Track 3 – “Space Oddity” to “How’s It Going To Be” The backing tune of these two songs are definitely similar sounds and very interesting. Not only is the space theme hella prevelent here, the outfits and costuming is eerily similar along with the white backgrounds. In a Periscope live stream, Way speaks highly of his vinyl collection, pointing out that David Bowie’s “Low” as one of his personal favorites. Heavily influenced by Bowie in many of his works, Way himself states in various occasions as being a “HUGE fan” of the iconic Starman. Not only with the out of this world personas, flashy suits and red hair… “Hesitant Alien” provides the iconic brit pop influence to a whole new generation So how are these two iconic albums mimicked?
10, 2016 at the age of 69, I wanted to highlight one of my personal favorites of his works, “Space Oddity” (and many mentions of “Heroes” and “Ziggy Stardust” and other works). He sounds confident.Ex – My Chemical Romance vocalist, Gerard Way has had his solo project “Hesitant Alien” out for over a year now, but with recent events I thought I would bring it up again.Īs with iconic Brit-pop rock singer David Bowie passing away on Jan. But Gerard's here, he's jumping back out at us, refusing to let us ignore him, and he's actually not hesitant at all.
Hesitant Alien is something really special from someone that we had all written out of the picture. He does not at all sing like he does on The Black Parade or Danger Days here. Gerard's also gotten a whole lot better at singing and writing vocal parts that fit the sound like a glove. "Get the Gang Together" and "How It's Going to Be" are really fun jams to bob your head to and closer "Maya the Psychic" is about as good of a closer as you could ask for here. It goddamn throws you right into the distortion-filled, Fuzz pedal-laden sound this album has to offer. Intro "The Bureau" does a great job of easing you into the sound by not easing you into it at all. Singles "Action Cat", "No Shows" and deeper cut "Millions" are fantastic songs to show someone who has no idea what the album's about because they pretty much put forth all of the facets of the sound that you'll find in the album, and they're damn catchy as well. This album is so much fun to listen to because you can tell everyone involved had a really good time making it. He sounds like he's having fun and a whole lot of it. In interviews, Gerard doesn't seem like he even wants to play My Chemical Romance stuff anymore, he's done with it (at least for now) and he's fully, entirely into what he's doing on Hesitant Alien. It's the complete opposite of Patrick Stump's flaccid and uninteresting solo effort that followed right after Fall Out Boy had their hiatus, Gerard's solo effort is actually entertaining and fun to listen to. Gerard's solo effort, Hesitant Alien, is absolutely shocking coming from the mastermind of a band that had lost all of it's steam years ago. I mean hell, the cover art is literally just the "Heroes" cover art for 2014. Gerard was taking pages from David Bowie and other british post-punk acts and he was studying them as hard as he could. It had a sound that was nothing like anything My Chemical Romance put out. Gerard Way, the band's frontman, dropped a single called Action Cat and it was everything Danger Days should've been but couldn't. They ended their run in 2013 and a whole lot of teenagers cried that day. I mean they weren't writing necessarily game-changing stuff in '04 - '06 but at least they sounded like they meant it.Īnd so that was My Chemical Romance. They worked in a lot of synthetic stuff in their sound and the stuff sounded altogether less genuine. So it came as a surprise whenever the band dropped Danger Days in 2010 and they had practically dropped all of their "emo" aesthetic for a really weird, tryhard teenagers ***ting around in a post-apocalyptic setting aesthetic. It's a concept record about a dude that died from cancer recounting his life and afterlife, I mean ***, they were the most myspace band in the world. Three Cheers for Sweet Revenge is at the very core of the weird pop-punk/emo fusion of the mid 2000's and The Black Parade is pretty much the band maturing to their logical conclusion. If their music was released in any other time than the years of 2001-2010, they really wouldn't have found the success that they had so much of in those years. They were one of those weird bands that could only really exist in the time where they were most active. Review Summary: Does anyone have the guts to shut me up?
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