Somewhere between colouring their hair, suffering burns on the set of video shoots, being bottled at Reading and Leeds, allegedly promoting self-harm amongst teenagers and becoming the Biggest Band In The World, Newark quintet My Chemical Romance somehow found time in 2006 to record the album of their career: the ambitious, fanbase-splitting and million-selling The Black Parade. It’s all about death, you know: men of a summery disposition, MCR are not.
This, the climactic track of their current album, isn’t in the same league as the chart-topping ‘Welcome To The Black Parade’: whereas that cut was all blustering fanfare and over-the-top Queen-isms, this is a dour-faced exercise in mainstream-acceptable depression. You can picture singer Gerard Way screwing his face up as he emotes with all his might; or, rather, with whatever spirit he has left at the end of a chronologically sequenced long-player (it’s a story, you know). Sure, it’s got rock chops aplenty and is strewn in quiet-LOUD-quiet bits, but features nothing as catchy as those hook-you-in piano keys and rat-a-tat drums of its predecessor.
It’s all a little hackneyed, which is sad, really, since MCR really have pushed themselves on their latest long-player. But will an average reception of a single song affect the five-piece’s continued ascent to super-stardom? Does Pope Benedict XVI welcome gay couples into his private quarters at The Vatican?
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nargh
i reckon this review is accurate for the first half but as soon as the drums and bass cut out its pure silly epic stuff that they do so well
"Mainstream-acceptable depression"?
Say what you like about MCR as a band - a slice of fairly irrelevant mock-rock fun in my humble opinion - but I don't think "mainsteam-acceptable depression" is really a fair summation of this particular song. "I am not afraid to keep on living", etc? It almost veers into sickeningly optimistic - that kind of saccharine that American bands seem to aspire to when they want to be taken seriously (i.e. start filling stadiums). A bit like that Good Charlotte song about, like, how, like, BAD, suicide is. I can't remember its name. Thank goodness.
Hold on
i think
Maybe I'm biased, but...
So, I'm a huge fan of My Chemical Romance, and by me, they can do no wrong. Except for The Ghost of You. The world could have done without that one. And I'll admit, their first album was a little, no, a lot mediocre; it was average, angry screamo.
But with The Black Parade, I believed they outdid themselves. Some people don't get The Black Parade, and I admit, it may sound a little "stupid emo kiddish" to people who don't know the story behind this album. I got the special edition and I know a little more about this CD than the average listener.
But I didn't need to to fall in love with Famous Last Words.
The song, I mean.
Well, actually, the chorus, some sections of verse, chunks of the beginning, and most of the end.
The video was a load of bullshit. There was no goth glamour like "Helena," biting sarcasm like "I'm Not Okay", or pure awesomeness and pizzazz like "Welcome to the Black Parade."
Ths song starts out a bit lacking, then continues to be a bit lacking, then hits the chorus and I could not help but stand up and scream "Motherfucker!"
Then the other verse fails fairly miserably too, but then there's more chorus and it's like... Wow. The end is pretty good, except it gets repetitive.
But I'm not here to dissect this song, I'm here to say that it is a lot deeper than people think, and that you're definitely misunderstanding almost everything this song is about.
you
have guts admiting to be a my chemical romance fan....
Mt Chemical Romance
When i frist saw the song welcome to the black parade i screamed and i ran ro my mom and said My Chemical Romance c.d buy. that was fun.
albums
i prefered the first album 'three cheers for sweet revenge' hands down.
the second is no failure.
i just feel they became more comercial, that doesnt mean i didnt enjoy the second album i thoroughly enjoyed listening to it. in the first album i loved all the songs there are some i dnt like on the second album
my favourite in the first album is 'thankyou for the venom'.
in the second album either 'house of wolves' or 'famous last words'.
i dont like a band/song for who or what they are. if i enjoy listening to it i will praise it. i dont care how many choruses they have or if they sound to much like another band or if they are to dramatic. if they sound good and keep me listening through out then they've done a good job.
well done my chemical romance you've giving me great music to keep me going throughout the day. i thank you
xxx
err....
well, that was kind of their second album. i brought you my bullets, you brought me your love is their not very well known first album released on Eyeball Records way back before even Frank was in the band