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

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

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

(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)

Hah!

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.

*cocks shotgun*

"They were zombies?"

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

HA!

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.

this generation must die.

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

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.

-- s1ocki

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

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.

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??

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

this album is what my mania sounds like

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

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

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

i’m prob just excited

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

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

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

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

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

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

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