The Black Parade is still as good as it was when I first heard it. Ages like a fine wine. Production is top notch, songwriting is superb & effective. "The End." is a perfect opener. What hasn't been said ab "Welcome to the Black Parade"? "Cancer", "Mama" & "Sleep" back to back to back are perfect, being the best written tracks imo. "Famous Last Words" is a hard hitting outro & "Blood" is a perfect end-credits type ... read more
One of the best records to drop in years.
HOWEVER: "it ain't love if you ain't never eat my ass" is an unforgivable line & nearly ruins the entirety of Purple Hearts
genuinely awful production, post does his thing so lamely & ive never heard the weeknd care less ab a performance
Tbh this album sounds like a bunch of worse versions of previous old school beach boys songs. I don’t see the appeal in this one nearly as much
"Bones" sees Imagine Dragons trying nothing new, in fact it's the most safe sounding cookie cutter alternative poop song ever. bro has such a horrible godawful no good voice! they rly should collab w AJR
Most of this album is unfinished nonsense. The content that sounds most competent is the most generic sounding music Ye could have ever have made. When the songwriting isn’t literally mumbled nothings its bewilderingly awful. Lazy, unfinished, generic, self absorbed, hostile and abusive π
With all that being said, Soulja Boy’s contribution has to bump it up at least a cuppa points. Bro carries the whole project and I don’t wanna hear any of you pussies telling me otherwise
sounds nearly the same as the original but the original is fire