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27 October The Black Parade review
My Chemical Romance is back! New and improved? Well, they áre new alright...
Their previous album, Three Cheers for Sweet Revenge (TCFSR), is pure brilliance. Very fast, aggressive and pretty much insane throughout.
For their next album, The Black Parade, they wanted something new. Let's go through the songs one by one and see if it lived up to my expectations.
The End
Ironically, The End is the opening track. And its pretty good! It really sets the tone for the rest of the album. Too bad it gets cut off badly at the end, but the next song makes up for it.
Dead!
I love this song! It starts of with a guitar solo, and it gets very catchy from there. The cool thing is, it sounds like a really happy song, until you really listen to the lyrics. A very happy song about death, that's MCR for ya! One of the, if not THE best song of this album.
This is How I Disappear
The first of the many slow tracks on this album. It's kind of like Helena from TCFSR.
I don't particularly like it, but when I hear it, I don't mind listening to the entire thing.
The Sharpest Lives
Really good! Again very catchy, I really like the chorus. It has a part somewhere near the end,
with a women choir on the background. And I'm a sucker for those things. Really reminded me of one of Good Charlotte's songs from their Chronicles of Live and Death album, which had the exact same thing. This is better though =P
Welcome to the Black Parade
What to say what hasn't been said already. Brilliant, that's what it is.
It starts of slow, which takes just a tad too long, but around 2 minutes is goes all out.
MCR at it's best.
I Don't Love You
Ah, concert memories. Loved it live, love it on the album. Very slow sort of love song, an MCR's first.
Another guitar solo near the end. Lyrics are a bit cliché, but most love songs are cliché, so meh.
House of Wolves
Yeah! Fast, upbeat, can't sit still when I hear it :P
I love the chorus, too bad the lyrics aren't really good.Another part which I always look forward to, is when Gerard sings
“And I said, ashes to ashes, we all fall down”. You have to hear it, it's awesome!
One of the best songs on the album.
Cancer
Again a slow song. I love the lyrics, but it's too short! 2 and a half minutes to be exact.
This sounds a lot like I Don't Love You, but even slower :P
Mama
Very errr...unique :P First time I heard it, I wasn't exactly blown away.
Now, it's one of my favorites. The lyrics are insane, and the way Gerard sings this song is godlike!
It reminds me of 'You Know what they do to guys like us in Prison' from TCFSR, in which he also sings like a maniac. Insanity, I love it! XD Too bad it gets kinda draggy at the end, but I can live with that.
Sleep
After the pwnage which is called Mama, this song just falls flat. It doesn't stand out in any way, and in the end it gets quite annoying.
I always skip this one, and it's agáin a slow song.
Teenagers
Fun, the first couple of times. Listen to it too many times and it becomes annoying.
It's way too simple for an MCR song. Dare I say, amateuristic? Come on MCR, I know you can do better than this!
Disenchanted
Slow song, but so much better than the last two. The lyrics aren't all that great, but it's a good song, no doubt. Quite long, almost 5 minutes. Sounds a lot like I Don't Love You, but with a bit more spice :P
Famous Last Words
Looooooove! Incredibly good song! Not too slow or too fast. The Lyrics are too good :D
It does a good job of ending the album, on the other hand, it makes you hunger for more XD
But wait! There ís more!
Blood (Hidden Track)
This song doesn't start until after a minute and a half. Some might think it's boring, but the lyrics are awesome XD
"I gave you blood, blood, gallons of the stuff,
I gave you all that you can drink and it would never be enough"
A song about blood, how could you not love it? XD
So what did I think of it?
Its a good album. Great, even. One of the best albums I have.
Buuuuuuut, it cóuld have been better.
MCR tried something new, something a bit more mainstream, and it turned out
fine. However, it is not better than TCFSR. I've always said that MCR wasn't
really good with slow songs, and Black Parade has a bit too many of them.
There's also the fact that quite some songs don't really stick out, where
almost all of TCFSR's songs were unique in their own way.
Let's hope they don't go any more mainstream, I don't want them to end up
like Good Charlotte and Green Day.
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