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Na Na Na gets me hype

 

So how many songs from the Conventional Weapons/Save Yourself I’ll Hold Them Back sessions have we heard?
Somehwere deep in my closet I have an AP magazine article about the album that says they had recorded 28ish songs. This was in mid 2009. I’ll have to find the magazine tonight when I go home. But off the top of my head I think the songs we have heard are:
Boy Division
Gun
Tomorrow’s Money
Ambulance
The Light Behind Your Eyes
The World is Ugly
Make Room!!!
Kiss the Ring
Surrender
Burn Bright

Mastas of Ravencroft
Black Dragon Fighting Society

We have only ever heard The Drugs in the live setting. And we have never heard the original versions of Hope, Bulletproof, Save Yourself, and Party Poison.

That leaves around 11 songs we have never even heard. I think there were some leaked song titles mentioned in interviews around the time too.

 

There's also

Trans Am
Death Before Disco
Still Alive

And written alongside Na Na was First Chance

 

I feel like Trans Am was Bulletproof Heart but I can't remember where I got that from. DBD was Party Poison.

 

"trans am" was indeed "bulletproof heart"

 

Trans Am may have evolved into Bulletproof Heart though.

"Jason Pettigrew of Alternative Press says of "Still Alive" as follows: "A chapter in the mythology of My Chem embodied in a song...This rocker withBritpop sound focuses on the legendary story of the band when a bottle of urine was thrown at them at the Reading Festival in the United Kingdom, from the point of view of throwing the bottle. In his letter included the following passages: "We came here to rough up everyone we see / Get off the stage and ask yourself: "Am I still alive?"

 

It’s interesting Rob Cavallo hasn’t produced anything since 2014.

 

well that settles that

There's 2 more songs registered with their publisher I'm not familiar with:

LA Heavy
Tokyo Death Squad

I suspect they evolved into other known songs as well?

 

Boy Division was originally titled Tokyo Death Squad

 

pretty sure he runs a label now? also he worked on a lil peep album in ‘17.

 

What do you even expect me to say to this lol, obviously I don’t think the songs are good

 

Cavallo produced this new blues album: Beth Hart - War In My Mind

Does anybody have any insight into how involved he was w Lil Peep?

He also seems to be involved in Broadway productions now.

 

Trans Am became Bulletproof
Death Before Disco became Party Poison.
Tokyo Death Squad became Boy Division.

We never heard Still Alive or anything else about it. I also never heard of La Heavy. This is the first time I have heard of “First Chance.” Did it become Na Na Na?

 

one of my best friends played drums in a MCR cover set last year lmao

 

Gerard talks about the inception of MCR and balancing comics with music. Awesome convo

 

LA Heavy was Kiss the Ring. That's how it was listed on setlists. And it was already stated, but Tokyo Death Squad was another name for Boy Division.

 

I posted some photos I took during Danger Days/World Contamination Tour/Honda Civic Tour to Twitter the other day. I need to dig up some more, as well as physical photos I have that I'd need to scan in.

 

Can't believe Gerard is 42

 

Gerard is actually ageless

 

really? damn, i would have never guessed that he was 27 when three cheers came out. he looks way younger in the music videos!

 

And that album has the energy of a younger band too!

 

I am super curious what their set will look like. Probably well balanced, but the last shows they played they were still touring on Danger Days at festivals

 

Feel like the setlists will lean heavy on 3 Cheers and TBP

 

Yeah I wouldn’t be surprised if they only played like 3 danger days songs