Track Listing

1. Helena
2. Give 'Em Hell, Kid
3. To The End
4. You Know What They Do To Guys Like Us In Prison
5. I'm Not Okay (I Promise)
6. The Ghost Of You
7. The Jetset Life Is Gonna Kill You
8. Interlude
9. Thank You For The Venom
10. Hang 'Em High
11. It's Not A Fashion Statement, It's A Deathwish
12. Cemetery Drive
13. I Never Told You What I Do For A Living

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #3405 in Music
• Published on: 2004
• Released on: 2004-06-08
• Number of discs: 1
• Format: Explicit Lyrics

Album Description
Japan exclusive limited edition of 2004 album includes one bonus track, a bonus disc with eight additional tracks, & a DVD (NTSC/Region 2). * Please note you will need an All Code DVD player to view. Warner. 2005.

Customer Reviews

Three cheers for My Chemical Romance
I heard The Black Parade for at least a year, always complaining extensively about it, then suddenly realized how great it was. It was sudden and completely unexpected. I guess I just had to get used to the very dark and somewhat violent lyrics. But I have to say, now My Chemical Romance is one of my favorite bands ever. I heard about Three Cheers for Sweet Revenge and got it since I was such a great (if late) fan of the other CD. At first I wasn't that impressed. But by the second time over I heard it, I was already convinced it could compete with The Black Parade. However, I don't think I would recognize it immediately as My Chemical Romance as based on their other CD. For one thing, on average, it's a much heavier CD, (for example, here you don't have any songs like Cancer, with just piano, or Disenchanted, with soft guitar and a little drums). There's no piano here and all the songs are obviously love songs, which wasn't true for the other CD. The rather jazzy undertone from TBP is absent here. Besides, Gerard's voice is very different. At the beggining of Cementery Drive I thought it was a woman singing. And, well, not much in the matter of music, he looks completely different. All songs have more or less the same structure and if I have to point out a weak point is that the last thrird of every song is like they're just filling in some more time by repeating parts over again and adding some unnecesary instrumentations. Still, all the songs are excellent, although I don't particularly get the Interlude (although it's just 57 seconds). Also, I don't think sensitive people should read the lyrics, because they're a "little" violent.
All things considered, it's still the best sound I've heard in a long time, not since their other CD and Evanescence. I recommend it. They deserve every bit of their five stars.

Why am I reviewing this?
I hate emo. I hate bands like Taking Back Sunday, Finch, Hawthorne Heights, etc etc etc. This is a dying trend of music that came and went pretty fast in the 2002-2005 time period, and frankly I'm glad it's gone, even if the pseudo hardcore/ freaky deaky stop-start-stop-start music is no better.

So what is it about this CD? Well this is what it is. My Chemical Romance and the Used, which are the only two bands in the emo/scene that I can deal with without wanting to kill myself because of how bad the music is, have one thing that the other bands do not. Rhythm and flow. That is, the music sounds like rock music that is chock full of quirks and curveballs, not a bunch of incoherant sounds that were accidentally meshed together and then saved by mistake. No, My Chemical Romance, while I admit that I used to hate, actually deserve some credit here, because they manage to make a music that is so incredibly mainstream friendly, but they still stay true to the fact that they are musicians. The craft songs that have a rocking feel to them, that you could bang your head to if you wanted. YES I SAID BANG YOUR HEAD NOT HARDCORE DANCE LIKE SOME OF THESE OTHER BANDS OUT THERE. Now I don't know what fans do at shows like these, I've never seen this band live and never intend to. Honest to God I sold this CD to protect my ego and pride, and get some money to buy some more Bad Religion, but I burned myself a copy before I did and every once in a million years I listen to it, because as much as I would love to dismiss this band as mainstream codswallup, I can't, because they're not. Their new CD, the one after "Black Parade" has rumors about it returning to a simpler punkier feeling roots. If they did that, that'd truly be great. They need to step away from the mainstream garbage because quite frankly, they're a step above it.

I don't have all that much more insight to the typical person who would read this review or like this band, but that's okay 'cause they probably spend more time in Hot Topic than they would actually reading anything, and they probably already have this CD illegally downloaded for their ipod anyway, so it's not like I'm going to be the decision maker as to whether you buy this CD. But if I hypothetically was the decision maker, I'd say borrow it from someone, listen to it, maybe burn a copy, and if you're really into that, why not buy it.

Highlight Tracks: "Thanks for the Venom" "Till the End" "Give 'em Hell Kid"

AMAZING!
I purchsed their first album "I Brought You my Bullets, You brought you me your love", and I was taken aback my how great these guys are. So as soon as "Three Cheers For Sweet Revenge" was released, I ran out and bought it. I was NOT disappointed at all, amazing album. Every song on that album is beautiful. Gerard Way has an beautiful voice, and does an awesome job of making you feel the emotion of the music, I mean really feel it. This being their sophomore album, they definitely didn't hit that sophomore slump as most bands do. My favorite song on the album is "Thank You For The Venom", the words to that song are BEAUTIFUL. Especially "You'll never make me leave ,I wear this on my sleeve Give me a reason to believe." "Gimme all your poison, and gimme all your pills, gimme all your hopeless hearts and make me ill. You're running after something that you'll never kill, if this is what you want then fire at will." There is definitely a story behind this album, and you can hear the story in each individual song. This album takes you on this amazing journey. It's beautifully put together, and I listen to it just about everyday :)!