Gerard Way has discussed My Chemical Romance’s songwriting process in the band’s early days, and how their first songs took shape. Speaking to Jimmy Eat World frontman Jim Adkins on the latter’s Pass Through Frequencies podcast, he lifted the lid on Skylines And Turnstiles, and how it came into being.“The very first My Chem song, Skylines And Turnstiles, I [wrote] on guitar,” he explained. “So it was a tool I used sometimes. I wrote a good deal of [debut album] Vampires Will Never Hurt You on the guitar. Frank [Iero] and Ray [Toro] had a way of making the chords I was singing the most interesting they could be. It would be like an improved version of what I was singing. It would feel very My Chem.” This, according to Gerard, is something that sometimes echoes in the band members’...
