My Chemical Romance: all their songs, ranked

Organising musicians into genres is a game best left for fuzzy logicians. Over a long career producing albums and albums’ worth of tracks, most good bands and artists will deviate from their origins and transcend the pigeonhole.

From the grungy, melodious punk of I Brought You My Bullets, You Brought Me Your Love to the stadium-soaring Queen-rock opera of The Black Parade — few bands managed to re-invent themselves so many times over the course of just four albums as My Chemical Romance did.

Gerard Way and co. eschewed the confines of the “emo” label pretty much the second that they had set the parameters for it, and spent their 10 years together proving that they were a rock band like no other.

I’ve set myself the difficult task of ranking their songs (exlcuding B-sides and bonus tracks) from worst to best. This is what I came up with:

48. Interlude

It wouldn’t be very fair on any of MCR’s other songs, even the shakier ones, to stick them behind an interlude on a league table — so we’ll kick it off here. Interlude is bookended by The Jetset Life Is Gonna Kill You and Thank You For The Venom, a respite in the middle of a two-act play that never really changes in theme nor energy, thereby raising questions as to the real need for an interlude at all. Does what it says on the track listing though.