My Chemical Romance - The Black Parade
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Free Music Review: My heart now belongs to My Chemical Romance :]
Hit: 5 Stars
The Black Parade is another amazing album from My Chemical Romance. Just as awesome as Three Cheers For Sweet Revenge and Bullets. Here's a review of the songs:
The End:10/10- It's basically an intro for the cd. It starts with acoustic guitar, a first for MCR. I usually don't like intro's but this one has that special thing were it dosen't sound like an intro just a short, amazing song.
Dead: 10/10-I love this song! Good lyrcis and it's super catchy so its fun to listen to.
This Is How I Disappear: 10/10- i don't really understand it but it's one of my favs :]
The Sharpest Lives: 10/10- Really good. Kind of in the spirit of "To The End" from TCFSR. It sounds a lot like their old stuff and its's really good!
Welcome To The Black Parade:10/10- Their first single. It's a great song! 1 of my all time fav songs ever!
I Don't Love You: 10/10- This is an amazing song!Gerard pts so much emotion into the way he sings and the lyrics are very powerful. Amazing song!
House of Wolves: 10/10- i love this song! Great guitar and drum and i really like the lyrics.
Cancer: 10/10- I love this song! MCR suprises with the slow songs but i'm extremly pleased with this song. AH-MA-ZING!!!
Mama: 10/10- This song is very cool.I love the beginning especially and the way Gerard says stuff in this song.
Sleep: 8/10- Love the lyrics but it just dosne't stick like the other songs.
Teenagers: 10/10- Love this song! A bit overplayed but the most fun song to jump around and head bang to. :]
Disenchanted: 10/10- this song is so powerful. I love the way its put together and the lyrics.
Famous Last Words: 10/10- i love this song with all my heart and soul! Its an amzing way to "end" the album...Blood technically ends it but whatever, :]
Blood (Hidden Track): 10/10- i love this song so much! its hilarious and disturbing and fun and i love listenign to it :]
Great album from MCR. They just keeping getting better and i can't wait for there next album! :]
Free Music Review: It's good but...you need to give it a chance
Hit: 5 Stars
For all the MCR fans who loved "Three Cheers" and nothing else, I'm not sure what you will think of this album.
That being said I think if you give this album time, it will grow on you. That doesn't mean it isn't really good already, but some tracks are a little different this time around and really take a couple of good listen throughs to really enjoy them.
I have to say that my favorites, besides their single "The Black Parade", are:
"The Sharpest Lives" -- 5 out of 5. Just a great song and really shows Gerard's lyric writing ability. Trust me, this track is good, just read the lyrics.
"This is How I Disappear" -- 5 out of 5. Great song. If you liked "Three Cheers" you will like this track and "The Sharpest Lives".
"House of Wolves" -- 4 out of 5. Good track, and has a good beat. I just don't know if everyone would really like it, but that's just my opinion.
"Dead!" -- 4 out of 5. Good song and has good lyrics. I don't really like the end, as it sounds like a sing-a-long, but besides that...
Songs that I personally don't like so far:
"Cancer" -- 1 out of 5. Sorry but a Ballad by MCR is just not my kind of thing. I understand the point of the album is to take you on a journey, but please...anywhere but the late 80's. I just really don't like this track.
"Disenchanted" -- 2 out of 5. Just doesn't work for me. Feels a little tacked on and doesn't really sound like it was meant for this album.
"Teenagers" -- 3.5 out of 5. I like this song, but it sounds way way too contrived and catchy, like it was meant to be a sell out song. It kinda reminds me of Offspring when they made "Americana" and their songs had a funny, but not all there vibe, if that makes any sense.
Overall: 5 out of 5. If you like MCR and give this album time, it will grow on you. Like I said, the songs I don't like that much are just a day after listening to it. It's just a different kind of album that you have to sit down and listen to, to really determine if you like it.
Free Music Review: Best Rock Album in years!!
Hit: 5 Stars
I am an old school rocker from the 70's who played in several bands. I was in Grand Funk and later Ramones cover band. 80's rock bands perfected sound quality but it felt like great rock was becoming a thing of the past. Country became mainstream. Rap pushed it's way in allowing singing out of key and talking fast to become someones idea of music. Other forms like screaming rock as if your possessed and wanna kill your family did nothing for me. I did like a few modern things that showed talent like Avril or Simple Plan. You had to look past all the clone bands like Daughtry and ignore who they told us was popular to find the good music. The only rock to hang onto was the old guys still creating and touring. Kiss, Aerosmith, REM, Rick Springfield, Motley Crue, Bon Jovi. They are all still writing and playing better than ever. They can't go on forever so who will lead the charge and keep real rock music alive? My Chemical Romance. My Chemical Romance is the most important band of this generation. They hit you with a sonic wall of sound featuring great playing and singing. Harmonies layered with screaming emotional angst and themes to relate to. Black Parade is one of the greatest albums of all time. They hinted at genius on their last album and went all out on this one. Sure any musician can tell overdubs were layered to produce the wall of sound. They went for a perfection most bands would never attempt on stage. Through sheer guts they did this album live on a world wide tour. Screaming their hearts out and playing furiously and powerfully to fill the voids that were overdubbed on the album. I saw the live show. They about killed themselves but they pulled it off. Why do you think they tried to kill it off with the Live album called The Black Parade Is Dead! It was a hard album to do live. Buy this piece of history. Musicians put on your headphones and learn something about the art from these guys.Free Music Review: Devastatingly Brilliant
Hit: 5 Stars
I spend most of my time listening to metal and 80's style AOR (Journey, Foreigner et al), so I probably have no business reviewing the latest release by My Chemical Romance. I had long since given up on most modern rock artists, but I was hearing enough good things about The Black Parade (plus I thought the band's Sergeant Pepper meets Tim Burton image was cool) that I took a chance and picked it up.
Dear God this album is brilliant.
Seriously, there is so much to love about The Black Parade, even if you can no longer identify 90% of what you hear on the radio. Besides being one of the catchiest albums I've ever heard, the band wraps elements of pop, punk, metal, and even arena rock (it's like throwing Green Day, Queen, Styx, the Who, and Bon Jovi in a blender) around a concept album about...ghosts? death? cancer? I still haven't figured out what it's all about, but I do know that I've owned it for the better part of a year and still can't go more than a few days without playing it. This is How I Disappear, a neck-snapping tune that's bound to please most metal fans, is by far my favorite song, but Famous Last Words is just as heavy, and songs like Dead and Welcome to the Black Parade are standouts as well. Really, the entire album is just about flawless. There's an incredible amount of energy and emotion at work here that is just impossible to deny. The fact that some of the same behind-the-scenes types that worked on Green Day's American Idiot (another favorite) also worked on The Black Parade is icing on the cake.
I have no idea what emo is, and my younger brothers laugh at me over this one, but I still think that The Black Parade is by far the best album I've heard since American Idiot. It's one of those rare albums that leaves you exhausted, gasping for breath, awestruck and reaching for the "play" button once it ends.
Free Music Review: The Warped Tour set's gateway drug to classic rock
Hit: 5 Stars
Ask any naysayer and they'll tell you My Chemical Romance sucks for one or more of the following reasons: a)they're all style and no substance, b)The Black Parade is contrived and unoriginal, c)they're mainstream sellouts, and d)they're marketed to teenaged girls. Yes, MCR have a penchant for wearing make-up and red ties, their new album draws influences from nearly a dozen classic rock icons, their ability to craft memorable choruses and hooks have landed them on the covers of coutless magazines while helping to propel their 2004 breakthrough Three Cheers For Sweet Revenge into the sales stratosphere, and yes, girls like them. While the Anti-MCR Brigade make many a valid argument against the princes of goth tinged post-hardcore, there is one thing not even the most vehemntly outspoken hater can refute: The Black Parade is one hell of a well-written record.
Boasting some of the most bombastic and energetic song structures ever devised by a band of the Warped Tour generation, MCR's latest effort showcases the group's previously unexplored high-level musical ability (listen to Ray Toro's blistering guitar solo on the Cheap Trick inspired Dead! and Gerard Way's Steppenwolf-esque croon on House of Wolves). Each of the album's fourteen songs (all of which are single quality) serve as Romance's interpretation of classic rock legends ranging from Pink Floyd (The End.), Queen (Welcome to the Black Parade), Aerosmith (I Don't Love You), and even Foghat (Teenagers). And to imagine that the shamelessly over the top power balladry of Disenchanted won't be playing at every suburban high school prom next year would be kidding yourself.
Explosively epic and well-written, The Black Parade is arguably one of the only soon to be platinum selling rock records this year truly deserving of the Grammy its almost sure to garner in 2007.