Every My Chemical Romance Single Ranked Worst To Best
1. Welcome To The Black Parade
As soon as that G note strikes, emo fans the world over reach for their eyeliner and military jacket and get ready to sing.
Welcome To The Black Parade, the band's only Number 1 single in the UK, transcended the alt-rock culture and emo scene to become a pop culture phenomenon, still routinely played at night clubs throughout the land.
It's been said that this one song contains more ideas than many bands have in their entire career, and its influence still looms large over alternative rock today.
Channelling My Chemical Romance's Queen influences, Welcome To The Black Parade is a perfect distillation of MCR's theatricality and ambition, the centrepiece of a record so big it almost broke the band.
Though it is likely Welcome To The Black Parade will never be topped by MCR or any of their countless imitators, the song remains a cultural touchstone, a call to arms for all the Killjoys who have since lost their way to cast their mind back and remember, for a beautiful five minutes, when MCR were the most important band in the world.