Panic! At The Disco

It's hard to believe that it has been six years since P!ATD's release of their first single I Write Sins Not Tragedies off their debut album A Fever You Can't Sweat out. In 2008 Pretty. Odd was released with singles Nine In The Afternoon and The Green Gentleman. But in 2009, half the band went separate ways and left Spencer Smith and Brendan Urie to do what they wanted to musically. And most recently with Smith and Urie Vices & Virtues was released on March 8.

Former member Ryan Ross and Brendan Urie were the main song writers in the band and when they started writing new songs neither of them were on the same page. Ross and other former bandmate Jon Walker wanted to do one thing while Urie and Spencer wanted to another. Neither group wanted to work on each others' songs and eventually Ross and Walker left the quartet.

When the band announced the departure of Ross and Walker, was a total shocker. In an interview with AP Magazine, Ross stated that he was shocked to find out that Urie and Smith were going to keep the Panic! At The Disco name. He also said that they [Urie and Smith] would rather play someone else's material instead of writng their own. But Urie didn't take that personally and was a little shocked himself that Ross would say that.

Vices & Virtues take elements from the bands previous records. The theatricality from A Fever You Can't Sweat Out and the not so theactrical style from Pretty. Odd.

                                                                 
The Ballad Of Mona Lisa
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gOgpdp3lP8M