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Album Description 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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I thought the first two albums from this band were not bad at all. So recently I was at the local library store where I saw this for only $2 and thought I should definitely take a listen. Well I must say I don't understand how so many people like it so much when it seems to be one of the worst made, cheesy and childish albums I've heard from a band of adults in forever. Buy this if you enjoy retard lyrics and little phaggot jingles, spelled with a ph cause thats how extra gay it is.
2010-06-02 A Masterpiece
The Black Parade is definitely my favorite album of the last decade and is trying to fight for my favorite album of all time. The music is so catchy and memorable that I can listen to it over and over again and it just gets better with age. Another cool thing is that my favorite song of the album changes all of the time. Every song is just so good that I can't decide which is my favorite. It also has one of the most depressing and emotional songs I have ever heard (Cancer)and I mean that in a good way. The lyrics and music just touch something deep inside and is something we can relate to. The album in its entirety just really works. Definitely worth buying
2010-05-12 The Black Parade by My Chemical Romance
As a follow-up to their critical sophomore effort, Three Cheers For Sweet Revenge, My Chemical Romance decided to release something of a concept album, or rather something resembling a `story' album. Like Metallica's Master of Puppets, The Black Parade has a prevailing theme, one of death, insanity and coming from beyond the deathbed, all revolving around a conceptual character, who looks suspiciously like it was created by comic book writer Gerard Way, the character most aptly named as The Patient. A prominent character in the album, appearing in the music video for Welcome To The Black Parade and referenced in many other tracks, he represents a satirical version of the everyman, not beyond a hair's distance from the afterlife itself. But it seems it is the closest to death that one feels life in the most tangible ways and My Chemical Romance brings across that singular message with the same raw grit that paid off dividends in the first two albums.
Way's vocals were very much the same screams, the same wild cannon of lyrics we have come to expect from My Chemical Romance's front man, brief shades of Helena is back in tracks like House Of Wolves. The visceral energy of ever-present danger could be felt in that song, within every lyric sung by Way, every rift and sound behind, right down to the drums, as it is on Mama. But this doesn't come before the concept of Death was properly introduced in the first few songs, where poetic lines like "Throw on the black dress" in The End. and "And if your heart stops beating" in Dead! ushers in The Patient on his surgery table, telling us essentially about how life has only begun, even after all is said and done.
Tracks like Famous Last Words and Cancer pushes the ball forward even further. But it is in The Sharpest Lives that My Chemical Romance shows off the band's uncanny ability to pull along an exciting and action-filled tune. To include such a song on an already tasteful and well-written (just try to find another song as funnily written as Mama) album tells so much about the maturity of the band, which boasts some of the best guitar, soloing and otherwise, and bass play they have come up with. To understate that fact would be easy.
Emotionally charged songs like Teenagers and I don't love you sound like obvious Gerard Way messages, where the campiness and poignancy of teenage love and rebellion run through the earpieces like they were put through emotional transistors. Every listen-through of both would just solidify the belief that this album is the real deal, a solidly engineered, well-developed bundle of power and gutsiness and storytelling.
Hardcore rock enthusiasts aren't likely to keep this album on their play lists for long. But that can only be attributed to the strangely untold belief that mainstream music sucks. Ignore that and allow the realization that My Chemical Romance has finally hit the proverbial musical stride and made the masterpiece everyone has been waiting to sink into. Not every band that hits the big-time loses its luster. Remember that.
2010-03-12 Best Rock Album in years!!
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.
2010-02-28 Easy to Get into
After hearing the single, before the album hit the stores, I was apprehensive about the album. The single has a completely different feel and sound from the band's previous two albums. In fact, the single has a very anthem-like feel, something I wasn't crazy about. However, I was rather pleasantly surprised when the album actually came out. Although it often displays the softer sounding side of this Emo band, it is an album that is easy to get into. Despite the changes to the band's look and sound, this album still makes the grade.