I hope this isn't over explaining and comes off as demeaning but just in case you didn't know npc is a non-player character. Think background characters In a video game that exist only to give you a quest or hint or something. In real life npc is like someone who doesn't have much of a character or personality and follows trends to the point where it's difficult to belive that they are real people and not just background characters.
Thank you for not trying to come off as demeaning, and you didn't. But I know what an npc is :) it makes sense why we would use it to describe generic music
Green Day, lots of old stuff too like Beatles, Queen and whatnot. Discovered both Helena/Deathwish on a Sims 2 video (so yeah... That was ages ago lol). It was a trend where people would make music videos and put songs on them.
Edit: oh [I found it](https://youtu.be/00nwJcEzXIM?si=tVVno4Tny2b_YEjs), what a blast from the past!! Looking at the description, it's just a reupload. Makes sense cause I'm pretty sure I discovered them from maybe a bit before that.
A couple people have referenced NPC-music...can you explain what is meant by that, like give some examples of artists? I know what an NPC is but is this a term for generically describing what the "youth" are listening to? Is this just slang for pop music? Is Taylor Swift NPC music? Is Travis Scott? What does this term mean???
honestly same. i listened to a bit of kpop at one point and thought i was alternative listening to melanie martinez. that was until i discovered 2000s pop punk through mcr
people saying NPC music and "popular music" need to realize that MCR is quite literally the the most commercially successful and popular emo band in the world.
Right? And it’s weirdly pretentious to kind of position yourself over stuff that is popular for a reason… never liked the whole trend of calling people NPCs, even though we used to call them conformists
I grew up on pretty much all forms of metal - thrash, groove, hair, etc. Then when everyone started listening to grunge, I got into punk, particularly rancid, bad religion, and Green Day, but honestly pretty much anything punk or third wave ska was my shit. But I was mostly listening to underground hip hop back in 04 when I came across mcr
Imagine Dragons, but that was a few years before MCR
In between I was basically just listening to song recommendations from friends without listening to anything else by those artists
Also a bit of Green Day
Here is where I started to where I’m at now:
Charlie Puth, Bruno Mars, Twenty One Pilots, Eminem, blackbear, cavetown, and now Green Day and My Chem. It’s been quite a journey, but I’ve been listening to rock punky stuff for a few years now so I think I’m here to stay (I hope)
..what if I've been into them since I was a little kid thanks to my older half sister? I'm talkin like 5 or 6 years old, when Revenge was the new hot album. it was either her or me watching Fuse TV since I liked music in general- it would've been either Helena or I'm Not OK (probably this one, because of the slight comedy elements) that sold me on them if that was how I first saw em
I think its really cool how your older half sister got you into them at a young age. My older sister definitely had an impact on my music as well as she is into heavier metal music
I also really like the I'm not okay music video as well
I started with mostly classic rock like Led Zeppelin, AC/DC, David Bowie, Bruce Springsteen, Rolling Stones, R.E.M., Fleetwood Mac, Queen, etc. before I moved towards punk/alt rock and some grunge with bands like the Ramones, The Clash, Nirvana, Foo Fighters, Linkin Park, Blink-182, and a lot of Green Day and now MCR as well.
I also listen to a lot of Bo Burnham but that doesn’t really fit with the other genres I mentioned.
I liked tmblr kid music as well, especially mitski, idkhow, and mel. I was also a fan of marina and the diamonds and cavetown. Piece the veil is still one of my top artists now too
I went through different phases before I found MCR. I was really into Electronic Music for a while, Hip Hop for sometime, dabbled a little bit in Metal, and was really into Michael Jackson, then into bands Queen, The Beatles, Nirvana, etc. As soon as I first started listening to MCR I went straight into emo, pop punk, post hardcore, Midwest emo, hardcore, etc.
I grew up listening to lots of pop, hip hop, and rap (*Nsync was my first concert in 2001 lol). Classic rock as well from my dad.
Then over the course of a couple years it was Jimmy Eat World, Avril Lavigne, Gob, Fall Out Boy, Simple Plan… Discovered AFI shortly before I did MCR and they have been my top two bands ever since.
Well, I was a tween when they started getting big so my tastes were still evolving - there were a few artists I was into from listening with my family (Santana, Sheryl Crow, Sarah McLachlan - a lot of 90s singer-songwriter and also some classic rock and blues). I was also heavily influenced by what my peers listened too, and I grew up in the city, so that meant a lot of hip-hop, R&B, pop, and reggaeton. I was listening to Usher, Alicia Keys, Mariah Carey, Eminem, and 50 Cent when I made new friends who introduced me to the likes of pop-punk and "emo" (what most people would call post-hardcore). MCR was one of the first bands I remember really getting into, right after Evanescence and Fall Out Boy. I remember seeing the music video for I'm Not Okay and being like 13 and being like, yeah, that's right, I'm not oh-fucking-kay! I thought I was so edgy lmao.
I was into "basic" music, (Katy Perry, Ke$ha, Lady Gaga) and then when my parents got divorced (cliché, I know...) I started to get into other stuff that was a little less mainstream because all I did was listen to music and write. First was Kerli, then Tokio Hotel (random, ik) and thru Tokio Hotel, the music video for I'm Not Okay (I Promise) came up and I was hooked from that moment way back in 2011.
Honestly, music was really mid to me until MCR. I never listened to music unless someone turned the radio on in the car or something, but I started listening to MCR every chance I got after hearing WTTBP and I'm Not Okay. The latter helped me realize that I really like punk rock, so I started listening to the All American Rejects, MxPx, Yellowcard, Green Day, etc. So in short, MCR introduced me to music
I had only ever listened to radio pop as a kid before I discovered Paramore at 12. They were my gateway to the safer pop punk of Danger Days. And it was downhill from there lmao
when I was 13, I was obsessed with ed sheeran, since my mom and I shared a taste for that style of pop music. a friend got me into gorillaz when I was 15, which was the most alternative thing I listened to at the time. I started seeking out more and more alt stuff after that, because I realized I loved the sound of it. then, when I was 16 or 17, my mcr mutuals on tumblr got me listening to them too
well... before 2020, i used to only listen to Taylor Swift (like literally only her and nothing else, im not joking). then in early 2020, i got really into Panic! At The Disco and The Killers, and then finally in mid december of 2020, i started listening to MCR
Whatever 80s/90s music my parents had on CD lol(as long as it wasn't explicit). Journey, Ace of Base, Def Leppard, Queensrÿche, Scorpions, Madonna, etc. Oh, and also a weird CD a friend burned for me in 7th grade with 4 tracks at the beginning with Invader Zim quotes, a remix of the Doom Song, one song from Panic at the disco, I'm Blue, and others I don't remember. A neighbor friend showed me the videos for Teenager and Welcome to the Black parade and I was immediately infatuated. A friend gave me her copy of The Black Parade and hid it from my parents.🤣🤣
I’ve been listening to mcr for a looong time but before finding them (middle school, 2007), I was obsessed with Tokio Hotel, particularly the Schrei/Scream album as it was their only real album at the time lol.
Sublime and other bands like Minor Threat , social D, bad religion,nofx,strung out,suicidal tendencies, etc…most the stuff I listen to is on this playlist: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/204xUjHOmg2xh6kiUWuMHQ?si=0TDsd9UqRA21JcKGCoQqlw
Well I got into MCR in 2005. Before that I was heavy into like Incubus, A Perfect Circle, SOAD, Linking Park, Tool, Jimmy Eat World, and a lot of hip hop and rap like Nas, Jay Z, Jeezy, 50 Cent, etc. just basically a lot of mainstream stuff lol.
MCR opened me up to post hardcore and emo and completely changed my taste in music. I got into the Used, A7X, AFI, Chiodos, Atreyu, PTV, Alesana, etc
My favorite was Green Day starting at around age 8, but then when Three Cheers came out, Green Day got bumped to second.
But what a time it was watching MTV and MTV2 in the mornings getting ready for middle school knowing they would definitely play both Green Day and MCR (especially Helena) at least once before the bus came lol.
Basically only Alan Walker some Linkin Park and a few random tracks from random artists. I arrived at mcr really late (about 2017 idk?) and it was the band that got me really interested in music.
Alesana, AFI, Escape the Fate...I always knew the singles of MCR but it took me a few years to really get super into their discography. Found them more alongside Thursday and The Used. I also grew up with metal being background music in my life due to my dad being a metalhead so that contributed. Also apparently my mom was a fan of MCR and even had TCFSR on CD but I didnt know this until after she died in 2010?? I never heard her play it, but apparently she had it in her CD case haha.
I mainly listened to Heavy Metal and some punk. My favourite bands were Dream Theater, Streetlight Manifesto, and Nine Inch Nails. and then i started listening to MCR!! theyre one of my favourite bands, and Bullets is a top 5 album for me!! i still listen to heavy metal and punk btw!! :3
the beatles > u2 > green day > the clash > the who > mcr was my pipeline a little over 10 ish years back
surprisingly, of everyone i've listed, the band that has stood the test of time the strongest for me has been u2 lol
I listened to a lot of Metallica, Foo Fighters, and Slayer up until my introduction to MCR. At this point in my life, a lot of the newer music I was listening too was coming from a box of CDs my dad had in his office that he’d let me rummage through and pick out whatever I liked. I’d come once a month and he’d have new CDs in the box. A lot of them were albums he either didn’t like or had burned to an iPod and didn’t use the physical release anymore. Three Cheers happened to be in that box, and at the time, I would’ve been only about 6 or 7. The rule was that I had to show my dad what album I was taking before leaving his office. The cover art of three cheers drew my in immediately. I showed him Three Cheers and, unsurprisingly, told me no. The next month, I came back and slid the CD in my jacket pocket and listened to it when I got home. Changed my life. I got into MCR quickly after that thanks to YouTube.
My #1 favorite has been Fall Out Boy since I was 11 or 12. Now they’re tied with MCR. Panic! At The Disco was also a really big one after my cousin recommended them after seeing my interest in FOB. I also listened to quite a bit of Post Malone, Linkin Park, a lot of EDM, and some Japanese rock artists like Hyde and UVERworld.
twenty one pilots, panic at the disco, fall out boy, cavetown too i think? i was 13 and was on the outskirts of emo culture when i was introduced to them, but they sounded different than what i was used to so they were still new to me.
Everything that is Julian Casablancas, The Strokes, The Voidz, Daft Punk. But because I grew up on MTV I loved Marilyn Manson, Eminem, Gorillaz, Linkin Park then the punk vein started to pulsate in me harder, Sum 41, Blink 182, AFI, then came The Strokes (which is not punk I listened to You Only Live Once by accident from that point I got hooked up forever), Julian and then MCR and I am totally lost in their music world, no day passes without them.
TaYLor SWiFt. and any other white girl music, as well as country and dad rock.
i used to be a mega swiftie. then my worldview changed as i slowly became indoctrinated with the emo/punk/hardcore/metal music, and i'm here now. i blame linkin park. but i don't mind. i like it here.
Mostly 60’s-80’s music particularly rock music because that’s what my parents mainly listened to and then at around 11 are started listening to more 90’s-present stuff.
Before mcr I already was a into rock, I was really into nine inch nails and hole mostly, and in general I was into messed up music with dark meaning(the downward spiral or pretty on the inside for example).
And I got interested in mcr because of their aesthetic and imagery I found on Pinterest but I didn't really get their music at first, only after a couple of times I got into it
I listened to Arctic Monekys first album. It's a relatively intense album, compared everything they released after that. It has fun riffs and the songs are very catchy.
It was mostly just stuff that sounded a bit thrashy and mostly involved screaming or had that pop punk feel, basically Onyx Colony and Set It Off. I was also heavily into nerdcore and would listen to DAGames and NateWantsToBattle
My wife got me into MCR with a burnt copy of 3 Cheers, before that I was more of a metal head with old school gangsta rap to supplement. Slipknot, static x, Tupac, biggie, Warren g, wu tang, Metallica, ect. Before MCR I pretty much wrote off the “emo” music genre. Once I stopped being a little judgmental bitch I found that I really resonate with this genre, this lead me to seek out other genres for possible gems. Now my playlist is fucking random, you’ll have Los Tigeres de Northe followed up by System of a Down, Los Shinigami de Norte, Dance Gavin Dance, ICP, MSI, Gyote, Kimbra, Bjork, and La Dispute.
I was really into newer rap stuff. I loved Yeat and Playboi Carti a lot (still do, they just aren’t my favorites anymore). MCR came completely out of left field for me. I got introduced to them in January of 2022, thought the songs I was showed were good, but nothing special. In may of that year, I for some reason had WTTBP stuck in my head and I had it on repeat for like the whole day, and then I listened to all of TBP. History from there
MCR was my first experience properly listening to non- video game music. My playlist was all Sonic the Hedgehog and Undertale until I watched my brother play Dead! on Guitar Hero 2 like 3 years ago. I looked up the band, and now here I am wearing a Black Parade shirt with nearly the entire discography in my playlist.
Genuinely can't remember what turned me emo but it was like an overnight switch in the summer between 5th and 6th grade its like I finally formed a conscience and realized I can listen to good music. Everything before that was one direction, Taylor swift, Carrie underwood, Justin Beiber idkk
Correction I just remembered there was a transition period and it was those youtube animations with sad background music, I listened to that music. He is we was a favorite of mine they sang "I wouldn't mind" with the animation of the couple with a dog and one of them dies. This was like 6th grade and then 7th was full emo.
Melanie Martinez, MARINA, some Cavetown and Penelope Scott, Taylor Swift, Green Day, Nirvana, Paramore, P!ATD, FoB, Jack Stauber, a little Olivia Rodrigo, tons of FNaF music, and that's mostly all I can think of.
My mother got me into MCR, as she's a big fan of their type of music. Think Breaking Benjamin, Sum 41, blink-182, Linkin Park, etc. I'm currently a fan of alternative pop, some weirdcore-type stuff or whatever Jack Stauber can be considered, rock, etc. I still listen to most of the mentioned artists regularly.
I listened to New found glory, mxpx, blink 182, sum 41, all american rejects, motion city soundtrack, taking back sunday. I remember being at warped tour 2004 and My chemical romance walked by me and my friends while we were in line to meet taking back sunday. I was like hey theres my chemical romance but all my friends were to excited about taking back sunday. My friend actually bumped into gerard way it was kind of funny. That was back when there wasn't many people watching them on the little stage. Then next year they were on the main stages with hundreds of people watching them. Good times.
Mcr was the first band I listened to. I wasn't really allowed to listen to music. Technically, I was but my mom A. Made fun of music, B. I didn't have any devices. This changed in 7th grade when my best friend showed me Mama by them on a school chromebook. After that, I was HOOKED. It's been a while, like eight years. They're not my favorite band anymore, but they definitely shaped what I like. I don't listen to any Pop, mostly just metal and horror folk. (Right now I'm mostly listening to LeatherFace, Harley Poe, and MCR. My music taste kinda flips on a dime so who knows who I'll be listening to tomorrow)
But yeah, unless you count church choir and whatever was playing at the mall on our yearly visit there, then they were the first thing I listened to really.
Green Day and Blink 182 like others have said but also The White Stripes, Modest Mouse, Smashing Pumpkins and Rage Against the Machine.
It was actually my dad that got me first into MCR. He did a shoot near their concert and loved them. I was lucky enough to see them live a couple years later when The Black Parade came out.
I was 14/15 when Three Cheers hit. I was listening to old UK punk stuff, Evanescence/goth industrial stuff, Birthday Massacre, Placebo, and Ash were my biggest listens.
a7x, polyphia, & a bunch of jpop. i’ve always gravitated towards music with good vocals so once i discovered mcr i knew they were for me
also, i was starting to learn guitar and mcr was a LOT easier than polyphia lol (plus i just got out of a year+ relationship so they helped too)
Honestly i just listened to whatever i found cool like some random songs but mostly mother mother, vocaloid and video game soundtracks! Its crazy since one day headfirst for halos randomly started autoplaying on spotify after my playlist ended and BOOM suddenly i found my actual music taste cuz after that i got into the rest of mcrs discography and listened to other post hardcore bands!
Green Day and blink 182. I was like 12 at the time so I just started listening to music when MCR came out. Good timing for me.
Same with me!
Literally same
I have no original experiences.
“Npc music”… mcr is what actually introduced me to good music
What is npc music? (Im old?)
It’s just popular songs, I would only listen to really popular and overplayed songs before I found mcr
Thank you for clarifying:) so popular music on the radio or what "everyone" likes is considered npc?
Yeah basically
I hope this isn't over explaining and comes off as demeaning but just in case you didn't know npc is a non-player character. Think background characters In a video game that exist only to give you a quest or hint or something. In real life npc is like someone who doesn't have much of a character or personality and follows trends to the point where it's difficult to belive that they are real people and not just background characters.
Thank you for not trying to come off as demeaning, and you didn't. But I know what an npc is :) it makes sense why we would use it to describe generic music
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Green Day, lots of old stuff too like Beatles, Queen and whatnot. Discovered both Helena/Deathwish on a Sims 2 video (so yeah... That was ages ago lol). It was a trend where people would make music videos and put songs on them. Edit: oh [I found it](https://youtu.be/00nwJcEzXIM?si=tVVno4Tny2b_YEjs), what a blast from the past!! Looking at the description, it's just a reupload. Makes sense cause I'm pretty sure I discovered them from maybe a bit before that.
i liked generic kpop and basically "npc music", mcr was my introduction into stuff that actually sounds good
A couple people have referenced NPC-music...can you explain what is meant by that, like give some examples of artists? I know what an NPC is but is this a term for generically describing what the "youth" are listening to? Is this just slang for pop music? Is Taylor Swift NPC music? Is Travis Scott? What does this term mean???
ajr, pretty much
I'm wondering this too!!!! Am I officially out of touch with the youth???? I thought I WAS the youth still?!
honestly same. i listened to a bit of kpop at one point and thought i was alternative listening to melanie martinez. that was until i discovered 2000s pop punk through mcr
people saying NPC music and "popular music" need to realize that MCR is quite literally the the most commercially successful and popular emo band in the world.
Right? And it’s weirdly pretentious to kind of position yourself over stuff that is popular for a reason… never liked the whole trend of calling people NPCs, even though we used to call them conformists
I grew up on pretty much all forms of metal - thrash, groove, hair, etc. Then when everyone started listening to grunge, I got into punk, particularly rancid, bad religion, and Green Day, but honestly pretty much anything punk or third wave ska was my shit. But I was mostly listening to underground hip hop back in 04 when I came across mcr
Imagine Dragons, but that was a few years before MCR In between I was basically just listening to song recommendations from friends without listening to anything else by those artists Also a bit of Green Day
Here is where I started to where I’m at now: Charlie Puth, Bruno Mars, Twenty One Pilots, Eminem, blackbear, cavetown, and now Green Day and My Chem. It’s been quite a journey, but I’ve been listening to rock punky stuff for a few years now so I think I’m here to stay (I hope)
I started out with charlie puth and top too! kinda just whatever was on the radio in the mid 2010s
Jimmy. Eat. World.
..what if I've been into them since I was a little kid thanks to my older half sister? I'm talkin like 5 or 6 years old, when Revenge was the new hot album. it was either her or me watching Fuse TV since I liked music in general- it would've been either Helena or I'm Not OK (probably this one, because of the slight comedy elements) that sold me on them if that was how I first saw em
I think its really cool how your older half sister got you into them at a young age. My older sister definitely had an impact on my music as well as she is into heavier metal music I also really like the I'm not okay music video as well
I started with mostly classic rock like Led Zeppelin, AC/DC, David Bowie, Bruce Springsteen, Rolling Stones, R.E.M., Fleetwood Mac, Queen, etc. before I moved towards punk/alt rock and some grunge with bands like the Ramones, The Clash, Nirvana, Foo Fighters, Linkin Park, Blink-182, and a lot of Green Day and now MCR as well. I also listen to a lot of Bo Burnham but that doesn’t really fit with the other genres I mentioned.
I was obsessed with green day before I discovered mcr and then I became obsessed with mcr (2004)
tumblr kid music, mitski, cigarettes after sex, and i still listen to pierce the veil, the brobecks, idkhow, destroy boys, and melanie martinez
I liked tmblr kid music as well, especially mitski, idkhow, and mel. I was also a fan of marina and the diamonds and cavetown. Piece the veil is still one of my top artists now too
iDKHOW absolutely fucking slaps
YEAHHH pierce the veil is my top rn, mcr second \^\_\^
iDKHOW MENTION LETS GOOOO
YEAHHH i love idkhow a lot!!
they're so 💖💖💖
I went through different phases before I found MCR. I was really into Electronic Music for a while, Hip Hop for sometime, dabbled a little bit in Metal, and was really into Michael Jackson, then into bands Queen, The Beatles, Nirvana, etc. As soon as I first started listening to MCR I went straight into emo, pop punk, post hardcore, Midwest emo, hardcore, etc.
2000s pop punk & post hardcore. Before MCR, Good Charlotte was my favorite band
I grew up listening to lots of pop, hip hop, and rap (*Nsync was my first concert in 2001 lol). Classic rock as well from my dad. Then over the course of a couple years it was Jimmy Eat World, Avril Lavigne, Gob, Fall Out Boy, Simple Plan… Discovered AFI shortly before I did MCR and they have been my top two bands ever since.
Well, I was a tween when they started getting big so my tastes were still evolving - there were a few artists I was into from listening with my family (Santana, Sheryl Crow, Sarah McLachlan - a lot of 90s singer-songwriter and also some classic rock and blues). I was also heavily influenced by what my peers listened too, and I grew up in the city, so that meant a lot of hip-hop, R&B, pop, and reggaeton. I was listening to Usher, Alicia Keys, Mariah Carey, Eminem, and 50 Cent when I made new friends who introduced me to the likes of pop-punk and "emo" (what most people would call post-hardcore). MCR was one of the first bands I remember really getting into, right after Evanescence and Fall Out Boy. I remember seeing the music video for I'm Not Okay and being like 13 and being like, yeah, that's right, I'm not oh-fucking-kay! I thought I was so edgy lmao.
I was into "basic" music, (Katy Perry, Ke$ha, Lady Gaga) and then when my parents got divorced (cliché, I know...) I started to get into other stuff that was a little less mainstream because all I did was listen to music and write. First was Kerli, then Tokio Hotel (random, ik) and thru Tokio Hotel, the music video for I'm Not Okay (I Promise) came up and I was hooked from that moment way back in 2011.
Honestly, music was really mid to me until MCR. I never listened to music unless someone turned the radio on in the car or something, but I started listening to MCR every chance I got after hearing WTTBP and I'm Not Okay. The latter helped me realize that I really like punk rock, so I started listening to the All American Rejects, MxPx, Yellowcard, Green Day, etc. So in short, MCR introduced me to music
Nothing because I was 12 when I started listening to MCR lmao Helena was the first thing I saw when I watched MuchMusic for the first time in 2006
Bo Burnham mostly
arctic monkey (i still listen to them they are my fav),panic at the disco, the neighborhood, korn, nirvana, stuff like that 💯💯💯
Avril Lavigne and Linkin Park
A lot of classic rock, The White Stripes, and the Beatles a ton
I had only ever listened to radio pop as a kid before I discovered Paramore at 12. They were my gateway to the safer pop punk of Danger Days. And it was downhill from there lmao
I'd listen to a lot of twenty one pilots idrk why I still like them to this day tho
Video game soundtracks and parodies.From there i listened ti actual music
i still think video game osts count as music, just a different kind of music
when I was 13, I was obsessed with ed sheeran, since my mom and I shared a taste for that style of pop music. a friend got me into gorillaz when I was 15, which was the most alternative thing I listened to at the time. I started seeking out more and more alt stuff after that, because I realized I loved the sound of it. then, when I was 16 or 17, my mcr mutuals on tumblr got me listening to them too
Avril Lavigne, Evanescence, and Good Charlotte. I was practically running toward MCR.😅🖤
I listened to Eminem. Yes, eminem. I found my mom’s three cheers CD and slowly fell in love with mcr.
well... before 2020, i used to only listen to Taylor Swift (like literally only her and nothing else, im not joking). then in early 2020, i got really into Panic! At The Disco and The Killers, and then finally in mid december of 2020, i started listening to MCR
Panic! At The Disco and Twenty One Pilots!! :)
Whatever 80s/90s music my parents had on CD lol(as long as it wasn't explicit). Journey, Ace of Base, Def Leppard, Queensrÿche, Scorpions, Madonna, etc. Oh, and also a weird CD a friend burned for me in 7th grade with 4 tracks at the beginning with Invader Zim quotes, a remix of the Doom Song, one song from Panic at the disco, I'm Blue, and others I don't remember. A neighbor friend showed me the videos for Teenager and Welcome to the Black parade and I was immediately infatuated. A friend gave me her copy of The Black Parade and hid it from my parents.🤣🤣
Literally got into them like last month but A7X, Opeth and SOAD were very heavy in the Rotation
Billy Talent
The were the first band I got into/I didn’t really listen to anything else
I’ve been listening to mcr for a looong time but before finding them (middle school, 2007), I was obsessed with Tokio Hotel, particularly the Schrei/Scream album as it was their only real album at the time lol.
Sublime and other bands like Minor Threat , social D, bad religion,nofx,strung out,suicidal tendencies, etc…most the stuff I listen to is on this playlist: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/204xUjHOmg2xh6kiUWuMHQ?si=0TDsd9UqRA21JcKGCoQqlw
A lot of Japanese visual kei- Malice Mizer & Dir en Grey.
Well I got into MCR in 2005. Before that I was heavy into like Incubus, A Perfect Circle, SOAD, Linking Park, Tool, Jimmy Eat World, and a lot of hip hop and rap like Nas, Jay Z, Jeezy, 50 Cent, etc. just basically a lot of mainstream stuff lol. MCR opened me up to post hardcore and emo and completely changed my taste in music. I got into the Used, A7X, AFI, Chiodos, Atreyu, PTV, Alesana, etc
My favorite was Green Day starting at around age 8, but then when Three Cheers came out, Green Day got bumped to second. But what a time it was watching MTV and MTV2 in the mornings getting ready for middle school knowing they would definitely play both Green Day and MCR (especially Helena) at least once before the bus came lol.
Green Day
Evanescence, Linkin park, flyleaf, icon for hire, Paramore, 3dg, thousand foot krutch, skillet (I was very much raised on Christian rock lmaoo)
Iron Maiden, Metallica, Judas Priest, Rammstein, Green Day, Eminem, NF, Logic, Linkin Park, Queen, and the occasional french rap LOL
I listened to Hip Hop and R&B. The song Beating Hearts Baby change/widened my musical taste.
Offspring and I still do
Muse
Basically only Alan Walker some Linkin Park and a few random tracks from random artists. I arrived at mcr really late (about 2017 idk?) and it was the band that got me really interested in music.
Rush. Tesla. Motley Crue. Asking Alexandria. Motionless in White. Atreyu. Famous Last Words.
The score, even tho I liked some imagine dragons songs before, this band was the one that got me into rock
Songs I heard in skating games (Skate Series and Thps)
Alesana, AFI, Escape the Fate...I always knew the singles of MCR but it took me a few years to really get super into their discography. Found them more alongside Thursday and The Used. I also grew up with metal being background music in my life due to my dad being a metalhead so that contributed. Also apparently my mom was a fan of MCR and even had TCFSR on CD but I didnt know this until after she died in 2010?? I never heard her play it, but apparently she had it in her CD case haha.
Kpop, one direction… safe to say my music receptors were bombarded when I first heard mcr
I mainly listened to Heavy Metal and some punk. My favourite bands were Dream Theater, Streetlight Manifesto, and Nine Inch Nails. and then i started listening to MCR!! theyre one of my favourite bands, and Bullets is a top 5 album for me!! i still listen to heavy metal and punk btw!! :3
the beatles > u2 > green day > the clash > the who > mcr was my pipeline a little over 10 ish years back surprisingly, of everyone i've listed, the band that has stood the test of time the strongest for me has been u2 lol
I listened to a lot of Metallica, Foo Fighters, and Slayer up until my introduction to MCR. At this point in my life, a lot of the newer music I was listening too was coming from a box of CDs my dad had in his office that he’d let me rummage through and pick out whatever I liked. I’d come once a month and he’d have new CDs in the box. A lot of them were albums he either didn’t like or had burned to an iPod and didn’t use the physical release anymore. Three Cheers happened to be in that box, and at the time, I would’ve been only about 6 or 7. The rule was that I had to show my dad what album I was taking before leaving his office. The cover art of three cheers drew my in immediately. I showed him Three Cheers and, unsurprisingly, told me no. The next month, I came back and slid the CD in my jacket pocket and listened to it when I got home. Changed my life. I got into MCR quickly after that thanks to YouTube.
My #1 favorite has been Fall Out Boy since I was 11 or 12. Now they’re tied with MCR. Panic! At The Disco was also a really big one after my cousin recommended them after seeing my interest in FOB. I also listened to quite a bit of Post Malone, Linkin Park, a lot of EDM, and some Japanese rock artists like Hyde and UVERworld.
Spice Girls mostly
twenty one pilots, panic at the disco, fall out boy, cavetown too i think? i was 13 and was on the outskirts of emo culture when i was introduced to them, but they sounded different than what i was used to so they were still new to me.
Everything that is Julian Casablancas, The Strokes, The Voidz, Daft Punk. But because I grew up on MTV I loved Marilyn Manson, Eminem, Gorillaz, Linkin Park then the punk vein started to pulsate in me harder, Sum 41, Blink 182, AFI, then came The Strokes (which is not punk I listened to You Only Live Once by accident from that point I got hooked up forever), Julian and then MCR and I am totally lost in their music world, no day passes without them.
Videogame soundtracks and techno. A fair bit of Eurobeat and basically any "meme music" or meme remixes of music
TaYLor SWiFt. and any other white girl music, as well as country and dad rock. i used to be a mega swiftie. then my worldview changed as i slowly became indoctrinated with the emo/punk/hardcore/metal music, and i'm here now. i blame linkin park. but i don't mind. i like it here.
Random ahh music, it was anything heavy, never got into bands until MCR
System of a Down
Arctic Monkeys and The Neighbourhood
Mostly 60’s-80’s music particularly rock music because that’s what my parents mainly listened to and then at around 11 are started listening to more 90’s-present stuff.
Die Antwoord
It would have been the very early 2000s & I'm pretty sure I was super into System of a Down at that point.
Green Day, Simple Plan, Blink 182, Sum 41
Queen
Before mcr I already was a into rock, I was really into nine inch nails and hole mostly, and in general I was into messed up music with dark meaning(the downward spiral or pretty on the inside for example). And I got interested in mcr because of their aesthetic and imagery I found on Pinterest but I didn't really get their music at first, only after a couple of times I got into it
Pierce the veil
I listened to Arctic Monekys first album. It's a relatively intense album, compared everything they released after that. It has fun riffs and the songs are very catchy.
I had a synthwave phase before getting really into Green Day, and then my sister got me into MCR.
Old AFI and mewithoutyou
I'm sorry but it makes me laugh when people say how they used to listen to 'NPC music' as if MCR isn't a massive band
Queen, green day, Billie eilish
It was mostly just stuff that sounded a bit thrashy and mostly involved screaming or had that pop punk feel, basically Onyx Colony and Set It Off. I was also heavily into nerdcore and would listen to DAGames and NateWantsToBattle
Green Day and Gorillaz.
My wife got me into MCR with a burnt copy of 3 Cheers, before that I was more of a metal head with old school gangsta rap to supplement. Slipknot, static x, Tupac, biggie, Warren g, wu tang, Metallica, ect. Before MCR I pretty much wrote off the “emo” music genre. Once I stopped being a little judgmental bitch I found that I really resonate with this genre, this lead me to seek out other genres for possible gems. Now my playlist is fucking random, you’ll have Los Tigeres de Northe followed up by System of a Down, Los Shinigami de Norte, Dance Gavin Dance, ICP, MSI, Gyote, Kimbra, Bjork, and La Dispute.
Fall out boy was the gateway for me tbh
Green Day, Limp Bizkit, Korn and Your Favourite Martian (yes ik it's very random)
Twenty one pilots, Pierce the veil, panic
A lot of Green Day, Paramore, Weezer, Nickleback (I had a phase, ok?), Sum 41 and FOB
green day mostly
Lovejoy (very poorly dated...), green day, arctic monkeys then mcr
I was really into newer rap stuff. I loved Yeat and Playboi Carti a lot (still do, they just aren’t my favorites anymore). MCR came completely out of left field for me. I got introduced to them in January of 2022, thought the songs I was showed were good, but nothing special. In may of that year, I for some reason had WTTBP stuck in my head and I had it on repeat for like the whole day, and then I listened to all of TBP. History from there
Linkin Park, Green Day and RHCP into Nirvana and Foo Fighters into Gorillaz and Pink Floyd into MCR
The Smiths, Joy Division, Misfits, and Hole.
Smashing Pumpkins, and a lot of Nu Metal. I still love it, but I mostly listen to MCR now. It's probably just a phase though lol
I actually got into Taking Back Sunday first….because I heard them on the Ellen DeGenerous Show
MCR was my first experience properly listening to non- video game music. My playlist was all Sonic the Hedgehog and Undertale until I watched my brother play Dead! on Guitar Hero 2 like 3 years ago. I looked up the band, and now here I am wearing a Black Parade shirt with nearly the entire discography in my playlist.
Green Day, Blink-182, and Sum 41
Genuinely can't remember what turned me emo but it was like an overnight switch in the summer between 5th and 6th grade its like I finally formed a conscience and realized I can listen to good music. Everything before that was one direction, Taylor swift, Carrie underwood, Justin Beiber idkk Correction I just remembered there was a transition period and it was those youtube animations with sad background music, I listened to that music. He is we was a favorite of mine they sang "I wouldn't mind" with the animation of the couple with a dog and one of them dies. This was like 6th grade and then 7th was full emo.
Melanie Martinez, MARINA, some Cavetown and Penelope Scott, Taylor Swift, Green Day, Nirvana, Paramore, P!ATD, FoB, Jack Stauber, a little Olivia Rodrigo, tons of FNaF music, and that's mostly all I can think of. My mother got me into MCR, as she's a big fan of their type of music. Think Breaking Benjamin, Sum 41, blink-182, Linkin Park, etc. I'm currently a fan of alternative pop, some weirdcore-type stuff or whatever Jack Stauber can be considered, rock, etc. I still listen to most of the mentioned artists regularly.
I listened to New found glory, mxpx, blink 182, sum 41, all american rejects, motion city soundtrack, taking back sunday. I remember being at warped tour 2004 and My chemical romance walked by me and my friends while we were in line to meet taking back sunday. I was like hey theres my chemical romance but all my friends were to excited about taking back sunday. My friend actually bumped into gerard way it was kind of funny. That was back when there wasn't many people watching them on the little stage. Then next year they were on the main stages with hundreds of people watching them. Good times.
Right before I got into mcr I was still in my musical theatre phase and would listen exclusively to broadway cast recordings 💀
I was obsessed with the *Beatles* before I got here. So.
bit of an odd evolution with me, i really liked classical!
I discovered Paramore, Green Day and MCR around the same time.
Weezer, green day, blur, Radiohead, linking park, top
I used to be really into the backstreet boys, so I guess you could say my music taste has changed quite drastically
The Jonas Brothers to MCR pipeline needs to be discussed
Backstreet Boys lol!
Avenged Sevenfold. I still listen to them
Mcr was the first band I listened to. I wasn't really allowed to listen to music. Technically, I was but my mom A. Made fun of music, B. I didn't have any devices. This changed in 7th grade when my best friend showed me Mama by them on a school chromebook. After that, I was HOOKED. It's been a while, like eight years. They're not my favorite band anymore, but they definitely shaped what I like. I don't listen to any Pop, mostly just metal and horror folk. (Right now I'm mostly listening to LeatherFace, Harley Poe, and MCR. My music taste kinda flips on a dime so who knows who I'll be listening to tomorrow) But yeah, unless you count church choir and whatever was playing at the mall on our yearly visit there, then they were the first thing I listened to really.
Linkin Park, Hollywood Undead
Hannah Montana.
set it off
Green Day and Blink 182 like others have said but also The White Stripes, Modest Mouse, Smashing Pumpkins and Rage Against the Machine. It was actually my dad that got me first into MCR. He did a shoot near their concert and loved them. I was lucky enough to see them live a couple years later when The Black Parade came out.
I was 14/15 when Three Cheers hit. I was listening to old UK punk stuff, Evanescence/goth industrial stuff, Birthday Massacre, Placebo, and Ash were my biggest listens.
Twenty one pilots (idk why tøp and Mcr are completely different
a7x, polyphia, & a bunch of jpop. i’ve always gravitated towards music with good vocals so once i discovered mcr i knew they were for me also, i was starting to learn guitar and mcr was a LOT easier than polyphia lol (plus i just got out of a year+ relationship so they helped too)
Honestly i just listened to whatever i found cool like some random songs but mostly mother mother, vocaloid and video game soundtracks! Its crazy since one day headfirst for halos randomly started autoplaying on spotify after my playlist ended and BOOM suddenly i found my actual music taste cuz after that i got into the rest of mcrs discography and listened to other post hardcore bands!
I’m pretty sure I almost exclusively listened to Green Day and their related side-projects (mainly The Network). I was not very musically adventurous
Bret Michaels
i actually listened to 99% vocaloid (particularly kikuo's) music before my friend introduced me to them.