helmuth's Journals on Buzznet http://helmuth.buzznet.com/user/journal/ en-us <![CDATA[Thnks MJ]]> http://helmuth.buzznet.com/user/journal/4302131/

Today it is a sad day for most of the music world, Michael Jackson says goodbye, but should not be so, the music really have in our hearts, not only listen but the songs of other artists such as Fall Out Boy, Britney Spears, not anyone else. Michael was the essence of music to our days, many would not have without the music videos that hit us, songs that come to mind and never want to leave there. 


Michael thanks for being the inspiration for the music what it is today, the king who lives forever

]]> birtney spears fall out boy michael jackson music Buzznet helmuth 2009-07-07T12:07:00Z <![CDATA[R.I.P. Michael Jackson]]> http://helmuth.buzznet.com/user/journal/4256061/ is so sad that we lose a great singer who influence a lot of singers, it was so unexpected. is a bad day for music, what do you think? do you like michel jackson music?

 

please answer 

]]> britney spears fall out boy madonna michael jackson music panic at the disco Buzznet helmuth 2009-06-25T19:34:00Z <![CDATA[things I really need now!!!]]> http://helmuth.buzznet.com/user/journal/1996831/ hi everyone, this week for me it's for take a break... i need it, this first 3 months of the year was so tired, bored but all things past so good, i hope all continue like this all good :D.

my bday is near only 2 month, don't forget 1 day of may, today i fnished the first module of my french classes, i was insane, i like french.

oki, i need many thing like, it's a long list but i show the most urgent things:

 


i need this CD, but URGENT!, i know the realse it's for 25th march but i can't wait :O!


i really need this shoes, are fantastic!!!


 i need cookies in my house, 1 week ago it finished so wrong i love them, i need to buy ones!!!

also i need a new mobile phone but URGENt, i wanna a Sidekick LX  o Slide but in my country but it don't operate with anyone Mobile company so i don't know which Mobile Phone i will choose! gimme your opinion, i was thinking to buy a blackberry curve but i don't know, so plz gimme your advices :

 

 

 

]]> cookies helmuth panic at the disco pretty odd Buzznet helmuth 2008-03-15T14:06:00Z <![CDATA[The Circus Leaves Town: Panic At The Disco]]> http://helmuth.buzznet.com/user/journal/1849921/ Given the radical image changes that Panic at the Disco has undergone in the past year, it's hard not to read the lyrics to its new album's opening song as a pre-emptive strike against critics.

"Oh, how it's been so long/we're so sorry we've been gone/we were busy writing songs/for you," bassist Jon Walker sings, by way of apology for the two-and-a-half-year lag between 2005's "A Fever You Can't Sweat Out" and the new "Pretty. Odd.," due March 25 via Fueled by Ramen/Atlantic.

Then, he launches into lines meant to comfort fans who have no doubt noticed that their favorite band now looks less like Queen and more like the Kinks: "You don't have to worry cause we're still the same band."

Lyricist/guitarist Ryan Ross describes the song as "a lighthearted way to make an important statement." But despite Ross' insistence that things in Panic-land are business as usual, the fact is, a number of things have changed since the band burst on the scene in 2005, resplendent in layers of makeup and surrounded by circus performers.

The band shed one member (bassist Brent Wilson) and replaced him with Walker. The members traded their Hedi Slimane-style black suits for vests, cravats and floral patterns.

And perhaps most crucially, they toned down the bombastic, glammy sound of their first record, replacing it with a stripped-down approach that, at times, recalls the Beatles and Bright Eyes.

But it was that bombastic, glammy sound that made them stars in the first place. And with Panic at the Disco's history being so tied to it, will it be easy to shed?

MAKING THE BAND

John Janick, president of independent label Fueled by Ramen, was introduced to Panic by Fall Out Boy's Pete Wentz, who has his own imprint, Decaydance, through Fueled by Ramen.

"(Wentz told) me I had to come to L.A. to check out this new band that had contacted him online," Janick says. "I went and hung out with them, listened to some songs and signed them. At that point, they had never even played a show and were still in high school. We waited until they graduated, then flew them to (Washington) D.C. to make the record."

Realizing that he was dealing with a band that had almost no fan base, Janick sent it on the road with Fall Out Boy and set about coordinating an online campaign. Using sites like MySpace and PureVolume, both of which are popular with Fall Out Boy's key demographic, he started to build a grassroots effort, aligning the new band with the more established one.

The strategy seemed to pay off -- Fueled by Ramen shipped 15,000 copies of Panic's first record; 10,000 sold in the first week. Modern rock stations began spinning the band's songs, although the label didn't actively promote the record to radio. "I didn't want them to be thrown in everyone's faces," Jannick says. Instead, the band took its time and shot its first video, for the song "I Write Sins Not Tragedies."

That clip, an over-the-top production that featured the Lucent Dossier Vaudeville Cirque, premiered January 17, 2006, on MTV's "TRL." The video was the first time many viewers saw Panic, and it was crucial in establishing the visuals that would be associated with the band. For the remainder of 2006, the band sold out theaters before embarking on an arena tour. The accompanying stage sets and visuals were splashy and intricate; shows featured ballerinas and acrobats, while Panic's members went through so much makeup that MAC Cosmetics offered to set them up with a supply of eyeliner in exchange for an endorsement.

They released a series of big-budget videos, again depicting the members as something straight out of the Moulin Rouge, culminating in the band taking home MTV's video of the year award for "Sins" in 2006. Two months prior, "Fever" had peaked at No. 13 on the Billboard 200, before being certified platinum a month later. To date, it has sold 1.67 million copies, according to Nielsen SoundScan.

INTO THE WOODS

After its banner year in 2006, Panic retreated to a cabin in the woods in early 2007 to begin work on its follow-up. Ross describes the initial effort as "a short story set to music. I was mostly working on it by myself, and while the other guys liked it, it wasn't as good as I wanted it to be."

Janick says the band did some rough recordings in April and May, but by June, it was clear that it wanted to change direction. "Those recordings are on the shelf," Janick says when asked if they would ever be released as B-sides or fan specials. "And because the quality of the recording isn't that great, they will probably stay on the shelf."

Wentz, who describes his role in the band's development as "Obi-Wan living in the desert," says he heard the lost record and that it sounded like "a bizarre musical about wolves. It felt a bit forced."

The death of that project, Ross says, "gave me a lot of insight. It became easier to move forward after that was done." Ross adopted the Beatles as his new role models for the next take on the second Panic album. "They weren't afraid to try things and do what they wanted to do," he says.

"We wanted to grow, and we were really over the circus theme at that point," he continues. "We went out in the woods and got new clothes and all grew beards. Jon and (frontman) Brendon (Urie) wrote songs for the record, and it became more of a band effort and less about me."

In the summer of 2007, Panic took the opportunity to try out new songs, performing them at several festivals around Europe. For a band whose garish live show had been its staple, it also took a risk by performing, as Wentz puts it, "wearing flannel shirts and jeans. They looked like they were coming out to do covers of the Band."

PUNCTUATION MATTERS

Performing looking like Pearl Jam circa 1993 was the band's first airing of its new self, and the next step it took was dramatic in its own way. After two years of being officially known as "Panic! at the Disco," the band removed the exclamation point from its name.

"We ruined a lot of MySpace names with that move," Urie says sarcastically. "You look silly now if your MySpace name is John! at the Disco."

The fans who haunt the band's MySpace and Facebook pages noticed the change and took to the forums to engage in some grammatically incorrect debates, with an even split between those calling the band a sellout and those writing off the minor change as harmless. Wentz compares the change to "when Kentucky Fried Chicken changed their name to KFC. At the end of the day, it's still chicken."

For the band, at least, the decision was seeped in meaning. "Dropping the exclamation point was our way of drawing a line in the sand," Ross says. "We have a new record and we feel like a new band. We were all tired of it, and we went ahead and got rid of it."

"This is going to be like when Kiss took of their makeup," Wentz says. "At the end of 2006, Panic had really just become too known for their look and the circus visual.

"As artists, they had to reinvent themselves," he continues. "Otherwise you hit a glass ceiling. When I signed them, Brendon was 17 and he didn't have much life experience. He came to see me in California and stayed up all night because he was so excited about not having his parents tell him to go to bed."

"I have spent time thinking about how our fans will respond to this," Ross says. "But a lot of them are close to our age, and they have also changed between being 18 and 22. I honestly believe our fans are going to grow with us. They will see that this is a natural evolution and not something calculated."

Noting that "it's important for us to reinvent our sound and our visual," Urie adds, "We were really young when we wrote the first record, and that teenage angst paid off well. But we are happy with the music and with the place we are in. In a weird way, this feels like another first record."

Source: Reuters.com (excerpt from Billboard magazine's article)

]]> billboard brendon urie jon wlaker music panic at the disco pretty odd rock ryan ross spencer smith style Buzznet helmuth 2008-02-18T15:13:00Z <![CDATA[Honda Civic Tour Presale & Official Club of fans of Panic At the Disco]]> http://helmuth.buzznet.com/user/journal/1736981/
From Panic's MySpace...
A limited number of presale tickets for The Honda Civic Tour dates below will go on sale tomorrow at 4:00 pm local time through panicatthedisco.com/tickets.

For an additional $30, you will receive a limited edition t-shirt, early entry into the concert and one year membership in The Official PATD Fan Club when it launches in Spring of 2008. Fan Club members will receive access to a member's only website with exclusive content, chat servers, contests and promotional opportunities throughout the year and a lucky few VIP Ticket purchasers will also be chosen for a Meet and Greet with the band.

04.10 San Francisco, CA
04.12 San Diego, CA
04.13 Phoenix, AZ
04.15 Oklahoma City, OK
04.18 Dallas, TX
04.20 Houston, TX
04.22 Tampa, FL
04.23 Miami, FL
04.24 Orlando, FL
04.26 Atlanta, GA
04.30 Washington, DC
05.07 New York City, NY
05.09 Philadelphia, PA
05.10 Wallingford, CT
05.11 Boston, MA
05.14 Toronto, ON
05.20 Detroit, MI
05.23 Chicago, IL
05.27 Minneapolis, MN
05.30 St. Louis, MO
06.03 Denver, CO

This is just the first set of shows, the pre-sale for the rest of the dates will be on February 12th. ]]> brendo nurie honda civic tour jon walker music panic! at the disco pretty odd ryan ross spencer smith Buzznet helmuth 2008-01-28T16:48:00Z <![CDATA["Nine in the Afternoon" Premiere today ¿?]]> http://helmuth.buzznet.com/user/journal/1736791/

Don't forget, "Nine In The Afternoon" will premiere tonight at 9PM on myspace.com/panicatthedisco.

 

 

credit to patdonline

]]> brendon urie jon walker music music video panic at the disco pretty odd ryan ross spencer smith Buzznet helmuth 2008-01-28T16:23:00Z <![CDATA[Pretty.Odd. Official Track List]]> http://helmuth.buzznet.com/user/journal/1731301/

Last week we read NME's track-by-track guide of Pretty. Odd. along with a warning song titles were subject to change, and they have. The Final Challenge (click for the puzzle) revealed the official album tracklisting.

 

01 - We're So Starving
02 - Nine In The Afternoon
03 - She's a Handsome Woman
04 - Do You Know What I'm Seeing
05 - That Green Gentlemen
06 - I Have Friends In Holy Spaces
07 - Northern Downpour
08 - When The Day Met The Night
09 - Pas De Cheval
10- The Piano Knows Something I Don't Know
11 - Sushi In A Tuxedo. In The Clams Casino
12 - Folkin' Around
13 - 'Snooze Me, Ms. Britches
14 - From A Mountain In The Middle Of The Cabins
15 - Mad As Rabbits

 

 

]]> brendon urie jon walker music pretty. odd. ryan ross spencer smith Buzznet helmuth 2008-01-27T14:24:00Z <![CDATA[NME.com reviews Panic's new album - track-by-track guide of Pretty Odd]]> http://helmuth.buzznet.com/user/journal/1708771/
Panic At The Disco's new album - your track-by-track guide


We've had a listen to 'Pretty. Odd' at Abbey Road Studios in London, where the band recorded the strings.

It's due out in March, but here's our sneak preview.

NB: These song titles are subject to change.

1) 'We're So Starving'
A knowingly tongue-in-cheek introduction to the album – "We were busy writing songs for you… You don't have to worry/We're still the same!" sings frontman Brendon Urie –but, what with the Queen-esque multi-tracked vocals and bombastic backing track, one that sets the tone for what's to come all the same…

2) '9 In The Afternoon'
…Which is, essentially, 'Sgt. Pepper' had The Beatles taken a Magical Mystery Tour to the Bellagio Casino on Vegas' strip. This first single features clanking bells, fairground horns, lush orchestration, joyous handclaps and a vaguely lysergic lyric ("Nine in the afternoon / Your eyes are the size of the moon"). Moping emo rock this ain't.


3) 'She's A Handsome Woman'
The Beatles' references take a detour into 'Revolver' territory as Ryan Ross embellishes a tight-but-disarmingly off-kilter rhythm with George Harrison-esque guitar stabs and squeals.

4) 'Do You Know What I'm Seeing'
Idyllic birdsong, lilting, folky guitar lines and a nursery rhyme melody herald yet another stylistic curveball, as Panic come over all early-Pink Floyd and embrace eccentric English psych-pop. Yet another killer chorus is ushered in by swooning strings, rich vocal harmonies and a faintly nonsensical lyric: "I never gave a damn about the weather/But it never gave a damn about me". You can't but admire Panic's ambition.

5) 'The Green Gentleman'
God knows what the budget was for 'Pretty. Odd', but if it cost anything less than a million dollars to record, then the band have done well, because it certainly sounds it. This one sounds HUGE, as though Disney had decided to re-record 'High School Musical' with The Polyphonic Spree. Only infinitely better than that sounds.

6) 'I Have Friends In Holy Spaces'
Another shift of gears, as Panic adopt the personae of an old Mississippi river boat band, complete with banjo, clarinet and authentic scratchy period sound. The lyric, however, appears to be bang up to date, Urie seemingly struggling with the affects of fame: "You remind me of a few of my famous friends/Well, that all depends on what you qualify as 'friends'".

7) 'Northern Downpour'
Noticeably more traditional in structure that what's gone before, 'Northern Downpour' borrows heavily from classic American AOR bands - think The Feeling, but with the plastic veneer replaced with warmth and soul. Urie's surprisingly soulful vocals carry the tune to its gradual yet joyous crescendo.

8) 'When The Day Met The Night'
Given the all-encompassing nature of this album, it was surely only a matter of time before Panic dabbled in eastern-tinged melodies. What is surprising, however, is the way in which they subvert your expectation - again - by shoe-horning in another show-stopping showtune-esque chorus. Brilliant.

9) 'Pas De Cheval'
Arguably the most conventional song on the album, 'Pas De Cheval' starts with a cheeky nod to Neil Diamond's' 'I'm A Believer' before building to a chorus carved from '70s American FM rock radio. Will surely rule the airwaves if released as a summer single in the States.

10) 'The Piano Knows Something I Don't'
And then we're back on familiar ground as Panic plunge headlong into Beatles' territory for a bombastic '…Mr Kite' style collage of bells, brass and woodwind instruments, before slamming on the brakes for a psychedelic pastoral breakdown, complete with woodland sounds and lush vocal harmonies. Even on an album positively preoccupied with variations in pace and arrangements, this song stands out.

11) 'Behind The Sea'
And so the Panic TARDIS touches down in Haight Ashbury at the height of the Summer Of Love for a late-night love-in (and, indeed, Love-in – the spirit of Arthur Lee is much in evidence here). Panic's musical ADD soon kicks in, though, and with a 'Whooaah!' we're swept off into a Danny Elfman-inspired fantasy land for the song's second half.

12) 'Folken' Around'
Surely they're taking the piss now… A fiddle-inspired back porch country reel? Amazingly, it doesn't sound shit, either.

13) 'She Had The World'
Just when you thought there wasn't' a genre of music left for Panic to appropriate, they wheel out a harpsichord for a spot of stately chamber music (albeit more Muse than Mozart). Once again, the lyric is quite deftly juxtaposed with the music, Brendan singing a variation on the classic 'it's not you, it's me' get out clause: "I don't love you/I'm just passing the time/You could love me/If I learned how to lie/But who could love me?/I'm out of my mind".

14) 'From A Mountain In The Middle Of The Cabins'
You can't help but wonder what Panic's established fan base will make of their heroes' musical excursions. As evocative as this deceptively dark whirlwind of Dickensian strings and olde worlde ambience is, it's been some time since we last heard a guitar…

15) 'Mad As Rabbits'
Phew – here's one, now. Admittedly it's playing a tight-as-you-like '70s style funk motif, but there you go. The song eventually settles into another slice of classic Americana, albeit one peppered with a lyric about a "poor son of a chimney sweep" whose "arms were the branches of Christmas trees". There's just time for some more horn stabs, and another belter of a chorus, and then that's it.

If that all sounds like an astonishingly ambitious but potentially confusing rag bag of moods, genres and styles, then that's probably because it is. 'Pretty. Odd' will undoubtedly surprise and piss off Panic fans and haters alike, but it'll take plenty more playing to determine whether it's actually any good…

]]> brendon urie jon walker music nme panic at the disco pretty odd ryan ross spencer smith Buzznet helmuth 2008-01-23T10:45:00Z <![CDATA[Panic At The Disco Explain Excised Exclamation Point: 'It Got A Little Bit Annoying']]> http://helmuth.buzznet.com/user/journal/1643041/ 'It was never part of the name to us,' guitarist Ryan Ross says of bygone punctuation.

You would think people wouldn't get this worked up over a single punctuation mark.

Then again, you're probably not familiar with the inner-machinations of Panic at the Disco fans.

To wit: On Thursday, Panic revealed that their new album would be called Pretty. Odd., bringing to end a solid month of speculation and message-board hysteria. Of course, they also unveiled a brand-new logo to accompany that new album ... one that did away with their much-maligned exclamation point. This, of course, shouldn't have been a big deal — the simple removal of a bizarre bit of punctuation — except it totally was, quickly becoming the most-discussed topic on fan sites around the world (sample missive: "u CANT take the *!* are u insane!").

It became such an issue that Panic (it feels so strange not adding a "!" after that) were forced to discuss the "exclamation thing" with MTV News following a press conference in Torrance, California, where they were announced as the headliners of the 2008 Honda Civic Tour. So, really, guys: What was the reason for dropping the "!"?

"At least for me, it got a little bit annoying to try to write that every time you're typing the name," guitarist Ryan Ross said. "It was never part of the name to us. ... People started writing it, and then it ended up in more and more things like that, so there it was. When we started doing new promo stuff for this album, we just told everyone not to use it anymore."

"We wrote it that way once, when we first started the band, and then ... people kept writing it that way, and it was a freakin' whirlwind," frontman Brendon Urie added. "We never made a big deal out of pulling it off the name. ... I mean, every time I write [our name], I never put an exclamation point in there."

So there you have it. The lack of an exclamation point is totally not a big deal (!). The band didn't even use it themselves (!). You don't need to freak out (!). Seriously (!). Calm down (!).

But while we're on the subject of punctuation-related shenanigans, let's talk about the album title, Pretty. Odd. It has, like, two periods in it. For no real reason. What's the deal with that?

"It just happened one night. We were working on a new song, and we weren't even talking about album titles, but it was just something I wrote down, and I brought it up to the guys," Ross explained "Like, Pretty. Odd. And then they all liked it, and that was a couple of months ago, so we just kept it since then."

"And it's more fun with punctuation," drummer Spencer Smith added.

Indeed, it is. Oh, and as for the Honda Civic Tour, it kicks off April 10 in San Francisco and runs until June 14 in Anaheim, California. (It will, presumably, leave the state of California at some point.) Motion City Soundtrack and Panic's labelmates the Hush Sound are also coming along for the ride, plus a fourth, yet-unannounced artist (mysterious!).

At the event, Panic unveiled their custom-designed Honda Civic (it had a hot-air balloon and several flowers painted on it ... for real) and played an acoustic set, featuring new songs "We're So Starving" and "Nine in the Afternoon," plus the debut of "When The Day Met the Night," a very Beatles-y tune, in which Urie sung lines like "When the moon fell in love with the sun/ All was golden in the sky/ All was golden when the day met the night" over a spirally, Abbey Road-era guitar line.

So it's fitting, then, that the band is on its way to London to put the finishing touches on Pretty. Odd. at the actual Abbey Road Studios. And the guys are totally pumped to be working in the Beatles' own haunt — just don't expect them to use any exclamation points to convey that excitement.

"I know that a lot of the gear that they used is still there," Smith said. "And being able to go there and actually use that stuff and sit in the same control room and live room that they did ... it's going to be a great experience, for sure."

Source: MTV.com

]]> brendon urie jon walker music panic at the disco ryan ross spencer smith Buzznet helmuth 2008-01-11T14:23:00Z <![CDATA[Message from the Webmaster: Regarding the "!"]]> http://helmuth.buzznet.com/user/journal/1641591/ I never thought I'd ever make a post about a punctuation mark, but here we are. The ! is officially gone, I'm sure you all had time to mourn the loss of it by now.

I want to address the situation of the site from now on considering we're called P!ATD Online. The exclamation mark will obviously go away and a lot of things will have to be changed. However, I will not update everything to reflect the name change (spelling change, whatever) of the band. Descriptions, page names, things related to the site will be updated. Panic's information and projects will not.

What I mean is, everything you see with an exclamation mark is meant to be that way. I will not change anything to the new spelling when it was originally done the old way. Got it? It probably doesn't make any sense to you but it does in my head. The same applies to the gallery, journal entries and lyrics. If it's prior 2008, we'll be using the exclamation mark.

With writing Panic! as many times as I have since the site opened, I grew kind of attached to the exclamation mark and my fingers find it on their own accord when writing the name (you have no idea how many times I slipped these past few days). It's going to be really weird for a while.

I'm just making an announcement so you won't get confused when some things don't follow the new spelling rule. I'm also saving myself from emails complaining how I can't even spell the band's name right.

That is all.

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