Welcome to the Black Parade
| My Chemical Romance
Welcome to the Black Parade
"Welcome to the Black Parade" is the first single and fifth track from My Chemical Romance's third studio album, The Black Parade. It was released on September 11, 2006, on iTunes and October 9, 2006, on CD. It is the band's eighth single. The studio version was available on Myspace on September 2, 2006. It was named one of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame's 500 Songs That Shaped Rock and Roll.[5] The music video for the single was recognized as MTV's "Greatest Music Video of the Century" in 2017.[6] The cover art of the single is the only artwork where the band appears, with the exception of the cover art for "The Ghost of You", where they are shown as silhouettes.-Wikipedia
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Rolling Stone
My Chemical Romance may be the oldest young band in America. None of the members — singer Gerard Way, his brother and bassist Mikey, drummer Bob Bryar and guitarists Ray Toro and Frank Iero — is old enough to have bought David Bowie’s Diamond Dogs on the day it came out. But The Black Parade, the New Jersey group’s third studio album, is the best mid-Seventies record of 2006, a rabid, ingenious paraphrasing of echoes and kitsch from rock’s golden age of bombast.
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NME
‘The Black Parade’ is an ostentatious concept-album-cum-rock-opera about death, and it’s about to turn the late MCR into the biggest band on the planet. The most obvious reference point is Green Day’s ‘American Idiot’, not just because both projects share a record label, producer, video director and an A&R department, but because it’s a piece of work that will challenge every preconception you ever had about the people who made it.
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Metacritic
This highly-anticipated and highly-theatrical concept album follow's the New Jersey band's 2004 breakthrough hit 'Three Cheers For Sweet Revenge.'
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SPIN
10 Years Later, My Chemical Romance’s The Black Parade Still Speaks to Emo Internet Kids
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SPIN
And on their third album, My Chemical Romance give in completely to their inner theater geeks: It’s a savage, heartfelt, at times hilarious goth-mosh emopera featuring strings, horns, a marching band, snarling obscenities, tender reflections on mortality, and a special guest, referred to by everyone who hears this tidbit of info as “Liza Fucking Minnelli” (who croaks a chorus on “Mama”).
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AV/MUSIC
Simplicity of form became paramount—so it's peculiar when punk artists embrace their genre's sworn enemies, like the classic rock of Sleater-Kinney's The Woods, or the sprawling concept album that was Green Day's American Idiot. And now, My Chemical Romance incorporates Queen's glammy theatrics into its ambitious third album, The Black Parade.
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Drowned In Sound
My Chemical Romance’s rise has peaked, somewhat, with this single: freshly installed at number one in the UK singles chart, and rightly so considering its nearest rivals, ‘Welcome To The Black Parade’ is the most attention-grabbing lead track to precede a much-anticipated album since Radiohead’s ‘Paranoid Android’ and OK Computer double-header back in the mists of indie time.
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Radio UTD
The Black Parade Is the Greatest Album Ever Recorded
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Immortal Reviews
The Black Parade is much different than the band's two former records. We've reviewed I Brought You My Bullets, You Brought Me Your Love and Three Cheers For Sweet Revenge, both albums serving as important precursors to this one. Both shared a narrative, at least partially, about two lovers chased down, one killed and offering his soul up to the devil in the hopes of seeing his lover one more time. They established My Chemical Romance's obsession with death and its resulting intricacies and emotions, which carries forward into The Black Parade, but in a different way.
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IGN
The Black Parade, is a rock and roll gem that celebrates everything that was over the top about the 1970s rock scene. Not only that, but they throw all of those things together into a single concept and then spit it all back out with a signature sound that only My Chemical Romance could add to the mix.
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PopMatters
First off, let’s get straight down to the crunch: with bands like My Chemical Romance at the wheel, emo music is not going anywhere. Their third album, The Black Parade, based entirely on a terminally ill patient in an average hospital ward, is flooringly, if disturbingly, catchy and ruthlessly experimental.
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AllMusic
My Chemical Romance intended to dispel all such misconceptions with their third album, The Black Parade, an unabashed, old-fashioned concept album, complete with characters wandering through a vague narrative that concerns very big themes like death.
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The Gaurdian
Yet not only have MCR never rocked harder, they've never sounded so mature, especially on the blood-and-tears ballad, I Don't Love You. The most bonkers album of the year, but one of the best.
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PunkNews
The Black Parade is like a really bad movie, where it's so bad it's actually good. Listening to this, you can see what all the make-up and hair obsessions are all about.
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Diamond in the Rock
Breaking from their screamo past, My Chemical Romance breaches new territory with their groundbreaking third album, The Black Parade. Like Green Day’s American Idiot, The Black Parade is a rock opera mashup of the band’s edgier roots and the classic rock elements of the 1970s, sounding like a hybrid of Queen, David Bowie and MCR’s older screamo style.
Listeners Reviews
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A sharp, punk emo anthem of an album, Welcome to the Black Parade is full of classics - even decades later. 5/5
By Jasmine J
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