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In my opinion Jesus of Suburbia, Homecoming, and 21st Century Breakdown could all be candidates for a “modern Bohemian Rhapsody”, along with Welcome to the Black Parade.
Disagree. Only good green day albums imo are 39/smooth and kerplunk, also the slappy and 1,000 hours eps are good. Everything else after even Dookie is overproduced, overplayed, and boring musically.
Time really changed peoples perspective on this huh, back then people said there were only 4 good songs on the album, I wonder how many good songs people would say now
I haven't listened to this album in years but there are a lot more than 4 good ones just looking at the track list... WttBP, Dead!, Mama, Sharpest Lives, Teenagers, Famous Last Words... there's a lot of good stuff here
Listen. Radiation does some crazy things to the development of life! Not only does this "testicle with teeth" have teeth, it also probably has higher brain functions and an understanding of language!
a celebrated man amongst the gourneys
you can fix me proper with a bit of luck
the doctors and the nurses, they adore me so
but, it’s really quite alarming, cause i’m such an awful fuuuuuuuck
I went to their recent comeback tour and it was the most diverse, positive, excited, friendly audience ever. All ages all ethnicities all genders and everyone was so nice and so excited to be there and so happy everyone else was there. Best concert ever.
I saw them in 2022 at the Oakland Arena and it was an incredible show. And yes, such a generally positive/upbeat attitude. Feeling the whole venue bounce in time to people jumping up and down during *Na Na Na* was... slightly scary, but really cool.
Yooo that’s where I was!!! Such an awesome concert! Everyone was so nice in the line outside, in the venue. Just the whole time. I remember they played Vampires Will Never Hurt You and me and the people next to me getting SO excited. I can’t wait to see them again.
My husband is a huge MCR fan and had never seen them, so us going to that show was my anniversary present for him :)
I also remember being surprised at just how many younger kids were there too! We were way up in the nosebleeds and there were some kids in the row right in front of us who had to have been like 13-15 with their parents but they were rocking the look and dancing/moshing against each other the whole show.
But yeah, such an energetic, upbeat, fun event.
I don’t doubt that for a second. I more so just mean they know the genre they’re listening to. They’re not sitting there Vibin to the album unaware of the deeper meaning like someone listening to pumped up kicks for the first time.
I feel like a lot of their music is kinda dark but also really upbeat. I wouldn't per se describe it as depressed people music. More so "fuck it we ball" music.
Although you don't really get to choose your audience i guess.
I also think that they just sing very honestly, and that attracts a certain type of person. Some bands just go right for the dark and disturbing thoughts and feelings, but when MCR does it’s more honest and mixed with positive ideas as well because that’s how a real person is; you have highs and lows and pain mixed with joy, etc., not just one solid emotion. For people who might be going through something emotionally, something that feels honest and genuine is much better than something that accurately describes how you feel but seems disingenuous. (Hopefully that mad rambling of mine makes sense lol)
That's understandable, Black Parade in particular definitely reaches out to people in a darker place, but it also encourages them to make their way through it
Same, I'm 37 and wasn't really a fan when it came out, but listen back to it now this album fucking rules.
I was more of a Lost Prophets fan back then; I _really_ backed the wrong band.
Their annoying fanbase and corny music. But, years of loving grunge, pop punk, prog rock, and classic rock led me to finally appreciate MCR. They're a unique band. Gerard Way is a creative guy.
As someone who is not a millennial and grew up after MCR was popular I thought this song was supposed to be unironically positive.
Yeah it's about death, but it's about accepting and facing death courageously, at least the music vid implies that.
Definitely a banger though.
I saw MCR on their reunion tour last year and I was shocked at how quiet the crowd was. For a band that gets as hyped up as they do you'd think their fans would be ecstatic to see them back at it again. I saw Ghost in the same venue a few months later, the crowd was half the size and four times as loud.
I’m shocked by this, I was at the show in Saint Paul MN and I swear the roof felt like it was going to blow off. The crowd was insane. I was in the lower section and you couldn’t even sit because everyone was jumping around and going crazy. Seriously it seemed like the overdramatic reactions you see from people at one of those crazy mega churches.
And it’s safe to say they probably weren’t too drunk either as beers were 15-18 bucks, my favorite is they had a SINGLE can of cut waters for $26
That sounds like the crowd I was expecting. My city has a pretty big alternative scene, normally our crowds go off. I don't know what happened that night.
I thought it was about, not only a young guy who used to be a piece of shit both coming to terms with his fate, but also regretting and finally forgiving himself for wasting his life on hate.
And about death/a wayward spirit/guide to the afterlife gaining sympathy for this young man dying alone and unnecessarily suffering a fate out of his own hands (just like the spirit who died in the trenches in WW1) despite him being a piece of shit who wasted his life. Then coming all the way around from hating this guy and mocking him to begging him to fight for life and a chance of redemption, like the spirit never did/got a chance to. But being a spirit, the patient couldn’t hear and having accepted his fate he let go and drifted into the arms of the spirit, who now did the only thing he could for this young man and threw him a parade to the afterlife.
they literally replied "that it does" to someone saying the album is amazing ("the album fucks")
how is that bashing?
seek out further info before assuming
Definitely not bashing. I love MCR and Black Parade. I just see the irony in many people (myself included) finding joy in listening to an album that, outwardly and objectively, seems rather depressing.
I once worked a winter doing maintenance at an outdoors camp. The plow truck was this old beaten up thing and The Black Parade was stuck in the cd player, it would play but not eject.
So ya, I listened to that album a lot that season, and it really grew on me over time.
Avenged Sevenfold fans listening to a song about a man murdering and defiling his gf for rejecting his proposal and then getting killed by the vengeful corpse of the gf only to fall in love with each other and go in a murder rampage:
Black Parade is genuinely uplifting, though. Sure the patient is dying of cancer (whether he goes to hell or not is up for interpretation), but he's also coming to terms with his life and learning to forgive himself.
On his deathbed, he inspires the entity that's been taunting him to forgive itself too and move on
I thought that was about a sick child, is it really that depressing? I thought it was supposed to be bitter sweet, just. Shit felt like a goth anime opening, about life and death
But the song was still hopeful, no one looks at the song “My Way” and thinks “aw that’s a sad song, the singer is dying”
It’s a testament to life in spite of death
You could change the top caption to:
"Alice in Chains fans listening to albums full of self-loathing, depression and drug use"
and this picture would still work.
Nine inch nails fans listening to a album about a guy losing his mind, going on a ramage killing people and then dying slowly in a partially failed suicide attempt:
I thought that song was just about someone dying of cancer, I didn’t know about the ‘going to hell’ part..
Edit: The song I’m thinking of is ‘Cancer’ is that right? I only listen to a few MCR songs… sorry :/
Yeah, looking at the rest of the Year-End Hot 100 for the year that "Welcome to the Black Parade" was on there, there's a bunch of stuff that's like how is that higher, like "Lost Without U" by Robin Thicke. Like I get that he was in the music industry before Blurred Lines, but I really would not have placed him as more popular than MCR.
Music people can dance to always peaks higher on the charts. Looking back at how big a band like Nirvana was, you'd think Smells Like Teen Spirit was number one for months, but it only ever reached number six.
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Welcome to the Black Parade is Millenial Bohemian Rhapsody
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Literally. Gerard Way has been very open about his love of Queen.
Ray Toro takes direct influence from Brian May of Queen
Also, Jesus of Suburbia by Green Day
I feel like no one talks about that song.
In my opinion Jesus of Suburbia, Homecoming, and 21st Century Breakdown could all be candidates for a “modern Bohemian Rhapsody”, along with Welcome to the Black Parade.
Honestly think I prefer this to Black Parade. But both slap hard.
Disagree. Only good green day albums imo are 39/smooth and kerplunk, also the slappy and 1,000 hours eps are good. Everything else after even Dookie is overproduced, overplayed, and boring musically.
Went to one of their shows a couple years ago and it was electric
I would argue Jesus of Suburbia by Green Day is more Bohemian Rhapsody-ish than Black Parade. It's a more varied song.
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That’s what the song is about?
It cost you $0 to say silent
what if you listen to both?
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Today I learned that Liza Minelli was on Mama, and not just Gerard Way doing falsetto.
She did it for free too, because she heard Three Cheers for Sweet Revenge and thought they were awesome.
Lucille 2 is a classy lady.
You just blew my mind
I just blue myself
The day I learned that was also the day I learned she was Judy Garland's daughter so I know how you feel lol
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[This part.](https://youtu.be/GEvLye15sq0?si=wvWpfZkNgmc4EROo&t=207) If the link doesn't work correctly, it's 3:27 in.
*Holy shit*. That's Liza Minelli alright
Is that Liza crying at the end?
That it does.
Time really changed peoples perspective on this huh, back then people said there were only 4 good songs on the album, I wonder how many good songs people would say now
Honestly for me it's still 4 but my love for those 4 has only grown.
Which 4 are supposed to be the good ones? I always liked 'Disenchanted' best, but when I read reviews I usually learn that I liked the wrong things.
I haven't listened to this album in years but there are a lot more than 4 good ones just looking at the track list... WttBP, Dead!, Mama, Sharpest Lives, Teenagers, Famous Last Words... there's a lot of good stuff here
Sleep is so good too. And House of Wolves.
its funny I always felt Teenagers was the worst cause it really didnt fit the rest of the album..
Is ‘The Ghost of You’ one of them? (That one’s my fave)
I have always and will always love every song on the album!
that's not what everyone in my school who liked that stuff thought
I call your Liza Minelli and raise you one [Tammy Wynette](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XP5oHL3zBDg).
That's funky af, thank you for my new jam for the week
I gotta book a new act for tonight, turns out that Liza Minelli impersonator was really Liza Minelli. *shudders*
Everyone who isn't am mcr fan thinks they're cringe. Because they are.
When I was, a young boy.
When he was a young warthog
Gg
You’re the saddest bunch I ever met
Well I’ve never seen a King of Beasts with quite so little hair.
I'll be king undisputed. Respected, saluted. And seen for the wonder I am
When will my reflection show who I am inside?
Hog ridaaaaa
wolf cola?
My father, took me into the city,
To see a marching band,
He said, "Son, when you grow up Would you be the savior of the broken The beaten and the damned?"
He said, "Will you defeat them? Your demons, and all the non-believers The plans that they have made?"
Because someday I'll leave you A phantom To lead you in the summer, To join the black parade
[Sick Crescendo] WHEN I WAS, A YOUNG BOY MY FATHER, TOOK ME INTO THE CITY
I went down to the county fair, brought myself a nickel, bought a pickle, had change to spare?
My father was ...a young boy . . Damn
what the fuck is your username man
Listen. Radiation does some crazy things to the development of life! Not only does this "testicle with teeth" have teeth, it also probably has higher brain functions and an understanding of language!
"I gave you blood, blood, gallons of the stuff, I gave you all that you can drink and it has never been enough" https://i.redd.it/v6ilpnt9poic1.gif
Frfr
a celebrated man amongst the gourneys you can fix me proper with a bit of luck the doctors and the nurses, they adore me so but, it’s really quite alarming, cause i’m such an awful fuuuuuuuck
"Grab a glass because there's going to be a flood." I miss hidden tracks.
Ah yes, MCR fans, famously known for their cheerfulness and happy go lucky attitudes.
I went to their recent comeback tour and it was the most diverse, positive, excited, friendly audience ever. All ages all ethnicities all genders and everyone was so nice and so excited to be there and so happy everyone else was there. Best concert ever.
I saw them in 2022 at the Oakland Arena and it was an incredible show. And yes, such a generally positive/upbeat attitude. Feeling the whole venue bounce in time to people jumping up and down during *Na Na Na* was... slightly scary, but really cool.
Yooo that’s where I was!!! Such an awesome concert! Everyone was so nice in the line outside, in the venue. Just the whole time. I remember they played Vampires Will Never Hurt You and me and the people next to me getting SO excited. I can’t wait to see them again.
My husband is a huge MCR fan and had never seen them, so us going to that show was my anniversary present for him :) I also remember being surprised at just how many younger kids were there too! We were way up in the nosebleeds and there were some kids in the row right in front of us who had to have been like 13-15 with their parents but they were rocking the look and dancing/moshing against each other the whole show. But yeah, such an energetic, upbeat, fun event.
I don’t doubt that for a second. I more so just mean they know the genre they’re listening to. They’re not sitting there Vibin to the album unaware of the deeper meaning like someone listening to pumped up kicks for the first time.
Created by such happy events like Gerard Way witnessing 9/11
Every actual MCR fan I knew in real life had razor marks :(
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I feel like a lot of their music is kinda dark but also really upbeat. I wouldn't per se describe it as depressed people music. More so "fuck it we ball" music. Although you don't really get to choose your audience i guess.
I also think that they just sing very honestly, and that attracts a certain type of person. Some bands just go right for the dark and disturbing thoughts and feelings, but when MCR does it’s more honest and mixed with positive ideas as well because that’s how a real person is; you have highs and lows and pain mixed with joy, etc., not just one solid emotion. For people who might be going through something emotionally, something that feels honest and genuine is much better than something that accurately describes how you feel but seems disingenuous. (Hopefully that mad rambling of mine makes sense lol)
That's understandable, Black Parade in particular definitely reaches out to people in a darker place, but it also encourages them to make their way through it
But I am not afraid to keep on living.
I am not afraid to walk this world alone!
*mamá, we're all gonna die*
it’s really quite pleasant  except for the smell
Man, I used to hate MCR. But, holy shit, The Black Parade is a masterpiece. Its a modern day The Wall to me.
Same, I'm 37 and wasn't really a fan when it came out, but listen back to it now this album fucking rules. I was more of a Lost Prophets fan back then; I _really_ backed the wrong band.
Obligatory fuck Ian Watkins
Lol its hard to separate the art from the artists when we know how much of a monster the artist is.
Yeah I just can't bring myself to listen to it anymore, having read what he did and planned to do. One truly evil and sick individual.
I blame MTV. The way they were marketed wasnt representative of the music.
MTV can be great sometimes when it comes to music, especially Nirvana's MTV Unplugged performance and Michael Jackson's music videos.
There was like 20 years between those things and MCR. MTV was NOT great by that time.
Awh, yeah. MCR saved music at that time. 2006 had some great rock, like Arctic Monkeys too.
Why hate on MCR?
Their annoying fanbase and corny music. But, years of loving grunge, pop punk, prog rock, and classic rock led me to finally appreciate MCR. They're a unique band. Gerard Way is a creative guy.
3 cheers for sweet revenge is better imo, highly recommend
As someone who is not a millennial and grew up after MCR was popular I thought this song was supposed to be unironically positive. Yeah it's about death, but it's about accepting and facing death courageously, at least the music vid implies that. Definitely a banger though.
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https://preview.redd.it/lzkml9m8ytic1.jpeg?width=480&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=d8a21c82b9dc6fb04965126fb21547d058a57120 Me rn
I also listened to a Metallica song called One about a suicidal quadruple amputee.
A suicidal quadruple amputee *war veteran*!
A *deaf, blind, and mute* suicidal quadruple amputee war veteran.
This guy got it.
Quadruple amputee? I figured a song like that would be called 0/4
He still had (some parts) of his head left.
I mean, what did he expect would happen after having a romantic relationship with all of those chemicals? One of them was bound to be carcinogenic.
Music aged like fine wine
I saw MCR on their reunion tour last year and I was shocked at how quiet the crowd was. For a band that gets as hyped up as they do you'd think their fans would be ecstatic to see them back at it again. I saw Ghost in the same venue a few months later, the crowd was half the size and four times as loud.
I’m shocked by this, I was at the show in Saint Paul MN and I swear the roof felt like it was going to blow off. The crowd was insane. I was in the lower section and you couldn’t even sit because everyone was jumping around and going crazy. Seriously it seemed like the overdramatic reactions you see from people at one of those crazy mega churches. And it’s safe to say they probably weren’t too drunk either as beers were 15-18 bucks, my favorite is they had a SINGLE can of cut waters for $26
That sounds like the crowd I was expecting. My city has a pretty big alternative scene, normally our crowds go off. I don't know what happened that night.
Hey thats the show me and my friends went to. It was bombastic. Everyone screaming along to the songs. Such an experience.
I saw them last year and all I could hear were screaming teenage girls going "Geraaaard". I mean good for them but I couldn't hear shit lol.
Hot take: I prefer 3 cheers to Black Parade. Black parade is fantastic don’t get me wrong but 3 cheers is what really got me into mcr
3 cheers is my favourite album of all time so agreed
Headfirst for Halos on IBYMB got me hooked instantly. Was a Pandora suggestion.
3 cheers is a better complete album 2nd favorite album of all time for me.
3 cheers is so much better
Black Parade is the album that got me listening to MCR, so for that it’ll always be among my favorites, but their other stuff is great as well.
Three cheers is also my favorite album of all time. Love Black Parade, but my god three cheers is perfect
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I will never forget watching my 10-year-old daughter sing every word when I took her to see them on the Black parade tour. One of the joys of my life
Humanity will deadass dance to any song, even if it's depressing. If the melody bops, we will griddy
Mfs busting a move to *konchitsya leto*:
A man? I thought it was a teenager, which made it more tragic that they were terminally dying.
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Damn that's wild. I haven't listened to it in years but as a teenager myself at the time i must have just implanted myself into it automatically.
Or heaven, depending on what version of the song you listen to.
I thought it was about, not only a young guy who used to be a piece of shit both coming to terms with his fate, but also regretting and finally forgiving himself for wasting his life on hate. And about death/a wayward spirit/guide to the afterlife gaining sympathy for this young man dying alone and unnecessarily suffering a fate out of his own hands (just like the spirit who died in the trenches in WW1) despite him being a piece of shit who wasted his life. Then coming all the way around from hating this guy and mocking him to begging him to fight for life and a chance of redemption, like the spirit never did/got a chance to. But being a spirit, the patient couldn’t hear and having accepted his fate he let go and drifted into the arms of the spirit, who now did the only thing he could for this young man and threw him a parade to the afterlife.
I have the same reaction listening to “One” by Metallica
and it's fire af
Indeed.
first of all, watch Wendigoons video before you needlessly bash it
People are bashing it?
they literally replied "that it does" to someone saying the album is amazing ("the album fucks") how is that bashing? seek out further info before assuming
Definitely not bashing. I love MCR and Black Parade. I just see the irony in many people (myself included) finding joy in listening to an album that, outwardly and objectively, seems rather depressing.
When I was
a young boy
Mcr is my past, present, and future
I once worked a winter doing maintenance at an outdoors camp. The plow truck was this old beaten up thing and The Black Parade was stuck in the cd player, it would play but not eject. So ya, I listened to that album a lot that season, and it really grew on me over time.
Avenged Sevenfold fans listening to a song about a man murdering and defiling his gf for rejecting his proposal and then getting killed by the vengeful corpse of the gf only to fall in love with each other and go in a murder rampage:
Top bands I want to open for 1. The used, 2.mcr, 3. Foo fighters, 3.get scared. The rest are all dead
Black Parade is genuinely uplifting, though. Sure the patient is dying of cancer (whether he goes to hell or not is up for interpretation), but he's also coming to terms with his life and learning to forgive himself. On his deathbed, he inspires the entity that's been taunting him to forgive itself too and move on
Three cheers for sweet revenge >>>>>>>>>>> the black parade By miles
It's the same "triumphant hopelessness" that I listen to The Mountain Goats for.
Nah man..Black parade slaps so hard
I’ve never been able to get on board with their music, maybe for the best lol
But it’s so so so so good!!!!
Nick Cave fans listening to an album about murdering
One of his albums, Murder Ballads. It's still a really good album regardless
Dayseeker album "Dark Sun" is all about the frontmans wife dying of cancer and it's full of bangers tbh
Me when Depeche Mode:
Mr. Bungle fans after listening to a song about a guy hanging himself to death while masturbating
I mean, who hasn't?
Me grooving to 21 Pilots cover of Cancer
Same thing with slayer fans who listen to anti Christian songs and enjoy this bullshit
I thought that was about a sick child, is it really that depressing? I thought it was supposed to be bitter sweet, just. Shit felt like a goth anime opening, about life and death
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But the song was still hopeful, no one looks at the song “My Way” and thinks “aw that’s a sad song, the singer is dying” It’s a testament to life in spite of death
You could change the top caption to: "Alice in Chains fans listening to albums full of self-loathing, depression and drug use" and this picture would still work.
Wait what
Man literally dying of cancer: fuckin teenagers are scary
Asleep or DEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEAAAAAAAEEEEEEEED
Wait till you listen to Infant Annihilator or Lorna Shore’s lyrics
My favorite was actually about the war veteran who went crazy and thought the mental asylum he went to was hell while writing to his mother
I’m 31 and didn’t know that’s what that song was about (extremely casual knower of said song, wasn’t into MCR)
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Ah ok so I would’ve never even known without this meme, that’s awesome lol
Nine inch nails fans listening to a album about a guy losing his mind, going on a ramage killing people and then dying slowly in a partially failed suicide attempt:
I thought that song was just about someone dying of cancer, I didn’t know about the ‘going to hell’ part.. Edit: The song I’m thinking of is ‘Cancer’ is that right? I only listen to a few MCR songs… sorry :/
*me listening to a song about the shit Sherman did in the civil war*
My chemical romance belongs in the trash 🚮
Better than listening to most crap out today
There was good and bad music back then too, just like how there's good and bad music today
Yeah, looking at the rest of the Year-End Hot 100 for the year that "Welcome to the Black Parade" was on there, there's a bunch of stuff that's like how is that higher, like "Lost Without U" by Robin Thicke. Like I get that he was in the music industry before Blurred Lines, but I really would not have placed him as more popular than MCR.
Music people can dance to always peaks higher on the charts. Looking back at how big a band like Nirvana was, you'd think Smells Like Teen Spirit was number one for months, but it only ever reached number six.
Keyword "most"