cupcake_goth | Still fangirling six days later

The MCR concert was amazing. They are performing the entire album of The Black Parade, but they've turned it into a weird theatre show with a different storyline than the usual album. The theme is kinda-sorta a fever dream of cold war Russia? With the band being state ordered performers to distract the masses? There's a mock election that the audience participates in, there's a "state official" who comes on stage to hand Gerard some sort of papers that Gerard rips up, there's fire, there's flashing lights, and it's all very weird and fantastic.

The band themselves were obviously having a fantastic time. Ray Toro (lead guitar) kept smiling all night, and Gerard was glorying in his punk rock theatre kid dream. And the sound for the show was some of the best mix I've heard at concerts.

After they finished with The Black Parade, the encore was songs from their other albums, letting them flail around even more. The high points for me were "Heaven Help Us" (a b-side from The Black Parade), and my two favorite songs from their first album, "Our Lady of Sorrows", and "Vampires Will Never Hurt You". MY SONG THEY PLAYED MY FAVORITE SONG. I was hoping for "Thank You for the Venom", but the other three songs made up for it.

In other words, MY G-D the show was amazing, and I am ecstatic that I'm going to SF this weekend to see them a second time.

(Oh, and Gerard is still cute. My precious rock star crush object!)

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that sounds just amazing and wonderful! I am so glad you get to see them again!

I confess that I loosened my girdle and have gotten into them recently since you love the band so much, beyond recognizing the first three notes of "Black Parade", and have added quite a few of their songs to my Spotify.

They're just so EARNEST.

They are my precious cupcakes of bombast.

Ma’am, you’ve been long overdue for a eucatastrophe, and glad to hear that the universe delivered. Also, you realize that you just dropped a band name.