Panic! At the Disco’s Greatest Hits (23 song mash-up)

For my third audio assignment, I decided to do So and So’s Greatest Hits, which required me to make a mash-up of one artist’s greatest hits or your favorite by them, with the requirements being that you have to use at least 5 songs and it has to be at least 5 minutes long.

I decided to do one of my favorite artists, Panic! At the Disco, as their multitude of music has a wide variety of sounds and would make for some interesting mixing and mashing. Being that I love this band so much, I ended up using 23 songs, and creating a piece that is almost 7 minutes long.

The hardest part was probably choosing the songs and which part of the songs I wanted to use. I did most of this work in iTunes, by creating a playlist and taking note of the time ranges for the parts I wanted to use. Then I imported all the tracks into Audacity, trimmed them, and began to arrange them. This was also difficult, as I tend to focus more on the lyrics than the music, which doesn’t really make for good music. Realizing where there were issues, I tried to smooth some of the transitions and overlays out through adjusting the volume of the tracks or using the fade out effect.

Ultimately, what I’ve created is a hella cool mix of some awesome songs. Sure there are some rough patches where I just couldn’t get it quite right. But there are also some great parts where the lyrics either coincide or contradict each other, which I really love. My favorite part would have to be where “Casual Affair” is overlaid with “Northern Downpour” (around the 5:34 mark).

Here is the list of the song used in order of appearance:

  1. “Ready to Go (Get Me Out of My Mind)”
  2. “The Only Difference Between Martyrdom and Suicide Is Press Coverage”
  3. “That Green Gentleman (Things Have Changed)”
  4. “This is Gospel”
  5. “Trade Mistakes”
  6. “I Write Sins Not Tragedies”
  7. “Nine In the Afternoon”
  8. “Mad As Rabbits”
  9. “There’s A Reason These Tables Are Numbered Honey, You Just Haven’t Thought Of It Yet”
  10. “The Ballad of Mona Lisa”
  11. “Build God, Then We’ll Talk”
  12. “All the Boys”
  13. “Miss Jackson (ft. Lolo)”
  14. “Girls/Girls/Boys”
  15. “Hurricane”
  16. “Let’s Kill Tonight”
  17. “Lying Is The Most Fun A Girl Can Have Without Taking Her Clothes Off”
  18. “Nicotine”
  19. “But It’s Better If You Do”
  20. “When the Day Met the Night”
  21. “Casual Affair”
  22. “Northern Downpour”
  23. “Nearly Witches (Ever Since We Met…)”