Line #30 Music/ThreeCheersForSweetRevenge


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3	''Three Cheers for Sweet Revenge'' is the second studio album by American alternative rock band Music/MyChemicalRomance, released June 8, 2004 by Creator/RepriseRecords.
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5	It's a ConceptAlbum that chronicles a relationship between a man and woman, [[StarCrossedLovers who are separated by death]]. In order to be with his lover, the man makes a [[DealWithTheDevil deal with the devil]]. However, there is a catch: [[RoaringRampageOfRevenge the man must kill a thousand evil souls]]. %%At the end of his killing spree, he realizes that the last evil soul was himself. He has no choice but to [[DriventoSuicide kill himself]], becoming separated from his lover once again.%%
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7	Behind ''Music/TheBlackParade'', ''Three Cheers'' is seen as the band's defining breakthrough and one of the most influential {{emo\|Music}} albums of the early to mid-2000s. Tracks such as the eager "I'm Not Okay (I Promise)", the heavy "Music/{{Helena}}", and the heartbreaking "The Ghost of You" have become staples of MCR's discography.
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9	A live/video album made to accompany ''Three Cheers'', titled ''Life on the Murder Scene'', was released on March 21, 2006.
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11	Preceded by ''Music/IBroughtYouMyBulletsYouBroughtMeYourLove''. Followed by ''Music/TheBlackParade''.
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13	!!Tracklist:
14	#"Music/{{Helena}} (So Long and Goodnight)" (3:22)
15	#"Give 'Em Hell, Kid" (2:18)
16	#"To the End" (3:01)
17	#"You Know What They Do to Guys Like Us In Prison" (2:53)
18	#"I'm Not Okay (I Promise)" (3:08)
19	#"The Ghost of You" (3:22)
20	#"The Jetset Life Is Gonna Kill You" (3:37)
21	#"Interlude" (0:57)
22	#"Thank You for the Venom" (3:41)
23	#"Hang 'Em High" (2:47)
24	#"It's Not a Fashion Statement, It's a Deathwish" (sometimes listed as "It's Not a Fashion Statement, It's a Fucking Deathwish") (3:30)
25	#"Cemetery Drive" (3:08)
26	#"I Never Told You What I Do for a Living" (3:51)
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28	!! Musicians:
29	[[AC:My Chemical Romance]]
30	* Gerard Way - Lead vocals
31	* Ray Toro - Lead guitar, backing vocals
32	* Frank Iero - Rhythm guitar, backing vocals
33	* Mikey Way - Bass
34	* Matt Pelissier - Drums
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36	[[AC:Additional Musicians]]
37	* [[Music/TheUsed Bert McCracken]] - Additional vocals on "You Know What They Do to Guys Like Us In Prison"
38	* [[Music/CircleJerks Keith Morris]] - Additional vocals on "Hang 'Em High"
39	* Rinat - Additional vocals on "The Ghost of You"
40	* Howard Benson - Keyboards
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42	!!Thank You for the Tropes:
43	* AttractiveZombie: The music video of "Helena" has a beautiful woman coming back to life and dancing at her own funeral.
44	* AutoTune: In the bridge of "The Jetset Life Is Gonna Kill You".
45	* {{Bowdlerize}}:
46	** The AlbumSingle version of "I'm Not Okay (I Promise)" changes the line "I'm not o-fucking-kay" to "I'm really not okay".
47	** "It's Not a Fashion Statement, It's a Deathwish" (the regular title, as written on the album's back cover) is likely a result of this, considering the song is sometimes written as "It's Not a Fashion Statement, It's a Fucking Deathwish" (as in the case of the CD release's disc and lyric sheet).
48	* BloodSplatteredWeddingDress: The woman in the cover wears this. It's a lot easier to tell that it's a wedding dress on the photograph version used by ''Life on the Murder Scene''.
49	* CarefulWithThatAxe:
50	** ''"I'm ok... I'm o-'''''KAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAY!!!'''''"''
51	** ''"And down we go... AND WE ALL! FALL! DOWN! '''I TRIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIED!"'''''
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53	* ConceptAlbum: Like all of My Chem’s discography, Three Cheers is no exception.
54	* ConceptVideo:
55	** "I'm Not Okay (I Promise)" is in the style of a fake trailer for a high school movie.
56	** "The Ghost Of You" features the band members as an army unit in the European Theater of World War Two. [[spoiler:Mikey dies.]]
57	* DiesWideOpen: [[spoiler:Mikey]] goes out this way in the music video for "The Ghost of You".
58	* FadingIntoTheNextSong: "Helena" -> "Give 'em Hell, Kid", "The Ghost of You" -> "The Jetset Life Is Gonna Kill You".
59	* GlamorousWarTimeSinger: My Chemical Romance as a WWII army band in “The Ghost of You.”
60	* JerkJock: The apparent "enemy" in the [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jOnI5GGpXck&ob=av3n "I'm Not Okay (I Promise)"]] video.
61	* LastSurvivorSuicide: [[spoiler:The man after fulfilling most of his quest.]]
62	* LongestSongGoesLast: "I Never Told You What I Do for Living" has the longest title and is the last song.
63	* LyricalColdOpen: "Helena".
64	* LyricalDissonance: Many of the songs have this.
65	* {{Mesodiplosis}}: In "Thank You for the Venom", "give me" is the phrase that repeats
66	---> "So give me all your poison, and give me all your pills\
67	And give me all your hopeless hearts and make me ill"
68	* MoodWhiplash: Many of the songs have this.
69	* NonAppearingTitle: all songs except for "To the End", although "I'm Not Okay (I Promise)" only omits the "I promise" part.
70	* OdeToFamily: "Helena" is about a dead relative.
71	* OneWomanSong: ''Helena''.
72	* PrecisionFStrike: There is little swearing on this album, despite the Parental Advisory warning, but the only two uses of "fuck" stand out:
73	** First in "You Know What They Do to Guys Like Us in Prison" as the protagonist loses his mind in prison:
74	--> "Do you have the keys to the hotel? 'Cause I'm gonna string this motherfucker on fire! Fire!"
75	** The album version of "I'm Not Okay" adds an extra punch to those who first heard the single version that was used in the video, showing that the protagonist is nonetheless "really not okay":
76	--> "I'm not okay, I'm not o-fucking-kay!"
77	* RoaringRampageOfRevenge: The concept of the album.
78	* ShoutOut:
79	** "It's Not a Fashion Statement, It's a Death Wish" paraphrases one of Death's most famous quotes from Creator/NeilGaiman's ''ComicBook/TheSandman'':
80	-->''"For what you did to me, for what I'll do to you, you get what everyone else gets--you get a lifetime!"'' [[note]]The original quote is: ''"You lived what anybody gets, Bernie. You got a lifetime. No more, no less."''[[/note]]
81	** The title of "The Ghost of You" is a reference to a perfume ad in the comic '' ComicBook/{{Watchmen}}'' that says: "Oh, how the ghost of you clings."
82	* StarCrossedLovers: The two lovers separated by death.
83	%%* ShotForShotRemake: "The Ghost Of You"'s music video closely imitates ''Film/SavingPrivateRyan'''s Omaha Beach scene.[[ShownTheirWork They did such a good job that many people on YouTube thought the scenes were from the movie.]]
84	* WarIsHell: The video for "The Ghost of You" features the band as World War Two soldiers storming a beachhead, with other soldiers dying around them. [[spoiler: Mikey is shot and bleeds to death while Gerard screams in vain for his brother.]]

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