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| Neek's 1st Listen: Panic!'s "Pray for the Wicked"
I hate myself | | 1 |  | Panic! at the Disco
Pray For The Wicked
“(Fuck a) Silver Lining”
Oh god, it starts with distorted vocals. And OH SHIT that kicked in abruptly. Everything is changed and growing more annoying that I can talk about it. Man I am NOT liking these vocal melodies at all. The strings and horns are (should be) cool but combined with those vocals it’s like they’re all trying to screech louder than each other to get our attention. The song is almost over already and all I’ve heard is giant sounds that might eventually sound more like music on repeat listens, but I wouldn’t hold my breath.
5.5+/10 | | 2 | | Panic! at the Disco
Pray For The Wicked
“Say Amen (Saturday Night)”
Okay so the last one started with annoying low-pitched vocals, this one with annoying high-pitch vocals. I really hope this isn’t a trend. They do really not work as a loop either jesus. Half of this instrumentation is kinda cool, and the other half is just appalling pop garbage. It’s creating this strange dichotomy of this guy being a really talented musician but still having no idea wtf he’s doing. Like, it’s somewhat listenable and enjoyable but also abhorrent at the same time. The last song went by so fast but this one is dragggginngggggggg. Good thing I didn’t listen to these singles as they came out because there’s no way I’d wanna sit through them more than I’d have to. Oh man those high notes were shit. If I hear any of these on the radio I’m gonna kill myself.
5.5-/10 | | 3 | | Panic! at the Disco
Pray For The Wicked
“Hey Look Ma, I Made It”
“I’m a pimp selling songs and my pimps are record labels” yeah man you’re SO oppressed I can relate so hard to this man right now isn’t he so troubled and very clearly feeling the same that we generic target audience are feeling right now? Jesus FUCK that chorus is rough. I already know how I feel about this song, can we please move on now? I doubt anything gonna change until it ends, fuck me. Ugh those canned horn/synth things are so saddening to me. Everything sounds like it’s mixed up to 10, the vocals are almost drowned out half the time. Was that half of a hip-hop styled refrain? Jesus christ put me out of my misery.
4+/10 | | 4 | | Panic! at the Disco
Pray For The Wicked
“High Hopes”
Oh my god stop torturing those poor horns Jesus fucking christ. And the strings too, aw man. I love strings so so much in basically everything and this is just goddamn depressing. He’s trying so hard to sound authentic musically, and yet he sounds lyrically like he’s a pop song autobot. Like when they program AI to write harry potter fanfiction, except they did it with pop music and then decided to throw some strings and horns over it to sound edgy or something. Idk there’s more to the song but I’m done.
4-/10 | | 5 | | Panic! at the Disco
Pray For The Wicked
“Roaring 20s”
No please don’t do this. Just fucking stop, don’t try to do some neo-swing shit. But hey, maybe it’ll be like “Crazy=Genius” and be a weirdly awesome song in the middle of an otherwise unredeemable ugly ass pop album. Idk, the music isn’t so much at odds with the singing, but it still just sounds strangely strained. Like there’s some genuinely alright classic Panic stuff going on here, but he just can’t reach for it as much. “Roll me like a blunt cause I wanna go home,” I wonder how long it took him to come up with that one, and then how much longer it took for him to halfassedly throw it into a song about…. the 20s? Fuck me, idk and idc. To answer the question, probably two seconds.
6+/10 | | 6 | | Panic! at the Disco
Pray For The Wicked
“Dancing’s Not a Crime”
I heard the first half-second of this song and decided to take a break, so I’ll try to be a bit more objective now. This follows the same style of the last few songs with a more horn/swing casually throw over a normal pop song, but with a particularly annoying vocal thing hovering around at random points. Okay so objectively this is the most generic and uninteresting of all of the songs so far, he seems to be straining so hard to prove that he’s not lonely as fuck since he’s a glorified solo act now by surrounding himself by as (I accidentally wrote “ass” instead of “as”, Freudian slip) much noise as possible throughout the clusterfuck of a track. And it’s still FUCKING GOING.
3+/10 | | 7 | | Panic! at the Disco
Pray For The Wicked
“One of the Drunks”
Wow, that’s so cool man. That vocal gobble-de-gook must’ve been really when you first heard it two years ago and decided to put it in your album. The problem on deliberately capitalizing no pop trends is that they become so fucking dated so quickly that sitting on them is really not a good idea at all. Wow he sounds so troubled on this one, I really feel like I’m digging into his fucking psyche, please tell me how you’re a drunk and how it’s affecting your perfect fucking life you goddamn hack. That bridge was actually kind of cool though. But he’s still an asshole. I don’t totally hate this track though, there might be something to it. Oh wait no they’re doing the “fun studio banter that proves that Brendan Urie is actually a cool dude and doesn’t just sing like one” bit, minus a point.
4+/10 | | 8 | | Panic! at the Disco
Pray For The Wicked
“The Overpass”
Okay… I actually really liked that little opening bit, so hopefully this one follows through. His vocals aren’t as annoying and cluttered as usual, the horns seem to actually fit on this one and the backing vocals work well too. Do we have a somewhat good song on are hands here? Oh, it’s one of those “exact thing on repeat twice” songs. Nevermind, weird-ass bridge going on here, again I dig it though even though his vocals are really lame. That chorus is way better than it deserves to be though. Alright alright, I like this one, ya got me.
7-/10 | | 9 | | Panic! at the Disco
Pray For The Wicked
King of the Clouds
Oh fuck those VOCALS man, how many fucking Panic songs start like that? It’s so tired and his voice is just not that interesting to keep it… interesting. Idk wtf I’m saying anymore but this album is bad again, didn’t take long. I hope y’all really get some enjoyment from this list because I’m not getting any fucking enjoyment from this album. I have half a mind to throw all these one-liners I’m writing and throw them into a review or something because then at least it’ll match the effort that Urie put into this goddamn trash heap of an album. How did he get to sing “king of the clouds” to the point where I thought he was singing “king of the grass.” That outro instrumentation was alright though.
4-/10 | | 10 | | Panic! at the Disco
Pray For The Wicked
“Old Fashioned”
Hell yeah, rock that swanky Eastern-sounding thing you found on ProTools, it’s the best thing on this song so far even though you seem to not know how to use it. Okay now it’s the worst thing. That’s gotta be one of the most uninspired choruses I’ve ever heard, suddenly these verses sounds pretty cool. Jk no they don’t, they’re just trash in a totally different way. It’s like a wanna-be hip-hop song had a baby with ever generic anthemic pop song from the last decade and a half, held together with some canned horns and samples. That bridge was so weirdly out of place too holy fuck. This is like Frankenstein’s monster of pop music.
3+/10 | | 11 | | Panic! at the Disco
Pray For The Wicked
“Dying in LA”
Oh right, how could I forget the Obligatory Piano-Driven Panic! Album Outro (TM). Well, as tired and hackneyed and generic as it might be, at least it’s a nice change of pace and rest for my ears after the audial assault I’ve been subjected to. Hey isn’t this the name of a Father John Misty song? Haha jesus christ I’m just trying to kill some time while this song sounds reliably good but so insincere that I hate myself for this totally being my kind of song. It like takes everything I like about sappy ballads and yet makes it sound so wrong and distorted after coming after the rest of this album that it can’t possibly be real. It’s like an abusive girlfriend that assaults you over and over and yet at the end of the day she’s nice to you and treats you right and says all the right things so that you’ll stick with her for another day. Yeah, well fuck you Mikayla, I’m not putting up with your shit any longer… I mean… Brendan Urie.
6-/10 | |
neekafat
06.22.18 | wish I had the balls to submit this as a review for all the pain it caused me | Lucman
06.22.18 | Words can't describe how much I love this. (the list, not the album, the album is rubbish) | furyroad97
06.22.18 | I like Panic! but I gotta agree, this album was really mediocre and kind of bad in some areas. Their (Brendon's) worst one so far. | neekafat
06.22.18 | Thanks Luc! I don't get a lot of traffic with these but comments like that are what keep me doing this (:
And yes I agree fury, wasn't a fan of the last one either | Lucman
06.22.18 | It was a great read, man. I can't say I've ever been a fan of this band, though. The only Panic album I don't mind is Pretty Odd. | Dewinged
06.22.18 | I think these are cool man, you should keep doing them. It's fun to listen to an album while reading your comments on it. I am not jamming this one though lol. | neekafat
06.22.18 | Thanks guys (: And yeah, Pretty Odd is my fave! I do really like the next couple after that too
@Dewi, I always wondered what it would be like to read this with the album! | bgillesp
06.22.18 | Thats a disappointment. Will still probably check anyway | Papa Universe
06.22.18 | Why would you do that to yourself? | DoofusWainwright
06.22.18 | first listen / last listen | neekafat
06.22.18 | I mean, at least I had fun writing it |
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