Welcome to the Black Parade - My Chemical Romance (New Orleans Marching Band Cover) ft. Joey Cook 

Is it just me or is this version more of a “passionately hopeful” kind of vibe while the original is more of an “Angry and Determined” feel. Both are amazing. Great job!!

A song about going on living after loss, translated into funeral jazz? This one pretty much wrote itself, and you nailed it.

Took me a second to figure out why you guys chose New Orleans style, but then I remembered how New Orleans does funerals...Damn good theming and playing!

Her voice is amazing, such an interesting pitch. With a lot of personality.

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I love how you can tell she knows how high the stakes are for this song

Oh god, I haven’t been g noted

Are you guys kidding? Joey was THE perfect voice for this. That awesome lift between carry and on. I love how she makes this her own.

I want this played at my funeral. And they had better dance at it.

I wonder if 50 years from now in some jazz history class they'll be like "and scott Bradley was a band leader that kept older styles alive in the 2000's"

Ain't never seen a marching band with a piano ,Scott.

My best friend committed suicide the day before this video was released. I consider it the perfect tribute song and a reminder that we have to carry on with our lives even after people we love leave it. I miss you lots buddy. If you are reading this and are in a bad place please reach out to your friends or anybody because once you're broken and defeated you're weary widows must carry on. It's really unfair. Thanks for the feels PMJ. Now I cant hear this song without bawling like a baby.

If The black parade was in a Disney movie sound track

I have listened to My Chemical Romance's version of this song....I couldn't begin to guess how many times....but I had never *heard* it before this version. It gave me happy tears. Joey Cook is as cute as button and the way she sings "on" is flippin' adorable. Her voice and this arrangement brought completely new light to this song for me.

I can't believe you finally did it!!! There's two drummers and BOTH are in frame!

This group is tightly coordinated and sweet to hear. I love all the acoustic instruments, but mostly I love the singer's unique, warm voice. I'm not a professional musician, but used to perform as a "personality" whose voice was key to my work. Her delivery wrings every tiny meaning out of this incredible song! Wow, I have to keep listening, lol.🙇‍♀️

Missing the iconic first note, but exceptional job once again PMJ!

Revisiting this as I sit in a hotel in Shreveport, waiting for the roads to be clear to go back home to New Orleans after Hurricane Ida. Bless this cover. Truly.

I've been waiting for you guys to cover this song. I can feel Hot Topic, black band shirts, and studded leather wrist bands calling me back because of you guys

When you're an emo kid in the 1900s

You guys are unbelievable. Pmj deserve to be a genre in music. The music is so soothing.

If this ended up playing in the next season of Umbrella Academy...

Y'know ... Years ago I had made an arrangement with my nieces and nephews to lead the funeral dirge singing this song, in the event of my untimely demise. Turning it into a New Orleans style funeral dirge is just the way to kick it up a notch. Very well done.

I love how PMJ just introduced me to a fascinating original song. And, now I understand how this PMJ song version oddly relates and refers to the original in creative ways.

Aaaaand I'm 15 years old again. I can literally eat a whole pizza and run for miles, at 2am.

Huh, so this is what Nonon Jakuzure did after she graduated from Kill La Kill's highschool.

This was a funny coincidence. I literally just googled "MCR in jazz style"

Love the sousaphone part. Dude's killing it.

My first reaction was “What? That song doesn’t need a cover!” Now I’m wiping tears from my eyes because this is so gorgeous.

I'm so happy to see Joey again. Her voice is so unique and oddly powerful. I've never heard the original, but I love this!

when you're emo but also classy

Sometimes when I listen to music, certain songs form a scene in my mind. Here is this one (which turned out longer than I thought it would when I began): For many years now, our story's hero, Reg, has been living in an odd world that resembles something out of the 1920s, but with elements of the 40s and 50s, and occasionally things more modern. Despite the oddness of his city, he has lived very well, having great joys and great adventures. One evening, as the sun has almost set, he is walking through his city's largest park, and he sees and hears a band playing this song. The words are familiar, but the tune is not what he is accustomed to. They bring back memories of another life, a life in our world, and he begins to weep. An old, wizened man in a Black Parade uniform, with the insignia of a railroad on his hat and a badge which reads "Conductor" walks up to Reg from behind the band, and they listen together. In our world, Reg is lying upon a hospital bed, surrounded by loved ones and life support machines. Reg has been in a coma for several years now, and the doctors are going to pull the plug. His mother, remembering how he loved the music of MCR, is playing the original version of this song for him, hoping against all scientific odds that it somehow reaches him. The song ends, and the plug is pulled. The band in the park finishes playing, and the Conductor walks with Reg to the central train station. The streets of Reg's city are silent now, save for a faint breeze blowing through. Reg and the Conductor board a train, the only train in the station, the last train that will leave this station, and the train departs, bound for the Otherworld. The Conductor hands Reg a bundle of papers. "You received quite a number of telegrams, young man." Reg reads through the papers, each of which is a message of loving farewell from each of his loved ones. Reg cries, responding aloud to each message with his own statements of love. "I love you too, Aunt Georgine." "I love you too, Cindy." "I love you too, Alex." "I love you too, Mom and Dad." The Otherworldly train passes the last building in Reg's city, and travels into the mists beyond.

*IF MCR AND Pretty. Odd. HAD A BABY!!!*

This reminds me of Over The Garden Wall!

Utter joy to watch. 💜💖

To be honest, I never thought a marching band song would give me chills.

I screamed a little when I saw this. You guys made my emo heart so happy!

Honestly the transition at 2:55 for "do or die" is my favourite part of the song, and has been stuck in my head for days.

New Orleans funerals have upbeat music like this as a tradition, it actually fits quite well.

I'm so obsessed with this cover. Her voice, the instruments, the way certain parts make me feel emotional, just everything. This is such a fantastic cover. I listened to this a few weeks ago for the first time and had kept humming it and now today I've listened to it 3 times in a row. 😅

Love it. The piano brass and percussion are all on point and that voice is just so airy and fun, starting off this season strong y'all!

Bradlee's piano playing is exquisite

Well Caitlyn Doughty will be proud. I found my funeral song. Thanks PMJ and MCR for this perfect combo.

One of my favorite PMJ videos. Great arrangement. Musical geniuses. The words are great, too.

Crazy Good Cover 💐⭐️🎤⭐️

So great to see the lovely Joey Cook back with PMJ. She always brings such joy.

That's it. This is the best video on RU-vid. It's only downhill from now on. Thank you for everything.

Ngl, this song is so overplayed that I don’t feel much anymore when I listen to it but this version fucking gets me… they nailed it

As soon as I saw “My Chemical Romance” I clicked. WHERE MY KILLJOYS AT??

I'm smiling like an idiot and tearing up at the same time. What a great surprise this was. Thank you for this.

Joey did a wonderful job on this, but I couldn't help but think Puddles could have reached the stratosphere.

Joey Cook is by far one of my favorite singers from PMJ

I love the way she sing "on"! It's everything

New Orleans comes BLASTING through like a tsunami! Excellent!

I'm so glad yall are back. Wish yall did teenagers. Still beautiful.

Did I just go into the rawring 20s with a jazz cover of Black Parade? Yes. Yes I did and I regret NOTHING

Kudos to all the pianist that are on a marching band 😂

Listening to the lyrics sung this way made me remember why I loved this song in the first place. Moved me to tears. Truly the Millennial anthem.

The lack of G is unacceptable

Joey could sing me the phone book and it'd sound amazing. This was perfect. Every aspect, but damn does Joey have the best voice. Every PMJ cover with her is gold. Hard to beat the winds, either. Can't say enough how much I love this.

I adore this. I always wanted a Jazz style flourish as a finale for my funeral....I have requested that it be this particular version of a great song!!! Hopefully not too soon!

The most apt song for a tonally different cover from MCRs catalog is Headfirst for Halos in my opinion. I can hear a tonally upbeat version in there somewhere totally at odd with the very dark lyrics.

Oh what fun! My optimistically macabre spirit is dancing away. Thanks October!

Your performances are so much fun, Joey, and I love the songs you perform. I don't know if you choose them or if you are chosen for them, but you do them so well either way. This was a fantastic choice of style for this song, the jazz and the themes of the song reminded me so much of seeing a New Orleans funeral procession, which I'm sure was the intention. Excellent arrangement as usual, Scott.

It looks like such a bright sunny day, unlike the perpetual rain we've had for the past 4 months.

At first I wasn’t feeling the New Orleans aspect, or even the marching band part, but I waited and then it was there. I felt it!!!

Like a lot of people Joey's vocals didn’t quite do it for me initially, but the more I listen to it the more I like it. To be fair, PMJ's covers are always far from the original, yet still capture the song’s essence and I think in this case, despite the unusual but nicely understated singing, I still feel like the essence of the original song is still very much within this cover, especially with the key change at the end and just the fact that the marching band style is the most appropriate style of all for MCR's Black Parade!!

It's always amazing when you guys take a song or band i can't stand and make it amazing. Another one of those today. Loved it. Joey sounded great here!

THEY ARE BACK! Go back under that tree after 6 years and ressurect the marching stick!

This is amazing! I honestly can't express just how much I love this! Such a deviation from the original! And of course you had the perfect vocalist for this! As soon as she started the first thought that went through my mind was "Of course Joey is doing this! It's only proper." I have so much more to say but I can't even put it into words. This is easily up there in my favourite arrangements and performances from all of you! Bravo! And may nothing but good fortune follow you all!

This was great, but it just reminds me how much, I just LOVE Joey Cook's ... unique sense of STYLE & BEING. Gawd I love her!

as a new Orleans native I'll say this is more jazz club than marching band, but i think we all know that seeing as how there's a piano present lol

Heard this live yesterday in Braga. You guys were amazing, as always, but this song stole the night for me. Joey, you're amazing. 😍

I could not help thinking the singer looked a bit like Nonon from Kill la Kill, lol. But ignore me being a loser; I really enjoyed this cover!

This works on so many levels

What an amazing cover ! I love it ! It kinda makes me wonder what some emo french songs like "Dernière Danse" or "Le Chemin" from Kyo would soung like with the Postmodern Jukebox treatment.

oh im so in love with that piano ragtime plays at verse

This cover was the first MCR song I heard and almost a year later I’m totally obsessed with MCR XD

At first I saw "Welcome to the Black Parade" and I was like" whoa", then I saw Joey Cook and was like "damn".

Now everyone on the bus thinks I'm insane... I'm not sorry PMJ AND MCR IN ONE VIDEO 🥰🥰🥰😁😁😁😁😁😁😁😁😁😁😁😁😁😁😁😁😁😁😁😁😁

I like the attention to detail to early Louisiana Jazz or Dixieland Jazz because alot of early jazz bands used a tuba instead of a double bass. I also like the touch of not using a drumset as it didn't come into play untill jazz started to kick off between the 1910-late 20's

The perfect MCR cover doesn't exi...

Love how bassist just splits after the intro. 'Goodnight folks, thats my time.'

Very interesting, I liked it! Joey Cook really brings out the down-to-earth every-man singing that I think went well with the song.

i appreciate PMJ trying to cover this again (broadway style) but this? this is perfection...

emo 13-year-old me is crying (brings out the eyeliner)

Been watching. Your vids as far back as the burn cover and they just keep getting better and better.

Me: oop. He’s setting down the base Me: wtf you doing with your bow buddy? Me: wait base where are you going? Come back Me: no seriously you just gonna leave your base on the ground??? You better come back before I snatch it

If I could use every word in every language that has ever been spoken, I don't think I would have the words to describe how fukin' amazing I thought this was. Perfect in every way

its like MCR was meant to always be played like this...I like the outside scenery its different :)

Oh, they nailed this one. That was so good.

seeing this just 2 days after mcr announced they're getting back together is amazing

Wow the brass made me so happy as soon as they started

I feel as though I love all the covers everyone else hates and vice versa. I've been pretty underwhelmed lately but I genuinely enjoyed this and the new Wayne Brady cover.

I love Joey Cook's PMJ videos. Such a unique voice.

MCR is my favourite band, i absolutely love them, and this is an amazing job, the voice, the music...Thanks a lot for allowing this to exist in the world ....asfggjkllsnx

PMJ is like a gem..I tot I’ve heard all their fantastic sounds...but nooooo...some of them are just like hidden gems...

THIS IS PURE ART

nailed that new orleans marching band sound an also a cool song kudos

when you actually realized that this can be a tribute to MCR's national anthem. (SULITE) fellas!!!