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Panic! at the Disco had played their first show less than 5 months before January 2006, but they were already at the level of bands who had been performing for years. Here's an excerpt from a Hearts & Sleeves article written at the start of February 2006:

"They've good reason to be tired. Since their debut [AFYCSO] hit the shelves last September, Panic! have barely stopped to fill up the tank of their van, let alone pause for breath. The end result? Ten thousand records sold in the first week. Sixteen thousand sold the week of writing this, and a total of a 164,600 to date and climbing… just pure hard work and not a lot of downtime."

RANDOM JANUARY EVENTS:

• here's the main tag for this month.
• AFYCSO came out about 3 months ago but so many fans were already pulling the "I liked them before they were popular" thing.
  
• the guys were still getting a lot of crap for not paying their dues, though. this magazine clipping sums up where they were at this month.
  
• Some sites like Buzznet & AOL were taken aback at how so many people were searching for Panic! at the Disco… so those sites scrambled to catch up and started pushing the band even more then.
• AFYCSO was steadily moving up the charts. By mid-January it was above Kanye West & Fall Out Boy.
• nobody in the band had a personal myspace account. the official P!ATD myspace wasn't even run by them anymore.
• this was the month that Ryan actually visibly did something with the book club (basically, he got it going).
  
• P!ATD was already being announced in the lineups for bigger events like Give It A Name & Bamboozle.
  
• the band was talking about maybe doing a music video for There's A Good Reason (I reallywish that had become a single).
• they were also talking about how they wanted to eventually bring drama to their stage routine… Spencer had so many ideas. However, their plans were mostly treated like far-fetched dreams from a baby band.
• Spin magazine had formed some brackets where fans could vote for the new Band of the Year category based off of bands that had been previously picked for Band of the Day. Spin had massively narrowed it down before fans started voting and P!ATD made the cut. They won the first bracket after their label stepped in to contest how someone was using a voting program to cheat for the opposing band, but then P!ATD was eliminated in the next round.
  
• There was a lot of P!ATD merch at Hot Topic by this point. Small aspects of the designs were changed so those shirts were slightly different than what the band sold at their merch table or on the FBR webstore.
  
• Some fans were upset that the band was going to be on TRL this month, as though the guys were selling out by going on tv. A lot of the complaints were kind of ironic because it was the fans who made the band big and got them on tv in the first place. Ryan posted on January 10th:

Hello! Well let me just start off by saying how thankful we are to have all of you as fans.you have made being in this band so much more enjoyable than you could ever imagine. we just want to let you know that as the band continues to grow, we will not forget about those who have been there from the beginning. As many of you have heard, we will be doing a 'walk on' on TRL January 17th. it was never an intention or a goal for us to be on trl, or carson daly,or any tv show for that matter. but after some serious thinking, we decided to do these things because it is an intention of this band to have our music heard by as many people as will listen. maybe this means that those of you without fuse might be able to catch our video on mtv2, instead of not at all. Your support so far about TRL is much appreciated, we weren't sure how everyone would take it, but we thought you would back us.. so we are hoping you will stick by us on this, and anything else that may come up in the future that maybe you (and us) weren't expecting.
thank you! -ryan & panic

THE IWSNT VIDEO & SINGLE

January 10th: their myspace update mentioned that The Punk Video Guys had filmed some behind-the-scenes footage of the IWSNT video and that was posted on Decaydance's myspace & the FBR site. (The IWSNT behind-the-scenes pics were already up on buzznet).

The actual IWSNT video was being passed around online at this point too. It's funny looking back now, because a lot of fans weren't very impressed in January (even though they were soon obsessed with Daniel Isaac). I think I liked the video, but it was so different from the concept of the band that I'd formed based on their low-budget shows so far that it took me a few days to adjust. But so many other fans kept saying dismissive stuff like "well it is their first video" or they blamed the director for making it boring or all about Brendon or whatever. I guess at this point it felt like a neat video but there was so much else going on that it wasn't anywhere close to being the kind defining event that it would become after the VMAs.

(update: that's not to say that the video didn't become huge that spring! a LOT of people were introduced to the band through the IWSNT video. I'm just saying that some fans who had already been following the band didn't view the IWSNT video as such a Big Deal until the VMAs turned it into one. There was a ton of new stuff rapidly unfolding this season, and the video blended into all of that).

IWSNT was the band's first official single. Several of P!ATD's songs had been on the radio in 2005 even though those weren't singles. The Only Difference was the first full song that the band's marketing team posted on purevolume in early August while they were gradually posting new songs leading up to the album's release. So that had been on the radio, but so had London Beckoned and even some of the demos (fans were calling in and demanding P!ATD so much that a few stations started playing whatever they could find). The band referred to IWSNT as their first single during a lot of interviews, and that was the hype around it in January 2006. Here's part of a Big Cheese interview from that time that talks about why IWSNT was chosen:

Big Cheese: I Write Sins Not Tragedies isn't an obvious choice for a debut single in terms of immediacy. Why this and not, say, 'Time to Dance'?
Ryan: "The label wanted to choose the first single on the record, but that seemed like too safe a thing and we didn't want to go that way. We wanted to take a chance. We've talked about bands like Pink Floyd, that band wrote the records they wanted to write and they were huge. That's where we want to be. We don't want to have to craft the perfect single. We don't want to have to compromise."

TV APPEARANCES + THE REST OF JANUARY

• January 12: Carson Daly was considered their first national tv appearance. It was filmed on the 12th but didn't air until the 20th. Most of the fans at the taping said that the band looked super nervous. They played The Only Difference & IWSNT (Build God was also taped but didn't air until later that spring. I have the IWSNT file but youtube straight up removed it instantly instead of blocking it so I'm going to hold off on sharing that one).
• January 13 – Brendon's livejournal entry:that weren't no dj, that was hazy cosmic jive.
  home for 2 days. vegas to new york. new york to uk. imissaudrey. coming soon: busiest year of my life. sidekick brigade. monster family. disneyland. pirate time. carson daly. see you all soon. "let the children lose it. let the children use it. let all the children boogie." i am starman.
• MTV posted a live performance of IWSNT sometime during the second week of January. I didn't think this performance was that great… the guys seemed nervous & Brendon was still really sick. They had recorded other songs during this session, but IWSNT was the only one up online (here's The Only Difference and Build God though). I heard MTV also showed this video on Discover & Download around the same point as P!ATD's TRL appearance, so it was part of the larger MTV promos that the band was doing for IWSNT.

• January 17: P!ATD was on TRL's new music week on MTV. They were pretty nervous here too. I thinkthis was supposed to be the premiere of the IWSNT video but it didn't really feel that way since only part of it was played. It just felt like more hype. And there was some short/awkward question time too… the P!ATD bit of the show was pretty brief overall and not that exciting, honestly. TAI was there and performed a song on the actual show, but most of the focus seemed to be on Avenged Sevenfold (or at least I'm remembering it that way ha).
  
• According to William's TAI journal update, the bands flew straight out of NYC to the UK right after filming the TRL episode.
• the mtvu backstage pass interview was up.
• January 24: the SURS episode aired on Fuse while P!ATD was in the UK.
• Basically every big site that was mentioning P!ATD this month would mostly say that they were discovered by Pete Wentz and sounded like The Killers. A lot of reviews focused on that too. So that didn't really decrease the amount of interview questions that focused on Panic's connection with Vegas or Pete Wentz.
• look at what Spin magazine said they sound like (from when they named them band of the month).
• Pete was also in Rolling Stone around this time hyping P!ATD by saying they're "like the Killers meets Fall Out Boy meets the Faint." So that probably didn't help lessen all of the comparisons to FOB & The Killers…

Ryan to Big Cheese: "I don't know what it is, people just want to compare us to [Fall Out Boy.] It's getting to the point where we just want to be known as Panic! at the Disco. If anybody wants to know about that whole story they could maybe look at any of the hundred and fifty interviews we just did."

an article excerpt: "Most interviews we do we only get asked about Fall Out Boy," notes Ross with more than a hint of disappointment and anger in his voice. "Because of that people do not actually know what we are like and I have heard rumors that we are a manufactured pop band because of that." Musically misunderstood, the band's ever-growing fan base are getting an increasingly distorted vision of the boys…

Spencer continued speaking out about his thoughts on the quality of modern mainstream music: "Ninety percent of the music being pushed by major labels is not good. Maybe that's one reason why music is not selling like it did 30 years ago. Who was on top 30 years ago? The Who, Pink Floyd, Led Zeppelin. Who do we have now? Paul Wall?"

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