The Black Parade: My Chemical Romance's Defining Moment
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00:00 Intro
00:45 Title Card
00:52 Influences
02:28 The Story
03:14 Love and Death
03:47 Welcome to the Black Parade
05:29 Changing Scenes
06:07 Mama
06:52 Reflections
07:29 Famous Last Words
08:14 Conclusion
The scrawled notebook design for a video on MCR is a stroke of pure genius.
Good to see that you enjoy MCR. I really love your channel by the way ;)
I agree! How visually presented this video is is just amazing!! The content it also good, technical and specific, so that's nice as well. Now, THIS is what you call a well-done video essay.
I love the font so much
Wait you mean this wasn't an MCR thing first? Damn it fit so well i just assumed...
Why are y'all talking about my school notebooks
I listened to "Cancer" and "Famous Last Words" over and over again in the hospital when I was sick with leukemia. The album helped me overcome my fear of death, but you realize that the worst part about cancer is leaving your loved ones behind and what it does to them.
"I am not afraid to keep on living" -- that line really resonated with me. I wasn't ready to give up just yet and I wanted to fight.
Out of everything, music helped me a lot when I was sick.
The Black Parade came out when I was in middle school, but it means more to me now than it ever did. The Black Parade was MCR's magnum opus.
Must be really dusty here because something got into my eye
My mother liked to listen to 'Cancer' as well, and I suspect for the same reasons. It was an odd juxtaposition of a 40 year old woman listening to an emo rock song. But that just proves the power the band has. When you can transcend stereotypes and get people listening to your music who wouldn't usually do so, you've made something special
I'm happy you're here with us today!
WAHOO YAHOO wow.........
well you’re clearly not dead now so congrats on beating cancer
- The Black Parade: Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band but emo.
- Danger Days: Mad Max but gay.
Yup
I mean Mad Max is pretty gay to begin with, to be fair
Jack Blakeslee not a gram
@@danzrt have you seen The Road Warrior?
Can’t argue
It's weird how there's been an influx in videos about My Chemical Romance recently. It's satisfying to see them finally getting serious recognition. Not that they didn't have it before, but I feel that time has proved them to be far more than just an "angsty emo band". Great video.
Hannah 777 yeah my thoughts exactly! we need more video essays about how good mcr actually were
It's the 2019 effect. (If you know what I mean ;) )
Humma Irshad *KILLJOYS MAKE SOME NOOOOOOOOIIIIISSSEEE*
Me: _just casually making some inhuman pterodactyl noises_
💀💀💀💀💀
I'm really happy about it too. I think to some degree it might have something to do with Umbrella Academy coming out and Gerard's name getting out there again to a new audience
Yeah. Their fanbase really ruined their reputation.
"If i could rearrange the alphabet I'd put MCR back together"
-anonymous MCR fan
Abe Perez I love this comment
This is beautiful
at least you gave credit and didn’t just steal it 🥵
Oof
:')
I always thought blood's "fun" vibe was a throwback to dead's lyrics "if life ain't just a joke then why are we laughing ?", which was pretty meta considering that the whole album was about death and the last song looks like just a joke
You've now officially done essays on my two favorite albums of all time.
Thank you for the amazing work and breakdowns!
I agree, I hate it when this album is just passed off as another 'emo record' and the artstry, concept and the conciseness of the bands work is overlooked
Whaddup Jon!?
Ayo ! It’s John!!!
OMG hi jon!!!
What’s the other one?
If anyone one here hasn't seen it, Wendigoon does a really good break down on the story hidden in the album. The songs are out of order chronologically
While I really like his theory, I doubt that it was MCRs intention. But still absolutely worth watching!
I love it alot but this one is nice too
@@torysaccount5753isnt that the beauty of Art ? Intended or not, the fact that such a story/theory can be extracted from the Album speaks Volumes about MCR's craftsmanship. Wenigoons Interpretation is so good i also lean towards it
Ye
It's not really the story hidden in the Album but more Wendigoons interpretation of the album as he stated at the beginning. Still a good video.
I learned not that long ago that Gerard Way also wrote The Umbrella Academy comics which were then turned in to the Netflix series. Kinda blew my mind
I knew from the very start lmao. If my dad hadn’t wanted to watch the show with me, I’d have finished the whole first season in a day. (Happened to me with the first season of Riverdale)
And there are songs released from the Netflix adaptation, and I heard 1. I loved it tho, if want to have a listen, it's hazy shade of winter, by Gerard Way ft. Ray Toro.
he’s the executive producer of the netflix show
@@orla1639 He wrote the comics that got adapted into the show thats why he has an exec title
gee also created the character Peni Parker which appeared in the Spiderverse movie lmao
Anyone else get chills when black parade cane on. Immediately transported me back to highschool
I got chills when every single song came on. This video made me realize just how good not just the concept, but the music itself really is.
Took me back to 6th grade 😂 I heard it on the bus a few months after it came out
The amount of nostalgia man!
ElementalrxKX I’m actually listening to MCR now, as a teen, in 2020. Ironic, ey?
It made me sad
I am literally the least edgy person in existence and I love this album. glad to see more people feel this way.
My Chemical Romance is so, so much more than what people think it is. Most people just look at it and see a typical emo band, with half-assed vocals and going to screams whenever they couldn’t think of any original ideas for their music. When in reality, My Chemical Romance made emotional masterpieces that not only meant something to the listener, but it meant something to them. MCR formed in late September, 2001, after lead vocalist Gerard Way witnessed the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center first hand in New York City. Even though this occurrence stung the eyes of America, it in turn opened his-making him realize that he needed to do something with his life. He needed to make something of himself, rather than staying in a low paying job, stuck in a cubicle animating for Cartoon Network.
It gave him an idea.
He returned home to write his first ever song, now known as Skylines and Turnstiles. And with that, Way returned to the thing he loved ever so much in childhood; music.
Later, Way called up an old friend. ‘What are you doing with your life? Are you happy? Do you maybe want to.. start a band?’ he asked Matthew Pelissier. Matt answered with a ‘yes’, and Way returned to his childhood town of Belleville, New Jersey. As Pelissier took on the role of drummer in his and Way’s unnamed band, Way decided that he was going to do vocals and guitar. Only a little while later, did Way realize that he wan’t a good enough guitarist to sing and play. So he made another call to his old friend Raymond Toro, someone who he has said is the best guitarist he knows. At the time, Toro was in his own band-playing the drums. Way questioned why, as Toro’s true talent was the guitar. Toro answered that he was just trying to make a living, but he said he’d give this new band a shot-even though he was skeptic that anyone would be interested in the unnamed band. The newborn band playing one original song and cover of their favorites, took the interest of another young man, who was only 21 at the time-Micheal Way. Gerard’s younger brother Mikey had played bass with him before in a very short lived band of their teenage hood, Ray Gun Jones, and Mikey was interested in joining this new one. Mikey joined, playing a white, sparkly bass.
The band had wrote a few more songs, only to remember that they had no name for themselves. Mikey, who was working at a local Barnes and Noble at the time, walked around the store with some friends. His eye was drawn to an Irvine Welsh novel-Ecstasy. He picked up the novel and looked at the peculiar cover, and noticed something of interest. _Ecstasy, four tales of Chemical Romance_ Mikey thought it was perfect, and was quite shocked that no one had thought of naming a band Chemical Romance. When Mikey came home, he told Gerard about the name and Gerard loved it. Chemical Romance performed a show in a cramped basement of a few teens who liked the band’s hard rock feel. A homeless man sat in the corner of the ‘concert’, recording the whole show on a busted up recorder. Chemical Romance were interested in recording an album, though they didn’t have enough songs just yet. They recorded rough demo versions of ‘Skylines and Turnstiles’ and ‘Cubicles’ before revisiting their name. Mikey added the ‘my’ to My Chemical Romance, as the songs they wrote were in the first person, telling a story of a man’s horrible romance.
My Chemical Romance played at a bar after a small band called Pencey Prep. Gerard was drawn to the lead singer of the band, who sang and played guitar. The young man was spastic and filled with death-defying energy. He tore up the stage and lit up the crowd in a way that Gerard had never seen before. After the show, the boy came to tell them how much he loved the band, saying that he knew they’d go far out of Jersey. The band found that the young man’s name was Frank Iero, and then after became the band’s first diehard fan. Gerard handed off the demo recording of their songs, and Iero would listen to them every time before a show to get himself hyped up. A little time later, with eleven songs and an instrumental, My Chemical Romance signed to the small record label-Eyeball Records-to record their debut album, I Brought You My Bullets, You Brought Me Your Love.
After recording their first song, a familiar face broke up his own band and joined theirs-Frank Iero. Bullets was released on July 23rd, 2002, and gained the band a small but cult following. Two years later, on June 8th, 2004, My Chemical Romance went on to release their second album, Three Cheers for Sweet Revenge. With the departure of Matt Pelissier in 2004, a new young drummer came to work with the band to start playing at shows with them, Robert Bryar. He was a shy kid from Chicago, who showed an incredible talent for the drums-a talents that was noticed by MCR. Him, being a fan of the band, joined nearly immediately, but he wasn’t prepared for what was going to happen next. Revenge went on to sell double the records in one summer than Bullets had in two years. Revenge became an incredible success, and gained the band a following that they had never dreamed of getting. Their faces graced major magazines and talk shows, discussing their hit singles such as ‘Helena’ and ‘I’m Not Okay (I Promise)’. MCR produced two professionally directed and choreographed music videos for said songs that year, contrasting their previous music videos, which starred friends and local ‘actors’, cheap cameras and editing, and home made props.
The following year, MCR released a heartbreaking music video for their song ‘Ghost of You’, which greatly contrasted their first music videos-having a budget of one million dollars. And in 2006, My Chemical Romance went on to release the album that got them platinum success-on October 23rd, 2006, The Black Parade was unleashed unto the world. The band’s opus was talked about by old fans, new fans, critics, haters, and people who didn’t even listen to them. But most importantly, they had reached all the outcasts, the weirdos, the freaks-the people who thought that they weren’t good enough for society-the people just like the members in the band. My Chemical Romance had achieved what they set out for. They were done.
Gerard wondered about the future. In the beginning of recording The Black Parade, he had been homeless. Now, he was rich. He was angry about it. He thought that this wasn’t what he wanted. He wanted to make a difference, but he didn’t want everyone to know his name. The fame he wanted wasn’t what he got. It was better. He didn’t understand. How could it be that only 5 years ago, he was no one? Just a kid in the shadows. But now-he could see his face everywhere. The face he hated. He didn’t want to go on-he didn’t need to. He dealt like it was destroying what he had done. And yet, he did it anyway.
My Chemical Romance released their fourth album, Danger Days (The True Lives of the Fabulous Killjoys) on November 22nd, 2010. Now only four members, after Bob had left the band, it felt... empty. Gerard felt like he had done something wrong, and with that, he relapsed into alcohol-after being six straight years sober. But things were different now. People knew who he was. It didn’t water back in 2004, Gerard was just the crazy lead singer of My Chem. But now, he was Gerard Way, lead vocalist of My Chemical Romance, the band that saved the modern era. Now, he was a father. He couldn’t live with himself, doing the same thing over, and over, and over again. Thinking that things will be different even though it was the same damn thing. And as he looked into the eyes of his four-year-old daughter, he felt clarity. He went to rehab, he started taking his medication again, and he stopped starving himself. He didn’t have to to be someone for the world, he had to be himself. And he had to be a father.
On March 22nd, 2013, Gerard let the world know that the physical force of My Chemical Romance was no more, but the light would never truly go out. For twelve years, the light burned within the hearts of five men, which lit a spark in the hearts of so many more. My Chemical Romance can never truly be put out, it burns bright in the world and in everyone, because it isn’t a band-it’s an idea.
(edit, 3 years later) hi, i completely forgot i wrote it, and it’s pretty cringe 😭😭 but i like that some of you guys enjoyed it. i’ve been a fan of mcr for 8 years now, and this was written before i had attempted to take my own life. i have a completely different appreciation for them now, as i truly believe they saved me while i was recovering. i’m only 16 so i was 13 when i wrote this, and it kind of shows. but i wanted to add this here to those who’ve read all of this to say i’m still a huge mcr fan. some information may be a little incorrect, but i’ve decided to keep it like this. a perfect capsule frozen in time. i was going to see them at riot fest, but they fucked our tickets and said we had to get new ones-my mom was not going to pay for more of those expensive fucking tickets (especially because my entire family was originally going, and my mom wasn’t gonna get tickets for my dad again, because… divorce).
kudos to you guys who actually read through the entire thing, i’m sure you guys have a big enough hyperfixation on the band to read through the thing that took me barely any effort to write. stay safe, love you guys, and sorry for only using he/him pronouns for gerard, this was before i knew that they preferred he/they).
Salvation Salvatoré and now they’re back
Mmm b+
wow I actually love this. Mind if i copy/paste it for a project? I'll give credit :) this is just the best history for MCR i've seen lol
@@lefromage2001 sure, be my guest 🧸
@@rockfriendmemo thx my dude! have a nice day/evening/afternoon
Make an MCR Polyphonic poster and I’ll buy it.
Buy a poster board and draw it.
Get reked lmao
I mean I'd buy it too
Orbindo same
@@robertsmith5744 the cure!
As someone who only knows a little bit of My Chemical Romance, I'm amazed at how much Mama is basically a more swing version of The Trial from Pink Floyd. Good stuff!
Yeah, they even borrow the melody from it at "I should have raised a baby girl..."
I *LOVE* The Trial and has been a Pink Floyd fan for much longer than I've been a My Chemical Romance fan, Mama tops The Trial by thousands of miles
this is because their lead guitarist ray toro usually writes the riffs and he wrote mama that way because he was apparently dared on writing a polka
I might be wrong, but does it not also refrence Mother?
It is closer to a lot of songs Queen did, such as Brighton Rock, Good Company, Seaside Rendezvous.
There's a good reason why I'm 26, they've been broken up for like six years, and this is still my favorite band to this day.
DrainedEyes Ironic, isn’t it?
@@mikaye0573 lol
I always imagined “Blood” being years later when the doctor that failed the patient has died. In this time the patient has climbed the ranks of hell and is taking a sort of amusement in the doctor and he trading the roles of power and education, against helpless and terrified.
“I gave you blood.” Always sounded to me like a mockery of the doctors tone in “Dead”
Even in the albums long silence in “Blood” sort of lends to the years passing, the victim has grown in his knowledge of hell and gained power, then the terrified doctor that failed to save him appears and the roles have reversed. The patient and the doctor in the same pit, regardless of how life was lived.
This is interesting. I never thought of it like that
@@cr1s1s0ff41th
Thank you! At least I hope it’s a good interesting? ☺️
@@cheshirecat9016 yes it is:)
That’s a really good take on the song. I never thought of that.
Implying that the patient can “climb the ranks of hell” just entirely misses the whole point of the album
I like it how this released 33 minutes ago, but someone still managed add a comment 'one day ago'
Probably cause of time difference in other countries
He might do early releases for patreons, I know a lot of other channels do that. So if you pay them a certain amount per month, that will be one of the perks you get- they release the video a day or two early to you. Or there might be additional videos (usually streams of them editing or something), for art channels they might release a few tutorials for patrons early, and whatnot.
It’s a decent system, because it’s rare for UA-cam creators to get much advertising money. Patroon is usually the only way they manage to make enough money to make videos at all.
You should've dooted it before him
UA-cam strikes again
**g note plays**
Me:**tears begin to form in my eyes** **eventually cries**
Literally just happened
Yup
Samez
PanDanyull XD I'm going to play the g note.
@@halayna1332 same for u amazing username and pfp 😂
As if the song "welcome to the black parade" couldn't get any more queen, I once saw MCR play it live with Brian May on guest guitar!!!
This guy could make a trip to the super market sound like a romantic masterpiece of poetry.
The art, the editing, the presentation, and content was absolutely astounding.
I listened to this album so many goddamn times that I probably still know every lyric, every note, every beat. But even beyond its initial hype, this is still a very, very good album that was extremely ambitious.
I didn't think MCR could make me cry anymore. And then I watched this video
People who don’t get a tear in their eye when he yells “Wake Up” in Sleep are built different. That song hits me so hard in the feelings. I’ve literally been late for a meeting because it came on while I was driving and I had to clean my face and fix my makeup from crying.
I absolutely love this album. It’s the first album I ever listened all the way through and it’s so special to me. The band is special to me. It’s so nice that within the last year or so I’ve been seeing more content that actually talks about what game changers they are.
Not to sound like a hipster but when this album came out I was the only one of my friends who realized how amazing and important it was. I know a lot of people who didnt really like it that much because it wasn't like Three Cheers.
Three Cheers is my favorite, but each MCR album is so different that it's hard to compare them, kind of like... well, pretty much any band that's worth while
I am always amazed by how at the end of these videos about bands I don't really know much beforehand, I have learned a lot, yet I still have a lot of content to listen to and do my own "analysis" on it and get interested in.
Great video as always!
Three Cheers for Sweet Revenge is my favorite MCR album and one of my favorite albums of all time really, but all of their albums are *SO* good! I Brought You My Bullets, You Brought Me Your Love and Danger Days are also such great albums, and it's very interesting to witness the progression of where the band was emotionally and stylistically from album to album with each album seeming actually more optimistic and triumphant than the last. Man, I could talk for days about MCR, and I've only been a fan for a few months.
Igor Ramon MCR was the start of the post Blink 182 post Green Day Rock Music. They’ve inspired people like Lil Peep and most of emo rap. And as they’re albums are turning 10+ a lot of people are revisiting and seeing they weren’t just whiny teenagers. Black Parade is the magnum opus of the band much like Queen and bohemian rhapsody
Me: finishes a song about gangs, drugs, and murder
*Black parade comes on*
Me: ah this emo stuff, I’m not in the mood for it
Me Literally after the g note: WHEN I WAS
A YOUNG BOY
MY FATHER
are you sure mcr songs aren’t about gangs, drugs, and murder (glances at danger days)
TOOK ME INTO THE CITY
HE SAID SON WHEN
I dig the ideas here, but I wince any time someone says "emo" while talking about MCR. They may have inspired "emo" artists or kids that identified with that label, but the band always actively rejected that label when it came to their music & artistry.
You can call it nitpicking and that's fine, but I think it's a miscategorization. To me, they were a theatrical horror/alternative rock band; heavily story-driven and conceptual.
Fort Yort MCR is my absolute favorite band. Their actual genre is mostly hard rock, but for most “emo” bands, the label “emo” is more about the culture. And MCR is definitely a cornerstone in that culture.
@@natemattern2260 I can respect that stance! I think the argument is generally just semantics when it comes to fans.
However I also definitely believe that a lot of non-fans/people unfamiliar with MCR's work use "emo" as a reductive term, and I think that's where some of my rejection of that label comes from.
Fort Yort I absolutely agree that “emo” is often misused to be diminutive to emotionally-based bands, regardless of whether they fit the culture or not. It’s not meant to be a diminishing term and should not be used as such.
It's not their fault they appealed to that crowd, same with hitler appealing to Germans, the Germans saw something in him and they dug it, amd that may or may not be a good comparison, but they had to see something in it for the s*it to go that way.
I'd say that most emo bands reject the term, and even that it's pretty common for artists to reject the genres they're categorized in. Rites of Spring didn't consider themselves emo either despite essentially inventing the genre, and especially MCRs first albums aren't that dissimilar imo.
I've been waiting for this since you did the Green Day one. Totally blown away. Keep doing it, bro. You're gem
I found the american idiot one 20 minutes ago i got lucky as fuck
Commented about this album in the Green Day one lol
I love green day and it’s sad how bands like them have just completely fallen off
@@ProMrLecoq01 Which is why MCR and SOAD should just stay broken up, they'll forever be remembered as great.
Lunar Scorpio soad?
Jesus i had forgot how good is this album! Thank you a lot for this video
Yeah, its time to break out the eyeliner and headphones. Its cool to know I was here for a defining album like my dad was
This whole album has several feels moments but good God Cancer is just heartbreaking and genuinely depressing but damn do I ever love it.
Also Disenchanted always gives me chills
I was born in 1967 and musician since 1981. My daughter made me discover MCR and I must admit it's undeniably one of the greatest bands of the last six decades. So underrated compared to their talent. There is energy, invention and many other good things in their work. All the songs I've heard so far are fantastic.
got recommended this post-reunion, how are we doing?
Not post reunion, return
Sad because of Corona, I was supposed to attend there concert in the UK on the 21st of June. So here I am watching and listening to them 😢
@@queenrennala i was supposed to go to one on the 25th of June
I genuinely think this album doesn't have a single song that disrupts the flow, doesn't fit the theme or just doesn't sound up to par with the others. Can't say that about any other album I know of, not even American Idiot which I'd consider to be one of my favorites. Not a single bad song, a true feat. MCR's masterpiece.
My chemical romance released The Black Parade in 2006. I was born in 2006. I am now 15 and I have just discovered this absolutely amazing band. This album resonates so deeply with my because for a while, I was horrified at the prospect of death. I still am. I am a Christian, so I believe there is somewhere everyone goes, but the idea that there might only be one place is something I ran into a lot when I was 13. I realized that I don't need to be scared of death, and just need to focus on living for myself. Partially because of this album. Its just all around a good album and whether or not you know what the songs are meant to mean, when you listen to famous last words or Dead!, you should feel something inside of you. I know I've felt it. I just hope you have too
damn bro im 16 and only just found it. its so amazing
I would love to hear more about how their influence survives in music today
This video is god. But foreal tho, thank you. The connection to In the Flesh is really hitting me hard right now and I cant wait to relisten to this album while I work today!! So many memories, such great music. Truly phenomenal. Thanks for this, it helps to be able to share a video appealing to such widespread interests, and real life, and always looking for something to relate to, to feel to.. anyway, sorry for the ramble... Peace!!
Well said and damnit, what a great time to re-listen to this album!
The antagonistic mother figure also carries well with the The Wall refrence
Mama also sounds a lot like "The Trial" from the wall. Really great connection.
I always felt a strong reference to the darker songs of the album. (Empty Spaces, Mother, Thin Ice, The Trial, and Outside the Wall). But the more fun songs remind me of the wierder songs. (Bring the Boys Back Home, The Show Must Go On, and One of My Turns)
This one of my favourite albums and I'm so glad you analysed it
me: yeah i haven't really listened to MCR in a while :/ you know i'm just not into them that much anymore
Polyphonic:
You: 😭😭😭😭😭😭 Why did i do this to myself? Why? Why? 😭😭😭😭😭😭😭
Gdi same.
THANK YOU! People see mcr as just an "emo angsty band" but they are so muc more. You say the perfect points about that in this video, talking about old lovers and death seems so "emo" but they way mcr makes puts it into context of the song and album is not emo. Yoh bring up the lost lover and talk about how heart breaking it is and never say one thing bad about them or called them edgy or angsty. So once again thank you for the amazing video
I've always felt that this album actually talks about depression by talking about death.
Sharath Devasahayam considering Gerard made it right after the biggest depression (as well as drug & alcohol abuse) of his life, I think you’re spot on with that read as well! I hate when ppl say MCR “encourages” depression and suicide when the lead singer literally talks about his bipolar disorder very publicly, as well as the medication he is on to handle it and encourages people to get any help that they need.
I think as well that’s WHY a lot of teenagers and esp girls love them, because they’re a band that doesn’t pretend these feelings don’t happen and that they’re not painful. I’m really glad that people are finally understanding that and giving them the respect they deserve.
THEY'RE BACK
How have I managed to live this long without anybody telling me this album is fucking fire?
Thomas Wilson 😂😂
3:40 omg that part gives me shivers
I've never clicked on a video so fast. Happy Endgame everyone.
omg that game was so good
@@beatmeisterbob Just to be clear are u talking about Endgame in a rly cryptic way or The silent age game where I got my picture?
@@joethejanitor845 yes
@@beatmeisterbob Found the Redditor
If they reunite, they will definitely change the world once more.
I'm sure they'd please a lot of people, and if they returned I'd be all for that. However, in my opinion, I don't really want them to return. They made their marks in all of the right places, and may or may not live up to that again. Not saying they can't though. Not to mention how happy they are with their personal lives now.
I'd personally prefer some reunion touring if anything at all.
frank iero is already changing the world with his new album Barriers imo
They did and they are going too
well do I have something to tell you
Gooood newwwwssss
Now I want to hear the history for their other albums. Three cheers feels jus as emotionally powerful but in an angry way, not a sad way
It all makes sense. I thought they were just simple songs for entertainment, but now they have major meaning behind them. I used to listen to these songs and it never clicked to me that they were all related. Great video thank you
I was too young when they were on top of the world. But somehow my friends still listened, and liked them despite being in elementary school.
Any thoughts on In Rainbows? An album that you'd expect to be heavily copied, similar to early Radiohead, but so far there really haven't been any other albums like it
Jacob Borg one of my absolute favorite albums if not my favorite! Hope he makes a vid sometime on it
This comment needs to get to the top
I PLEASE!!!
Jacob Borg it is an incredibly unique album but I also feel like a lot of contemporary pop producers are heavily influenced by In Rainbows
That would be amazing. It's my favourite Radiohead album and one of my favourites in general. It also would arguably be more interesting than yet another thinkpiece on Ok Computer.
Love that you did a breakdown on this album. I REALLY wish Gerard would turn this album into a Broadway show like American Idiot was done.
Whenever I hear Welcome to the Black Parade, I start to sing along and the lyrics always gets me teared up. It's such a powerful song.
I love this video! The Black Parade is one of my favorite albums of all time. It helped me so much. thank you for your insight
Please please do a video on my favourite album of all time
Pretty. Odd. By Panic! At the Disco
They band literally changed genres from emo-punk to psychedelic rock and it was so risky, other bands who do so are usually at the end of careers or have a few solid albums behind them but Panic! had only one album and many fans at the time were confused and angry about their genre change but now many see it as a masterpiece and yet it’s still ignored by many fans.
Also it caused the breakup of the band.
“Pretty. Odd.
The album that risked it all and destroyed a band”
I’d love for more people to gain an appreciation for its masterful use of genres and it’s poetic lyrics by the lead guitarist Ryan Ross and how the song writing kinda dwindled after he left the band.
hearing those snippets, just sent me back to my highschool days.
This brought me back to 2006-2007. Thank you.
Oddly enough, when I was a teen, I enjoyed MCR but they weren't my favorite by any means, even though I'd been listening since 2003. But the older I get, the more I enjoy them.
Also, the more I listen, the more I believe *Danger Days* is their best work. It's just as cohesive of a concept album as TBP, but it trades over-the-top production values for a more raw, focused portrayal of the band. _Destroya, Summertime, S/C/A/R/E/C/R/O/W, Kids from Yesterday, The Only Hope for Me Is You,_ and _Vampire Money_ are some of the highlights of their entire discography.
TBP is still a perfect album. But I feel like MCR only got better with their next release.
*breathes in* WRONG
Danger Days?? Really?
How bout no
I think it's hard to say that - as an album at least - that DD is stronger than TBP? In the latter, every song has a point to make that ties in to a central theme, while DD kinda falls a little off on that regard. That's not taking anything away from DD though, I think it has stellar tracks that saw them 'experimenting' a little like 'planetary (go)', or atmospheric and emotional numbers like 'summertime' and 'the only hope for me is you' haha.
Also i can totally relate with appreciating them the older i get 😂
I can whole heartedly agree with a lot of this. But the albums are so different that its hard to say one trumps the other. I do think that DD is a phenomenal record and that its easily just as good as BP.
I wish I knew how it feels to have written this masterpiece.
I bet you don't tbh, probably a very dark time for the band mentally
That little excerpt from Mama is instantly reminiscent of The Trial in The Wall
“It was just a phase I’m not that kid anymore”
Piano key hits…..
Miss My Chemical Romance, great video
I never knew there was so much story telling in this album all I heard was. "WE'LL CARRY OOOON"
This video made me feel that G note way much stronger than before for the first time, holy shit
No more
Wendigoon’s theory on how the story plays out is my favorite tbh
I first heard this album 3½ years ago in 9th grade, and it was instantly my favorite album I'd ever heard and have still ever heard. That is because every song in it is timeless, unlike any other album I've heard where a few songs aren't as good at the hits.
This album saved my life. I was going through a really dark time and was very depressed and suicidal off and on for a while, but this album made me feel like I could keep on living. I always took Famous Last Words as a song about overcoming depression, self-harm, and suicidal thoughts.
This is the same thing for me except I am currently in 9th grade. They still continue to help me too. I wouldn’t be here if it weren’t for Mcr
I'm gonna come right out and say it, MCR is one of the best bands of the 2000's. I was thirteen when I discovered them, right before my life was turned upside down by the '07 recession, and their music helped me to process the sadness, anger, and anxiety I was grappling with at the time. I think it says a lot that the very first line of the very first song Gerard wrote (Skylines & Turnstiles) was "You're not in this alone." We're really not. My Chemical Romance is always there for us.
This album is easily in my top ten all time favorites. Super stoked that you've done a fantastic video on it, giving the album some more visibility!
you really picked some choice lyrics. some that made me break into tears from just a half a second or so, like “you should’ve raised a baby girl, i could have been a better son.” such an emotional album
I love these album dives you do. I can go back and listen to the whole album with a new ear and a familiar love.
one might say welcome to the black parade is a new BohEMOmian Rhapsody
do you like making me cry?
Since it came out and I became an MCR fan, I knew this album would be timeless, despite the emo movement dying not long after that. It was because it dealt not only with love, but with death, something we all are going to face. As older we get, we'll lose loved ones, and as they fall, the album and its ideas will resonate in our heads, leading us to revisit that album and reading the lyrics in a different way. Most of the people who experienced the album, now we are in our late 20's-early 30's, so with a different vision in life, we might get the lyrics differently.
God, how I love that album
I'm so glad you did TBP. That and American Idiot are my most favorite albums from childhood, and you covered both! Thanks! I don't why MCR gets so much hate
I've waited for this video forever, as this album is one of my favorites ever.
Thank you.
Man just when I was feeling nostalgic for MCR I see this video in my feed, YAY ME
One of the best if not the best concept album I’ve ever heard.
I'm a teenager, so I'm not quite on the same boat of listening to these songs days after they came out like a lot of other people. I started listening to MCR in elementary school. It really got me through a lot. From depression to the death of a good friend, music, especially the kind they made, was what got me past it. They tackled death in ways nobody had ever taught me before. MCR and Green Day really introduced me to my political views as well, especially American Idiot. It's not just the edgy scene kid music people thought it was (and even if it was, why make fun of someone's style?), it really helped people.
The animation looks really dope and the way you analyzed it was so cool ❤ always looking forward to another upload
When you realize TBP is a continuation of Three Cheers
Wait.. what?!?
I’m a Portland Winterhawks fan and I remember Welcome to the black parade playing before each game when I was a kid.
I turned an acquaintance into a friend by knowing the lyrics to Blood.
The Black Parade is My Chemical Romance's best album! I love My Chemical Romance so damn much that they'll always have a very special place in my heart!
The songs are so catchy that I had to pause and go back to listen the commentry and stop singing the music.
Thrice!
Black Parade was a real treat, because of how much I love The Wall, and Night at the Opera. And every song truly rocks.
But to me, My Chem’s greatest work was Three Cheers. Bullets was also amazing, but it’s real dark headspace music, and a bit anxiety inducing, a bit of taking the last of your medication vibes. But Three Cheers really masterfully synced up their morbid vampire sound with foot stomping excitement.
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So this is my personal interpretation of sleep;
I’ll try my best to put it into words but I think it’s when the patient realizes that his death date is getting closer and closer as the days go by. He then feels that it’s hard to except and he wants himself to believe that all that’s happening is just a bad dream, and he’ll wake up and he won’t die tragically and live a long lived life. The sadness and desperation kicks in, and that’s why later in the song he’s screaming “WAKE UP!” and when the tape says “I can’t-I can’t wake up.” While I think the meaning of the song states you have to except what’s happening and live in the now, whether you like it or not.
Idk that’s just what I believe.
With the 40th anniversary of “London Calling” coming up in December, I think a video on the Clash will be in order in the near future
*finishes watching video*
*starts crying*
Ive also realized ive been listening to mcr since I was 4yrs old bc my dad used to listen to we had the CD and my brother would play it and we would jam to it I've grown up listening to mcr then started to also like fob TØP and my fav p!atd they all have helped me through some tuff times
I will never forget the first time I saw the video for Welcome to the Black Parade on MTV, and it was a moment where time just kinda froze. I was watching it with the bass player of my then band and we were still very influenced by skatepunk and early 2000s alt rock and we were both left dumbfounded. I really felt a paradigm shift there!
this is beautiful. the visuals are awesome, and i love how you explained the story.
Finally! A video about MCR’s best album
I love your work and I've been secretly hoping you will make one of MCR, i cant stop the goose bumps when you were taking about this album, one of the best I've ever heard and so deep, thanks for the video!!
This is truly amazing. You understand music in such a deep context. Your videos are so entertaining. Its awesome to see MCR getting the recognition they deserve.
Mcr is such an overlooked band. Many people just say they’re that 2000s emo band. But they’re so so much more
It's basically The Album. I've never grown weary of it, not once. It's been out 13 years. It's incredible still how each of the first 3 albums build upon each other as phases of growing up and this was somehow the end result. They wanted you to know that holding on to the past will lead you safely and securely to death and after this they released Danger Days and the Conventional Weapons... Compilation? And, those were the signal of change. Not to mention every song is a straight banger and they finally had a drummer that fit the profile. Outfits remind me of Star Trek:TNG though.
Star Trek: The Black Parade- Captain Way and his team of rag-tag warriors are trapped in the black hole at the center of the universe. Way guides his team through a 2 year tour of duty culminating in riches, both of experience and growth. Unfortunately, the Enterprise is in danger when Commander Briar departs the ship and Captain Way expresses his desire to become an author and use his missions as influence for his characters and maybe some solo work on the side, gathering up remains of a now forgotten "New "Wave" of communication. Will the Enterprise survive the Black Parade? Or, will it it's captain age 20 years in a span of 7, and it's cyborg, Iero, go on a journeyman's trip through different crews searching for the glory he had when he delivered the bullets, raised his glass, thrice and entered the Black Parade? Find out on Star Trek: TBP!!
There is a great wendigoon video that looks at it from a different perspective
this was such an interesting video! i loved how you dug deep into the undertones of all the songs and the visuals were quite captivating.
This is your greatest work of art ever. Thank you.
Yasss, thank you for making this video!!🔥
I don’t care, MCR will always be highly under appreciated in my opinion. Their music is so good with many layers but people see emo and are immediately turned off. They will always be my favorite band, they helped me through so much from school problems to family problems. I’m glad I was raised by such an amazing group that made me who I am today.
This this is what i think about one of the greats of music i didnt grow up with mcr nor am i emo but damn i love rock opera and the black parade is one of if not the best...i guess the legacy of this album ...caries on? AHAH DAD PUNS!
thats actually the best sponsor transition ive ever seen in my life