Exploring Panic! At The Disco's "A Fever You Can't Sweat Out" Era 

Hey! Thanks for checkin' out this video. Just so everyone knows, I will be doing my first ever Livestream on RU-vid next week! It will be a counterpart to this video, it will be a deep dive into Ryan Ross's 2004 LiveJournal account :) it's emo gold for anyone who doesn't know and I'll be reading the whole thing on stream. The Stream will take this upcoming Wednesday, August 11th at 7:00 PM Eastern Standard Time. Right here on my RU-vid Channel! If you miss it, I will be reposting it so you can watch later but it would be awesome to have people come hang out with me in the chat :) Thanks everyone!!

i would kill to have another panic album written by ryan

would definitely love a video in this style about the pretty odd era. sure everyone loves a fever. such a classic. but at the pretty odd album, thats where peoples opinions go in vastly different directions

Ryan wrote a fever you can’t sweat out at 17 🤯

Ryan really had a very unique approach to songwriting that I very much miss. Still hoping he’ll keep releasing more music with his new projects

"Hey how are you" "Good just working on a paper for english" Imagine wtf was going through Ryan's head right then

going thru these comments and im sickeningly jealous of everyone who was able to experience peak emo

The fact that they had a tiny budget, they were only 18 years old and they had Pete Wentz and FBR kind of rolling the dice on them, and this was the album they made is actually pretty unbelievable. When your first time ever in a studio results in a genre-defining, culture-shifting record, you clearly did something right.

Their first album is literally flawless I never skip one song lol

This album shaped me as a person

i still wonder what would've happened with patd had ryan been the vocalist and kept the name. i really enjoyed his singing whenever we could get it, mostly through live concert videos (or the nothing rhymes with circus dvd), so it kind of left a bad taste in the mouth when the band split. even more so because it was widely accepted that he was the genius behind their successful songs. and you're right, people used to shit on panic fans so much lmao, it was pretty crazy negative environment in general, even within the fandom.

That Nails for Breakfast demo is SO GOOD, way better than the album release IMO

In my opinion A Fever You Can't Sweat Out is the most unique pop punk album of its era and probably ever made. It's my favorite album of all time. It got me into music and is the reason I am who I am today

What’s interesting about all the different instruments in the songs is none of them knew how to play them so they got a middle school band to come in and play each note individually and put them all together to sound how they wanted it to

What I would give for another Ryan Ross written Panic! at the disco album today : / Also this was such a great video btw! Absolutely god tier album, I wish I could relive these glory days.

That album has the most catchiest lines in it

i wish you mentioned that ryan told him my band is better than yours when he sent the demos 😭 it’s so iconic lol

worth mentioning that even though Brent Wilson was the bassist, all the bass on Fever was played by Brendon.

I love that you made the point that Ryan was 18 or so when he wrote those lyrics. That fact always blows my mind. Damn, how I wish he was still in the band.

I think the story was that Ryan got sick and brendon took over the main vocals during practice and that’s when they realized how good he was.

what you were saying about ryan's lyrics and being inspired by literature and really intelligent... honestly if it weren't for ryan ross & pete wentz, i probably wouldn't have gotten as into literature as i am. what with their lyrics the way they were, references to books and obscure movies (closer, anyone?) and pete's dog hemingway... definitely paved the way for me as a classic literature lover and influenced heavily the way i write today

Ryan Ross created the perfect band and I will forever be thankful for that

ryan ross was a visionary and the rest of them could play instrumetns. thats my take

I went to middle school and high school with Brendon . Grew up around the corner from eachother. Can confirm the summer league was terrible pop punk lol, there was this band they played with called “September star” that became “the higher” and man, it was bad Brendon always super talented, in middle school out band teacher mr Matta was pretty hyped on him

You always mention in your videos that pop punk died off in 2010, but I’d argue you’re wrong. I remember going into 9th grade in 2013 and all my friends were still into my chemical romance, panic at the disco, fall out boy, etc. The bands might have started to die out around that time but I would say it was pretty popular until 2015. At least in my experience 🤷🏾‍♀️

I was there!! For everything! That circus tour was insane!

you have no idea how much i appreciate your videos as someone who got into scene/pop punk music after its “golden era.” i was in middle school in 2011 when i discovered bands like patd, etc. and it’s so so cool to learn what it was like in the scene when these bands were starting out and later at their peak. you have a talent for storytelling & research and it rlly shows in your videos, ty for sharing 💫

When I was in highschool my French teacher had some family in Vegas who were friends with some of Brents family. My teacher said a year or so after Brent was kicked out of Panic! He showed up at some gathering and was still pretty broken up about it- got WASTED. He said, and I quote, "the guy was an absolute mess that night. I just hope he's doing better now"

MOOOORE

I remember so vividly coming across Fall Out Boy on FuseTV when I was getting ready for school one morning in early 2006. I was 13 and was discovering what kind of music I really loved and I have never so instantly fell in love with music as I did when I heard “Sugar, We’re Going Down”. I think within the span of a week after hearing FOB, I had fell down a rabbit hole of music on RU-vid and discovered Panic! At the Disco, From First To Last, Gym Class Heroes, Underoath, The Used, Green Day & My Chemical Romance. IN ONE WEEK. Here I am, just turned 29, and “A Fever You Can’t Sweat Out” is still in my top 5 favorite albums. Nothing makes me happier than the music from the 2004-2006 era in the emo/pop punk/screamo genres. I still have my Rolling Stone magazines with the PATD & FOB covers (and the matching posters 😂).

This album is truly iconic and arguably one of the best to come out of the 00s emo scene . Ryan’s lyrics and Brendons voice was truly an amazing combination .. Still unbelievable that Ryan wrote this album when he was a teenager 😩 I like panics later work , I got into them around 2010 so I was a fan for the release and V&v etc and while I do enjoy those later albums, there’s just something missing without Ryan !

never clicked so fast!! I still remember finding afycso in a charity shop for £1 when I was 14 and I was OBSESSED and honestly, I still am

I was 12 or 13 when this album came out. I still remember being in HMV with my mum and I asked if she could buy me the album, then rushing home to listen to it ASAP and learn all the lyrics. I often wonder what direction the band would have gone in had Ryan had stayed. And it's sad what has happened to Brent. This took me right back, I really enjoyed this, Great job.

This album is close to my heart, I was 5 when it came out, my dad bought the CD (I got my Emo-ness from my dad) and now at 22 years old, I still carry that cd in my car and it has NO SCRATCHES. I still jam to it often. Never gets old.

Goddammit I love this channel! I am a 36yr old guy that started his journey in grade school buying Blink 182s album "dude ranch". The comedy, and cathartic songs and harmonies set me on a tear to find all the pop punk I could. Once in high school, bands like taking back Sunday, saves the day, brand new, coheed, mxpx, relient k, Halifax, etc defined my skater, hurley, puma, volcom lifestyle. This music was/is life, and this channel gives us all something to be proud of! No matter how big emo/pop punk got, it really was all of us against the world! We are always united and I love you all my brothers and sisters of the scene! This music made life worth living!

I have a incredibly low attention span due to my autism but this video kept my attention the whole time, everything is incredibly well worded and i really enjoy the informative but unscripted feel of the video. Definitely subbing :]

I’m only five minutes in, but I’m so pumped. You make me feel young again lol I first heard I Write Sins Not Tragedies in a little snippet of the music video in the credits of some random show on MTV-I grew up in a very rural area and was still using the slowest dial up in 2005 and hadn’t heard of them on the radio. From that small snippet of the chorus I knew I needed to hear the whole thing and begged a boy at my school to “burn a CD” for me and he got me the whole A Fever You Can’t Sweat Out album. 16 years later, I’m almost 30 and this is still my favorite album of all time. Idk what it is about it, but I can listen to the whole thing over and over again and never get sick of it. Anyway, thanks for the awesome video and little dose of nostalgia and serotonin to get me through my mundane work day lol

i didn’t realise how electronic it was at first in the demos , i’m glad they kept some of the electronic feel like in time to dance

I listened to this album so much in 8th grade when it came out and still do to this day. Nothing panic every made after this album even came close. I was so disappointed when pretty odd came out. A fever is such a classic and legendary.

One of my favorite eras and album from this band. I so remember in 2006 when their video "I write sins not tragedies" came out on mtv I've watched that video every morning before school started. (I was 9/10) and became a fan since. And was a huge ryan ross fan obviously. You're right they were geniuses with everything they put into with songwriting and being theatrical. It makes me sad we won't have something like that again. They were one of a kind "emo burlesque" band and no one can top that. Legends!

I grew up in this era and I remember staying up with a friend to catch any PATD music video on Fuse, VH1, or MTV. Every now and then I spin that album for nostalgia. It’s hard looking at how all my favorite bands growing up turned out though :(

i would LOVE a pretty odd version of this video and i’m sure others would too. it’s my favorite album of all time and i find it so fascinating and would love a deep dive into everything around the album

yes please do a continuation about pretty. odd. and the split of ryan & jon!!! ryan ross supremacy

I remember listening to that original demo version of Time to Dance on repeat... I still prefer it to the album version! What a remarkable time to watch this band go from a hype myspace underground thing through to pop culture icons. As an album it still holds up so damn well. It's hard to imagine that a bunch of high schoolers could create such an iconic piece of music.

Great video! I remember this being popped into the CD player in the van those first few weeks on tour, and it just being the most infectious earworm I’ve ever experienced before or since. Like I couldn’t sleep, it was so catchy! Loved hearing your side of it.

so thankful for how much you highlight ryan. he's such an unsung hero of panic and i wish so badly he had brendon's recognition now

Loved original Panic! Saw them live 4 times? in 2006 lol. Ryan Ross was my favorite. Good times.

I remember being like 14 on a weekend trip with my team and having the CD in my little no-skip walkman and I listened to that album again and again and again in order until I fell asleep and then again and again the next day. Wild how much work we had to do to access music back then. I had a headphone splitter so my friend listened with me for parts of the trip. Now I’m in my early thirties and can still start singing the start of the next song after one ends before it even starts, can’t listen to it on shuffle. What a time to come of age.

my god i’ve been binging this album for the past week and bam this vid comes out!

Wow hearing those demos again 😍

Love this album, there’s so much interesting stuff crammed into those songs and it’s a very artistically mature and forward thinking album. It feels kind of weird looking back and realizing that they were only 2-3 years older than me, haha. I do enjoy a lot of The Brendon Show later stuff, but Ryan was such a unique talent and they really tapped into something special with this album that neither they nor anyone else has really achieved since. Anyway, great video. I’m gonna try to make the stream, I was a huge livejournal kid so it’s sure to be a hoot.

one detail you left out was that the band was also named burn down the disco at one point before they landed on panic at this disco, i believe ryan said on a early interview, but still a really good video!!

I went to that Take Cover tour in October of 2005 in Providence, RI. My friends and I were super bummed to hear that Panic! was no longer the opener but decided to go in early to check out their replacement on tour...it was Paramore.

Also came here to comment that I would be SO excited to see a series on Panic!’s evolution. The pretty odd era in itself is super interesting and I cannot say enough how cool it would be to see a deep dive !

Saw them live in 2017 absolutely amazing, would have killed to see the nothing rhymes w circus tour! Also!! Awesome and informative vid as always!

Do a history of MCR

you should really do one of these types of videos on vices and virtues!!!

YEEEESSSSS this has been my favourite album for over 15 years, it has become part of my soul aha. I have probably played the cd in my car 10000 times

Feels crazy to have been a part of this all during its actual time. It's like what I experienced on the internet is being retold but also the feeling that it was a universal experience for many is one that is hard to put into words. Thank you so much. Ryan Ross forever!!!

man, i always forget how much i LOVE this album. i also just realized that i write sins not tragedies was definitely my first ever connection to emo/pop punk music.... i was 5 years old singing along to it in Singstar Pop for the PS2 with my cousin! since i loved it then, i revisited it when i was like 13 in 2015, and got into the rest of panic's music. it's essentially the foundation of everything i listen to today :) the impact this specific album has had is insaaaane!!! also, i only ever have positive things to say about your videos!! thank you for making them :)

after ryan left the band shit would never be the same and now we can tell why that guy is such a clever and sensitive artist and matching with spencer the guys were so advanced and mature in a such young age brendon vocals were already so powerful as well it definetly was a magic era for the scene and for the music in 2000's gonna watch the pretty odd video right now but i have already subscribed to the channel because this video are very fun and informative! great work!

The timing of this video is incredible, because you posted it right when I happened to pick AFYCSO up again and dive back in full force 😂 this album has such a cool history and I’m so glad you shared!

Been asking for this for about a year. Can’t wait!!

I remember when Panic popped off, they came out of nowhere! I was playing in a melodic metalcore band around that time, the whole alternative music scene was absolutely amazing in those days. Hard to believe all this was 20 years ago, makes me feel old as heck.

Love this tons. Would really like to see you continue it on so we get a full history. Keep up the great work man!

i've been waiting to see a video like this for so long and now it's finally here! thank u Julian!

YES! I’ve been watering for a vid like this for a while. Thank you so much for covering it bro.

I've been waiting on this one bro!!!

This was such a fun, well researched video, I would love to see similar ones for each of the other eras of panic!

I miss watching this channel again. Thank you for the vid

Thanks so much for putting this together, Ive never seen that last clip and its just cool to see how other bands in the scene viewed Panic!

Yet another great and informative video. I really appreciate someone devoting their time to talk about so many talented bands that substantially shaped an era in such a meaningful way. By making these videos, you are keeping that era and all the memories of it alive. And that is something that I am eternally thankful for. Because i am a fellow fan of these beloved and legendary bands with a heart made up of music. These videos bring me peace and take me back to one of my favorite eras of my youth every single time.

your enthusiasm and positivity is overwhelmingly contagious. i love your videos. excited to see whats next

i’m the same age as the panic dudes and i was in high school when they started getting popular on myspace. that’s crazy. they were babies when they blew up. i could be wrong but it seems like they were the first band to blow up on the internet the way they did.

this is such a gem of a video. i thought i knew a lot but this?? especially the podcast clips, loved it so much, keep it up!

I feel like your channel is severely underrated. Love your content !

I really appreciate your videos on this early 2000s pop punk stuff... I was in a very small band that participated in that scene, its very nostalgic and brings back good memories from times with some of these bands. Thanks man!

been waiting for this one 😩😩 turn it up!!!!

My gf was going to shows and even a Warped Tour catering employee for a number of years. She met Pete Wentz and many other musicians from that era up to the early 2010s. The stories are amazing, embarrassing and hilarious. Being employed and traveling with Warped Tour was a ride and I’m still finding new gems she hasn’t thought of yet lol. She also talks about her Live Journal occasionally to this day.

Great video! I felt like i learned a lot, also your presenting style really carried it, i was well entertained!

yesyesyesyes i've been waiting for a video like this on one of my all time fav albums omg

This is one of the best videos I've watched on the history of a band, you did such a great job of breaking it down. I didn't know even half of this and ive been listening to them for 10 years LMAO

I really love this video, there's so much in this little enclave of an album/era that is so easy to forget or not care about, so interesting

Seeing so many unskippable ads on this made me happy because this is such a well made video that time was clearly put into & you deserve to be paid for it.

Thank you so much for all the work you put in this. I can imagine a lot of new Panic! fans coming to this video since a lot of them weren't even born back then 😀

OMFG YES IVE BEEN WAITING YEESSSSSSSSSSSSSSS THANK YOU COZY!!!!!!!! This is literally my favorite band in the entire world other then dgd I’m so happy i feel like imma exploded this album is my entire life 😍

Loved this video ! Thanks for making it, brought back so many memories. This album though, it will forever be on the top 10 of my favorite albums of all time. It was truly a “you had to be there moment.” I was 12 at the time that it came out and Oh my God... it was one of the first albums I listened to from start to finish, every song on there was amazing. I was all for the electro music - 1920’s circus transition. I was into that aesthetic and of course loved the emo music of the time and the fact that these guys put both of those things together with this album. There will never be anything else like it.

THIS VIDEO WAS SO GREAT!! i'd love to see more like it

another great video cozy! thank you!!!

I used to talk to brendon on Aim all the time. His screename was “aboynamedskip” - he would send me tracks he loved. Believe by Cher was one of them haha. Good times. His screename was up on pure volume before they got signed.

grateful to the youtube algorithm for showing me your video. instantly subscribed. this album was formative .. ryan ross amazes me

Loving this channel! Thank you so much for these videos

this was so well done!! you really did your research man i dig it

Been binging all your videos after Jon Walker shared your Pretty. Odd. video on his FB. Your videos are amazing and well thought out - thank you! I’m 26 now and it’s really nice to take a trip down nostalgia lane with your videos! I first discovered Panic! when I was listening to the 2006 MTV VMAs and I saw their performance and was like WTF IS THIS, this is amazing. I was still in primary school and barely knew anyone in to this kind of music so it was very much a lonely journey in to emo music for me and involved forcing my mum to go to HMV to pick up every CD release I could find from Panic! I Write Sins was also getting lots of radio play in the UK at that time so I would listen to the radio every day after school in the hope that I’d get to hear it. Panic! were also generally being picked up by UK teen girl magazines who were obviously noticing the teen girl craze for them, so there were also lots of posters available in these that plastered my walls. My music tastes ended up evolving but early Panic! always has a place in my heart as they truly introduced me to the feeling of being absolutely OBSESSED with music and completely invested in an artist.

I just realized how exciting it is to get a notification for your videos

i never comment on yt videos but this got recommended to me on my home feed and im so thankful bc nobody talks about /appreciates this album enough

cool video! been a fan of panic's music since fever days, but this is the first time im hearing a lot of these stories lol good job on the research!

wow i cant imagine the effort and research that went into this! didnt know i needed this video essay until i saw it in my recommended lol :))))

I need this channel, thank you

Thanks for this amazing material