

Something tells me that the album's complexity (and the fact that Ryan Ross wrote most of it) makes it nearly impossible to play live. Today most of the material from Pretty.Odd has been cut out of Panic's live shows (save for "Nine In The Afternoon").

was so influential that it influenced (and still influences) Panic's later work. This version of Panic! explored violins, harmonicas, organ, the mandolin and even a wurlitzer in ways that we haven't quite heard since.Įven a cursory listen to "Hallelujah" reveals just a hint of "Mad As Rabbits" (especially at the start) in the same way Vices and Virtues' "Always" could have certainly appeared on Pretty.Odd. Yeah, that's right. Modern Panic! is a big to-do huge choruses, trumpets, bass that just won't quit. The album continues on in a similar fashion, carefully constructing this active imagery, along with the music, that somehow vacillates wildly between happy and melancholia. You clicked your heels and wished for me Northern Downpour Look back at both feet and that winding knee Take "Northern Downpour" (one of the strongest on the record). Odd. read more like stanzas from secret poems than they do songs.
