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I'll throw in my two cents, I guess, since I don't participate in Rank the Albums!

I love the entire Black Parade album. I wouldn't consider myself an MCR fan because I don't really like anything else they've ever done (including the rest of Gerard Way's creative pursuits), but that one just strikes a chord, and Welcome to the Black Parade just feels like the band tapped into something that they never quite managed before or again. They've been (somewhat rightfully) memed on for years for being kind of tryhard and melodramatic and maybe overly appealing to middle schoolers in the phase of their life that they later look back on in embarrassement, and WttBP isn't completely free of that, but it walks the line so much better and feels like it earns that melodrama a bit more. It feels somehow more honest in its emotions.

Like, the "Do or die" breakdown shouldn't really work - it's not exactly the peak of lyric writing - but it does. I dunno. Maybe it's just a song that doesn't land if you hear it for the first time later in life.