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I agree with a lot of with you said... well, mostly that The Black Parade isn't as good as Bullets or Revenge. I love Bullets sooo much, and the new stuff is just sokay. But besides all that, they're still the coolest people ever, totally my heros...
So I dunno. I just pretty much love them forever, just for who they are.

I love The Black Parade! I can definately see where your coming from, this CD is very different from Three Cheers and Bullets. But Three Cheers is also very different from Bullets. In my opinion I think The Black Parade is a fairly intellegent album. The contents although very straight forward makes the listeners think of issues such as gun violence among teens, terrorism, morality and love. I also think that it's possible that the band realize their are now mainstream and thus needed lyrics that are more straight forward for the majority of listeners to comprehend.

Bullets and Three Cheers are the foundation of the band's image, and I think any MCR fan could agree that those two albums ROCK! And The Black Parade was a big blow in the face for all of us, I mean I wasn't expecting anything like The Black Parade to tel you the truth. Like I said before each MCR album is unique and the fourth album will be something completetly different from The Black Parade. MCR is constantly envolving and I think it's exciting to watch them change! I mean it's better to hear a band change their sound from each album rather than to listen to the same style for 3 albums.

<3 Dai

Give me a shot to remember

And you can take all the pain away from me

I understand your view. When I first heard the whole of The Black Parade, there were some songs I didn't exactly like which I found odd because I can listen to Bullets and Revenge back to front without skipping a track ((except Monroeville. Something about that song makes me cringe though I love the fact that "there's a corpse in this bed"")).

Personally, I love the vision they had for the album and the fact it nearly killed them to make it definitely adds to the idea. But I think they've remained the same in some aspects. Their lyrics are still filled with black humor and they can definitely rock like nobody's business. So I really dig The Black Parade but I can understand why others might not.

I don't understand though why people wanted them to make an
album similar to Bullets. I've been hearing that a lot, and don't get me wrong, Bullets is a marvelous album but bands don't usually digress and go back to what they did on their debut. I think they've retained their intensity and passion from that album, as well as Three Cheers so I'm wondering what makes Bullets so special that people want another one?

A kiss and I will surrender
The sharpest lives are the deadliest to lead

I really respect Vicious Lollypop for voicing her opinions.
Not many people would be brave enough to post that rant in a guild full of MCR obsessives.

When I first heard 'Welcome To The Black Parade', it was played live at the VMAs. As I heard that first slow verse, I was awestruck. What the hell had MCR done to themselves? I was despairing. But then the guitars kicked in and I was so happy. I'd heard they were going in a different direction but I'd honestly believed they'd just destroyed themselves. The more I listened to that song, the more I fell in love with every single part of it. Even if now it is a little overplayed. [Huge understatement].

So when all my friends started buying the Black Parade album, I was getting really excited and agitated because I wanted it so much. Finally the faithful day came. I bought it, came home and put it on immediately. I listened to it repeatedly for hours that night as I was online. And I was a little disappointed. There was no 'oomph'. There was little that stood out on first listening. The thing that stood out most was the bonus track. And that's not saying a lot!

I was disappointed but was adamant that I liked the album. I wouldn't admit to anyone how I felt about it, least of all myself. However the more I've listened to it, the more I'm liking it. I do now very much like the album. Although I still agree that there's something missing. I feel too many of the songs are a little slow. Dead! is my favourite because it has a little life in it.

I wasn't expecting them to recreate Bullets or Three Cheers. I adore both of those albums and find myself falling in love with MCR every time I hear them. But did they take their step in a new direction, a step too far?

Well i'm an avid MCR fan and yeah bullets is my favourite album. I agree that the new album isn't as mystical but 3 cheers was supposed to be a consept album and when i first heard it through i loved it and i still do but it was from a thesps point of view a bit of a half arsed attempt at adding drama to there music.

Maybe I just like welcome to the black parade because i can use it in my drama work but maybe its because it gives me a sence of my mortality.... I mean I hang out in my local grave yard a lot not because i'm sick and get a kick out of death and not cause i'm religeous but because i'm 16 and you feel immortal at this age. That music makes me think about being there and looking death in the ******** eyes and realising that i'll be dead one day and i've gotta seize it.

In that respect i think theres a lot more to these songs then that meets the eye and however you look at it the guys achieved what they set out to do. Also queen was the greatest ******** band of there time and speaking as MCR as my favourite band Freddy was the greatest front man EVER. I will argue this to the day i die nobody could beat that man as a all round great performer or his band as just ******** awsome if the guys are taking ideas from one of the greatest bands of all time i can't see how it can go wrong!