Vetrus Reviews: "I Brought you my Bullets, you Brought me your Love"
"I brought you my bullets, you brought me your love"
By: My Chemical Romance
Genre: Emo/Screamo, with some punk influences
Overview: SCREAM PUNK! My Chemical Romance's first Album. I had to start here, they are my favorite band! Recorded on the Indie label "Eyeball Records" in 2002, "Bullets" shows people who MCR was before they hit true fame. Since the band was formed in response to the 9/11 attacks, the music and themes of this album are bleak and dismal, but probably has some of the most poetic, and introspective lyrics of their collection.
Highlight songs:
"Vampires will never hurt you"- A song that sort of introduces the band as a group of vampires and sets the dark theme of the whole record.
"Headfirst for Halos"- According to front man Gerard Way, probably the most important song on the album. The lyrics are both the bleakest but also happiest of all the songs. Talk of death, anti-depressants, and depression in verses are broken up with chorus refrains of "Think happy thoughts", yet somehow, it all fits together rather well.
"Skylines and Turnstiles"- What I consider to be one of the most important songs to my generation, that saw, as young teens and older elementary/middle school students, just old enough to understand, terrorist attacks on the US's home soil. The lyrics in this song are what I name the deepest and most thoughtful of the whole album.
Review: "Bullets" must have been just too dark and depressing for mainstream rock to like, or maybe it was just the indie label, causing My Chemical Romance a few years before they hit rock stardom. If there is any problem with this album, it's just too dark. MCR's classic "suicidal" themes are present and considerably more difficult to decipher as being tounge-in-cheek. I may be biased as a hardcore MCR fan, but I give "Bullets" a-
6.5 out of 10
True story.
Genre: Emo/Screamo, with some punk influences
Overview: SCREAM PUNK! My Chemical Romance's first Album. I had to start here, they are my favorite band! Recorded on the Indie label "Eyeball Records" in 2002, "Bullets" shows people who MCR was before they hit true fame. Since the band was formed in response to the 9/11 attacks, the music and themes of this album are bleak and dismal, but probably has some of the most poetic, and introspective lyrics of their collection.
Highlight songs:
"Vampires will never hurt you"- A song that sort of introduces the band as a group of vampires and sets the dark theme of the whole record.
"Headfirst for Halos"- According to front man Gerard Way, probably the most important song on the album. The lyrics are both the bleakest but also happiest of all the songs. Talk of death, anti-depressants, and depression in verses are broken up with chorus refrains of "Think happy thoughts", yet somehow, it all fits together rather well.
"Skylines and Turnstiles"- What I consider to be one of the most important songs to my generation, that saw, as young teens and older elementary/middle school students, just old enough to understand, terrorist attacks on the US's home soil. The lyrics in this song are what I name the deepest and most thoughtful of the whole album.
Review: "Bullets" must have been just too dark and depressing for mainstream rock to like, or maybe it was just the indie label, causing My Chemical Romance a few years before they hit rock stardom. If there is any problem with this album, it's just too dark. MCR's classic "suicidal" themes are present and considerably more difficult to decipher as being tounge-in-cheek. I may be biased as a hardcore MCR fan, but I give "Bullets" a-
6.5 out of 10
True story.
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