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

i think it's kinda terrible

overly appropriate usernames: FITE

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

I don't understand this tour with weezer

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

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

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"

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

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

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

did they lose half their band at some point?

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

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

lol

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

a soft white nightmare imo

noooo o ooo ooo oo o

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

xp yeah I always assumed as much

oh my godddd

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

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

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

soty

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

i had no idea until recently that this band played arenas

i like this record a lot

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

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

my jam

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

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

"High Hopes"

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

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.

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

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.

pretty. odd is the best

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