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| Single by Panic at the Disco | ||||
| from the album Pretty. Odd. | ||||
| B-side | "Pas de Cheval" | |||
| Released | January 29, 2008 (digital) | |||
| Recorded | 2007 | |||
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| Producer(s) | Rob Mathes | |||
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"Nine in the Afternoon" is a song by the American rock band Panic at the Disco, and the lead single from the group's second album Pretty. Odd.. It was the band's first song release that did not include the exclamation mark at the end of the "Panic" in the group's name.
It was the first song written after the band decided to scrap an entire album of songs that the members had been planning to release in autumn 2007. Panic at the Disco's first performance of "Nine in the Afternoon" was at Virgin Festival 2007. The song has undergone changes in key and lyrics since first being performed.[4] This song was number 44 on Rolling Stone's list of the 100 Best Songs of 2008.[5]
On January 28, 2008, at 9:00pm, Panic at the Disco released "Nine in the Afternoon" via the group's MySpace page. Soon after, the band removed the song from that page and added a demo of another song from the new album, "We're So Starving". The following day, Apple added the single for download.[6] The song impacted radio on February 19.[7] As of March, "Nine in the Afternoon" had received moderate radio airplay. It has also been featured in the episode of the NBC television series Heroes titled "Cautionary Tales" and was included in the official television soundtrack album released in early 2008.[8]
The song was covered by The Academy Is..., another Decaydance band, on Warped Tour 2008.
The song is a playable song in the music video game Rock Band 2. It was included on the soundtrack for the video game NHL 09, and was released as downloadable content for the games Just Dance 2 and Lips. It is also on the guitar game Guitar Rock Tour 2.
On the deluxe LP of Pretty. Odd., the song does not have the cymbal hit from the previous track. Instead, it starts with piano.
The song's title comes from an event during a practice session. After playing for a while and not knowing what time it was, Spencer Smith suggested that it was "seven in the afternoon". It was later changed to "nine in the afternoon" to mesh better with the other lyrics.
On the spine of the Australian CD single, the title of the song was misprinted as "Nine in the Morning".
- ^ Brown, Janice (2008). "Panic At The Disco Takes Cues from the Golden Age of Rock For 'Pretty. Odd.'". emusician. Retrieved June 26, 2017.
- ^ Reed, Ryan (November 20, 2017). "Panic! At the Disco Plot New Live LP, 'All My Friends We're Glorious'". Rolling Stone. Archived from the original on March 16, 2020. Retrieved May 31, 2022.
- ^ Lamb, Bill (November 30, 2017). "Top 10 Panic! At the Disco Songs". Live About. Archived from the original on May 23, 2021. Retrieved May 30, 2022.
- ^ YouTube - Panic at the Disco - Nine in the Afternoon Archived December 28, 2007, at the Wayback Machine
- ^ "The 100 Best Songs of 2008", Rolling Stone, December 25, 2008. Retrieved December 25, 2008
- ^ "iTunes Store". Phobos.apple.com. Archived from the original on March 15, 2012. Retrieved March 3, 2012.
- ^ "AllAccess.com Alternative eWeekly". AllAccess. February 12, 2008. Retrieved July 2, 2016.
- ^ Nordyke, Kimberly (February 28, 2008). "Songs, videos keep "Heroes" alive". The Hollywood Reporter. Archived from the original on April 19, 2016. Retrieved April 10, 2008.