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

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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)

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.

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)

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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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