Panic! at the Disco Band • Page 26

Seeing as though Brendon’s bandmates prior to the last tour are sharing it, I don’t see Ryan, Jon and Spencer returning for this.

 

If Ryan was coming back for it I'd throw way too much money at them

 

This is 100% correct

 

I really hope this does end up being a full return, I've really missed seeing these guys (this guy?) live

I also didn't realize how recently VLV came out, I guess the "breakup" made it feel like he's been gone for a while but two years is basically a standard album cycle

 

My guess is that they are still basically disbanded but will play a show for the right price, I don't forsee any sort of new music or tours or anything that a active band would do

 

It hasn't even been two years. He was still playing shows as recently as 19 months ago.

 

To be fair, this is an entire year away still.

 

Hit play on A Fever You Can't Sweat Out for the first time and I already love the opening track. For some reason, I've only heard their last three releases and never went that far back. Wild that their early stuff has been a total blind spot for me for so long.

 

I still think Fever is easily their best record, I love the mix of sounds they had on that album, there's not really anything else like it.

 

Their last three releases sound almost nothing like their first couple, you're in for a treat

 

I'm a few more songs in and I'm surprised by the melodic turns the songs take. The arrangements, the chord progressions, the mix of sounds... I wouldn't call what they were doing experimental but the songwriting at times feels much more advanced or outside the box compared to their peers in the scene. I can finally see why that album has that certain mystique.

 

I would've been obsessed this in the late 00s. Have no idea why I waited that long considering I was eating up emo-pop stuff back then. You could unearth my middle school mp3 players and they'd be full of songs from Fall Out Boy, Paramore, Attack! Attack! (UK), Deaf Havana...

But this also goes far beyond emo-pop. I wasn't expecting it to get this theatrical. I still see why they were endlessly compared to Fall Out Boy, especially the vocals, but there's particular bits that definitely set both apart from each other. It leans closer to acts that were unshamedly camp like Foxy Shazam and The Darkness, and then I hear a cabaret and baroque vibe that reminds me more of The Venetia Fair, K Sera, Silverchair's Diorama and The Dear Hunter than like any other bands on your standard Warped Tour and Bamboozle line-up. There's also some electronic undertones not unlike what I'd hear from Cobra Starship and the 00s electronica scene as a whole.

What a ride. My 10 yo mind would've been blown away by this.

 

I can't believe it's even the same band that wrote the singles I can recall from Pretty Odd and Too Weird To Live. Wild.

 

Yo I Constantly Thank God for Esteban even reminds me of Cursive. This album is wild.

 

Easily their best for me. Would love a remaster of Fever.

 

Pretty Odd is even more reminiscent of Silverchair's Diorama here and there. Or both must share the same influences if I put it another way. Quite the stylistic shift for a second album. Really curious to know how it fared on ap.net and in the scene as a whole. Saying that because as much as I'm into it, I can tell a good chunk would've been out of my comfort zone in 2008.

 

Pretty Odd will always be my favorite.

But it definitely split the fanbase at the time.

 

Check out this interview with Matt Squire on the CD Burners podcast. Really interesting behind the scenes look at the recording of Fever and how young and under the gun these guys were at the time…
48: Panic! at the Disco’s Rise — Told by Their Producer

 

Same. It came out the year I graduated high school and that album dominated that summer. So many good memories tied to it

 

Pretty. Odd. was one of the most disappointing albums I've ever experienced. I've grown to adore it.

 

They did such a good job building hype for it. Does anyone else remember the puzzle pieces on their website that had little clips and when the puzzle was finished, it was all of “We’re So Starving?”

This was also the first vinyl record I purchased. Spent $50 on it, which seemed like a lot at the time.

 

Pretty. Odd.’s production is unmatched. Beautifully arranged album.

 

Pretty. Odd. Was definitely the combination of Ryan Ross having a new found obsession with The Beatles and a sprinkle of cocaine on top. Still a good record but as SpyKi said, I all but lost interest with the band when it came out, however I’ve grown to love it a lot as time went on.

 

Love When The Day Met The Night.

 

Fever and Pretty Odd are two sides of a coin that combined are the band's best material. I don't know how I could pick one over the over since they are so vastly different, but they both knock it out of the park