Dad Reacts to My Chemical Romance - The Black Parade

Seeing this, I would love yall to listen to my personal favourite rock album, How Big How Blue How Beautiful by Florence and the Machine!! It definitely carried me through my teen years as much as mcr did, and really spoke to my witchy side of music taste. I think this one's an art rock bible for all us witches and fairies💜 Florence Welch is in my opinion one of the greatest vocalists alive and that combined with her magical lyricism just transports me into this witchy, cathartic realm of hers filled with distorted guitars and crying angels. I feel the songs give me space to scream my problems away, theyre filled with rage yet so calming. The first three tracks are in my opinion, the greatest rock songs of this century. My god, is it just a perfect album imo and I would die to see a reaction from yall lol

I just had to renew my patron for this reaction.

Please do the dear hunter and forgive durden razias shadow

I can't believe I started listening to this review/reaction on YouTube almost forgetting that at the start of the month I picked up the years Sub, to partly carry on my question to request you guy listen to Kano's Made in the Manor or Hoodies All Summer, because OMG the extra hour and I just knew I needed to hear both of your thoughts unedited!!!! As always it is insanely awesome to get to see your take and reaction, especially on an album which 1. neither of you have listened to before and 2. an album that is so important to a generation of people!

Registered just to see the full reaction 😊 I would really recommend Gerard's solo album: Hesitant Alien ! (after Three Cheers of course ^^)

Amazing band and to me easily one of the best records ever. To comment quickly on Gerard Ways writing, he is also comic book author, most notably of "The Umbrella Academy". I don't know if you've seen the Netflix series, on which he was an executive producer, but I think it really shows a similar style and tone, espacially in the dark, gritty humor and the handling of heavy subject matters. Love the idea of you doing an A/B original/cover video. Been having that idea for a long time.

I’ve listened to this album maybe 1000 times and I swear everytime „I don’t love you begins“ I start with „look at the stars, look how they shine for you“ haha.

Love you guys going back to experience older albums! First time commenter here - I would love for you guys to react to Pierce the Veil's "A Flair For the Dramatic". I was in the emo scene growing up (which included MCR lol) and Pierce the Veil has always stood out to me for the way they incorporate their Mexican heritage and musical influence into their instrumentation. Could be an interesting listen for you guys! :)

i hope you guys do bullets and three cheers soon!!!!!!!

It surprises me the lack of commets or in general mentions of the emo theme

Dunno what it is about it, but the track Disenchanted really hits me in the feels. Great album reaction as always.

Yessirrrrrr, please do three cheers for sweet revenge next!!!

Yesss! I've been hoping for this one for a long time. Had a great time listening to this album with you guys. Hoping you do their album 'Three Cheers for Sweet Revenge'

Hope you guys see some of their music videos too. They are all pretty great.

Just became a patreon because of this reaction hahahaha I saw them live this year here in my country and it was a life-changing experience... MCR have been a huge part of my life since I was 12, I have some lyric tattooed and everything... They're incredible... back in the day the went through a lot of shit and prejudice, but they were still delivering banger after banger. I would lovee for you guys to check Three Cheers (and who knows, Bullets and Danger Days as well, each album bring a completely different experience)

pleaseeee listen to bullets or 3 cheers, both are so good and honestly better than the black parade (in my opinion)

I would so love you to do a full reaction of twenty one pilots self-titled album. Its pretty different from his stuff with Josh but it holds such a place in my heart. I love piano-heavy tracks

This album holds a lot of importance in my journey of music and self-discovery. I think I was around 9 or 10 when the album came out, and I had asked my dad if I could get it while we were at Best Buy. My step-mom saw the parental advisory sticker, said NO and made me get a CD from The Fray (not the worst but a mediocre second choice). I went YEARS after that without hearing the album in full, but when I did, man it hit me SO hard with resentment that I went my adolescent years without this phenomenal piece of work, but I felt thankful that I at least got to it when i did. I think things like that can make you appreciate something that much more, and this many years later (29 now) I see this album as a symbol of perseverance, rejection of the status quo, going your own path, and trying to not have too many regrets before you die. I really enjoyed you guys hearing this for the first time. Chris Lord-Alge (producer) stated that The Black Parade (the song) had 158 INDIVIDUAL tracks when it was recorded, then comp'd to 48 tracks, which is probably why most songs sound as full, as loud, and as incredibly detailed as they do. I do hope you guys check out Three Cheers, much less in the way of a concept album but you can hear just how talented these guys are, and with what inspirations they are pulling from. Again, pleasure listening again to this with you both, I continue to appreciate the time you spend putting these out and having these experiences. PS - really cool article/interview that talks about the mixing of the album and even shows the ProTools layout with the track, cool stuff! - https://www.audiotechnology.com/features/chris-lord-alge-mixing-my-chemical-romance

My first time listening to this album as well. And holly molly this is sooo good!! Truly you guys make exploring new music so fun and easy

Why are people in these comments saying this was bad intel???!! As if that isn’t the original interpretation that people had since the start?? Yes there are other interpretations such as the Wendigoon was which are interesting and fun but this was the OG interpretation they are reading and it was very good

I was just thinking the other day you should do this album! It’s one of my nearest and dearest albums and I binge listen for like one or two weeks every year

You guys have to do some music video reactions. MCR has some of the best music videos ever imo

That intel is terrible, lol, it misunderstands alot. Mama is about the patient himself, obviously…

I’m shocked you hadn’t heard this album before!!! It’s such a classic, thank you for doing this

If you guys like the hidden track I suggest you listen to the mollusk by ween

I've been a fan of you guys for a while now and had to subscribe to see the full reaction to this album and so far it's been a blast to watch. My Chem are my favourite band and it's nice to see two people who have no real background with them reacting so positively. I have to join the chorus of people requesting a reaction to Three Cheers at some point as that's my personal favourite album of all time. It's not quite as grandiose in scope as this one, but the songs are just incredible, with a bit more of an aggressive edge.

You gotta do Three Cheers and I Brought My Bullets!! both incredible records that were super influential on the scene at the time 🖤

ahhhhhh I've been waiting for this for so long! glad you loved it :) three cheers is a must

Have you guys heard of the dismemberment plan? Their album “emergency and I” is one of my favorite indie rock records. I feel like you guys would love it. Enjoy your reactions as always!

Humbly suggesting you guys listen to The Used self titled

i hope they dont take the user submitted analysis of this album as gospel because a lot of this stuff is blatantly wrong. wendigoon did so much damage. Mama especially is egrigiously wrong.

People always cite wendigoon for the 'definitive reading' of this album but i actually think its an atrocious theory, having to completely reorder the tracklist to make it fit. I saw aother video by K Wullums analysing the themes, especially as it relates to queerness and the military industrial complex and found it revelatory. It finally made Teenagers make sense as part of the narrative.

Flume, Hi This Is Flume is a masterclass in electronic production thats textured and catchy… it’s like nothing you heard in that area of music… also Syro by Aphex Twin (or any other Aphex Twin album). Syro is like the Most thoughtful, heady, calming drum and synth exercise from one of the goats of electronic music. It’s calming chaos but clean as hell. One can hear that it’s later in his career because it’s like an amalgamation of everything he‘s done until this moment. Would really mean a lot to me if you guys could react to one of the two. Greetings from Germany!! 🔥💜

DUDES! So good! This and Songs for the Deaf recently. I'd love to see Linkin Park Hybrid Theory. Three albums I have on rotation for days when I need a bit of energy while working - Great video!

Kevin accidentally dressed best for the occasion

listen to car seat headrest for sure! twin fantasy is such a profound album--the scholars (which you saw on the list of rock operas) is their newest release, but i'd def start with twin fantasy! let me know if you'd want a track by track breakdown like you had for the black parade!

WAY way back in the olden days (2006) there was a track by track interview the band made about this record with iTunes, and they mentioned that for Sleep, they created a guitar tone especially for that song called NEMESIS!! when they used it in the studio for the first time, it literally knocked down a makeshift soundproofing wall lmaooo

Please do Three Cheers and Bullets!!!!!!!!

a couple days late, but i’m so happy you guys did this album! you’re kind of slowly covering the all the 2000s rock icons (Queens of the Stone Age, The Strokes, LCD Soundsystem, and now My Chem! maybe White Stripes next?). you should really do both of MCR’s other “classic” albums; Three Cheers for Sweet Revenge and Danger Days. both are great concept albums in their own right, and are both super unique from each other and Black Parade. Three Cheers is super aggressive and punk rock, and Danger Days is like a sci-fi dance party in both its story/concept and sound. that’s one of the best things about MCR, every album is different but still undoubtedly something only they could make

welcome to the black parade gents

finally hearing someone appreciating tøp’s cancer cover means so much to me

My mom bought this record when I was a preteen, I never stole a CD quicker from her. Glad you guys liked it! I think you should do a video on the self titled TOP record. Also, I believe they covered Cancer for a The Black Parade tribute album. This past year they had one done for Blurryface. Cool connections.

If we’re doing emo I would love a bright eyes - I’m wide awake it’s morning reaction 👀

fuck, i’ve been waiting for this one, can’t wait to re-experience it with you boys!

Give your reaction to Cancer and Sufjan's more personal stuff I really think you'd both love (through the tears) The Antlers - Hospice ❤️

THREE CHEERS FOR THE LOVE OF GOD

I’m glad I sent that DM and ended up being part of the reason y’all did this!! MCR is my favorite of all time!!

Ha love the simple plan callout - used to listen to them a ton in middle school 😄. Didn’t know they were Canadian!

Three Cheers does unfortunately have to be y’all’s next upload or I will cause I riot. Thanks.

would love to see the new lizzy mcalpine album on here! ❤️❤️

Hey guys! Quadeca dropped an album called life 1 a couple weeks ago. Please check it out! I think you’ll like his music

Loved this so much! Danger days reaction incoming please!! Heavily underrated record

My absolute favorite band of all time. And my second favorite album of all time

Not only are they still performing but as someone who's been a fan for 20 years, I'd argue they're at their peak right now. Aging like fine wine and being amazing people and still great musicians and friends. Much love from Montreal, you guys🫶🏻

HELLL YEAH WOW

this album came out when i was 4 & my dad would play it on repeat around the house and in the car. welcome to the black parade was my favourite song when i was little & i managed to get tickets to see them this past july with my dad - the best show i've ever been to & it felt extra special to go with him. love this album so much <3

early christmas this year apparently

My little emo heart is so happy right now, what an album🖤

Back to back my favorite albums with weezer blue and black parade! MCR were a punching bag for so long in music hipster culture but it's so nice to see how beloved and celebrated they are now. Out of all of the great emo bands there have been I think MCR takes the crown as the absolute peak of the great genre. This album along with weezer blue taught me how albums are structured and started the development of me discovering my own music as a teen. All these years later this is still one of the best produced rock albums I've ever heard, the mix is so clear but not for one moment does anything sound sterile or "overproduced". Their music videos are incredible too and probably single handedly birthed millions of emo kids lol. Following up on the heavier subject matter lyrically I would love to see Queens of the Stone Age's Like Clockwork. Lead singer Josh Homme talks a lot about mortality after having a near death experience during a surgery. Its sound is very "rock opera" without it necessarily being linear, but definitely autobiographical. It's very different from Songs for the Deaf in tone and sound but some things carry over like Josh's great voice, chunky desert guitar riffs, and killer Dave Grohl drums on many songs.

The scream I scrempt when I saw this notification was truly embarrassing.

need you guys to cover some smashing pumpkins pleaseeee!!! siamese dream 100%

Yall should do Quarters of Change!!! a pop rock band out of nyc that’s so awesome!!!!! they are friends of laundry day as well!!

Oh my god this makes me so happy, thank you!! I think it would definitely be worth it to check out their other albums as well!! their first album “I Brought You My Bullets, You Brought Me Your Love” (2002) is my favorite album by them! It’s definitely a lot less polished than this one but it’s so good nonetheless and just very gritty

This made me so happy. Please check out their first album as well as their second - it’s a story that follows each other.

I dmed you guys on twitter in 2021 asking for this video. I cannot explain how vindicated I am right now.

Got to see them in San Antonio at the Alamodome this past month! They were absolutely spectacular and sounded exactly like when they were younger. They toured this album and created an amazing show.

UNREAL algorithm pull

officially starting my campaign for you guys to listen to a fall out boy album !!!!!!!! Kevin will be FED reading the lyrics along with the songs, their lyricism is unmatched. Fun fact, for the majority of their songs, the lead singer Patrick will read random poems Pete Wentz (bass) writes— not written as songs in any way, just like his ideas and thoughts, in phrases or short poems— and builds melodies around them. The band as a whole writes the songs together but usually it starts there with Pete’s poetry and Patrick being able to pluck melodies out of them. I would start at Infinity on High or From Under The Cork Tree. FUTCT is a good intro point to understand their writing style (imo) and IOH is an elevated more “polished” execution of that (again, imo) from there helps give even more appreciation to the rest of their work that always evolves and becomes something totally brand new. My fav album of theirs is Folie a Deux so I’d never be sad about a reaction to that, too. But think FUTCT or Infinity on High would be better first albums for y’all to hit. *edited to add this note* the band also just this week turned 25!! so the timing would be perf :)

had to re-up the patreon sub for this!!!!! an unreal album that just hits every single time. can’t believe i got to see them live a few weeks ago (louder than life festival) it was a lifelong dream come true.

Would love to see you guys do the rest of their albums! As always a great reaction and analysis 💜

If you have the opportunity you guys HAVE to make it down to LA to catch one of the last couple of shows on the Long Live The Black Parade tour. They’re playing the album in full, but also making it like a full theatrical experience with actors and an opera singer and wonderful gory effects and all. I saw them here in the UK in July and it’s a once in a lifetime experience, genuinely the best show I’ve been to in my life. If you’re interested in checking it out I actually edited a full concert film for it myself if you look up LLTBP Multi-Cam Concert Film Liverpool on youtube :)

If we are going down this road I need pierce the veil collide with the sky

Would love to see you listen to keo album put a smile on for me

I just saw MCR live this summer performing this album in full at wembley stadium. the world building in that run of shows was so different to the world building of the album but truly brought such a new interesting fun perspective on it whilst respecting the original world the music lived in. So glad you guys have finally checked this one out! i cant recall exactly which interview/podcast it was, but theres a fantastic interview from around 2010 with Gerard and Ray talking about this album for like 2 hours. its on youtube somewhere. Gerard is such an interesting musician and artist! Theres only 3 other MCR albums and you gotta listen to those too!!!

I had the pleasure of seeing them in 2022, i was never a huge fan but i knew enough to realize i couldnt pass up the opportunity to see them. The crowd was absolutely incredible, the place was packed and people were crying, hugging, singing and dancing in the rain for the entire show, it was an incredible experience.

the way i missed this when it was posted so i started screaming 10 hours too late

Gotta do Three Cheers for Sweet Revenge too, another excellent album and conceptually ambitious

Nice one! Would love it if you started exploring music on the heavier side. I've always thought bands like Periphery & Tesseract would interest the boys due to the production, musicianship and versatility. I'd also love to see them try and make sense of Sleep Token at some point.

Hey guys, i know you are gonna read this eventually, but an album i think yall would cherish well, is Jon Bellion- Father Figure

Gonna keep commenting dangelos voodoo LOL 🫶

Trust Kevin and Connor to acknowledge Ray and Frank’s hugely underrated guitar skills ❤️❤️

Hope you guys are doing well! So excited to see you cover this album :) One of my favorites of all time and really cool that you came in basically completely blind. Really hope to see more MCR in the future (Three Cheers for Sweet Revenge, Danger Days, I Brought You My Bullets) but also Paramore and Hayley Williams (i’m selfish and want you to listen to my favorite music even though there’s so much new good stuff what can I say lol🤷)

I never thought the day would come 🥹 This is the best day of my life -grown man

Fun fact: TØP's cover of 'Cancer' was originally made for Rock Sound's 10-year tribute album for The Black Parade. The cool thing is that years later, twenty one pilots got their own tribute album by Rock Sound celebrating 10 years of Blurryface.

Goated notification

need fob and p!atd on the channel soon 🙏

You guys should definitely listen to “Long Season” by Fishmans. A beautiful 35 minute Japanese song that I enjoy so much. And believe it or not the live version is even better so check that out if you can

Great video. MCR is such a great, theatrical band. You guys know The Replacements? Their entire catalog is fantastic. They have an amazing three album run especially. It starts with Let It Be, would be great to hear your thoughts. Underrated band with an interesting and unique history.

the literal best surprise to see on my patreon. YES

Dont know how big you guys are on metal, but a bring me the horizon review would be awesome, I recommend sempiternal or thats the spirit as a starter

After getting the chance to see them perform this album live last year and then getting to see them again in 2 weeks play this album again, I’m really glad you enjoyed this album.

What a coincidence! I just visited my childhood home a few weeks ago and took this CD from my old teenage stuff and started listening it in the car. There are albums: Keane - Under the Iron Sea MCR - The Black Parade that really got me through some hard stuff as a kid in 2007 when my sister died at 19 and I was in the 6th grade. Both are still in my top 20 albums. Can't stop listening to this again. Wish I could've gone to the tour, but I live too far away from all the stops, in Finland. ❤️😊 Can't wait to watch this video!

Pops nailed it. This album is very operatic.

3 cheers for sweet revenge is a must!

btw they do still tour! they broke up in 2013 and got back together in 2019! I have seen them twice in the past few years and the last tour I saw they did this whole album! They are incredible live and they bring a whole story to the performance! Definitely recommend thre other albums, and even watching a live performance of them! So glad you appreciate them 🖤

HOLYY PEAKKKK

AHHHHHHH

OH LET'S FUCKING GOOOOO

Finally time for scaled and icey by twenty one pilots? 🫪

Please do three cheers, the 2025 mix is banging

YES! One of my favorite albums of all time

phone notification came up i went, "YESSSSSSSSS!"

WHAAAAT

I just saw MCR preform The Black Parade in full last week at Aftershock! I'm a little shocked that you decided to pick this, can't wait to check this out and see how you both like the album!

It’s all over my screen

YEAHHH FINALLYYYY

Used to pray for times like this🥹

YESSSSSSSSSSSSSS!!!! I had to pause my movie and scream when I saw this 🤣

What a listen! Fast click

Gasped when I saw this, my favorite album of all time let’s freaking GOOOOO

been waiting for this!! would love to see you guys do three cheers

omgggg fuck yes🥹 MCR was my first favorite band that I can think back to, 2004, 4th grade!!! So excited to watch this 🔥

Oh em gee

I’ve been dreaming of this for a very long time

This is the best day of my life

Ohhh yeahhhh the day is finally here!!

YOOOOO HUGE FOR ME

MASSIVE day for sad gay emos like myself, I’ve been waiting for this for so long

Need a three cheers for sweet revenge reaction but this shall suffice

fastest click ever

YESSS! Please do Three Cheers at some point too because it’s sooo good

I’ve never clicked a video faster. Saw them on the black parade tour last year and it was magnificent

Day 4 of asking TTT to react to NEVER ENOUGH by Daniel Caesar. I think this is an obvious album that Kevin would love, especially after seeing his reaction to Son of Spergy. NEVER ENOUGH is some of his most unique work and production is off the charts.

Lets go fellas

OH FUCK YEAH

YOOO dope! My homie always been wanting me to listen to this album, but I’ve been waiting to react with yall

one more day without life 1

Okay now THIS is epic