#black parade demos

[youmustfixyourheartt]

*i know that conventional weapons was released as a series of EPs but many people refer to them as a collective work so i counted it due to the total length

[willowkatt]

not that kind of girl appreciation + favorites off living with ghosts post ive been meaning to do for a WHILE i love it so much guys please

the wlw coding, gerard singing "these boots are made for walking and that's just what they'll do", ray's backing vocals.. i wish we had more information about the thought and production of this song cause ough people don't talk about it enough or as much as the other songs on living with ghosts (such as emily or all the angels, but i still love them too)

also can i squeeze in house of wolves version 1 appreciation. and party at the end of the world. and mama's demo. (and gerard's struggling to keep up with my way home is through you's bridge in the demo LMAO)

[imsaunteringvaguelydownwards]

House of wolves Version 1 demo by mcr is actually so fucking real, like yeah exactly that that’s exactly right

[apuff]

my chemical tober :D

[your-friendly-neighbourh00d-fag]

something about the five of us are dying, aka the demo/original form of mcr's arguably most famous song ever, that had one of the biggest cultural impacts ever, sounding like a fucking bullets demo.

[you-can-cry-all-you-want-to]

Does anyone know who Emily is? I've never heard anything about this song, and I've been wondering for a while.

[smeagles]

Disenchanted (Live Demo) // My Chemical Romance

[alicethehollow]

I really like the live demo for All The Angels. I think it sounds really good and pretty unique. I sometimes wonder why it never got a proper release on an album or as a single. But then I wonder, would I like the demo as much if it got a proper release?

Because listening to the other demos for actually released songs on Living With Ghosts... I don't really like them. Especially the one for Mama (which is probably my favorite song from TBP). The only one I find interesting is House of Wolves because of how different the first demo sounds to the final song

It really makes me think how the demos would have sounded if given the proper treatment. All of them. Except The Five of Us Are Dying. Just sounds way too close to WTTBP. The only unreleased demo I don't like

[sourcedecay]

My music taste just gets progressively whinier

[merlindotpdf]

place your bets for tonight's costume if it's a repeat I'm thinking either the nurse, ghost or skeleton, if it's a callback? joan of arc. if it's something new? ..... im not sure how it will fit but.... dare i say.... wedding dress...... ...

[spleen9000]

ok after listening to all of mcr's discography and music videos in chronological order up through danger days, I've finally come around on that album and I love it now. it makes so much sense in context and it was the perfect last album for them.

[willowkatt]

"do you want it?" in house of wolves version one live demo.. sigh..

[foolsdiamond]

puts my Broadway karkat cd in my car

chants "it's okay to be cringe, it's okay to be cringe" until I'm calm enough to sit back and enjoy

[mcrfirefly2022]

THE BLACK PARADE IS DEAD‼️

[girlgerard]

i’ve been thinking a lot about gerard’s character they developed in the last leg of this tour and the way i believe it really solidified what we might have coming for us in the future.

it’s really sweet, if you look in the comments of some of the videos from brisbane and osaka, you can see people who’ve obviously been my chem fans for at least 15 years saying things like ‘i’ve watched every video from this tour and this is the first show where i really saw the spark come back’ and ‘that’s the gerard way i remember’ and other cheesy shit like that. and the thing is they’re totally right!

this whole tour developed more fluidly in intensity and meaning than in any of their previous gigs. mcr has always been a band to change with their time and creative drive, but this was a different type of transition to me. you could see as characters started to be built, from gerard DIY’ing his own costumes in europe to increasingly meaningful outfits with whole backstories in the USA all the way to one consistent character with a uniquely terrifying stage presence in the last leg.

that last character, at least to me, is totally gripping. she’s unexplained, she’s scary as hell, she’s near-undead, she has this commanding presence gerard hasn’t really done since early-mid black parade. in every single performance they’re so in-character and it’s such a BLAST

importantly, this character also showed up in the shortest, least-publicized part of the tour. imo she wasn’t meant for cameras, really.

to me it’s so clear that she’s a result of gerard earnestly solidifying where they might want their next artistic endeavors to go - that kind of serious direction, maybe even that character specifically.

he’s talked about how he always has stage characters that reflect his music and, broadly, things they’re working through in their life. the revenge stage character was a mix of both demo lovers which can have a ton of different interpretations, the patient was a joan-esque personification of grief and existentialism, party poison was a pop-art way of dealing with your own artistic/literal death. it makes me wonder why this character, the only truly consistent character this whole tour, came about, and if it’s related to gerard’s nightly diatribes on war and later-tour statements on (presumably) queer/trans rights.

it also makes me think that we have a lot coming in the future. a character that solid and a direction so suddenly bottlenecked into such a specific concept, such a mychemicalromance concept, especially out of a tour that was originally supposed to be a casual celebration of music, i think points towards something new.

[aresissad]

You can never listen to any of the songs on that album again, including demos and live versions