{"id":3575,"date":"2025-07-11T13:30:00","date_gmt":"2025-07-11T13:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/deep-cut-friday-kill-all-your-friends-by-my-chemical-romance\/"},"modified":"2025-07-11T13:30:00","modified_gmt":"2025-07-11T13:30:00","slug":"deep-cut-friday-kill-all-your-friends-by-my-chemical-romance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/deep-cut-friday-kill-all-your-friends-by-my-chemical-romance\/","title":{"rendered":"Deep Cut Friday: \u201cKill All Your Friends\u201d by My Chemical Romance"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<figure><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/static.spin.com\/files\/2025\/07\/GettyImages-90499890.jpg\" width=\"\" height=\"\" alt=\"Ray Toro, Frank Iero, Gerard Way, Mikey Way, and Bob Bryar of My Chemical Romance in 2006. (Credit: Mick Hutson\/Redferns)\"><\/figure>\n<p><em>Each week, SPIN digs into the catalog of great artists and highlights songs you might not know for our Deep Cut Friday series.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Tonight, My Chemical Romance is kicking off the <em>Long Live the Black Parade Tour<\/em> at T-Mobile Park in Seattle, and will be on the road celebrating their third album well into 2026, when it will turn 20. Selling over four million copies worldwide, <em>The Black Parade<\/em> is by far the New Jersey band\u2019s most popular and most ambitious work, a concept album about a dying cancer patient\u2019s journey into the afterlife. But it could have been bigger, in the sense that it was nearly a double album.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>More from Spin:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.spin.com\/2025\/07\/fuubutsushi-comes-alive\/\">Fuubutsushi Comes Alive<\/a>\n\t\t<\/li>\n<li>\n\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.spin.com\/2025\/07\/deftones-new-album\/\">Deftones To Deliver Their \u2018Private Music\u2019 Next Month<\/a>\n\t\t<\/li>\n<li>\n\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.spin.com\/2025\/07\/ozzy-osbourne-second-memoir\/\">Ozzy Osbourne\u2019s Second Memoir, \u2018Last Rites,\u2019 Due In October<\/a>\n\t\t<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-4-3 wp-has-aspect-ratio\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<lite-youtube videoid=\"BQndQV9E8C8\" style=\"bottom: 0; height: 100%; left: 0; position: absolute; right: 0; top: 0; width: 100%; max-width:100%;\"><\/lite-youtube>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p>Once My Chemical Romance trimmed the album down to the final sequence of 14 tracks, a few songs got left behind, including three great songs that appeared on <em>The Black Parade: The B-Sides <\/em>EP in 2006. And there was one song in particular that frontman Gerard Way regretted leaving off <em>The Black Parade<\/em>. \u201c\u2019Kill All Your Friends\u2019 should have been on the album,\u201d he <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/gerardway\/status\/316945484101070849\" target=\"_blank\">tweeted<\/a> in March 2013.<\/p>\n<p>An anthemic midtempo track with a morbidly funny lyric, \u201cKill All Your Friends\u201d is the closest cousin to the <em>Black Parade<\/em> single \u201cTeenagers\u201d among the album\u2019s outtakes, which may be why it got left on the cutting room floor. The album added a lot more classic rock to the punk and emo influences that dominated the band\u2019s first two albums, with nods to Queen and Electric Light Orchestra. \u201cKill All Your Friends,\u201d however, evokes an alternative rock touchstone, \u201cWhere Is My Mind?\u201d by the Pixies, with its opening riff. It\u2019s also one of the finest performances by drummer Bob Bryar, who parted ways with the band in 2010, and was found dead in his home in Tennessee in November 2024.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<lite-youtube videoid=\"DVtc4Tc-wzw\" style=\"bottom: 0; height: 100%; left: 0; position: absolute; right: 0; top: 0; width: 100%; max-width:100%;\"><\/lite-youtube>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p>The band began adding \u201cKill All Your Friends\u201d to their setlist in 2007 during later legs of the tour in support of <em>The Black Parade<\/em>. A demo of the song was included on the 2016 reissue <em>The Black Parade \/ Living With Ghosts (The 10th Anniversary Edition)<\/em>. And since My Chemical Romance reunited in 2019 and began touring again, they\u2019ve played it live three times, which should give the song\u2019s fans some hope of hearing it again this year as the band revisits the <em>Black Parade<\/em> era.<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-three-more-essential-my-chemical-romance-deep-cuts\"><strong>Three more essential My Chemical Romance deep cuts:<\/strong><\/h2>\n<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-skylines-and-turnstiles\"><strong>\u201cSkylines and Turnstiles\u201d<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>My Chemical Romance\u2019s origin story begins on September 11, 2001, when Gerard Way witnessed the World Trade Center towers fall while interning for Cartoon Network, and decided to devote his life to music and start a band, with \u201cSkylines and Turnstiles\u201d being the first song he wrote for his new project.<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-cemetery-drive\"><strong>\u201cCemetery Drive\u201d<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>\u201cHelena\u201d from 2004\u2019s <em>Three Cheers for Sweet Revenge<\/em> is probably My Chemical Romance\u2019s greatest song, and \u201cCemetery Drive\u201d is the other track from that album that explodes into a similarly soaring, cathartic chorus.<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-vampire-money\"><strong>\u201cVampire Money\u201d<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>Stephanie Meyer took inspiration from My Chemical Romance, whose debut album included the song \u201cVampires Will Never Hurt You,\u201d while writing the <em>Twilight<\/em> novels. When she asked the band to contribute music to one of the blockbuster <em>Twilight<\/em> film adaptations, though, the band turned her down and wrote the snarky \u201cVampire Money\u201d for their 2010 album <em>Danger Days: The True Lives of the Fabulous Killjoys<\/em>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>To see our running list of the top 100 greatest rock stars of all time, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.spin.com\/2021\/07\/the-greatest-rock-stars-of-all-time\/?utm_source=yahoo&amp;utm_medium=bottomlink&amp;utm_campaign=yahoolink\">click here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Each week, SPIN digs into the catalog of great artists and highlights songs you might not know for our Deep Cut Friday series. Tonight, My Chemical Romance is kicking off&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2152,31,1650,24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3575","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-deep-cut-friday","category-features","category-my-chemical-romance","category-pushly"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3575","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3575"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3575\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3575"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3575"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3575"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}