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80
Cramming 19th century accordion next to bang-up-to-date synth zaps, they've divided the album into two halves: the first futuristic, the second nostalgic. Yet all the while they stay cohesive enough to provide some three minute gems of kitchen sink emo-pop.
80
The rest of the world has been chuckling at emo for far too long, but this album is sure to silence a lot of those laughs. It’s ambitious, exciting and energetic.
75
Panic! At The Disco combines above-average emo-boy yelping with freaky techno tweaks and new-wave synths to make A Fever You Can’t Sweat Out perfect for dancing and moping.
70
Gimmicky, whiny, repetitious & pretentious, this album is easy to dislike. Yet it succeeds as catchy pop music with something just a little bit different and very little filler.
10y
70
What makes Panic different (and excellent) is their use of dance-floor synths and roboto drums, which redeems the album's whininess.
60
Without delving too deeply into vocalist Brendon Urie’s wholly muddled lyrics ... Panic! At The Disco’s strengths lie in their frantic compositions, unrelenting in their relative invention, however successful the results.
10y
60
There's something endearingly infectious about this album, like that friend of a friend you're a bit ambivalent about, but the more they hang around, the more you like them.
40
This is a band in love with making a record -- making a statement -- but there's nothing unique inside, neither in their formula nor the vaunted and sticky production.
10y
40
What we have here is a record that is desperately reaching for an emo zenith by cramming so many typical emo quirks and tricks into itself that it is bursting with emo-ness. It's an embodiment of a genre instead of an artistic achievement.
10y
15
Emo barrel-scrapers make Rites of Spring seem two decades old. Oh, wait.
10y
It's time to do it right.
Back in 2004, Panic! was just getting started and trying to figure out what they were going to be, at the time the members included Brendon, Ryan, Spencer and Brent Wilson (who didn't actually do much as the original bassist, Brendon and Ryan were the ones to play bass on the album from what I understand, he was fired during the tour for that album). Things were different back then, Fall Out Boy had yet to explode and introduce the mainstream to this new era of emo ... read more
I had high hopes... cause I actually like "I Write Sins Not Tragedies..." This Album's songs range from pretty good... to actually having the ability to make my stomach turn inside out. I feel gross...
[RETURN TO MY PAST ~ EPISODE 5:]
I wouldn't have been a true edgy 12/13-year-old girl if I didn't stan P!ATD at some point.
Brendon Urie and company used to be my second favorite band of all time. I loved their over-the-top approach to pop punk, pop rock, and straight up pop in their later career. However, with age, my fondness for the group (or, to more accurately word it at this point, just Brendon) has dwindled significantly. There are still a few tracks of theirs I return to from time to ... read more
The title ‘Nails for Breakfast, Tacks for Snacks’ perfectly encapsulates how it feels to listen to that song.
A lot of the songs on this album just sound bad, Brendan’s vocals had a long way to go at this point, as well as the instrumentation in most of the tracks. However the album has this strong endearing vibe to it, like it really is a group of scene and theater kids from Vegas making some music together. So no wonder this record put Panic! at the forefront of the emo ... read more
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Total Length: 39 minutes
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2mo
P!ATD's page on here is so funny because the pic of Brendon they chose makes it look like he's directly eyeing his user score of 50-something
8mo
ryan ross may not be for everyone but in his defense i think anyone would be a fucking kendrick lamar-level lyricist compared to brendon urie
Added on: July 6, 2013