Eitherway, MCR purposefully made Welcome To The Black Parade in the middle of the album to make it sadder. [39] Rock Sound wrote that the album is "an era-defining release", striking "a nerve both musically and emotionally with millions around the world. House of Wolves: this is one of the two songs that I feel like doesn't fit into the plot at all and is just there because it fucking rocks. But even those words can't adequately prepare fans of the group's 2004 platinum major-label debut, Three Cheers For Sweet Revenge , for the onslaught of twisted song suites, glam-rock cannon fire and drama-club theatrics that make up The Black Parade . It's kind of hazy though. Pepper as filtered through Oasis -- but The Black Parade doesn't feel like a revival of '70s prog as much as it hearkens back to the twin towers of mid-'90s concept alt-rock: the Smashing Pumpkins ' Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness and … The girl has some sort of information that the Battery City people don't want to get out. This is typically achieved through a single central narrative or theme, which can be instrumental, compositional, or lyrical. She was asking him to not stop living when she killed herself, and to hide in the shadows, or to fade to black. I've got a decent understanding of Danger Days, but I honestly have no idea what's going on in the first two. So I know that every MCR album is a concept album. Its songs are associated with the band's well known sound of alternative rock, pop punk, and punk rock as well as introducing new elements, including power pop, pop rock, and electronic rock. So that's my very weak attempt at summarizing The Black Parade. I'm Not Okay: Another one of his teenage years. According to Way, the album can be understood as a "pseudo-conceptual horror story",[4] that details: ...the story of a man and a woman who are separated by death in a gunfight and he goes to hell only to realize by the devil telling him that she's still alive. After Bullets came Three Cheers, a loose concept album with a narrative about a couple that gets into a … [26] In The Village Voice, Robert Christgau gave it a "dud" rating. In popular music, a concept album is an album that is "unified by a theme, which can be instrumental, compositional, narrative, or lyrical." It chronicles him as he ventures out of life and death meets him as "The Black Parade". From my understanding Danger Days is about some sort of post-apocalypse era and Battery City is a utopia. The writing is superb, and the musicianship from all the members of My Chemical Romance is amazing. [33], NME listed the album as one of "20 Emo Albums That Have Resolutely Stood the Test of Time". 9) Thank You for The Venom: This is about The Sharpest Lives, and trying to OD on pills. Their location was tracked down and the police were going to arrest them. This leads us to three cheers, in which the man goes to jail. As with their first 2 efforts, MCR have decided to make this a concept album. "[30] IGN critic JR was more reserved in his praise, calling Three Cheers for Sweet Revenge "a good album" that nonetheless "isn't nearly as varied or daring as it could have been". In this he describes himself as having a mental disorder and not being able to make it in high school. It's a condemnation of the war and how it kills everyone. When death comes for him, it takes the form of his fondest memory, which is a parade that he saw as a child. from The Walland David Bowie's "Five Years" from Ziggy Stardust. The Kinks: The Kinks Are The Village Green Preservation Society (1968) Not as strictly thematic … I feel that those two are connected with The Black Parade. If anyone has any more information from the band or its members about the plot please feel free to mention it. This is especially true for The Black Parade, a Rock Opera about the final moments of a dying cancer patient and eventual death. This may be achieved through a single central narrative or theme, or through a sense of artistic cohesiveness.] My Chemical Romance had a comeback scheduled for 2020, but bassist Mikey says fans shouldn't panic. That was the idea behind the concept, the record ended up being much more about loss and real life than anything, so I would say it's a good split. If you liked that well enough I can do Danger Days but it probably won't be as detailed. Three Cheers for Sweet Revenge (often shortened to Three Cheers or Revenge)[1] is the second studio album by American rock band My Chemical Romance, released on June 8, 2004 by Reprise Records. "The Black Parade" concept … ), but he's pretty "Disenchanted" with whoever it is. "Just sleep" and forget about it all, but he "doesn't feel very bad about it", so there's some denial there. Gerard has claimed that the song "shaped what the album is about" and "revealed their darkside" in comparison to the first single. I don't have the time for a song by song rundown of Three Cheers and I'll forget if I try and do it later but basically it's about a man who dies and makes a deal with the devil to kill a certain amount of souls so that he can be reunited with his girlfriend. Welcome to the Black Parade: the Patient finally dies of his cancer, and death comes to him in the form of his fondest memory, which in his case is a marching band his father took him to when he was a kid. I'm not too sure about this one, though. [2] [12][13] While I Brought You My Bullets, You Brought Me Your Love was considered "a particularly strident entry in that shifty genre of bands tortuously slamming together elements of emo, hardcore, and even metal",[14] Three Cheers for Sweet Revenge "both showcased their songwriting skills and gave them much-deserved attention". [14], Lead singer Gerard Way has referred to the first single "I'm Not Okay (I Promise)" as a "self help pop song"[18] while also being called "a surging piece of emo-pop with a hook as ridiculously catchy as it was ridiculous"[19] and a "moving anthem for the young and depressed"[20] by AllMusic and Rolling Stone respectively. Its working title changed from “The Rise And Fall Of My Chemical Romance” to the immortal title we now know. Feel free to leave an answer for bullets, anyone. Today, we revisit My Chemical Romance’s second album, an operatic pop-rock behemoth that became an icon for outcasts. Due to "In the middle of a gunfight, in the center of a restaurant, they say, come with your arms raised high". The Black Parade by My Chemical Romance album reviews & Metacritic score: This highly-anticipated and highly-theatrical concept album follow's the New Jersey band's 2004 breakthrough hit 'Three Cheers For Sweet Revenge. (This one I'm positive of, because Gerard actually outlined this song specifically as part of the plot). [42] It has also been certified Double Platinum in Canada, Platinum in the UK and Gold in Ireland, Chile[43] and Argentina. : a continuation of what happens in The End., where the Patient finds out he's got "maybe two weeks to live", and says that really "no one ever liked (him) anyway". The inspiration for the album came from … Sometimes the term is applied to albums considered to be of "uniform excellence" rather than an LP with an explicit musical or lyrical motif. Okay, I'll explain the Bullets in summary, and Three Cheers in each song. "[40], In 2016, Rolling Stone declared Three Cheers for Sweet Revenge the tenth greatest emo album out of 40, saying that "Three Cheers wasn't just a concept record, it was a concept sequel, expanding the small-screen story of 2002's I Brought You My Bullets, You Brought Me Your Love into a big-budget production, complete with ruminations on life and death ("Helena") biting kiss-offs ("I'm Not Okay") and a series of dramatic music videos that made them MTV darlings."[9]. Dark Horse's The True Lives of the Fabulous Killjoys: National Anthem #1 by Gerard Way, Shaun Smith, Leonardo Romero, and Jordan Bellaire brings the infamous Killjoys back, and with the release of the new series comes the perfect time to get reacquainted with the teenage group. It involves two Bonnie and Clyde -esque characters who are eventually gunned down in the desert. Sadly, it doesn't quite work out for him and he's kind of in a pathetic state. With this album, the band produced a cleaner sound than that of their 2002 debut I Brought You My Bullets, You Brought Me Your Love. Author Jim Cullen describes a concept album as: “a collection of discrete but thematically unified […] I'm pretty sure it's about a girl that he doesn't want to live without, but beyond that I can't really find that much. Tim Karan of Alternative Press calle… ConceptAlbums.com began as a personal compilation of hip hop concept albums as I listened to them, but has since ballooned to incorporate concept albums of all genres. While Dead! [41] By February 2006, the album had sold over 1,356,000 copies in the US and 3 million copies todate. He also sung about when she was a good person: "When every starfall brought you to tears again". Dead! 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So much emotion. The band consists of lead vocalist Gerard Way, guitarists Ray Toro and Frank Iero, and bassist Mikey Way. He lashes out at his friends and family, and observes that they won't cry for him. He "joins the Black Parade". The only one I think I've got a really good grasp on is The Black Parade. I guess it's about his time in high school or college if I have to shoehorn it into the plot somehow. Bullets is about that couple you were talking about. The shots to the head did not kill him, though, and he escaped and was healed, and had plastic surgery. In the years since, My Chemical Romance ’s rock opera has been immortalized as one of the greatest emo concept albums of all time, with its hidden Easter eggs and … So I know that every MCR album is a concept album. I don't know exactly how each song fits the story, but I just know that from the album intro. was an all out angry attack at this disease that's killing him, this one is a quiet resignation of acceptance. The girl ended up dying, but the man lived. [23], Johnny Loftus of AllMusic wrote that "with the aid of production major-leaguer Howard Benson, they've edited the slight rookie excesses of I Brought You My Bullets You Brought Me Your Love, resulting in a rewarding, pretty damn relentless product. Three Cheers for Sweet Revenge has sold over three million copies to date in the United States and has been certified 3x platinum by the RIAA as desember 2017. Sleep: this one pretty clearly seems to be about being a soldier and seeing so many horrible things that he wants to forget so bad. The different songs in the album are about him killing and the feelings he's getting throughout the story if I recall correctly. They did lots of arson and other illegal acts. And I have a very rough idea of what the concept/story for each album is. The four singles from the album included "I'm Not Okay (I Promise)", "Helena", "The Ghost of You", and in the United Kingdom, "Thank You for the Venom". The story is inspired by Gerard's belief that you are met, upon death, by a prominent memory from your life; in the album, The Patient is met by the memory of a parade he was taken to as a child. I'd say this is about the same girl as This Is How I Disappear, and this song makes it fairly clear that it's an ex-wife or an ex-girlfriend that was very long term. The concept album follows the fictional character “The Patient” through the end of his life and his death. Someone please enlighten me. 23 Of The Maddest And Most Memorable Concept Albums From pinball wizards and political activism to personal tales of love and loss, these concept albums have … You Know What They Do To Guys Like Us In Prison: This is about the moments before he went to prison, in which he shot and murdered people in a restaurant, and the police finding their location, then having a shootout. More from experience than a concept, so it became a platform for telling his story. He doesn't even want to be close to his family because it just makes it harder to leave them. Dead! Here are 10 concept albums we think are worth digging deep into to learn more about music. Help me to finally unfold the mystery. Press question mark to learn the rest of the keyboard shortcuts, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aXC8bCihevU. This is the album that got me into rock music (yes, it's a rock album, not an emo album, fight me). At Metacritic, which assigns a normalized rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream critics, the album received an average score of 79, based on 24 professional critic reviews, which indicates "generally favorable reviews". It's a guitar-oriented alt-rock song whose lyrics depict The Patient's death and funeral. [6], Musically, "Three Cheers for Sweet Revenge" has been described as alternative rock,[7] emo,[4][8][9] pop punk,[10][4][8] post-hardcore,[11] and punk rock. The Black Parade follows the death of "The Patient", a character suffering from a terminal illness. Disenchanted: The Patient is basically just looking back at his whole life, "watch(ing) our lives on the screen". [4] It was certified platinum less than a year after its release,[3] and has sold over three million copies in the United States. "[24] Andy Greenwald of Blender noted Way's integration of elements of his life into the songs on the album and remarked that his "gulping, gasping whine turns stompers like 'I’m Not Okay (I Promise)' into after-school poetry". Death is at the heart of My Chemical Romance’s music. 13) I Never Told You What I Do For a Living: This is when he was shot and believed to be killed, hence "They gave us two shots to the back of the head", also referencing the other men on death row. [38] The album was ranked at number 260 on Spin's "The 300 Best Albums of the Past 30 Years (1985–2014)" list. Gerard Way's outfit during the legendary My Chemical Romance reunion show last Friday is sparking some new rumors regarding a new era of the band. The devil says he can be with her again if he brings the devil the souls of a thousand evil men and the man agrees to do it, and so the devil hands him a gun. The couple, like many other criminals, shot their selves in the heads. He said the album was born out of darkness and "presents a vision of the future being a dark and desolate place." New comments cannot be posted and votes cannot be cast, More posts from the MyChemicalRomance community, The Official Subreddit, Press J to jump to the feed. My Chemical Romance frontman Gerard Way has alternately described his band's third album as "completely over the top" and "borderline psychotic." [2][3] With this album, the band produced a cleaner sound than that of their 2002 debut I Brought You My Bullets, You Brought Me Your Love. [4] It was the band's final release to feature drummer Matt Pelissier, who would later be replaced by Bob Bryar. If I had to guess it'd be about the Patient's days as some sort of delinquent, and frequent arsonist apparently. Is this song about Gerard Way's paranoia that people hate MCR? This one is a little hazy, but I think this is about him loving her when she was a criminal. Concept Album: Each of their albums has an intricate backstory and concept behind it. To The End: This is a combination of her previous lover who realized he was gay during their relationship ("He's not around, he's always looking at men") and their vows ("If you marry me, would you carry me to the end?"). I don't think it all follows one person's story. [5], The album was a success for both the band and the label,[6] The record produced several radio singles and popular MTV videos, including "I'm Not Okay (I Promise)," "Helena," and "The Ghost of You." 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