Product Description

Third album from the New Jersey emo-punk titans, following 2004's 'Three Cheers For Sweet Revenge', swaps the grand guignol concept of that album for an even more ambitious one following the story's protagonist into death and beyond. Produced by Rob Cavallo (Green Day's 'American Idiot'), this marks an ambitious progression for the band and goes far beyond the scope of mere "punk", encompassing the pomp and theatricality of 70s pop and prog rock. Includes the single 'WelcomeTo The Black Parade'.

Track Listing

1. End
2. Dead
3. This Is How I Disappear
4. Sharpest Lives
5. Welcome To The Black Parade
6. I Don't Love You
7. House Of Wolves
8. Cancer
9. Mama
10. Sleep
11. Teenagers
12. Disenchanted
13. Famous Last Words

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #452 in Music
• Released on: 2006-10-23
• Number of discs: 1
• Format: Explicit Lyrics

Amazon.co.uk Review
Emo might be swiftly shaping up to be the sound of disenfranchised 21st Century youth, but one listen to The Black Parade raises serious doubts that the genre will prove big enough to contain My Chemical Romance. The third studio album from this New Jersey quintet breaks new ground in grandiosity, an ambitious parade of passionate emotional hardcore, political ire and pantomime frivolity set to a scope seldom seen since the days of Queen. Any moping is short-lived: frontman Gerard Way might sing "If you look in the mirror and don't like what you see/You can find out firsthand what it's like to be me" on the opening "The End", but it's really just a new beginning, the band sweeping back a curtain to reveal a suite of frantically enjoyable outsider anthems. Importantly, MCR have a humour many of their peers lack: "Mama", featuring guest vocals from Liza Minnelli, appears to be a satire of the Iraq war set to a jumpy polka beat; meanwhile, the Hoodie Generation gets its own tongue-in-cheek anthem with "Teenagers" ("They said all/Teenagers scare/The living **** out of me"). Impassioned, inspired and amusing, The Black Parade takes the bar set by Green Day's American Idiot and raises it one notch higher.--Louis Pattison

Customer Reviews

SO COOL!
This was the first My Chem album I bought. I was pulled in by "Teenagers" and "Welcome to the black parade" immediatly, but I actually took the plunge and bought the album two years after it's release. If I hadn't bought it that day, I don't know where I'd be now.
THIS CD ROCKS!!! BUY IT NOW!!!

The best My Chemical Romance album so far
This is definetly my favorite MCR album so far. The fast moving music, powerful introspective lyrics and awesome guitar solos make this a must have.
Containing such wonderful and well known tracks as Welcome to the Black Parade, I Don't Love You, Teenagers and Famous Last Words. The album is a mixture of different sounds from the gentle, emotional tracks such as I Don't Love You (track 6) and Disenchanted (track 12), the fast hard hitting tracks like Dead (track 2) and Teenagers (track 11) to the fun little tunes like The End (track 1) and Mama (track 9). This albums got it all. The best album so far.

Accessible to a lot
Well, I like a myriad of music from Dance to Rock, to pop & Classical. I bought this album in a minute of madness not really having heard of MCR, and on the back of hearing only one song(and what a truly great minute that was),I must say - it hasn't come out of my car stereo. It's one of the best albums I've heard in a long time. Now admitedly I'm not all up with the technicalities of rifts and chords but I know what I like, and this is one great album.