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.
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 4 February 2019 21:33 (five years ago) link
Think my opinion is in this thread somewhere already but they were super fun to see live
― Vinnie, Tuesday, 5 February 2019 00:47 (five years ago) link
They're pretty slick! I can see them touring with the 1975.
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 5 February 2019 03:01 (five years ago) link
my daughter's having a blast, which is most important.
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 5 February 2019 03:03 (five years ago) link
Are these guys Mormon?
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 5 February 2019 03:10 (five years ago) link
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!
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 5 February 2019 03:39 (five years ago) link
brendon grew up mormon yeah but is pretty def ex-mormon now i think, vegas has an unexpectedly high mormon population
― jolene club remix (BradNelson), Tuesday, 5 February 2019 03:46 (five years ago) link
Wow, so he is Mormon! Total Mormon vibe.
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 5 February 2019 03:53 (five years ago) link
Killers and Imagine Dragons also Vegas Mormons, right?
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 5 February 2019 03:54 (five years ago) link
just did greatest showman song, daughter so happy.
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 5 February 2019 03:56 (five years ago) link
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, February 4, 2019 8:54 PM (twenty-two minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
iirc yes
― jolene club remix (BradNelson), Tuesday, 5 February 2019 04:17 (five years ago) link
Now they're doing Bohemian Rhapsody, but I'd bet they'd do a great Fat Bottomed Girls or Killer Queen.
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 5 February 2019 04:18 (five years ago) link
now he's shirtless but not greased
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 5 February 2019 04:31 (five years ago) link
he's like the rock/pop angel on the shoulder to Adam Levine's devil.
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 5 February 2019 04:34 (five years ago) link
lest we forget
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yk8jV7r6VMk
― jolene club remix (BradNelson), Tuesday, 5 February 2019 04:44 (five years ago) link
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.
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 5 February 2019 12:57 (five years ago) link
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
― jolene club remix (BradNelson), Tuesday, 5 February 2019 14:06 (five years ago) link
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?
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 5 February 2019 14:22 (five years ago) link
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
― jolene club remix (BradNelson), Tuesday, 5 February 2019 14:27 (five years ago) link
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
― ufo, Tuesday, 5 February 2019 14:33 (five years ago) link
"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.
― silent as a seashell Julia (Sund4r), Tuesday, 5 February 2019 15:30 (five years ago) link
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.
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 5 February 2019 16:11 (five years ago) link
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
― jolene club remix (BradNelson), Tuesday, 5 February 2019 16:33 (five years ago) link
sibglea = singles obv
― silent as a seashell Julia (Sund4r), Tuesday, 5 February 2019 16:35 (five years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MiD_CP_Pios
yes! this song is excellent! power pop panic is back
― flamenco drop (BradNelson), Thursday, 2 June 2022 14:55 (one year ago) link
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
― flamenco drop (BradNelson), Tuesday, 16 August 2022 18:51 (one year ago) link
this album is what my mania sounds like
― flamenco drop (BradNelson), Tuesday, 16 August 2022 18:52 (one year ago) link
Will definitely listen when it's out but not been feeling the couple of singles so far
― groovypanda, Tuesday, 16 August 2022 18:53 (one year ago) link
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
― flamenco drop (BradNelson), Tuesday, 16 August 2022 19:31 (one year ago) link
Better than pretty.odd? I'll give it a listen
― Vinnie, Wednesday, 17 August 2022 02:24 (one year ago) link
i’m prob just excited
― flamenco drop (BradNelson), Wednesday, 17 August 2022 02:38 (one year ago) link
I did like "Viva Las Vengeance" - p good Queen pastiche. Maybe I'll check this out.
― No purposes. Sounds. (Sund4r), Wednesday, 17 August 2022 03:04 (one year ago) link
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
― flamenco drop (BradNelson), Wednesday, 17 August 2022 16:30 (one year ago) link
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
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