My Chemical Romance - The Black Parade
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Free Music Review: *speechless*
Hit: 5 Stars
During my summer holidays i heard rumours about My Chem having a new record and instantly grew very curious. I have been a fan since i saw Helena and love all of their songs [from 3 cheers and from bullets].
So when i heard the release date i went online and pre-ordered it straight away.
When i got it i put it playing and i was soo amazed on how much they grew! I was speechless!
The chemistry between Gerard's voice, the guitars, the bass and the drums is like Magic! It's the best rock record since Queen's "A Night at the Opera" and Pink Floyd's "The Wall" in my opinion. And its very theatrical! When i listened to Mama, i really imagined Mother War saying those words and in Sleep the tape recorder part in the begining brings chills down my spine. Cancer is a very emotional song while Teenagers and Blood on the other hand are pretty fun and make you stand up and dance. The End, Welcome to the Black Parade and Famous Last Words are the most powerful songs on the record (Famous Last Words being my favourite among the three), and The Sharpest Lives is one of the best songs Lyrically.
Here are my ratings for each song:
The End - 7.5/10
Dead! - 7.5/10
This is how I disappear - 8.5/10
The Sharpest Lives - 9/10
Welcome to the Black Parade - 7.5/10
I don't love you - 7.5/10
House of Wolves - 7.5/10
Cancer - 9/10
Mama - +10/10 (my favourite song of the record)
Sleep - 10/10
Teenagers - 9.5/10
Disenchanted - 7.5/10
Famous Last Words - 10/10
Blood [Hidden Track] - 9.5/10
This is a great record and i recommend it to anyone!
If you loved their previous records you will love this one, its definetely a must-have for all MCR fans :]
Free Music Review: Not the same, but not bad.
Hit: 5 Stars
I got Three Cheers For Sweet Revenge at a hard time in my life and loved it. I got I Brought You My Bullets... out of couriosity, and loved it. More than 6 months ago, when I heard that MCR was coming out with another album, I was literally squealing with glee.
I've been listening to this album for a total of 2 days, and non-stop. In my eyes, it's incredibly well produced and edited, with KILLER lyrics. (alas, it's not as good as Three Cheers) It was well worth the wait.
The songs are different, but it's still noticeably MCR. The guitars/drums give it away. The album is like any other when you hear it the first time; just a blur of guitar strums, cymbols and blotches of vocals here and there. The second time around, you take in the voice and seperate things. Third time, you begin to understand it all, but nothing can be completely understood.
The music compliments the voice, and the voice compliments the music. In other words, a repeated guitar chord adds background to the lyrics and makes it sound like a dream. When the solo comes, often a soft "Whoooaaa" is in the background, but it's good. I have to say it again, the lyrics are KILLER, just like the previous two albums.
OVERALL: Great. Incredible. Amazing. Truly worth $[...], and not regrettable.
If you've actually read my review, thank you.
P.S. Please ignore those other reviews that go "OMG, this is soooo Emo and soo unpopular". If MCR wants to be Emo, that's just dandy. I personally don't classify them under anything, but the lyrics are Emo from time to time. And the issue about having this go out in a few years, who cares? Live for the moment and blast the music as loud as you can.
Thanks.
Free Music Review: Where's Freddie when you need him?
Hit: 5 Stars
Ok, so Ive been a fan of My Chemical Romance for a few years now, ever since I saw them with Finch and The Used back in early 2003. I bought Three Cheers before MTV sucked it up and spat it out to the masses. And I will admit, it ticked me off that they rose to fame so fast. It didnt bother me with NFG or The Ataris, bands that I had such great respect and admiration for far beyond MCR, and yet I felt repulsed when MCR suddenly had thousands of girly fans screaming for them. I started thinking of excuses to not like them anymore. Im normally not that shallow, but for some reason, it struck me as wrong that they were so famous.
Well, I bought the Black Parade because everyone was raving over it. In a year where Ive hated almost everything released by bands I used to worship (I mean you, Thursday, Taking Back Sunday, Saves The Day and even you, Goo Goo Dolls), I decided to just buy the damn thing and see if it was as good as people were saying. In a word, yes it is.
Gone are all the whiny emo-punk overtones. No whiny ballads about how much life sucks. In fact, theres so much Queen on this album I half expected Freddie Mercury to show up as a ghost. This is one of the few albums this year I can stand the whole way through, thanks to songs like Teenagers, Dead! and Welcome to the Black Parade. Musically, the band has matured wonderfully, playing with more proficiency than Ive heard from them. Layered guitars, dueling riffs and complex breakdowns and bass lines do the band and album much justice. But it retains enough of the old energy that "old" (read: all those 14 year old girls who are now 16) fans will still eat it up. Not as much speed as before, but it doesnt matter when the songs are this rich and textured.
Free Music Review: Pop music? What do you mean by pop music?
Hit: 5 Stars
Some people crack me up; punk rock is over thirty years old and we hear the same old arguments. They are selling out! It's poppy! WTF? Punk music CREATED what "pop" music would become--it was a way to sell mediocre bands for massive amounts of money, a.k.a. the Ramones and the Sex Pistols. And do not even try to argue that these later bands were musically talented. They were fun, but they were not Mozart. God. So please, do not even bring these "sell out" arguments into analyzing The Black Parade.
MCR was out to sell an album, but they were out to sell a GOOD album; they were out to make a musical composition. The Black Parade flows, and it all works together. It is not one or two good songs and a bunch of filler. It has a theme, and the music is correlated and emotional. Is it as dark as their other tunes? Probably not, but who the hell cares? Why do we have to be "as dark" in our music as humanly possible? What's wrong with a little bit of sweet melancholy?
Music isn't about being an identity or a culture. It's about making music. If it sells records, it doesn't mean its a bad album either. If you can listen to The Black Parade five times in a row and still not have it memorized, and still find yourself impacted emotionally, its a five star album. I think I've listened to this piece 8 or 9 times and I'm still loving it. So Buy it. Or download it. Whatever you do, don't knock on it because it wasn't what you expected.
If it wasn't what you expected that should be a GOOD thing. It means a band is experimenting, and MCR is taking this in a good direction. They're more developed than they used to be, and they're more musically complex. If a band isn't experimenting, they're dead.
Free Music Review: Metallica & Musical Theater
Hit: 5 Stars
So I heard about MCR on NPR, of all places - this album is one of the recommendations from Fresh Air. NPR played "Teenagers" - which isn't like any of the other songs on the album, really. (Teenagers is kitschy and old school-ish.) And the previous reviewer was right - I kept hearing elements of older songs (Mama and Black Parade have Queen's four or five-stage setup - a song broken up into pieces), and some of the best words are taken from older songs (Paint it black and something by Phil Collins). They also switch sounds and get into other characters - "House of Wolves" sounds like it IS another band than "I Don't Love You" - much like the Gerard Way in the video of Helena is not the Gerard Way of "Famous Last Words" or the GW in "I'm Not Ok."
So the reason I recommend it - even though this music is totally unlike my usual fare - is that it's damn passionate. Before I knew anything about the band - it's a group that's giving their total heart to the music. A geeky way of saying it would be it's a combo of Nirvana & Metallica and musical theater. It's the feeling that you've found something wholly new, and something that is personal to you.
The band itself also has a leetle tiny bit of the School House Rock element, which leaves itself open to derision. The group members claim they want to save people. [...]
Anyway - the album is cohesive, interesting and strangely addictive. And a little perfect. If you learn to love it, go back to the older songs - they're a little less perfect, and become a little more desperate and awesome.