SONG OF THE WEEK: My Chemical Romance
On its brilliant new single "Welcome to the Black Parade" (Reprise), My Chemical Romance squeezes an indie-rock manifesto of epic proportions, three distinct musical styles, and a bookshelf of storytelling into a mere 4 1/2 minutes. Starting with a rock opera benediction ("Son, when you grow up, would you be the savior of the broken, the beaten and the damned?"), "Black Parade" moves into an emo rallying cry and ends in a triumphant mishmash of soaring guitar solos, trumpet flourishes and Gerald Way's wailing promise, "We'll carry on." It's jagged and unexpected and impossible to listen to only once.
Listen to "Welcome to the Black Parade" here
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FIRST of all the "rock opera benediction" goes: " Son when, you grow up, would you be, the savior of the broken, the beaten and the damned." and SECOND his name is GERARD WAY not "Gerald Way".
Other than that your review was decent.