Panic! At The Disco - Viva Las Vengeance (August 19th, 2022) Album • Page 11

A Fever
Vices
Too Weird
DOAB
Odd
Pray

May try to do my top ten songs in a bit. Shouldn't be too hard

 

I’ll do it if you do it but it will be v hard for me

 

Top 10 songs, real quick:

The Calendar
Collar Full
Nearly Witches
Dying In LA
Northern Downpour
Memories
Golden Days
Far Too Young To Die
When The Day Met The Night
Mad As Rabbits

 

I will never get the hype for House of Memories. I’ve tried to like it many times and it doesn’t do anything for me. It’s as filler as The Good, the Bad, and the Dirty.

 

Agreed

 

Still hoping out for a reunion with Ryan Ross someday. Panic! has always been at their most creative when they were actually a band.

I understand that the big hits that he's been doing on the last two albums (prior to this one) have made Brendon a star to which pays the bills on a much bigger scale.

 

I don't think it will truly ever happen. He's been out of the band for nearly 3x longer than he was ever in it.

 

Vices
Fever
Too Weird
Bachelor
Pretty Odd
PFTW

 

Memories is good

House Of Memories is meh

 

Vices & Virtues
A Fever You Can't Sweat Out
Death of a Bachelor
Too Weird to Live, Too Rare to Die!
Pray for the Wicked
Pretty. Odd.

He’s been extremely consistent which is what makes the new release so odd. Hopefully it will be a grower

 

Yeah... unfortuently I have to agree with you there.

It's a shame though on both the aspect of the what could be if he did return and also him actually getting back into music again. I still find it so strange that he's been quiet for almost a decade. Has he given up on music at this point? He definitely followed a similar path to Josh Farro from Paramore as being a primary songwriter for the band to basically leaving and doing nothing after (without all the controversy of Josh though).

 

The Only Difference Between Martyrdom
Trade Mistakes
Far Too Young To Die
Good Reason These Tables Are Numbered
Vegas Lights
She Had The World
Nicotine
Memories
LA Devotee
Golden Days

 

Fever
Pretty. Odd.
Vices & Virtues
Pray For the Wicked
Too Weird To Live
Death of a Bachelor

Top 10 songs with as little thought as possible:
London Beckoned Songs
Build God, Then We'll Talk
That Green Gentleman
When the Day Met the Night
Ballad of Mona Lisa
Nearly Witches
Nicotine
Don't Threaten Me With a Good Time
(Fuck A) Silver Lining
Dancing's Not a Crime

 

On a positive side though, despite the oversinging, I think I WILL have fun with this album. I've wanted guitar-driven Panic since Vices & Virtues, because (hot take) that's my favorite Panic album. It came out at a time when I felt like the world was my oyster and usually subjectivity and nostalgia tend to take the place of objectively their best album (Fever) for me so Fever is a close second. Pretty Odd is definitely a close third though.

 

I actually do think there will be a “classic line-up” reunion at some point in the future after the hit machine shuts off for good.

 

Would put money on that never happening. Even when they're 60.

 

I'd given an Oasis reunion better odds than a Panic reunion – and that's saying something. I don't think Brendon or Ryan have any interest in ever doing it again together.

 

I feel like there’s a chance he’d do a Fever tour but it would be with the current lineup

 

Is there really that much bad blood between Brendon and Ryan?

 

I don't think there's bad blood – just a real disinterest in reconnecting or working together.

 

Just seems like a silly thing to write-off when much stranger reunions have taken place, and there will always be a portion of the fan base pining for it.

 

Similar to Third Eye Blind there is just no fiscal reason for the original lineup to ever get back together under the band name. Brendon has taken the act to bigger heights since Ryan and Jon left so, outside of a small mid-00's enthusiasts, no one is really clamoring for the OG's to get back together.

 

I still think that'll happen but the window is rapidly closing (Oasis). I don't think they have enough draw in North America to make a big splash anymore but it would be a slam dunk in the UK/Europe.

 

I want it so bad. They'd make so much money.

 

Album Ranking:
1. A Fever You Can't Sweat Out
2. Too Weird To Live, Too Rare To Die
3. Death Of A Bachelor
4. Pretty. Odd.
5. Pray For The Wicked
6. Vices & Virtues
7. Viva Las Vengeance

Top Fifteen:
1. This Is Gospel
2. Time To Dance
3. London Beckoned Songs...
4. Hallelujah
5. Camisado
6. Girls / Girls / Boys
7. Vegas Lights
8. Don't Threaten Me With A Good Time
9. Nine In The Afternoon
8. Lying Is The Most Fun...
11. That Green Gentleman
12. New Perspective
13. Ready To Go
14. Death Of A Bachelor
15. I Write Sins