None of what Tony Hicks said is true. This music has been a great outlet for kids and teens who are dealing with hard times. People don't hear this music and decide that suicide is fun, they relate to it and feel better knowing that they aren't alone. Very good, though I personally prefer their 2002 album.

This has lots of violent imagery, and it's pretty anti-society too. Some songs contain strong language. This is not for tweens; it's simply too disturbing. But for teens, this is a great album. Highlights are Give 'Em Hell Kid, Ghost Of You, and To The End

This whole album is about getting through hard times and not being afraid of living. In my experience, My Chemical Romance are great role models. They're all guys who were able to get through tough times and are putting their bad experiences to good use in this album by showing that you can get through anything if you're strong and hold out long enough. It's a great album, and I would definitely let my kids listen to this.

This was one of my favorite CDs. All I have to say is: ARE YOU KIDDING ME?! This is very clean. Now, the reason why I put 13+ is because if a kindergartener starts to talk about suicide, in any way, as in: "What does suicide mean?" or "I think suicide is bad." then her teacher would call the cops, or give her a long talk. I am an honors student, smartest in my grade, and I think that Three Cheers is awesome. You don't become wildly depressed or suicidal from listining to stories about AVOIDING IT! After all, Gerard sings in Cemetary Drive, "Singing songs that make you slit your wrists, it isn't that much fun." He's saying, very clearly, DON'T DO IT! Back to the kindergartener. They like to repeat what they hear, unlike teens or tweens. So it would be no surprise if they got up in the middle of the room and started singing "I'm so dirty babe!" The teacher would call her parents. If she started to sing even further, "The sheets clean me off," then the teacher would deepen her suspicions that she's talking about sex. But she's not. She's talking about something she will never fully understand until she's ten. If a teen were to do the same thing, she'd be stared at, nothing more. Its like reading Johnny the Homicidal Maniac. I read that when I was 11. The violence is extreme, but its all about keeping that violence inside, and satisfying it through the book. Sure, you won't kill some one. But it helps you avoid it by seeing Johnny do it. Johnny the Homicidal Maniac isa very vulgar book, and gorey, but I hear and see worse on the bus. If your child can read JTHM, then s/he is ready for three cheers. Johnny is, like Three Cheers, not only about violence, but about the pain inside. TThe plot is that he lives in a house. He doesn't remember how he got into the house, doesn't remember moving in, he just remembers that he wasn't like this in the past. He finds himself suicidal, from the voices in his head, the Physco Doughboys. He finds himself going on killing sprees, wrought with guilt, but he never gets caught, even if he does it in the middle of the street. People who call the police never can get them to come. I won't spoil the end, but he has to keep painting his wall with blood to keep a certain something out. Then, he meets the Devil and God, and I won't tell you what happens. This is an excellent CD, for any openminded group of people. Its subtle, so you have to have all your brain cells to understand it. This CD is all about keeping all your hurt inside, and let it flow through your headphones, spilling it instead of using it.Your hurt is like the poison, and you can't keep it in your pocket. It might spill and poinson you. Let your poisons drip out, onto the CD cover, and your fine. There is nothing wrong with this. My mom hates it when I play this in the car, but otherwise, I'm perfectly fine. This has become a chain in a series of events. I started watching Invader ZIM, age three-six. I stopped watching Invader ZIM. I started watching it again, got hooked. I realized how innapropriate it was for kids. I looked up Invader ZIM's author. The author is the same guy who wrote Johnny, and I started reading that. I got into Clockwork Orange (don't ask). Then I felt all the CDs of MCR, the greatest band on Earth.

17 and up? if you go with these ratings by the website creators I think their wrong. If they rate Metallica 14+ (i think) and thats devil worship, how could they rate mcr 17+? basically I listened to these guys when I was 7 and Im a normal happy person.

This album contains very VERY good songs because i have the album and because it has good songs, good sounds and because every word in every song tells now-days lifes and the songs are cool anyways :P and ANY age can hear it!!

ARE YOU KIDDING 17 YEAR OLDS CAN GO SEE RATED R MOVIES AND PEOPLE DON'T THINK THIS IS APRROPRIATE THIS IS A GREAT CD AND IT IS A STORY IT IS NOT SERIOUS LIKE MOST PUNK ROCK METAL (SYSTEM OF A DOWN, GREEN DAY, BLINK 182.) 17 SHOULD DEFINITLY BE ABLE TO LISTEN TO THIS I WOOULD SAY 13-14 AND UP

First off, most people don't understand what the songs are about and just think the lead singer is "hott". they don't understand that it's a concept album, much like their first one. It's not trying to romanticize thoughts of funeral homes, death, suicide, or drug use. And HELENA, the correct spelling compared to the one in the cs reveiw, is written for their dead grandma, so it's not meant to be "sexy." I also beleive that before a website reveiws an excellent cd from an awesome band they must first know what the hell they're talking about and the names of the songs. If you do like intense music then yes My Chemical Romance music is for you. But I suggest checking out their first cd which gives off more of an emo vibe then the "power punk" vibe 3 cheers for sweet revenge gives off.

I got this album when I was 13, and, back then, I was as suicidal and death-obsessed as they come. But even though this album has a lot of suicidal and death obsessed themes in it, I didn't say, "Wow! That sounds like fun! I think I'll go slit my wrist!" I just related to it. This album was a great emotional release for me at the time. You still don't want to hand the album over to your two year-old and say, "Here, listen to this!" The album contains content that would be frightening to anyone who has never dealt with suicidal ideation or any sort of morbid curiosity, but it's great for those of us who have. Of course, you have to be careful, because I'm just going on my own personal experience, and I have no idea how it will affect your teen. But my guess is, if they felt the way I did, they're going to find it very helpful.