Panic At The Disco (learn more, web site) is a puzzling band. Their first album (A Fever You Can’t Sweat Out) was a collection of unique, hook-filled, catchy, fast-paced modern rockers with clever lyrics as a big bonus. Some of the songs seemed a bit repetitive but the hooks were so good that you just turned it up and didn’t worry about that. Then I saw them live a few years ago at the Bumbershoot Festival and they were not as polished and tight as I had expected. I left slightly disappointed and decided that they are better on record (CD?) than live. Well, that’s fine, I don’t really have a problem with that.

Then their second album (Pretty. Odd.) came out and it was almost like a different band. OK, the singers voice is recognizable for the most part but the songs were so different. The band had decided to make a trippy psychedelic pop-rock album, almost like a mix of sixties and now. And I like this album too! But it’s stranger, more quirky, and more adventurous. Here’s the video for the first single from Pretty. Odd., called “Nine In The Afternoon”. Maybe you will see what I was referring to.

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