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| A Fever You Can't Sweat Out | 
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| Artist: Panic! At The Disco
Label: Decaydance
Category: Music
List Price: $18.98
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Avg. Customer Rating:  366 reviews
Sales Rank: 4005
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.4 x 4.9 x 0.8
MPN: 77
UPC: 645131207722
EAN: 6451312077220
ASIN: B000AMJDHY
Release Date: September 27, 2005
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| Customer Reviews:
 what happened to the good music! August 8, 2006
15 out of 28 found this review helpful
This band really sucks, after hearing fall out boy i was like man can music get any worse, then panic came out and now i just dont know what to do. if i could give this negative stars i would, what has happened to the good music, like the smashing pumpkins, nirvana, pearl jam, led zeppelin, weezer, pink floyd, rush, the list goes on. This is a really bad album, i listened to it once and i sold it right away, so dont make the same mistake i did and go buy it, listen to real music. i know i sound harsh to all you panic fans out there but seriously, come on!!! panic at the disco, what is that??
Posers! at the Disco June 14, 2006
14 out of 22 found this review helpful
Oh Wow, I'm really blown away by how many people actually think this band is great (let alone good). Yes indeedy, the "great rock and roll swindle" took every last bill out of the safe. Blahhh, boring annd self-absorbed. Another eMTyV driven corporate band. Fall Out Boy? Blah. And what's up with ITunes describing this bands music as "pop-influenced punk songs with theatrical touches and quirky techno beats". Okay, whatever.
Punk band or pop band. Can't have it both ways. Time this generation woke up to the fact that punk and hardcore was the antithesis of "pop". The two don't mix. Oil and water. Corporate EMO Pop Punk is just puke. "Pop influenced punk songs" is like saying "Devil influenced christian songs". Wake up and reject the marketing. ***This is puke pop, plain and simple. If you're seeking something that's truly fresh, avoid this corporate b.s. and dig around until you find one of the truly great indie bands. You'll know it when you hear it. This is spoon fed, studio tricked dribble****
 Too much is bad for you August 17, 2006
14 out of 17 found this review helpful
I don't want to just trash this album; it's a two-star review, yes, but I have listened to this CD plenty and put lots of thought into this. I like to think of it as an educated opinion.
And the first thing I feel I must mention is that yes, there is a great deal of similarity in the sounds of Panic! and Fall Out Boy. I don't care what anyone says, Brendon Urie sounds exactly like Patrick Stump, and the music isn't all that different either. These bands could EASILY play covers for each other, or take each other's place at shows. No one would know the difference.
And is that a bad thing? Well, yes and no. I don't necessarily hold Fall Out Boy in the highest regard, but it's hard to deny that Pat Stump has a great voice, and whether Urie is purposely emulating it or whether he just naturally SOUNDS like that is of no consequence, because people love it.
As for the rest of the band, the music they play is largely unoriginal. I like how they break out the techno every once in a while, but it really doesn't help the feeling that it's all been done before, and been done much better.
In fact, I think that bands like Panic! and Fall Out Boy are an indication of the decline of the emo genre (or, if that term offends or annoys you, the "pop-punk" genre). Few bands these days that play music like this are coming out with anything original or unique, and you're probably just as well off buying the new June CD as you are buying something by, say, Armor For Sleep.
But anyway, I'm getting off-track. "A Fever You Can't Sweat Out" is a CD that, quite simply, is annoyingly redundant and repetitive. Put aside the fact that it sounds a lot like any other popular music today, and you still have a CD whose tracks are so catchy and tedious that whatever novelty it holds deteriorates over the course of a whole two listens. Some CDs (dare I say most?) lose their quality over time...repeated listens aren't good to them, and eventually it's prudent to just put them aside than to bore yourself listening to the same single-layered tracks again and again. "A Fever You Can't Sweat Out" suffers that exact problem, except there's the added headache that even when you're NOT listening to it, the same lines will be repeating in your head over and over...and over. I don't like catchy stuff, and that's just me. Or, maybe that's not true. I don't like music that's so catchy that listening to a mere five seconds of any one song will cause the entire song to stay stuck in my head for the rest of the day, until I just can't take it anymore.
That's the biggest problem with this CD. It's TOO catchy. Every song has something about it, even if it's not the WHOLE song, that will repeat in your head until you hate yourself for ever having listened to it in the first place. "London Beckoned..." is a perfect example..."Well we're just a wet dream for the webzines / Make us it, make us hip, make us scene" is perhaps the catchiest point of the entire CD, and it's fun at first, but after hearing it in your head thirty times straight it's torture, plain and simple. And then there's "Let's get these teen hearts beating faster, faster!" from "Lying is the Most Fun a Girl Can Have..." which suffers the same problem. "I Write Sins, Not Tragedies" is a terrible choice for a single, and the chorus is among the most repetitive on the whole album. It reminds me of "Liar (It Takes One to Know One)" off of Taking Back Sunday's newest release, which is not a good thing. And let's not even get into "The Only Difference Between Martyrdom and Suicide is Press Coverage".
Oh, and I also hate how Panic! decided to name most of their songs. Yeah, it's cute at first, and kind of intriguing, but now it just comes off as pretentious to me. Kind of like most of this album.
I gave this CD two stars because I like the song "Camisado", and like I've already said, Urie's voice is smooth and it works well, even if he's not the most unique singer in the world.
Of course, don't let me dissuade you from buying this CD. If you're into this genre, and you enjoy really catchy music, then you'll no doubt find something here worth having. For me it's "Camisado", for you it may be the rest of the CD. I personally wish this whole genre would just die before it gets any worse, and hopefully before long we'll start seeing less new stuff from bands like this. Unfortunately I have to put up with it for now.
Oh well.
P!@THAD IS TEH SEXXXORZ LOL May 22, 2006
13 out of 31 found this review helpful
so, i just bought this cd, along with my unrated awesome edition of napoleon dynamite, VOTE 4 PEDRO, and now i'm totally hip and all the make-up drenched girls who think they're Joan Jett, but in actuallity have no clue who Joan Jett is, so let's say, who think Karen O (OH MAN THE YEAH YEAH YEAHS ROCK SO HARD, THEY'RE SO ORIGINAL AND GROUNDBREAKING!) is a god, and guys, think i'm awesome.
oh man, i can't wait for someone to make a chuck norris joke.
Am I Listening To Fall Out Boy On Prozac Or What?! May 6, 2006
12 out of 23 found this review helpful
I was reccommended this band by a friend of mine who solely listens to emo music. I figured that I enjoy Emery, SOME My Chemical Romance,The Promise Ring, Sunny Day Real Estate and a bit of Taking Back Sunday, that this band would be added to this list. I was VERY INTERESTED by the opening notes of I Write Sins, Not Tragedies. Then...he opened his mouth. Possibly one of THE MOST ANNOYING voices reached my poor ears. I tried listening to a few lyrics. The whole wedding theme has been killed by emo bands. Like that atrocity Die My Bride by the Murderdolls. Who names their freaking band Murderdolls!?!? What is the OBSSESSION of emo kids and brides? And who calls a song I Write Sins Not Tragedies? How do you do that? Do you sit there, thinking of of something that would impress people about your ongoing despair? How about you write a song NOT about your b-tchy girlfriend? I mean at least I could listen to the Hawthorne Heights to make fun of them, but this has to be the most bland, tuneless, piece of garbage in music right nowYou cannot sing to this music at all. . Next to Ryan Cabrera. I hate him. Go away bad music.
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