Review for The Black Parade
Yes, I realize this album came out in 2006. SCREW IT, I DON'T CARE.
I just bought it, and though I listened to it before (downloaded from Limewire, I do feel bad about that) it's been a least a few years and I forgot how much I loved it.
Click to viewThis is The End, the first song on the album. It very much feels like they're getting ready to tell you a story, and that it doesn't have a happy ending. Also, what I get from the lyrics was the they were trying to get away from their old image. "Wipe off that make-up, what's in is despair." I like this song, better than I thought I would.
Dead! The lyrics pretty much speck for itself on this one, but can I just take a moment and really ROCK OUT TO THAT GUITAR. Holy shit, Ray Toro, that guitar solo. The first time I listened to this, I said that out loud. "HOLY SHIT RAY TORO." Ray Toro is a Guitar God. Also, the LaLas make me happier than they probably should.
This is How I Disappear. not one that really sticks out in my mind. I like it, but it's not one that I would play OVER AND OVER, you know?
The Sharpest Lives. Omg. OMG, FAVORITE EVER. Just how it goes from low, almost speaking, to two part harmony, high and low, urggggg, plays foreverrrrrr. This is the one that has pretty much been stuck in my head since I got the CD, SO MUCH LOVVVVVVE.
Welcome to the Black Parade. GERARD. GERARD. YOU ARE SO WEIRD, ILU. Official video, their first single off the album. They made it as epic as they possibly ever could. That part where it's like a call to arms or something, "DO OR DIE, YOU'LL NEVER MAKE ME." Ugggggggh. Dead from so much epic, lovelovelove.
I Don't Love You. Huh. I never saw this video. The freaky huge eyes girl weirds me out, but the parts where Gee is singing by himself. They. He just. Emotions. Urg. This song has made me cry on occasion.
House of Wolves. I LOVE THIS SONG. Fast paced and awesome and hard corrrrrrre.
Cancer. I have a hard time listening to this song. I've never lost anyone to cancer, but there's something about the lyrics that just makes it so heart-wrenching. I choke up every time I listen to it.
Mama. Another one I can;t really explain why I like it, but I doooooo. "Well Mother what the war did to my legs and to my tongue, YOU SHOULD HAVE RAISE A BABY GIRL, I should have been a better son!"
Sleep. For some readon to me, this also feels like a call to arms, almost like an echo of Welcome to the Black Parade. It's a loss of hope in yourself, but also a hardness that refuses to yield. At least to me, anyway. :p
Teenagers. Lol, Gerard. Just lol.
Disenchanted. This is the most confusing song on the album, but the gist I'm getting is someone looking back on his life, trying to decide if it was well lived, if it was enough to be remembered by, I enjoy it, even if the lyrics make no sense.
Famous Last Words. This has an official music video, but youtube won't let me embed it, so you'll have to go looking for it yourself. This is the video where Bob, the drummer, got burned by the pyrotechnics, KEPT PLAYING LIKE A FUCKING TROOPER, and ended up with third degree burns. He didn't properly care for those burns, and he ended up in the hospital with a staph infection in his head which almost killed him. I love Bob so much, even though he doesn't take very good care of himself.
Blood. Bonus track on the slbum. Possibly the funniest thing I've ever heard, curtesy of the off-key 'Ooooooooo's in the backround. (I think that's Bob. I really fucking hope it's Bob, cause that image is just gold.)