Track Listing

1. Introduction
2. The Only Difference Between Martyrdom And Suicide Is Press Coverage
3. London Beckoned Songs About Money Written By Machines
4. Nails For Breakfast, Tacks For Snacks
5. Camisado
6. Time To Dance
7. Lying Is The Most Fun A Girl Can Have Without Taking Her Clothes Off
8. Intermission
9. But It's Better If You Do
10. I Write Sins Not Tragedies
11. I Constantly Thank God For Esteban
12. There's A Good Reason These Tables are Numbered Honey, You Just Haven't Thought Of It Yet
13. Build God, Then We'll Talk

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #1811 in Music
• Released on: 2005-09-27
• Number of discs: 1

Album Description
This Las Vegas band strives to create a unique sound by blending melody-driven rock with dance. This is a rock record you can dance to; that's fun and sincere at the same time. Produced by Matt Squire (Northstar, The Explosion, The Receiving End Of Sirens). Panic! At The Disco is the first band signed to Pete Wentz's (Fall Out Boy) Decaydance Records, a Fueled By Ramen imprint label. "...Imagine The Faint meets The Postal Service with all of the pop sensibilities of a Blink 182" - Peter Wentz. Touring with Fall Out Boy, The Starting Line, Motion City Soundtrack, and Boys Night Out this fall.

Amazon.com
Barely out of high school when signed as the first act for Powered By Ramen's new Decaydance imprint, guitarist Ryan Ross and drummer Spencer Smith of Panic! at the Disco had previously cut their musical teeth in a local Las Vegas Blink 182 cover band. It's that familiar, contempo-punk-pop sensibility, bolstered by the amped-up emo-core ambitions of singer Brendan Urie (typified by the snarky gem "The Only Difference Between Martyrdom and Suicide is Press Coverage") that dominates the opening tracks of the album. It's a shrewd hook, one the band steadily expands -- sonically and lyrically -- thereafter. The nervous energy of "London Beckoned Songs About Money Written By Machines" is set off by sonic embroidery that's sounds as intriguing as the vocoder shtick of "Nails For Breakfast..." does dated. Yet "Camisado" quickly shakes up Supertramp's prog-pomp with a double-shot of modern punk-pop smarts, an alchemy the band and producer Mint Squire performs with similarly inventive, genre-blurring ambition (complete with a quasi-Grand Guignol "Intermission" nearly worthy of Queen) on "Lying is the Most Fun..." and such standouts as "But Its Better If You Do" and the arch delight "Build God, Then We'll Talk." Too many young bands are content slaves to fashion; this one has forged a promising debut by shrewdly taking fashion hostage, then standing it firmly on its head. -- Jerry McCulley

Customer Reviews

awesome.
I don't think Panic will ever be able to live up to their debut album A Fever You Can't Sweat Out. It was great, incorporating classical music and electronic beats, which I'm a big fan of both. The songs had great lyrics, and it was all great for jamming to.

A Refreshing Work Of Art In A Sea Of Commercialized Music
This is one of the best albums that I've heard in years - and I'm not your typical Panic!At The Disco fan... I'm in my early 30's and I like bands such as Interpol, Franz Ferdinand, the White Stripes, and older stuff like Nick Cave, Tori Amos, and PJ Harvey.

I appreciate the clever, literate lyrics and the creativity of sound. The blending of styles of music is a very welcome change from bands whose entire albums sound like one big long song.

I appreciate the subtle (and not so subtle) ironies of the vocal presentation, and I respect their musical ability.

I should also mention that I lived in Vegas for seven years and this album is SO VEGAS. I really hate that some critics have made nasty references to My Space,etc. NO! NO! A THOUSAND TIMES NO! THIS ALBUM IS ABOUT LAS VEGAS, NOT THE TRIVIALITIES OF MY SPACE.

Maybe if one has lived in a Vegas or has spent a lot of time there, it's easier to appreciate some of the songs...

My favorites are "Build God. Then We'll Talk," "These Tables Are Numbered For A Reason..", and "Nails for Breakfast, Tacks for Snacks." And the "Intermission" - wow, that's such a cool break in the middle of a rock album.

I think "I Write Sins Not Tragedies" is a little bit mainstream teen fare, but it's still catchy and fun.

I love the verses of "Lying is the Most Fun A Girl Can Have..." but the chorus was totally lost on me (why this teeny-bop stuff in the middle of an otherwise sexy song?) until I paid closer attention to a few of the lyrics.

This album is a work of art, and it's clearly meant to be listened to in it's entirety from beginning to end.

Gonna make you sweat
Smart, snarky and just plain biologically young, the debut from Panic! At The Disco was jam-packed with every trick in the pop-songbook. Wedging every trick in the power-pop songbook into one CD, it was a surprisingly successful effort. You'll hear elements of Duran Duran new-wave, Cheap Trick's pop-rocks zap, and arch emo-irony ala friends Fall Out Boy. They even smuggle in some of the progressive elements via Queen or The Beatles that would bloom in full come Pretty. Odd.

That said, this is still a very adolescent effort, with the primary topic being girls and angst over girls. The best songs here, like "I Write Sins Not Tragedies" and the delightful ironic "Build God Then We'll Talk" sound like songwriter Ryan Ross saved up every clever idea he'd ever had for a song and used them up in three and a half minutes. Sometimes that doesn't always work (the voice tweaking on "Nails For Breakfast..." being the worst offender), but more often than not, Panic, along with producer Matt Squire, manage to take multiple genre tricks and blend them into a sweet and snappy whole.