TBP makes Top 10 Favorite Albums of the Decade

[ofyourdeath.livejournal.com]

Pop Damage lists The Black Parade by My Chemical Romance on it's Top 10 Favorite Albums of the Decade, in no particular order:

Many bands find they need to change in order to forward their music. But in the case of My Chemical Romance, they felt the need to become an entirely different band for this release. Not only does the album tell the story of a dying cancer patient viewing his life in reverse as he meets death in the form of a marching band, but the publicity and hype surrounding it depicted MCR as The Black Parade itself. The album opens with the sound of a flatline and ends with the repeated mantra, “I am not afraid to keep on living/I am not afraid to walk this world alone.” In releasing an album about death, My Chemical Romance celebrated what it is to be alive.

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[yekith.livejournal.com]

As much as it wasn't my favorite album (it's a great album musically speaking and I admired their guts to dare do that, but it just felt like too much and too different to me) I'm glad someone at last understood its meaning. After reading what Gerard has been saying about how misinterpreted the album was, he might be happy to read this! :P

I never thought of it as the story told in reverse though, but it could be...