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Every since My Chemical Romance hit the mainstream
with the release of their second studio album ‘Three
Cheers For Sweet Revenge’ there has been a
massive divide within the alternative music scene
with many music fans loving the band for their catchy
poppy punk song whilst just as many people if not
more hating them for their emo ways and general
teenage fanbase and the biggest example of this
divide was when My Chemical Romance headlined Download
festival back in 2007 where they got bottled for
the first 3 or 4 songs and then managed to turn
the haters around with many people who previously
hated them walking walk to their tents quite happy
with the performance.
After the extreme success of their third studio
album ‘The Black Parade’ My Chemical
Romance were on the brink of breaking up because
the intense touring and massive fame had been
getting to the band members in all different ways
so they took a bit of time away from the band
before working on their fourth album which was
pretty much complete at the start of 2010 but
they weren’t happy with the album and completely
scrapped it and this is when ‘Danger Days:
The True Lives Of The Fabulous Killjoys’
was born and the reinvention of My Chemical Romance.
With each and every album release My Chemical
Romance come back with a different look, style
and sound and in my eyes ‘Danger Days: The
True Lives Of The Fabulous Killjoys’ may
not be the best look that the band have gone for
but it is the best sound they have come up with
since their debut ‘I Brought You My Bullets,
You Brought Me Your Love’ and the overall
sound and look combined is going to give the band
opportunities bigger than they could ever imagine
in the long run.
‘Danger Days: The True Lives Of The Fabulous
Killjoys’ is a concept album but this time
around it is a like a big marvel style comic book
story and it runs pretty damn well throughout the
album, it opens with ‘Look Alive Sunshine’
which is the narrator of the story Dr Death talking
over the radio giving a slight introduction to the
story, after about 30seconds the song blast straight
into the lead single ‘Na Na Na (Na Na Na Na
Na Na Na Na Na)’ which is an instant hit in
the way that the song is so fast paced with melodic
vocals, fast paced guitar riffs and pretty much
everything that makes poppy-punk as good as it is
these days, the song is bound to become a fan favourite
and I would imagine that there could be a few casualties
in the pit at the bands shows when they open up
with it.
‘Bulletproof Heart’ is one of my
favourite songs on the album, it starts off so
laid back compared to the previous song but then
morphs into a big sing-a-long track which oozes
in style with its extremely bouncy basslines which
are pure sexual noise to the ears, the chorus
is massive sounding with frontman Gerard Way singing
“Gravity don't mean too much to me, I'm
who I've got to be, These pigs are after me, after
you”.
‘Sing’ is the bands current single
and like true My Chemical Romance style they always
have to have a couple of token slow songs on their
albums which end up being future singles and that
is the case here with ‘Sing’ the song
is a grower which sounds better and better after
each and every listen.
‘Planetary (Go)’ is the biggest stand
out track on the album, it shows My Chemical Romance
moving into the whole electronic scene with synths
and electronic beats all over the place and everything
running at a million miles per hours like you
are on a crazy trip, the song does have a lot
going on and seems like a massive overload on
the first couple of listens but it won’t
take you to appreciate the creativeness of ‘Planetary
(Go)’.
The great thing about ‘Danger Days: The
True Lives Of The Fabulous Killjoys’ is
the fact that every song sounds so different from
the last but at the same time you can see that
some of the songs have been influenced by other
bands such as in ‘Party Poison’ the
song sounds so much like something that The Hives
would of created, and the closing track of the
album ‘Vampire Money’ is really raw
sounding like the Sex Pistols and it is moments
like this that really make me appreciate the work
of My Chemical Romance these days and their creativity
as music artists.
I know that true My Chemical Romance fans are
going to love ‘Danger Days: The True Lives
Of The Fabulous Killjoys’ and they are also
going to gain many new fans but they will still
have many people that hate them no matter what
they do , however I advise you all to give the
album a listen with a clear mind and make your
own opinion up and I am sure many of you will
be surprised at just how good My Chemical Romance
are sounding these days.
5/5
Review by Trigger |
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Gerard Way
Ray Toro
Mikey Way
Frank Iero |
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1. Look Alive, Sunshine
2. Na Na Na (Na Na Na Na Na Na Na Na Na)
3. Bulletproof Heart
4. Sing
5. Planetary (GO!)
6. The Only Hope For Me is You
7. Jet-Star and the Kobra Kid/Traffic Report
8 . Party Poison
9 . Save Yourself, I'll Hold Them Back
10. S/C/A/R/E/C/R/O/W
11. Summertime
12 . Destroya
13. The Kids From Yesterday
14. Goodnite, Dr. Death
15. Vampire Money |
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Score Code |
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- Top Cheese
- Brilliant
- Pretty damn good
- Ok I guess
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What Was That? |
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