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Musically, My Chemical Romance is competent. Most of the songs are instrumentation-heavy mid-to-up-tempo pop-punk, with metal guitar flourishes creeping in around the edges. They’re perfectly serviceable for the genre, and many have a flair for catchiness that makes it difficult to avoid bopping along...
...better. “Mama” flirts with cabaret punk, with a level of success that depends completely on how much you like 1) that sub-genre and 2) Liza Minelli, who guest stars. “I Don’t Love You” is a guitar-driven lament that reaches almost Nickelbackian proportions of blandness...
They fare slightly better on the quieter songs “Cancer” and “Disenchanted,” which, while lyrically as bombastic as any of the other tracks, manage a few moments of musical understatement, with simple piano or guitar lines before they jet off into the emosphere. While the writing is stronger here, lead singer Gerard Way’s voice is least suited to these songs, with a nasal quality that can’t do sadness well, quietly...
...voice like that of Jim Morrison in The Doors’s “Soft Parade” begins to narrate. The 20-minute “opera” continues with a music mash-up that would have Girl Talk drooling with envy. Opera, blues, narration, electric guitar, “When a Man Loves a Woman,” and more combine with the lights and the ambient noise to place the viewer squarely in the moment, unable to move from the window through which the opera is played out. Finally, the narration signals...
...Gracenote, the company that codes and sorts music on Apple's iPod and most MP3 players, says the technology performs with better than 90% accuracy on a 3- to 5-second sample. "I have been in a bar that was so noisy all I could detect was a guitar chord - and that was enough," he says. Gracenote's MMID database includes more than 10 million musical fingerprints, and Track ID works at any point in the song. Now if only my Track ID-enabled phone could identify the acquaintance whose name slipped my mind at the nightclub, it would...