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

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

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

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 (seventeen years ago) link

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 (seventeen years ago) link

they suck.

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

Well, yeah.

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

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 (seventeen years ago) link

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 (seventeen years ago) link

they sure don't sound that way

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

i'm gonna stay out of this thread

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

No! Fight teh power!

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

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 (seventeen years ago) link

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 (seventeen years ago) link

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 (seventeen years ago) link

"You killed the zombies Panic at the Disco!"

"They were zombies?"

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

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 (seventeen years ago) link

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 (seventeen years ago) link

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 (seventeen years ago) link

sorry, that was rubbish.

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

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

HA!

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

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 (seventeen years ago) link

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

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

yeah they have a bit of a fixation on intertextuality

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

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 (seventeen years ago) link

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 (seventeen years ago) link

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

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

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 (seventeen years ago) link

"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 (seventeen years ago) link

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 (seventeen years ago) link

"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 (seventeen years ago) link

Panic! At The Proctologist

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

>>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 (seventeen years ago) link

Miccio to thread.

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

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

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

Panic! At The Abortion Clinic

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

listening to this stuff is killing me this week

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

as well as those around me

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

panic! at my office

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

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 (seventeen years ago) link

panic! at the message board

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

Panic! At The Gas Chamber

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

Panic! At The Panic Attack

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

Panic! At The Colitis Attack

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

Panic! Don't

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

Panic! At The Daycare

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

Panic! At The LAN Party

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

Panic! At The Confessional

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

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 (seventeen years ago) link

FINALLY I HAVE MORE SUPPORT

a gang of unlikely heroes

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

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 (seventeen years ago) link

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 (seventeen years ago) link

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

― flamenco drop (BradNelson), Friday, 19 August 2022 12:50 (one year ago) link

^^^ 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 (one year ago) link

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

― flamenco drop (BradNelson), Wednesday, 31 August 2022 21:53 (one year ago) link

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 (one year ago) link

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