Gerard Way Drops Lost MCR "Black Parade" Track - Listen Now
11 February 2016, 11:44 | Updated: 8 May 2017, 17:09
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Gerard Way took to twitter yesterday to reveal a long-lost recording outtake from the session for MCR's landmark concept album The Black Parade.
The clip, a cover version of The Carpenter's classic "Superstar" was used by the singer as his warm-up in the studio before he laid down his vocals for the track "Cancer", almost putting a cover version on the final album.
Gerard explains the story in full below:
This specific recording was from the day I sang 'Cancer' for the album. This track was a warm up, as I used to warm up to The Carpenters
— sleep lord (@gerardway) February 11, 2016
It brings back a lot of memories, and in context of us making the album it's kind of intense, when you think about how hard BP was to make
— sleep lord (@gerardway) February 11, 2016
And when you think about all the crazy stuff that was about to happen to us when we released the album
— sleep lord (@gerardway) February 11, 2016
There was one point where we toyed around with putting a cover song on the album, because that would have been kind of next level
— sleep lord (@gerardway) February 11, 2016
But we already had too many tracks. Realistically, BP could have been, and almost was, a double album
— sleep lord (@gerardway) February 11, 2016
It's just one of the saddest songs
— sleep lord (@gerardway) February 11, 2016
The track certainly wouldn't feel out of place on the album, its piano-led melodrama being a perfect fit for this era of the band.
Listen to the recording below and let us know what you think:
