There was nothing else happening at the time that sounded anything like it. There’s emo, obviously, but there’s also this fusion of harder punk, hardcore, and guttural screaming. The unique thing about Three Cheers was the sound: It was my first MCR record, and I’d never heard anything quite like it. But Three Cheers for Sweet Revenge was a really important record for me when it came out, and it’s worth re-exploring if only to clear away the intervening haze. Nowadays when you think of them, the image that comes to mind is all-black marching band uniforms and excess eyeliner. Megan Ritt: My Chemical Romance is a hard band to dust off in some ways.
(FYI: Former staff writer Winston Robbins also took a stab at the album four years ago, which you can revisit here.)
For this edition of Dusting ‘Em Off, CoS staffers Megan Ritt, Dominick Mayer, Killian Young, and Dusty Henry re-channel their teenage angst and don black marching band uniforms and plenty of guyliner as they aim to put My Chemical Romance’s sophomore album, Three Cheers for Sweet Revenge, in perspective a decade later.
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