Danger Days: The True Lives of the Fabulous Killjoys Image
  • Summary: My Chemical Romance's latest release -- four years after the last album -- reveals a slightly different sound and style for the band while keeping its recognizable emo meets rock-and-roll spirit.
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 19 out of 26
  2. Negative: 1 out of 26
  1. Dec 14, 2010
    100
    Rock'n'roll used to be about greatness, about escape and heroes. Once, you could get lost in an album, entangled in its world. It's been a long time since that has been the case. Danger Days...will change that.[13 Nov 2010, p.50]
  2. Dec 20, 2010
    60
    For a band feeling they had painted themselves into a corner, this is them sodding the consequences and stomping their way out. [Dec 2010, p.96]
  3. Dec 7, 2010
    16
    Pretentious yet lunkheaded, the disc's only charm is its slick, fist-pumping arrogance.

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Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 35 out of 41
  2. Negative: 5 out of 41
  1. It's a real rock album, treading in both old and unfamiliar grounds, but there's a lack of emotion and inability to get me feel the music involuntarily. They can't make an arena rock song if KISS and King Crimson joined them, so they should just stick to dark emo rock. Expand
    • 2 of 2 users said yes
  2. It is a refreshing album, but Danger Days falls a little dull with each listen. The concept is pretty cool though. The sound is different from their previous album The Black Parade. It's not a BAD different sounding, but it just gets kinda boring more toward the end of the album. A few tracks I really like though are "Na Na Na", "Destroya", and "The Only Hope For Me Is You". But All In All, this album is somewhat a disappointment considering The Black Parade was an amazing album. C+ Expand
    • 0 of 1 users said yes
  3. 1
    Album is awful. It's easy to hear which songs were outtakes from 3 Cheers, and which ones were outtakes from Black Parade. While some of the songs are alright, none of them stand up to repeated listen, and the CD is essentially a mashup of unreleased material from two earlier (and very different) albums. There's a reason this stuff didn't make the cut. And to throw it all together in a nonsense package makes the error more glaring. Plus most of this stuff is redundant. Save Yourself, I'll Hold Them Back doesn't sound a little familiar to you diehard MCR fans? You must not be listening to your music very closely. I've known MCR was a studio band since 3 cheers (song construction, layers, and overall complexity was impossibly above their debut). But even as a studio album 3 cheers is awesome. Black Parade was so-so for me. Sorta chasing a Pink Floyd/Queen approach to a concept album, but coming off a little fake in half the tracks. Like they didn't have a concept, but they wanted to do a concept album... This one is just ridiculous. Didn't Way declare that this was going to be a straight rock album? He was done with doing concept work? This was going to blow everyone away? Nope, another concept album, without the concept, or a hook. Not one memorable song on this album. I usually think of them as, "That song from the album that sounds kinda like [earlier work] but not as good." Expand
    • 1 of 2 users said yes

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