My Chemical Romance: The Black Parade is Dead! (2008)

My guilty pleasure is The Black Parade. I’m 28 years old. I should not be listening to emo music but The Black Parade is a smart concept album and A) I’m attracted to smart things (Hello James Maynard Keys;)) and B) I related to the lyrics and still relate to the lyrics albeit through a more mature lens (cough::: cough::: keep telling yourself that Neil). That being said….
Two concerts are included, one from Mexico City (the last stop on the tour, thus “is Dead!” part) and one from Hoboken, NJ. The Mexico City performance is a stadium show where they perform the album from beginning to end, have costumes (actually singular but 5 band members makes it costumeS), pyrotechnics, and whole largeness that comes with an arena show. The New Jersey is in a club with a few hundred fans and just the band on a small stage a few feet from their fans.
The Mexico City concert is fun to watch and it does capture the essence of their stage show although I was initially disappointed because when I heard they were doing a stage show of their album, The Black Parade, for some reason I envisioned something as elaborate as Pink Floyd’s The Wall (not even close). The only drawback, the director cut to new cameras one or two seconds. That isn’t enough time to watch the artists perform their craft, it’s annoying, and if a band sucks, clever editing comes off as desperate---not the case here, it just came off as annoying. The NJ show was better because it was stripped down. One gets to see the band and the camera edits weren’t as often (although they were still abundant).
By virtue of including a stripped down show to accompany their stage production, this is a good concert dvd. Whose ever idea that was, kudos to them.