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Three Cheers for Sweet Revenge (often shortened to Three Cheers or Revenge) [1] is the second studio album by American rock band My Chemical Romance, released on June 8, 2004, by Reprise Records. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] With this album, the band produced a more polished sound than that of their 2002 debut I Brought You My Bullets, You Brought Me Your Love ...
Upon the release of Three Cheers for Sweet Revenge, multiple music critics deemed it a highlight on the album. [a] A contemporary review for NME quipped that the track was "considerably better than 'okay'", [22] while Butler, in a 7/10 review of the single, lauded its chorus as "packing such a large punch it's hard not to be knocked out". [21]
Three Cheers for Sweet Revenge was released on June 8, 2004 through Reprise; [5] "Helena" is the album's opening track. [6] On streaming services such as iTunes, it's full title is "Helena (So Long & Goodnight)". [7] It was released onto radio as the album's second single on March 8, 2005, [8] also through Reprise. [9]
[12] [26] In a 2022 retrospective article, Chris Payne of Stereogum wrote that while the album wasn't My Chemical Romance's best work, it helped combine several different genres into one, and stated that the album was a good start to "one of the greatest three-album runs in rock history", with the other two being Three Cheers for Sweet Revenge ...
The band signed with Reprise Records the next year and released its major label debut, Three Cheers for Sweet Revenge, in 2004. The album was a commercial success and sold over 3 million copies due in part to the high airplay and sales of the singles "I'm Not Okay (I Promise)" and "Helena".
"The Ghost of You" is the third and final single of My Chemical Romance's second studio album, Three Cheers for Sweet Revenge. "The Ghost of You" was released to radio on September 27, 2005. [2] The song deals with the fear of loss. The song's title is an allusion to an ad from Watchmen, reading "Oh, how the ghost of you clings". [3]
The song's style has been credited towards helping the band establish the sound of the band's future albums, specifically Three Cheers for Sweet Revenge (2004) and The Black Parade (2006). [ 5 ] Lyrically, the song is about both drug addiction [ 17 ] and suicide, [ 16 ] [ 18 ] inspired by Gerard's real world mental health struggles from the ...
My Chemical Romance is an American alternative rock band formed in New Jersey in 2001. The band released four studio albums: I Brought You My Bullets, You Brought Me Your Love (2002), Three Cheers for Sweet Revenge (2004), The Black Parade (2006), Danger Days: The True Lives of the Fabulous Killjoys (2010), and the compilation series Conventional Weapons (2013).