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- “Welcome To The Black Parade” ‘The Black Parade’ (2006) Here we are: the unquestionably best My Chemical Romance song is… “Welcome To The Black Parade,” of course.
- “I’m Not Okay (I Promise)” ‘Three Cheers For Sweet Revenge’ (2004) One of the most relatable emo songs ever written—who the hell hasn’t felt like complete shit at some point in their lives?—”
- “Helena” ‘Three Cheers For Sweet Revenge’ (2004) A touching, highly emotive tribute to the Way brothers’ late grandmother, “Helena” is the epitome of everything My Chemical Romance represented.
- “Famous Last Words” ‘The Black Parade’ (2006) FLW is kind of like MCR’s butterfly effect song. If it hadn’t happened, who knows what will have become of the band, because—at the time—it literally saved them.
Hey, I got a little bored, and decided to rank every song by MCR. Each has been split up into different tiers, and each tier has been split up into subtiers. A few other things: All of this is just my opinion, so don’t get cranky if I dismiss one of your favourites.
- Famous Last Words (The Black Parade, 2006) Famous Last Words works on so many levels. As a punctuation mark at the end of The Black Parade’s sprawling concept it combines a musical will to burn out rather than fade away with the daringly positive lyrical promise that ‘I am not afraid to keep on living, I am not afraid to walk this world alone’.
- Thank You For The Venom (Three Cheers For Sweet Revenge, 2004) MCR’s most underrated song, by far. For all the talk of their inky darkness, serrated edge and unstoppable swagger, no other track manages to pack in all those elements half as convincingly as this snarling classic.
- Welcome To The Black Parade (The Black Parade, 2006) It’s impossible to overstate the impact The Black Parade’s lead single had on listeners when it dropped at the end of summer 2006, most of them experiencing it for the first time alongside that unprecedentedly extravagant music video.
- Helena (Three Cheers For Sweet Revenge, 2004) After the emotional exhaustion of their first album cycle and racked by the guilt of having spent so long away from home, the passing of Gerard and Mikey Way’s maternal grandmother Elena Lee Rush hit the brothers like a sledgehammer.
- Mama. First things first: if you put Liza Minnelli on a pop-punk track, that song is immediately issued a first-class, one-way ticket to your band’s top five, no questions asked.
- Early Sunsets Over Monroeville. Early Sunsets Over Monroeville is Frank Iero’s finest moment, and if your rhythm guitarist is having a good game then your whole team is having a good game.
- Drowning Lessons. Strip away all of the bombast, wipe off all the eyeliner, forget everything you know about My Chemical Romance — and you have Drowning Lessons.
- Headfirst For Halos. Listening to Headfirst For Halos as an adult, it’s hard not to be impressed and stricken by the sheer intimacy of the lyrics. Headfirst For Halos has aged like Zlatan Ibrahimovic.
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Jan 24, 2020 · What follows is a bottom-to-top ranking of every My Chemical Romance song (that I am aware of), covers are exempt, demos (that I, personally, deem to differ enough to be worthy of comment) and songs not officially released are fair game, swollen with insurmountable bias.
