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Generally favorable reviews- based on 261 Ratings
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Positive: 193 out of 261
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Mixed: 24 out of 261
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AdamN.Apr 15, 2008Totally has ELO written all over it and pieces of hooks borrowed from the Beatles. A huge mix of instrumentation and vocal arrangements demand some attention here; but the pay off is ample. I gave it 4 solid listens and now I'm hooked. One thing though- maybe it's just me but: The vocals are impeccable in an almost annoying way. It's like the singer is fake at times.
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AlexP.Apr 5, 2008I just love their new album they took a chance on doing something completly different from their last album and I think they deserve a slap on the back.
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SammyApr 6, 2008I'm taken aback by how much I like this album. Panic had a strong debut, but it never once felt original. This album truly establishes an original identity for the band. The tunes are wonderfully musical, and I can't stop listening to it.
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MattM.Mar 28, 2008
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RudeDogApr 8, 2008Decent sophomore effort. Been the main CD I've been listening to for the last week that I've had it. Different (but good) sound from the 1st album. I agree with reviews it sounds like they spent months discovering the Beatles. Although, as much as I like it, I feel the wheels drop off at track 11. Though 10 good, catchy tunes out of 15 isn't shabby. Worth the price? Yes.
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SteveMar 28, 2008Have you ever heard of the Beatles? Panic at the Disco acts like they just heard them for the first time and now they want to do anything to be just like them. The songs on the album are good, I won't lie. But they are not Panic songs.
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Jun 21, 2022I love this album so much. Panic! At The Disco is super talented! Brendon Urie is so good!
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AlexanderP.Mar 26, 2008If you loved the first album like i did, keep away from this one. Its so totally boring what are they doing? The first one was so new and exiting, this one is like church music.
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Sep 13, 2010This album SUCKS. The other one is _AMAZING_, probably my favorite album by any band, ever. But this one... just disappointing. So SLOW and not clever at all!
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ivanmAug 6, 2008Gosh, when i heard panics first album i thought they are great.their funny songs and dancing beat,their unique style and circus performances were great!and now...what to say?i hope next album will be better.
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[Anonymous]Mar 26, 2008Sucks sucks sucks...go back to the studio, listen to your first album....AND DO THAT WITH JUST NEW WORDS!!!
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AkashR.Apr 29, 2008Hey! What happened to the dancy disco beats? Yes! It's true that fans that anticipated an album like "A Fever To Sweat Out" will turn Pretty Odd with "Pretty.Odd" Was expecting that hip disco beat not granddad or grandma songs!
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SteveOApr 11, 2008You gotta be kidding me!!!! A "teeny bop" band to the max!!! what an ANNOYING voice!!! and here they try and rip off the Beatles??? they need to get a life... maybe a LITTLE better then their stupid debut but FAR from listenable.
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Nov 30, 2017Panic! At the Disco is probably my third favorite band. This album however, is garbage. There's probably three or four songs that I don't skip whenever they come on shuffle. If you are a Panic! fan, would recommend skipping most of this when checking out their discography (with the exception of Nine In the Afternoon, Northern Downpour, and That Green Gentleman).
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MichaelS.Apr 4, 2008
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KyleJMay 3, 2008
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OctaviusMar 25, 2008
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LeahApr 1, 2008
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WillApr 1, 2008
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NathanielO.Apr 1, 2008Poor effort
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JanmikS.Apr 24, 2008I think the shift was very daring and awesome.. It sounds nothing like rushed up, unplanned music.
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DevonSApr 27, 2008Okay, you "emo" kids that can't deal with the fact that Panic has changed need to grow up. They sound much more mature in this album, and the best part is, they're songs don't sound completely computer-generated! I can't stop listening to it! I highly recommend it.
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AnonYmousApr 3, 2008The debut was immense. The follow-up... meh not so much. It kinda reminds me of Alice in Wonderland.
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AndrewApr 3, 2008Their first album was a Fall Out Boy rip-off. This one is refreshingly different and ambitious and every song is great easy listening for summer.
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BronwynnApr 7, 2008I loved this album, it's so diffrent from a fever you can't sweat out, but i still loved it...there are so many songs on this album that make you wanna get up and dance (which is what music should do).
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SophieAug 10, 2008This is nothing like their old stuff i found that i could sing along to every word of every song on the last album, but apart from a few very catchy songs theres nothing outstanding. However, I still love P!ATD so therefore i love the album.
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JonathanS.Mar 26, 2008
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JasonMMar 26, 2008This album is defenitely a departure from their previous work, but if nothing else it is a step forward toward greatness.
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JeffM.Mar 26, 2008Why is this band still around? Seriously. They're horrible.
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ConnorS.Mar 27, 2008Perfect. Super awesome.
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MeganM.Mar 27, 2008This is a great CD.
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DrekH.Mar 27, 2008
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ShawnA.Mar 28, 2008Um...excuse me but I would like the time I wasted clicking stop on iTunes back please. Maybe next time they can dig up John and George's corpses and force Paul and Ringo to sodomize them because THAT would be the only better way to defile the Beatles.
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SplatD.Mar 28, 2008They get a 1 and not a 0 because at least they made something. This band may have a clever rhyme or simple power chord that, lets face it, everyone loves to hear time and again, but there is not much special here. Listen if you must, don't if you can find something else.
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KarlS.Mar 28, 2008I loved this album. A great reinvention for the vegas band that have cemented themselves as one of the best bands of the 21st century
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JonL.Mar 29, 2008Absolutely silly that mainstream bands these days get good reviews just for actually trying. Wow, you discovered the Beatles in your early 20s? Ugh...
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JeffreyD.Mar 29, 2008
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KellyJoC.Mar 29, 2008This CD is okay... but I think we (Panic fans from the first cd) should have been warned that they've changed to folky/poppy pussy-ass music, rather than cleaver lyric punk music. Their style is completely different from the first cd, and the direction they've moved has made me very very sad.
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CherylMar 31, 2008
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StevenJ.Mar 31, 2008While this album is much different than the previous Panic album I still very much enjoyed it. To be honest the lyrics are just as good as the previous album and I think I like the style only slightly less.
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HenryJ.Mar 31, 2008Refreshing!
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JoshuaN.Mar 30, 2008This is such a good step for a band that many consider petty and worthless. It's a risky change of sound, but if you know music you realize this was the right choice to make. Everything about this album is much better than Fever. Panic is taking a step in the right direction.
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ChrisV.Mar 31, 2008
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TaylerApr 1, 2008I LOVE Pretty Odd. It is the first album in a long time that I can actually listen to the whole thing through without changing to the next song. Panic is just exercise their musical optionns, and they did it pretty well. So what if they sound like the Beatles? A lot of bands do. If you don't like Panic's new sound then don't listen to them. Durh.
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RandyK.Apr 1, 2008
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DaisukeK.Apr 13, 2008
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BobB.Apr 2, 2008If there was a Beatles/Brian Wilson Corporate Emo Tribute band, this band would be it.
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SamF.Apr 2, 2008it's different to the first but its a still a solid, complicated album. Sounds highly produced but hey they musta had a lotta money thrown at 'em to make it work.
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SydneyMo.Apr 25, 2008
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SeanP.Apr 5, 2008
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AngelC.Apr 5, 2008I really love this album. It's incredibly different from their first one, but that's okay because it's not bad at all.
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ChristianP.Apr 6, 2008
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JoeyM.Apr 8, 2008They have changed too much now they are more like the Beatles then Fall Out Boy. YUCK... PS I don't have anything against the Beatles but I don't like the way Panic sounds like them.
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rrApr 8, 2008Fans of the first album will hate this. If I wanted to listen to Beatles songs I would listen to the originals.
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DemosthenesSep 24, 2008
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amberrJan 1, 2009Ryan Ross ruins everything.
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JoeMar 26, 2008What a refreshing album. The sound really surprised me, because I always thought of Panic at the Disco as Fall Out Boy, Jr. Boy have they shed that skin. Thank God. Pretty. Odd. echoes The Beatles and hints at Chicago. That's not necessarily a bad thing.
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JuliaG.Mar 28, 2008
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PatriciaMar 29, 2008Not exactly what i was anticipating when I picked it up. When compared to "fever", the tempo is somewhat slowed down and dare I say boring? All in all though I find the lyrics and arrangements generally pleasing.
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JosephA.Mar 31, 2008Gotta say, at first I was like... Um, what?... The Beatles... The Beach Boys... Morrisey... What band is this? But after warming up found it to be quite nice. Pleasantly surprised!
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GrahamE.Mar 31, 2008If you're a 14 year old girl you'll love it. If you aren't then you need to get a significant kick in the pants and better taste in music.
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D.G.Apr 28, 2008Not a bad album by any stretch - much better than the first one, and much more original. If people criticized every band for sounding like or paying tribute to the Beatles, then almost every band since the 60s would be guilty of this. I think Panic has released a great album here, and though the sound does pay tribute to the Beatles, it's definitely a step of maturity for the band.
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waleedaMay 12, 2009Terrible terrible terrible, i absolutely loved their first album, there isnt a single song i like on this one. its not even worthy to take up space on my computer or in my cd case. they were so unique and like nothing ive ever heard b4. guess they were a one album wonder
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Mar 14, 2011Panic! At the Disco are perhaps my favourite band- none of my opinion is based on this albubm. A terrible, terrible follow up to their first album. THis song contains two good tracks, 'Nine in the Afternoon' and 'Things have Changed'. I am disappointed in this album. Not only is it too far from what Panic! At the Disco are known for, but their 'new' sound is whiny and boring.
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Jun 4, 2013
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Apr 20, 2012This was Panic at the Disco at their best. Pretty. Odd. is a great example of a band maturing their sound for their sophomore album. If only it hadn't been so short lived...
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Sep 17, 2015This album is waaaaaay better than their previous record. Wow they have come a long way from crappy pretentious emo pop. Even though this record is watered down it feels honest.
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Jun 14, 2014With "Pretty. Odd.", the band is trying to tell us that they matured. And that seems about right. The Beatles and The Beach Boys are some of the obvious major influences around here. "Nine In the Afternoon" is a great hit song that could only have been done by them.
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Mar 5, 2014I loved how random it all felt at first yet listening to it clarified the lyrics a little bit every time. Even now, 6 years and 200 listens later, it's still so catchy and in my opinion Panic's best album to date.
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Oct 29, 2015This album, inspired by 1960's rock such as The Beatles and The Kinks, doesn't disappoint with songs that have that '60s feel to them such as "Nine In The Afternoon".
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Mar 25, 2018This is Panic's most meh album and I thank God the band split up after this. It's trying way to hard to be a Beatles record except even more boring than it's predecessors.
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Oct 21, 2017Great album, I love most of the songs on here. There are some songs I don't love as much and I don't think this is my favorite style of theirs, I was still thoroughly impressed. Northern Downpour is probably my favorite song off of the album and is an incredibly underrated song of theirs. A-
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Jun 19, 2018Definitivamente não é meu álbum favorito do P!ATD.
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Sep 9, 2017The last record that really can be said it had the last drops of the essence of the band and is not because they break-up later but because Brandon Urie completely destroyed everything that had been achieved with his two mediocre pop albums and the simplistic Vices & Virtues .
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Feb 10, 2021
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May 26, 2018A tentativa de Ryan Ross fazer algo parecido com o The Beatles faz Pretty. Odd. ser o pior álbum do Panic! para mim, mas isso não significa que nele não tenha músicas boas como "The Piano Knows Something I Don't Know"
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Jan 6, 2020I feel like this album is so great, I can’t even explain it. A complete masterpiece
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Jul 4, 2020i love this album so much but i do understand why most of panic! at the disco fans at the time wouldn't like this album but i do think this is their best album and Even better then their first album i am so happy this album Exists if it didn't i wold never love panic! at the disco!
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Jul 22, 2020a good album but Ryan Ross sucks in general like i Reilly hate him burn in hall
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Jul 24, 2020i didn't hate it but after some time i did get bored, the songs start to sound the same and are a bit dull. the lyrics are good, very fanciful but i just can't connect with them. i know people seem to score folksy dull sounding songs very high for some reason but i guess i just can't. its not bad its just forgetable.
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Apr 15, 2022Gorgeous. A truly valiant effort by Ryan Ross and co. Really shows off the beauty of what music can be. Is it the best album of all time? Nah, but it still deserves a 10. Highlights include: Northern Downpour, That Green Gentleman, Nine in the Afternoon, and When the Day Met the Night.
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Sep 2, 2020el álbum sinceramente no es de mi agrado, pero debo decir que es un muy buen trabajo discográfico. las canciones se sienten ser hechas por todos los integrantes de la banda, y las letras son muy buenas, aunque aún así no cumplen las expectativas que esperaba. mis canciones favoritas son that green gentleman, pas de cheval y mad as rabbits
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Sep 7, 2020Este álbum me encantó por los 2000s pero esta bien horrible, pensé q era mejor creo q la nostalgia jugó en mi contra.
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May 31, 2022An underrated album that definitely takes a step away from their debut. It may not be perfect, but it is a solid album that is at least worth listening to.
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Mar 22, 2022The album is good and the sounds the band creates are well executed. Probably their best work.
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Mar 2, 2023I didn't like it, unfortunately. I can totally see why others do, but it just isn't for me.
Awards & Rankings
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More often than not (and this is the kicker, ladies and gentlemen), Pretty. Odd. is just pretty dull.
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Even when it's over the top, which is basically always, Pretty. Odd. sounds cheerful, with a broad sense of humor that does honor to the noble legacy of ELO mastermind Jeff Lynne.
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Pretty.Odd lives up to its title because it dares to be optimistically beautiful at a time when sadness and ugliness might have won them easier credibility. [Apr 2008, p.92]