To be fair, Three Cheers was in many ways analogous to Fever, in that it was the first album from each band on a major label with real money behind it. Bullets is awesome, and very My Chem, but it was also recorded in eight days in some dude's mom's basement. It has more in common with the demos that Brendon and Ryan worked up in their garage than it does with a multi-platinum selling, massively produced album.
And if you make the parallels between Pretty. Odd. and TBP, I think that there's a lot more to see- They're both trying to prove themselves, and they're going about doing so in ways that are very much true to the bands they are- Even on their second major release (Decaydance is an indie but the kind of distribution and promotion that they got for Fever was as enthusiastic as the promo for any first release by a baby band that I have ever seen, major or indie) Ryan is still, what, the same age that Mikeyway was when they started My Chem? They've got a lot of growing up to do, sure, but I don't necessarily think that comparing P.O. with Three Cheers is necessarily accurate, leaving off the question of whether or not it's fair.
(Full disclosure: I've heard the B-sides but I haven't downloaded the album yet, given that it's raining out and I'm getting roughly 4k/s download speeds right now. Hopefully I'll have it by tomorrow.)
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Date: 2008-03-18 09:49 pm (UTC)And if you make the parallels between Pretty. Odd. and TBP, I think that there's a lot more to see- They're both trying to prove themselves, and they're going about doing so in ways that are very much true to the bands they are- Even on their second major release (Decaydance is an indie but the kind of distribution and promotion that they got for Fever was as enthusiastic as the promo for any first release by a baby band that I have ever seen, major or indie) Ryan is still, what, the same age that Mikeyway was when they started My Chem? They've got a lot of growing up to do, sure, but I don't necessarily think that comparing P.O. with Three Cheers is necessarily accurate, leaving off the question of whether or not it's fair.
(Full disclosure: I've heard the B-sides but I haven't downloaded the album yet, given that it's raining out and I'm getting roughly 4k/s download speeds right now. Hopefully I'll have it by tomorrow.)