My Chemical Romance - The Black Parade
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Artist: My Chemical RomanceEdition: Music CD
Format: Explicit Lyrics
CD Release Date: 2006-10-31
Music Label: Warner Brothers
Soundtracks:
- The End.
- Dead!
- This Is How I Disappear
- The Sharpest Lives
- Welcome To The Black Parade
- I Don't Love You
- House Of Wolves
- Cancer
- Mama
- Sleep
- Teenagers
- Disenchanted
- Famous Last Words
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Free Music Review: A winner whether you like it or not
Hit: 5 Stars
The biggest cry that people make against My Chemical Romance is that they are an emo copy-cat band. They have said time and time again that they originally were this way to get into the industry. However, as they evolved from their first album to their second (VERY easily noticed) their third takes yet another massive step forward as it delves into the realms of classic rock at its best.
The biggest and most obvious influences here, notably even mentioned by the band itself in multiple interviews, are three rock masterpieces. These are The Beatles' "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band," Pink Floyd's "The Wall," and Queen's "A Night at the Opera."
Sgt. Pepper's influence is noticable right before you even put the CD in the player. Open up the booklet and the first two things you'll notice are the old newspaper-styled formatting and the photo of the band in black and white "death" versions of the clothes of the band members of "Sgt. Pepper's..." Beyond that, there is notably the very experimental feel in entire album, and some songs even seem to have a gentle yet brilliant anthem-like sound to them.
Queen's influence, as well as Pink Floyd's, comes in the overall quirkiness in the album, which can also somewhat be said about Sgt. Pepper's. The track "Mama" sounds like it could be right off "The Wall" (no pun intended) both in its sound and its lyrical content as well as possibly taking a certain level of direct inspiration from "Bohemian Rhapsody." The final hidden track of the album, Blood, sounds an awful lot like the short but brilliant Queen track "Lazing on a Sunday Afternoon," albeit being a tad more vulgar (though offering the same sort of hilarity in the song on both the uncut AND edited versions of the album nonetheless).
Where the album stands strong is with its catchiness and its power to hook you in. Even though the first single, "Welcome to the Black Parade," was overplayed to the point no one wanted to hear it anymore (similar to with Green Day. I still say American Idiot was a genuine masterpiece), it really does strike a nerve somewhere. It's a powerful song and truly one of the best on the album.
Two other singles, "Famous Last Words" and "Teenagers" are also among the many highlights on this album. The latter of the two is so catchy that you will find yourself screaming everywhere "TEENAGERS SCARE THE LIVING S--T OUTTA ME!" The last single, "I Don't Love You," is a solid song, but there was a much greater potential in songs like "Dead!", "House of Wolves" and the true winner on this album "Cancer." The last song mentioned there is especially powerful when you have seen a person die or dying of cancer as the song is told from the perspective of someone with it. It's very grim and very sad.
Where many will consider them to be "emo" is in the overlying and highly prevalent theme of death. However, where this theme is most commonly and strongly used here is in the idea of moving on past death and understanding it better. I personally feel the examination into it is very thorough and almost feels like you're seeing a person's life in your mind as you listen to this album.
Overall, as mentioned in the very title, this album is a winner, whether you believe they are "emo" or not. This is a band with a future and a lot of potential. I, like many others, will keep an eye on them in the future and I highly recommend that if you have not yet picked up this album, do so. You may find yourself with the same sort of fixated eye as myself.
*****5 stars*****
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My Chemical Romance frontman Gerard Way has alternately described his band's third album as "completely over the top" and "borderline psychotic." But even those words can't adequately prepare fans of the group's 2004 platinum major-label debut, Three Cheers For Sweet Revenge, for the onslaught of twisted song suites, glam-rock cannon fire and drama-club theatrics that make up The Black Parade. Tracks like "Mama" and "The End" make "Bohemian Rhapsody" sound like "Blitzkrieg Bop." It's no coincidence that the disc feels as dizzyingly monumental as Green Day's American Idiot--after all, the two albums share the same label, producer, studio, janitorial team, and sense of apocalyptic dread. Similarly, The Black Parade will cast its creators in a completely new light. Despite its overly histrionic tendencies and a totally oddball cameo from Liza Minelli, it offers a clear signal that My Chemical Romance is ready to be taken seriously. --Aidin VaziriThe Black Parade, My Chemical Romance's follow-up to its 2004 platinum major-label debut Three Cheers For Sweet Revenge, "is way more dramatic, way more theatrical, completely over the top, borderline psychotic," says Gerard Way. "It's the most pure, intense thing we've ever been involved in." Producer by Rob Cavallo (Green Day), the album is a celebration of lvoe and death and darkness. Join The Black Parade.
The Black Parade, My Chemical Romance's follow-up to its 2004 platinum major-label debut Three Cheers For Sweet Revenge, "is way more dramatic, way more theatrical, completely over the top, borderline psychotic," says Gerard Way. "It's the most pure, intense thing we've ever been involved in." Producer by Rob Cavallo (Green Day), the album is a celebration of lvoe and death and darkness. Join The Black Parade.
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