
- Summary: This highly-anticipated and highly-theatrical concept album follow's the New Jersey band's 2004 breakthrough hit 'Three Cheers For Sweet Revenge.'
- Record Label: Reprise
- Genre(s): Rock, Alternative, Emo
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Top Track
Teenagers | |
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They're gonna clean up your looks With all the lies in the books To make a citizen out of you Because they sleep with a gun And keep an eye on you,... | See the rest of the song lyrics |
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Score distribution:
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Positive: 17 out of 24
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Mixed: 6 out of 24
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Negative: 1 out of 24
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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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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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This is one to file alongside 'American Idiot', 'Doolittle' and 'Nevermind' on your greatest US rock albums shelf.
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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.
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Uncut[It] sees them break out of the subculture in spectacular style. [Nov 2006, p.123]
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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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It reeks of a band with ideas above their station.
Score distribution:
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Positive: 228 out of 281
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Mixed: 14 out of 281
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Negative: 39 out of 281
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Nov 26, 2011
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MCRobsessionApr 21, 2007
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JesseSOct 25, 2006
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JimHFeb 17, 2007
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RyanGJan 2, 2007
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GuyHOct 24, 2006
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