Motion City soundtrack

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Motion City soundtrack
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General information
Genre (s) Pop punk
founding 1997
Website http://www.motioncitysoundtrack.com/
Current occupation
Justin Pierre
Matthew Taylor
Jesse Johnson
guitar
 Joshua Cain
Claudio Rivera
former members
bass
 Austin Lindstrom
Drums, percussions
 Joel Habedank

Motion City Soundtrack is an American pop-punk band from Minneapolis , Minnesota, founded in 1997 .

Band history

Motion City Soundtrack was founded in 1997 in Minneapolis. Before their first album I Am the Movie , the group released several EPs .

I am the movie

The band recorded their first album, I Am the Movie , in 2002. The album was later distributed on the Epitaph Records label .

After the album's success, they toured the United States in 2003. The first single was The Future Freaks Me Out . The catchy chorus and the unusual music video brought the - until then unknown - band national reputation.

The second single, My Favorite Accident , was released at the end of the year.

Commit This to Memory

In 2004, Motion City Soundtrack went along with blink-182 on tour through Europe and Japan . Then blink-182 bassist Mark Hoppus decided to take over the production for their next album.

Commit This to Memory was recorded in Los Angeles in late 2004 . Hoppus and the band got along well and the album exceeded their expectations.

The album title Commit This to Memory was chosen very early in production. It comes from the lyrics of the song Hangman . Production was finished in early 2005. A few months before its official release, the album could already be found on internet exchanges.

The first single Everything Is Alright and the accompanying music video was played on MTV and Fuse TV. The song also made it onto the Saints Row soundtrack.

Even If It Kills Me

2007 began the recording of the third studio album of the band. Ric Ocasek, Adam Schlesinger and Eli Janney were responsible for production.

In a series of weblogs, singer Pierre and bassist Taylor documented the creation of the song "The Conversation", a piano ballad that only consists of piano sounds and Pierre's voice. The weblogs were published on a website specially set up for this purpose, and they also contained short snippets of new songs.

In order to make the leak of the album more difficult, the band issued the first copies with a warning, which was aimed at critics and marketers. Joshua Cain called this “a threatning letter” ( German : Drohbrief). Alternatively, the responsible parties were simply invited to the studio to hear it there.

The album turned out to be the most commercially successful album in the band's history. The album was also very well received by critics. Numerous influential magazines such as the British music magazine Kerrang praised the band and gave it four out of five possible stars. Absolute Punk gave a rating of 83% and the album landed at number 1 on the Top Independent Album Charts and at number 16 on the Billboard 200 , as it sold 33,000 copies in the first week.

My dinosaur life

In June 2008, Motion City Soundtrack announced in several podcasts that they would be heading back to the studio to begin recording another album. As with Commit This To Memory blink-182 bassist Mark Hoppus acts as producer .

He commented on his project with the words:

“I think that Memory is a really great record […] For me, it encapsulates what Motion City Soundtrack is and can do. Now they want to make a record that's along those lines but pushes it even further. "

“I think Memory is a really great record […] For me it sums up what Motion City Soundtrack is and what they can do. Now they want to make an album that continues on this path and even beyond. "

The album should underline the harder, more experimental side of them. He went on to say that as a fan of the band, he is very excited to help them realize their ideas and that there is a page on this album that he is very excited to work on.

The band finished recording on June 28th. In an interview, front man Justin Pierre revealed the name of the album. It should be called My Dinosaur Life . At the first concert of blink-182's reunion tour, when they were the support act, they played a song from the album called A Life Less Ordinary .

In December 2009, the first single Disappear of the new album was first released as an official video on MySpace and later also set on iTunes . Her Words Destroyed My Planet has also been released for sale on iTunes.

The album My Dinosaur Life was released on January 19, 2010. It was also released as a deluxe version with so-called 'picture discs'.

Discography

Albums

  • I Am the Movie (June 26, 2003; Epitaph Records)
  • Commit This to Memory (June 7, 2005; Epitaph Records)
  • Even If It Kills Me (September 18, 2007; Epitaph Records)
  • My Dinosaur Life (Jan 19, 2010; Columbia Records)
  • Go (June 12, 2012; Epitaph Records)
  • Panic Station (September 25, 2015)

EPs

  • Kids for America (2000)
  • Back to the Beat (2000)
  • Motion City Soundtrack / Schatzi (2003)
  • Limbeck / Motion City Soundtrack 7 "Split (2004)
  • Matchbook Romance / Motion City Soundtrack (2004)
  • Live at Lollapalooza 2007: Motion City Soundtrack (2007)
  • Acoustic EP (2008)

Singles

  • Promenade / Carolina (1999)
  • The Future Freaks Me Out (2003)
  • My Favorite Accident (2003)
  • Everything Is Alright (2005, US: goldgold)
  • Hold Me Down (2006)
  • LG Fuad (2006)
  • Broken Heart (2007)
  • This Is for Real (2007)
  • It Had to Be You (2008)
  • Fell in Love Without You (Acoustic) (2008)
  • Disappear (2009)
  • Her Words Destroyed My Planet (2009)
  • True Romance (2012)
  • Timelines (2012)

swell

  1. ↑ Music Sales Awards: US

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