Danger Days: The True Lives of the Fabulous Killjoys Image
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Generally favorable reviews- based on 85 Ratings

  • 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. This is the album they were born to make. It gives us all the things that punk has never been able to provide: romance, sex, the adventure of the open road and sheer nihilism-banishing energy.
  3. 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]
  4. 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: 39 out of 45
  2. Negative: 5 out of 45
  1. Great album that is undermined by emo a-holes who to begin with are stupid for even calling them emo, this change from dark and colorless themes found in 3 cheers for sweet revenge and The Black Parade have been replaced with a more colorful and progressive rock theme that seems to resemble the music of Bon Jovi, MCR has succesfully made the transition. Expand
  2. Danger Days certainly signifies a change in genre for My Chemical Romance. While their last album, The Black Parade, was a homage to classic rock bands such as Queen, this album is more contemporary. It is a rock album which is similar to contemporary pop efforts in ways. The first single of the album is called "Na na na na na"; that should speak for itself. People who want a scream laden album that sounds similar to "three cheers for sweet revenge" or "i brought you my bullets..." may be disappointed. But overall, in it's own right, it's a very good album. Expand
  3. 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
  4. Biggest disappointment of 2010. This is one of my favourite bands but this album is not the band I have grown to love. It's polished and poppy and unoriginal in sound. In multiple interviews, lead singer Gerard Way promised readers that the album was going to be more underground, harder, and more true to their roots but this is more Lady Gaga than the Misfits. Try again, boys. Expand

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