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Producer Rob Cavallo told the band to simply enjoy themselves on it. Initially written by Toro in response to a jokey challenge – that he couldn’t write a polka – the song took on a life of its own. Mama, though, was a song that lit up the record.

On an album of great songs – the haunting piano-led Cancer (written, incredibly in eight minutes), Dead!’s bombast, The Sharpest Lives, Sleep’s grandeur, and so on – it’s tough to pick one more standout from The Black Parade.

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Gerard’s vocal performance on it, incidentally, came immediately after he had suffered tooth pain and Saavedra, fed up with him bitching about it, punched him in the mouth. Brooding, building, intense and dark, it would go on to define early My Chemical Romance alongside other early brilliance such as Honey, This Mirror Isn’t Big Enough For The Two Of Us and Our Lady Of Sorrows. “I had never heard anything like it,” said Rickly and immediately decided he wanted to produce them. The song that grabbed his attention was Vampires Will Never Hurt You.

They slipped to it Alex Saavedra, owner of the local Eyeball Records, who passed it on to the singer with Thursday, Geoff Rickly. Up in the attic of the band’s first drummer, Matt Pelissier, the nascent My Chemical Romance worked on a very rough demo tape. Simple, searing and sizzling, he preaches about capitalism and fame while the song itself gave him and the band the impetus to put the rest of the record together. He headed out to the desert with his wife and young daughter to brood on matters, and out of nowhere came the thrilling, visceral and utterly joyful Na Na Na. Gerard had been determined to ditch the characters and concepts that had informed previous albums and it hadn’t worked out. My Chemical Romance scrapped an entire album before making their fourth and final record, Danger Days, and were at something of a creative dead end. Na Na Na (Na Na Na Na Na Na Na Na Na) (2010)

It’s tempting to wonder if The Kids From Yesterday – mature, commercial, arena-sized emotions – was where they would have gone with a fifth album.ħ. On each of My Chemical Romance’s albums there’s a clue as to where they were likely to head next ( Headfirst For Halos on the debut, You Know What They Do… on the second, Famous Last Words on The Black Parade). Leaving SING – a worldwide hit for good reason – the instantly appealing Bulletproof Heart, Planetary (GO!) (a band favourite), and a personal favourite S/C/A/R/E/C/R/O/W out of a best of My Chemical Romance list is difficult, but The Kids From Yesterday is a song of such heart and punch that it’s impossible not to include it.