Panic! At the Disco Covers Pumpkins
JACK WHITE's new band THE RACONTEURS stole the show at this weekend's (04-06AUG06) Lollapalooza festival in Illinois by performing a string of other peoples' tunes. The STEADY AS SHE GOES four-piece tackled GNARLS BARKLEY's summer smash-hit CRAZY, DAVID BOWIE's IT AIN'T EASY and even NANCY SINATRA's BANG, BANG (MY BABY SHOT ME DOWN) as they wowed the Grant Park, Chicago crowd on Friday night (04AUG06). The Raconteurs weren't the only ones playing tribute tracks on Friday rockers PANIC! AT THE DISCO also thrilled music fans with their rendition of SMASHING PUMPKINS' TONIGHT, TONIGHT. Another Friday night highlight came when rockers SLEATER-KINNEY performed their final festival date in a 12-year career. Source: Blamo

Not a big fan of Panic! At the Disco, but good to see the Pumpkins are still being played :)

someone shoot me billy has become a god to emos!!! *cries and slits wrists*

Possibly, emo bands always have some weird kind of irritating scream singing, like the singers about to cry or something, and the pumpkins definitly don't have that. They did look a bit glam rock fasion core in the BWBW clip though. Nah, i don't think theyd be labelled emo. The pumpkins music is more about seeing where pain takes you rather than bitching about some chick who left you a week after you asked her out.

they cant be emo because emo is a derivative of hardcore, which mainly comes from punk not the same someone once told me the pumpkins were emo, they're lucky to still be alive

im actually a fan of hard/math/metalcore, bands like norma jean, but emo is to plastic and irritating

Normally I'd be happy that bands were giving Billy credit but hearing it from those bands is like taking relationship advice from a mini version of Dr. Phil

Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3V4cMAWSAc4

Well Kill Hannah has been labelled emo as well, and like me, they can't really understand that. I think SP might be wrongly labelled emo as well. I still understand why all the tribute compilations that were put out in the past year were emo/emocore. I saw part of the Panic at the Disco performance on youtube and I was not impresssed.

I'm not a fan of this new wave of punk/emo/whatever you want to call it bands. Simple Plan, Panic!, Billy Talent, Sum 41, etc.. not my cup of tea.

Bah, I didn't like the cover His voice was so.... eww

I find myself in a state of confusion when I hear bands covering Pumpkin songs. On one hand I say \"I'm glad these bands love to play the same music I love to play and listen to.\" On the other hand I say \"Why do these fucks butcher the music I love?\" I can play a lot of pumpkins songs close to the original thing, but I am nowhere near an original artist, so that is my forte...playing by ear to sound the same. The fact that these 'successful' bands, with their original songs, cover a song verbatim irritates me. If they have the talent to be original and new, where's the challenge in playing a song verbatim down to the fucken high hat ring? For all I knew, listening to this cover sounded a lot like the Pumpkins until the singing started. And that's when I got disgusted. You hear something you love, it sounds like the thing you love, but then you get a rude shock when you hear it isn't that at all, especially when it's awful. At least when the Pumpkins covered songs they made them their own. Even Billy's covers on TFE where quite different to the original, and that's what makes old songs exciting. Oh well, maybe I'm getting too old. LOL And as for 'emo', what the fuck is that? Genres have to be categorized by the mood they convey now? Can't wait for hap'e rock and a bit of anger jazz. Yeah. As far as I'm concerned most the Pumpkins songs were emotional songs (not \"emo\"). They made me cry, laugh, tense, explosive and ecstatic. I don't think there is enough emotion in music these days. Just look at mainstream pop. Wow. The only emotion you get there is when a pop star whore smacks her booty on another royalty cheque. Yeah. Really tears at the heartstring. Rant, rant, rant. Done. LOL

Atleast the Pumpkins weren't releasing covers as main singles, I really hate it when people re-hash songs and get rich quick off them. You do have to make them your own, deffinetly. Also, when emo is reffered to, it's usually a shallow kind of emotion I suppose. I'm not sure if what I just said is right, but the \"emotions\" that the Pumpkins sang about and Panic! At The Disco sang about are kind of on different levels if you get what i mean. I'm confused now.