Panic At The Disco is the new generation's My Chemical Romance

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Why do all these bands sound the same indescribably annoying way?

Kids today have the weirdest genre of rock music yet. It's like a cross beetween Duran Duran and the high-pitched snare drum of Rage Against The Machine and all that metally rap shit. Deftones is the only other thing I can think of, but surely you remember the wound-tight snare drums of the 90s that sounded more like a Pringle's commercial than a rock song? Well, now combine that bouncy boyish rebellion of a fiesty snackfood commercial with the pop glamor of Duran Duran.

What the fuck have you got? Don't forget to give them all Japanese anime pointy longish blue-tipped hairdos and a little bit of eyeliner for the boys. Facial piercings apparently not boring yet, also.

― I chimed in with the haven't you people ever heard of closing a god damn door no, Saturday, 24 June 2006 23:41 (nineteen years ago)

Meanwhile, they've got that longish, pointy anime "panic at the disco" / "my chemical romance" hairdo that makes me want to stick their head in the toilet.

-- :):):):):):):):):):):) Smiling Friend (:(:(:(:(:(:(:(:(:(:(:(: (ufrendimein@gmail.com), June 25th, 2006.

― .. (The Giant Mechanical Ant), Saturday, 24 June 2006 23:51 (nineteen years ago)

Finally, a Panic! At The Disco thread. Bring it on, google.

― Marmot 4-Tay: forth-coming, my child. forth-coming most righteous champion (mar, Saturday, 24 June 2006 23:52 (nineteen years ago)

Don't quote me out of context. That was at least 5 minutes ago on a different thread.

― :):):):):):):):):):):) Smiling Friend (:(:(:(:(:(:(:(:(:(:(:(: (Uri Frendimein), Sunday, 25 June 2006 00:01 (nineteen years ago)

shut up old man

― the fuckablity of late picasso (vahid), Sunday, 25 June 2006 00:03 (nineteen years ago)

I have shut him up. He's in the closet with a ball gag and a dildo up his butt.

― :):):):):):):):):):):) Smiling Friend (:(:(:(:(:(:(:(:(:(:(:(: (Uri Frendimein), Sunday, 25 June 2006 00:04 (nineteen years ago)

So, Panic! At the Disco...

― Marmot 4-Tay: forth-coming, my child. forth-coming most righteous champion (mar, Sunday, 25 June 2006 00:05 (nineteen years ago)

This is the important part:

combine that bouncy boyish rebellion of a fiesty snackfood commercial with the pop glamor of Duran Duran.

― :):):):):):):):):):):) Smiling Friend (:(:(:(:(:(:(:(:(:(:(:(: (Uri Frendimein), Sunday, 25 June 2006 00:08 (nineteen years ago)

They play their video on NewNowNext, which is like Subterranean, but gayer (it's on LOGO).

― Marmot 4-Tay: forth-coming, my child. forth-coming most righteous champion (mar, Sunday, 25 June 2006 00:15 (nineteen years ago)

What's with all these bands having names that either are Smiths references (Pretty Girls Make Graves) or merely look like Smiths references, like Panic! At the (Death of A) Disco (Dancer)

― Cunga (Cunga), Sunday, 25 June 2006 04:23 (nineteen years ago)

What are the other ones? Pretty Girls Make Graves is technically a Kerouac reference.

― Marmot 4-Tay: forth-coming, my child. forth-coming most righteous champion (mar, Sunday, 25 June 2006 04:26 (nineteen years ago)

But in both cases I think "Oh, this band name reminds me of the Smiths!" and then I get sad and angry when the music doesn't.

― Cunga (Cunga), Sunday, 25 June 2006 05:11 (nineteen years ago)

I only just realized that the line "Panic at the disco" never actually appears in the Smiths song. It's "Panic on the streets of London," "Burn down the disco". Weird.

― The Good Dr. Bill (The Good Dr. Bill), Sunday, 25 June 2006 05:11 (nineteen years ago)

It's like a Smiths reference crossed with an Electric 6 reference

I think they should have gone with PANIC! AT THE TACO BELL instead

― Chinchilla Volapük (Captain Sleep), Sunday, 25 June 2006 05:27 (nineteen years ago)

The real question is: why do the kids like these lame-ass bands that have names that consist of little more than violent/emo/angsty sentence fragments?

Oh, right. Because they're violent/emo/angsty.

Anyways, that lead singer dude from AFI is pretty hot for a goth chick, huh? Only the lead singer from Hawthorne Heights knows my pain.

― vartman (novaheat), Sunday, 25 June 2006 05:38 (nineteen years ago)

have names that consist of little more than violent/emo/angsty sentence fragments?

My friend calls all of these bands "My Confessional Thursday"

― Cunga (Cunga), Sunday, 25 June 2006 05:43 (nineteen years ago)

My friend calls all of these bands "My Confessional Thursday"

You're friend's as genius as all my friends who called all nu-metal bands "scary clown" bands, even though there was only one nu-metal band with a scary clown.

― Whiney G. Weingarten (whineyg), Sunday, 25 June 2006 16:14 (nineteen years ago)

i dislike panic because i don't think the guy understand his own lyrics, and because i forget their songs almost immediately (with the exception of the "closing the goddamn door" bit). that said, i think my chemical romance write incredible pop songs.

― robbie mackey (robbie mackey), Sunday, 25 June 2006 18:18 (nineteen years ago)

emo IS hair metal '06 complete with the hierarchy of bands that write shit-hot pop songs, bands that are placeholders in magazines and on tv, and the inexplicable bullshit that becomes huge, such as panic at the disco.

― Bea Arthur - Lost COmic GEnius ? (dubplatestyle), Sunday, 25 June 2006 18:22 (nineteen years ago)

i welcome the omnipresence.

― Bea Arthur - Lost COmic GEnius ? (dubplatestyle), Sunday, 25 June 2006 18:22 (nineteen years ago)

i am thinking about this all too much as i am writing an emo story AS WE TYPE.

― Bea Arthur - Lost COmic GEnius ? (dubplatestyle), Sunday, 25 June 2006 18:23 (nineteen years ago)

Don't forget the misogyny!

― Whiney G. Weingarten (whineyg), Sunday, 25 June 2006 18:23 (nineteen years ago)

i find the whole glam angle totally fascinating, as a dude who saw way too many bands playing this shit in dowdy thriftstore wear at vfw halls in the 90s.

― Bea Arthur - Lost COmic GEnius ? (dubplatestyle), Sunday, 25 June 2006 18:24 (nineteen years ago)

antioch arrow looked kinda glam/goth on one of their records

― XD (eman), Sunday, 25 June 2006 18:29 (nineteen years ago)

yeah but we viewed san diego as the enemy once antioch arrow went goth.

― Bea Arthur - Lost COmic GEnius ? (dubplatestyle), Sunday, 25 June 2006 18:33 (nineteen years ago)

SHORT TRIP FROM THAT TO THE RAPTURE, HOLMES.

― Bea Arthur - Lost COmic GEnius ? (dubplatestyle), Sunday, 25 June 2006 18:33 (nineteen years ago)

massive x-post:

one thing i don't like: nowadays, EVERYthing white middle schoolers like gets called emo. meanwhile, there are very tangible differences between underoath, fall out boy, dashboard confessional and my chemical romance. i guess my frustration is born out of the fact that since most people agree to dislike these bands (myself included in most cases) no one cares to differentiate between them.

and, yes, antioch looked way glam on the cover of gems of masochism, but in a bowie not bach kind of way.

― robbie mackey (robbie mackey), Sunday, 25 June 2006 18:34 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.absolutepunk.net/gallery/files/1/0/8/3/panicatthedisco2.jpg

loool

― XD (eman), Sunday, 25 June 2006 18:35 (nineteen years ago)

oh, gravity records, how i miss theeeeee.

― robbie mackey (robbie mackey), Sunday, 25 June 2006 18:35 (nineteen years ago)

xxpost:

but yeah, that's kinda what i mean about the metal thing. emo is finally enough of a broad, mainstream phenomenon to have people fighting about what it "means" on the major label level.

― Bea Arthur - Lost COmic GEnius ? (dubplatestyle), Sunday, 25 June 2006 18:37 (nineteen years ago)

is ilm reg only? i want sum googlers

― XD (eman), Sunday, 25 June 2006 18:40 (nineteen years ago)

sadly yes.

― Bea Arthur - Lost COmic GEnius ? (dubplatestyle), Sunday, 25 June 2006 18:41 (nineteen years ago)

this is the music that high school girls put on just before they invite you to ruin them for all other men

― james brooks (j_brooks), Sunday, 25 June 2006 19:40 (nineteen years ago)

What the fuck IS these guys' aesthetic? There's some sort of CABARET aspect to it? Which is New! Wave!, I guess?

― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Sunday, 25 June 2006 19:45 (nineteen years ago)

there's a thread from a couple years ago where someone was saying "what music from 2002 will be most influential in 10 years" and i was all THE RAPTURE but not sure if this is that or this is something else.

i know some kids who are into stuff like this, but if i ask them what older-dude stuff they like they always say something like "THE CRASS" (actually, they ALWAYS say the crass!!!) and not anything i've ever heard of. asking about gravity records or DC bands gets blank looks.

― the fuckablity of late picasso (vahid), Sunday, 25 June 2006 19:56 (nineteen years ago)

i doubt most of these kids knowledge of "true" emo goes back much further or deeper than lifetime, and there's nothing wrong with that.

― Bea Arthur - Lost COmic GEnius ? (dubplatestyle), Sunday, 25 June 2006 20:18 (nineteen years ago)

Their look seems to be what would happen if you asked some vaguely nerdy high school guys to dress like the kind of people they think are "arty." They almost naturally end up looking like Robert Smith raised on the Limp Bizkit.

― Cunga (Cunga), Sunday, 25 June 2006 20:19 (nineteen years ago)

Biography by Corey Apar

Just barely out of high school, pop-punk outfit Panic! At the Disco burst out of suburban Las Vegas in 2005 with their full-length debut, A Fever You Can't Sweat Out. Taking their name from a line in Name Taken's "Panic," the group materialized when friends Spencer Smith (drums) and Ryan Ross (guitar) grew tired of covering blink-182 tunes together and thus recruited classmates Brendon Urie (guitar/vocals) and Brent Wilson (bass) to complete the quartet. Crafting pop-influenced songs with theatrical touches, quirky techno beats, and perceptive lyrics, Panic! At the Disco posted some demos online and soon caught the attention of Decaydance, the Fueled By Ramen imprint headed by Fall Out Boy's Pete Wentz. Even though the band had yet to play a live show, they were subsequently signed. With their record issued in September 2005, the guys hit the road that fall on the successful Nintendo Fusion Tour alongside Fall Out Boy, Motion City Soundtrack, Boys Night Out, and the Starting Line. As their single "I Write Sins Not Tragedies" found its way into TRL hearts (and the Top 40) by the early months of 2006, the band kept the momentum going on the road with the Academy Is..., Acceptance, and Hellogoodbye. Proving to be a popular lineup, the tour consistently sold out venues across the country. Wilson parted ways with the group mid-year; Panic! pressed on with a full summer of headlining dates around the country that culminated with appearances in Chicago at Lollapalooza and overseas at the UK's Reading and Leeds festivals.

The truly horrifying thing is that right now, a band of 8th graders is playing Panic! At The Disco covers together and they will be one of the biggest things on MTV within 5 years.

― Marmot 4-Tay: forth-coming, my child. forth-coming most righteous champion (mar, Sunday, 25 June 2006 20:46 (nineteen years ago)

Also note that they are not even cool enough to say that their name is a Smiths reference. They got their name from ANOTHER SHITTY EMO BAND.

Name Taken "Panic":

so now you hear what took you years to listen for
but still i can't make out the words
its the message that makes you miserable
but still...

burning alive from the inside
burning down
sleep now you've fallen out of face

panic at the disco
sat back and took it so slow
are you nervous? are you shaking?
save compliments to praise complation
we don't have to feel we fit in
we can move back
we can leave them

burning alive from the inside
burning down
sleep now you've fallen for me

manufactured dreams and a fabricated resolution
how can we move ahead from this backward motion?

so now you will hear what took you years to listen for
but still can't feel it

burning alive from the inside
burning down
sleep now you've fallen out of face

burning alive from the inside
burning down
sleep now you've fallen for me

manufactured dreams and a fabricated resolution
how can we move ahead from this backward motion?
panic panic
panic panic

― Marmot 4-Tay: forth-coming, my child. forth-coming most righteous champion (mar, Sunday, 25 June 2006 21:01 (nineteen years ago)

Not giving two shits about the band's look, or their place in the emo time-space continuum, I bought the album. It's a fun record, equal parts "Basket Case" and "Love Cats" (Fred Durst is mercifully absent in this equation), and I definitely got my ten-dollars-minus-a-penny's worth.

I can think of exponentially worse things that the kids could be into.

― Tantrum The Cat (Tantrum The Cat), Sunday, 25 June 2006 22:39 (nineteen years ago)

you could? like what??

― CDDB (Dan Deluca), Monday, 26 June 2006 02:49 (nineteen years ago)

Father raping.

― Marmot 4-Tay: forth-coming, my child. forth-coming most righteous champion (mar, Monday, 26 June 2006 03:00 (nineteen years ago)

thug is not worse than PATD

― electric sound of jim (and why not) (electricsound), Monday, 26 June 2006 03:16 (nineteen years ago)

god almighty thank you tantrum for making me NOT the only person to support panic on ilm. it's a fun pop record! sorry they look funny!

(and yes i know their lyrics can be a touch on the... um... obnoxiously self-aware side. i think falling in love with 'from under the cork tree' last year helped me get past that lololol)

anyway, PATD arent too bad. i get the impression that a lot of the haters haven't paid any attention beyond the frustratingly bad videos for 'i write sins' and 'but its better if you do'

(just my 2 cents for now. i'll chime in [hah] again tomorrow once i get to work and this thread has grown to 200+ new answers, as every pop-punk thread seems to)

― nervous (cochere), Monday, 26 June 2006 05:06 (nineteen years ago)

and by "arent too bad" i mean "released one of my top 20 records of 2005"

― nervous (cochere), Monday, 26 June 2006 05:07 (nineteen years ago)

lest anyone get confused re: where i stand on this issue

― nervous (cochere), Monday, 26 June 2006 05:07 (nineteen years ago)

i'd be interested to see which bands fall where in jess' hierarchy

― nervous (cochere), Monday, 26 June 2006 05:09 (nineteen years ago)

Their look seems to be what would happen if you asked some vaguely nerdy high school guys to dress like the kind of people they think are "arty." They almost naturally end up looking like Robert Smith raised on the Limp Bizkit.

Hah!

― vartman (novaheat), Monday, 26 June 2006 05:14 (nineteen years ago)

1. They are better than She Wants Revenge.
2. They took a band I genuinely like (The Dresden Dolls) out on tour with them.
3. "I Write Sins Not Tragedies" is less annoying than some of the other emo bands on MTV that are somediocre I can't be bothered to remember their names.
That's the best I can say for them at this point. I have not heard the CD.

― Marmot 4-Tay: forth-coming, my child. forth-coming most righteous champion (mar, Monday, 26 June 2006 05:40 (nineteen years ago)

they suck.

― latebloomer aka rap's yoko ono (latebloomer), Monday, 26 June 2006 08:22 (nineteen years ago)

Well, yeah.

― Marmot 4-Tay: forth-coming, my child. forth-coming most righteous champion (mar, Monday, 26 June 2006 08:39 (nineteen years ago)

I like them a lot!
1. their lyrics are silly in a really, really satisfying way, where you learn them easily because you're thinking 'surely he is not singing- ohahahahahaha he is as well', and then you find yourself singing along and feel really embarassed because they're so awesomely dumb, but at the same time strangely happy with yourself.
2. they're awfully pretentious and stagey in a sort of high-school-theater-kid style - the highly stylised clever-clever standoffish lyrics that hold you at emotional arm's length from the songs, the way 'i write sins not tragedies' is a story song about a broken wedding like it's some five minutes' devised piece inspired by Shakespeare and telenovelas.
3. They have song titles like 'lying is the most fun a girl can have without taking her clothes off' which makes me giggle every time I think of it; it's the perfect combination of tl;dr and emo womanhatred.
4. they have good tunes! They're doing that magpie-pop thing where they incorporate bits and pieces of other more purist strains - the chop-and-change guitars that grew out of what was math-rock -lite; the open-space folky soaring yowl from like Live or some soft-numetal groups; the tunes with that twitchy how-do-I-fit-the-lyrics-in extempore sounding vocals that's are a lot of newtype emo; the simple crunching-guitar pop of Jimmy Eat World or whoever. And I find their occasional attacks of 'dance beats' kind of endearing?

like, I don't mean to accuse anyone of being BITTER & OLD and PAST IT and AFRAID OF WHAT THE (middle-class suburban poncey) KIDS ARE INTO but I don't understand how you can't see how likeable they are! Picking on P!ATD is a little too obvious, don't you think? Oh no it's the latest strain of chart emo for sulky kids in eyeliner, it must be the worst thing ever.

― permanent revolution (cis), Monday, 26 June 2006 09:35 (nineteen years ago)

you've totally sold it to me, cis. i'm gonna get this. I get the impression from "I Write Sins Not Tragedies" that they're like The Killers to Blood Brothers' The Rapture.

― Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Monday, 26 June 2006 10:21 (nineteen years ago)

they sure don't sound that way

― latebloomer aka rap's yoko ono (latebloomer), Monday, 26 June 2006 10:30 (nineteen years ago)

i'm gonna stay out of this thread

― latebloomer aka rap's yoko ono (latebloomer), Monday, 26 June 2006 10:35 (nineteen years ago)

No! Fight teh power!

― Marmot 4-Tay: forth-coming, my child. forth-coming most righteous champion (mar, Monday, 26 June 2006 10:39 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.absolutepunk.net/gallery/files/1/0/8/3/panicatthedisco2.jpg

*cocks shotgun*

― latebloomer aka rap's yoko ono (latebloomer), Monday, 26 June 2006 10:41 (nineteen years ago)

Just pretend that you're playing RE4, they'll go down quick.

― Marmot 4-Tay: forth-coming, my child. forth-coming most righteous champion (mar, Monday, 26 June 2006 10:42 (nineteen years ago)

i love how the two skinny guys are flanked by teh fatties

― latebloomer aka rap's yoko ono (latebloomer), Monday, 26 June 2006 10:43 (nineteen years ago)

"You killed the zombies Panic at the Disco!"

"They were zombies?"

― latebloomer aka rap's yoko ono (latebloomer), Monday, 26 June 2006 10:44 (nineteen years ago)

DUDE I was just gonna post the same thing about the fat dudes, and how they're looking around like "How the hell did we luck into this? Hope these guys don't kick us out..."

― Marmot 4-Tay: forth-coming, my child. forth-coming most righteous champion (mar, Monday, 26 June 2006 10:47 (nineteen years ago)

yeah it's like "you guys can stay in the band, but only if you'll be our bodyguards too"

― latebloomer aka rap's yoko ono (latebloomer), Monday, 26 June 2006 10:52 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.nostalgiacentral.com/images_tv/lovers_01.jpg

Aw go on Beryl, it's band practice tonight!

― dog latin (dog latin), Monday, 26 June 2006 11:38 (nineteen years ago)

sorry, that was rubbish.

― dog latin (dog latin), Monday, 26 June 2006 11:38 (nineteen years ago)

"They almost naturally end up looking like Robert Smith raised on the Limp Bizkit."

HA!

― js (honestengine), Monday, 26 June 2006 11:52 (nineteen years ago)

3. They have song titles like 'lying is the most fun a girl can have without taking her clothes off' which makes me giggle every time I think of it; it's the perfect combination of tl;dr and emo womanhatred.

no idea what "tl;dr" means but isn't that a line Natalie Portman says in that movie Closer? I guess they have the same obnoxious habit of jacking quotes from stupid movies as Fall Out Boy.

― Alex in Baltimore (Alex in Baltimore), Monday, 26 June 2006 11:56 (nineteen years ago)

They also jack titles from Chuck Pahalunihich (or wahtevs) books.

― Raw Patrick (Raw Patrick), Monday, 26 June 2006 11:58 (nineteen years ago)

yeah they have a bit of a fixation on intertextuality

― nervous (cochere), Monday, 26 June 2006 12:38 (nineteen years ago)

see it used to be bands would take quotes and references from cult, sci-fi, blaxploitation, horror, or art films, now they do natalie portman movies.

this generation must die.

― latebloomer aka rap's yoko ono (latebloomer), Monday, 26 June 2006 12:48 (nineteen years ago)

They're doing that magpie-pop thing where they incorporate bits and pieces of other more purist strains

not to mention the allusion to the melody of 'my favorite things' on the album's last track! 'magpie-pop' is an interesting way to describe this, they're basically jacking from a lot of (admittedly, fairly obvious) places eg 'closer', palahniuk, musical theatre, etc, but (in my opinion) make it work

― nervous (cochere), Monday, 26 June 2006 14:01 (nineteen years ago)

"Golf is the most fun you can have without taking your clothes off."
Chi Chi Rodriguez

― s1ocki (slutsky), Monday, 26 June 2006 14:36 (nineteen years ago)

i like the music ok.

i think i'd like panic better if someone could defend this kid's lyrics. or convince me he knows what half of the words on the record even mean.

until then, i'll maintain that panic's lyrics are the worst kind -- dumb ones that thinks they're smart ones.

― robbie mackey (robbie mackey), Monday, 26 June 2006 14:50 (nineteen years ago)

"Golf is the most fun you can have without taking your clothes off."
Chi Chi Rodriguez

-- s1ocki

That pisses me off. I wonder what else Panic they stole from Chi Chi Rodriguez. Do they even know who Lee Trevino is?

― Mark (MarkR), Monday, 26 June 2006 15:01 (nineteen years ago)

i saw an interview where they talked about how much they were influenced by matchbox 20 with absolutely zero awareness that this would not be a cool thing to cop to, which was kind of endearing

― Fritz Wollner (Fritz), Monday, 26 June 2006 15:12 (nineteen years ago)

"It's like a Smiths reference crossed with an Electric 6 reference

I think they should have gone with PANIC! AT THE TACO BELL instead

-- Chinchilla Volapük (LO...), June 25th, 2006."

I think PANIC! AT THE MALL seems more appropriate. More universal, something the kids can relate to.

These guys are just painfully obnoxious. And not in an endearing way.

― Adam Martin (paid in cigarettes), Monday, 26 June 2006 22:00 (nineteen years ago)

Panic! At The Proctologist

― Marmot 4-Tay: forth-coming, my child. forth-coming most righteous champion (mar, Monday, 26 June 2006 22:02 (nineteen years ago)

>>top 20 records of 2005

how is anyone on this board into this band??
are there any Bowling For Soup fans lurking around??
does everyone secretly love Good Charlotte and Dashboard Confessional??

― CDDB (Dan Deluca), Monday, 26 June 2006 22:22 (nineteen years ago)

Miccio to thread.

― Marmot 4-Tay: forth-coming, my child. forth-coming most righteous champion (mar, Monday, 26 June 2006 22:24 (nineteen years ago)

oh c'mon, Anthony doesn't like Dashboard Confessional

― Alex in Baltimore (Alex in Baltimore), Monday, 26 June 2006 22:33 (nineteen years ago)

Panic! At The Abortion Clinic

― Marmot 4-Tay: forth-coming, my child. forth-coming most righteous champion (mar, Monday, 26 June 2006 22:38 (nineteen years ago)

listening to this stuff is killing me this week

― Bea Arthur - Lost COmic GEnius ? (dubplatestyle), Monday, 26 June 2006 22:40 (nineteen years ago)

as well as those around me

― Bea Arthur - Lost COmic GEnius ? (dubplatestyle), Monday, 26 June 2006 22:40 (nineteen years ago)

panic! at my office

― Bea Arthur - Lost COmic GEnius ? (dubplatestyle), Monday, 26 June 2006 22:41 (nineteen years ago)

Panic! At The Sex Offender's Registry

― Marmot 4-Tay: forth-coming, my child. forth-coming most righteous champion (mar, Monday, 26 June 2006 22:43 (nineteen years ago)

panic! at the message board

― nervous (cochere), Monday, 26 June 2006 23:29 (nineteen years ago)

Panic! At The Gas Chamber

― Marmot 4-Tay: forth-coming, my child. forth-coming most righteous champion (mar, Monday, 26 June 2006 23:31 (nineteen years ago)

Panic! At The Panic Attack

― :):):):):):):):):):):) Smiling Friend (:(:(:(:(:(:(:(:(:(:(:(: (Uri Frendimein), Monday, 26 June 2006 23:38 (nineteen years ago)

Panic! At The Colitis Attack

― Marmot 4-Tay: forth-coming, my child. forth-coming most righteous champion (mar, Monday, 26 June 2006 23:42 (nineteen years ago)

Panic! Don't

― electric sound of jim (and why not) (electricsound), Monday, 26 June 2006 23:50 (nineteen years ago)

Panic! At The Daycare

― It's Rodney, now in amazing 2-D! (R. J. Greene), Tuesday, 27 June 2006 00:02 (nineteen years ago)

Panic! At The LAN Party

― latebloomer aka rap's yoko ono (latebloomer), Tuesday, 27 June 2006 00:25 (nineteen years ago)

Panic! At The Confessional

― It's Rodney, now in amazing 2-D! (R. J. Greene), Tuesday, 27 June 2006 00:46 (nineteen years ago)

I've discovered a huge soft spot for them and Fall Out Boy when they come on Top 40 radio. cis OTM about the glorious lyrics. So much angst. Boy-Avril tunes are OK with me.

― milo z (mlp), Tuesday, 27 June 2006 00:58 (nineteen years ago)

FINALLY I HAVE MORE SUPPORT

a gang of unlikely heroes

― nervous (cochere), Tuesday, 27 June 2006 02:05 (nineteen years ago)

seriously, between a fever you can't sweat out and from under the cork tree, fueled by ramen is a-ok by me

― nervous (cochere), Tuesday, 27 June 2006 02:06 (nineteen years ago)

hey man, there were big differences between enuff z'nuff and tesla too. i'm just saying.

― maura (maura), Tuesday, 27 June 2006 02:07 (nineteen years ago)

Panic! At the stall with no toilet paper

― John E. Smoke (Uri Frendimein), Tuesday, 27 June 2006 02:08 (nineteen years ago)

panic! at the dude with weird al hair playing accordion

― maura (maura), Tuesday, 27 June 2006 02:11 (nineteen years ago)

The wedding song reminds me of At The Drive-In without the douchey self-importance.

― milo z (mlp), Tuesday, 27 June 2006 02:12 (nineteen years ago)

Panic! In October 1929

― max (maxreax), Tuesday, 27 June 2006 02:18 (nineteen years ago)

Panic! At the WORST BAND EVAR

― CDDB (Dan Deluca), Tuesday, 27 June 2006 02:22 (nineteen years ago)

um, nickelback?

― nervous (cochere), Tuesday, 27 June 2006 02:41 (nineteen years ago)

Panic! At The Slave Auction

― Marmot 4-Tay: forth-coming, my child. forth-coming most righteous champion (mar, Tuesday, 27 June 2006 02:43 (nineteen years ago)

Panic! at the sight of the photo posted twice in this thread.

― Sean Braud1s (Sean Braudis), Tuesday, 27 June 2006 02:52 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.absolutepunk.net/gallery/files/1/0/8/3/panicatthedisco2.jpg
TWINKS 4 SALE!

― Marmot 4-Tay: forth-coming, my child. forth-coming most righteous champion (mar, Tuesday, 27 June 2006 02:54 (nineteen years ago)

oh man i forgot how good ilm is at actually discussing things lol

― nervous (cochere), Tuesday, 27 June 2006 02:59 (nineteen years ago)

yah rly

― latebloomer aka rap's yoko ono (latebloomer), Tuesday, 27 June 2006 03:19 (nineteen years ago)

i'm gonna stay out of this thread
-- latebloomer aka rap's yoko ono (posercore24...), June 26th, 2006 7:35 AM.

no wai

― nervous (cochere), Tuesday, 27 June 2006 04:14 (nineteen years ago)

i wuz called back

― latebloomer aka rap's yoko ono (latebloomer), Tuesday, 27 June 2006 04:35 (nineteen years ago)

pshhhhh whateva

― nervous (cochere), Tuesday, 27 June 2006 04:35 (nineteen years ago)

talk to the hand, girlfriend

― latebloomer aka rap's yoko ono (latebloomer), Tuesday, 27 June 2006 04:44 (nineteen years ago)

man you totally ignored my reference to positive k's "i got a man"

― nervous (cochere), Tuesday, 27 June 2006 04:47 (nineteen years ago)

dude i wuz raised by amish leprechauns

― latebloomer aka rap's yoko ono (latebloomer), Tuesday, 27 June 2006 04:50 (nineteen years ago)

i mean ya i heard the amish basically hate pop punk ITS GENETIC.

― nervous (cochere), Tuesday, 27 June 2006 04:52 (nineteen years ago)

We only listen to Deicide.

― Marmot 4-Tay: forth-coming, my child. forth-coming most righteous champion (mar, Tuesday, 27 June 2006 04:58 (nineteen years ago)

All this, and yet no one has a word to say about Blue October. I'm perplexed...

Defend the Indefensible: Blue October, "Hate Me"

― rogermexico (rogermexico), Tuesday, 27 June 2006 05:04 (nineteen years ago)

WAHT YOU'RE A AMISH TOO?!? XP

― nervous (cochere), Tuesday, 27 June 2006 05:05 (nineteen years ago)

Panic! it's Richard Nixon

― lf (lfam), Tuesday, 27 June 2006 05:13 (nineteen years ago)

without underpants

― lf (lfam), Tuesday, 27 June 2006 05:13 (nineteen years ago)

http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B00000JMWY.01._SS500_SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg

― nervous (cochere), Tuesday, 27 June 2006 05:32 (nineteen years ago)

I bet the boys in Clap Your Hands Say Yeah will read this thread and be really jealous and depressed that ILM posters have found a new band name to play around with. They should know that it's nothing personal.

― Cunga (Cunga), Tuesday, 27 June 2006 05:43 (nineteen years ago)

Panic! At The Bathhouse

― Marmot 4-Tay: forth-coming, my child. forth-coming most righteous champion (mar, Tuesday, 27 June 2006 05:50 (nineteen years ago)

Picnic! At The Blanket

― A Giant Mechanical Ant (The Giant Mechanical Ant), Tuesday, 27 June 2006 06:09 (nineteen years ago)

Are they gonna play with that big orange ball they've got in the photo? But then their mums will tell them off for getting their interview suits all dirty. That's teen rebellion, I guess.

― Raw Patrick (Raw Patrick), Tuesday, 27 June 2006 07:11 (nineteen years ago)

Panic! The Amish like better music than you

― xgurggleglgllg (xgurggleglgllg), Tuesday, 27 June 2006 07:28 (nineteen years ago)

next bad panic at the disco pun and this thread gets locked.

― Bea Arthur - Lost COmic GEnius ? (dubplatestyle), Tuesday, 27 June 2006 12:47 (nineteen years ago)

Is My Chemical Romance supposed to be bad? I never really viewed them so much emo as much as theatrical arena horror-punk. They make better songs than you do. I never listened to this Panic at the Disco but I thought I would post in this thread anyways.

― christopherscottknudsen (christopherscottknudsen), Tuesday, 27 June 2006 13:24 (nineteen years ago)

They make better songs than you do.

― CDDB (Dan Deluca), Tuesday, 27 June 2006 16:20 (nineteen years ago)

(at the disco)

― CDDB (Dan Deluca), Tuesday, 27 June 2006 16:20 (nineteen years ago)

I don't think My Chemical Romance are supposed to be bad, but they certainly are completely retarded, regardless!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=59doMCC6IkM

― CDDB (Dan Deluca), Tuesday, 27 June 2006 16:26 (nineteen years ago)

Is My Chemical Romance supposed to be bad? I never really viewed them so much emo as much as theatrical arena horror-punk.

Nitpicking! At the Message Board

― latebloomer aka rap's yoko ono (latebloomer), Tuesday, 27 June 2006 16:35 (nineteen years ago)

bro i totally already did the 'at the message board' joke

plus, i thought there was more-than-slight ilm consensus on MCR?

― nervous (cochere), Tuesday, 27 June 2006 19:09 (nineteen years ago)

Cultural comment:

The Killers lash out at emo groups
http://www.nme.com/news/the-killers/23458

― DJ Martian (djmartian), Wednesday, 28 June 2006 09:13 (nineteen years ago)

THERE CAN BE ONLY ONE.

― Marmot 4-Tay: forth-coming, my child. forth-coming most righteous champion (mar, Wednesday, 28 June 2006 09:16 (nineteen years ago)

Which one in the picture is the bass player that got kicked out? Or is that a different band?

― JoB (JoB), Wednesday, 28 June 2006 10:04 (nineteen years ago)

They're all the same band.

― Marmot 4-Tay: forth-coming, my child. forth-coming most righteous champion (mar, Wednesday, 28 June 2006 10:40 (nineteen years ago)

but they're not! one band does one little thingie, another does a different little thingie

― latebloomer aka rap's yoko ono (latebloomer), Wednesday, 28 June 2006 10:53 (nineteen years ago)

That's how they fool you. THE TRUTH IS OUT THERE.

― Marmot 4-Tay: forth-coming, my child. forth-coming most righteous champion (mar, Wednesday, 28 June 2006 10:55 (nineteen years ago)

Your search - alien fashioncore - did not match any documents.

― latebloomer aka rap's yoko ono (latebloomer), Wednesday, 28 June 2006 11:00 (nineteen years ago)

Cute Is What We Aim For is this generation's Panic! At The Disco.

― JoB (JoB), Wednesday, 28 June 2006 18:33 (nineteen years ago)

two months pass...

Color me impressed; this thread didn't even need googlers to become gut-bustingly hilarious.

― bernard snow (sixteen sergeants), Tuesday, 5 September 2006 16:12 (nineteen years ago)

PS I think I might gradually be coming around to the "this band is so bizarrely, enthusiastically stupid that it's sort of endearing" point of view (which is very different from ironic appreciation, for reasons which exist but are impossible to properly articulate).

― bernard snow (sixteen sergeants), Tuesday, 5 September 2006 16:14 (nineteen years ago)

The singer is a Mormon.

― Marmot (marmotwolof), Tuesday, 5 September 2006 18:29 (nineteen years ago)

get a brain morman

― and PappaWheelie, author of Have You Ever Been Poxy Fuled? (PappaWheelie 2), Tuesday, 5 September 2006 19:00 (nineteen years ago)

get a brain mer-man
http://wiw.org/~corey/lj/mer-man.gif

― Marmot (marmotwolof), Tuesday, 5 September 2006 19:07 (nineteen years ago)

new mcr drops 10/24. fuck yes

― nervous (cochere), Wednesday, 6 September 2006 06:30 (nineteen years ago)

Picnic! At The Blanket

For the sake of humanity, will 4 plucky young myspacers please pick up their fenders and start this band?

― cosmo vitelli (cosmo vitelli), Wednesday, 6 September 2006 06:55 (nineteen years ago)

Whenever I hear these guys I remember that once upon a time I really liked the Smithereens. And then I feel vaguely greasy for a while, on top of the feeling real old. I don't mind catchy pretentious rock, cuz I have to honor my inner 14-year-old, but there's something about the way the Panic! at the Disco kid crams way too many words into each line that just bugs me. I think my friends who were in bands in high school were more self-aware about their pretensions, which was more tolerable, for whatever reason (although hanging out at basement parties taping friends playing four straight hours of Velvets covers on acoustic guitar and bongos got old in a hurry, irony or no).

Plus there's something about the neotenous aspect of bands like Panic! that seems seamy to me; never has the objectification of pop stars seemed so obvious. They look so pretty and young in all their photos (the haircuts really don't help); there's something really vulnerable about their mien that makes me want to protect them even as I mock them to my friends (cuz make no mistake, those haircuts are endlessly mockable).

― ozymandias G desiderata (othiym23), Wednesday, 6 September 2006 07:11 (nineteen years ago)

Yeah, these are the type of kids that get thrown into white vans and resurface 20 years later as veterans of the porn industry.

― cosmo vitelli (cosmo vitelli), Wednesday, 6 September 2006 07:17 (nineteen years ago)

So Pitchfork, god knows why, decided to review the single the other day -- it's only been out for, what, 8 months now? So bummed; for a second I thought for sure we were gonna get an early critical reassessment, but instead we get a 1.5 star rating and some sort of half-coherent rant about misogyny. Well-played, clerks.

― bernard snow (sixteen sergeants), Wednesday, 13 September 2006 15:27 (nineteen years ago)

Thanks!

― David R. (popshots75`), Wednesday, 13 September 2006 15:30 (nineteen years ago)

This is a good meme, if a wee bit unoriginal.

6.5/10

― Eazy-Esteban Buttez (ESTEBAN BUTTEZ~!!!), Wednesday, 13 September 2006 15:33 (nineteen years ago)

Panic! You! Black! Emperor!

― mark 0 (mark 0), Wednesday, 13 September 2006 15:35 (nineteen years ago)

Nobody remembers Godspeed You! Black Emperor anymore, young padawan.

2/10

― Eazy-Esteban Buttez (ESTEBAN BUTTEZ~!!!), Wednesday, 13 September 2006 15:37 (nineteen years ago)

You spelled Paganini wrong.

― mark 0 (mark 0), Wednesday, 13 September 2006 15:39 (nineteen years ago)

Oh hey, sup Dave. Why is the harmless and transient pseudo-misogyny of adolescent incompetence so much worse than the deep-seated attitudes that permeate hip-hop? Also, this is a fun song; why do you hate fun?

― bernard snow (sixteen sergeants), Wednesday, 13 September 2006 15:39 (nineteen years ago)

Is Freak*on*ica by Girls Against Boys the secretly most influential rock album of the late 90s?

― M@tt He1geson: Real Name, No Gimmicks (Matt Helgeson), Wednesday, 13 September 2006 15:40 (nineteen years ago)

Bernard: I would respond to yr question by asking why is Panic's mysogyny (or the misogyny in RAWK in general) (see my Hinder write-up on Friday woo) any less "harmless and transient" than hip-hop's. Also, run-on horseshit about poise and rationality doesn't do a damn thing for me. Also, fuck top hats.

― David R. (popshots75`), Wednesday, 13 September 2006 15:47 (nineteen years ago)

Also, fuck top hats.

Hrm. Maybe we should just agree to disagree.

― bernard snow (sixteen sergeants), Wednesday, 13 September 2006 16:34 (nineteen years ago)

But I do think that "emo" misogyny tends to be of the "argh I don't understand girls WHY ARE THEY SO CONFUSING" variety (which begins to fade with the development of social skills), rather than the "HEY DERE BITCHES" sort found in rock and rap.

― bernard snow (sixteen sergeants), Wednesday, 13 September 2006 16:38 (nineteen years ago)

yes it's fucking pathetic. "hey dere bitches" is kinda cunty, but being a cunt >>>> being pathetic loser.

― The Lex (The Lex), Wednesday, 13 September 2006 17:03 (nineteen years ago)

well yeah, I'd rather be a cunt than a loser, but sometimes you want to listen to losers! and at least these guys seem to tend towards the "gets genuinely excited during games of Super Smash Brothers, to the point of physical violence" rather than the "takes pictures of self looking sad in the mirror" end of the loser spectrum.

― bernard snow (sixteen sergeants), Wednesday, 13 September 2006 17:23 (nineteen years ago)

What makes "I Write Sins Not Tragedies" more misogynist than every other song where a woman cheats on a man? (Surely you'd agree that someone can write a song about this without it being misogynist?) Is it just the word "whore" or that the groom is willing to judge her on the basis of an overheard rumour (this is fleshed out way more in the video)? Top hats and Clockwork Orange-ish costumes = classic BTW.

― Sundar (sundar), Wednesday, 13 September 2006 17:35 (nineteen years ago)

All extra-musical factors. What were you reviewing exactly?

― Turangalila (Salvador), Wednesday, 13 September 2006 17:36 (nineteen years ago)

Oh hey David, didn't notice you were the author.

― Sundar (sundar), Wednesday, 13 September 2006 17:40 (nineteen years ago)

(Mind you, I can see the sexism in the "But It's Better If You Do" video.)

― Sundar (sundar), Wednesday, 13 September 2006 17:41 (nineteen years ago)

(This is an interesting discussion, though. I'm simply stating that --- independent of your value judgment of the music per se --- you didn't review the music as such. Someone who hasn't heard the song would have no idea what it sounds like. "Oh, y'know, it sounds misogynistic and they wear top hats.")

― Turangalila (Salvador), Wednesday, 13 September 2006 17:48 (nineteen years ago)

slash and marc bolan looked awesome in top hats! proven fact!

― M@tt He1geson: Real Name, No Gimmicks (Matt Helgeson), Wednesday, 13 September 2006 17:52 (nineteen years ago)

Duke Ellington as well!

http://content.answers.com/main/content/wp/en/thumb/c/c9/180px-Duke_Ellington_hat.jpg

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Wednesday, 13 September 2006 17:54 (nineteen years ago)

tru dat! just look at him!

― M@tt He1geson: Real Name, No Gimmicks (Matt Helgeson), Wednesday, 13 September 2006 18:01 (nineteen years ago)

OK, I got the top hat thing wrong.

― David R. (popshots75`), Wednesday, 13 September 2006 18:16 (nineteen years ago)

As for Turangalila's complaints:

1) I don't mention top hats in my write up (which you would've known if you read my write up) (and clicked on the SCOOP BACK American Apparrel ad right above it)
2) The guitars sound like gossamyr turds plummeting through a fetid atmosphere of compressed drums and subsumed bass plucks.

― David R. (popshots75`), Wednesday, 13 September 2006 18:19 (nineteen years ago)

I didn't say you mentioned top hats. I read your review, which read more like a sociopolitical commentary than a music review. Now, 2) would have been better.

― Turangalila (Salvador), Wednesday, 13 September 2006 18:22 (nineteen years ago)

And the misogyny line, BTW, in case you don't want to give the editorial staff more coke money, is this: "The only difference between misogyny in run-of-the-mill rock songs, misogyny in hip-hop, and misogyny in run-of-the-mill emo songs is how far the singer's balls have dropped."

― David R. (popshots75`), Wednesday, 13 September 2006 18:23 (nineteen years ago)

Could someone please submit 2) as a pitch to the New Times for me, plz?

― David R. (popshots75`), Wednesday, 13 September 2006 18:24 (nineteen years ago)

Yeah, my initial reason for posting about this was what Turangalila pointed out, that the social commentary is not in addition to, but at the expense of actually mentioning the music. The fact that I find that social commentary kind of weird and questionable is just the sweet sweet icing on my cake of bitching.

― bernard snow (sixteen sergeants), Wednesday, 13 September 2006 18:27 (nineteen years ago)

(I'm getting real sicka that SCOOP BACK ad)
(xxxxxpost)

― CDDB (Dan Deluca), Wednesday, 13 September 2006 18:28 (nineteen years ago)

My review of David Raposa's writing skills:
David Raposa is not wearing shoes.

― Turangalila (Salvador), Wednesday, 13 September 2006 18:31 (nineteen years ago)

Yeah, because I'm writing about what I wear!

― David R. (popshots75`), Wednesday, 13 September 2006 18:33 (nineteen years ago)

WHO ELSE WANTS A PIECE OF BITCHCAKE

― bernard snow (sixteen sergeants), Wednesday, 13 September 2006 18:33 (nineteen years ago)

I HAVE ROOM FOR ANOTHER SLICE THANKS

― David R. (popshots75`), Wednesday, 13 September 2006 18:34 (nineteen years ago)

Goddamn it, I totally want some cake now.

― David R. (popshots75`), Wednesday, 13 September 2006 19:03 (nineteen years ago)

http://syrinx.meccahosting.com/~a0002ebd/Images/webpage%20pictures/webpage%20pictures-Thumbnails/7.jpg

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Wednesday, 13 September 2006 19:13 (nineteen years ago)

POIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIISE
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAND
RATIONALITAAAA-AAAAY

― David R. (popshots75`), Wednesday, 13 September 2006 19:15 (nineteen years ago)

Every rose has its thorn
Just like every night has its dawn
Just like every cowboy sings a sad, sad song
Every rose has its thorn

(Poison rationality)

― Marmot (marmotwolof), Wednesday, 13 September 2006 19:34 (nineteen years ago)

I always thought it was "poison rationality" or "poisoned rationality" but I will admit that "poise and rationality" makes more sense and I haven't had a chance to relisten since reading the review.

― bernard snow (sixteen sergeants), Wednesday, 13 September 2006 20:24 (nineteen years ago)

guitar player is hot. i dont understand their music.

― RoxyMuzak© (roxymuzak), Wednesday, 13 September 2006 21:03 (nineteen years ago)

i don't understand it either.

― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Wednesday, 13 September 2006 21:04 (nineteen years ago)

i understand that it's CRAP amirite

― latebloomer (latebloomer), Wednesday, 13 September 2006 22:15 (nineteen years ago)

glammo

― rogermexico (rogermexico), Wednesday, 13 September 2006 22:26 (nineteen years ago)

gleamo

― latebloomer (latebloomer), Wednesday, 13 September 2006 22:27 (nineteen years ago)

crapola

― latebloomer (latebloomer), Wednesday, 13 September 2006 22:28 (nineteen years ago)

voila

― RoxyMuzak© (roxymuzak), Wednesday, 13 September 2006 23:13 (nineteen years ago)

one month passes...

PANIC! AT THE DISCO'S BRENDON URIE: "EMO IS BULLSH*T!"
Posted by Scott Heisel on 18-Oct-06 @ 04:37 PM
Upstart Las Vegas dance-pop band Panic! At The Disco have learned from their citymates the Killers just how to properly get press: Say outrageous things.
In an interview with NME earlier this week, Panic! frontman Brendon Urie was asked what he thought about the "emo" tag that had been associated with his band, and he had no problem telling everyone just how he felt.
"It's ignorant!" Urie says. "The stereotype is guys that are weak and have failing relationships write about how sad they are. If you listen to our songs, not one of them has that tone.
"Emo is bullshit!" he adds. "If people want to take it for the literal sense of the word, yes we're an emotional band, we put a lot of thought into what we do. People always try to stereotype us, but we don't fit the emo stereotype."

The band are currently writing their sophomore album and preparing for their upcoming arena tour with Bloc Party.

― Marmot (marmotwolof), Thursday, 19 October 2006 04:30 (nineteen years ago)

V. nice that Bloc Party could play arenas. But not with these clods.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 19 October 2006 04:34 (nineteen years ago)

i finally heard one of these songs on my xm radio yesterday (thank you text reader) and the lyrics were so bad. how many awkward and unnecessary syllables can urie cram in? it was like a game show.

― a name means a lot just by itself (lfam), Thursday, 19 October 2006 04:46 (nineteen years ago)

and the production was crap so i don't remember the music

― a name means a lot just by itself (lfam), Thursday, 19 October 2006 04:46 (nineteen years ago)

two weeks pass...

wossername was REALLY patronising and sarky to them on Popworld...but they kinda deserve it.

― 2 american 4 u (blueski), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 14:10 (nineteen years ago)

ooh details please? i hope more people will start bullying them

― The Lex (The Lex), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 14:21 (nineteen years ago)

i wish i could remember exactly what was said but the two members of the band were tired and pissy which made the inane questions funnier. made them come across as total cocks.

― 2 american 4 u (blueski), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 14:32 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XzaJoIUV57E

― jellybean (jellybean), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 14:36 (nineteen years ago)

briliant, cheers!

― 2 american 4 u (blueski), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 14:39 (nineteen years ago)

eh, i'd've been nastier, though the grammar zing was perfect.

all worth it for the youtube user comments though.

WELL IF IT WASNT FOR JESUS THEN HE WUD NEVER BE ON THIS YOUTUBE!

― The Lex (The Lex), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 14:47 (nineteen years ago)

Jesus was a web programmer.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 15:05 (nineteen years ago)

Jesus built my iPod

― 2 american 4 u (blueski), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 15:09 (nineteen years ago)

He sang "If I were a carpenter" while he hacked COBOL to prevent Y0K bug

― ONIMO ph34rz teh NOIZE (GerryNemo), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 15:10 (nineteen years ago)

but she sed she threw bottle of wee at D&C = i hate her

― Britain's Obtusest Shepherd (Alan), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 15:10 (nineteen years ago)

Popworld really does hate Pop.

― 2 american 4 u (blueski), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 15:11 (nineteen years ago)

Alex Zane is my least favourite human being alive.

― dommy p is alright WHICH IS A LOT MORE THAN I CAN SAY ABOUT A LOT OF PEOPLE (Dom, Tuesday, 7 November 2006 15:17 (nineteen years ago)

Alex Zane >>>>>>> Derek Acorah

― Britain's Obtusest Shepherd (Alan), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 15:22 (nineteen years ago)

At least Acorah has a comedy backstory (the ghost of Bill Shankly telling him to persue a career in light entertainment). Alex Zane, on the other hand, looks like he spent his entire school years baiting kids into hitting him before getting them suspended.

― dommy p is alright WHICH IS A LOT MORE THAN I CAN SAY ABOUT A LOT OF PEOPLE (Dom, Tuesday, 7 November 2006 15:24 (nineteen years ago)

Current British TV personalities more loathable than Alex Zane

― dommy p is alright WHICH IS A LOT MORE THAN I CAN SAY ABOUT A LOT OF PEOPLE (Dom, Tuesday, 7 November 2006 15:29 (nineteen years ago)

Zane's hair has gone more Brand-esque (Russell of Jo? who knows anymore)

but not sure he is worse than Justin Lee Francis

― 2 american 4 u (blueski), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 15:29 (nineteen years ago)

Alex ~~Zane~~, on the other hand, looks like he spent his entire ~~school years~~ time on ILM baiting kids into hitting him before getting them suspended.

fixed amirite?

― acrobat (elwisty), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 16:44 (nineteen years ago)

That one guy in the interview sounded like Tom Cruise when he got squirted:
"Why would you do that? You're a jerk!"

― Marmot (marmotwolof), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 16:45 (nineteen years ago)

I can't believe I never objected to the rickety thesis behind this thread.

― The Android Cat (Dan Perry), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 16:54 (nineteen years ago)

two months pass...

GOD DAMN YOU PASSANTINOG. IT's AWL 2 BOOTIFUL.

― Boom Dershowitz (noodle vague), Wednesday, 10 January 2007 02:36 (nineteen years ago)

one year passes...

new single is pretty good, will probably never listen to it again though

http://www.myspace.com/panicatthedisco

album cover looks like some bullshit knit thing your grandmother would have hanging up by the fridge but w/e

― J0rdan S., Tuesday, 29 January 2008 20:33 (eighteen years ago)

Panic! In October 1929
-- max (maxreax), Monday, June 26, 2006 7:18 PM (1 year ago) Bookmark Link

^^^^
i think this might have been my first-ever post

― max, Tuesday, 29 January 2008 20:34 (eighteen years ago)

here are some choice gifs from the myspace as well

http://www.fueledbyramen.com/adam/video/buildgod.gif

http://www.fueledbyramen.com/adam/video/iwritesins.gif

http://www.fueledbyramen.com/adam/video/butitsbetter.gif

― J0rdan S., Tuesday, 29 January 2008 20:35 (eighteen years ago)

ELO? Roffles @ gifs

― The Reverend, Tuesday, 29 January 2008 20:40 (eighteen years ago)

yeah i was thinking elo too

― J0rdan S., Tuesday, 29 January 2008 20:41 (eighteen years ago)

apparently they have "matured" and "grown beards" and have been listening to lots of "authentic" "music"

― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Tuesday, 29 January 2008 21:25 (eighteen years ago)

*all black wardrobe alert*

― J0rdan S., Tuesday, 29 January 2008 21:26 (eighteen years ago)

Still dig the first album, and am cautiously optimistic about the new one - single sounds good from here.

― Tantrum The Cat, Tuesday, 29 January 2008 22:38 (eighteen years ago)

J0rdan S, I think it looks like a nice cover. Calling it a "bullshit knit thing your grandmother would have hanging up by the fridge" is both not funny and wrong.

― Choose Leif, Tuesday, 29 January 2008 22:47 (eighteen years ago)

Whose sockpuppet are you?

― jaymc, Tuesday, 29 January 2008 22:48 (eighteen years ago)

sockpuppets = the new ban x

― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Tuesday, 29 January 2008 23:20 (eighteen years ago)

*trying not to make an aka the sockpuppet joke*

― J0rdan S., Tuesday, 29 January 2008 23:22 (eighteen years ago)

What does the S. stand for? Sockpuppet?

― The Reverend, Tuesday, 29 January 2008 23:32 (eighteen years ago)

finally someone got it

― J0rdan S., Tuesday, 29 January 2008 23:36 (eighteen years ago)

two months pass...

The allmusic review remarked that "Do You Know What I'm Seeing" sounds like a Morrissey parody, and sure enough it does. Judging from the album cover (and judging from the review and this one song I've heard) it looks like they found Ogden's Nut Flake in a record store.

― Cunga, Monday, 31 March 2008 19:26 (seventeen years ago)

http://www.fueledbyramen.com/adam/video/buildgod.gif

― J0rdan S., Monday, 31 March 2008 19:28 (seventeen years ago)

hey guys i like this new album kinda

― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Monday, 31 March 2008 20:08 (seventeen years ago)

ayo sh1pley have you heard this?

― J0rdan S., Monday, 31 March 2008 20:09 (seventeen years ago)

I haven't liked any of their singles to date, and The Black Parade effectively scared me off emo-goes-classic-rock, so no.

― Alex in Baltimore, Monday, 31 March 2008 20:39 (seventeen years ago)

Supposedly at their live shows the guy is all melodyne'd up and doesn't sound anything like the records. Another reason to love em.

― sunlightremixed, Wednesday, 2 April 2008 02:45 (seventeen years ago)

one month passes...

The new album is brilliant. It is of course about as far from Emo and oughties teenage angst that you can possibly get though. Instead they have went out and made a great powerpop album. :)

― Geir Hongro, Saturday, 3 May 2008 01:26 (seventeen years ago)

big lolz @ geir liking this geirbait album

― rev, Monday, 5 May 2008 18:51 (seventeen years ago)

one year passes...

i have never heard a song:

http://www.spin.com/articles/two-members-quit-panic-disco

Two Members Quit Panic at the Disco

Guitarist Ryan Ross and bassist Jon Walker are leaving to start a new project. Get all the details here.

By Peter Gaston 07.06.09 2:04 PM

Two of Panic at the Disco's four members are leaving the band, according to a post on their official website.

Guitarist Ryan Ross and bassist Jon Walker announced that they are departing the Las Vegas-based emo-pop act to pursue their own project together.
 

"Though the four of us have made music together in the past, we've creatively evolved in different directions which has compromised what each of us want to personally achieve," the statement read. "Over the years, we have remained close and honest with each other, which helped us to realize that our goals were different and that parting ways is truly what is best for each of us. We are all excited for the future, you should be too."

Frontman Brendon Urie and drummer Spencer Smith will continue under the Panic at the Disco name, and plan to go ahead with their 12 announced tour dates this summer as an opening act on the Blink-182 reunion tour, beginning August 4 in Milwaukee, WI.

Founding members Ross, Smith, and Urie have been friends since their early teens, while Walker joined the band in 2006 after the departure of original bassist Brent Wilson.

― Bee OK, Wednesday, 8 July 2009 03:05 (sixteen years ago)

The Heaven 17/Human League of a new generation. Uh.

― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 8 July 2009 05:23 (sixteen years ago)

we certainly don't need this facist groove thang

― velko, Wednesday, 8 July 2009 05:26 (sixteen years ago)

didn't that guitarplayer guy wrote all the music and the lyrics anyway, what the hell are they other 2 gonna do nowwww.

― Ludo, Wednesday, 8 July 2009 09:08 (sixteen years ago)

two years pass...

Any thoughts on a group like this possibly being outside of critical purview? This was a really good single.

― timellison, Wednesday, 18 January 2012 02:26 (fourteen years ago)

Huh, now I see the critic there - Annie Zaleski, who writes for A.P. - had a comment published, too, on just this topic re. the Patrick Stump album.

― timellison, Wednesday, 18 January 2012 04:19 (fourteen years ago)

P!ATD did better circa Pretty Odd iirc

― Mordy, Wednesday, 18 January 2012 04:21 (fourteen years ago)

looks like it did better in any case:

https://pub.needlebase.com/actions/visualizer/V2Visualizer.do?domain=Pazz-Jop&thread=%4062823&typeId=9149585060559937608&render=List

in 2008 (6) votes for the album and (4) for the single

― Mordy, Wednesday, 18 January 2012 04:24 (fourteen years ago)

pretty. odd is a great record. they lost their principal songwriter when the band split in half, so this year's record was kind of underwhelming though i do like "ready to go"

― Whiney vs. (BradNelson), Wednesday, 18 January 2012 04:28 (fourteen years ago)

Patrick Stump album did get eight votes this year.

― timellison, Wednesday, 18 January 2012 04:29 (fourteen years ago)

one year passes...

Miss Jackson is fucking great.

― sassy, fun, and RELATABLE (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 30 July 2013 03:55 (twelve years ago)

i think it's kinda terrible

― emo canon in twee major (BradNelson), Tuesday, 30 July 2013 04:00 (twelve years ago)

overly appropriate usernames: FITE

― sassy, fun, and RELATABLE (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 30 July 2013 04:14 (twelve years ago)

two months pass...

album is half okay half whatever, except for "collar full" which is incredible

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yZAIEAG6Vgk

― emo canon in twee major (BradNelson), Wednesday, 9 October 2013 17:33 (twelve years ago)

two years pass...

man this band has really sucked for a while. just marveling at it

― HYPERLINK TO RAP GENIUS (BradNelson), Friday, 29 January 2016 22:52 (ten years ago)

My niece was watching Panic! videos on her laptop the other day. They're sucking for a whole new generation!

― how's life, Friday, 29 January 2016 22:54 (ten years ago)

I shouldn't have included that second exclamation point. The one in the band name was enough for my whole post.

― how's life, Friday, 29 January 2016 22:55 (ten years ago)

i was trying to assemble an album out of good songs from their last three records and i actually can't. there have been like five good songs

― HYPERLINK TO RAP GENIUS (BradNelson), Friday, 29 January 2016 23:02 (ten years ago)

I enjoyed "Hallelujah" on the radio last summer but that was one of the very few times i've ever liked anything by them

― 77 lines about 77 albums i haven't heard (some dude), Friday, 29 January 2016 23:11 (ten years ago)

"hallelujah" is pretty ok! "victorious" is basically evil garbage

― HYPERLINK TO RAP GENIUS (BradNelson), Friday, 29 January 2016 23:12 (ten years ago)

the new one has two great songs ("la devotee" and "golden days") and almost everything else is intolerable

― HYPERLINK TO RAP GENIUS (BradNelson), Friday, 29 January 2016 23:13 (ten years ago)

Ha, I haven't heard anything since Pretty Odd. I had no idea they had released several albums since then.

― Hi! I'm twice-coloured! (Sund4r), Friday, 29 January 2016 23:37 (ten years ago)

how the hell did this new Panic album debut at #1 with 190k the first week in 2016. it made sense when FOB did that because they had a big comeback and pop radio resurgence but PATD is just barely back on rock radio.

― 77 lines about 77 albums i haven't heard (some dude), Friday, 29 January 2016 23:43 (ten years ago)

I don't understand this tour with weezer

― Toof Seteltha (Sufjan Grafton), Friday, 29 January 2016 23:47 (ten years ago)

ime theater teens have loved "I Write Sins Not Tragedies" at all points in human history

― "Hey" (Extended Mix) (The Reverend), Saturday, 30 January 2016 09:07 (ten years ago)

album debut at #1 with 190k the first week in 2016. it made sense when FOB did that because they had a big comeback and pop radio resurgence but PATD is just barely back on rock radio.

i'm also totally baffled, the only theories i have is: that tour fob did with panic a few years ago caused the very intense fob/21 pilots/anything fueled by ramen fans (the only evidence i have to support this fanbase existing is youtube comments) to latch onto panic as well, and also brendon urie is popular on vine

― HYPERLINK TO RAP GENIUS (BradNelson), Saturday, 30 January 2016 15:01 (ten years ago)

the worst part is how overtly Panic initially tried to piggyback on the FOB comeback with that single that sounded exactly like "My Songs Know What You Did In The Dark"

― 77 lines about 77 albums i haven't heard (some dude), Saturday, 30 January 2016 15:36 (ten years ago)

there's a song on the new album that's a blatant rip on "uma thurman" lol

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8sRjxi2Dk-8

it's awful

― HYPERLINK TO RAP GENIUS (BradNelson), Saturday, 30 January 2016 15:42 (ten years ago)

urie's really embracing the "sub-fob" criticisms panic got when they first appeared i guess

― HYPERLINK TO RAP GENIUS (BradNelson), Saturday, 30 January 2016 15:44 (ten years ago)

anyway i was remembering recently that this is a lovely single

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0xDf-_8KvGM

it's just very self-assured and well-paced and is pretty much the opposite of how the new album makes me feel like i'm in the center of a coke hangover

― HYPERLINK TO RAP GENIUS (BradNelson), Saturday, 30 January 2016 15:49 (ten years ago)

did they lose half their band at some point?

― Hey (Extended Mix), Saturday, 30 January 2016 18:57 (ten years ago)

yeah the guitarist/principle songwriter and bassist left after the second album. at this point not even the drummer is in the band, it's the brendon urie show

― HYPERLINK TO RAP GENIUS (BradNelson), Saturday, 30 January 2016 19:01 (ten years ago)

remember when he did an homage to d'angelo "untitled" video lol

― J0rdan S., Saturday, 30 January 2016 22:46 (ten years ago)

lol

― HYPERLINK TO RAP GENIUS (BradNelson), Saturday, 30 January 2016 23:20 (ten years ago)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yk8jV7r6VMk

a soft white nightmare imo

― HYPERLINK TO RAP GENIUS (BradNelson), Saturday, 30 January 2016 23:44 (ten years ago)

noooo o ooo ooo oo o

― The Reverend, Sunday, 31 January 2016 03:51 (ten years ago)

No critical reappraisal of Pretty Odd yet? Feel like it's really slept on (except by Brad and me, and I guess Geir) and quite a bit different from what they're more known for. Beatles pastiche album for sure, but a good one. Or maybe Skylarking-era XTC is a better comparison. I get like half a dozen of the songs from it stuck in my head from time to time.

― Vinnie, Sunday, 31 January 2016 07:58 (ten years ago)

it's still majorly derided by a good portion of their fanbase. idk if critics will ever care enough. i listened to it earlier today and it's so singular

― HYPERLINK TO RAP GENIUS (BradNelson), Sunday, 31 January 2016 08:00 (ten years ago)

xtc and elo were always more precise comparisons than the beatles, it's almost a pastiche of a pastiche, which is kind of what makes its texture interesting

it's also hell of catchy

― HYPERLINK TO RAP GENIUS (BradNelson), Sunday, 31 January 2016 08:01 (ten years ago)

I've seen crazier things get reappraisal, so I'll keep waiting. I saw them live when they were touring Too Weird to Live and I think they played maybe one song from it, so I suppose that doesn't help things

― Vinnie, Sunday, 31 January 2016 08:04 (ten years ago)

yeah i saw them on the vices and virtues tour and felt blessed to get both "nine in the afternoon" and "that green gentleman"

― HYPERLINK TO RAP GENIUS (BradNelson), Sunday, 31 January 2016 08:08 (ten years ago)

but i feel like the band member split was born out of a desire to write pretty. odd out of their history

― HYPERLINK TO RAP GENIUS (BradNelson), Sunday, 31 January 2016 08:09 (ten years ago)

I think we only got "Nine in the Afternoon". Don't remember what was played exactly but I remember he did a dead-on impression of Brian Johnson for a cover of "You Shook Me All Night Long" and a backflip off the stage. Dude tries hard to impress. Great show though

― Vinnie, Sunday, 31 January 2016 08:15 (ten years ago)

xp yeah I always assumed as much

― Vinnie, Sunday, 31 January 2016 08:15 (ten years ago)

two years pass...

oh my godddd

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aZUopuhqwCM

― flamenco drop (BradNelson), Wednesday, 21 March 2018 19:49 (seven years ago)

lmao P!ATD and FOB are approaching some kind of maximalist singularity

― Simon H., Thursday, 22 March 2018 13:41 (seven years ago)

three months pass...

new album is v good, largely on some soul punk shit

― flamenco blorf (BradNelson), Friday, 22 June 2018 13:34 (seven years ago)

soty

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WsEuKBq_4oc

― flamenco blorf (BradNelson), Friday, 22 June 2018 17:30 (seven years ago)

i had no idea until recently that this band played arenas

― The Desus & Mero Chain (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 22 June 2018 17:40 (seven years ago)

i like this record a lot

― maura, Friday, 22 June 2018 18:19 (seven years ago)

i was trying to assemble an album out of good songs from their last three records and i actually can't. there have been like five good songs

― HYPERLINK TO RAP GENIUS (BradNelson), Friday, January 29, 2016 4:02 PM (two years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

btw i was wrong, vices and virtues is actually a great record, i just hadn't listened to it enough. too rare to live and death of a bachelor are still, like, half-terrible but the good halves are really good

― flamenco blorf (BradNelson), Friday, 22 June 2018 18:33 (seven years ago)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rJr1OhX87TM

my jam

― flamenco blorf (BradNelson), Friday, 22 June 2018 18:35 (seven years ago)

14 y/o dragged me to a show last year. that guy works really damn hard afaict. ok fun show given my expectations.

― Hunt3r, Friday, 22 June 2018 23:20 (seven years ago)

Whoa, that first song you linked is not what I was expecting from Panic. Catchy though, need to check this album out

― Vinnie, Friday, 22 June 2018 23:54 (seven years ago)

"High Hopes"

― timellison, Saturday, 23 June 2018 00:01 (seven years ago)

he’s one of the best pure vocalists working right now

― maura, Saturday, 23 June 2018 15:02 (seven years ago)

i had no idea until recently that this band played arenas

Went to the Radio 1 Big Weekend thing a few weeks back with the kids. Main stage and surrounding area were virtually packed from the very start so we were using the area by the second stage as a place for some respite between acts and somewhere the kids could run around in the shade. Most acts on that stage had maybe a couple hundred people watching at most but when PATD played there were easily a few thousand, most of whom knew all the words.

― groovypanda, Tuesday, 26 June 2018 07:11 (seven years ago)

one month passes...

i love this song so much even tho it's a complete beatles rip
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zouSojyIi94

― InfoWarriors (Spottie), Wednesday, 1 August 2018 21:34 (seven years ago)

my sis took three of her kids (14, 12,10) to the show last night in miami. looked like a great show and her kids are obsessed.

― InfoWarriors (Spottie), Wednesday, 1 August 2018 21:35 (seven years ago)

pretty. odd is the best

― princess of hell (BradNelson), Wednesday, 1 August 2018 21:48 (seven years ago)

listened to it in full last night and i liked it. the back half in partic. folkin around is rad.

― InfoWarriors (Spottie), Wednesday, 1 August 2018 21:49 (seven years ago)

yeah agreed about it getting even stronger in the second half. "mad as rabbits" is my fav panic song

― princess of hell (BradNelson), Wednesday, 1 August 2018 21:55 (seven years ago)

whole album is just it's own weird thing. rabbits is a great power pop song.

― InfoWarriors (Spottie), Wednesday, 1 August 2018 22:00 (seven years ago)

sorry i need to continue repping for vices and virtues as just a deeply enjoyable emo pop album

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uu2XSQgdQDY

― princess of hell (BradNelson), Thursday, 2 August 2018 15:02 (seven years ago)

six months pass...

I'm taking my daughter to this show tonight and don't really know anything about the band, what am I in for?

― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 4 February 2019 19:18 (seven years ago)

a so-so "Bohemian Rhapsody" cover

― bhad bundy (Simon H.), Monday, 4 February 2019 19:34 (seven years ago)

(if they still do that)

― bhad bundy (Simon H.), Monday, 4 February 2019 19:34 (seven years ago)

I'm in!

― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 4 February 2019 19:34 (seven years ago)

Does he do all the parts himself?

― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 4 February 2019 19:35 (seven years ago)

i haven't seen them live since 2011 but brendon's a real showman, i think you'll have a good time

― jolene club remix (BradNelson), Monday, 4 February 2019 21:14 (seven years ago)

sorry i need to continue repping for vices and virtues as just a deeply enjoyable emo pop album

i nearly reactivated this thread the other day just to say this AGAIN

― jolene club remix (BradNelson), Monday, 4 February 2019 21:15 (seven years ago)

Cool. FWIW I did see My Chemical Romance once and they were nothing special, but this one seems more theatrical. I'm a sucker for big flashy arena shows.

― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 4 February 2019 21:33 (seven years ago)

Think my opinion is in this thread somewhere already but they were super fun to see live

― Vinnie, Tuesday, 5 February 2019 00:47 (seven years ago)

They're pretty slick! I can see them touring with the 1975.

― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 5 February 2019 03:01 (seven years ago)

my daughter's having a blast, which is most important.

― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 5 February 2019 03:03 (seven years ago)

Are these guys Mormon?

― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 5 February 2019 03:10 (seven years ago)

Pet peeve: why bring along horns and strings but still sometimes enlist offstage pre-recorded stuff? Bring that synth guy out of the shadows, it's cool, your fans are very accepting!

― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 5 February 2019 03:39 (seven years ago)

brendon grew up mormon yeah but is pretty def ex-mormon now i think, vegas has an unexpectedly high mormon population

― jolene club remix (BradNelson), Tuesday, 5 February 2019 03:46 (seven years ago)

Wow, so he is Mormon! Total Mormon vibe.

― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 5 February 2019 03:53 (seven years ago)

Killers and Imagine Dragons also Vegas Mormons, right?

― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 5 February 2019 03:54 (seven years ago)

just did greatest showman song, daughter so happy.

― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 5 February 2019 03:56 (seven years ago)

Killers and Imagine Dragons also Vegas Mormons, right?

― Josh in Chicago, Monday, February 4, 2019 8:54 PM (twenty-two minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

iirc yes

― jolene club remix (BradNelson), Tuesday, 5 February 2019 04:17 (seven years ago)

Now they're doing Bohemian Rhapsody, but I'd bet they'd do a great Fat Bottomed Girls or Killer Queen.

― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 5 February 2019 04:18 (seven years ago)

now he's shirtless but not greased

― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 5 February 2019 04:31 (seven years ago)

he's like the rock/pop angel on the shoulder to Adam Levine's devil.

― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 5 February 2019 04:34 (seven years ago)

lest we forget

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yk8jV7r6VMk

― jolene club remix (BradNelson), Tuesday, 5 February 2019 04:44 (seven years ago)

So, not really my thing, but on his own terms I give him a B+. Never a dull moment live, great performer, very eager to please, lasers, fire, smoke, flying piano and backflips, but no off switch.

― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 5 February 2019 12:57 (seven years ago)

ok so their current incarnation totally not being your thing is understandable, hard to say who that thing is for (teenagers???), BUT if you're willing to take the journey i'm kinda curious what you'd think of pretty. odd josh

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BjHyXFNGblI

― jolene club remix (BradNelson), Tuesday, 5 February 2019 14:06 (seven years ago)

That song's pretty good. Pretty good baroque British Invasion pastiche. Did these guys ever release a rock opera? Sound like a band that would release a rock opera. Or several. Maybe they're all rock operas?

― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 5 February 2019 14:22 (seven years ago)

pretty odd is pretty much all baroque british invasion pastiche crossed with elo (so: meta baroque british invasion pastiche) and it's great, no other panic record sounds like it and honestly few records do at all

they've never put out a rock opera but you're right they should've

― jolene club remix (BradNelson), Tuesday, 5 February 2019 14:27 (seven years ago)

pretty odd is a much more intense level of odd than just 'pretty', 60s baroque pop pastiche but with 00s pop rock production is so unsettling to me

― ufo, Tuesday, 5 February 2019 14:33 (seven years ago)

"High Hopes" made my tracks ballot. Seemed like one of the memorable sibglea from last year. I did enjoy the first two albums at the time; haven't listened in a long time.

― silent as a seashell Julia (Sund4r), Tuesday, 5 February 2019 15:30 (seven years ago)

I will say of all their stuff I have now heard, that song is maybe my least favorite. It's like instant ear-stab headache for me.

― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 5 February 2019 16:11 (seven years ago)

i liked "high hopes" but its omnipresence has ruined it a lot for me

for instance, it has been stuck in my head for the past thousand years

― jolene club remix (BradNelson), Tuesday, 5 February 2019 16:33 (seven years ago)

sibglea = singles obv

― silent as a seashell Julia (Sund4r), Tuesday, 5 February 2019 16:35 (seven years ago)

three years pass...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MiD_CP_Pios

yes! this song is excellent! power pop panic is back

― flamenco drop (BradNelson), Thursday, 2 June 2022 14:55 (three years ago)

two months pass...

ok i heard a really miserably shitty leak of the new album and it's my favorite panic! album... ever? def one of my favorite albums of the year? makes me think of pop opuses from the sixties pretty often, and also is a real boy, and also dog problems and aim & ignite? every song is a firework of hooks

― flamenco drop (BradNelson), Tuesday, 16 August 2022 18:51 (three years ago)

this album is what my mania sounds like

― flamenco drop (BradNelson), Tuesday, 16 August 2022 18:52 (three years ago)

Will definitely listen when it's out but not been feeling the couple of singles so far

― groovypanda, Tuesday, 16 August 2022 18:53 (three years ago)

i adore "local god" ftr, think that's a p perfect slanted shard of power-pop with a great bridge. i admit "middle of a breakup" is a little rickety in its piling on of melodic lines but i like it fine in sequence. as it goes the album consistently works itself into this highly-compressed kind of grandeur and that's what i think i'm attracted to, the chamber-poppiness of it all, all these crazy melodic turns shrunken into these tiny songs like the gears in a clock

― flamenco drop (BradNelson), Tuesday, 16 August 2022 19:31 (three years ago)

Better than pretty.odd? I'll give it a listen

― Vinnie, Wednesday, 17 August 2022 02:24 (three years ago)

i’m prob just excited

― flamenco drop (BradNelson), Wednesday, 17 August 2022 02:38 (three years ago)

I did like "Viva Las Vengeance" - p good Queen pastiche. Maybe I'll check this out.

― No purposes. Sounds. (Sund4r), Wednesday, 17 August 2022 03:04 (three years ago)

both pretty. odd and this are power-pop records but whereas the former retained the sprawling '60s psychedelia that kind of got lost in the '70s and '80s, viva las vengeance embodies the latter decades' clarification of power-pop until it was as sharp as a blade's reflection in a coke mirror. one song ("sad clown") sounds like the elo discog accordioned into 3-4 minutes. there's also a lot of queenish orchestral/musical theater-ass excess that kind of takes over the second half of the record. i adore it ofc

― flamenco drop (BradNelson), Wednesday, 17 August 2022 16:30 (three years ago)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dmLpovsTQ_w

― flamenco drop (BradNelson), Friday, 19 August 2022 12:50 (three years ago)

^^^ that song is a kaleidoscope but this one is prob instantly my favorite panic song

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hHiyNQNtDAA

― flamenco drop (BradNelson), Friday, 19 August 2022 13:36 (three years ago)

internet majorly hates this record but ohhhh i still love it sooooo much

― flamenco drop (BradNelson), Wednesday, 31 August 2022 21:53 (three years ago)

three months pass...

if i didn't give up making year-end lists this would be my album of the year, probably for the best bc that's very embarrassing

― flamenco drop (BradNelson), Monday, 12 December 2022 15:32 (three years ago)

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