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List Price: $44.98 | | Label: Reprise / Wea
Salesrank: 34738
Released: October 24, 2006 |
| Our Price: $39.99 |
| Used Price: $24.49 |
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| Media: Audio CD |
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The Black Parade Track Listing:
1. The End.
2. Dead!
3. This Is How I Disappear
4. The Sharpest Lives
5. Welcome To The Black Parade
6. I Don't Love You
7. House Of Wolves
8. Cancer
9. Mama
10. Sleep
11. Teenagers
12. Disenchanted
13. Famous Last Words
Editorial Review:
The Black Parade, My Chemical Romance's follow-up to its 2004 platinum major-label debut Three Cheers For Sweet Revenge, "is way more dramatic, way more theatrical, completely over the top, borderline psychotic," says Gerard Way. "It's the most pure, intense thing we've ever been involved in." Producer by Rob Cavallo (Green Day), the album is a celebration of lvoe and death and darkness. Join The Black Parade. The Limited Edition special packaging features an 11-11/16" x 5-13/16", long skinny box with hinged lid, wrapped in black velveteen material, with a debossed design on the top. The 64-page bound paperback book inside the box is modeled after a Victorian-style photo album, and contains Gerard's drawings, making-of-the-album notes, and more.
Description of The Black Parade:
My Chemical Romance frontman Gerard Way has alternately described his band's third album as "completely over the top" and "borderline psychotic." But even those words can't adequately prepare fans of the group's 2004 platinum major-label debut, Three Cheers For Sweet Revenge, for the onslaught of twisted song suites, glam-rock cannon fire and drama-club theatrics that make up The Black Parade. Tracks like "Mama" and "The End" make "Bohemian Rhapsody" sound like "Blitzkrieg Bop." It's no coincidence that the disc feels as dizzyingly monumental as Green Day's American Idiot--after all, the two albums share the same label, producer, studio, janitorial team, and sense of apocalyptic dread. Similarly, The Black Parade will cast its creators in a completely new light. Despite its overly histrionic tendencies and a totally oddball cameo from Liza Minelli, it offers a clear signal that My Chemical Romance is ready to be taken seriously. --Aidin Vaziri
The Black Parade Reviews:
Go for the special/deluxe edition 
2008-08-31 - For anyone who's a fan of the band, the longbox version of this album is a necessity. Little bit of background into the making (did you know that Mikey Way lost his mind??), some great art cards, & I've used it to store my ticket from when I went to the first of the North American 'Black Parade' shows.
Awesome
2008-07-26 - I have 1,400 albums, and this is in my top 100 or 200. Just a really great album.
The best...
2008-06-28 - omg, where to begin?... the first song will grab you. it is the best album produced in a long time...
By FAR
2008-05-31 - One of the best concept albums ever, and one of the greatest bands there is, I have nothing negative to say about this album, nor the velvet casing, wich is an amazing package at a very affordable price,
I am Just Amazed by the cleverness of this band.
Ultimate Black Parade
2007-12-21 - I'll start out that I own all 3 editions of The Black Parade; the standard store issue CD, the deluxe CD velvet box with booklet, and now the deluxe 2-LP edition. I would say that this is unquestionably the ultimate edition of The Black Parade. Starting out, if you own one of these albums, you are only 1 of 3000 individuals on the planet who have it. It's instantly collectible by that virtue alone. Please note that the editions are not numbered. The 180-gram heavy duty vinyl is, in a word, luxurious. When you listen to the album on a decent turntable, the rich sound produced is much crisper and organic than what CD listeners will hear. Simply look up any article that puts the virtues of vinyl against CD and you'll see more reasons why the listening experience of The Black Parade is taken to a new level.
The packaging is exquisite. The heavy grade cardboard slipbox in which both albums and 15-page booklets fit in is built to last. The layout of the booklets is logical and easy to follow.
The only downside, if there is one, is that the 2 15-page booklets are a reprint of the 70-page book that comes with the deluxe velvet CD edition. I was hoping to possibly read something new from the bandmembers such as insights into the whole Black Parade experience since the album was released last year, what it's been like touring for it, possibly something from Sam Bayer about the terrific videos he directed that introduced the world to MCR's alter ego. (for the record, I am hoping that we'll see a concert DVD at some point in the next year with all the music videos included as extras)
At the end of the day, this is the ultimate edition of The Black Parade, bar none. It is a must for those such as myself who have been fascinated and entranced by one of the greastest albums that the 21st Century has seen to date.
We'll carry on...
Brett Cooper
Anchorage, Alaska
