I'm glad we are now in a timeline where I can call The Black Parade a classic, even if I couldn't imagine myself saying that a decade ago. You'd never catch me listening to MCR or any 2000s pop punk and emo-adjacent band at the time, so I was surprised in high school when I found myself absolutely loving this record. I appreciate that MCR has earned a critical re-evaluation in more recent years, but the truth is that most of their contemporaries did not have a Black ... read more