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December 26, 2008
Best of 2008 - #8
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Panic at the Disco - Pretty. Odd. I'm not really an emo guy, so when I heard that the folks from that other Las Vegas band, Panic at the Disco, had lost the exclamation point and discovered the Beatles, I was suspicion.
Nevertheless, upon hearing Pretty. Odd, I was impressed. Some of the misplaced gravitas is still there, but it has mostly been replaced with a winking bombast. "We're So Starving" is the kind of silly intro you see in Sgt. Pepper and Sam's Town, but it sets the tone and works fairly well as an introduction to some of 2008's finest pop songs. I don't expect anyone to compare Panic's songwriter, guitarist Ryan Ross, to Paul McCartney - but he does a good imitation.
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Posted at December 26, 2008 10:07 PM