Panic at the Disco: No Promises For a Third Album in 2008

"Every time we say anything, we have to [go back] and say 'No, that's not what we meant," laughs Panic at the Disco's Ryan Ross, referring to recent reports the band had enough material for a third album to come out later this year. "We have some songs," he clarifies. "But who knows if they'll be for anything."

The band is currently in the middle of their two-month headlining tour for the recently released Pretty. Odd.. Bassist Jon Walker says Panic never really stopped writing songs after recording the album, but emphasizes it's been "nothing more than recording them on an acoustic guitar." Though their busy touring schedule takes them through at least the end of the year with gigs in the States and abroad, Ross says he'd like to do a record when things wind down, "Just so we don't have to write all new songs because we're sick of these."

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Song Stories

“Piano Man”

Billy Joel | 1973

Billy Joel’s first hit, “Piano Man,” was – ironically – an autobiographical lament about how his first album wasn’t a hit. When Cold Spring Harbor didn’t take off, Joel briefly became a lounge pianist in Los Angeles, and this song, about that experience, expressed his frustrations and fears at the time: “And they sit at the bar and put bread in my jar/And say, ‘Man, what are you doing here?’” “It was all right,” Joel said later, about the gig. “I got free drinks and union scale, which was the first steady money I’d made in a long time.”

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