My Chemical Romance puts a new spin on their old image and takes a risk with their third album, The Black Parade<\/i>, by moving away from the hard rock sound of 2004\u2019s Three Cheers For Sweet Revenge<\/i> toward a more theatrical, Broadway style of music. <\/p>\n
The Black Parade<\/i> tells the story of \u2018The Patient,\u2019 a man dying at a young age of an illness. The idea of the record is that death will come for everyone in the form of their strongest memory; in the case of The Patient, death comes in the form of a parade in the city that his father took him to when he was a boy. The story is told from various points of view — The Patient himself and other characters in the parade — as he reviews his life and realizes that he wasted too much of it and wishes he could have another chance. <\/p>\n
Thanks to producer Rob Cavallo, My Chemical Romance is able to bring many different features to the album to help it come to life: string sections, a marching band, Jamie Muhoberac as a supporting member on the The final beats of a hospital heart monitor usher in the first song, \u201cThe End.\u201d The music kicks in and is followed by a whirlwind of lively choruses, dark lyrics, classic guitar solos and various effects that make it a great song. Singer and lyricist Gerard Way\u00a0credits legendary albums such as Sgt. Pepper\u2019s Lonely Heart\u2019s Club Band<\/i>, The Wall<\/i> and A Night At The Opera<\/i> as his influences here, and it shows. <\/p>\n Songs like \u201cHouse of Wolves,\u201d \u201cThe Sharpest Lives,\u201d \u201cDead!\u201d and \u201cTeenagers\u201d are particularly striking for their skillful lyrics, melodies and cohesion. Although the band may stumble with the choice of emotion in songs like \u201cDisenchanted,\u201d which seems out of character, they manage to pull it off with interesting tunes and vocal maneuvers. <\/p>\n Arguably the strongest song on the album is \u201cCancer,\u201d a poignant testimony told from the perspective of a cancer patient, with such hauntingly descriptive lyrics as, \u201cCall my Aunt Marie \/ help her gather all my things and bury me in all my favorite colors \/ My sisters and my brothers, still, I will not kiss you \/ because the hardest part of this is leaving you.\u201d <\/p>\n The Black Parade<\/i> serves as a sharp contrast to the band\u2019s first CD, I Brought You My <\/i>Bullets, You Brought Me Your Love<\/i>, not only because original drummer Matt Pelissier is gone, but because Way has given up drugs and alcohol. Several songs here document his struggles: \u201cThe Sharpest Lives\u201d reveals this with lyrics like \u201cI\u2019ve really been on a bender and it shows \/ Give me a shot to remember, and you can take all the pain away from me \/ The sharpest lives are the deadliest to lead.\u201d <\/p>\n The album masterfully combines special effects (eerie voices opening and closing \u201cSleep\u201d with recollections of night terrors, for example), imagery, creative lyrics and impressive music to create an epic record for our generation. Some have already called this the best rock album of the year, and that’s not too far off, as the band’s desire to deviate from its preconceived image makes The Black Parade<\/i> worth investing in — and possibly fodder for a Broadway musical. Liza Minnelli can sing lead. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":58,"featured_media":28550,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"artist":[7843],"rating":[5613],"class_list":["post-40017","review","type-review","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","artist-my-chemical-romance","rating-rating-a-minus"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review\/40017","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/review"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/58"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40017"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review\/40017\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28550"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40017"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"artist","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/artist?post=40017"},{"taxonomy":"rating","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rating?post=40017"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}