Three Cheers for Sweet Revenge

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Overview

Impressive.... The ferocious, watery-eyed songs depict a discombobulated kid who expresses his heartbreak in terms borrowed from bad movies.

Product Details

Release Date:	06/08/2004
Label:	Reprise
UPC:	0093624861522
Rank:	56349

Tracks

Helena
Give 'Em Hell, Kid
To the End
You Know What They Do to Guys Like Us in Prison
I'm Not OK (I Promise)
The Ghost of You
The JetSet Life Is Gonna Kill You
Interlude
Thank You For the Venom
Hang 'Em High
It's Not a Fashion Statement, It's a Deathwish
Cemetery Drive
I Never Told You What I Do for a Living

Album Credits

Performance Credits

My Chemical Romance Primary Artist
Matt Pelissier Drums
Frank Iero Guitar
Mikey Way Guitar (Bass)
Ray Toro Guitar
Gerard Way Vocals
Keith Morris Vocals,Vocals (Background)
Bert McCracken Vocals (Background)
Howard Benson Organ (Hammond)
Rinat Vocals,Vocals (Background)

Technical Credits

Howard Benson Audio Production,Mixing,Producer
Keith Nelson Guitar Technician
Gerard Way Tray Card
Eric Miller Engineer,Engineer
Mike Plotnikoff Recording
My Chemical Romance Composer
Matt Griffin Production Coordination
Paul DeCarli Editing,Pro-Tools,Programming,Digital Editing
Rich Costey Mixing,Mixing Engineer
Mikey Group Member
Mark Holley Design Assistant
Craig Aaronson A&R
Dana Childs Production Coordination
Justin Borucki Photography
Joe Nicholson Drum Technician
Mike Plontikoff Engineer
Tom Baker Mastering

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Editorial Reviews

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

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