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The Black Parade

EMAILPRINTby My Chemical Romance

My Chemical Romance reviews
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7.7 User Score:

Generally favorable reviews

Based on 24 critic reviews
How did we calculate this?

Based on 318 votes
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Album Info

Label: Reprise

Release Date: 24 October 2006

Discs: 1 disc

Genre(s): Alternative, Rock, Emo

Summary

This highly-anticipated and highly-theatrical concept album follow's the New Jersey band's 2004 breakthrough hit 'Three Cheers For Sweet Revenge.'

What The Critics Said

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100

Alternative Press

The Black Parade is MCR's whole raison d'etre rolled up into one mega-decibel calling card. [Nov 2006, p.179]

100

Los Angeles Times

What makes "The Black Parade" so exciting isn't anything rock is quite used to.... My Chemical Romance expresses the next generation's quest by redrawing the boundaries of reality itself.

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100

musicOMH.com

This is such a great, great record for so many reasons.

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100

Playlouder

For the first time in what seems like a long time, here is an album that is going to be deservedly huge.

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91

Entertainment Weekly

This album is not just the band's most adventurous but also its best.

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90

The New York Times

Simultaneously brutal and hilarious, and bristling with wake-up-call urgency, “The Black Parade” may prove to be the best rock record of the year.

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90

Blender

They've created the Sgt. Pepper of screamo.

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90

New Musical Express

This is one to file alongside 'American Idiot', 'Doolittle' and 'Nevermind' on your greatest US rock albums shelf.

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80

All Music Guide

It makes for a record that's their strongest, most cohesive yet, even if it isn't quite as weird or compelling as it should be given the group's lofty ambitions.

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80

Rolling Stone

The Black Parade... is the best mid-Seventies record of 2006, a rabid, ingenious paraphrasing of echoes and kitsch from rock's golden age of bombast.

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80

Dot Music

"The Black Parade" is a big, fat, obnoxious, difficult, overbaked concept record and it's all the more exciting for it.

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80

Uncut

[It] sees them break out of the subculture in spectacular style. [Nov 2006, p.123]

80

Hartford Courant

It's a compelling record in the same way as Green Day's "American Idiot" was: Each shows a band pushing itself to grow, and succeeding far more than anyone could have reasonably expected.

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80

Spin

It's a savage, heartfelt, at times hilarious goth-mosh emopera. [Nov 2006, p.95]

80

ShakingThrough.net

As with many concept albums, the concept itself gets buried beneath the show-off virtuosity, the band's ringing need to not only impress but bedazzle the listener.

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80

The Guardian

The most bonkers album of the year, but one of the best.

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70

Q Magazine

Fans will be baffled, but this is magnificently deranged stuff. [Nov 2006, p.147]

60

NOW Magazine

They've succeeded at making a good big-dumb-rock record, but you get the sense they didn't mean for it to be quite this dumb.

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60

PopMatters

Tight as a unit, and apparently determined to create music that will, in one way or another, appeal to everyone, My Chemical Romance are in danger of forgetting that hooks, riffs, and yes, aggression, are also needed to stay on top of their game.

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60

Mojo

Despite its bleak outlook, this is a record big on nagging choruses and arm-punching emo punk that--more often than not--aims for the mainstream artery. [Dec 2006, p.110]

58

Stylus Magazine

This is a goofy record of bubblegum punk, with Queen lapping at its edges and enough good tracks to justify the smattering of empty screamfests.

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50

Village Voice

For all that sonic triumph, the lyrics feel like an empty gesture, sub–Trapper Keeper woe-mongering that'll thrill suburban teens but sounds odd coming from guys old enough to know better.

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47

cokemachineglow

These songs contain all the accoutrements of anguish and despair: he sings the words, he screams the words. So why does it all sound so fake?

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20

Observer Music Monthly

It reeks of a band with ideas above their station.

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What Our Users Said

The average user rating for this album is 7.7 (out of 10) based on 318 User Votes

Note: User votes are NOT included in the Metascore calculation.

will J gave it a10:
Amazing. Pure genius. The best album of the decade and the best band to emerge in the past twenty years.

Caitlin R. gave it a7:
Not their best album...but their other albums didn't have gems such as the hidden track and "Mama" on it.

rotflsryrae couldnthelpbutsendspam gave it a10:
I think this band is the most amazing thing created in music history. Though that is my personal belief, many people worship them as much as I do. I do not believe this band will save your life however, it only pushes you towards the fact that you are special, and nobody else is better or worse. My Chemical Romance has great feeling and it speaks its mind. It is a big FREAK YOU to the preps. ~love a 14 year old MCRmy troop

Rigoberto R gave it a0:
Terrible music, pretentious and awful record.

Miss R gave it a10:
Different to the previous one, but it's fantastic. If It was exactly the same, then it woldn't be good. all the songs are great, and gerard's brash voice matches the songs perfectly, and the theme is united as well. It's an experience of listening to someone's story though music.

Mike R gave it a1:
This album fails from the first song. The music feels manufactured and is a huge cliche for the Emo genre.

[Anonymous] gave it a0:
Emo rock sucks yet they can't even do it right so they should go crawl in a ditch and freaking die they are a waste of space and a sad attempt at human life.

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