I WRITE SINS NOT TRAGEDIES POLL

Went for "I'd chime in "Haven't you people ever heard of closing the god damn door?!" No."

Good karaoke song.

i never realized how many times he says "well" in this fucking song.

Alexis Chung FTW

xpost not as much as he says "closing the GOD-DAMN DOOR!!"

Thank you Dom, I never actually understood the lyrics to this song before now. I had assumed that the line Mark complains of was some non-sequiter about people having sex in the next room or something.

This song is ten types of classic, even though the second verse has never (and still doesn't) make sense to me. "Haven't you people ever heard of closing a goddamn door" wins, of course.

Anyone who says bad things about this song is probably OLD.

older than them yes

I'm older than them, but that doesn't make me OLD, you know.

i've only actually heard the 'haven't you people...' bit of this song so am currently scratching my head trying to work out he crams in all these ridiculous lines elsewhere

The verses.

well, i thought it was "with a sense of poisoned rationality" which sounded wrong somehow.

Actually, the only other word I ever made out was "whore"

Sometimes he says "I'd chime in with a 'Haven't you people ever heard of..." -- which is great, because it makes it sound like that's a standard line that people say.

it is.

haven't you people ever heard of "haven't you people ever heard of..."?

The poll leaves out "I NeeeeeeeeeVVVVVVEEEEEEEEEErrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr............"

i was about to say that i too wz shocked at everything i'd misunderstood, except i just put it on again and it is indeed all there and quite clear to hear! so i guess i wz too busy waiting for the GODDAMN door nooo to care.

'poisoned rationality' made sense to me tho!

wait rtc you know simon r and mark k-punk tried to claim "poisoned rationality" for their own?!?

i write sins not tragedies = this generations party fears two

ok, not really

horrible, horrible crap

horrible, horrible crap

-- Alex in NYC, Monday, September 17, 2007 3:54 PM (1 minute ago) Bookmark Link

OTM

...And that clinches it: CLASSIC.

wait rtc you know simon r and mark k-punk tried to claim "poisoned rationality" for their own?!?

-- Tim F

haha WHAT!!

horrible, horrible crap

-- Alex in NYC, Monday, September 17, 2007 8:54 AM (Monday, September 17, 2007 8:54 AM) Bookmark Link

horrible, horrible crap

-- Alex in NYC, Monday, September 17, 2007 3:54 PM (1 minute ago) Bookmark Link

OTM

-- Alex in Baltimore, Monday, September 17, 2007 8:57 AM (Monday, September 17, 2007 8:57 AM) Bookmark Link

lol OLD

weird it looks like the associates were brought up in connection to panic at the disco on blissblog. i know i thought that up on my own!

but i heart The Associates! sob

Yes rtc I would have thought it was clear from the lyrics that "I Write Sins Not Tragedies" is about St Paul, Lenin and nu-rockism.

i keep trying to like this stuff, since i can get with depeche mode, def leppard, and bad relgion (sort of), but it's just not working

-igion

Speaking as someone who often mishears or completely misses lyrics, I'm surprised that people find it difficult to make out the words to this song. I thought it had some of the most clearly enunciated vocals of any rock hit from the past few years.

"Poise and rationality" line obv.

A Fever... = classic, BTW.

Sundar OTM: poise and rationality ftw

"i chime in" is going to run away with this motherfucker

"I mean technically our marriage is saved" has a lovely cadence, though.

distant second

what is making the chime-y sounds?

"I mean technically our marriage is saved" has a lovely cadence, though.

u think? this all looks rather messy on paper

Well this calls for, a toast so, pour the champagne,

i don't understand these commas but PATD are much better read than i am.

almost feeling

Panic! At the Disco, "I Write Sins Not Tragedies"

The Associates of emo?* Can't decide if that would make them even worse than regular emo, or much, much better, but leaning ever so slightly towards the latter. Swoony, bruised-fruity, over-ripe, over-arranged, verbose, etc. Enjoyed the lyric that goes on about
"poisoned rationality" and really quite disappointed to realise on the sixth viewing of the video that it's actually "poise and rationality."

* Panic! at the Disco actually sounds like an Associates-type emotion/mise-en-scene., doesn't it? Or song title c.f. "Party Fears Two". Or even an imaginary genre --panic-disco. That's a perfect descriptive for "Club Country", "Nude Spoons", "Skipping" et al. The fact that they're obviously Smiths fans is even better if you think about what "William It Was Really Nothing" is supposedly about. And blimey their album's called A Fever You Can't Sweat Out and they're on a label called Decaydance--how Billy McKenzoid is that.

lol

guh

10.I Write Sins Not Tragedies- 11/10: Lovely song. The beginning politely asks you to pay attention, but in 30 seconds they demand your attention. I fell in love with this song, this one the first song I heard from them.

As emo ascends into mainstream culture (in its noun form, it's now a cafeteria tribe like skaters and jocks), it's been fascinating to see which aspects of the genre are embraced by the MySpace generation: pretentiously verbose lyrics are apparently still in, but the lo-fi howls and jigsaw time signatures of late '90s Jade Tree bands have been replaced by garish theatricality and a thick rhythmic crunch. Part of what makes Panic! At the Disco stand out even further among this new crop is that on "I Write Sins Not Tragedies" the makeup-caked band weds the startled cries of male sexual angst to the delicate baroque touches of xylophone and pizzicato strings. It's all pretty ridiculous, to be sure, but the commitment is admirable, and I certainly can't deny the awesome rush I feel every time I belt out that serpentine chorus in the car.

i guess i said this on another board:

the sins not tragedys song is just so over the top. it kinda reminds me of the associates "party fears two" the lyrics are just as stupid and pretentious ("poisoned rationali-tay" wtf?) and both the singers have love it or hate it over the top vocal stylings (and the endings are both really pretty and out of nowhere).

also its funny how their suits don't look like they fit!

theyre the fat emo band

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. All of it, however, is selling like hotcakes, and Panic's rise from Fall Out Boy's pet project to platinum-polishing boy toys is proof of that. They can swathe their broken hearts in pre-pubescent warbling and polysyllabic pretensions all they want. It won't change the fact that this woe-is-me story of a groom learning some dirt about his bride right before the wedding is just another stupid song about a dude getting screwed over by a girl performed by dudes that don't sound like they've ever screwed in a lightbulb, on an album full of the stuff. These kids should take their own advice: Face this sort of nonsense with a little poise and rationale, and leave the woman-hating for the booth-tanned grunge fucks.

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i love this song, i love patd lmao there awsome!!!!!!!!!!! i have this for my ringtone lol

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.

FUNFACT! I was reading Shampoo Planet by Douglas Coupland a couple of weeks ago, and in it the main character writes "flaws" onto dollar bills, and inspires the song's title.

What I write are not sins; I write tragedies. And I am writing these tragedies in a manner that the recipients can easily absorb. And I won't say whose flaw is whose. I continue. In no particular order:

YOU DISGUISE YOUR LAZINESS AS PRIDE

YOU ARE PARALYZED BY THE FACT THAT CRUELTY IS OFTEN AMUSING

YOU PRETEND TO BE MORE ECCENTRIC THAN YOU ACTUALLY ARE BECAUSE YOU WORRY YOU ARE AN INTERCHANGEABLE COG

YOU MISTAKE MOTION FOR GROWTH AND ARE LURED INTO VEXING SITUATIONS

YOU DEFEND OTHER PEOPLE'S IDEAS AT THE EXPENSE OF YOUR OWN

YOU STILL DON'T KNOW WHAT YOU DO WELL

yeah, thats on the wikipedia page. is that a good book?

I read it when I was 14, which is probably the average age of Panic! At the Disco's fans, come to think of it.

Such writing is known as emo writing, and there are many, many zines just like that]. Said inserts are almost always done with antique typewriters or miniscule hand-lettering, containing no punctuation or capitalization.

I read it when I was 14, which is probably the average age of Panic! At the Disco's fans, come to think of it.

-- jaymc, Monday, September 17, 2007 5:36 PM (7 minutes ago) Bookmark Link

it's probably also the average age of Panic! At The Disco's band members when they wrote the song.

"London Beckoned Songs About Money Written By Machines" is a Coupland reference too, no?

(I loved DC to death in high school but kind of suspect it doesn't hold up, sadly.)

(Must be a Shampoo Planet quote too, since only Tyler [?] would say something like that.)

:(

Voted for "pacing the pews in the church corridor" because I like to imagine Urie thinking to himself "if only my 10th grade English teacher could see me now!" while writing the alliterative parts.

This song is blanketly awful.

It's no "Clothes Off", admittedly.

Douglas Coupland - who I also loved to death in high school - quite disappointing did not hold up for me (at the wisened, advanced age of 24.) It was Shampoo Planet too, good work Sundar! Ontarian pride!
I didn't read the Wiki. I have once, though - does it still say (incorrectly) that this song was written by *spits* the douche from Nickelback? *spits*

quite disappointingly that is.

"It's no "Clothes Off", admittedly."

I don't know how to a vomiting emoticon sadly.

I guess I'd have to read it to check but I would imagine 'Microserfs' holding up.

i didn't realize people cared about the song outside of the video

Naw, this is better than "Clothes Off", although that one is quite the summer jam.

I cannot imagine having the desire to scream the lyrics of this song in the car.

I don't hate it.

poor groom's bride

Yeah, Microserfs was the best one. I can imagine it still working in a lightweight romcom kind of way. I liked the Marxist analyses of breakfast cereals.

I do want to think the first few books would hold up, mind you.

I actually like "Time to Dance" more than "Clothes Off." Good high-energy hooky pomp-dance-rock.

Good high-energy hooky pomp-dance-rock.

Which describes much of the album.

I still enjoy reading Life after God, so hopefully my next tackle - Girlfriend in a Coma - will still be as good.

I cannot imagine having the desire to scream the lyrics of this song in the car.

Try it. I can't do anything but.

especially if they've left the passenger door open.

zing

(no)

'i mean technically our marriage is saved' = i just love the delivery of this line! he's all acting and stuff.

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

i.e. tonight.

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

Well, that's that question answered then.

no votes for "what a beautiful wedding"! that line is bombast^2

Alex OTM. I can't stand the overdone vocal mannerisms of that guy's voice for more than a couple of seconds. It sounds like he's faking it and he's not really feeling anything he's singing at all. It's just a great big emo act. Call me old, but I like music that sounds genuine, something that doesn't make me want to slap the singer and tell them to grow up already and quit sounding like a big baby.

I cannot listen to Joy Division any more for the exact same reason.

How earnest do you want someone to be when he's singing the lyrics at the top of the page? He reminds me a bit of an emo Robert Smith who's actually aware of and plays up his own melodrama.

(The theatricality, the 'faking it' seems to be the point.)

Sundar otm, Sundar otm says a bridesmaid to a waiter

a fever, best album of 2006? well certainly one of
i want to know what else sundar likes

reverend what happened to the pop emo thread??

ps A-GAIIIIIIIIIIIIIIINNNNNNNNNN

I'll revive.

i am going to start a band called "the booth tanned gunge fucks"...