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Three Cheers For Sweet Revenge (Parental Advisory),My Chemical Romance

- Three Cheers For Sweet Revenge (Parental Advisory)
- - 7,598,204 plays
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  - 1,025 shares
My Chemical Romance
Released 2004

The Ghost Of You
03:23
936,203 plays

To The End
03:01
533,356 plays

You Know What They Do To Guys Like Us In Prison
02:54
500,107 plays

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- 1
- Helena
- 03:23
- 1,411,899 plays

- 2
- Give 'Em Hell, Kid
- 02:19
- 478,666 plays

- 3
- To The End
- 03:01
- 533,356 plays

- 4
- You Know What They Do To Guys Like Us In Prison
- 02:54
- 500,107 plays

- 5
- I'm Not Okay (I Promise)
- 03:08
- 1,124,427 plays

- 6
- The Ghost Of You
- 03:23
- 936,203 plays

- 7
- The Jetset Life Is Gonna Kill You
- 03:38
- 366,880 plays

- 8
- Interlude
- 00:57
- 234,093 plays

- 9
- Thank You For The Venom
- 03:41
- 496,027 plays

- 10
- Hang 'Em High
- 02:47
- 364,461 plays

- 11
- It's Not A Fashion Statement It's A Deathwish
- 03:31
- 392,902 plays

- 12
- Cemetery Drive
- 03:08
- 412,594 plays

- 13
- I Never Told You What I Do For A Living
- 03:52
- 346,636 plays

album review

My Chemical Romance's 2002 debut was a particularly strident entry in that shifty genre of bands tortuously slamming together elements of emo, hardcore, and even metal. 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. Ghosts wander through this Sweet Revenge, and the blood-stained lovers of its cover are no joke. "Would I die for you? Well here's your answer in spades...Got you in my sights," Gerard Way wails in "Hang 'Em High." There's also cinematic concepting here -- "The story of a man. A woman. And the corpses of a thousand evil men..." the liners intone. "You Know What They Do to Guys Like Us in Prison" begins "In the middle of a gunfight/In the center of a restaurant." Musically the cut's claustrophobic, messy, and juiced with adrenaline, just like the Tokyo crime caper shootout it was probably inspired by. Picture antiheroes leaping sideways with twin pistols blaring -- in slow motion, you know -- and you're close. Put an old At the Drive-In record on in the background, and suddenly you're shot in the arm and down to your last clip. Economic, treble-kicking production, consistently hyper, "Let's get to the next note NOW!" instrumentation, and great thematic songwriting -- Three Cheers teems with the influences MCR shares with its peers, but recent efforts from fellow travelers Thursday and A.F.I. don't have this furious immediacy, this coarseness that's so appealing. My Chemical Romance seems to have built-in restrictive bindings that prevent it from flying off the handle into quiet-loud screamo stereotyping or odd-bird stopovers into choral parts or maudlin piano. Something like "Ghost of You" might slow the pace, but it doesn't touch the railing guitars or inventively explosive drumming. Album highlights include the propulsive chain shots "Give 'Em Hell Kid" and "To the End," where layers of vocals increase urgency over modernist post-punk, or the raucous "Thank You for the Venom." There's no question of Reprise's high hopes for My Chemical Romance and Three Cheers for Sweet Revenge. But its accessibility pays tribute to anger and bullet holes in black leather. ~ Johnny Loftus, All Music Guide

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- - The Black Parade Is Dead!
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listener reviews

- - AMAZING!
  - - By Ali Apparatus
    - 8/7/2009 21:36:40
  - This album is amazing. All of MCR's albums are great and have heartful and honest lyrics but this is the album I always come back to whenever I'm feeling sad or whatever. It always picks me up and gets me pumped. The music is fantastic, their voices (Gerard's and Ray's) are amazing. I love the tone and style.
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- - !
  - - By LargerJake1994
    - 8/5/2009 13:28:25
  - its 2 bad i gave this cd 2 my ex 4 her birthday i was so pissed when we broke up but i was even more pissed when i remembered the album lol
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- - Amazing.
  - - By xomichi
    - 5/21/2009 06:20:08
  - I'm a huge fan of MCR and my love of them started with this album. I was going through a hard patch in my life when I first heard them and this album helped me a lot. From this album I moved onto their first album and have been hooked since. :) My favorite song of all time is The Ghost Of You. Nothing in my mind can beat this song..Ever.
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- - Just When I Thought
  - - By KAULITZFAN95
    - 5/15/2009 17:34:36
  - Just when I thought that they couldn't get any better after "The Black Parade" I listened to "Three Cheers for Sweet Revenge". This band is truly one of the greatest. No one will ever forget them
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- - Last Song
  - - By Nizio
    - 3/27/2009 14:59:25
  - Fav album by them is this one and I never told you what i did for living is their best song on here i don't know why but song reminds me of the manga/anima Deathnote >.< srry if you people disagree But the songs the greatest
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- - Inspiration Elite!!!
  - - By Lovely Dagger
    - 2/11/2009 00:04:46
  - Inspiration pours into you when you listen to this CD. One of the best albums ever and anyone who disagrees just don't know what they are missing.
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- - mcr
  - - By vampirefiend
    - 2/4/2009 02:48:22
  - i just luvvv their song.'the jetset life is gonna kill you',>.<
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- - Freaking sweetness
  - - By Jeanetta14
    - 1/5/2009 21:48:33
  - I think this is absolutly my favorite CD they made..
    I only started liking them after hearing this CD. Now i am completely obsessed!
    Keep on rocking Gerard, Bob, Frank, Mikey, and Ray =)
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- - Fantastic
  - - By rock and roll i
    - 12/31/2008 02:32:31
  - This is one of the first albums I ever bought. I'd sit in my chair and listen to alot of songs over and over and over and over. Gerard's voice is amazing in this cd and Frank is swelltastic on the guitar (especially in "It's not a Fashion statement, It's a Deathwish"). I think it's tied with I Brought You My Bullets for being their best work. It deserves a listen from all fans of the alt. rock genre =D.
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- - Lots of Energy
  - - By odraudex
    - 11/20/2008 21:58:11
  - My favorite album. I think it has a lot of energy and the songs have a poetic feeling for me. I like every single song on this album, but my favorite songs are Helena, Cemetery Drive, and It's Not a Fashion Statement, It's a Death wish.
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