING THINGS AT INNOCENT PEOPLE!!!
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Not a huge MCR fan but I like "The Black Parade". Regardless, if I saw a fellow concert-goer throwing bottles at the bands, it's open season. I paid good money to see a show. Now you suddenly decide you need to thin out the lineup a bit?
Like hell, you will. Into the pit, you little pissant. Let's see you throw trash at anyone when my fat ass is sitting on your neck.
DwD
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There's a lot of bands I don't like, but I won't throw bottles at them because I don't like them. Everyone has different tastes, but the whole music scene today is so caught up on what's okay to listen to and not okay to listen to, bands like these are having to pay the price.
So yeah, they're mainstream. Yeah, some emo kids probably listen to them. And yeah, they were unfortunate enough to play after Slayer, but they are there for their music, so give a little respect.
However, I'm sure any kid would want to throw bottles at MCR after a Slayer set. Not saying its right, but its something that kids do. I don't think attitudes toward mainstream or stereotyped bands are going to change. Music to me, is such a scene thing now. People can't like what they like and get respect for their tastes anymore.
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Eliteist indie kid? I think not. We bottle the shit out of them at Download too. They played a headline slot on the main stage on the friday against Korn on the second stage. . . the main stage was empty except for about 4 rows and about 16 rows of people throwing bottles (and a throwing knife). The managed to get about 5000 people into the 75,000 capacity main stage and had to leave half an hour into their 2 hour set because 30,000 people left Korn when they finished to join in the 'fun' down at the mainstage. Hopefully they'll never come back.
There is no place for MCR in the UK rock scene, stick to pop festivals.
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It's not cool, or right to throw bottles at bands like MCR... But do we give a fuck? No =D
Not only is it fun to do what the fuck we want (yup, we don't go by the book of righteousness), and throw bottles at these shitty fucking bands, we get after-entertainment by looking at all the fucking emos crying 'coz their oh-so-lovely Gerard Way got hurt.
This band doesn't even deserve to be here, they don't deserve fame. If it wasn't for Gerards looks, and the trends, these fuckers would have nothing. But noooo, all these obsessive little emo girls have to follow the trend of stalking the band, whilst claiming to be unique.
We hate MCR. Stay the fuck out of the music business.
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Mychem stand for all the outsiders? Outsiders, my ass! It's so presumptuous of them to defend themselves with such an arrogant, self-pitying front. They certainly don't stand for me.
Hand me a bottle, someone.
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blink 182 rulez all!., hu hate blink182?. zz., pop punk bands is the best! emo is bullshit!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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