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A Fever You Can't Sweat Out
A Fever You Can't Sweat Out is the debut studio album by the American pop rock band Panic! at the Disco, released on September 27, 2005, through Decaydance and Fueled by Ramen. It was produced by Matt Squire and recorded at SOMD! Studios in College Park, Maryland, over several weeks between June and August 2005.
The group formed in Las Vegas in 2004 and began posting demos online, which caught the attention of Fall Out Boy bassist Pete Wentz. Wentz signed the group to his own imprint label, Decaydance Records. It is the only album released during original bassist Brent Wilson's time in the band, but the exact nature of his involvement in the writing and recording process became a source of contention upon his dismissal from the group in mid-2006. The group had only graduated from high school one month before. With lyrics written by lead guitarist and backing vocalist Ryan Ross, the album is divided into halves stylistically; the first half is primarily pop-punk with elements of electronic music, while the second half is more baroque pop-influenced, employing more traditional instrumentation.
Upon its release, A Fever You Can't Sweat Out became a commercial success, peaking at number 13 on the Billboard 200. Its lead single, "I Write Sins Not Tragedies", peaked at No. 7 on the Billboard Hot 100, helping to bolster the album's sales to 1.8 million in the United States by 2011, thus making it the group's best-selling release. Three other singles were released for the album: "But It's Better If You Do", "Lying Is the Most Fun a Girl Can Have Without Taking Her Clothes Off", and "Build God, Then We'll Talk". While never officially released as a single, "The Only Difference Between Martyrdom and Suicide Is Press Coverage", also received airplay and charted in the United States, peaking at number 77 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart.
Despite its sales, the album polarized music critics, with many praising the album's catchiness and others criticizing its perceived lack of creativity. In late 2015, it received a double platinum certification from the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) for 2 million US shipments. It then received a quadruple platinum certification in June 2023. A 20th anniversary deluxe edition of the album, with all of the original tracks remastered, 11 previously unreleased demos, and the Live In Denver performance, was released on January 23, 2026.
Panic! at the Disco was formed in 2004 by high school friends Ryan Ross and Spencer Smith in Las Vegas. Both teens attended Bishop Gorman High School and they began playing music together in ninth grade. They recruited their friend Brent Wilson to join on bass guitar, and Wilson invited his classmate Brendon Urie to try out on guitar. The group soon began rehearsing in Smith's grandmother's living room. Urie grew up in a Mormon family, and often skipped rehearsals to go to church. The quartet decided to model their name after a line in Name Taken's song "Panic".
Ross and Urie soon began to record demos on their laptops, and posted them on PureVolume. They later sent a demo to Fall Out Boy bassist Pete Wentz via a LiveJournal account. Wentz, who was in Los Angeles at the time with the rest of Fall Out Boy working on the band's major-label debut, From Under the Cork Tree, drove to Las Vegas to meet with the young, unsigned band. Upon hearing "two to three" songs during band practice, Wentz was impressed and immediately wanted the band to sign to his Fueled by Ramen imprint label Decaydance Records. As news broke that Wentz had signed Panic! (who had yet to perform a single live show), fans on the Internet began to bash the group. In a 2006 interview, Ross stated "We had two songs online and people were already making assumptions on what kind of band we were and what we were going to sound like."
After finishing high school, the members boarded a van and drove from Las Vegas to College Park, Maryland, to record the album. Although they only had demos when they arrived, the rest of the album shaped up fast through the recording session. Fueled by Ramen wanted the band to enter the studio earlier in the year, but Ross was attending college at UNLV and the others were still in high school. Urie graduated in May 2005 and the band pushed recording back to June. Smith and Wilson completed school online during production. They picked producer Matt Squire based on his production on several independent albums the group liked. The label had hoped they would pick Mike Green, who had worked with Paramore on All We Know Is Falling (2005).
A Fever You Can't Sweat Out was created in only "three and a half weeks" between June and August 2005, including mixing and mastering on a budget of $11,000. Urie's voice was blown after tracking the album. Squire remembered that most of the album's choruses and high harmonies were recorded in one session. By the end of production, the band hadn't had a day off and were exhausted. After its completion, "We had two weeks to come home and learn how to be a band," Ross said.
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A Fever You Can't Sweat Out
A Fever You Can't Sweat Out is the debut studio album by the American pop rock band Panic! at the Disco, released on September 27, 2005, through Decaydance and Fueled by Ramen. It was produced by Matt Squire and recorded at SOMD! Studios in College Park, Maryland, over several weeks between June and August 2005.
The group formed in Las Vegas in 2004 and began posting demos online, which caught the attention of Fall Out Boy bassist Pete Wentz. Wentz signed the group to his own imprint label, Decaydance Records. It is the only album released during original bassist Brent Wilson's time in the band, but the exact nature of his involvement in the writing and recording process became a source of contention upon his dismissal from the group in mid-2006. The group had only graduated from high school one month before. With lyrics written by lead guitarist and backing vocalist Ryan Ross, the album is divided into halves stylistically; the first half is primarily pop-punk with elements of electronic music, while the second half is more baroque pop-influenced, employing more traditional instrumentation.
Upon its release, A Fever You Can't Sweat Out became a commercial success, peaking at number 13 on the Billboard 200. Its lead single, "I Write Sins Not Tragedies", peaked at No. 7 on the Billboard Hot 100, helping to bolster the album's sales to 1.8 million in the United States by 2011, thus making it the group's best-selling release. Three other singles were released for the album: "But It's Better If You Do", "Lying Is the Most Fun a Girl Can Have Without Taking Her Clothes Off", and "Build God, Then We'll Talk". While never officially released as a single, "The Only Difference Between Martyrdom and Suicide Is Press Coverage", also received airplay and charted in the United States, peaking at number 77 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart.
Despite its sales, the album polarized music critics, with many praising the album's catchiness and others criticizing its perceived lack of creativity. In late 2015, it received a double platinum certification from the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) for 2 million US shipments. It then received a quadruple platinum certification in June 2023. A 20th anniversary deluxe edition of the album, with all of the original tracks remastered, 11 previously unreleased demos, and the Live In Denver performance, was released on January 23, 2026.
Panic! at the Disco was formed in 2004 by high school friends Ryan Ross and Spencer Smith in Las Vegas. Both teens attended Bishop Gorman High School and they began playing music together in ninth grade. They recruited their friend Brent Wilson to join on bass guitar, and Wilson invited his classmate Brendon Urie to try out on guitar. The group soon began rehearsing in Smith's grandmother's living room. Urie grew up in a Mormon family, and often skipped rehearsals to go to church. The quartet decided to model their name after a line in Name Taken's song "Panic".
Ross and Urie soon began to record demos on their laptops, and posted them on PureVolume. They later sent a demo to Fall Out Boy bassist Pete Wentz via a LiveJournal account. Wentz, who was in Los Angeles at the time with the rest of Fall Out Boy working on the band's major-label debut, From Under the Cork Tree, drove to Las Vegas to meet with the young, unsigned band. Upon hearing "two to three" songs during band practice, Wentz was impressed and immediately wanted the band to sign to his Fueled by Ramen imprint label Decaydance Records. As news broke that Wentz had signed Panic! (who had yet to perform a single live show), fans on the Internet began to bash the group. In a 2006 interview, Ross stated "We had two songs online and people were already making assumptions on what kind of band we were and what we were going to sound like."
After finishing high school, the members boarded a van and drove from Las Vegas to College Park, Maryland, to record the album. Although they only had demos when they arrived, the rest of the album shaped up fast through the recording session. Fueled by Ramen wanted the band to enter the studio earlier in the year, but Ross was attending college at UNLV and the others were still in high school. Urie graduated in May 2005 and the band pushed recording back to June. Smith and Wilson completed school online during production. They picked producer Matt Squire based on his production on several independent albums the group liked. The label had hoped they would pick Mike Green, who had worked with Paramore on All We Know Is Falling (2005).
A Fever You Can't Sweat Out was created in only "three and a half weeks" between June and August 2005, including mixing and mastering on a budget of $11,000. Urie's voice was blown after tracking the album. Squire remembered that most of the album's choruses and high harmonies were recorded in one session. By the end of production, the band hadn't had a day off and were exhausted. After its completion, "We had two weeks to come home and learn how to be a band," Ross said.