I 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.

I'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.

A really good album on it's own, but a complete departure from what was generally expected. The Nine in the Afternoon single took myself (and a few people I know) by surprise, it's no longer the speedy synth-pop esque sound that sold those 1.7 million records. I don't think this is a detriment though, their venture into 70's era catchy pop songs is for the most part a complete success, their use of horns and strings is well done, not over or under-used, and the lyrics are for the most part thoughtful. With the exception of one song (puns hurt) I found the whole album to be enjoyable. Highlights: Nine... Pas de Cheval That Green Gentleman… Expand

I love this album! It totally removes all the negative points that people have about Panic at the Disco. This album is catchy and absolutely delves into a new and interesting, even more refreshing musical style. It incorporates the musical styles of the Beatles and even in some ways the beach boys. It just proves that the band have matured and their recent success in the UK album chart has proved it successful.… Expand

Decent 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.

Probably the best new music I've heard in a long while. It's excellent that they're exploring other genres and adding variety to their repertoire. They may lose some of the "emo" crowd with music that's more uplifting... but in the words of the band in an NME interview, "Emo is bull__. We want to be the new Radiohead." They're definitely separating themselves from the crowd.… Expand

Gosh, 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.

I'm not really a PATD fan but I must say that this album impressed me so much especially considering its predecessor did absolutely nothing for me. I know everyone's saying they ripped off the Beatles, but to be honest what band hasn't ripped The Beatles in one way or another? And since so many bands have why hold PATD to a different standard? I think people who are pushing this issue are just haters. This is coming from a person who could have cared less about this band before this album. I'm willing to give praise and congrats when its earned and Panic At The Disco will have deserved all the praise and kudos it gets from this great album.… Expand

Sucks sucks sucks...go back to the studio, listen to your first album....AND DO THAT WITH JUST NEW WORDS!!!

Have 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.

A valiant effort - ambitious as hell and pleasing. I'm never really into this type of music, but they really don't sound like anything else out there right now. People who've decided they're no good on principle need to deflate their egos - it's a good album. True, it's not In Rainbows or Boxer or anything, but it's good and significantly different from anything else they could have done - they've got so much potential for a bunch of 20 year olds.… Expand

They were a new level of terrible before (what kind of hook is "haven't you people ever heard of closing the goddamn door?"), and they are just as horrible now. They've just got a few more dollars and an ambitious producer. 3 and not 1 for letting someone take their sound in a somewhat palatable direction, 3 and not anything higher for still being made of the same corny, overwrought, pseudo-weird, pseudo-intellectual stock as System of a Down, Ludo, etc.… Expand

Poor effort

I think the shift was very daring and awesome.. It sounds nothing like rushed up, unplanned music.

Okay, 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.

Hey! 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!

The debut was immense. The follow-up... meh not so much. It kinda reminds me of Alice in Wonderland.

Their 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.

I 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).

This 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.

Well this CD was completely devoid of energy...And no, they're not the "new" Beatles. First of all, no one will ever be the "new" Beatles, and secondly, Panic tries far too hard to imitate the stylings of the Beatles, and it just comes off as a lack of creativity-- rather than take the influences and combine it with their own style while still remaining the same band. However, I really, really did love "A Fever You Can't Sweat Out", despite the fact that most of the pathetic band-wagon "emo" bands nowadays cling to that album as one of their inspirations. But what made that album so fun and musically enjoyable was the creativity and underdog feel, with the energy blazing through each song. And while I understand that Panic At the Disco can see that so many poseur bands are just jumping the pop-punk-wish-I-were-emo train for the fans, and want to set up their own niche that will keep them from growing stale (ala My Chemical Romance)-- but when you're one of the kings of the genre, it's for a reason: you're good at what you do. They shouldn't have worried about being cooped into a sub-group with generic artists just looking for a buck, since they have the talent to stay fresh-- and they're one of the bands that MAKE the other bands look generic. So with all that said, I really wish Panic had stayed to their original style. Rather, they've opted for an infusion of pop-rock with mild 60s stylings (a trend a lot of bands are adopting nowadays-- which, ironically, means they're trying to jump the bandwagon before it forms; doing the EXACT thing they want to avoid). The wishful 60s throwbacks are evident much too easily, especially in the choice of guitar chords chosen, and the fact that the opening song even included mixed strings from "Abbey Road". And, it seems, with the loss of the exclamation mark from the band name, the symbolic energy an exclamation mark implies was also lost in the process. The songs are not nearly as bombastic, lack most the the endearing theatricality and wacky musical stylings/lyrics of the first album, generally follow the same vocal pattern of the sing-songy up-down rhythm-- and, not to mention, Urie sings in an octave up most of the time from the voice he usually sang in which makes it sound more forgettable; unfortunate, since his pleasant low voice was fun to listen to, and he now reverts to too much vibrotto in his singing now. The circus theatricality-- which stemmed from the pattern of a low vocal intro, with bombasts of intruments and a greatly varied pitch throughout the song-- has been lost with the more general vocal melody, and the effects and instruments are underused, spent trying to moderately imitate the style of "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club". My last complaint is that the album all seems too thought out and processed-- it's pretty obvious that "Northern Downpour" is likely to be their next single, and is meant to be the song all the fans love. This sort of calculation takes more genuity out of the album, which it had already lost in transition to a different style. So, undoubtedly, all the "OMG" fans are going to think, well, "omg" about this album, but Panic's serious musical fans (generally the ones out of middle school and not brainwashed by fake emo bands and Hot Topic, let's put it nicely) are going to enjoy this effort far less than "A Fever You Can't Sweat Out", though it still has enjoyable enough songs.… Expand

This album is defenitely a departure from their previous work, but if nothing else it is a step forward toward greatness.

Why is this band still around? Seriously. They're horrible.

If 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.

Perfect. Super awesome.

This is a great CD.

In my opinion, the pessimists have not really stopped to *listen* to this album. I bought it without thinking based on my endearment to the previous album's dark and punky, yet hip and fast-paced rhythms. When I first put it into my CD player, I felt an immediate disappointment with the more happy, upbeat, and seemingly uninspired music. Yet the more I listened, the more I looked into the music and realized how truly original it was. It may not be perfect, but it certainly shows a step in the right direction. After all, who wants to continue buying more of the same? Pretty. Odd. is a very fitting title for a great album that, while seemingly a large step away from 'Fever', is the marking of a band that could have a long, evolving history in the spotlight. The talented weaving of the album as a whole is, in a different manner, every bit as ambitious and original as the first album. We can only expect Panic(!?) to get better as time goes on and to continue introducing us to novel albums that are not carbon copies of the previous ones. Meanwhile, I will continue to listen to both 'Fever' and 'Pretty. Odd.' depending on which mood I'm in.… Expand

Um...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.

They 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.

I loved this album. A great reinvention for the vegas band that have cemented themselves as one of the best bands of the 21st century

Absolutely silly that mainstream bands these days get good reviews just for actually trying. Wow, you discovered the Beatles in your early 20s? Ugh...

Amazing album. This album is meant to be listened to in a dimly lit room, played on vinyl, possibly with headphones on, and definitely smoking something. Its beautiful, daring, and clever. Making a switch from 'Fever' to an album more like this is not something to take timid swings at, they charged at 'Pretty. Odd.' full bore. The album as a whole, from start to finish paints a very fun and addicting picture. Notable psychedelic songs: The Piano Knows, When the Day, and Behind the Sea.… Expand

This 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.

I think it died when the "!" died. I loved the first album, and I was so excited to buy the new one. I popped in the new cd with excitement....and then I waited... and waited....and waited. It just didn't happen for me.....the energy was gone. Reviews are saying that the band wanted to be more original... how is this original? Why would you try something completely different when you were so successful with your first album?? Didn't they think that the fans may not buy into this "new" style... it's not what sold us the first time. I must say pure disappointment.… Expand

While 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.

Refreshing!

This 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.

The CD Pretty. Odd, its pretty odd. I think Panic shouldn't have to remove the "!" in the first place, it seems that the ! whas everything in "A Fever ou CAnt Sweat Out", but, I must admit, I listened to the Pretty Odd CD yesterday, and it's diferent, but I think in a good way. It's not that bad as everyone is saying. Come on, if you guys dont like Panic at the Disco, just dont listen to them (Period)...… Expand

I 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.

I don't buy into any "sophomore jinx" crap. But this is obviously Panic trying entirely too hard to extract themselves from their own shadow. These sound like a bunch of throwaway b-sides during tour bus downtime. "Nine in the Afternoon"? That's as close as they get to the original, blindingly brilliant Panic. And "Nine in the Afternoon" sounds more Fall Out Boy than Panic anyway. Where are the literary references? Where are the fevered-pitch tempos? Where's the breakneck dynamism in their soundscape? It's obvious these guys have sweat out their fever. Panic? Guys? Next time somebody offers you the artistic freedom to do whatever you want ... don't.… Expand

This is a great album on it's own. When compared to A Fever You Can't Sweat Out, people complain about how PATD has changed too much. But that is the glory of Pretty. Odd. It is not their debut album, and anybody who expected another album like their first is naive. PATD is an innovative band that explores their own creativity instead of pandering to your wants. Yes, A Fever You Can't Sweat Out was an excellent album, but Pretty. Odd. is also an excellent album. Comparing the two is comparing apples to oranges. If PATD can make such a change between their first and second albums, while still sounding awesome, I can't wait for their third album. Who knows? Maybe it will be a gospel album.… Expand

If there was a Beatles/Brian Wilson Corporate Emo Tribute band, this band would be it.

it'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.

A very daring and inspiring CD. Panic has adapted a Beatles-esque vibe, but it is a refreshing change from their last album. Having a variety in their sound is a great change from the Fall Out Boy sound they had last time. It is definitely a CD that you have to listen to more than once to love, and i have done just that. I think that Panic!'s prior crowd will adapt to the change, or they were never really fans at all.… Expand

At first I thought it was awful but I really like it now. Each song has slowly got better, one at a time and now it's very nice. Most of the negative reviews from users are probably the 15 year old girls. If you were looking for mopey lyrics behind an intense electronic landscape, look elsewhere (Metro Station). The album does not seem completely genuine but it is unlike anything else in modern music. Any band that intentionally risks their entire fanbase earns a lot of respect. Lots and lots of layers to most songs. Must've taken a while to arrange most of the strings/brass. Solid… Expand

I really love this album. It's incredibly different from their first one, but that's okay because it's not bad at all.

I strongly disliked PATD's first album. It was an amalgamation of many many bands that had come before them and it didn't deserve the popularity it received. This album, on the other hand, proves that these guys are fairly artistic and creative. It's much more successful than when bands like The Get Up Kids and Saves The Day tried to do a 60's throwback in an effort to prove their maturity. This album works, and if anything, it's a glimmer of hope that people do grow up and maybe, just maybe, we can all move beyond this mall-emo trend. Cheers for taking a risk!… Expand

They 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.

Fans of the first album will hate this. If I wanted to listen to Beatles songs I would listen to the originals.

By no account is this album revolutionary per say, nor is it groundbreaking; the real accomplishment is that they denied fame by taking a risk, and flirting with a past era of music. Inspiration from The Band, The Beach Boys, The Beatles, and occasionally Oasis on the harder tracks, shines right through. In a world where depressingly serious music dominates the airwaves, it's refreshing to see a young band trying to have a laugh.… Expand

Ryan Ross ruins everything.

What 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.

If the Beatles were here for the day that Panic At The Disco released their new album "Pretty.Odd.", they would be the first in line to buy the album. With the same warm, yet edgy voice that came across in Panic at the Disco's previous album "A Fever You Can't Sweat Out", thanks to the talented Brendon Urie, and then mixed with the trumpets and other bold band instruments, you feel as though McCartney, Lennon and the rest of the gang were the ones who made this album for 2008. In Panic's single, "Nine in the Afternoon", the instrumental break makes you think you're listening to "Penny Lane" or "Eleanor Rigby". But, for all of you who are not Beatles fans, this album still has that catchy beat and rhythm that Panic brought to us in the past. I recommend not just buying the single, but the entire album, so therefore you are able to feel the compassion for the love of music they bring to us.… Expand

Not 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.

Gotta 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!

If 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.

You 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.

Totally 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.

Not 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.

Terrible 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

Panic! 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.