If all of the songs on Danger Days are as good as this one I’ll be able to go back to having you as a not so guilty pleasure. I used to be obsessed with you but you kind of fucked it with The Black Parade.

Even better than Na Na Na is ‘Save Yourself, I’ll Hold Them Back’ but there isn’t a video yet.

Music is something that didn’t really come into my life until I was a tween. I don’t have the early memories of music that many do surrounding their first years. I do remember Mums reggae christmas tape, her Michael Bolton CDs, and that I got a New Kids on the Block tape when I was five.

My first foray into metal came when I was about 11 years old. My Mums partner was a huge Metallica and Megadeth fan. I really liked Megadeth when I heard it. So much so that I convinced two friends to do a dance to it in our Primary School talent quest. It’s pretty embarrassing thinking about it now!

I listened to Megadeth around the same time I got into Aqua, Backstreet Boys, Hanson, Destiny’s Child and Spice Girls. Spice Girls were the first band I ever became obsessed with. I had their CDs a VHS of the movie and I cut out every single picture I could find to plaster my bedroom wall. The one and only time I went trick or treating I dressed up as Sporty Spice.
Around this time mum found a TLC tape in our driveway which I claimed for myself. I loved it, perhaps without realising how dirty it was, and I learned the Waterfalls rap off by heart.

The first years of high school saw new genres added to my love list. Nu metal, rap, punk, and ska. I was introduced to many new bands through mixed CDs sold at the store and mix tapes borrowed from boys at school. Limp Bizkit, Linkin Park, System of a Down, MxPx, and Eminem were the big ones.

Later years of high school came and I was getting over my wigga stage. I no longer rapped along to Eminem every day. I was listening to Incubus, Alien Ant Farm, and Rammstein. All bands I still love to listen to. Rammstein was what first sparked my interest in the German language.

When I left home I was pirating a lot of music. I didn’t know what a lot of it was before I had it on my computer, I just went for punk. I ended up with The Ataris, Third Try, and Fenix TX splattered throughout the mix CDs I made for my discman.

A couple of years ago I got back into music after seeing the video for Helena by My Chemical Romance. It was love at first sight purely for aesthetics, but I found I loved the music too. I became obsessed and would spend hours on the MCRmy street team site. I knew every fact about the band and had hundreds of photos saved. But then Welcome to the Black Parade was released and it was different to the music I loved them for.
I joined MySpace and found the world of online music. I started listening to songs people suggested and found Fall Out Boy, Coheed and Cambria, and Mindless Self Indulgence.

These days Mums partner introduces me to most of the “new” music I hear. My favourite is Sonata Arctica.

I think it’s true what they say about the music you listened to when you were a teen staying with you for life. I still like the music I listened to when I was about 16, Rammstein and Incubus etc. And I’m not (too) ashamed to admit I think Fred Durst did some great stuff that I still listen to on long road trips.

Can you match music to periods of time in your life? Do you still like the music you listened to when you were a teen?

New old music from My Chemical Romance. This is a cover of Bob Dylan’s Desolation Row, done in a punky style for the movie Watchmen coming out in March. I’m just excited to hear them do something new after over 2 years since their last studio release.