I had gone with my mom to the grocery store because it was probably the only thing I had to do that day. When I was younger, I didn’t like summer because all I did was sit around on the internet and watch tv and be bored. We were driving home in my mom’s jeep that was always too hot because the AC didn’t really work, and a song came on the radio. I don’t have any recollection what station it was. The top 40 station? The alternative station that went away like a year and a half later? It doesn't really matter. What matters is a song came on that caught my attention and my interest immediately.
They never say who the songs are by, or what the songs are even called when you’re listening to the radio, but I knew that I had to find that song. I went home and turned on MTV and watched TRL, it had been a while since I had done that, but soon enough I found the video I was looking for. I remember standing in front of the TV watching the video and just thinking I want in on this, this is for me.
15 years ago Three Cheers for Sweet Revenge came out and My Chemical Romance came into my life. I could go on and on for hours about what their music means to me, how The Black Parade was the perfect thing at the perfect moment when it was released, or how Danger Days reawakened something for me last year that took me all the way back to You Brought Me Your Bullets, but for now I just wanna appreciate the album, the song, that introduced me to one of the most important bands in my life.
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