MCR Appreciation Week!

[anoneknewmoose]

Hey everybody! We decided to do a week of daily themed posts. They get progressively more challenging as the week goes by, as the topics get broader, so get ready!

First up: what's your favorite MCR album?

I'll start! Mine's got to be The Black Parade. I am just a sucker for epic rock operas, especially with Inspirational Messages and fantastic

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[yekith]

Three Cheers for Sweet Revenge. I don't have an explanation, I just love it, it makes me hyper and I want to dance when I listen to it. Second would be Bullets and last TBP because even though I think it's a great album it didn't feel completely like MCR to me. I think it's mostly the fact that it's too big, too many extras, I prefer just the band rocking out. Anyway, as I said, I do like TBP and I think they were pretty brave to try something like that -and they succeeded.

[never_coming_bk]

Love them all :D

It's a tie between Bullets and Revenge. I fell in love with Black Parade when I first became a fan, I remember singing along to every track in my bedroom lol. Ah, the rock opera times.

Bullets is rough around the edges and raw as fuck. Nnngh. People can never tell me that that's, in any way, a bad album. Idc. I will defend that album to my grave for being so close to perfect.

Revenge is wonderful and a lot more polished, with some of the best vocals Gerard has ever done. It's a big reflection of the chaos they were going through at the time and... idk. Something rather magical about the story telling. It's a lot more complete and figured out than the debut, but that adds to it, rather than make it worse.

One thing for sure ~ the album artwork for all is hot shit imo.

[jezrana]

I also have to go with TBP because of my love for rock operas and concept albums. I LOVE CONCEPT ALBUMS SO MUCH. And TBP is just so epic and awesome! But at the same time, you can listen to it as a whole but so many of the songs stand great on their own as singles, which I think if you're gonna do a concept album you have to make sure you still have good stand-alone songs.

Additionally, the overall message of TBP was a huge part of what got me into MCR, and WTTBP continues to be my go-to "I need to feel better about life right now" song.

...Also, the aesthetics. HAVE I MENTIONED THAT I LIKE THE UNIFORMS AND THE ARTWORK AND THE PHOTOGRAPHY. BECAUSE I DO. Aside from just loving it all on a visual level, I love that Gerard came up with the concept and got such amazing people like James Jean and Chris Anthony and COLLEEN FREAKIN' ATWOOD to make it happen. This is why I will not be sorry AT ALL if we end up getting a goddamn Blade Runner AU or whatever for the new one. EMBRACE THE THEATRICALITY GERARD YOU KNOW YOU WANT TO....HOWEVER. I

[liescontinue]

i completly agree with you about the driving thing, i blast that record whenever i have it on in my car.

[mwestbelle]

SO MUCH YES with the aesthetics. I'm such a sucker for a CONCEPT, especially one that's all military and death and weirdness and gasmasks, so delicious.

[anoneknewmoose]

concept albummmmms and theatricality ♥_______♥

WTTBP continues to be my go-to "I need to feel better about life right now" song

Me fucking too. And I mean, I'm getting a tattoo that will be half FLW (half Thank You For the Venom), so. &TBP;

[liescontinue]

three cheers for sweet revenge, no doubt about it. i've got so many good memories associated with that record, just takes me back to being 13 years old and discovering rock music for the first time. :)

[saint_shiva]

Bullets, for sure. I love the recorded-in-a-basement rawness, and there were so few technical tweaks. It's just like, honest. And even though Gerard was a mess during that era, I think that makes me love the album even more because the lyrics and message of hope and chaos and desperation is just so unfiltered. "Headfirst for Halos" was the song that made me fall in <3 MCR, so maybe I'm biased, but.

Don't get me wrong, TBP was alright and all, but to me it really is like a performance as opposed to the scattered thoughts and messages in Bullets. And Three Cheers was wonderful, but I can't help but see it as like a teenager, in that awkward transition between raw apocalyptic chaos and tailored performance rock.

Aside from the music of Bullets, though, it's the lyrics that really make it my favourite album. I just don't see a comparison between songs like, say, "Early Sunsets Over Monroeville" and TBP's "Teenagers".

[swiiftly]

Headfirst for Halos was my first song, too. ♥