Panic at the Disco - Pretty. Odd.
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Artist: Panic at the DiscoEdition: Music CD
Format: Enhanced
CD Release Date: 2008-03-25
Music Label: Fueled By Ramen
Soundtracks:
- We re So Starving
- Nine In The Afternoon
- She s A Handsome Woman
- Do You Know What I m Seeing?
- That Green Gentleman
- I Have Friends In Holy Spaces
- Northern Downpour
- When The Day Met The Night
- Pas De Cheval
- The Piano Knows Something I
- Behind The Sea
- Folkin Around
- She Had The World
- From A Mountain In The Middle
- Mad As Rabbits
Free Music Notes for Pretty. Odd.
Free Music Review: Pretty Odd Indeed
Hit: 3 Stars
The dropping of the exclamation mark was a big indication of what to come,just like the dropping of the exclamation Panic at the Disco seems to have lost some of their steam with there sophomore effort. Unlike there freshman debut, A Fever You Can't Sweat Out, Pretty. Odd. features some pretty forgettable tracks but also features a few gems like 'Nine In the Afternoon' and 'That Green Gentleman (Things Have Changed), and about three to four other tracks. I was disappionted when I purcahsed this album expected a sequel to Fever, but instead got like the 5th movie in a drawn out sereis, good but with few highlights and easily forgetten.
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For Panic At The Disco's sophomore follow-up to their Decaydance/Fueled By Ramen break-through debut 2005's A Fever You Can't Sweat Out, the band holed up in a Las Vegas studio with renowned producer Rob Mathes. What they created is nothing short of a masterpiece, the 60's pop-inspired Pretty Odd. This time around, the band opted for real instruments and live tracking over Pro Tools software, citing influences as The Beach Boys, Bob Dylan, and The Beatles. Says guitarist Ryan Ross in an interview with Billboard, We want to make music [that is] simple and timeless and not too pretentious. The band also did additional tracking at the Abbey Road Studio in London, adding a Beatles-esque flavor to their usual Vegas flare. The song lyrics have moved away from the whole one-liner, sarcastic thing says Ross, in favor of more everyday things. Lead single, "Nine In The Afternoon" has the band showing a healthy dose of maturity, having grown as songwriters and instrumentalists.The title gives it away instantly- Pretty.Odd. (don't forget the periods) is not exactly the album that affirmed admirers of Panic At The Disco will have expected. The quartet, then teenagers, hit big in 2005 when A Fever You Can't Sweat Out rode its hit single "I Write Sins Not Tragedies" and its striking video to huge sales, defining their niche bridging emo and theatrical art-rock. Three years later Panic (they've ditched the exclamation mark) return with an expansive album that shamelessly, and very skilfully, takes inspiration directly from the Beatles' bigger budget productions and the baroque classic rock that came in their wake. They must use every instrument in the orchestral palette. But this is hardly a trip to "guilty pleasures" territory, four minute pop tunes polished almost to sterility. Even the catchy, imposing opener "We're So Starving", where they protest "we're still the same band", is playful rather than predictable. "That Green Gentleman (Things Have Changed)" offers so many styles it defies categorisation, the darkly comic sixties pastiche "When the Day Met the Night" could wear the vague "sunshine pop" label comfortably and the likes of "Pas De Cheval" and nicely wistful first single "Nine in the Afternoon" stick in the head after a single hearing. Also the token acoustic strumalong is called "Folkin' Around". Whether their fanbase actively craved such a diverse display of ambition is moot, but Pretty.Odd. is an impressive and deservedly popular collection. For once it seems that the public agree with those critics who so often describe lovingly crafted, low-selling tributes to genres past as perfect pop. --Steve Jelbert
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