Too Weird To Live, Too Rare To Die! Panic! At The Disco

• 1This Is Gospel03:07
• 2Miss Jackson03:12
• 3Vegas Lights03:09
• 4Girl That You Love03:09
• 5Nicotine03:07
• 6Girls/Girls/Boys03:27
• 7Casual Affair03:18
• 8Far Too Young To Die03:17
• 9Collar Full03:18
• 10The End Of All Things03:32
• Total Runtime32:36

Info for Too Weird To Live, Too Rare To Die!

Das neue und vierte Album von Panic! produziert von Butch Walker (Fall Out Boy, Weezer), zollt die Band auf „Too Weird To Live, Too Rare To Die!“ ihren Las-Vegas-Wurzeln mit einem glitzernden musikalischen Ansatz Tribut, der von ihrer stetig wachsenden Sammlung klassischer und moderner Synthesizer inspiriert ist. Knallvoll mit High-Energy-Songs wie „Vegas Lights“ und „Nicotine“, enthält das Album auch Brendon Uries bis dato persönlichstes Songwriting mit Highlights wie dem zärtlichen Lobgesang „The End Of All Things“, der das Album fulminant abschließt. Zugleich feiernd und kathartisch, zeigt „Too Weird To Live, Too Rare To Die!“ PANIC! AT THE DISCO auf ihrem absoluten Höhepunkt – persönlich, mächtig und absolut unwiderstehlich.

„Ich hatte diese Sounds in meinem Kopf“, erklärt Urie, „und musste einfach nur verstehen, wie ich sie da rauskriegen kann. Also habe ich geschrieben und geschrieben und geschrieben, bis wir letzten Endes all diese Songs hatten und ich dachte 'Das ist es. Das ist das Album, das ich machen will.' Ich wusste, dass das passieren würde, und nun ist es endlich hier.“

PANIC! AT THE DISCOs 2005er Platin-Debüt „A Fever You Can't Sweat Out“ ist nach wie vor eines der meistverkauften Debütalben in der Geschichte von Fueled By Ramen. Singles wie der Doppel-Platin-Smash-Hit „I Write Sins Not Tragedies“ brachten der Band nicht nur internationalen Beifall und eine brennende Fangemeinde auf der ganzen Welt ein, sondern auch einige größere Ehren wie mehrfache Grammy-Nominierungen oder den „Video of the Year“-Preis bei den renommierten MTV Video Music Awards.

Ihr zweites Album, „Pretty. Odd.“, folgte 2008 und debütierte prompt auf Platz #2 der SoundScan/Billboard 200 Albumcharts. Der Publikumserfolg des Albums spiegelte sich in einer Welle von Kritiker-Lob wider, der New Musical Express nannte es beispielsweise „ein Sieg künstlerischen Ehrgeizes über zynische Karrieremacherei und eins der Feelgood-Psych-Pop-Alben des Jahres“.

Drei Jahre darauf kehrten PANIC! AT THE DISCO mit „Vices & Virtues“ spektakulär zurück: Das Album, das die Hits „The Ballad Of Mona Lisa“ und „Ready To Go (Get Me Out Of My Mind)” enthielt, stieg bei seiner Veröffentlichung im März 2011 auf Platz #7 der SoundScan/Billboard 200 ein.

Panic! At The Disco The members of Panic! at the Disco had barely graduated high school when their full-length debut, A Fever You Can't Sweat Out, transformed the suburban Las Vegas teens into national emo-pop stars. The band had materialized several years earlier, when friends Spencer Smith (drums) and Ryan Ross (guitar) began covering blink-182 tunes together. After tiring of playing another group's material, they recruited two additional classmates, guitar/vocalist Brendon Urie and bassist Brent Wilson, and the newly formed quartet decided to model its name after a line in Name Taken's "Panic." Crafting pop-influenced songs with theatrical touches, quirky techno beats, and perceptive lyrics, Panic! at the Disco posted several demos online that caught the attention of Decaydance Records, the Fueled by Ramen imprint headed by Fall Out Boy's Pete Wentz. Even though Panic! at the Disco had yet to play a live show, they subsequently became the first band signed to Wentz's label.

With their record scheduled for release in September 2005, Panic! at the Disco joined the successful Nintendo Fusion Tour and hit the road alongside Fall Out Boy, Motion City Soundtrack, Boys Night Out, and the Starting Line. The band continued touring into early 2006, while its single "I Write Sins Not Tragedies" found its way onto MTV and the Billboard Top 40. Proving to be a popular lineup, the Nintendo tour consistently sold out venues across the country. Wilson was fired from the group mid-year; undaunted, Panic! pressed on with their friend Jon Walker on board for a full summer tour that culminated with appearances at the Lollapalooza, Reading, and Leeds festivals. The guys picked up a Video of the Year award at MTV's annual VMA ceremony, beating out heavy hitters like Madonna and the Red Hot Chili Peppers, and a collector's box set version of Fever (featuring random Panic! paraphernalia and a DVD) came out just in time for the 2006 holiday season.

After additional tour dates, the bandmembers announced that they were eliminating the exclamation point from their name, a sign that seemed to foreshadow the mature, less emo-driven rock featured on Pretty. Odd. Released in March 2008, the sophomore album peaked at number two in the U.S. and showcased an evolving band whose tastes had grown to encompass the Beatles' psychedelic pop. The group supported the album with another round of shows, one of which was captured on the CD/DVD release ...Live in Chicago. The group took a hit in June 2009, though, when Walker and Ross left the lineup in order to form their own band, the Young Veins. Urie and Smith soldiered in the studio as a duo, though they did fill the holes in their touring lineup with Ian Crawford and Dallon Weekes. In 2011 the band released their third studio album, Vices & Virtues.

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