A huge step down from their previous album Three Cheers, which I love, into making American Idiot-esque Christmas pop punk. The narrative is decent enough, this is the album that blew them up anyways, but the songs are weak. It almost feels like a record full of filler. I had forgotten how annoying the verse sections are on Welcome to the Black Parade though Teenagers has grown on me considerably from high school when I hated it and it might be my favorite track here other than House of Wolves, but the rest is terribly hit or miss.
