Three Cheers For Sweet Revenge
| My Chemical Romance
Three Cheers For Sweet Revenge
Three Cheers for Sweet Revenge is the second studio album by American rock band My Chemical Romance, released on June 8, 2004 by Reprise Records.[ With this album, produced a cleaner sound than that of their 2002 debut I Brought You My Bullets, You Brought Me Your Love. It was the band's final release to feature drummer Matt Pelissier, who would later be replaced by Bob Bryar. -Wikipedia
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Rolling Stone
Born of an intense desire for something more and backed by a major-label budget, Three Cheers marked the moment when My Chemical Romance began to realize Way's aspirations, lifting them out of New Jersey and onto the global stage. And though they'd push the boundaries of theatrical rock even further on The Black Parade, their purposeful revolution started here.
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COS
I couldn’t change the title of the article for the sake of regularity within our exclusive features, but had I been able to, the title might have read “Retrieve This From Your Garbage Can: My Chemical Romance – Three Cheers For Sweet Revenge“. If you’re anything like me, you probably saw the video for “Helena” on MTV in 2005 and dismissed My Chemical Romance as just another Yellowcard: terrible in all the worst ways.
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COS
For this edition of Dusting ‘Em Off, CoS staffers Megan Ritt, Dominick Mayer, Killian Young, and Dusty Henry re-channel their teenage angst and don black marching band uniforms and plenty of guyliner as they aim to put My Chemical Romance’s sophomore album, Three Cheers for Sweet Revenge, in perspective a decade later.
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Rolling Stone
Twenty-plus years after the Misfits terrorized New Jersey, their Garden State descendants My Chemical Romance embrace the goth-punk revival in style. Sweet Revenge has the same shout-along choruses, speedy drums and horror themes that fueled Glenn Danzig’s old outfit, but it also adds cool metal licks and a sneaky sense of humor (see the thrash-cabaret hybrid “You Know What They Do to Guys Like Us in Prison”).
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Immortal Reviews
Three Cheers For Sweet Revenge is a largely stronger album than its predecessor, freshening up the band's sound and moving them towards the sound they became known for.
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Common Sense Media
The band makes loud, focused, driving music that's much better than most of the power-punk out there. There's the intensity and fashion sense of goth music, combined with the musical force of punk-metal. The language isn't gratuitous, but it can be severe. Nearly all the tracks are violent or deal with death (or both).
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Plugged In
Death is at the hub of this disc. Lead singer Gerard Way told Rolling Stone that it’s a concept album about “two lovers who die in the desert in a gunfight.
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PunkNews.Org
The album keeps up with this formula, of a very well produced, very hooky (in a dark, Hot-Topic-sellable way), easy-to-sing-with choruses until it becomes painfully obvious that there's no end to shallow water anytime soon.
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AltPress
Although My Chemical Romance began gaining popularity with their 2002 debut I Brought You My Bullets, You Brought Me Your Love, it was really their 2004 sophomore effort that both showcased their songwriting skills and gave them much-deserved attention. The disc, which opens with Gerard Way’s breathlessly compelling delivery of the mournful “Helena,” holds up as a cohesive collection of tracks that skirt the line between pop-punk and edgy, theatrical emo.
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AllMusic
Rightly signed to a larger label (in this case, Reprise Records), MCR has returned in 2004 with Three Cheers for Sweet Revenge. With the aid of production major-leaguer Howard Benson, they've edited the slight rookie excesses of I Brought You My Bullets You Brought Me Your Love, resulting in a rewarding, pretty damn relentless product.
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