The Smokey vinyl looks really nice and the discs themselves are perfectly flat with zero surface noise. The shows at the Palacio de los Deportes in Mexico City, Mexico on October 7, 2007, and Maxwell's in Hoboken, New Jersey, on October 24, 2007, were filmed for the DVD, The Black Parade Is Dead! The Black Parade debuted at number two in the United States on the Billboard 200 behind Hannah Montana (2006). At Metacritic, which assigns a normalized rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream critics, the album received an average score of 79, based on 24 professional critic reviews, which indicates "generally favorable reviews".

The Black Parade - Wikipedia The Black Parade - Wikipedia

Released in Europe on October 23, 2006, and the United States on October 24, 2006, [1] through Reprise Records, it was produced by the band with Rob Cavallo, known for having produced multiple albums for the Goo Goo Dolls and Green Day. Way has also said one of their biggest influences were The Smashing Pumpkins, often giving them credit for their thematic videos. But, I do own and have listed to, for example Rage Against the Machine s/t First Pressing AND the 2013 Bob Ludwig remaster from the original metal.Now with a massively successful US tour opening for sweet soul darlings Thee Sacred Souls behind him, 2023 is sure to be a propitious year for Daptone's newest signee. The live performance was theatrical, with Way assuming the character of a member of The Black Parade. Theon Weber of Stylus praised the album's use of Queen influences, but went on to summarize the album as ". Even without its broad concept — a dying cancer patient seeks revenge and redemption — Parade stands as one of the most cohesive, engaging rock records of 2006.

My Chemical Romance – The Black Parade (2020, Vinyl) - Discogs

S. [95] "Welcome to the Black Parade", a single from The Black Parade became My Chemical Romance's first and only top 10 single in the United States. In its first week, the album sold 240,000 copies, far surpassing the 38,000 best-week sales of the band's previous album, Three Cheers for Sweet Revenge (2004). The band played a record release show at Vintage Vinyl in the parking lot to celebrate its release on October 23. The Black Parade received generally favorable reviews from critics, and the band achieved its first number one single in the United Kingdom with " Welcome to the Black Parade". Anyone who has had the pleasure of seeing Jalen perform live knows that he is one of the most captivating performers on today's soul scene.Robert Christgau gave the album a two-star honorable mention saying, "In prog, a good sense of humor means so much. For example, having 'Welcome to the Black Parade' so close to the centre of Side A makes the inner groove distortion quite bad and doesn't do the song justice. The songs are spread out across all four sides, rather than like on the new pressings which contain everything on three sides with an etching on side four.

My Chemical Romance – The Black Parade (2015, Vinyl) - Discogs My Chemical Romance – The Black Parade (2015, Vinyl) - Discogs

Volume 2 features essays by Mikey Way and Bob Bryar, track-by-track commentary by Ray Toro and Frank Iero, release credits and lyrics for tracks C8 to D13.

The Black Parade was made available for streaming on October 19, [37] and was released through Reprise on October 23 in Europe, with the official release date as October 24. The music itself is much less compressed so the dynamics are better with a slightly fuller bass response (but not terribly deeper than on the remaster). A third version has the normal booklet reversed, showing the picture of the parade drawn and painted by comic artist James Jean. The record was reissued as The Black Parade/Living with Ghosts on September 23, 2016, in celebration of the tenth anniversary of the album's release. Despite having 5x less the number of accounts who say they have it (89 vs 451), I've seen this black slipcase version maybe a dozen times on TradeMe in the last year (3 times in the last couple weeks even - twice in bulk CD lots), and I've seen the Australian no-slipcase version maybe twice, but I've *never* seen the white slipcase version for sale outside of Discogs.