DONT PANIC! its just a !

A moment of silence, please, for the lost exclamation point.

Panic! at the Disco has become Panic at the Disco, the biggest rock & roll punctuation controversy since .38 Special dumped their decimal point.

Panic is a band, that just a year ago, wasn't widely spoken of in the music world unless the topic was: top 40, mtv, middle school obsession music.
Their music.. up until the release of Pretty Odd, has been immature to say the least. It was slightly emo, the lyrics made little to no sense, and their image was hardly unique.

So your probably wondering where I'm getting with this..


Panic! at the Disco's latest and greatest C.D., Pretty Odd blew me away. The album is pure genious.

They begin Pretty. Odd. with a psychedelic fanfare announcing, "We're so sorry we've been gone/We were busy writing songs for — you!" You don't have to check the notes to guess they mixed the horns and strings at Abbey Road. A Sgt. Pepper wardrobe is just the beggening.

Like any growing emo band, Panic wanted to make a Seventies-style art-rock epic. But where My Chemical Romance aim for Queen and the Killers imitate Bruce Springsteen, Panic went for ELO circa "Mr. Blue Sky."

They still try to pick up chicks with lines like "You remind me of a few of my famous friends" or "We should feed our jewelry to the sea," in ballads with titles like "Nine in the Afternoon" and "That Green Gentleman." Yet the songs have the same catchy glitz as the band's breakthrough hit, "I Write Sins Not Tragedies."

The tunes are often beautiful, especially "Northern Downpour" and "She's a Handsome Woman," while "Mad as Rabbits" has a horn section beamed in from the Beatles' "Savoy Truffle."
Even when it's over the top, which is too much I sadly admit, Pretty. Odd. sounds cheerful, with a broad sense of humor that does honor to the noble legacy of ELO mastermind Jeff Lynne.

Now ask yourself, "Self? Is Panic more Pretty than Odd?"

If your answer is "Yes!"

Your either gay, or have good taste..

OR BOTH!

unless of course your definition of Odd isnt overly strange.. but rather different, in a necesary for me to listen to them sorta way.

REGARDLESS -- Pretty Odd is Pretty, Odd, and Pretty Odd.. take it or leave it

Connor, Le Blog