- Record Label: Reprise
- Release Date: Nov 22, 2010
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Jan 13, 2011This is the kind of album you just throw on to have fun. If anything, it proves My Chemical Romance don't need to be eccentric or theatrical to put out an enjoyable record.
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Dec 13, 2010It's no exaggeration that doing two concept records in a row could have been disastrous. But after four years and a whole lot of life, MCR proves with Danger Days that the days of their self-involved, namby-pampy crybaby act are a thing (mostly) of the past. And to think, all it took was the end of days
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Dec 7, 2010So far so daft but what prevents Gerard Way and co from descending into the po-faced seriousness that blighted Green Day and their preposterous "21st Century Breakdown" album is a sense of fun that has eluded the SoCal punks in their latter years.
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Dec 7, 2010Emo heroes reveal their inner Brian May.
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Dec 7, 2010This 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.
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Dec 7, 2010MCR have made an album that is as fun as it is meaningful, as experimental as it is familiar. Let's see the Daily Mail hijack this one...
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Dec 7, 2010This is a band that never rests on its laurels, a band that embraces new ideas but also knows how to write killer choruses. The worry was that this record would turn out dull; the reality blows that concern out of the water.
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Dec 7, 2010Viva la Vida Familiar.
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Dec 7, 2010Most important, it's big fun, whether you buy into the high concept or not.
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Dec 7, 2010There's no emo bloodletting, no expressionist confrontations with death, just exaggerated adolescent anthems and calls to rebellion, just enough drama so this could be called cathartic by a certain generation, but for most listeners it's crystallized fun, the purest rush My Chemical Romance has ever delivered.
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Dec 7, 2010How they were able to construct an entire multi-layered universe (sonically, lyrically and with narration!) for listeners to get lost in-while writing some of the strongest and catchiest songs of their career-is anyone's guess. For the cookie-cutter bands and haters out there, that's what we call sweet revenge.
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Dec 7, 2010Darkness remains in songs that seem to party their way to some impending armageddon, but the album should delight their fanbase while appealing to people who previously wouldn't be seen dead listening to MCR.
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Dec 7, 2010Danger Days offers a total rejection of bloated celebrity rock. Intercut with fake radio-DJ skits (supposedly transmissions from a post-apocalyptic radio station) and powered by spite for rock-star cliches, MCR trade their signature Broadway-musical theatricality for simple loud-fast defiance.
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Dec 7, 2010In contrast to their previous record, on which they felt the need to dress up as some sort of 'shadow band' straight out of Disneyland for the sake of getting a message that got lost amongst the bombast and OTT nature of their sound, this is a refreshing change.
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Dec 7, 2010Trouble is, they were better at Alice Cooper excess, and the album's concept--cartoon band battles evil corporation--never coheres. There's no there there, emotional or otherwise.
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Dec 7, 2010The band's held on to its drive and focus, and the hits outnumber the misses.
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Dec 7, 2010If the down-and-out, early-MCR-worshipping emo set need the equivalent of an "It Gets Better" video to remind them how awesome life can be, no document could be more spirited and persuasive than Danger Days.
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Dec 7, 2010My Chem's indulgent side still sometimes gets the best of them--the rave synths on "The Only Hope for Me Is You" belong on a different album. But they made a wise choice in closing with "Vampire Money," a No Wave spitball whose opening lyric is an (unprintable) fistful of garlic in the eye of "Twilight's" sexless family-values-noir.
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Kerrang!Dec 14, 2010Rock'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]
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User score distribution:
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Positive: 148 out of 173
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Mixed: 12 out of 173
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Negative: 13 out of 173
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