First Reaction to My Chemical Romance - Three Cheers For Sweet Revenge Part 2 (& review) 

You may be interested to know the themes of all the mcr albums: Bullets: I'm Dead Revenge: You're Dead Black Parade: We're Dead Danger Days: Japanese Fun Party

God bless Ray

“Singing songs that make you slit your wrists” “This is so delightful!!11!1!”

Damn, I've watched a lot of music critic videos and I gotta say, you're literally the only one who doesn't bore me. Everyone else seems to have such a plain, bland, and unenthusiastic opinion. But you actually try and understand, you explain your reasoning, and it really seems like you know what you're talking about. And you're fucking hilarious so that's a plus

I was hoping he’d catch the lyric “singing songs that slit your wrist” in cemetery drive. When people hear that lyric they’re like wooaah.

His reaction to Hang 'Em High is a mood

When u said "get your bulletproof vest ready" all i could think of was Revenge era Frank

the only reactor that isn't incredibly cringey

because u skipped ghost of you by accident u missed the amazing transition between ghost of you and jetset life is gonna kill you. pls listen to them both back to back the transition is amazing.

I wait for the Brad-edit when color is leached out of his face and he's just shaking to the point that his two front teeth become a separate sentient entity. Probably my favorite and the moment when I know that this album requires a listen.

Ohh i love how he does air guitar on every single Ray's solo 👌👌👌 honestly thats #mood

Did you notice how almost every song leads into the next one? Interlude leading into Vemon, for example. Edit: I love how Gerard Way loses his shit just melting screaming his head off. You have Ray Toro and Frank Iero to thank for guitars. Also, the story is that a killer is sent to hell and he barters with the Devil for his lover's soul (Demolition Lovers, look it up). Her soul in exchange for the souls of 1000 evil men. He's getting his revenge on the ppl who killed them while trying to save her soul. He fails. Everything is muddled because the narrator is not only unreliable but absolutely insane. Some fans even theorize that all the albums connect into one big story.

And Jetset Life is about Gerards relationship with Drugs and Depression.

"Hotel Bella Muerte" "Heh heh... I just love the way he says that" God, same.

hearing him call it rock instead of emo is like, really satisfying because gerard fucking hates their music being called emo lmao

“Man. Gerard’s the kinda guy to sound like he’s always having a conversation with himself.” Literally made me laugh out loud.

I fucking love I Never Told You What I Do For A Living. The ending. The way he sounds like he's in actual pain when he delivers this last line.

I like your wrap up. Black Parade is iconic, and songs like House of Wolves, Teenagers, and Mama are by far their hardest hitting and best demonstrations of power, but the consistency of Three Cheers show that these guys weren't a fluke and took a very exploitable genre (and fanbase) and exposed it to the brilliance any musical genius can introduce into a particular sound. MCR acts as a very easy gap into metal and hard rock, and makes emo more accessible for people who are unsure what to try first

They don't run out of ideas March 22nd, 2013

skipped my favorite part of intywidfal, when he screams “i’m so dirty, babe” in the most panicked and pained voice after a line in the chorus. just so haunting because you can hear the desperation he has to become “clean.” and it’s so cathartic to scream along with.

“My Chemical Romance, they never run out of ideas” ha hAhA HAHAHAHAHA Excuse me while I silently die in a corner

he's a closeted emo. it's ok honey, you can come out whenever you like

can yall stop spamming him about what to do next? he's literally working for free and doesn't owe us anything, he can react and post whatever he pleases, besides he probably won't like danger days as much, it may be *your* favorite but it doesn't have that explosive pure rock element that some of us love from mychem

it's only a light concept album, and only a few of the songs go with it. it's a concept that continues from the previous album. again, it's only a light concept, so that's why it doesn't seem to tie it together as much as it could

Literally any musician: *Has a slightly soft singing voice* Brad: "Holy shit its just like Radiohead"

Your expressions while you're listening make you one of da best.

Hang ‘Em High is one of the closest things to hitting hard drugs whilst simultaneously downing shots of vodka without actually going out and doing those things.

the amount of times he said "idea" physically hurts me

You should really watch a live performance of my chemical romance and just see the lead guitarist ripping apart the guitar! I think you would really love it considering that you kept saying in the video that you think the guitar is really really good 😆

I just wanted to say, dont know why. Cemetery Drive is written for Mikey Way, Gerard Way's brother.

Yus

Interlude does sound like Radiohead tho tbh lol

BRUUUUHHH FINALLY You did good Good boi

There are moments where this dude is so incredibly intuitive with lyrics, and then there's times where completely obvious messages just soar over his head

I don't think anyone I have ever met or spoken to has taken the time to actually sit down and listen to their music, that is already too much to ask for. I appreciate you for all the appraises and for your commentary, which makes me laugh and smile like crazy. Keep up the amazing work!

I still find it ironic when he mentions Radiohead influence on the interlude and uses Nude as an example but Three Cheers came out before In Rainbows lol

The Jetset life is gonna kill you is actually a song about the lead singer Gerard Way’s addiction disguised as a bad romance. The ‘she’ in the song is actually his demons in the past. Nevertheless great video! As always. Reaalllly loved your reaction to Hang Em High.

When he said that the Jet-Set Life is Gonna Kill You is a love song it made me really sad because its true. It's about Gerard's addictions, which could absolutely be represented as a love song.

20:35 the transition from the calm but growing, "never again, never again" from the crazy, desperate, "I CAN'T CLEAN THE BLOOD OFF THE SHEETS IN MY BED!" was immaculate, the chills were real.

Did he just understand that mcr isn't emo without being told, holy crap my level of respect for him quadrupled which I didn't think was possible

i just wanted to mention, the concept behind three cheers is particularly confusing to understand, and requires quite some research. unlike the black parade, mcr was much more vague in showing the meaning behind this album. the most supported theory though has a pretty awesome fictional element. it's about a man, and his lover gets shot and killed in a gunfight. he makes a deal with the devil to bring his her back to life by taking the lives of 1,000 evil men, to then find out he is the thousandth person, and him and girlfriend are both executed for his crimes. now it may be confusing to understand how it connects with the songs on the album, but after a couple listens and looking into the lyrics it makes a lot of sense. gerard also based the songs off of stories (ex. "to the end" was based off of a story called a rose for emily) and past experiences (helena was based off of his grandmother elena's death). ANYWAYS that was long but yeah even though its hard to dig out the story in the album its actually very interesting!

Nodding and agreeing the entire time aND YOU KNOW GERARDS NAME! 100 EMO POINTS TO YOU MY GOOD MAN

If you think the actual guitar is crazy and intense, you should see Frank Iero *playing* the guitar. Mother of Hottopic he is insane. A few things he's done while playing guitar: -kicked Gerard in the balls -bashed his guitar over a fair amount of heads -jumped off tall speakers *onto* people Just to name a few

16:34 gerard: singing songs that make you slit your wrists brad: THIS IS SO DELIGHTFUL!!!

You should do a series where you try and break down the lyrics of songs that you've reviewed that caught your attention

Every time you thought they were going to stay together they do something different and break up

Danger Days? Would he like Danger Days?

I feel like in the songs Gerard is yelling at someone but he waits until they have left the room to curse them out

REACT TO I BROUGHT YOU MY BULLETS YOU BROUGHT YOUR LOVE

I pictured Gerard as a carpenter, a laundromat owner, and a bouncer and I can't decide which is funniest.

A video of Brad slowly falling in love with Ray Toro

Funny enough, when Brad said "What is this, 210 BPM?" during Thank You for the Venom, he wasn't far off. The song is 212 BPM (according to the guitar tabs hehe :) )

i started laughing when you mentioned flute and auto tuned harmonica and haven’t yet stopped

all the emos screaming in the distance bc he finally uploaded this video

Personnaly love the disorganization and craziness of this album. The Black Parade tells a complete story and lets you live in it. But Three Cheers gives you space to feel your own feelings and make sense of them

Hey-o. Some context for the story in the album, you kinda got most of everything wrong. Our main character (who I will be calling "the Man") is killed along with his lover (they are believed to be the Demolition Lovers from MCR's first album, I Brought You My Bullets, You Brought Me Your Love, who are killed at the end of the album). He makes a deal with the Devil, where is he brings the Devil the souls of 1000 evil men and women than he can be with his lover again. We can see signs of this in songs like You Know What They Do to Guys Like Me in Prison, where during the guitar solo, we hear the Man screaming that he is going to burn down a hotel in the hopes of raising the number of people he has killed. Also, during the time of recording this album, frontman Gerard Way was on a legendary alcoholic and drug abuse streak, and nearly killing himself. Drugs are mention in The Jetset Life is Gonna Kill You, where he says, "She bought the last line, of just the worst kind". The line is a line of cocaine, which Gerard was using at one point. There are also references to homosexuality throughout the album, such as in the chorus of You Know What They Do to Guys Like Me in Prison (Prison for short), where the Man says, "I don't know , How we're just two men as God had made us, Well, I can't, well, I can!" The Man is falling for another male in prison and begins to question his sexuality. He begins it to also question his mental stability in Prison, both because of his newfound attraction and because of the amount of killing he is doing, including the gunfight that got him arrested ("Am I losing myself?"). Now that we've brought it back to the 1000 souls he must bring, we can talk about I Never Told You What I Do For a Living. In this song, after taking 999 souls to the Devil, the Man realizes that the Devil (unsurprisingly) tricked him and that the 1000th evil soul the Man's own. He will be sent straight to Hell, while his lover will go to Heaven. He will never see her again, and he realizes that after all the atrocities he has committed, he knows that's how it is best. The Man says, "And it's better off this way, so much better off this way , I can't clean the blood off the sheets in my bed". He can't undo his actions. He doesn't deserve to be with her and she doesn't deserve to have to see the monster he's become. In the last line of the album, "And we're all dead, now", the Man has comes to terms with the fact that he, as well as the 999 people he has killed, are dead, and shall never walk the Earth ever again. They are no more, their stories are over.

you should react to "conventional weapons" by mcr. it was released as like 5 eps and idk what you use to listen to these albums but in its entirety its on youtube

Interlude has kind of become one of my favorites songs on the album. It’s like a calming prayer before TYFTV. The words themselves is beautiful.

ive been binging your react videos and youre literally my favourite reaction channel now i LOVE your reactions to my favourite artists

Gotta say I’m really enjoying my binge of your channel! I appreciate the way you approach everything with an open mind and even when you don’t like something you still listen and give it a fair shot. And I love that you like these guys! They were one of my favorite bands growing up. I would really like to see your thoughts on some stuff by Brand New.. especially “The Devil and God Are Raging Inside Me.”

The whole concept of the album is kind of a retelling of Orpheus and Eurydice where the main character is a hitman whose wife dies in a gunfight. In order to bring her back, he makes a deal with the devil to bring him the souls of 1000 evil men and in the end, he finds out he's the last one. I interpret "I Never Told you What I Do for a Living" as the main character saying his goodbyes to the wife bc he knows he has to sacrifice himself to bring her back. He's essentially confessing his sins to her. In the end there's this cathartic scream of " I can't get the blood off the sheets in my bed" which I interpret as the speaker finally breaking down as he reckons with his guilty conscious over all the people he's killed. That's just how I see it though!

YAASSS!!! Someone who appreciates the music for the MUSIC!!! Ray Toro is definitely one of the most underrated guitarists of all time. I've never heard his name mentioned in conversations about talented guitarists. What he did(and still does) was so amazing, and really it's one of the most obvious elements that carried the band. Also the drums. Everyone hates on Bob(and I don't actually remember if he recorded on this album- but I think he did... ) but he really did contribute so much to the band's sound. MCR wouldn't have been the same without his drum skills. Thanks for having an awesome- I mean- a Brad taste in music, Brad:)

LOVE watching these videos, can't help but smile throughout the whole thing, just to see how engaged you become with the music, also the edit is top notchh thank you for making these

I would actually be really interested to get your thoughts on bullets, though not necessarily in a reaction video (but c'mon, ya need that sweet yellow icon $$$). I don't think you'll enjoy it as much as these two last albums because it was... recorded in a basement... BUT I still enjoy to listen to it as a kinda weird proto-mychem record lmao

I feel like you would either really love or hate their song Demolition Lovers

It's about his grandma, her death inspired the album. Helena was about her. She was the "she" in Welcome to the Black Parade. She was a big supporter of the band. She bought them a van when they started and bought Gerard his first guitar. She was a big artisic influence for the Way brothers. Also, Danger Days or other P!at stuff. Really enjoy your stuff, keep it up

Dang dude, really loving your reaction videos, you make them fun for your humor and your facial reactions and its just so good, thank you

Lol, I don't think you heard the line 'singing song that make you wanna slight your wrists.' in cemetery drive

Gerard really brought so much passion and I think his vocals are seriously underrated

React to stomachaches by frnkiero andthe cellebaration i think you'd like it

I'm watching your videos like for 5 hours now and I love your attitude. You're awesome man

These videos from you are so good and you describe it so good and I'm watching all of these on march 22nd but they're BACK!!

Cemetery Drive is my second all time favorite MCR song next to Drowning Lessons

The song: "Singing songs that make you slit your wrists..." Brad: *"tHaT'S dElIgHtFuL!!!"*

Man i think you're the funniest fucking review channel ive seen man I love your editing and your whole personality. I'm down for all of it

Can I just say that your editing is actually some of the most beautiful editing I have ever seen in my life. RU-vid better start monetizing you because you deserve it mY GOsH

Dude I literally watch your MCR reviews twice a month. These are amazing.

Good to see your subscriber count going up! I think it would be interesting to hear your reaction to the album The Devil and God are Raging Inside Me

I love watching you enjoy something that I love! Makes me feel like I'm hearing these MCR albums for the first time all over again

your videos never fail to make me smile. ty for all the effort you put into these 💙

How has this channel not blown up yet? XD

The words "My Chemical Romance" and "idea" are not allowed to be in a sentence together

this is the first thing i watched as soon as i woke up and now i'm so hyped thank you

man, i love how you edit your videos. it's so good.

So about the concept of the album, one thing that a lot of people don't know is that all of their first 3 albums are related in concept. On their first album, essentially there's a couple that are bandits and they get caught up in some shit and the girl ends up dying in a gunfight. Then the devil comes to the guy and tells him that they can be reunited if he takes the lives of 1000 evil men. "Three Cheers" is the story of him taking the lives of those evil men. It starts with the funeral of his partner and then shows him going after all of the people he's supposed to kill (Give Em Hell, Kid, Hang Em High, etc), evading the police (You Know What They Do...), and mourning her death (Ghost of You, Cemetary Drive). Then at the end, he finds out the last name on the list is his own name and he'll be joining her in hell. The Black Parade is more of a thematic followup to this as it deals with him approaching and accepting death. There are callbacks to this story on The Sharpest Lives, Sleep, Mama, and House of Wolves, but it also adds in the sickness/cancer theme and has a lot of reflecting back on the life he's led. The connection is pretty tenuous and The Black Parade works better as a standalone, but the connection is still there. Three Cheers could have done a better job at telling the story, but they were still learning how to make a concept album and the things they learned there directly inspired The Black Parade.

Please react to Pretty. Odd. and a fever you can't sweat out

Hey man, really love your content, you probably have already but try and listen to interlude and thank you for the venom transition without a pause in the middle, really adds to the explosive you love

Give us some green day

Easily the best moment was him getting scared by Thank You For The Venom

Would love to see a Danger Days video. A lot of what twenty one pilots tries to do MCR nailed. Don't waste your time with their first album. It was a basement recording so they'd have something to sell at shows. Three Cheers really was the first album that got praise for them. The Black Parade is an iconic masterpiece. Danger Days is really solid though. It doesn't tell a story, but there is a theme. A radio station blast from 2019, that a gang of rebels listens to outside of a place called battery city. It really is a great album, with a lot more happy themes. Really need to check it out

Love your videos! Keep doing what you do, and thanks!

I never told you what I do for a living is one of my all time favorites so I was happy you enjoyed it, especially at the hit you in the face parts I love. I have to agree with the whole "it doesn't connect and isn't as lyrically obvious" as black parade but all the songs just hit you so hard. I listened to this during my freshman year when a classmate committed suicide, it was my first experience with suicide and I went to his wake (He was a drummer and in band with us and was such a joker) and when I came home I just went to my room and listened to this album and cried for hours. Unrelated note, I'd love to see you listen to Danger Days just because it is so different from 3 cheers and Black Parade I'd just love to see your opinion on where they went in the next album. Especially since the change in some of the songs felt quite drastic

As someone who has been a fan of My Chem for 13 years, I'm really enjoying your reactions to hearing the music for the first time. It really takes me back to the first time I heard it.

i used to hate "i never told you..." bc i liked the demo version more, but seeing your reaction to the album version made me want to listen to it and actually got me excited for it

This video genuinely makes me happy. It reminds me of the first time I listened to MCR and just how much I love their music. It makes me want to go listen to this album again, which I actually haven't in a while.

First of all, great video! I love your reviews and mcr is my favorite band, so it can’t go wrong :)) I didn’t understand the concept of this album either, until after a few listens (and some discussion online). It’s a really good concept album if you look into and analyze the lyrics, but not as clear as, for example, the black parade. Review whatever album you feel like reviewing, but I’ll watch out for one on Bullets

I still think he's a carpenter

You’re a really good critic, you’re funny and honest and that’s why I watch you. I also love your editing and everything, I very much appreciate the time you put in to each video to make it the best it could be Sorry that was really cheesy Please react to Billie Eilish - don’t smile at me, it’s not explosive but I think it’s a really beautiful ep with a great sound and a great message also it’s not boring and it’s only got 8 songs so you won’t have to do much editing

Your editing is great as usual! I think while a lot of people would recommend Danger Days next, I think you would enjoy I Brought You My Bullets You Brought Me Your Love, which is their first album. It’s not as bombastic, and definitely less refined, but I think it is still a really good album.

Welcome to the MCR family. Saw the reaction to the last album. You are fun to watch. Even if you don’t wanna join, you are in now. Jesus I was not old listening to these but now I am old.