Panic at the Disco - Pretty. Odd.
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Free Music Notes for Pretty. Odd.
Free Music Review: A Break From Emo(tional) Output
Hit: 5 Stars
Honestly, I like emo. But I like that Panic didn't make a follow-up that sounded like a Fallout Boy twin. Everyone keys in on The Beatle's influence but good music is good music. If you're looking for another Fever album, look elsewhere. Track 4 is the standout for me. Solid lyrics, my hats off to poetic genius.Free Music Review: A drastic change in sound from previous album
Hit: 2 Stars
If you get this album expecting more of the Fall-Out-Boy-esque sounds of the debut album, you will be sorely disappointed.
It appears the band was trying for something different, to break away from the style that got them popular in the first place. The horns and the strings gave it a whimsical sound that fans of Rock and Alternative will have a hard time appreciating.
I'm glad I listened through the whole thing before purchasing it, because I would be pretty mad if I had spent the money.
Free Music Review: Meh
Hit: 4 Stars
I love Panic at the Disco... but this CD doesn't fly too well with me. There's a couple songs I love, but most of it is just 'meh.' They didn't quite hit the nail on the head with this CD. I'd suggest checking out each song and just buying only the songs you like. Even if you're a die-hard fan, you may regret buying this CD full-price and brand new.Free Music Review: It's the Greatest Thing to Ever Have Happened (to Panic at the Disco)
Hit: 5 Stars
The first time I heard Panic at the Disco's freshman effort, A FEVER YOU CAN'T SWEAT OUT, was when I borrowed it from my younger sister last fall in jokey preparation for a homecoming week stunt that involved my friends and I dressing up in tight pants, My Chemical Romance t-shirts, and black fingernail polish and pretending to be "emos". This should give you an idea of my attitude toward emo music and fashion in general. So unsurprisingly, I was entirely unimpressed by the band's run-of-the-mill punk/pop debut, and when the follow-up PRETTY. ODD. came out earlier this year, I never intended to give it even a first look.
Then I started to hear read snatches of reviews, rumors that Panic at the Disco had performed a perfect 180, abandoning their shoegazing for classic pop. I smiled knowingly to myself, suspecting the usual overwrought praise, but all the same, I was intrigued. At last a friend, a close friend, one whose tastes mirrored mine, one with whom I had lampooned Panic at the Disco and their ilk, began extolling the album's virtues to me. I couldn't believe my ears: I had to hear this record. And once I had, I could believe my ears even less, because this is an amazing record.
Bandmember Ryan Ross was quoted by Rolling Stone as saying, "[The album] is influenced by the music our parents listened to like the Beach Boys, the Kinks, and the Beatles." That's putting it mildly; on PRETTY. ODD., the band takes Oscar Wilde at his word and shamelessly beg, borrow, and steal from everyone from John Lennon to Jeff Lynne, from Graham Nash to Graham Gouldman. But the giddy enthusiasm with which they do so keeps us from dwelling on the fact that this has all been done before, and simply enjoy the music. And from the faux-SGT. PEPPER opening two-fer "We're So Starving" and "Nine in the Afternoon", past the galloping rock of "Pas de Cheval" by way of the music-hall romp "I Have Friends in Holy Places", through to the baroque pop of "From a Mountain in the Middle of the Cabins", it's one hell of a ride, positively awash in swooping strings, shimmering harmonies, and supremely buoyant songcraft straight of the Lennon-McCartney playbook. And if that's not a recommendation, I don't know what is, because though the piano may have known something Panic at the Disco didn't know, it wasn't how to make a great pop record, because they've got that one down pat.
Free Music Review: Panic at the Disco - Pretty. Odd.
Hit: 3 Stars
Pretty. Odd. (2008, Fueled By Ramen) Panic at the Disco's second studio album. ***
As everyone knows, if you've an exclamation point in the name of your band and then drop it, it obviously means you've radically shifted the sound so that you've done crapiness in one genre and now moved on to the next. Why Panic was suddenly inspired by the Beatles is beyond anyone, probably even the band members, but they need to understand that that's not who they are, and they never will be. Pretty. Odd. is not by any stretch comparable to Sgt. Pepper, and any critic who makes that mistake should be shot. Granted, this album isn't garbage. It's not great, either. What we have is an above-average mix of songs that are completely second-rate to their inspirations of 60's psychedelic pop. The lyrics are beyond terrible, and it features far too many instruments that we know no one in the band is capable of playing. If there's anything admirable about their change in approach, they at least chose the correct era of the Beatles to mimic.
-Stephen
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