Some additional thoughts/corrections: 1) Technically Tommy wasn't released in the '70s, it came out in 1969, but the late '60s were the '70s, it's fine, don't worry about it. 2) I should note that, while I tend to find "bright" to be a more accurate descriptor of most major-key tonalities, it's still contextual and won't always apply either. The concept of "brightness" in scales is very closely tied to European ideas of modality that don't apply across all kinds of music. 3) Interestingly, while the marching snare is recognizable in each iteration, it's never actually the same. One could argue this makes it not a true leitmotif, but it's definitely a noticeable and consistent thematic element, so whether or not it "counts" isn't all that interesting a debate to me. It fills the role of a marching snare each time, and that marching snare conveys a certain set of cultural and narrative implications. 4) The tempo shift could be described as a metric modulation where the half-note triplet becomes the new 8th note, but because the long, held chord sets a clear boundary between the two, being overly specific on the exact relationship seems unnecessary to me. 5) One could argue the key change isn't a true direct modulation, since that last chord in G is D major, which does have a function in the new key of A major, but it _really_ doesn't sound like a pivot chord to me. The implied resolution is too strong, and the subversion of it too obvious. 6) Yes, I used the same thumbnail text as my Chop Suey! video. I figured it applied equally well here, and it didn't seem worth reinventing the wheel to try to phrase it differently when it worked so well last time anyway.
Bittersweet, I think, moreso than bright. Although, one of my favourite Leonard Cohen songs, Joan of Arc, ends with the couplet "Myself, I long for love and light But must it come so cruel, and oh so bright?"
I had 2 tiny notes about the drums, but in the intro on the 6th repetition a drum set line comes in doing fills in addition to the marching snare, not instead of it. To me this important as it adds to the genre crossfade between the march and rock sections. Another TINY note about this is that the bass drum in the march sections is a concert bass drum rather than a kick drum once again reinforcing the marching band motif. (these are SUCH tiny notes! love your videos
On 4), if the tempo shift isn't consistent in the live performances this pretty much confirms that to be true. (And if not: that they use click tracks live - not uncommon - or that the drummer is very consistent which is also very likely)
When songs like this are created, it makes me wonder if MCR actually put this much music theory thought into every note or if the guitarist was just like “Hey, this sounds good”.
Musicians, like actors, are often well versed in their craft, even if it's not something that they've had formal training in. After all, a lot of times they had instrument lessons when they were younger or played in school bands, which will discuss music theory and history. So maybe there were some nuances lost because they don't have the fancy, schmancy degree and didn't have to write term papers on G major vs. G minor, but they still know the history and what the sounds do and how to tell a story with their music. After all, it's MCR. They know how to romance the chemicals of our brains to make a tear fall every time we hear that high G.
Most musicians aren’t formally taught music. And there is a HUGE difference in sound from musicians who are formally taught vs musicians who aren’t formally taught. Not saying one is better than the other but there is a big distinction between the two.
I sincerely hope that Gerard, Frank, Mikey, and Ray watch this video at some point. The MCR crew deserve to be recognized for their achievements and skills.
It’s been like 10 years since I’ve heard this song, and yet chopped up fragments of it were STILL enough to give me goosebumps. Goddamn, music is powerful.
It is! Music therapy is huge in Alzheimer’s patients! Maybe you’ve seen elderly perk up and possibly start dancing when they’re listening to music from their teenage years, the area of the brain that processes music and its connections to the memories it forged are largely untouched with Alzheimer’s. It’s fascinating and shows how attached music is to what we experience.
I first heard this band a few years ago when my son played me this very album, and I was surprised how much I liked it. Then again, I was a teen in the 1970s so the punk aesthetic appealed to me - but MCR are an undeniably talented act. It was kind of cool to be enjoying my own kid's favourite music with a 37-year age gap between us :)
I’m 58 and my 17 year old is the supremo emo of our entire city…this has been on heavy rotation for the last 4 years in my car! The perfect after school screamfest!
Thats how my mom was I played her Mama and she said its not something I'll seek out but if you wanna play it in the car I won't mind and for a 50 something who usually hate my rock music minus ACDC and Alice Cooper thats a huge deal
I agree, as a former guitar player (my hands aren't big enough, so I switched to the Ukalala.) I feel like most people don't understand how much the instruments play into the song's meaning as much as the vocals.
I've tried listening to other MCR albums; none of them have grabbed me in the slightest. However... The Black Parade is a magical album start to finish, both musically and emotionally. What a legacy to have created and left behind, even 15 years later.
Perhaps musically, the other albums aren't as intriguing, but when you research the stories behind them you can't help but be amazed. I don't want to disregard your opinion (maybe you are objectively right) but I suggest you hear 3 cheers for sweet revenge thinking of the following: 3 cheers for sweet revenge is a story about a guy that makes a deal with the devil to go back to the woman he loves that he thought died (Helena) but turned out to be alive. The devil tells him "ok bro just bring me 1000 souls" and the record is him doing that as well as showing how his pysche changes with the weight of what he's done for "love". In the end, when he's already gotten 999 souls, the devil tells him that he's the last one so he hands him a gun for him to kill himself (it's a rlly good plotwist). It's a rock operatic tragedy about how the fear of death only condemns you to it. It has different undertone to the Black Parade because of the ending I think. Although both are tragic, the black parade ends is a hopeful tone whereas 3 cheers doesn't. I think both are impactful either way and maybe you should give MCR another shot if you'd like to. 😊
i personally love danger days the most out of the albums. it’s not as complex or deep, but it’s just really fun, and i love every song on it. but i love almost all of their songs😆
@@Mariana16562 i dont like attempts to be "objective" about music. music is such a personal and unique experience to everyone that honestly, thats what matters; subjectivity
@@jwlsiee someone out there REALLY hates rock. whenever they listen to WTTBP, their eyes twitch. does that make WTTBP objectively bad? if thousands of people signed a paper saying they loved WTTBP, does that make it objectively good? of course, thousands of peoples opinions matters more than one, so it would be objectively good. but that one person can still keep their opinion its subjectively bad. subjectivity can only exist if objective opinions do. thousands of people signing that waver saying its good doesnt make the song being good a fact. its still just a subjective opinion, its just the objectively truer one.
I feel like the fact that that first riff ends with a high note instead of a low note isn’t it being cut off in such a sad way, it’s to show hope. It’s as if to say, just like with conversations of death, you expect it to be sad (low note) but instead it ends with this joyful high note. It’s literally ending on a high note. The Black Parade talks about the good and bad of death, treating it as mixed instead of just a tragedy. To elaborate, I know that in the long run it is malicious in the album, but I think as a standalone song it does serve as hopeful. To me in this album the problem isn’t him dying. Dying is fine…. After you’ve lived. You can respect death as not malicious but still acknowledge the patient needs to enjoy life.
Oh man, feels so good to hear someone acknowledge this album as the masterpiece it is. I see so many people write off My Chemical Romance as just "that emo band" from the 2000's that made generic emo music, and it feels like such a tragedy because The Black Parade is an amazing and timeless album. It's gonna be one that feeds future "born in the wrong generation" sentiments, mark my words. Also love that you pointed out its clear influences from those 70's concept albums. "The End" is just oozing with "In The Flesh?"
There are very clear influences from very specific songs on this album. "Mama" to Pink Floyd's "Mother", "House of Wolves" to KISS's "Detroit Rock City", and "The Black Parade" to "Bohemian Rhapsody" I remember reading an interview with Gerard in Blender magazine before Welcome To The Black Parade was released and he said they were taking inspiration from A Night At The Opera, Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band, and The Wall, and even as a fan of Three Cheer For Sweet Revenge, my immediate reaction was along the lines of "Sure thing, emo kid. Trying to measure up to three of the best albums of all time is one hell of a high bar." But the first time I heard the title track, I knew that the band actually understood what made those albums timeless while still making sure the songs sounded like their own and not just ripping off the greats. As far as I'm concerned, Welcome To The Black Parade is the best album of that decade, and one of very, very few that will live on into the future
loved this band starting with 'im not ok' and then helena and black parade kinda sealed their talent in my mind, and im a dream theater fanboy so you can trust i have absolutely no taste in music.
I put this video on my Watch Later list a couple weeks ago, and today I was doing some chores and decided to clean up the watch list so this popped up while I was doing dishes. I was all excited about it, I love musical analysis and then when the themes of the lyrics started to be discussed I absolutely broke down. My grandmother has died of cancer last week and I've been thinking a lot about death, untimely death, legacy and acceptance and this video just made me cry so much. It was a deeply cathartic experience and I am so glad it showed up on my queue at this moment of my life. Thanks for it.
I hesitate to call this album emo. The Black Parade, for me, transcends their earlier post-hardcore work by *many* orders of magnitude. Way bigger in scope.
I think the genre switches from song to song, but widely "modern punk". It has the speed and angry lyricals that the punk movement of the 70s and 80s did, but it doesn't have the political undertones that, say, Wrong Side of Heaven by Five Finger Death Punch did (not saying FFDP is punk, they're most definitely not, but mainly about the meaning of the song in general). More modern in take, and not the same activist meaning (at least, not in this song. MCR DOES have political songs but they aren't very relevant to the Black Parade).
Well, of course it can transcend from it, it just a song that had a huge impact for the emo community, adopted then as a kind of anthem. That said, it doesn't mean it's limited to only that, like it was taken away or something.
as someone who lived through the emergence of emo as a cultural movement i can tell you this song is not only emo but helped define and shape the genre itself.
I've been playing instruments for 20 years and my relative pitch is pretty good but the only note I can hum off the top of my head is a G and it is because of this song
Don't know if anyone pointed this out but Frank and Ray actually switch off doing lead parts for songs. The lead guitar melodies on the chorus, the verses, and the bridge are actually Frank's creation while the lead parts in the intro and the breakdown are Ray's doing. It's something they do a lot and I guess as a fanboy I always feel the need to correct people when they make this mistake.
I always had trouble understanding what made Frank a rhythm guitarist and Ray a lead guitarist when both of them play about equal amounts of both rhythm and lead
I fell in love with MCR the first time I heard this song. I love Queen and immediately felt the same while listening. I enjoy rock opera/highly detailed story telling. Favorite album of all time for me is The Wall by Pink Floyd. Just sitting down, listening to the album paint me a story is awesome to me. If I can sit and listen to every song on that album and visualize the story, I appreciate it 10x more. Welcome to the black parade does that for me and I love Gerard. 🖤
I really loved and appreciated this album by MCR ever since I first heard it. For some reason, I get the 'story' behind the music in each song, and the album in general even back then, or maybe it just resonated in me so much. What's surprising is that everytime I revisit this masterpiece of an album, each song brings a lot more meaning to me than what I had before. While Welcome to the Black Parade retains its strong meaning still, I always tend to discover more in the other songs within the album. This was clearly evident for me when I revisited Disenchanted and Cancer. Up to now, listening to this album remind me how it saved my life, and gave it a new meaning, despite the melancholy behind its storytelling.
thanks for reminding me why i failed music theory twice in high school. lasted maybe 5 minutes before my brain just became tv static. 10 minutes in and my brain was reduced to nothing but a dvd screensaver bouncing around my empty skull, making a squeaky toy sound every time it bounces off the dry and cracked bones. i finished the video and stared blankly at the wall, nothing in my head but the faint sound of an air raid siren coming from nowhere in particular, yet coming from everywhere at the same time. i try to comprehend how it is even possible to have this much attention to detail when writing a song and how surely it must just be a coincidence but it is far too perfect and i can not understand how someone can sit down and write a song while also purposely adding so much music theory. the concept is too much for me to handle and i simply vaporize out of existence, the only thing left of me is the clothes i was wearing, ominously laid in the bed in the same position i was in when the video ended. all evidence of my existence is simply erased from reality
I always thought the parade was in reference to the dance macabre, particularly the 'black parade' name in and of its self. Or similar in imagery to. Also funeral processions. So much around death has historically been tied to procession and fanfare. I never even considered the legacy aspect. But it's obvious hearing it. More layers.
Augh the first notes, send help, my heart, it's breaking. Also, for some reason, this song just sounds so incredibly hopeful, even when it probably really shouldn't. It just feels like a huge rush to celebrate living, and carrying on through even the worst times. One of my favorite songs next to Pompeii.
It makes me wanna go back and listen to the whole album a little deeper again. Surprised that it’s all there starting with the first track The End. “You've got front row seats to the penitence ball When I grow up, I want to be nothing at all!”
For complicated reasons involving having a strict and abusive parent and unrecognized, undiagnosed, and untreated autism, I didn't actually hear this song until I was an adult even though I was at the perfect age and temperament to be an emo kid when this came out. Listening to it now feels like both a dirge mourning the childhood I could have had as well as a fanfare celebrating the life I'm now getting.
I never understand the musical language, but love hearing these stems from my favorite songs in isolation and how you tie theory and concept in with your illustrations.
The way you described Maj keys sounding happy vs bright, and the description of snowfall but it being cold really changed my view on the way I think about it. Thank you.
I liked that you mentioned the fact that major=happy minor=sad isn't always true. Recently, I composed an album where two of the leitmotifs are in minor keys, played over chord progressions/loops that hang on the minor root for longer than any other chord. So, they're minor melodies. But, I never found them to be sad - to the contrary, they're heroic and even energetic in some tracks. At first, maybe I thought this was because I tend to emphasize the relative major a little, at least for the melody that actually plays over the relative major chord at one point, but even that melody has a totally different feel in another track where it's in a major key. I'd fallen into the false paradigm of good feelings=major
Ah yes, my favorite song of all time. Every video like this that drops just further proves it’s a compositional masterpiece and not just something people get nostalgic for. The more time that goes on, the more My Chemical Romance will be recognized as one of the greatest rock bands of all time.
Oh god. This song means so much to me and I'm absolutely thrilled to see this go up on my birthday. Edit: oh yeah, it was also the first song I ever tried to analyze on my own.
This is basically my dad's favorite "new to him" song. He's no musician (his words), but he does have pretty good musical chops and is great at recognizing musical symbolism, some of which goes over my head, and I'm actually a musician. Now, he can be pretty punk rock, and he's a fan of the musical "aesthetic" of this song but he also describes it as one of the most intellectually written songs he's ever heard, a real feast for the ears and mind between the music itself and the lyrics. I never would have pegged him as the type to be into ANY of the music of my adolescence, but when he asked if I'd heard the song, I was very excited. We listened to it together and had a really good discussion about the production quality of the music video and it's now one of my most cherished memories with him. I'm glad he finally gets it lol
I love this song so much and this analysis is so cool to break down things I didn't even think of. We played Welcome to the Black Parade my senior year of college marching band and I can confirm the fast tempo is MUCH faster than double time! It was such a fun song to perform but marching and playing at 200 bpm is.... rough...
I never liked this song when it came out, but honestly that analysis has added so much more weight to it that I appreciate it now more than I ever used to, I also didn't know that it was essentially a concept album...
Definitely, this has always been one of my favorite albums but after my Grandma died from aggressive cancer the whole meaning changed for me. Comforting but reminding. Chey
My dad grew up listening to Queen and he always told me no one will ever make a song like Bohemian Rhapsody. I just played Welcome to the Black Parade to the car radio and sometimes he switches it to his songs but not Black Parade, It just played and I knew even ifhe didn't say it. Someone did the job he thought would never happen
coming from someone who plays piano, bass guitar, guitar, recorder, drums (if i wanted too), and a vocalist who plays all of those instruments by ear and is still learning my fret board and keys on my keyboard, all this sheet music hurts my head. but its still enjoyable and I thank you for this video cause this is among the greatest songs of all time and one I personally have a favoring towards because of how unique it is.
Most songs are recorded as multiple tracks, but combined into one track through mixing and mastering. Since the released version would not have each individual track, the only real way to get them separated would be to obtain the original tracks from the recording studio. There might also be some kind of editing software (or even an AI program) that's capable of identifying the pitch and soundwave type of an individual voice/instrument, and then "muting" anything that doesn't match the isolated sound. I don't know enough about audio engineering to say for certain if this has been done before, but it's theoretically possible with our current level of technology.
a good majority of the isolated stems 12tone and other channels use were ripped directly from Guitar Hero or Rock Band, which of course got them from the labels. considering the combined tracklist of both series (downloadable content included) has probably a couple thousand songs, there's a lot of famous songs with multitracks available if you know where to look
@@Mewwt Yeah. For the games to function the way they wanted (namely, your instrument sounding "dead" when you messed up), both Neversoft (Guitar Hero) and Harmonix (Rock Band) got the original master tracks from the band/label. You can then go into the games and adjust the levels to isolate instruments. This is also how the "And Justice For Jason" project was done (taking the tracks used in the games and boosting the volume of the bass).
Splitter (spleeter) uses AI to split tracks into vocals, drums, piano, and bass. It works pretty well for being free, unlimited, and online, but the stems in this video are too clean to be from an AI. But there are hundreds of stem-splitting AI available now, some better than others. I just found Splitter works well for basic stem extraction for playing around with in remixes.
I've listened to this song so many times over the years, but never dug into the meaning, context or music composition. This breakdown was chilling. I had no idea. Thank you so much!
The beauty of using major scales to write sad songs is that it has a bittersweet feeling to it, as unironic as it sounds, it makes a beautiful sound :)
I listened to this whole album for the first time in a while recently - I love this analysis. I don’t know a ton about music theory but I think of major vs minor as being more affect than mood? Major is high affect whether that’s happy or defiant (like this) or manic (like All Time Low’s “Tell Me I’m Alive”). And minor is low affect - less energy, less building toward something good or bad, and a bit more mellow.
I feel like recently (in the past 1 to 2 years) there has been a massive emo revival that often centres around MCR. I love seeing all these music theory nerds appreciate MCR for the brilliant act they were and it's awesome to see younger generations getting introduced to them through this revival too!
As someone from a culture in which music theory was not always something readily available every step of the way/not matching the reality of the specific type of music composed/written/played in the territory, I'm fascinated by this analysis... Many musicians in my culture, including successful professional ones which got recognition at international level for decades, have little to no knowledge (or a shaky basic knowledge) of musical theory and those who do haven't even been taught using some of these technical terms (that's France and her Caribbean colonies fir you) as the names used for notations aren't even the same in French to begin with... The funny thing is that I could still understand everything you were saying in spite of having mostly forgotten/discarded whatever was left of my piano lessons years (some thirty years ago lol). What you said about parades really hit me because even if our parades don't typically include the same types of instruments found in American or European parades, many of your remarks were still lining up with what I have observed in Martinican Carnival parades (which are mostly centered around local types of drums). Thanks for the entertaining educational moment...
I know nothing about music but you kept talking and saying stuff about how this progression or that chord means xyz, and found myself thinking 'yeah, it really does, huh?'. Wonderful video, thanks for sharing
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The glockenspiel "music box" layering adds a sense of melancholic recollection, indicating the longing to return to a better time in the patient's life, obviously their childhood when his father was still alive It's a tool used to draw the imagery of innocence while paralleling with the finality of death; just as a wind-up music box has a finite time before it inevitably stops, so does life
This song is about grief. That plantive single note played on a keyboard by a stiff, nerveless finger in the cold light of dawn, your life a swirl around you, ending so abruptly. That opening is about grief. The yawning chasm wrenched into a heart. A song not for the dead but a triumph for the living. I'll carry on! I'll carry on! Through the dark and the hard times, I'll carry on. Sometimes it's easy to think too much. Sometimes it's harder to just be.
I really love this breakdown. But I also like to imagine gerard and the others were probably just like "does this sound good?" "fuck yeah sure, why not".
Since I know you’re a bit of a metalhead, I’m very interested to see an analysis of Retrovertigo by Mr. Bungle on here some day. The harmonies in it are so wild and interesting and the melody holds it together so well!
NICE. I'm an old, but I have always really liked TBP. I kind of knew it was a 'concept album', rock opera didn't occur to me. Your music theory usually goes way over my head, but it is fascinating to listen to.
this was so good i’m going back and relistening to the whole album with a better understanding of each of trh songs and especially this one! thank you!!!
I looked up the music video once, got confused because I couldn't hear most of the lyrics well and the video is... heavily rooted in the album context turns out. Knowing the context clarifies things and now I get why the emo movement loved this song so much
i feel like there is something to mentioned about the patient being a teenager/young adult and deciding that they will not go easy into death: the black parade was meant to juxtapose against three cheers for sweet revenge, an angsty album that vaguely depicts a man's response to the death of his lover (mcr also learned music theory midway through creating the album) that invokes a feeling of sadness, with some songs sounding like a cry for help and others calling for revenge against those who wronged them. powerful lyrics and sounds, but they portray low self esteem or even a desire to die and feeling like you will never get out of the depression you are in. the black parade on the other hand took notice of how kids were responding to three cheers and essentially said, "okay guys, it's time to stop being suicidal." ultimately it is a rock opera not just made to tell a story, but is also made to try and make people want to "carry on."
I dunno why I watched this, I know nothing about music theory and I didn’t understand half the terms you said, all I know is how to read notes for playing the accordion. But it’s still interesting to hear the thought that goes behind a song and the video quality with the doodling and drawing notes on a music sheet is great. Amazing video :)
I don't know all that much music theory, but I know enough to recognize what a wonderful analysis this is. Well done. I'm super impressed. Similarly, I've edited enough videos to appreciate how tedious it must have been to time the drawings with the audio. I just subscribed
i quit listening to MCR almost immediately after junior year of high school. i guess i will now be listening to all their music on spotify nearly 10 years later
its really cool to see the black parade being recognized years later as a legitimately good album with merit unlike the past when it was seen as emo garbage
So... I'm a little older than most MCR/Gerard Way listeners I guess, but whenever I heard MCR play I was fascinated. The music was so awesome, and heartfelt and amazing... and then I saw the music video for Black Parade and I was like "Huh. Well that's something." Still one of my favorite bands of all time. Although I also discovered that for other children of the 90s, if you point out how much it fills the same space as the Smashing Pumpkins, you can make some real enemies.
Some additional thoughts/corrections:
1) Technically Tommy wasn't released in the '70s, it came out in 1969, but the late '60s were the '70s, it's fine, don't worry about it.
2) I should note that, while I tend to find "bright" to be a more accurate descriptor of most major-key tonalities, it's still contextual and won't always apply either. The concept of "brightness" in scales is very closely tied to European ideas of modality that don't apply across all kinds of music.
3) Interestingly, while the marching snare is recognizable in each iteration, it's never actually the same. One could argue this makes it not a true leitmotif, but it's definitely a noticeable and consistent thematic element, so whether or not it "counts" isn't all that interesting a debate to me. It fills the role of a marching snare each time, and that marching snare conveys a certain set of cultural and narrative implications.
4) The tempo shift could be described as a metric modulation where the half-note triplet becomes the new 8th note, but because the long, held chord sets a clear boundary between the two, being overly specific on the exact relationship seems unnecessary to me.
5) One could argue the key change isn't a true direct modulation, since that last chord in G is D major, which does have a function in the new key of A major, but it _really_ doesn't sound like a pivot chord to me. The implied resolution is too strong, and the subversion of it too obvious.
6) Yes, I used the same thumbnail text as my Chop Suey! video. I figured it applied equally well here, and it didn't seem worth reinventing the wheel to try to phrase it differently when it worked so well last time anyway.
Bittersweet, I think, moreso than bright. Although, one of my favourite Leonard Cohen songs, Joan of Arc, ends with the couplet "Myself, I long for love and light
But must it come so cruel, and oh so bright?"
Just call it a new series: "How _____ Confronted Death"
In tents analysis indeed.
I had 2 tiny notes about the drums, but in the intro on the 6th repetition a drum set line comes in doing fills in addition to the marching snare, not instead of it. To me this important as it adds to the genre crossfade between the march and rock sections. Another TINY note about this is that the bass drum in the march sections is a concert bass drum rather than a kick drum once again reinforcing the marching band motif. (these are SUCH tiny notes! love your videos
On 4), if the tempo shift isn't consistent in the live performances this pretty much confirms that to be true. (And if not: that they use click tracks live - not uncommon - or that the drummer is very consistent which is also very likely)
"where everything changes" draws fire nation insignia, shit had me cracking up.
The visual jokes and references are almost as good as the musical theory analysis. Almost.
Same 😂😂
Shrek symbol every time he said layering I can't-
interrupting cow, interrupti... MOOOOO
the crab drawing for cancer-
When songs like this are created, it makes me wonder if MCR actually put this much music theory thought into every note or if the guitarist was just like “Hey, this sounds good”.
i’d have to imagine most of the time it’s mainly natural feel for it
Musicians, like actors, are often well versed in their craft, even if it's not something that they've had formal training in. After all, a lot of times they had instrument lessons when they were younger or played in school bands, which will discuss music theory and history. So maybe there were some nuances lost because they don't have the fancy, schmancy degree and didn't have to write term papers on G major vs. G minor, but they still know the history and what the sounds do and how to tell a story with their music. After all, it's MCR. They know how to romance the chemicals of our brains to make a tear fall every time we hear that high G.
Most musicians aren’t formally taught music. And there is a HUGE difference in sound from musicians who are formally taught vs musicians who aren’t formally taught. Not saying one is better than the other but there is a big distinction between the two.
@@firstnamelastname956 Would you say MCR is formal or informal?
caleb beers I don’t know man lol I don’t know them personally but hey if you like the music then that’s all that matters.
for a second i thought this was gonna be a music theory composition of the whole album and i got more than excited
DCFC profile pic. Love it!
A channel called polyphonic does a really good take on the whole album.
@@codycoyote7046 a channel which also just so happens to be mentioned in this very video!
@@paytoncarver7289 would love to see them featured on this channel. maybe, in the theme of title tracks, the song transatlanticism
@@codycoyote7046 I was thinking "hasn't 12tone already done this?" but I got confused with Polyphonic XD
Can we take a minute to appreciate when at 57s he said “everything had changed” he drew a symbol for the fire nation.
Loved that lmao
Also Shrek "S" when he mentioned layering
I laughed out loud when he drew an actual tent for "intense"
OMG YEAH
@@hirano552came here to see who caught that too bc I LOVED
I sincerely hope that Gerard, Frank, Mikey, and Ray watch this video at some point. The MCR crew deserve to be recognized for their achievements and skills.
Lol no bob briar? Tragic
And Bob. Like him or not, he was integral in the success of this album (I, for one, am a fan. He did some dumb stuff and made amends.)
@@wendilew he made amends? I thought he got excommunicated
Same, I really hope they find this video one day. They deserve their flowers 🌹
@@lukeking6711 Bryar*
Every time a single G is played on a piano, an emo sheds a tear
Can confirm
And any time an E octave is played, gamers get chills.
Can definitely confirm. Literally had chills and shed a tear.
Every single time :P
Any time a lone E6 is played, Kanye fans shed a tear
It’s been like 10 years since I’ve heard this song, and yet chopped up fragments of it were STILL enough to give me goosebumps. Goddamn, music is powerful.
It is! Music therapy is huge in Alzheimer’s patients! Maybe you’ve seen elderly perk up and possibly start dancing when they’re listening to music from their teenage years, the area of the brain that processes music and its connections to the memories it forged are largely untouched with Alzheimer’s. It’s fascinating and shows how attached music is to what we experience.
I listen to it all the time and it still gives me goosebumps. spectacular piece of music!
I first heard this band a few years ago when my son played me this very album, and I was surprised how much I liked it. Then again, I was a teen in the 1970s so the punk aesthetic appealed to me - but MCR are an undeniably talented act. It was kind of cool to be enjoying my own kid's favourite music with a 37-year age gap between us :)
Beautiful story
I’m 58 and my 17 year old is the supremo emo of our entire city…this has been on heavy rotation for the last 4 years in my car! The perfect after school screamfest!
Thats how my mom was I played her Mama and she said its not something I'll seek out but if you wanna play it in the car I won't mind and for a 50 something who usually hate my rock music minus ACDC and Alice Cooper thats a huge deal
Actually, my mom introduced this music to me when i was a kid, putting on my music player for me when it came out.
damn your old
I love that there's a channel out there that actually looks into the musical arrangements of popular songs, not just the lyrics or singers.
I agree, as a former guitar player (my hands aren't big enough, so I switched to the Ukalala.) I feel like most people don't understand how much the instruments play into the song's meaning as much as the vocals.
I've tried listening to other MCR albums; none of them have grabbed me in the slightest.
However... The Black Parade is a magical album start to finish, both musically and emotionally. What a legacy to have created and left behind, even 15 years later.
Perhaps musically, the other albums aren't as intriguing, but when you research the stories behind them you can't help but be amazed. I don't want to disregard your opinion (maybe you are objectively right) but I suggest you hear 3 cheers for sweet revenge thinking of the following:
3 cheers for sweet revenge is a story about a guy that makes a deal with the devil to go back to the woman he loves that he thought died (Helena) but turned out to be alive. The devil tells him "ok bro just bring me 1000 souls" and the record is him doing that as well as showing how his pysche changes with the weight of what he's done for "love". In the end, when he's already gotten 999 souls, the devil tells him that he's the last one so he hands him a gun for him to kill himself (it's a rlly good plotwist). It's a rock operatic tragedy about how the fear of death only condemns you to it. It has different undertone to the Black Parade because of the ending I think. Although both are tragic, the black parade ends is a hopeful tone whereas 3 cheers doesn't. I think both are impactful either way and maybe you should give MCR another shot if you'd like to. 😊
i personally love danger days the most out of the albums. it’s not as complex or deep, but it’s just really fun, and i love every song on it. but i love almost all of their songs😆
@@Mariana16562 i dont like attempts to be "objective" about music. music is such a personal and unique experience to everyone that honestly, thats what matters; subjectivity
@@jwlsiee someone out there REALLY hates rock. whenever they listen to WTTBP, their eyes twitch.
does that make WTTBP objectively bad?
if thousands of people signed a paper saying they loved WTTBP, does that make it objectively good?
of course, thousands of peoples opinions matters more than one, so it would be objectively good.
but that one person can still keep their opinion its subjectively bad. subjectivity can only exist if objective opinions do.
thousands of people signing that waver saying its good doesnt make the song being good a fact. its still just a subjective opinion, its just the objectively truer one.
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"(That being said, the black parade is definitely the better album)"
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I feel like the fact that that first riff ends with a high note instead of a low note isn’t it being cut off in such a sad way, it’s to show hope. It’s as if to say, just like with conversations of death, you expect it to be sad (low note) but instead it ends with this joyful high note. It’s literally ending on a high note. The Black Parade talks about the good and bad of death, treating it as mixed instead of just a tragedy. To elaborate, I know that in the long run it is malicious in the album, but I think as a standalone song it does serve as hopeful. To me in this album the problem isn’t him dying. Dying is fine…. After you’ve lived. You can respect death as not malicious but still acknowledge the patient needs to enjoy life.
Oh man, feels so good to hear someone acknowledge this album as the masterpiece it is. I see so many people write off My Chemical Romance as just "that emo band" from the 2000's that made generic emo music, and it feels like such a tragedy because The Black Parade is an amazing and timeless album. It's gonna be one that feeds future "born in the wrong generation" sentiments, mark my words.
Also love that you pointed out its clear influences from those 70's concept albums. "The End" is just oozing with "In The Flesh?"
Didn’t ask
There are very clear influences from very specific songs on this album. "Mama" to Pink Floyd's "Mother", "House of Wolves" to KISS's "Detroit Rock City", and "The Black Parade" to "Bohemian Rhapsody"
I remember reading an interview with Gerard in Blender magazine before Welcome To The Black Parade was released and he said they were taking inspiration from A Night At The Opera, Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band, and The Wall, and even as a fan of Three Cheer For Sweet Revenge, my immediate reaction was along the lines of "Sure thing, emo kid. Trying to measure up to three of the best albums of all time is one hell of a high bar." But the first time I heard the title track, I knew that the band actually understood what made those albums timeless while still making sure the songs sounded like their own and not just ripping off the greats. As far as I'm concerned, Welcome To The Black Parade is the best album of that decade, and one of very, very few that will live on into the future
Yeah I love that emo band
Definitely some In the Flesh? there, but there's also a ton of David Bowie's Five Years. It's a beautiful amalgamation
loved this band starting with 'im not ok' and then helena and black parade kinda sealed their talent in my mind, and im a dream theater fanboy so you can trust i have absolutely no taste in music.
I put this video on my Watch Later list a couple weeks ago, and today I was doing some chores and decided to clean up the watch list so this popped up while I was doing dishes. I was all excited about it, I love musical analysis and then when the themes of the lyrics started to be discussed I absolutely broke down. My grandmother has died of cancer last week and I've been thinking a lot about death, untimely death, legacy and acceptance and this video just made me cry so much. It was a deeply cathartic experience and I am so glad it showed up on my queue at this moment of my life. Thanks for it.
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I hesitate to call this album emo. The Black Parade, for me, transcends their earlier post-hardcore work by *many* orders of magnitude. Way bigger in scope.
I think the genre switches from song to song, but widely "modern punk". It has the speed and angry lyricals that the punk movement of the 70s and 80s did, but it doesn't have the political undertones that, say, Wrong Side of Heaven by Five Finger Death Punch did (not saying FFDP is punk, they're most definitely not, but mainly about the meaning of the song in general). More modern in take, and not the same activist meaning (at least, not in this song. MCR DOES have political songs but they aren't very relevant to the Black Parade).
I think it was called emo because of the image of the music videos and art.
Well, of course it can transcend from it, it just a song that had a huge impact for the emo community, adopted then as a kind of anthem. That said, it doesn't mean it's limited to only that, like it was taken away or something.
as someone who lived through the emergence of emo as a cultural movement i can tell you this song is not only emo but helped define and shape the genre itself.
@@captocie the funny part is gerard way despises getting called emo and hated the movement lmao
I've been playing instruments for 20 years and my relative pitch is pretty good but the only note I can hum off the top of my head is a G and it is because of this song
Hell it's better than getting stuck with an F# from the End of Evangelion, Komm Susser Tod
@@seventoejoe3307 LMAO relatable
Don't know if anyone pointed this out but Frank and Ray actually switch off doing lead parts for songs. The lead guitar melodies on the chorus, the verses, and the bridge are actually Frank's creation while the lead parts in the intro and the breakdown are Ray's doing. It's something they do a lot and I guess as a fanboy I always feel the need to correct people when they make this mistake.
I always had trouble understanding what made Frank a rhythm guitarist and Ray a lead guitarist when both of them play about equal amounts of both rhythm and lead
Yea, some bands definitely have co-guitarists, more than lead and rhythm
@@toastedphantom3007 i guess it depends on their strengths?
@@toastedphantom3007 Ray is 1000% a way more skilled and reliable lead player, and his influences are more shred-focused than Franks
I fell in love with MCR the first time I heard this song. I love Queen and immediately felt the same while listening. I enjoy rock opera/highly detailed story telling. Favorite album of all time for me is The Wall by Pink Floyd. Just sitting down, listening to the album paint me a story is awesome to me. If I can sit and listen to every song on that album and visualize the story, I appreciate it 10x more. Welcome to the black parade does that for me and I love Gerard. 🖤
I really loved and appreciated this album by MCR ever since I first heard it. For some reason, I get the 'story' behind the music in each song, and the album in general even back then, or maybe it just resonated in me so much.
What's surprising is that everytime I revisit this masterpiece of an album, each song brings a lot more meaning to me than what I had before.
While Welcome to the Black Parade retains its strong meaning still, I always tend to discover more in the other songs within the album. This was clearly evident for me when I revisited Disenchanted and Cancer.
Up to now, listening to this album remind me how it saved my life, and gave it a new meaning, despite the melancholy behind its storytelling.
Now I need a banjo version of Welcome To The Black Parade in my life
thanks for reminding me why i failed music theory twice in high school. lasted maybe 5 minutes before my brain just became tv static. 10 minutes in and my brain was reduced to nothing but a dvd screensaver bouncing around my empty skull, making a squeaky toy sound every time it bounces off the dry and cracked bones. i finished the video and stared blankly at the wall, nothing in my head but the faint sound of an air raid siren coming from nowhere in particular, yet coming from everywhere at the same time. i try to comprehend how it is even possible to have this much attention to detail when writing a song and how surely it must just be a coincidence but it is far too perfect and i can not understand how someone can sit down and write a song while also purposely adding so much music theory. the concept is too much for me to handle and i simply vaporize out of existence, the only thing left of me is the clothes i was wearing, ominously laid in the bed in the same position i was in when the video ended. all evidence of my existence is simply erased from reality
music theory really got to u huh
@@dunkie5863 gets to me too homie, this shit is real
yeah maybe i WONT take ap music theory
@@sp0ngeb00b7 music theory was the greatest horror known to my high school concert band brain
well you might've flunked music theory but it sure seems like you've got quite some literary talent eh
I always thought the parade was in reference to the dance macabre, particularly the 'black parade' name in and of its self. Or similar in imagery to. Also funeral processions. So much around death has historically been tied to procession and fanfare. I never even considered the legacy aspect. But it's obvious hearing it. More layers.
Augh the first notes, send help, my heart, it's breaking.
Also, for some reason, this song just sounds so incredibly hopeful, even when it probably really shouldn't. It just feels like a huge rush to celebrate living, and carrying on through even the worst times. One of my favorite songs next to Pompeii.
The first notes
Send help
My heart
It's breaking
"it's a line that's drowning and it's not quite sure if it knowa how to swim" THAT'S SO BEAUTIFUL IT MADE ME CRY????????
12tone: "an instrument youre used to hearing single notes played on"
me: ah yes a brass or wind instrument? lead guitar?
12tone: the banjo
me: oh..
i always thought the banjo and lead guitar play the same roles but for different genres
I was thinking lead vocals!
@@Hairysteed Freddie Mercury has entered the chat
I guess it’s because certain brass and wind instruments can be quite melancholy!!
@@firstcanonkill1767 possibly because an oboe tends to sound like a flattened duck.
12:07 Damn why am I just now actually getting that like 7 years later, also fastest I've ever clicked on one of your videos.
It makes me wanna go back and listen to the whole album a little deeper again.
Surprised that it’s all there starting with the first track The End.
“You've got front row seats to the penitence ball
When I grow up, I want to be nothing at all!”
@@rruhland The head just exploded on that, definitely going to listen to it again. 🤯
For complicated reasons involving having a strict and abusive parent and unrecognized, undiagnosed, and untreated autism, I didn't actually hear this song until I was an adult even though I was at the perfect age and temperament to be an emo kid when this came out. Listening to it now feels like both a dirge mourning the childhood I could have had as well as a fanfare celebrating the life I'm now getting.
I never understand the musical language, but love hearing these stems from my favorite songs in isolation and how you tie theory and concept in with your illustrations.
The way you described Maj keys sounding happy vs bright, and the description of snowfall but it being cold really changed my view on the way I think about it. Thank you.
That solo that transitions into what slowly becomes the final chorus will never ever fail to make me tug at my heart strings and shed a tear.
I liked that you mentioned the fact that major=happy minor=sad isn't always true. Recently, I composed an album where two of the leitmotifs are in minor keys, played over chord progressions/loops that hang on the minor root for longer than any other chord. So, they're minor melodies. But, I never found them to be sad - to the contrary, they're heroic and even energetic in some tracks. At first, maybe I thought this was because I tend to emphasize the relative major a little, at least for the melody that actually plays over the relative major chord at one point, but even that melody has a totally different feel in another track where it's in a major key. I'd fallen into the false paradigm of good feelings=major
Ah yes, my favorite song of all time. Every video like this that drops just further proves it’s a compositional masterpiece and not just something people get nostalgic for. The more time that goes on, the more My Chemical Romance will be recognized as one of the greatest rock bands of all time.
Oh god. This song means so much to me and I'm absolutely thrilled to see this go up on my birthday.
Edit: oh yeah, it was also the first song I ever tried to analyze on my own.
Oh shit, happy b-day!
This is basically my dad's favorite "new to him" song. He's no musician (his words), but he does have pretty good musical chops and is great at recognizing musical symbolism, some of which goes over my head, and I'm actually a musician. Now, he can be pretty punk rock, and he's a fan of the musical "aesthetic" of this song but he also describes it as one of the most intellectually written songs he's ever heard, a real feast for the ears and mind between the music itself and the lyrics. I never would have pegged him as the type to be into ANY of the music of my adolescence, but when he asked if I'd heard the song, I was very excited. We listened to it together and had a really good discussion about the production quality of the music video and it's now one of my most cherished memories with him. I'm glad he finally gets it lol
i never thought my 4 years of music theory would actually help me understand something outside of my classes
I love this song so much and this analysis is so cool to break down things I didn't even think of.
We played Welcome to the Black Parade my senior year of college marching band and I can confirm the fast tempo is MUCH faster than double time!
It was such a fun song to perform but marching and playing at 200 bpm is.... rough...
I think “Black Parade” sounds like Springsteen meets ABBA at Warped Tour.
I never liked this song when it came out, but honestly that analysis has added so much more weight to it that I appreciate it now more than I ever used to, I also didn't know that it was essentially a concept album...
If it wasn’t a concept album, it would stand out a lot _more_ in their discography, because all the other albums are concept albums as well.
This album was actually calming in a very difficult part of my life. I wonder if it also helped others.
Definitely, this has always been one of my favorite albums but after my Grandma died from aggressive cancer the whole meaning changed for me. Comforting but reminding.
Chey
Yes!
It didn't become THE definitive "Emo Anthem" for nothing
I'm a casual music enjoyer who use to play in band. This is awesome and love this break down.
My dad grew up listening to Queen and he always told me no one will ever make a song like Bohemian Rhapsody. I just played Welcome to the Black Parade to the car radio and sometimes he switches it to his songs but not Black Parade, It just played and I knew even ifhe didn't say it. Someone did the job he thought would never happen
coming from someone who plays piano, bass guitar, guitar, recorder, drums (if i wanted too), and a vocalist who plays all of those instruments by ear and is still learning my fret board and keys on my keyboard, all this sheet music hurts my head. but its still enjoyable and I thank you for this video cause this is among the greatest songs of all time and one I personally have a favoring towards because of how unique it is.
You know, here's a question I've never bothered to ask: how do you get the tracks isolated to exemplify them?
Most songs are recorded as multiple tracks, but combined into one track through mixing and mastering. Since the released version would not have each individual track, the only real way to get them separated would be to obtain the original tracks from the recording studio.
There might also be some kind of editing software (or even an AI program) that's capable of identifying the pitch and soundwave type of an individual voice/instrument, and then "muting" anything that doesn't match the isolated sound. I don't know enough about audio engineering to say for certain if this has been done before, but it's theoretically possible with our current level of technology.
a good majority of the isolated stems 12tone and other channels use were ripped directly from Guitar Hero or Rock Band, which of course got them from the labels. considering the combined tracklist of both series (downloadable content included) has probably a couple thousand songs, there's a lot of famous songs with multitracks available if you know where to look
@@raspberriel Oh, I never considered using those games, that's super resourceful!
@@Mewwt Yeah. For the games to function the way they wanted (namely, your instrument sounding "dead" when you messed up), both Neversoft (Guitar Hero) and Harmonix (Rock Band) got the original master tracks from the band/label. You can then go into the games and adjust the levels to isolate instruments. This is also how the "And Justice For Jason" project was done (taking the tracks used in the games and boosting the volume of the bass).
Splitter (spleeter) uses AI to split tracks into vocals, drums, piano, and bass. It works pretty well for being free, unlimited, and online, but the stems in this video are too clean to be from an AI. But there are hundreds of stem-splitting AI available now, some better than others. I just found Splitter works well for basic stem extraction for playing around with in remixes.
I wish I could send an applause to this beautiful analysis.
I've listened to this song so many times over the years, but never dug into the meaning, context or music composition. This breakdown was chilling. I had no idea.
Thank you so much!
The beauty of using major scales to write sad songs is that it has a bittersweet feeling to it, as unironic as it sounds, it makes a beautiful sound :)
Where has this channel been all my life?
I need to take a page from your book and take notes like this
This song reminds me that, despite being in my thirties, I'm still an emo kid at heart.
I listened to this whole album for the first time in a while recently - I love this analysis. I don’t know a ton about music theory but I think of major vs minor as being more affect than mood? Major is high affect whether that’s happy or defiant (like this) or manic (like All Time Low’s “Tell Me I’m Alive”). And minor is low affect - less energy, less building toward something good or bad, and a bit more mellow.
This video has redefined the soundscape of one of my favourite songs. I hope you're happy with yourself.
I feel like recently (in the past 1 to 2 years) there has been a massive emo revival that often centres around MCR. I love seeing all these music theory nerds appreciate MCR for the brilliant act they were and it's awesome to see younger generations getting introduced to them through this revival too!
It’s just “Don’t Stop Believing” for people with “Nightmare Before Christmas” tattoos
I didn't know I needed this. I love everything about how you did this. Will be bingeing more.
Every video I spend 10% of my brain power marveling about how you write the music from left to right and all the text right to left.
As someone from a culture in which music theory was not always something readily available every step of the way/not matching the reality of the specific type of music composed/written/played in the territory, I'm fascinated by this analysis... Many musicians in my culture, including successful professional ones which got recognition at international level for decades, have little to no knowledge (or a shaky basic knowledge) of musical theory and those who do haven't even been taught using some of these technical terms (that's France and her Caribbean colonies fir you) as the names used for notations aren't even the same in French to begin with... The funny thing is that I could still understand everything you were saying in spite of having mostly forgotten/discarded whatever was left of my piano lessons years (some thirty years ago lol). What you said about parades really hit me because even if our parades don't typically include the same types of instruments found in American or European parades, many of your remarks were still lining up with what I have observed in Martinican Carnival parades (which are mostly centered around local types of drums). Thanks for the entertaining educational moment...
Thank you for pulling apart this song it has more meaning to me now than ever before
I know nothing about music but you kept talking and saying stuff about how this progression or that chord means xyz, and found myself thinking 'yeah, it really does, huh?'. Wonderful video, thanks for sharing
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First time viewer here... Quite simply you give me more inspiration in life, love for talents and music. Thank you.
Love, proud subscriber.
What would it take to get an album analysis? Maybe not as in-depth and just focused on key moments? I need it. This video was absolutely incredible
Hey, where do you get the isolated tracks to do these analysis's
It sounds like he uses a vocal isolater program (there's many out there) and programs midi with VST instruments for the rest.
The major G at the start always felt to me like a brave face on a tragic mind.
Please do the whole album. I was in tears
Talking about that opening: on Under Pressure, "perfection is achieved when there's nothing left to remove".
"Ogres are like onions"
Took me a min to figure out why we're drawing a Shrek S, great reference.
I know you already did Enter Sandman, but I'd love to hear your take on Master of Puppets
The glockenspiel "music box" layering adds a sense of melancholic recollection, indicating the longing to return to a better time in the patient's life, obviously their childhood when his father was still alive
It's a tool used to draw the imagery of innocence while paralleling with the finality of death; just as a wind-up music box has a finite time before it inevitably stops, so does life
This song is about grief. That plantive single note played on a keyboard by a stiff, nerveless finger in the cold light of dawn, your life a swirl around you, ending so abruptly. That opening is about grief. The yawning chasm wrenched into a heart. A song not for the dead but a triumph for the living. I'll carry on! I'll carry on! Through the dark and the hard times, I'll carry on.
Sometimes it's easy to think too much. Sometimes it's harder to just be.
This was more satisfying than all those oddly satisfying videos that I get recommended combined. Thank you algorithm you finally did it.
thanks man - this goes way beyond what people would consider music theory and truly shows how much it is intertwined with culture as a whole
I really love this breakdown. But I also like to imagine gerard and the others were probably just like "does this sound good?" "fuck yeah sure, why not".
"A light to burn all the empires, so bright the sun is ashamed to rise and be" the best lyric I think I've ever heard.
Since I know you’re a bit of a metalhead, I’m very interested to see an analysis of Retrovertigo by Mr. Bungle on here some day. The harmonies in it are so wild and interesting and the melody holds it together so well!
NICE. I'm an old, but I have always really liked TBP. I kind of knew it was a 'concept album', rock opera didn't occur to me. Your music theory usually goes way over my head, but it is fascinating to listen to.
You know it's a great song when even the people who aren't fans of the genre recognizes the song by just the starting tones.
The editing of this is really impressive
this was so good i’m going back and relistening to the whole album with a better understanding of each of trh songs and especially this one! thank you!!!
His pictures have gotten to the point of insanity haha.. it’s like the entire sheet of music paper now hahaha. I love it
This was so awesome!!! I'm not even a huge MCR fan and I appreciated this. Thank you!!! I will listen to the full album now
As an artistic lefty, I am amazed with you doodle narrative
i want that sharpie that sings
jokes aside, wonderful explanation! those visuals keep me engaged even if i know nothing about music theory
I looked up the music video once, got confused because I couldn't hear most of the lyrics well and the video is... heavily rooted in the album context turns out. Knowing the context clarifies things and now I get why the emo movement loved this song so much
Now I need The Black Parade Banjo Edition, the whole album.
Now I'm just thinking of mama being played on a banjo while an old Southern guy sings "we're meant for the flies" I need this right now
Absolutely amazingly easily-consumable breakdown! Loved it!
I sometimes forget I'm emo at heart until that G-note plays. God i love rock
This just took all the soul out of this song
Ummm idk who you are but my younger band geek still living in my soul is happy to have been here. Take my subscription.
Excellent video, bud! That album and that song in particular changed me as a person. Love to see it getting the recognition it deserves.
And just when I thought I couldn't love this song any more :')
Beautiful breakdown, and love the Fire Nation reference
i feel like there is something to mentioned about the patient being a teenager/young adult and deciding that they will not go easy into death: the black parade was meant to juxtapose against three cheers for sweet revenge, an angsty album that vaguely depicts a man's response to the death of his lover (mcr also learned music theory midway through creating the album) that invokes a feeling of sadness, with some songs sounding like a cry for help and others calling for revenge against those who wronged them. powerful lyrics and sounds, but they portray low self esteem or even a desire to die and feeling like you will never get out of the depression you are in. the black parade on the other hand took notice of how kids were responding to three cheers and essentially said, "okay guys, it's time to stop being suicidal." ultimately it is a rock opera not just made to tell a story, but is also made to try and make people want to "carry on."
12:05, reminds me of the lyric from the first track, "when I grow up, I want to be nothing at all"
I dunno why I watched this, I know nothing about music theory and I didn’t understand half the terms you said, all I know is how to read notes for playing the accordion. But it’s still interesting to hear the thought that goes behind a song and the video quality with the doodling and drawing notes on a music sheet is great. Amazing video :)
that snow analogy was beautiful
I thought this was going to be a video on what the Black Parade is in some sort of lore universe I was entirely unaware of.
I don't know all that much music theory, but I know enough to recognize what a wonderful analysis this is. Well done. I'm super impressed.
Similarly, I've edited enough videos to appreciate how tedious it must have been to time the drawings with the audio. I just subscribed
What a good song. One of my favourite beginnings of a song along with Starlings by elbow
I used to go ham copying these songs on drums back in the dizzay. Rock on
Somehow I love this song even more now
i quit listening to MCR almost immediately after junior year of high school. i guess i will now be listening to all their music on spotify nearly 10 years later
its really cool to see the black parade being recognized years later as a legitimately good album with merit unlike the past when it was seen as emo garbage
I had never thought of it as a rock opera until i saw this, and it makes total sense. It gives me Bohemian Rhapsody vibes.
So... I'm a little older than most MCR/Gerard Way listeners I guess, but whenever I heard MCR play I was fascinated. The music was so awesome, and heartfelt and amazing... and then I saw the music video for Black Parade and I was like "Huh. Well that's something." Still one of my favorite bands of all time. Although I also discovered that for other children of the 90s, if you point out how much it fills the same space as the Smashing Pumpkins, you can make some real enemies.
Even as an annoying contrarian teen, I never saw TBP as garbage. Emo, yes. But never emo garbage.
@@creekboi7 yeah i remember listening to the black parade with my father and he said they remind of queen
it’s my favorite album of all time!!
1:40 "And I'll give the emo kids in the Audience some time to recover from that G Note." I'm crying that was so hilarious, sad, and well timed.
I was literally clutching my chest because of the flood of nostalgia. I felt so called out.
@@kyndramb7050 Right?! And MCR is playing in my state capital in a few months!
@@AstralNightmareOfficial dude they are also playing in Rotterdam and I'm going?! I'm so excited!
@@jasmingovers4403 Wait, not Rotterdam NY right?
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