It often happens in today’s world that music is downloaded or discovered over the Internet. The ways of downloading are endless Tunes, Bearshare, and Limewire are there and there are many other ways of downloading. But now there are actually ways for you to here a band before they have released in material or have got signed. No you don’t have to go to your local neighborhood’s bands garage you can just look at the Internet at sites such as purevolume.com or myspace.com to find about every band imaginable. One day browsing through pure volume’s crazy selection I searched Disco jokingly of course, and at the bottom of the page I found a band called Panic! At The Disco, the band was signed by Fueled By Ramen the company that has signed a few good acts in “The Academy Is…” but also a few horrible acts such as “Cute Is What We Aim For”. So that peaked my interest. And the fact that their name had disco in it, symboled that they might be a little bit different than what we often get in the mainstream
Introduction- A weird beat with background distortion and what sounds like a TV or radio going off in the background haunts the listener for about the first 15 seconds. Then a background voice comes on introducing us into the band. The song last about 37 seconds and is not really a good preview of what we are going to see from this band on this album. This give you a feel that this is something techno/experimental when it’s really just Pop-punk/ Rock. 3/5
"The Only Difference Between Martyrdom and Suicide Is Press Coverage"- is one of my favorite songs of the album. It’s acoustic sound somehow fits perfectely with the singers lighting quick rhymes and lyrics. The dirty acoustic beat doesn’t really change that much from surrounding lines[/ to pre-chorus, but changes drastically from pre-chorus to chorus as the beat gets a lot harder and it seems like the vocalist’s lyrics are it little bit slower spoken but are still at a pretty good pace. You would like for the song and or the singer to expaned on “The Artist These Days Are Not Who You Think”, but if he explainied all of that he probably would mess the beat up and we would have some utter chaos. The beat gets a little more disco towards the second repition of the chorus and give the song a even more cooler feel. The breakdown has never done much for me as the singer just practices some notes. A nice and different song compared to our first offering. 4.8/5
“"London Beckoned Songs About Money Written by Machines”- This song is another good one as it contains the same fast paced lyrics as the previous song but with a slighty slower beat and the pre-chorus takes a little bit of time to develop. This song probably has one of the coolest choruses of the album with the singer screaming “Make A Scene/Make A Scene”. The second surrounding lines are pretty nicely done as they probably have the most flow of any of the lines in the first three songs. The song lacks a good breakdown, but makes up for it with beat changes in the pre-chorus and ends up being a pretty good song. 4/5
"Nails for Breakfast, Tacks for Snacks"- Probably starts with one of the most progressive beats of the album with the electric guitar being accompanied by the backbeat drums. The surrouding lyrics tend to get a little slower than the previous tracks which is ok since the trend of the quick lyrics needed a break at this point. The singers vocals don’t pin down the chorus enough to make it sucessful but it’s still a pretty decent chorus. The album version sounds a little bit different than the former version which put more emphasis on the disco beats and the chorus. It’s still a pretty good song since it’s a change from the quick style of the previous songs. 3.9/5
“Camisado"- The quick vocals are whispered to a catchy beat provided by what seems like a piano. The beat picks up to what you can make out what he is saying in the song, and disco has a minimum effect on this song. The chorus is probably one of the better production wise were you can here signs of duel vocals and the disco sort of backdrifts in the background a long with the lyrics. The breakdown defintely gives this song a lift with it’s sort of paranoid but effective lyrics. Another good song. 4/5
"Time to Dance"- is one of the songs that acatully reflects the bands disco background and what the opener had in sight for the opener. Orignally titled “Boys Will Be Boys”, the song has a disco beat that takes center stage along with the singers fast lyrics. The chorus is one of the best of the album and the disco parts after it “When I Say Shotgun/You Say Wedding!” are some of my favorite lyrics of the album. The beat changes from soft and techno in the surrounding lines to hard and techno in the chorus. A nice song that finally reveals there disco influences. 4.4/5
“Lying Is The Most Fun A Girl Can Have Without Taking Her Clothes Off”- The whisper quick beat first presented in “Casisado” takes place in the surrounding lines In this song. The song is probably the best song in dealing with relationships on this album, since it has an incredible pre-chorus and a great chorus. And usually with songs the band is intending to be hits the chorus is repeated to much but for Panic! And on this whole album that doesn’t seem to be a problem. No real breakdown but still was one of the best songs of the album. 4.7/5
“Intermisson”- probably along with the opener one of the most questionable choices to put on this album. The disco influences really only appear on three songs on this album but “Intermission” and “Introduction” make it seem like that this is the whole album when it really is only a minor part of “A Fever You Can’t Sweat Out”. There’s a decent piano part, but I’d much rather see one of the bands b-sides here than this song. 2.2/5
“But It’s Better If You Do”- probably one of the weakest songs with lyrics on the album, not that it’s bad it just isn’t up to par with all of the other songs. The background piano beat is pretty cool but it really doesn’t fit the intensity of the Ross’s song writing on this song. The chorus isn’t sang with any emotion, but a slight beat change after it makes for a enhancing experience with the drum beat clearly heard in the background. This is a intresting choice for a single since it is to me, one of the weaker tracks on the album. 3.2/5
“I Write Sins Not Tradegies”- Is one of the most intresting songs beat and lyric wise on this album. The haunting/cool beat in the begging is different from anything on the album since it features piano work that gives it a jungle type of feel , the lyrics are telling a story about a experince at a wedding and the song features some dialouge. The pre-chorus is the same as the chorus since it was a well-written verse and it was repeated for singfigance [and so it would work as a single]. The distorted piano beat perfectely leads into the chorus and it works perfectely. Another highlight of the album for me. 4.6/5
"I Constantly Thank God for Esteban"- there is a disco beat at the begging of the song that progress into the experimental finger picking acoustic guitar with some drums throw in between. The lyrics for the song are pretty weak, but the chorus is pretty strong in that it gives the song a faster feel than the surrounding lines do. And than a sudden beat changes occurs after the 1st offering of the chorus and then the song returns to it’s normal form. This song turns from mediocre to good when the breakdown is stated with the singers distorted lyrics containing a lot of emotion, he even hits a high note in the breakdown, which is rare since he usually stays on a talking or whispering voice the whole album. There is even a temporarly guitar solo thrown in there for a while. 4.2/5
"There's a Good Reason These Tables Are Numbered Honey, You Just Haven't Thought of It Yet"- this is probably the most piano driven song of the album, as some other songs have piano in them but most of the time the piano work is distorted. This song is probably one of the quickest of the album and the tone of the singers voice doesn’t really change from the surrouding lines to chorus. There is a laugh after the trumpent work or it might be a cough and the song gets back going with a even quicker piano beat and the piano seems to be played even harder, the drums come in pre-chorus. This is probably more of a jazz driven song than a disco driven song which gives the song a sense of originality and shows how talented the band can be. 4.4/5
“Build God, Then We’ll Talk”- the closer to the album and it is defintely better than the instrumental opening and anything we have heard so far on this album. This song is guitar lead with some piano thrown in, and the chorus is just incredible. But even better is the breakdown which probably contains the most emotion of any part of this album. This is a great closer to a suprisingly great album. 5/5
A lot of people try to put this album of as “Scene or Emo” without giving it a true listen, and I hope you the reader are not under that assumption since the lyrics are not emo and this is one of the most talented pop-punk bands to come out of 2005. The band play many instruments, aren’t repititive, and just created a pretty darn good album with 13 songs on it. I say they are worth at least one listen.
Pros:
Great none whining lyrics,
Multiple Instruments,
Overall only 3 of 13 tracks are worth skipping
Cons:
The fast pace gets old after a while
The lyrics have the same subject manner
4.5/5 [I know we have enough reviews for this]
