MY CHEMICAL ROMANCE - The Black Parade 2xLP

Label: Reprise

In 2006, a gaggle of Jersey boys obsessed with horror movies, comic books and death made an audacious piece of goth-punk Broadway. “The Black Parade,” the third album by My Chemical Romance, was a full-fledged rock opera — the type of shameless, pretentious statement that punk was ostensibly created to destroy.

Fueled by the Beatles, Queen, Pink Floyd and a bunch of ’70s and ’80s movie musicals, MCR made “The Wall” for the era of black eyeliner and body piercing.

The group recruited Rob Cavallo, who had experience producing both Green Day and “Rent.” It concocted a complex, deeply personal story line about an ailing young hero named the Patient and sang ballads with lines like “Baby, I’m just soggy from the chemo.”

They wore marching band uniforms that looked like Tim Burton art-directing “Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band.” In a much repeated metaphor for the entire theatrical, daring endeavor, they got Liza Minnelli to sing on it. The album went triple platinum.