Pray For The Wicked

Album: Pray For The Wicked

Artist: Panic! at the Disco

Released: June 22, 2018

(Fuck a) Silver Lining: This song always brings me back to driving. Along with Living Proof by State Champs, Pray for the Wicked came out about a week after I got my license. So any driving I could do on my own, those albums were my soundtrack to it. Even when I played the album a year later I still was brought back to meeting my friend at mini golf.

Saturday Night (Say Amen): Considering this was the lead single to promote the fact the album was coming out, I don't have a memory directly connected to its initial release. I always think of randomly (and rarely) hearing this song on my local alternative station (shoutout radio 101.4 WMRQ-FM!) and being super excited. Panic!, at least at the beginning of this album cycle did not get much radio play so hearing them at all when I didn't specifically play a song from them was (and still is) a big deal.

Hey Look Ma, I Made It: Now long before this song was on the radio, and people used it for their graduations, it was one of my favorite songs from this album. I love how the start of the song always (still, to this day) brings me to this place of someone (me) driving down a highway on a bright sunny day, traffic is not a mess, and the sun is reflecting on their sunglasses.

High Hopes: Miraculously I found a memory I had with this song before the radio played it to DEATH. Like I said, at the start of this cycle Panic! were not on the radio. But I still remember driving home from class one night and high hopes came on. I was shocked & bopped the whole way home. I couldn't believe that in the year of 2018 (told you this was before it was overplayed) Panic! at the Disco was on the radio- what was it 2005 or something?

Roaring 20s: This song was one of my immediate favorites when it came out last year, and so far it's held up. Granted, that's not surprising considering A Fever You Can't Sweat Out is my favorite Panic! album. This song calls back to that album. I'm also going to be captioning my birthday post with "this is my roaring 20s" next year and none of you can stop me.

Dancing's not a crime: A song I don't play often-but should. This song can lift my mood anytime it's on; it's that fun.

It's a very groovy song. You are legally required to dance to this song, sorry I don't make the rules.

One of the Drunks: I feel like this is a wild card for Panic!. There's nothing you can compare it to from the rest of their catalog. Not to say that anything they've ever done sounds similar but some songs bring about the same emotion or they have an upbeat tempo. This song stands out from those. I'd even go as far to say this is an underrated track from the album

The Overpass: My least played song off the whole album. However, I'm not sure why. It's not a bad song by any means The fact there's like background singers gives me Broadway vibes and the start of the song I see a car speeding down a roadway. But it's never a first choice to play, and I'll probably only hear it if I'm playing the album in full or if I put the album on shuffle. I just don't have a connection with this song that I have with some of the others.

King of the Clouds: All time favorite song from this album, and let me tell you this song felt my pains when I was going through some stuff last year. I still stand by the lines "and I don't trust anything or anyone below the sun."

Old Fashioned: I really love the lyrical content of this one. The phrase "we were boarder line kids with a book of disorders/ medicating everyday to keep the straightness in order" grabs my attention in a good way. However I feel like I never choose to play this song. If it comes on I'll let it play but I don't specifically choose it often.

Dying In L.A.: I love this song and I am so sad I could not experience Brendon flying over the crowd while playing piano in real life, send tweet. This song you either love with your entire being or hate it and think it's overrated. I like it. I’ve always thought that it sounds pretty. Straight piano tracks are not something Panic! releases often, but it’s something we all appreciate when they do.