10 Best Rock Bands Of The 2000s
3. My Chemical Romance
It would be a hard sell to convince even the most open-minded of rock fans to really embrace the emo genre. I mean, when you're looking for something that's heavy and looking to give you some of the most emotional rock music ever conceived, why would you turn to the guys with the fringe haircuts and layers upon layers of eyeliner? Once you show these guys My Chemical Romance though, everything starts to make sense.
Then again, it almost feels weird just putting MCR into the category of emo to begin with. Make no mistake, the look is definitely indigenous to the genre, but the music is some of the greatest all out rock and roll that the genre had to offer at the time. Across albums like Three Cheers for Sweet Revenge, these Jersey natives definitely had their own thing going on, with songs that felt as much indebted to classic rock as they did to pop punk. That was just the beginning though, with the Black Parade blowing everyone out of the water with a full-blown concept and a sound that could rival Queen at the best of times.
Not wanting to become a caricature of themselves, MCR's election to break up at the end of the decade marked the end of an era for the emo genre as a whole. Though a reunion is on the way this year, the mark that these emo gods have already made on the genre is almost too much for words.