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The entire Panic at the Disco enterprise really has become the Brendon Urie show at this point. While showing a lot of promise as a collective with albums like A Fever You Can't Sweat Out, the brainchildren of Urie's like Death of a Bachelor have held their own over the years, making songs like High Hopes the only real pop rock songs in the charts nowadays. In the early days though, the real mastermind was Ryan Ross.

Across both Fever and their sophomore effort Pretty Odd, Ross was front and center when writing the lyrics and melodies to Panic tunes, even coming up with the iconic line about closing a god damn door on I Write Sins Not Tragedies. For all of the backlash it may have received in its time, Ross' step up to co lead vocalist on their second album showed them going from strength to strength again, almost taking on a Beatles-folkiness to their sound on tracks like When the Day Met the Night and Folkin Around.

That iron hand proved to bit a little too much for Panic to take though, which led to the band fracturing and Urie picking up the pieces for Vices and Virtues a few years later. Then again, if Pretty Odd is any indication, we might have been looking at a perfect Lennon to Urie's McCartney for the emo rock crowd.