I Brought You My Bullets, You Brought Me Your Love 
Released: July 23, 2002
Recorded: May 15 - May 25, 2002
Genre: Rock Length 41:12
Label: Eyeball
Producer: Geoff Rickly
I Brought You My Bullets, You Brought Me Your Love is the debut album by New Jersey rock quintet My Chemical Romance, released on July 23, 2002. The album was produced by Thursday's singer, Geoff Rickly, who was very active at Eyeball Records. The album earned the band a large underground following, but they were not able to emerge into the mainstream until their second album, Three Cheers for Sweet Revenge, which was released two years later. During the recording of this album, singer Gerard Way had to sing vocals while suffering from an abscess between two of his teeth, making vocal work very difficult. On the CD itself it is written, "Unauthorized duplication is a violation of applicable laws and will result in Gerard coming to your house and sucking your blood." This album has been re-released in vinyl format on February 3 2009. It was only supposed to be pressed on white and red, but there is a clear edition as well. It has sold over 300,000 copies in the USA as of February 2009. The album has received a Gold sales status certification for sales of over 100,000 copies in the UK. This is the only My Chemical Romance album without a Parental Advisory warning either in sticker form or printed onto the case.
Track listing
All songs written and composed by My Chemical Romance, except for Romance.
1. Romance – 1:02
2. Honey, This Mirror Isn’t Big Enough for the Two of Us – 3:51
3. Vampires Will Never Hurt You – 5:28
4. Drowning Lessons – 4:23
5. Our Lady of Sorrows – 2:05
6. Headfirst for Halos – 3:28
7. Skylines and Turnstiles – 3:23
8. Early Sunsets Over Monroeville – 5:05
9. This Is the Best Day Ever – 2:12
10. Cubicles – 3:51
11. Demolition Lovers – 6:06
I Brought You My Bullets, You Brought Me Your Love is often regarded as a concept album. It is believed in to involve two Bonnie and Clyde-esque characters who are eventually gunned down in the desert. In My Chemical Romance's next album, Three Cheers for Sweet Revenge, the unnamed man supposedly then finds himself in purgatory, where he makes a deal with Satan: his hellbound lover for the souls of a thousand evil men. He is then resurrected and sent on his gruesome task.[Though it is generally accepted by the group's core fanbase, the storyline is not readily apparent apart from the next album's cover and interior artwork and the song, "Demolition Lovers". This has led some to attribute its supposed existence to over-analysis on the part of hardcore fans.Another theme apparent on the album is the nature of vampires, as in both the undead creatures and, metaphorically speaking, those who seek to corrupt and exploit others.The song "Skylines and Turnstiles" was written shortly after the September 11 attacks and expressed feelings of sorrow and loss, "Early Sunsets over Monroeville" was said to have been inspired by the George A. Romero film Dawn of the Dead.
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