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

combine that bouncy boyish rebellion of a fiesty snackfood commercial with the pop glamor of Duran Duran.

I think they should have gone with PANIC! AT THE TACO BELL instead

Oh, right. Because they're violent/emo/angsty.

Anyways, that lead singer dude from AFI is pretty hot for a goth chick, huh? Only the lead singer from Hawthorne Heights knows my pain.

My friend calls all of these bands "My Confessional Thursday"

You're friend's as genius as all my friends who called all nu-metal bands "scary clown" bands, even though there was only one nu-metal band with a scary clown.

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.

and, yes, antioch looked way glam on the cover of gems of masochism, but in a bowie not bach kind of way.

loool

but yeah, that's kinda what i mean about the metal thing. emo is finally enough of a broad, mainstream phenomenon to have people fighting about what it "means" on the major label level.

i know some kids who are into stuff like this, but if i ask them what older-dude stuff they like they always say something like "THE CRASS" (actually, they ALWAYS say the crass!!!) and not anything i've ever heard of. asking about gravity records or DC bands gets blank looks.

Just barely out of high school, pop-punk outfit Panic! At the Disco burst out of suburban Las Vegas in 2005 with their full-length debut, A Fever You Can't Sweat Out. Taking their name from a line in Name Taken's "Panic," the group materialized when friends Spencer Smith (drums) and Ryan Ross (guitar) grew tired of covering blink-182 tunes together and thus recruited classmates Brendon Urie (guitar/vocals) and Brent Wilson (bass) to complete the quartet. Crafting pop-influenced songs with theatrical touches, quirky techno beats, and perceptive lyrics, Panic! At the Disco posted some demos online and soon caught the attention of Decaydance, the Fueled By Ramen imprint headed by Fall Out Boy's Pete Wentz. Even though the band had yet to play a live show, they were subsequently signed. With their record issued in September 2005, the guys hit the road that fall on the successful Nintendo Fusion Tour alongside Fall Out Boy, Motion City Soundtrack, Boys Night Out, and the Starting Line. As their single "I Write Sins Not Tragedies" found its way into TRL hearts (and the Top 40) by the early months of 2006, the band kept the momentum going on the road with the Academy Is..., Acceptance, and Hellogoodbye. Proving to be a popular lineup, the tour consistently sold out venues across the country. Wilson parted ways with the group mid-year; Panic! pressed on with a full summer of headlining dates around the country that culminated with appearances in Chicago at Lollapalooza and overseas at the UK's Reading and Leeds festivals.

The truly horrifying thing is that right now, a band of 8th graders is playing Panic! At The Disco covers together and they will be one of the biggest things on MTV within 5 years.

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.

whole album is just it's own weird thing. rabbits is a great power pop song.

sorry i need to continue repping for vices and virtues as just a deeply enjoyable emo pop album

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uu2XSQgdQDY

I'm taking my daughter to this show tonight and don't really know anything about the band, what am I in for?

a so-so "Bohemian Rhapsody" cover

(if they still do that)

I'm in!

Does he do all the parts himself?

i haven't seen them live since 2011 but brendon's a real showman, i think you'll have a good time

sorry i need to continue repping for vices and virtues as just a deeply enjoyable emo pop album

i nearly reactivated this thread the other day just to say this AGAIN

Cool. FWIW I did see My Chemical Romance once and they were nothing special, but this one seems more theatrical. I'm a sucker for big flashy arena shows.

Think my opinion is in this thread somewhere already but they were super fun to see live

They're pretty slick! I can see them touring with the 1975.

my daughter's having a blast, which is most important.

Are these guys Mormon?

Pet peeve: why bring along horns and strings but still sometimes enlist offstage pre-recorded stuff? Bring that synth guy out of the shadows, it's cool, your fans are very accepting!

brendon grew up mormon yeah but is pretty def ex-mormon now i think, vegas has an unexpectedly high mormon population

Wow, so he is Mormon! Total Mormon vibe.

Killers and Imagine Dragons also Vegas Mormons, right?

just did greatest showman song, daughter so happy.

Killers and Imagine Dragons also Vegas Mormons, right?

― Josh in Chicago, Monday, February 4, 2019 8:54 PM (twenty-two minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

iirc yes

Now they're doing Bohemian Rhapsody, but I'd bet they'd do a great Fat Bottomed Girls or Killer Queen.

now he's shirtless but not greased

he's like the rock/pop angel on the shoulder to Adam Levine's devil.

lest we forget

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

So, not really my thing, but on his own terms I give him a B+. Never a dull moment live, great performer, very eager to please, lasers, fire, smoke, flying piano and backflips, but no off switch.

ok so their current incarnation totally not being your thing is understandable, hard to say who that thing is for (teenagers???), BUT if you're willing to take the journey i'm kinda curious what you'd think of pretty. odd josh

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

That song's pretty good. Pretty good baroque British Invasion pastiche. Did these guys ever release a rock opera? Sound like a band that would release a rock opera. Or several. Maybe they're all rock operas?

pretty odd is pretty much all baroque british invasion pastiche crossed with elo (so: meta baroque british invasion pastiche) and it's great, no other panic record sounds like it and honestly few records do at all

they've never put out a rock opera but you're right they should've

pretty odd is a much more intense level of odd than just 'pretty', 60s baroque pop pastiche but with 00s pop rock production is so unsettling to me

"High Hopes" made my tracks ballot. Seemed like one of the memorable sibglea from last year. I did enjoy the first two albums at the time; haven't listened in a long time.

I will say of all their stuff I have now heard, that song is maybe my least favorite. It's like instant ear-stab headache for me.

i liked "high hopes" but its omnipresence has ruined it a lot for me

for instance, it has been stuck in my head for the past thousand years

sibglea = singles obv

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

yes! this song is excellent! power pop panic is back

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