The Black Parade is a Romantic Masterpiece

You take Victor Hugo’s Les Miserables, a Romantic Era novel and also take the lyrics from the Broadway musical adaptation of the novel and add them to the Emo or Romantic Quiz. Les Mis is peak Emo. Especially the way the film interpreted it, good lord.

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If you're gonna compare the Black Parade to A Night At the Opera and Sgt. Pepper, you really need to compare it to The Wall and Ziggy Stardust

My favorite band on PBS?!?!? I never clicked so fast.

you have no idea how much of my niche this is

Gerard Way went to my art college. He did a lot of his band's illustrations and would likely have more of a grasp of history and romanticism than the average person.

G note intensifies

Well it's not that emo can't teach one about something or anything. Punk & hardcore have never been removed from the inflection of poetry or other related artform, emo always derives from its root. But if we're to draw some artistic parallel, then there's been a lot of examples since the first and second wave of emo itself.

The song "Shut the Door" by Fugazi is an impressionistic masterpiece, simply by virtue of its unrestrained DIY artistry and sincerity to repurpose abrasive sounds and contextually augmented it, alongside the raw burst of emotional explosion, in a way simply NOT previously imaginable or so common in the general HxC scene.

It's arguably quite analogous to how Debussy and Ravel broke the mainstream mould of the classical music itself, even within the romantic current itself at the time.

I have a big Black Parade / Living With Ghosts cross on the back of my left hand, for the 10th anniversary. 20th… wow.

The Black Parade is good live

Yeah, of course I can. The cannons!

It’s not minus the cannons, there’s a cannon shot at the very end of Welcome To.

They're talking about MCR on PBS.. I need to go to bed.

Welcome To The Black Parade, the song that can summon an entire generation with just one note

Oh my literature nerd came out hard during this video hehehe… The very word choices can tell you a lot about WHEN a poem or song is from. I don't know much about MCR (I don't know how this happened, and I have half a dozen friends metaphorically beating down my door to listen to the group), but I instantly knew that Emily Dickinson quote; and again by word choice alone I knew the MCR lyrics had to be modern, and at LEAST late 20th Century. (Mostly because the notion of a kids show didn't exist before the age of television, and the word "ain't" was definitely not in use during the Romantic period, haha: like I said, very much a lit nerd!)

It is very fascinating though to draw the connections between these older eras and now. Humans have always had big feelings, I think, but culture has DEFINITELY changed how we talk about feelings in general, whether they are sad or not. I half expected to hear you mention Expressionist music too, though perhaps that edges more towards metal and shock-rock genres where "noises" are a vital part of the sound. And all this without even touching on the groups that have literally taken Romantic poetry and set it to music <3 Love it!