There’s a lot of music out now that doesn’t feel like that.” Check it out, it’s still cool.’ We wanted to make a record you could pass down. Something that 20 or 30 years from now, parents could play for their kids and say, ‘This is what I was listening to when I was your age.
As guitarist Ray Toro said in an interview with Alternative Press, “The intention was to make something that was classic, something timeless. PEPPER’S LONELY HEARTS CLUB BAND, THE WALL, and WELCOME TO MY NIGHTMARE. The title track, “Welcome to the Black Parade,” is so unabashedly Queen-influenced that you can almost taste the Mercury – or the May, really, since it’s the guitar work that’s an unmissable homage to that band – but it isn’t hard to see other noted concept albums in the mix, too, including SGT. My Chemical Romance frontman Gerard Way has explained that the album’s origins arose from his notion of death appearing to the dying person in the form of their fondest memory, which in the instance of “The Patient” is a parade he saw as a child. Recorded at El Dorado Studios in Burbank, where it was co-produced by Rob Cavallo and the band, THE BLACK PARADE followed the story of “The Patient,” a character with terminal cancer, as he seemingly dies, enters the afterlife, and then finds himself reflecting the life he lived. And on top of that, it was a rock opera! Will wonders never cease. 13 years ago today, My Chemical Romance released their third album, the LP that took them from being an up-and-coming alt-rock band into proper rock-superstar territory.
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