30 Day Song challenge

So One of my challenges was to do the 30 Day Song Challenge on facebook so I decided to put it up here too! I'll keep it updated as I do on facebook!

Day 01 - Your Favourite Song
My Chemical Romance - Cancer
Comment all you want but no other song holds so much importance to me and has the ability to make me cry the way this one does!


Day 02 - Your Least Favourite Song
Miley Cyrus - Can't Be Tamed
It was hard to think of just one but this one is particularly awful


Day 03 - A Song That Makes You Happy 
The Red Jumpsuit Apparatus - Face Down
Always cheered up listening to this. Can't explain why!


Day 04 - A Song That Makes You Sad
Avenged Sevenfold - Seize the Day
It's so depressing!

Day 05 - A Song That Reminds You of Someone
Jason Mraz - I'm Yours
Everytime I hear this I remember Hannah Burke and her New York ringtone! :P

Day 06 - A Song That Reminds You of Somewhere
Head Automatica - Laughing at You
Anything from the Popaganda album just reminds me of working in Pulse Accessories! Nearly ruining the album for me!

Day 07 - A Song That Reminds You of a Certain Event 
Cee Lo Green - Fuck You
This will always be mine and Padraig Sheridan's Advocate song!

Day 08 - A Song That You Know All The Words To
The Lion King - Oh I Just Can't Wait to be King!
Every Word including the dialogue! Best Disney song ever!

Day 09 - A Song That You Can Dance to
Westlife - When You're Looking Like That
Plenty, It's hard to pick just one! I could say the macarena but I think this is better. It's very unlikely not to see me on the dancefloor for this one!

Day 10 - A Song That Makes You Fall Asleep
Coldplay - Fix You
 Coldplay are just such a boring band!

Day 11 - A Song From Your Favourite Band 
My Chemical Romance - The History
It's so hard to just pick one song so I didn't! I was going to use I'm Not Ok but then I found this. It's not in order but it still has nearly all the videos! :)

Day 12 - A Song From A Band You Hate 
The Jonas Brothers - Year 3000
They keep ruining good songs! This is the worst though! It's disgraceful. Kelly Clarkson really?! And no triple breasted women! How can you change the lyrics from an epic song to something so awful?!

Day 13 - A Song That Is A Guilty Pleasure 
Jessy Matador - Allez, Ola, Ole
Doubt anyone will remember this from last years Eurovision but it is just epic!

Day 14 - A Song That No One Would Expect You To Love 
Hadouken! - Crank It Up
Hadouken! People have been surprised by this one before. It's not my usual taste - Emo, Rock or cheesy!

Day 15 - A Song That Describes You
Matthew Wilder - Break My Stride
This one was recommended for me and I would have to agree.It is kind of a good description of me! Even for the pure cheese factor! :D

 
Day 16 - A Song That You Used to Love But Now Hate 
McFly - Five Colours in her Hair
I had very bad taste for a while. But I fixed it :P

Day 17 - A Song That You Hear Often on the Radio
Taio Cruz - Dynamite
It's a pretty overplayed song ever since it came out! One of those that you'll hear 2 or 3 times a day sometimes!

Day 18 - A Song That You Wish You Heard on the Radio
Úna O'Boyle - Beautiful Lady
One of my favourite songs ever that definitely needs to be played more. More people need to know the amazingness of Úna O Boyle!

Day 19 - A Song From Your Favourite Album
My Chemical Romance - Cemetery Drive
No surprises with this one! :P

Day 20 - A Song That You Listen to When You’re Angry
Bullet for My Valentine - All These Things I Hate (Revolve Around You)
It's been my angry song for a long time now! Especially for one particular person!

Day 21 - A Song That You Listen to When You’re Happy
30 Seconds to Mars - Closer to the Edge
Reminds me of seeing them and meeting them at Oxegen '10! Always makes me smile!

Day 22 - A Song That You Listen to When You’re Sad
The All-American Rejects - Can't Take It
I'm not into the sad ballady slow songs tbh. This is a good song though. I suppose it would be a "sad times" song

Day 23 - A Song That You Want to Play at Your Wedding
We Are Scientists - The Great Escape
I'm pretty sure that this is what will be going through the head of whatever unlucky man ends up getting roped into that! God Love him!

Day 24 -  A Song That You Want to Play at Your Funeral
Jimmy Eat World - Hear You Me (May Angles Lead You In)
I was going to go for "Ding Dong the Witch is Dead" but decided to go all serious instead! Love this song!

Day 25 - A Song That Makes You Laugh
The Midnight Beast - House Party
Anything by The Key of Awesome or these guys! I would so vote for them!

Day 26 - A Song That You Can Play on an Instrument
Vampire Weekend - A-Punk
Well, part of it.... I really need to get back into the guitar!

Day 27 - A Song That You Wish You Could Play
Rise Against - Savior
LOVE this song! Was amazing at Oxegen!

Day 28 - A Song That Makes You Feel Guilty
Justin Bieber vs. Slipknot - Psychosocial Baby
I really should not like this but it works so well! and is hilarious!

Day 29 - A Song From Your Childhood 
Backstreet Boys - Everybody (Backstreet's Back)
Such memories of KTV playing this video all the time! I loved it!

Day 30 - Your Favourite Song at This Time Last Year
Norweigan Recycling - Soul of Fireflies (Owl City vs. Train)
I had this on constant replay last year! Loved it. Still do!
Love Norweigan Recycling and his Mixes!

The everlasting music debate....

So I was at the most amazing gig on Wednesday. For the second time I got to watch the sheer awesomeness of My Chemical Romance in concert! It was just an awe-inspiring show. The band really know how to entertain, Gerard Way especially. He is a pure performer, it's clear that that is what he lives for! And I got to see my future husband Frankie so I was damn happy anyway! :P


But that's not what this is about. This blog is about the difficulties of being an MCR fan! There are very few musical artists who get as much abuse for their work as My Chem do, and as a result their fans get the same. It's incredibly difficult sometimes to tell people that my favourite band is my Chemical Romance but I am not ashamed of it!


I have no problem with people having differing opinions to myself. Not everyone can feel the same and I can handle that (even though I would love to convert them all to the MCRmy!). MCR cause such debate though that I have now made one simple rule when anyone feels the need to judge them:

Unless you have listened to more than just any song on "The Black Parade" your opinion cannot be counted

Yes that probably sounds harsh but let me explain. The whole  massive media judgement on My Chemical Romance only started about 3/4 years ago when "The Black Parade" was released. Not many had even heard of the band or their first two albums but yet felt that they all had the authority to form a judgement on the latest album. The world went mad with that album, everyone just had to form an opinion, mostly just following the crowd in one way or another.


Here's the thing. Even with the massive 6 year long obsession that I have had with Frankie Iero and co. I will freely admit that "The Black Parade" is the worst album of MCR's discography, in fact even the band themselves have admitted that. it's not the true MCR stuff, they lost their punkiness and energy in that album. "Three Cheers for Sweet Revenge" always has and always will be my favourite album. It's the one that made me fall in love with the band and it's the one I can always turn to no matter what my mood. 


Back on track... People do not give MCR a chance because of all these preconceived notions that they have made from hearing stories of stupid emo kids and MCR making them do stuff and all this shite. But that's not MCR and they never would do that.


In fact those kids annoy me nearly as much as the people who claim to hate MCR but yet have never listened to them! The annoying little teeny boppers who think it's so cool to be scene and emo and have to like MCR as part of the "trend". Most of them don't know the old MCR either, just the Black Parade stuff. They were all over the place at the gig, it annoyed me so much because they didn't even know half the songs played and when Gerard asked how many were seeing the band for the first time way to large a proportion of the audience answered in the affirmative. That is just not right for a ten year old band! These annoying wannabe kids are the bane of my life. Stop looking for attention and actually appreciate the music that you are listening to instead of ruining the experience for everyone else.


So I imagine most of you were not bothered reading the whole way through that so in summary:
Until you can tell me that you have listened to songs off the first two My Chemical Romance albums (aka "I Brought You My Bullets, You Brought Me Your Love" and "Three Cheers for Sweet Revenge") don't bother even trying to argue with me about how "crap" MCR are because quite simply, you do not know what you are talking about. You are just making your judgement on a load of hype! However if you can prove to me that you know the old MCR stuff and still feel the same I will grudgingly accept differences of opinion. Or even if you're not a fan, just respect the guys for the talented artists that they are. 


And people research the band before you start pretending you know about them! Such as the act that they have completely rejected the emo stereotype that they have been thrown into! It's not hard! Just wiki them at least! - My Chemical Romance


I will leave you with one of my favourite songs off each album and please feel free to look up more!


I Brought You My Bullets, You Brought Me your Love - Vampires Will Never Hurt You

Three Cheers For Sweet Revenge - Thank You For The Venom

The Black Parade - Cancer
(This song is incredibly important to me so don't even think of making a comment, it's also amazing live)

Danger Day: The True Lives of the Fabulous Killjoys - S/C/A/R/E/C/R/O/W

Love you always,
Síomha aka XxCrazyAngelxX
XoxoxoxoxoX


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Currently listening to: Why, MCR of course! I'm trying to decide the best songs to advise you to listen to! Three Cheers was especially tough to choose from!
Currently Wearing: My lovely Roxy hoodie, My Dipsy T-Shirt, some black tights, and my ever faithful grey pinafore that I remember blogging about when I first got it! :D

Oxegen 2010 Line up!

The first acts playing Oxegen 2010 have been released! Yay! :)
Now so far there's not many playing that I want to see but the ones that are I REALLY want to go to! They're all bands I've missed playing in Ireland before and had really wanted to go see!

The Line up according to "http://www.gigwise.com/festivals/52869/2010-Oxegen-Festival-Line-Up" is:

Eminem
Muse
Kasabian
Jay-Z
Black Eyed Peas
The Prodigy
Florence & The Machine
Paolo Nutini
Faithless
Stereophonics
David Guetta
Vampire Weekend
John Mayer
Calvin Harris
Newton Faulkner
Gossip
Temper Trap
Empire Of The Sun
Goldfrapp
La Roux
Wolfmother
Rise Against
The Coral
Broken Social Scene
Ellie Goulding
Two Door Cinema Club
Armand Van Helden
Steve Angelo
Simian Mobile Disco
Erol Alkan
Steve Aoki
A Trak And Aeroplane

Not all that bad of a line up, seeing Rise Against, Muse and Vampire Weekend would be awesome though! I'm going to have to think about whether I want to pay the €200 or so it's gonna cost me for a ticket though! If they all play the same day that would be perfect! Hopefully more good bands will be announced and then I will defo go!

Oxegen last summer was brilliant but the line up wasn't the best so I've decided if I'm paying for a ticket this year (got the ticket for my birthday from Conor last year!) I have to make sure that it's worth it! I also need to make sure I have the money!

Well here's hoping anyway! I shall love you and leave you now!

Síomha aka XxCrazyxAngelxX <3>
XoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoX

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Currently Listening to: Prayer of the Refugee - Rise Against
Currently Wearing: My favourite grey skinnies, a pretty brown dress with cute little mushrooms on it and my lovely warm Roxy jacket

Myself at the Oxegen headphone disco last year, twas awesome!