My Chemical Romance - Life on the Murder Scene
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Free Music Review: Amazing, but not enough new stuff!
Hit: 4 Stars
Ok, so it's not a new album.
Two new songs at most, unless you don't have one of the albums.
That said, the video diary is a stroke of genius: so often cds end up at the back of the cupboard, not because the music's no good by because you just can't identify with the band. The video diary here makes sure that's never going to happen: brutally honest, beautiful and full of hope: this is the story of MCR's life to date, and it's yet another reason to love them. The video diary shows MCR for what they are: five totally flawed, but at the end of the day, nice guys. This was probably my favourite part!
The other dvd is also great...the live performances show just how amazing they are live (Gerard's voice...wow!), and the TV and online performances serve as a reminder of just how popular (and rightly so!) they've become. The videos and "making of..." videos are excellent, like an extension of the video diary: funny, informative, and honest. My one problem with this dvd is it plays "I'm not okay" way too many times: I know it's their most famous song, but after a while it gets ridiculous.
The cd contains the highlights of the second dvd, plus 2 new songs. "Bury me in Black" was an additional song on "Three Cheers for Sweet Revenge" in Japan and, well...it makes me wish I was Japanese. Great song, and inkeeping with the whole of that album, too. "Desert Song" is a huge surprise: I don't usually associate MCR with slow songs but they pull this off brilliantly, with their usual blend of beautiful guitars and Gerard Way's wonderful, angst-ridden vocals singing bittersweet lyrics right to your heart.
My biggest worry about "Life on the Murder Scene" is that, as a loyal MCR fan, I totally cannot wait for their third album. Whilst LOTMS is great, interesting, exciting, beautiful, honest and well-produced, if the making of it has at all impacted on the time limit for the next album then...well, it's not worth it.
As a filler in between albums, it's inspired, and I love it.
But if it's been released instead of the third album, and there's going to be a between-album type gap before the third album, then I'm sorely disappointed.
Because as entertaining and heart-warming as Life on the Murder Scene is, nothing can beat new music, and there just isn't that much of it here.
Free Music Review: There's metal enough to go around, people!
Hit: 4 Stars
First of all, to those saying you can't be a fan of old school metal AND new bands-Are you serious?! My friends and I have always been fans of the classics like AC/DC, Zeppelin, Megadeth, Ozzy etc. as well as the newer bands spawned by them (Black Label Society for example). The reason these bands are "out of style" now was the narrow mindset of their fans. Mustaine, who I consider musically to be a god, knew this when he put out "Risk" in '99 and guess what?-the fans lambasted it. It's gotta be pretty boring listening to only one vein of music all the time, I would think.
As for this set, at first I thought given their limited catalogue it would be a bit much, especially with several performances of the same songs-I'm Not Okay (I Promise) has the record here. However, this is a nice surprise with all the insight into a very creative band whose new album "The Black Parade", judging by the songs performed recently on SNL, will be an even bolder evolution for the band. My Chemical Romance fans will NOT regret having this in their collection.
Last word: if it speaks to people, than it is good. Maybe not to you, but so what? Hey-Iron Maiden's got a new one and it's very good too. Get that and quit bitching already.
Free Music Review: Good, but one major dissappointments.
Hit: 4 Stars
I have been so eager for a My Chemical Romance new release since I got into them late last year. This is what I got, and I like it..in fact I love it. But I really wish these newer bands would stop releasing live compilations. I can't stand it.
I'd rather have them release a whole concert..say where they perform every CD off "Three Cheers" and some of the stuff of "I Brought You..." It's a much more satisfying and smooth listen.
The Demo's are good and the previously unreleased unused track "Desert Song" is amazingly good too.
Overall I'm very happy with the DVDs as well. A good buy, only I'm pretty annoyed with Amazon lowering the price from $20 to $14 a week after it was released..I wouldn't have expected that from Amazon seeing how they almost always seem consistant with their pricing and don't pull fact ones like that.
Overall it's a really good buy with tons of stuff for you to enjoy. My one upset like I said earlier is just that these new bands don't put out a whole concert, instead they put out these compilations and I really would prefer a whole live concert. There's just a better feel to it.
4/5
Free Music Review: A nice addition to the collection
Hit: 4 Stars
To start, I've read all the reviews, and laugh at the people who say "You can't like this and like that." Guess what, the very fact you're trying to tell people what they can and can't like is stupid.
Getting back to the point of the reviews, MCR has a style that is kinda hard to classify from time to time. Their style changes depending on the message, but the same basic message of being yourself is always there. I'd have to say they're better Live than not, but overall it's all good. I recommend this group and this CD to anyone who has an open appriciation of music and isn't too picky to hate something in the first few minutes.
Free Music Review: Not bad at all
Hit: 4 Stars
The only downside to this CD/DVD I thought was the fact that on the first DVD many of the performance segments are dubbed over by audio from the albums. The first DVD is about two hours long and if you know much about their formation or their road to where they are now it does seem to be rather dull. Other than that, it is a great set and I believe that any MCR fan would enjoy it.