My Chemical Romance - The Black Parade ALBUM REVIEW

[@TT-tt5wd]

Anthony “internet porn takes forever to download” Fantano

[@walterfowler4785]

T T Pornthony Internetano

[@Slasheaxl]

What a coomer

[@ajaspaja2702]

Pornthony slowtano

[@jmmjjmmjjmmj]

internet porntano

[@MeatGuyJ]

Oh god, he's turning into Christgau.

[@Gabriel071293]

Things Anthony hates about his youth, according to this review: 1) George Bush president 2) Internet porn takes forever to download 3) You can't listen to Death Grips yet

[@thirtyyearoldmulberryfield]

Given how often I violently beat my dick to "The Powers That Be", I'd say Death Grips is internet porn.

[@justin9571]

Woahhh you watched the video too?

[@yudhabagaskara98]

4) KZbin is still unfamiliar

[@mattbeste6627]

@@yudhabagaskara98 least there were no ads.

[@athanagames]

@@mattbeste6627 yeah but there was also no way for people like 7outta 10tano to make money off of it

[@konoha1993]

The latest swing in popularity for MCR has made me realize how many of ya'll lied about not liking The Black Parade back when we were kids.

[@leakypfaucet]

Someone said it

[@mw7845]

DEAD. ASS. I was ridiculed for openly being an MCR fan. I get the fandom could be a turn off, but their music is actually so good. My taste has changed so much throughout the years but I can listen to their first three albums without skipping any songs to this day

[@Plazthespaz3]

I was one of the outspoken hater voices. I was wrong. Full stop. The 2000s were a weird time around music; Gatekeeping and genre splits were dumb and all shouldn't have been that way.

[@BatDadx]

Seriously fuck them, all the bullshit i got for liking MCR

[@ishajac3637]

@@Plazthespaz3 I liked the oft played radio singles from TBP {Except Teenagers. I still full stop hate that song} but at the time I was viscerally turned off by the idea of "Emo" and pointedly shunned music associated with the phase. Getting into the music after they broke up was gut wrenching. YAY, for the return!

[@phothewin6019]

Finally, after 14 years... I can actually form an opinion on this album.

[@randomguy4788]

I'm happy for you

[@لمعان-ض9ع]

love this comment

[@erikchagas00]

Form? It's done already.

[@malcolm_mal2055]

Lmfao

[@Jamieconstable]

Erik Chagas that’s the joke

[@scanamantitis]

WHEN I WAS A YOUNG MELON MY WALLET IT WAS NOT VERY RIDGY

[@bluesolace9052]

Kevscanz THE CASH ON ME COULD NOT STAND HE SAID AND WHEN YOU REVIEW TRACKS. WOULD YOU BE THE REVIEWER OF THE OUTSPOKEN, THE GOATED, AND THE BLAND

[@MyAce8]

@@bluesolace9052 HE SAID WILL YOU DEFEAT THEM YOUR CRITICS AND ALL THE KANYE STANS

[@sefotuaau7263]

TO GIVE A SEVEN TO THE DAMN

[@dandiam5298]

That doesn't even fit

[@reyreevs9048]

y'all are so boring

[@VuNguyen-bs3qn]

This was the first album i ever listened to where I didn’t dislike a single song

[@Mr_December]

Vu Nguyen The Wall was that album for me

[@coltonc8562]

Vu Nguyen in utero for me I think

[@nugaming2498]

Famous Monsters for me

[@Voltage.Bone.R]

Fallen was the first for me

[@DewDewMegaDeeDee]

Toxicity from soad for me

[@Emme-Kappa]

Not only he reviewed Black Parade as a classic... he even said that Three Cheers is good. It's perfectly fine to love MCR and not feel ashamed people. So happy.

[@punkgrl325]

The hate for MCR was so dumb; they were easily the best band of the mid-00s emo/post-hardcore scene. Sadly, their more insane fans were an understandable turn off for a lot of people.

[@xwexarexbulletsx]

My high school self can actually rest in peace now

[@coyotelong4349]

I mean it’s because MCR are basically now “classic rock” for all intents and purposes

[@automateddog]

@@coyotelong4349 nah, classic rock as a genre stops around early to mid 1990s. Unless you're memeing 😳

[@darknight10000]

@@automateddog Everything gets old eventually.

[@nathanrivers3707]

“dead” is a lively song - anthony fantano

[@fullysickrockstar]

Dadthony Joketano

[@Joeynivek]

👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽

[@willdouglass8653]

Nathan Rivers Dead! **

[@Spectacurl]

“Famous Last Words” is an ambiguous ending. You don’t know if the patient survive and is gonna live different or if he is going to die and he just embrace death.

[@vanessa6708]

Isn’t a bad thing per se, Gerard said multiple times that it was intentionally ambiguous, and it’s kind of a portrait of the time and mental health of them at the time. They were bad to worst, but somehow they overcome the shit in their lives, half of the album it’s less ironical and more melodramatic, the patient facing not only death but his own mistakes and sins in life, to the end in Famous Last Words he’s facing life itself, he’s not knowing what is going on, what would be left of him... is he’s going to die? To live? What? We don’t know the same way we don’t now either. He’s telling us that whatever it will be he’ll face it bravely, not ironical or sinister as in the track Dead! He’s in between life and death, pleasure and tragedy but he’s accepting himself and the dark parts

[@gratees9690]

thats where Blood and Heaven Help Us come in. Blood is about how life sucks assuming the patient died and HHU is about the patient dying and going to hell. HHU Is only on the Japanese version and the WTTBP single though

[@ripwrkk9378]

bc thats not the end, “welcome to the black parade” is. the entire album is out of order

[@screwtapee]

@@ripwrkk9378 i assume your a wendigoon enjoyer

[@ripwrkk9378]

@@screwtapee yes

[@noahpagnozzi432]

The true black parade were the friends we made along the way.

[@santiagobelmont1920]

Bro...

[@PibbXtraGaming]

The black parade was in us all along, we just had to believe in ourselves

[@gonzaloasencios142]

This is not evangelion

[@Aya_02571]

Big Nutty Lmao

[@GamingOS]

@@gonzaloasencios142 congratulations

[@scott.macdonald]

No Anthony, you didn't have to remind us that "All Parades Matter"

[@ew275x]

Yeah also weird when he went "It's OK to be a white parade"

[@f.f5771]

Miiiiiiiiiiiistaaaaa please feed us

[@marcoberriodi3685]

@@f.f5771 stfu

[@regiluthfi]

Not emo fan but what i like from mcr is every album has it's own theme and atmosphere. Like it was a comic book or movie.

[@Achiez-z]

Learn the difference between "it's" and "its".

[@chandlermiller3944]

Gerard Way is also a comic book writer funny enough. Check out The True Lives of The Fabulous Killjoys comic. It's insanely good, That was my favorite album and one I can listen to start to finish with ease, so when I found the comic I was elated.

[@Claptain_Planet]

@@Achiez-z fuck you

[@Garcia-js3gu]

Mcr is not emo

[@jakegraham3758]

Garcia2003 the first two certainly are but this and killjoys are objectively not emo even tho the more emotional songs on this album can fit into that category

[@nicholasdoyle2033]

The thought of anyone listening to this for the first time because of this review warms my heart

[@anikethtadepalli9740]

Listened to the album for the first time because of this review and it’s now one of my top five fav albums. Just so good.

[@Itchywars]

just heard this album for the first time and it's fabulous

[@crooked_teeth.]

I'm going to do that right now!

[@michaellewis7820]

Dude. This. I’ll never forget my first listen to this album and being overwhelmed with euphoria during the end of Famous Last Words. I wish I could hear it for the first time again lol.

[@cheesecakelasagna]

Count me in!

[@brianfrtz]

"Internet porn takes forever to download." *PREACH MELON*

[@Aya_02571]

*AOL Intensifies*

[@puritydvoyd2978]

Yeah that’s a real issue, there shouldn’t be any porn to download at all.

[@Zachariaz]

“you can’t listen to Death Grips yet?”

[@betamaxreal]

@@puritydvoyd2978 all porn should be able to load up quickly tbh

[@puritydvoyd2978]

Ambient Meridian porn should not exist.

[@orvilleredenpiller338]

“[2006 was] asimpler time”, he says just two months from a widespread pandemic.

[@elliotw.888]

2019 was a simpler time

[@anonymous-fg3mm]

When I was A melon My father Took me into the city To sell some ridge walletss

[@jorssu13]

He said "son when you grow up, Would you have the best teeth in the game, Even better than Anderson Paak's"

[@edgarroberts8740]

@@jorssu13 He said, "Will you defeat them, The normies and all the meme-illiterate? thatistheplan, is a channel you'll have made.

[@333kingston]

@@edgarroberts8740 just a reply to later see where it goes

[@skoundrool]

Mama we all going to buy. Ridge wallets.

[@epsohapshiro]

@@edgarroberts8740 because one day you'll be back, and teach them, specially that Felix, to do the meme review 🎵

[@ZachHayesRB]

I always assumed Fantano didnt like MCR, or didnt find them interesting enough to comment on. Always good to have a favorite band melon-approved.

[@multiplecigsgirlrot]

hes praised them on a couple of lets argue episodes and people ask him about it in streams quite a bit i think he said it was like a 9 in a livestream

[@Solaire_of_Astora13]

Isn't it included in his 10/10 list?

[@HeyIntegrity]

​@@Solaire_of_Astora13link

[@clonetrooper1998]

The production period for this album was hella cursed (wrote/recorded in a haunted mansion, everyone got injured filming the Famous Last Words mv, etc) which only makes it more legendary tbh

[@audrepoison566]

"Disenchanted" is the MOST underrated song on The Black Parade (House of Wolves is under appreciated too).

[@colleen6341]

Xan Shipstew I agreeeee House of Wolves is extremely underappreciated

[@Lauren-rl4eu]

I could listen to disenchanted on repeat for hours when I was a teenager

[@thepotato513]

My favorite is Dead, but I'm just a sucker for that kind of guitar

[@elyy0345]

The memories, Disenchanted takes me back to when I was 12 years old, but my absolute favorite is Sleep.

[@angelo6506]

There is no lie here.

[@jaycee8852]

This definitely is a modern classic. Such a great album, still holds up.

[@eric1323]

Green day was better

[@FabulousKilljoy]

Agreed

[@tttobigs]

@@eric1323 no

[@rossmusic25]

Eric you have a great sense of humor you know that

[@rossmusic25]

Yup

[@ivanguerrac.1762]

Melon, we all go to hell...

[@lina-sc4pj]

Melon, we all go to hell Melon, we all go to hell

[@xeoknight845]

cannot unhear this now

[@habitsrabbit]

I'm writing this review and wishing you well. Melon, we all go to hell.

[@rocknrollrebel1000]

MELON WE'RE ALL GONNA DIEEEE

[@estebanalejandrobaez2943]

Melon, we're meant for the flies

[@NateIsLame]

Melon daddy validating my love for this album is a good start to 2020

[@gibbysmoviecorner8286]

NateIsLame I LOVE YOU

[@_Dat_Edgy_Boi_]

Rawr XD

[@brandon17760]

Oof...

[@deevalblack6637]

GOOD START To 2020

[@eboscrubbly1187]

This aged well

[@joet5901]

Great review melon but did you really have to say “why cant we have a white parade”

[@FizzyCape]

Joe T because that’s called the klan

[@evelynpayne855]

How long before this review came out did you have that comment ready for if a black parade review drops, be honest

[@puritydvoyd2978]

Evie Payne Ima guess a couple years at least

[@joet5901]

Evie Payne not going to lie I had been waiting to use that one ahaha

[@epitath762]

wow... i appreciate you telling me this, i am not going to watch the video now and i unsubscribing from "thatistheplan" youtube channel

[@JCSmith717]

It’s honestly insane how ambitious and big this album is for a band that was associated as being an “emo band” from the mid 2000s. It has such a unique place in music history and really stands out from the other albums of this era. Probably one of my favorite rock/alternative albums ever.

[@Remedy462]

The writing was my favorite with all the double entendres, timeless idioms, and the contrast of emotionally gut wrenching and ghoulishly cynical. Not to mention the pristine production, explosive anthems, and batshit tangents. Truly a mind unreeling with death, dying, and suffering. Looking forward to their take on the pandemic and political strife for the next album.

[@JCSmith717]

@@Remedy462 Well said. It really is just an incredibly impressive album all around, in terms of its song structuring, vocals, and concept. It has this strikingly addictive aura to it

[@Remedy462]

@@JCSmith717 I only recently just got into MCR, I was around when both Three Cheers and Black Parade were huge but I wrote it off as melodramatic emo crap, though I secretly loved Helena, Dead!, and Teenagers. I was too much into classic 70's rock like Rush, Led Zeppelin, and King Crimson to besmirch my ears with such common drab lol (most Zeppelin songs are just dick songs, at least the ones they didn't cover haha). Recently I've gotten into them and just floored that each album is good to outstanding, Black Parade is definitely an actual rock masterpiece. Dead! Is still my all time favorite song by the band, as generic as it may make me seem as an MCR fan. :)

[@HeyIntegrity]

​@@Remedy462can you explain more about the ghoulishly cynical and batshit tangents?

[@HeyIntegrity]

​​@@Remedy462 never actually got into zeppelin much other than the most famous songs everyone has heard but do you mean they have literal dick song?

The greatest gift that MCR gave us was Ebony Dark'Ness Dementia Raven Way.

[@Marie-rb2vy]

I'm having intense war flashbacks, thanks

[@rightbehindyou973]

We out here masticating

[@p.etcheetah]

The only thing that matters

[@renthehag]

She’s the hero we didn’t need, and definitely not the one we deserve.

[@JohnSmith-gf3vz]

Pshhh Ebony was a product of Twilight, though MCR... didn't exactly help

[@Nyxthebat04]

I remember listening to Famous Last Words by myself in the bus a few days after nearly committing suicide. It gives me the feels, man. This band means so much to me.

[@kevinglazier8950]

I'm glad you're here friend

[@Nyxthebat04]

@@kevinglazier8950 thank you ❤

[@sicst6808]

"Songs my mom likes" ngl, bro, that is cute af lmao

[@Nyxthebat04]

@@sicst6808 ahahaha thanks

[@gilbej91]

Sorry to hear you got to that point but the fact that you're still here, that's fucking brave and phenomenal!

[@hikittyfan]

does a black parade review talks about 3 cheers for sweet revenge for 4 minutes

[@FabulousKilljoy]

I mean how could you not talk about Three Cheers though

[@itsk3hiphop]

I mean 3 Cheers is the better album *shrug*

[@FabulousKilljoy]

itsk3hiphop you’re not wrong

[@oldironking]

@@itsk3hiphop woah TBP is a near perfect album it earns a classic review it is a complete story front to back, three cheers is just a collection of great rock songs, still love it but its not better than TBP as an album.

[@alexeimoshonka]

@@oldironking I personally like three cheers but definitely TBP is more powerful

[@syr2615]

_when i was_ _a young boy..._ the porn takes forever to dowload.

[@WakkaMadeInYevon]

When I was a young boy My father told me I couldn't listen To Death Grips just quite yet

[@justsomething89]

... To beeeaaat my meat and coooooooome

[@TheMetalTempestYT]

@@justsomething89 And W Was in office I was tired of Such topics But I know that it will be okayyy............

[@RadioactiveKetchup]

I want to give a shoutout to Gerard's astounding vocal performances on this album. The wall of screams in Sleep and the soaring finale to Famous Last Words are unbelievable

[@riverscuomo994]

He really delivered a big one on this album. But the one that really gets me is mama. Amazing raw performance at the bridge when he screams with all his guts "mama!"

[@cookieintheinternet]

Don't forget This Is How I Disappear, I think that's one of his best vocal performances

[@RadioactiveKetchup]

The whole album is vocal masterwork tbh

[@riverscuomo994]

@@RadioactiveKetchup yeah I can agree

[@neonnightskies]

@@riverscuomo994 have you seen Mama live in Mexico? That shit's absolutely crazy

[@lyak5057]

"blood" and "house of wolves" are the most underrated songs in their discography

[@LittleSquishie]

I was literally about to comment that house of wolves is one of my absolute favorites on the album

[@wolfsbane1991]

House of Wolves is fucking breathtaking. Top 3 best songs by My Chem.

[@Lildeadthing420]

+mama

[@teagan7317]

all of bullets is underrated tbh

[@tamedraven]

My coworker had no idea who MCR was (or any other band, she's not into music). Played Blood and she said it's "like disney but creepy".. I'll take it

[@smoov22_sonic]

This was great but did you have to call it the All Parade

[@Tudmoke]

This is the best one of these I’ve ever seen

[@nojaynojay]

mehawaarahoon underrated reply

[@Melkac]

Subtle enough to be funnier than it would be otherwise.

[@sabianrios3747]

this is clever

[@danielguidal5594]

Don’t get it

[@keewee6704]

Melon is trying to hide his “SIMP” patch

[@combustbanx]

let's agree

[@swingAE86]

Actually it says WIMP

[@Aya_02571]

swingAE86 It actually says PIMP.

[@swingAE86]

No it really is wimp I saw it on IG

[@sierraramos9463]

squirrels in my pants

[@jimmygillard]

I'm in my 40s. Was too old for MCR, but their musicality and art direction won me over.

[@tpags7398]

I mean so are the band members lol

[@qtoelke6208]

Gerard way is probably older than you lol

[@markmccreary9605]

I saw then on Black Parade because my daughter was 13.

[@ML-tr1hz]

That means you were in your 20s when they first came out, seems like the perfect age tbh

[@quackaddict9810]

Nah youre the age of people who should be listening to it lol

[@TheOneAndOnlyJell_O]

One time I asked my high school orchestra teacher if he ever knew Gerard Way since he attended the same school we were at and he said he'd actually taught him as a kid. That blew my mind.

[@youngdumbandbaroque1543]

Hot damn. Does your teacher have any interesting stories about Gerard?

[@LottoWavy]

What Highschool?

[@DarthDoomSlayer64]

@A Self Called L WHEN I WAS A YOUNG BOY MY FATHER..... sorry.

[@TheOneAndOnlyJell_O]

@A Self Called L Yeah, Gerard's mom sent him to Belleville High School instead of a school in Newark presumably so he could get a better education as Newark is a rough place to grow up in. My orchestra teacher used to teach band too and he told me he had Gerard as a student.

[@heartpng]

What did he play?

[@GiuseppeGuadalupe]

We need a review of The Cure’s 1989 masterpiece “Disintegration” melon

[@thirtyyearoldmulberryfield]

I'd throw "Pornography" in as a candidate as well

[@loerl9151]

what about The Cure's 1982 masterpiece "Pornography"

[@jameseu4553]

Either Disintegration or Pornography.

[@GiuseppeGuadalupe]

Thirty Year Old Mulberry Field defo mate

[@dallyink7412]

@@thirtyyearoldmulberryfield Nah, takes too long to download.

[@angie_exe]

It's nice to see this much praise for this project. I can't listen to it too much anymore, my friend listened to this in the depths of her own fight with cancer, and when she beat it, we would blast it as a reminder that she won. 4 months later, a rapid onset of leukemia killed her. I love this whole album, but welcome to the black parade hits a little different when you sing it as you lower a 21 year old in her sparkly casket she picked at 15. Thank you for the review, it reminds me of all the good times we had.

[@killitwithfire5377]

I'm so sorry this happened to you. It sounds awful and I can't imagine anything embodying the entire vibe of this album and this band more than your story.

[@Foolery_Tom]

The Black Parade is considered a classic now? God, I'm old.

[@johncenaplayingstarcraft9580]

2004 (three cheers) and 2006 (black parade) were 16 and 14 years ago, thats like 1976 to 1990

[@argentinaomuerte]

@@johncenaplayingstarcraft9580 fuck I never thought of it like that and now I feel old as FUCK

[@kuppakassi]

Still trash tho

[@redgalaxy6615]

@@kuppakassi agree to disagree

[@shu9062]

@@johncenaplayingstarcraft9580 I need to unsee this as quick as possible

[@Aya_02571]

Imagine if Fantano put on Emo makeup for this album review.

[@camillaquelladegliaggettiv4303]

How do I unimagine something?

[@FabulousKilljoy]

Oh no 😂

[@litigatedparadox8946]

*Melon

[@soundofominous4646]

This is not classic. It just smells less bad than all the other pop-punk piles of shit.

[@soundofominous4646]

This is not classic. It just smells less bad than the other piles of pop-punk sh*t.

[@shiivainu9442]

I was obsessed with this album as a 12-year-old, when it first came out. My 65-year-old grandfather (rest his soul) also LOVED it. It was a really strange connection between us. He was a folk rock lovin' ex-vietnam vet, listening to my favorite emo album.

[@una877]

That's cute, love that for you

[@musicman6555]

Ok this is epic but we still need Sorry For Party Rocking

[@valco8371]

either this or planet pit

[@jamiehayward6960]

se tonight

[@HORNGEN4]

Still within a decade old though...

[@sagiepuff]

I almost had a heart attack seeing this just now

[@Aya_02571]

Some people had almost had one because of the intro.

[@bruhmomentomori7771]

sagiepuff honestly felt that

[@0nyxFR773]

Bro check out the band nerdz n nutz on KZbin they’re just like MCR

[@leslier278]

SAME IVE BEEN WAITING FOR HIM TO REVIEW AN MCR ALBUM FOREVER

[@kamlike8996]

Me too

[@mewgiah8057]

Disenchanted was originally going to be cut from the album. However it was saved at the last second by the bassist Mikey Way who urged the band to keep it. IMO it’s the best track on the album as it packs a massive punch and is absolutely crushing - as the main character comes to the final stages of accepting his fate and doing so feeling absolutely bitter. While I would hope no one here would ever face a situation like an early death - I think there are many moments in life where you have to accept a fate you aren’t happy about, and it’s not always a “happy” acceptance, and often is one of a bitter nature. Even if you eventually move on past it. The song captures that feeling of helplessness that I don’t think most songwriters want to talk about. Musically it’s incredible. The lyrics sting with every turn. The chorus flies high emotionally and crashes down. It’s catchy as hell. Easily the most underrated track on the record, and was my personal favorite back when this album originally released. Nice to see MCR finally get some love. I’ve noticed over the last 10 years more and more people realizing they love their music. Even those that hated them at the time they were popular. I think Three Cheers for Sweet Revenge - while not as great - has a ton of amazing songs. “The ghost of You” and “Thank You for the Venom” are awesome. And while Danger Days was hit and miss it also had some great moments. They are overall just a really solid band that is totally worth remembering.

[@gayfield420]

honestly i think three cheers is underrated... i like it more than black parade, but that's not to discredit it! tbp was THE turning point and it's an amazing fucking album, i could go on and on. im just very passionate about this band and i guess i relate to the grimey sounding, "unprofessional" earlier stuff like bullets, but three cheers was a more cleaned up version of their heaviness. i just love it so much.

[@sofiapaakkonen3731]

Disenchanted is probably my favourite song of all time, period. Idk what it is about it, I can't really explain it but somehow it makes me nostalgic and longing for a youth I never had (even though i am still in my youth)

[@multiplecigsgirlrot]

*brad taste wants to know your location*

[@DavidHager1]

"I think there are many moments in life where you have to accept a fate you aren’t happy about" "The song captures that feeling of helplessness that I don’t think most songwriters want to talk about." This is EXACTLY why it's perfect where it is, because it captures that emotion perfectly. Didn't know it almost didn't make the cut. Glad it did, it's important.

[@colestevens1375]

Disenchanted is in my top 3 songs of all time, easily

[@peelslowly28]

If Melon ain't just a joke Then why are we laughing? If Melon ain't just a joke Then why am I dead?

[@randomguy4788]

Dead!

[@PicoPingu]

*silence* *with some silent echoing*

[@blayize6307]

Because you are a NOT GOOD

[@jessepike3565]

Castrik NM love the velvet underground profile pic

[@peelslowly28]

@@jessepike3565 Thanks, love the J profile pic

[@SOBEKCrocodileGod]

I’m so glad that these dudes are being appreciated for their talent now, and that most people are over that dumb “HURRR DURRR EMO CRINGE! TEENAGE GIRLS LIKE THIS SO I CAN’T!!! CRINGE CRINGE CRINGE POSER SELLOUTS” stigma

[@RedMysticalVR]

Well, I sorta am that kinda guy, I want to get into MCR, but I don't want to be called out for listening to "emo" music, and also I'm not someone that really likes punk music, only enjoying some because of Green Day's American Idiot.

[@ronnieradon]

Nicklas Martin go for it! who cares if someone says “ugh ur so cringe bro go cut yourself” if you like it you like it, that’s their problem.

[@SOBEKCrocodileGod]

Nicklas Martin Don’t try to impress elitist douchebags who judge others for the music they like Listen to whatever you want to my dude

[@charlesmcg]

@@SOBEKCrocodileGod Every single person I've met like that seems genuinely miserable.

[@Blutzen]

Man I still wear my Three Cheers t-shirt that I bought in Hot Topic when I was 16. I don't care what anybody says, My Chem is and always was a great band.

[@Dreigonix]

That moment when we can finally embrace our inner Ebony Dark’ness Dementia Raven Way and admit that MCR were actually awesome.

[@Mr_December]

A man of culture, I see

[@leinahstarr7007]

You're a legend

[@faffywhosmilesatdeath5953]

Hey, I don't like you mentioning that

[@faffywhosmilesatdeath5953]

I REPRESSED ALL THOSE MEMORIES FOR A REASON SHUT UP

[@youraveragemusicperson2176]

We're all goffik now

[@mofomanx10]

I finally feel at peace. Musically, The Black Parade always felt like a masterpiece but the god damn emo stigma always had me second guessing. Thank you melon for allowing me to lay this to rest.

[@riverscuomo994]

The band doesn't even like that term neither

[@FistOfMichallin]

They never had anything to do with Emo. They were a rock band with a gothic horror presentation, which was easily mistaken for Emo... given that the Emo thing was at a peak during their time.

[@depthshade837]

Emo’s ruin bands, they called panic! An emo band and i don’t see why

[@moesferatu]

I have similar feelings. I've been a fan since not long before Parade was released, and I remember thinking 'this is so huge, it'll change rock'... it did, but not without being absolutely smashed by many (elitists?) that would dismiss the band simply on the grounds of them being associated with the term emo, which alright, I get it, emo was a rather obnoxious thing most of the time and even though I was a fan of MCR I never wanted to be associated with it either, but at the same time it was insanely unfair for the band. They're only being recognized as the quality, imaginative band that they were/are now, as oppossed to just by fans, and it's been 14 years since release. Oops, a tedtalk.

[@depthshade837]

MemesAreDreams because emo was very popular at that time , basically every band that came out was considered emo, three cheers and the black parade was still listenable to this day, atleast in my opinion, compared to other emo songs

[@toshitvaidya9901]

The screams at the end of sleep are spine chilling

[@bellabliss1860]

Very much agreed. It's probably my favorite musical composition ever made.

[@kemo_-ks6pk]

WAKE UP !!!!!

[@Voltage.Bone.R]

WAKE UUUUUUUUUUUUUUUPPPP

[@anonymoususer2756]

WAAAKEE UUUUUUPP!!!

[@domxto2]

I was going to comment the same thing. This is probably my favorite song of the album. Very intense and breath-taking.

[@Joaquin__]

wendigoon's interpretation of this album is my favorite i've seen so far and i cant listen to this album without thinking about it

[@christianpetry4352]

Facts people get confused on the story because the songs aren’t in chronological order

[@abbie_joan]

his interpretation in my eyes has the best layout of the story

[@Androids23]

This is my opinion, but I think that his interpretation is too surface level

[@hjyryui]

Can you elaborate?@@Androids23

[@johnathanpumpernickel5532]

tbh i feel like the way i contemplate death is as erratic as the album and it’s narrative is. i don’t agree with the idea of there being multiple primary characters, it just takes away from the intention of the album. songs like dead aren’t a character within the story singing to another character, it’s the song directly laying out these ideas and the setup to the rest of the album to the listener. the listener is the patient, the rest of the songs are just elaborating on the many complex feelings one would have about impending death. just in my experience

[@daldladla]

I feel like this was the last time a rock album was a huge deal culturally and dominated airwaves

[@Aportik]

maybe blackstar by bowie?

[@xBamf4Lifex]

@@Aportik Nah.

[@EduardoMartinez-lf5id]

Well, facts don't care about what you feel.

[@benjones1014]

not a fan of the record but AM was undeniably massive

[@shinji012001]

Excuse me???? The most recent AJR album??????? Are we just gonna pretend like it didnt change music as it is and left a colossal impact on the world? The disrespect, smh.

[@ItachiUchiha-qx7xo]

This album literally got me into music. I remember my friend letting me borrow his copy and i used to just sit in my room everyday after school just blasting this record on repeat till i finally got a copy burned. This album means so much to me I can't even describe it.

[@AwesomeFolds]

im just gonna guess that the rest of that one black patch reads "SIMP"

[@joewhite4456]

Nah: "pimp"

[@lmao6234]

@@joewhite4456 r/woooosh

[@ArtColte]

@@lmao6234 r/ihavereddit oh and, r/im14andthisiswoooosh

[@megaascension2748]

"Famous Last Words" is one of my top ten favorite songs of all time. It's gotten me through many, many, dark times in my life. My only problem with it is that the songs can sometimes mush together. I only buy vinyl of albums I think are a 9 or 10/10. This is probably a 9.5/10. One of my favorite albums ever.

[@cookieintheinternet]

Also the vinyl cover art and the vinyl itself are beautiful, it's definitely worth having

[@TeaDrinker3000]

I SEE YOU LYING NEXT TO ME WITH WORDS I THOUGHT I'D NEVER SPEAK AWAKE AND UNAFRAID ASLEEP OR DEAD

[@sadsade1850]

Si javais le choix

[@eoghan.5003]

May I ask what your tens are?

[@megaascension2748]

@@eoghan.5003 A Thousand Suns by Linkin Park, The Dark Side of the Moon, Blood Sugar Sex Magik, American Idiot, and Vessel by Twenty One Pilots.

[@rushguy1]

My initial purchase of this album is one of my favorite memories. About a year after its initial release, I picked up a CD copy from Barnes & Noble. I stopped to get some lunch in the food court of the mall the store was attached to, and a couple of scene kids were standing next to me as I waited for my food. One of them saw what I had in my clear B&N bag, and he said, "Dude, you're gonna LOVE that album!" with a huge grin on his face. When I got home and listened to it, all I could think was, "He wasn't lying." One of my favorite albums of all time.

[@recklesslntent]

They’ve said teenagers doesn’t fit with the record. It was a necessary single but should have been standalone and not on the album

[@RJIS]

What if it’s about the patient thinking back to the bad times when he was a teen?

[@LuigiGamesful]

@@RJIS That's such a huge stretch though because none of the lyrics imply that

[@dreamofyouandi]

@@RJIS It’s still only tangentially related at best. You can draw ties all you want but the fact of the matter is it just doesnt fit with the overall narrative of overcoming death

[@user-yj7cu5sk2w]

@@RJIS yeah sure but even then that’s kinda shoe horning it in.

[@RJIS]

@@user-yj7cu5sk2w I kinda agree. Plus Black Parade is my least fave MCR album

[@w0joshcbrln0w]

I used to cry while sitting alone in the lunchroom too.

[@cannibalcris6875]

This has probably the first album I listened to front and back and fell in love with. It blows my mind how much of the Black Parades overall message went over people's heads tbh. The music videos and some lyrics were pretty straight forward. I may have moved on to a lot more heavier and nastier music, but this album always has a place in my heart as one of my all time favorites and don't care what anyone says.

[@angelobarros3499]

can relate, my first album to listen to as well as long with Evanescence's album, the one that contains bring me to life, which I can't even recall the name

[@linussundstrom1]

Same, I got the CD for Christmas back in 2006 after having heard Welcome to the Black Parade on some music list program on TV. It was the first album I owned and where my interest in music really got its start.

[@dimitrisbk800]

hey there man, would you be kind as recommending some of this heavier, nastier music for me 2 check out?

[@patrickcoyle1692]

It's cool seeing how other people share my experience on this. I remember hearing Black Parade on the radio as a kid and it stuck with me. I seeked it out when i was a bit older, decided to downloaded and the album. Listened to it twice in a row with my mouth hanging open XD

[@cannibalcris6875]

@@dimitrisbk800 Check out bandsike Agoraphobic Nosebleed, Impaled( Mondo Medicale is a good album), Chat Pile, Ghoul is a fun band to listen to, Nocturnus, Pig Destoryer, Go-Zen, Jig-AI, and Bolt Thrower.

[@elvislongo6148]

Dude, your 14 years late And that is what makes this better

[@TheMetalTempestYT]

What's funny is how he's wanted to do this for awhile, yet this is literally THE perfect time for a trendy topical review lol.

[@williwnl6287]

oh shit hey what's up lmfao

[@TheMetalTempestYT]

@@williwnl6287 yo will lmao

[@MadDannyWest]

real ones know that the actual last song on the album is "blood."

[@ikoandreas5085]

Issa bonus/hidden track

[@harrylane4]

@@ikoandreas5085 and that bonus? It's after the other tracks. Therefore, it's the last track

[@ikoandreas5085]

Harrison Lane yeah i guess youre right but i’m not gonna listen to blood when i’m listening to the album

[@Munimun]

> counting bonus tracks as part of the album experience no

[@straightXjessedge]

Disappointed that he only mentioned it once and very fleetingly.

[@fullmetal1666]

Finally, the "RAWRING 20s xD"

[@katkat6833]

Teriyaki Chicken666 this killed me

[@DTheAustralian]

WOW THIS AGED fine, just because things haven’t been great this year doesn’t mean we can be scene and emo again.

[@lily91109]

I'd recognize that face from anywhere... Moose man...

[@liamraine1]

Ban

[@Harlequeer]

That's so funny it made me angry

[@user-cl6fr7mq7l]

I’m glad to have this record as a starting point of my music taste

[@ros3m4ries]

Same here

[@Joshtapus]

t heard it when I was around 14 and formed my love for more modern music and not just 90s songs and prior music that my parents or the radio made me listen to

[@entimomenti7055]

Ah, no one ever mentions I Brought You My Bullets, You Brought Me Your Love. Like yeah its not really an album that youd think of with MCR, but like, its still a respectable album with some great songs. (I may be biased as its a personal favorite)

[@Myfukinusername]

Right?!!by far their best and noone talks about it ever

[@entimomenti7055]

@@Myfukinusername I mean to be fair, melon talked alot about black parades changes to their earlier sound so their first album isnt entirely relevant.

[@cyanide6461]

As much as I love Bullets (it has some of my favourite lyrical work), Gerard Way's vocals were still untrained and rough around the edges. Does it deserve more attention? Sure. But I can certainly see why some people don't really like it compared to the rest of the discography.

[@EpicNinjaEm]

My personal favorite song off that album is Demolition Lovers

[@FlyingV555]

enti momenti only album by MCR that I like.

[@abelramirez7320]

I'm so happy this got a classic review. To me this is my favorite rock album from the 2000s. Over Elephant, Is This It, and even In Rainbows. I love those albums, but I would absolutely take this over those. It was the first album that helped me appreciate music as an art. I was 12 when it came out and I had just began to learn guitar.

[@CaptnKrksNippls]

Anthony if you rip on Taking Back Sunday one more time my grandma and I are gonna have a serious problem with you

[@TheAntira]

anthony thinks "guilty pleasure" is a stupid concept but cant admit cute without the e is a great song

[@tomofthepops]

@@TheAntira love the acoustic version of that song so much.

[@ryankampel5921]

I think he was ripping more on the bands that tried to sound like TBS back in the day, at least in this review.

[@dam3717]

Ryan Kampel exactly

[@TheDoctorPink]

Goddamn fuckin right we are

[@bingusmode4650]

We’ve been building up to this all year.

[@joelowry1323]

Aubrey Holston it's been 6 days lol

[@Punkowski]

I love how you started with Three Cheers, as it shows the context of The Black Parade and how much of an evolution it was from their previous stuff. And I think you're review is spot on in revealing how My Chem was perceived during the mid-2000's by most people. I think it was mainly because they were surrounded by thousands of shitty warped tour bands in the same genre, and for some reason people like putting down a fanbase based on the half-brain stereotype of "their listeners are emotional 12-15 year old's so their music must suck..." BUT My Chem was clearly always in a tier of their own and actually had a VISION. Sometimes it just takes a decade for a band to get that recognition. The garbage bands fade into oblivion, and the bands that actually wrote great songs remain.

[@aurora1089]

I waited excitedly for a whole week and wasn’t disappointed one bit with the review. Hearing you talk so positively about my favourite album is so incredibly validating to me. I love this album SO much.

[@princelink6004]

Same bro

[@jlewjr]

To this day, still my favorite album and best concert I've ever attended. This, coming from a black dude from Chicago that grew up on hip hop and R&B.

[@oz_jones]

Hey, if the music hits, it hits hard.

[@Kodeb8]

Anyone else already loved this album and watched this video because they just wanted to hear someone praise it?

[@joewhite4456]

I'd imagine that's 90% of people...

[@luckymireles9950]

@@joewhite4456 most every comment I'm reading are about people just hearing it

[@HalfLifePlays]

In an interview with MCR they said that The End. was actually heavily inspired by Pink Floyd's In The Flesh? off The Wall. It's very easy to see the similarities.

[@luminatirecords3641]

And Mama has direct ties to The Trial

[@CatLives9]

I said the same. I don't hear David Bowie influences in that song at all. It was clearly modeled after "In the Flesh?".

[@milkydanny8316]

@@CatLives9 it literally has the exact same chords

[@madaydog7]

I hear similarities between the end and bowie's five years

[@scylla019]

It literally has the same chords and also the “five years” chant by backing vocals followed by the lead singer is the same as the “save me” chant.

[@parkergreen936]

I felt like Teenagers sort of tied in to the childhood/teenage narrative we see in Disenchanted, almost as if the protagonist is flashing back to his own “emo middle/high school days”. Just like an “outcast” or “emo” kid, they hate and are scared of their fellow teenagers, who viciously bully them while also remaining “cogs in the machine” of the real world’s conformity and cleanliness. This (imo) is the climactic area of the album where MCR invite their teenage fans (who have not lived anything close to a full life) to identify with the narrative, saving the inspirational “Famous Last Words” for the end as a plea to be brave and choose life instead of suicide or self-harm.

[@jasonjames6383]

I'm > 40 years old, I only heard this album for the first time about 3 years ago when I found the cd for $2 in a second hand shop. This album has no connection to my youth but this is a great album.

[@nojaynojay]

my mans gave it a 7 before the video started

[@MrDussek]

NOJAY he said fuck it and made me mad before the intro even finished

[@multiplecigsgirlrot]

he said in a stream its at least an 8 so no fear

[@LordLucario99]

Zero Scorpio he said "9 or a 10" in another stream

[@multiplecigsgirlrot]

@@LordLucario99 okay i feel even safer

[@LordLucario99]

markanthmore lowkey he had enough little criticisms that I could believe you if you cut it off at the end and told me it was a "strong 7" review

[@rowanjeffree1094]

Anthony, I know you've been getting a lot of racism accusations recently, but there really is no need to refer to this album as "the parade of colour"

[@Gooong]

"WHITE! BOI! WHITE! BOI!"

[@lowsyawe]

Rowan Jeffree Godtier comment sire

[@rev8247]

I'm pretty sure this review was to celebrate the fact that MCR is back babbyyyyy

[@e1ki]

so is the igor review coming anytime soon? the record came out last year and i really wanna hear your opinion on it

[@ThinkpieceTribe]

elki you mean the nigor review?

[@wokestdrainer]

LJ 4 cringe bro

[@swagmaster6973]

@@wokestdrainer no you're cringe, BRO

[@d6zzy361]

he still has to work on the wolf review bro

[@cherryyoshi]

@@d6zzy361 he still has to do his bastard review

[@armandbiro2954]

Omfg. Finally. I discovered this album/band exactly a year ago, and I personally _loved_ this record. I listened to songs from it or even the whole thing almost every day for like 10 months. In the great times, in the hard times. I always felt it was something special (even most reviews say it's a classic), but there were also people who didn't think so high of it. Same with Three Cheers, which I discovered in around October. But it doesn't matter now. Finally. This. Is so. Validating.

[@themostdiabolicalhater5986]

When I was a Youngthony Boytano

[@reginalicea6860]

Kinda rude when you appeared on the comeback concert of MCR to give Gerard a light to decent 5 for his actual look. Subscribed

[@TheHedgehogGiraffe]

Thank you for the praise on Three Cheers. It's my favorite MCR album and I feel like it can get overshadowed a bit just because of how good TBP is, so its nice to hear someone acknowledge it.

[@veryuncoolguy8045]

finally, the lord has spoken his opinion.

[@nopizzawithoutpineapple]

Our opinion, you mean

[@veryuncoolguy8045]

@@nopizzawithoutpineapple Of course

[@NateTheMateForever]

These guys sound FIRE LIT, can’t wait to check out this album

[@delloroverninjacomeatmefor6911]

Hi Nate

[@milkydanny8316]

hello nate

[@aaronflorian8150]

hola nate

[@tbslandfill]

NATE

[@JoshucaVA]

Talofa Nathaniel

[@CatLives9]

"The End" sounded more like Pink Floyd's track "In the Flesh?" from "The Wall" than anything from Bowie. "The Black Parade" was, imo, MCR being inspired by Pink Floyd's "The Wall" and maybe a bit of Smashing Pumpkins' "Melon Collie..".

[@tessa68]

Feline Fatale I agree and find that “Mama” is reminiscent of “The Trial”

[@hisham_hm]

whereas Mellon Collie was explicitly designed to be Smashing Pumpkins's The Wall

[@anzupara8215]

in the flesh was actually the inspiration for the end!

[@Punkowski]

Listen to "Five Years" by David Bowie and then "The End".... nearly identical chords, melodies, and structure. So while it may feel more like a Pink Floyd than Bowie overall, I think it's a pretty direct nod to "Five Years" which was also an album opener on the Ziggy Stardust album. At the end of each song the vocal performances are basically the same... Bowie: "Five years, what a surprise", MCR: "Save me, too young to die"....

[@luisstardust]

@@Punkowski You're absolutely right

[@tomofthepops]

Glad you gave three cheers the praise it deserves.

[@merelymayhem]

When the bright eyes and against me albums where mentioned I realized again how old they are, I listend to it just today and will never get over fevers and mirrors

[@manamiaya]

fevers and mirrors is the best thing to ever grace this earth. i love it so much

[@mall7202]

I was obsessed with Green Day when American Idiot came out. I was 13 and I listened to that album and jumped around my bedroom for hours every day for months on end. They then came to town in Cleveland and my cousin and I went to our first show. My Chemical Romance opened up and blew my miiiind! (So did Green Day, one of the best nights of my life)...Three Cheers for Sweet Revenge became my new obsession (their first album I Brought You My Bullets... is a banger, as well), followed by the even better Black Parade album and I still love them so very much to this day. I bought my first guitar through their inspiration and danced around my house pretending I was Frank Iero (I still do sometimes : ) ). Thanks for sending love to the band, my friends used to give me so much shit about it haha (they listened to Fugazi, Modest Mouse, Primus--the "cooler" stuff, which I also loved) , but I knew that one day MCR would be appreciated because they're undeniably awesome. That day has come and I am old and I'm so friggin' stoked to go be an old person at their reunion tour!!! I wrote too much!

[@WilliamMaranciMashups]

Review Soulja Boy’s debut album next

[@Redh3adTheRedFox]

When I was young my friend gave me a CD copy of the black parade and told me to give it a try and I said I would. And all these years since I still haven’t listened to the record. It’s currently in my closet sitting there collecting dust, but after hearing everything that you said in the review, maybe I should finally give it a shot...

[@meilirima9597]

Have you checked it out yet?

[@gabehamptondrums]

do it for the love of god

[@rossross9281]

ЯEDH3AD The Red Fox you probably should give your friend his CD back 🤦‍♂️

[@sofiapaakkonen3731]

How was it?

[@internetgoat4831]

It should've been under my care

[@sageisnotaplant99]

My favorite band ever. So glad people are finally openly coming around to them and appreciating them for the awesome musicians that they are

[@DrSpikeSpiegel]

He actually did it, the absolute madman.

[@divingstation95]

it's not on this album but I just want to say that Helena is one of the best rock songs of the 00s

[@gachajake5000]

LMFAO's Party Rock Anthen Classic Review NOW

[@sleepyontime5513]

Three cheers is my favorite i love it. I mean it’s so dramatic, the creativity behind the backstory ,THE SONGS, THAT TRANSITION BETWEEN GHOST OF YOU AND THE JETSET LIFE. Just beautiful

[@anchorbubba]

"Internet porn takes forever to download" best reason why internet progress is a good thing

[@TheCanihavaname]

This is so validating to my inner 9 year old

[@AceAttorny]

"Internet porn takes forever to download." Anthony confirmed coomer.

[@chloe6844]

Anti Life what hair it’s just fleshy brown grass at this point

[@pooly440]

The black patch on his right says “SIMP”. Welcome to Simp Nation, Anthony 😩👊✊😭 👑

[@koke1440]

Bruh he has a wife

[@BidoMaggot]

What does simp mean

[@dylanspillin]

Mags suckas idolizing mediocre pussy

[@indiaxlovee]

DYLN DS what if you just love a respectable woman that loves you? Is that still simping?

[@dylanspillin]

jagir no because that’s not mediocre, that’s a girl you actually like my guy

[@paulmoore5392]

Man,wasn't expecting that Dresden Dolls shout out. Just discovered them not too long ago and love them. Also since you mentioned it, classic review for Dookie plz?

[@moonoom764]

Dooooookie

[@LaraSomaschini7018]

YESSSS DOOKIEEE

[@ApolloDoesit]

My mom graduated with the keyboard player, James Dewees. He's a cool guy, from what I hear.

[@jefferyjones8399]

I had some friends at the time who felt like My Chemical Romance was beneath them. I got into them around the same time I got into Green Day, Coheed and Cambria, Taking Back Sunday, Fall Out Boy, The Used, AFI, etc. A year or two later when I started getting into more critically acclaimed stuff... and yes, I started reading Pitchfork which I think made me way more snobby than I had once been. However, I still listened to MCR alongside more "acceptable" indie rock bands like The Strokes, Arcade Fire, Modest Mouse, Franz Ferdinand, Animal Collective, etc. I've always been such an unapologetic fan of the band. There's something about them that still resonates with me to this day. The Black Parade is one of favorite albums from the 2000s. I still adore the bombastic and over-the-top classic rock influence of the record. It's poignant without being saccharine, theatrical without being gaudy.

[@atrac87]

Agreed. I think their aesthetic as a band was really what put people off, irrespective to the music. It was akin to an 80s band with eyeliner and elaborate outfits with emo hair, but had a heavy queen influence. Its just one of those things where people were put off more by image than music.

[@midnightchaseproject]

Arcade Fire is just as emo as MCR. I love Neon Bible. It is a great album but it literally has the same messages as Chuck, or Underclass Hero by Sum 41, just articulated "a little better." Snobs will always get sillier as time goes on.

[@midnightchaseproject]

By the way, there's a pitchfork documentary on the making of microcastle where Bradford Cox says he's hoping that his band will help people who like MCR to get into his taste in music, then a few years later Gerard Way confidently outDeerhuntered Deerhunter with his amazing solo record. I'm sure there's a ton of people as mad as me on here but hopefully it's all in good fun.

[@midnightchaseproject]

@paula I hear you, but I grew up loving those records while knowing that they're not perfect. I will never agree that Underclass Hero is garbage as it has way too many bangers and righteous statements (about actually having a shit childhood, and the futility of society, and the "I'm turning to alcohol" song written by, retrospectively speakig, the perfect writer for such a song: a naive alcoholic) to register as garbage to me. Yeah the sad songs are all the same, but it's still a good song that sounds like he meant what he wrote. He was totally attempting to do something like The Black Parade at times, and I wish he made it even more personal rather than so commercially focussed, but his lyrics have always been composed of buzzwords. Even though he was naive he tried, and holy Shit did he try.

[@JoeTheProGamer]

*Emo flashbacks whenever the G-note is played*

[@allihusk6519]

Imagine thinking TBP is emo

[@FabulousKilljoy]

iamdoriian I KNOW. It still bothers me

[@Aya_02571]

iamdoriian When it comes to them, they seem more like an alternative rock band with gothy as hell makeup, to me at least.

[@jadesmediacorner]

iamdoriian The song itself may not be emo, but the emo crowd played the fuck out of it tho. Gerard himself said their music is not emo and that he hates emo music and that they’re just rock.

[@dovecushymarry]

@@allihusk6519 Exactly they aren't emo they are kek but definitely not emo