THOUGHT: Panic! It's Fall Out Boy... or is it?

I hate people who are musically deaf.
Well I don’t hate them, they just annoy me. For instance, when there is a melody in a song which sounds like a synth but is actually a guitar (you can tell from its timbre), no-one but you can seem to pick it out: and they won’t hear the damn differences. This must be where a lot of people deem some bands as sounding ‘exactly the same’.

This is the case with Fall Out Boy and Panic! At The Disco. I’ll get the main difference between the two out first: Fall Out Boy are actually good. Not only this, but the guitar tone, drum patterns, instruments used (Panic! go for more unconventional ones), and song structure itself are all completely different. The only things they have similar about them is pop sensibility – what band now doesn’t have that, to be honest – and vocals: even then Patrick Stump’s voice is much more powerful than Brendon Urie’s, and more control over his falsetto. All this makes me think: WHAT THE HELL, PEOPLE!? Get some hearing lessons!

This rant is officially over. I’m not like this in real life, I promise.