 
After My Chemical Romance spent a couple of years
solidly touring their third studio album ‘The
Black Parade’ they started work on their
forth studio album and after writing and recording
ten tracks for their at the time untitled forth
album they decided that things weren’t working
before scrapping the songs and eventually writing
recording and releasing their concept album ‘Danger
Days: The True Lives Of The Fabulous Killjoys’
, now 2 years after the release of ‘Danger
Days’ My Chemical Romance have decided that
it is time to put out the scraped album but instead
of releasing the album in one go they have decided
to release 2 songs every month for 5 months until
all 10 tracks have been released making up their
lost album ‘Conventional Weapons’.
When I heard that My Chemical Romance had decided
to release their scrapped songs I started to question
why they would want to release a set of songs
that they felt weren’t strong enough to
release back in 2009 when they wrote and recorded
them but after listening to ‘Boy Division’
the first song to be released from the scrapped
album I question what was going through their
mind when they scrapped it as ‘Boy Division’
is an instant accessible song which see’s
My Chemical Romance go more back to the sound
of their breakthrough album ‘Three Cheers
For Sweet Revenge’, the song runs for just
over 3 minutes and is an fast and furious punk
rock number which oozes in energy and style, the
guitar riffs are extremely fast and frantic, especially
at the 2minute mark where things start sounding
quite meaty in a near metal way, vocally the song
is spot on with Gerard Way’s vocals flowing
at such a pace that you will find yourself listening
to the track over and over again until you have
mastered the lyrics.
The b-side ‘Tomorrow’s Money’
starts off sounding like a musical mess with a
lot of noise and distorted vocals coming at you
but as the song progresses and reaches the 40
seconds mark the song starts to make more sense
as the noisy chorus charges through in a big bouncy
way with Gerard Way singing “I stopped bleeding
3 years ago, while you keep screaming for revolution”,
the song is defiantly a grower which starts to
stand out more and more after each listen but
I do wonder how the hardcore My Chemical Romance
fans will take to this song as it sounds a dirty
garage punk rock song and not like your usual
over produced polished song that the fans have
come to love over the years, but saying that I
am sure if My Chemical Romance released a cover
of One Directions ‘What Makes You Beautiful’
it would become an instant hit with their fans.
My Chemical Romance have made a tough yet good
decision to release their scrapped songs and if
‘Boy Division’ and ‘Tomorrow’s
Money’ are anything to go by then My Chemical
Romance fans have a few very exciting months ahead
of them and I bet they are already counting down
the days until part 2 touches down at the end
of November.
4/5
Review by Trigger
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