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Pretty. Odd. | 
| Artist: Panic at the Disco
Label: Decaydance/Fueled By Ramen
Category: Music
List Price: £15.99
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Rating:  66 reviews
Sales Rank: 2507
Format: Enhanced
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 4.9 x 0.3
MPN: 430524
UPC: 075678995088
EAN: 0075678995088
ASIN: B00132D808
Release Date: March 24, 2008
Availability: Usually dispatched within 1-2 business days
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| Tracks:
| • | We're So Starving | | • | Nine In The Afternoon | | • | She's A Handsome Woman | | • | Do You Know What I'm Seeing? | | • | That Green Gentlemen | | • | I Have Friends In Holy Spaces | | • | Northern Downpour | | • | When The Day Met The Night | | • | Pas De Cheval | | • | The Piano Knows Something I Don't Know | | • | Behind The Sea | | • | Folkin' Around | | • | She Had The World | | • | From A Mountain In The Middle Of The Cabins | | • | Mad As Rabbits |
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| Editorial Reviews:
Amazon.co.uk Review
The title gives it away instantly- IPretty.Odd./I (don't forget the periods) is not exactly the album that affirmed admirers of Panic At The Disco will have expected. The quartet, then teenagers, hit big in 2005 when iA Fever You Can't Sweat Out/i rode its hit single "I Write Sins Not Tragedies" and its striking video to huge sales, defining their niche bridging emo and theatrical art-rock. Three years later Panic (they've ditched the exclamation mark) return with an expansive album that shamelessly, and very skilfully, takes inspiration directly from the Beatles' bigger budget productions and the baroque classic rock that came in their wake. They must use every instrument in the orchestral palette. But this is hardly a trip to "guilty pleasures" territory, four minute pop tunes polished almost to sterility. Even the catchy, imposing opener "We're So Starving", where they protest "we're still the same band", is playful rather than predictable. "That Green Gentleman (Things Have Changed)" offers so many styles it defies categorisation, the darkly comic sixties pastiche "When the Day Met the Night" could wear the vague "sunshine pop" label comfortably and the likes of "Pas De Cheval" and nicely wistful first single "Nine in the Afternoon" stick in the head after a single hearing. Also the token acoustic strumalong is called "Folkin' Around". Whether their fanbase actively craved such a diverse display of ambition is moot, but IPretty.Odd./I is an impressive and deservedly popular collection. For once it seems that the public agree with those critics who so often describe lovingly crafted, low-selling tributes to genres past as perfect pop. i--Steve Jelbert/i
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Showing reviews 1-5 of 66
 Wrong, so very, very wrong... April 7, 2008
Uriel Walker
12 out of 17 found this review helpful
Strange thing about music fans. A film fan wouldn't say "You know, I love Brad Pitt, but only when he's in Westerns!"
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br /It's not really normal is it? Pretty.Odd. That's what it is.
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br /I adored "A Fever You Can't Sweat Out" and could not have been more disppointed when I first heard this. It was just wrong. Something was missing. Pace? Passion? Drive?
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br /A week later pretty little tunes and melodies seemed to fly around inside my head and I found myself humming little snatches devoid of words.
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br /I played the album again, determined to get my moneys' worth, and that's where all those little tunes had come from. Another week later and I'm obsessed.
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br /Funny thing 'cos that's exactly how I felt about the first album.
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br /I'm thrilled that Panic have decided to go on a musical journey and take me along with them. Personally, I hope they go a step further next time as well. I'm thinking "An American in Paris", bigger numbers, more show! But I doubt I'll regret it if they don't. They seem to have found a way to fascinate me so far.
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br /Yeah, a band that appreciates that life is a tapestry not a shiny emblazoned logo, and that you don't always have to play to type, sure it's confounding but it just makes them more special in my eyes.
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br /Altogether now "Oh, legs of wood waves, waves of wooden legs".
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Pure talent! March 27, 2008
Mr. C. Eales (London, UK)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I was really surprised to see so many negative reviews here on amazon. I love this album. Yes it has a very different sound to "A Fever You Can't Sweat Out" but all the ingredients that make them such a great band are still there. The creativity is there, the melodies, the intelligent lyrics, the humour, Brendon's strange but great vocals, and the songs are just as complex and original (although I think they may have been spending a fair amount of time listening to the Beatles, which is no bad thing). There are plenty of horns, strings, harmony vocals, and the songs are fantastic and just like the first album they have a tendency to grow on you as you listen to them again. Great second album from one of the most talented bands around today.
Beautifully Happy April 3, 2008
CrazyBlue (Cornwall, UK)
4 out of 7 found this review helpful
I loved Panic's first album, still one of my favourites, but I also now adore their new album! Yes musically it's very different to tehir previous album, but their still the same band! All teh great lyrics, and the whole wit is all still there, and it's that that I love about Panic (!) at the Disco. This album is full of great cheerful songs. When I listen to them, i can't help but smile. It's this album that my collection has been missing! A brilliant second album! And the great thing is I now have two amazing, yet different albums from one band! Thankyou Panic!
Very Odd but Very Good!! January 21, 2009
Jay Doubleyoo (South Wales)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I loved "A fever you can't sweat out" to a point where I drove everyone mad constantly playing it, my 7yo groans everytime he hears a certain song from the album.
br /After considering it for a few months I decided to get "Pretty odd", now I knew it was going to be alot different to their debut album but I wasnt sure how different.
br /More playing less electonics, great!! The fellas seem alot calmer, less angry in this second outing.
br /Odd does'nt always have to be a bad thing.
Pretty darn good July 14, 2009
Grr (England)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
`We're still the same band' sing Panic at the Disco on the opening track of this album. Well, they are the same people but the music couldn't be more different. Same band? Not at all really. As the ratio of one star/five star reviews attests, this has split people down the middle.
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br /I'm firmly on the `good times' side of the fence. The first album was a good and solid emo/indie album with a higher than average success rate but Panic have subsequently torn up the past and released `Pretty Odd' - an album as far removed from their debut as can be. I personally believe it is a far superior album as well.
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br /Heavily influenced by the late 60's albums of The Beatles, Beach Boys, Who etc this album blends pop nous and melody with traditional (American) folk stylings. That they pull it off rather well is a strong testament to the abilities of the band. A lot of the songs are well crafted and incessantly catchy (I have had the `Waves of Wooden Legs' refrain stuck in my head for what feels like an eternity!). Lyrically it is witty and intelligent and evocative. All in all, it is a bold, fresh album - one eye on the past another on the future. A big risk for a second album certainly, but one I am very glad they took.
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br /Stand out tracks: Pas De Cheval, That Green Gentleman, Nine in the Afternoon, Folkin' Around Dou You Know What I'm Seeing. In fairness though, this is an album devoid of obvious filler - all the songs here are worth listening to. Kudos to the band for doing something so unexpected.
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br /At the time of writing this album is less than £3.00 - so now is the time to take the punt!
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