r/ThePaperKingdomMCR

Hi, I'm the Batman Map remix guy.

I'm the guy on YouTube who uploaded three Batman Map sequence tracks, mixed and mastered by yours truly. I just want to answer a few questions that have been circulating around Discord, YouTube, and Reddit.

1. Is that all you mixed and mastered?

Actually, no! There are three more songs. Let me list them down:

  • Batman Map - I found out there was a guitar solo buried deep underneath the original demo. I raised it, listened to it for hours, and re-recorded it for its full glory.
  • Falling Down (Stripped) - My own acoustic work. I noticed that for BATMAN MAP (Track 9), the second part is Gerard and Ray seemingly trying to work in a different version of Falling Down, and I did my own thing on it too. I recorded the acoustic guitar, added a MIDI violin, de-echoed and de-reverberated the vocals... let's just say that I'm most proud of this one.
  • High Hopes (Stripped) - Also, my own acoustic work. The idea came from the 20-minute "Sketches for Batman Map DEMO" audio, in which the last part has Gerard and Ray singing a different rendition of another song; but this time with High Hopes. I decided to make it its own thing too.

2. Can you upload them to the YouTube channel?

Unfortunately, not. Warner REALLY loves to strike down videos that have ANY official (or at least polished) version of TPK tracks, and I cannot risk the stripped-down tracks especially that even if it's only the lead vocals, they still have potential to get struck down because it's still Gerard's voice.

As for the Batman Map DEMO, I also can't upload it. It's the only track out of the sessions that has any Content ID/Web Sheriff stain on it.

3. Can you give it to me?

You know where to go. Plus, there are several people who have it, so find them if you're able to. I don't think I'll be able to reply to you either way, I'm only on Reddit for the news haha

Thanks for all the support on my mix, by the way. It really means a lot!

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u/kyttarikos — 13 hours ago

Meme shirt - would you wear it?

Threw this together while trying to fix some borked settings on my template and the result came out quite funny and thought it'd be a fun reality, if i did a short run of 20-25 at cost (£7-9) would you grab one? they'd ship in time for the UK and US run too.

Looking at printing on Earth Positive blanks as they're sturdy, good fit and ethically sustainable

u/camageddon_ — 2 days ago

The Concept of the Album

So with TPK being a concept album, anyone have an analysis on how the songs relate to the story?

I thought I understood some of the songs and how they relate to the dead children group theme, but then I went to wikipedia and saw the kids apparently just pissed off into the woods to fight a witch?

I guess one song is called Witch, but idk overall how the songs relate to that part.

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u/Odd_Attention4507 — 4 days ago
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[Unreleased Media] The Paper Kingdom Wardrobe and Set Dressing

In 2012, famous band “My Chemical Romance“ started work on an album called The Paper Kingdom. The story of the album revolved around a group of parents who coped with the loss of their children by imagining they were in the woods fighting a witch. We now have access to a bunch of audio related media revolving around this era of the band but we don’t have any confirmed visual media.

The only reason we have any confirmation this media exists is due to this interview with Kevin Smith in 2012 for his show “Spoilers”

https://youtu.be/5U9YnIUt-Q4?si=iSntBVZGL9m7Xjmt

“This one is going to be really awesome, I’m actually going to meet Colleen soon about it”

In reference to Colleen Atwood, Hollywood costume designer. To fans she will be known for doing the wardrobe design for Black Parade and Danger Days.

In 2014 he also mentions that they were going to build stage sets as well on The Andy Greenwall Podcast

https://www.reddit.com/r/MyChemicalRomance/comments/1hixmou/gerard_talking_about_paper_kingdom/

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On r/ThePaperKingdomMCR we have a handful of photos that were originally believed to be part of the album

https://www.reddit.com/r/ThePaperKingdomMCR/s/maKHrKnUru

The big issue is that all of these photos mostly revolve around Gerard and Mikey. One of the photos was of the two of them going through woods holding lanterns. It was quickly discovered that the photo was for a charity event with Illuminate Parkinson’s. There’s two more photos of them separated. One of them is of Mikey wearing this black outfit and a couple of Gerard wearing a blue jacket. I’m going to focus on the ladder since it’s the most information I could find regarding context. All these photos were taken by Allan Amoto. Upon looking through his instagram I found that he posted a re-edit of the blue jacket photo where he mentioned that Grant Morrison was present for the photoshoot.

https://www.instagram.com/p/BuwrFn8BdXA/?igsh=NTc4MTIwNjQ2YQ==

What makes this interesting is that we do know that Grant Morrison is one of the few people outside of the band who listened to TPK. In this same post he mentioned that the photo was for an Editorial called “Lost Boy Leather” by JunkerDesigns which seems to be lost media in itself. I did reach out to Allan trying to get more information regarding the post.

He did tell me that the editorial was published in 2012 but gave no additional information. I also asked him if the outfit or photos were related to the Paper Kingdom at all and his short response was, “don’t know..”.

At the moment this is where my search ends in terms of Wardrobe. The best we can hope for is probably concept art by either Gerard or Colleen Atwood. Another possible person to look into is Christine L. Cantella, frequent collaborator of Colleen often being an assistant costume designer.

As for Set Dressing I don’t have too much information on…

User u/na-zdrowie found a kick starter by Chris Anthony who did promo photography for Black Parade.

https://www.reddit.com/r/ThePaperKingdomMCR/s/zv8c6c46os

The Kick Starter was for an art book titled “Seas Without a Shore”. I won’t get into everything zdrowie mentioned here since they did an amazing job breaking it down on the post above but they did speculate that these might have been connected to the Paper Kingdom at some point due to the amount of pagan imagery and one photo of a man with a literal paper castle on his head. Yet again this is where our search ends. And in this case it’s a little harder to know where to dig since we don’t know who was set to visuals for this album. If you have any idea on who to ask or where to search for more information please leave a comment!

u/Other-Ad-1087 — 4 days ago

Lost my files!

I transferred phones from Apple to Pixel and lost all my audio files including EVERY VERSION OF TPK WE HAD, I think I was able to rediscover the lossless version from a link I made that never went down somehow, but I lost all the auxiliary songs like BUS, GAWay Song, Dogs (With Dialouge) and Wednesday. If anyone still knows how to find them I'd really appreciate it, as well as the fan album remix that included just the best versions of each song (Final FYD and a mix of sessions one and three, I don't remember who made it, I think MR Bunsington)

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u/Cold-Watch324 — 4 days ago

blue bike thief came to me in a dream

had a dream where some lyrics of bike thief were replaced with variations of "i hate the color blue"

rough recreation of the blue thief

Now after all we have done
Rip our skin
And blue you down
Who am I
To tell you what to blue?
I hate the color blue

I hate the color blue
I hate the color

Waiting outside, everyone asks what it is
We're both too busy arguing but I hate the color blue
That you are not blue son
You'll never be blue son
Come home

You don't know the things you did to me
I hate the color blue
the color blue, she don't know
She don’t know the pressure that I’m under
It drag me down like the blue every day
'Cause I hate the blue

I hate the color blue
I hate the color blue
I hate the color blue
And I, hate blue

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u/Regular-Situation-62 — 4 days ago
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Not MCR5, MCR7

Saw a meme recently, i think it was referencing to My chem’s touring. But i feel this is more accurate to their setlist and plays

Black Parade played in full (Mom)

Then for B side Three Cheers and Danger Days tracks are guaranteed (Favorite child)

I brought you my bullets you brought me your love and conventional weapons both get a guaranted track or two in B sets where they can do a full b side encore. (Drowning child)

The Paper Kingdom occasionally getting a rare track played (6th discography era, even if unreleased) , And new tracks like foundations of decay only getting a rare release. Both with rare b stage appearances, extremely rare like the (Skeleton underwater)

u/pluviophile079 — 6 days ago

So... Yesterday some Paper Kingdom songs got leaked on yt

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We got fake Your Death- Falling Down And then jumped to War Beneath The Rain, And Then 2 songs got deleted... Idk how they managed to do that ...

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u/AzraelDemon1987 — 8 days ago

I’ve come to be annoying again

I know this gets asked all the time but I’ve only just found out about this leaked album since hearing a song on YouTube and absolutely loving it. Does anyone have the files and are willing to send it over? I will be forever grateful!! :)

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u/scarletteveee — 8 days ago

Curse you, Steve Jobs

gangarinos, first I’m sorry ab the comment thread from yesterday 😭 if you don’t know it’s okay but if you do I’m sorry, i misread and it took me a while to figure it out but I ended up going forward with it a little bit in the end. apologies. but curses to zip files i fucking hate them, on Apple phone theres like nothing you can do with them. I much prefer mp3 files, theyre straight to the point and I love ppl who also like mp3. its my Hyperfixation. ps spare me mods 🙏

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u/SNCY_279 — 7 days ago