My Chemical Romance announce Three Cheers For Sweet Revenge deluxe edition
It’s been 21 years since My Chemical Romance upped the stakes with their theatrical second album, Three Cheers For Sweet Revenge. Now, the emo veterans have announced a deluxe edition that arrives on June 6 — the same month the original came out in 2004.
The LP features four 2005 live cuts from BBC Radio 1’s “The Lock Up,” including “I’m Not Okay (I Promise),” which is out today. The expanded edition also features updated artwork, and the new mixes are helmed by Grammy-winning producer Rich Costey, who worked on Three Cheers.
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“The story is a metaphor for what you’re willing to go through for either somebody else or to prove yourself,” Gerard Way told us in 2004, for the band’s first interview with AP. “It’s almost like your revenge is living your life the way you want and doing exactly what you want to do. All the people who shit on you or picked on you in your life, it’s your way of getting revenge.
“Our record is revenge, in a way, for any struggle we’ve had in our lives, being told fucked-up things like, ‘Your band’s gonna be broken up in six months after you’ve started,’ ‘You guys don’t have what it takes,’ ‘You’re not going to make it,’ all that bullshit. And then not even dealing with the band but just growing up, like being in school and being called a piece of shit and not fitting in with people. So that’s what the record is to us; it’s our revenge, in a way. It’s a different phase in our lives.”
Hear their 2005 version of “I’m Not Okay (I Promise)” live from BBC Radio 1’s “The Lock Up,” plus see the updated artwork and tracklist, below.
My Chemical Romance – Three Cheers For Sweet Revenge (Deluxe Edition)
- “Helena”
- “Give ‘Em Hell, Kid”
- “To the End”
- “You Know What They Do to Guys Like Us in Prison”
- “I’m Not Okay (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”
- “I’m Not Okay (I Promise)” [Live for BBC Radio 1’s The Lock Up, 2005]
- “Helena” (Live for BBC Radio 1’s The Lock Up, 2005)
- “The Ghost of You” (Live for BBC Radio 1’s The Lock Up, 2005)
- “You Know What They Do to Guys Like Us in Prison” (Live for BBC Radio 1’s The Lock Up, 2005)
