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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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Uncut[It] sees them break out of the subculture in spectacular style. [Nov 2006, p.123]
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Q MagazineFans will be baffled, but this is magnificently deranged stuff. [Nov 2006, p.147]
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This is one to file alongside 'American Idiot', 'Doolittle' and 'Nevermind' on your greatest US rock albums shelf.
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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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This is such a great, great record for so many reasons.
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The most bonkers album of the year, but one of the best.
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SpinIt's a savage, heartfelt, at times hilarious goth-mosh emopera. [Nov 2006, p.95]
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This album is not just the band's most adventurous but also its best.
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Alternative PressThe Black Parade is MCR's whole raison d'etre rolled up into one mega-decibel calling card. [Nov 2006, p.179]
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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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They've created the Sgt. Pepper of screamo.
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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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"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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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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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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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.
Awards & Rankings
User score distribution:
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Positive: 708 out of 790
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Mixed: 19 out of 790
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Negative: 63 out of 790
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willJJul 5, 2009Amazing. Pure genius. The best album of the decade and the best band to emerge in the past twenty years.