Motion City Soundtrack - The Same Old Wasted Wonderful World (September 19, 2025) • Page 31

How would everyone’s album rankings change if you only validate it based on the top 3 songs vs the overall experience? Call it the “bought a CD in the 90’s” rule when you had no idea if you were gonna get a classic or an absolute turd. Here’s mine:

1. CTTM: Hold Me Down, Time Turned Fragile, LGFUAD
2. EIIKM: Point of Extinction, Can’t Finish What You Started, Last Night
T3. TSOWWW: You Know Who The Fuck We Are, Things Like This, Particle Physics
T3. MDL: Worker Bee, The Weakends, Her Words Destroyed My Planet
5. IATM: Perfect Teeth, Don’t Call It a Comeback, Capital H
6. Panic Stations: I Can Feel You, Days Will Run Away, Anything At All
7. Go: Everyone Will Die, Boxelder, The Coma Kid

 

By that rubric, my rankings mostly stay the same, but Panic Stations way overperforms:

EIIKM: Even If It Kills Me, Fell in Love without You, Antonia
CTTM: Hold Me Down, When You're Around, Time Turned Fragile
MDL: Her Words Destroyed My Planet, Skin and Bones, Pulp Fiction
PS: I Can Feel You, Days Will Run Away, Gravity
TSOWWW: Some Wear a Dark Heart, Your Days Are Numbered, Things Like This
Go: Timelines, Bad Idea, Floating Down the River
IATM: Indoor Living, Modern Chemistry, My Favorite Accident

 

i stink. i still haven't listened to anything from this new album yet!

 

Go has incredible songs. True Romance is a gem.

Have it on vinyl signed by Justin

 

Go is a fall/winter album for me.

 

Humming a slightly varied tune
Opposite angles of the moon
Buried in layers of ourselves
Leaves room for no one else
I believe it's true
'Cause nothing matters when I'm all wrapped up in you

One of the best MCS moments ever in a song. The lyrics and the vocals are just perfect.

 

Just go take a 35 min 30 sec long music bath immediately

 

Go came out in the summer when I started an on-site construction job for a couple of weeks as an internship. I showed up on site and they were so unprepared for me that they just put me in a closet with a bucket of paint and told me to paint the walls. The building had maybe 50% of the drywall up at that point and absolutely no mud yet meaning the painting task was 100% unnecessary and 100% unproductive.

It'll forever remind me of that summer, haha.

 

Circuits and Wires has some great lyrics. The album isn't outstanding for me personally but there are some really great songs on there. I like Timelines a lot as well.

 

Circuits and Wires and The Worst Is Yet To Come are the only tracks I like off Go. It’ll always be my lowest ranked album from these guys.

Give Up/Give in is also cool but that’s a bonus track.

 

No love for Happy Anniversary? I love when they get weird and moody.

 

Son Of A Gun is weird and I love the synth in it.

 

EIIKM: Even If It Kills Me, Broken Heart, Last Night
CTTM: Hold Me Down, Time Turned Fragile, Attractive Today
IATM: My Favorite Accident, Mary Without Sound, Modern Chemistry
Go: Happy Anniversary, The Worst is Yet to Come, Boxelder
MDL: Her Words Destroyed My Planet, The Weakends, Pulp Fiction
PS: Days Will Run Away, I Can Feel You, Heavy Boots
TSOWWW: Things Like This, You Know Who the Fuck We Are, She Is Afraid

Pretty much the same for me just PS gets a bump. My feelings on the new songs are still being fully formed though.

 

Can't find the post now, but finally listened to Retreat from the Sun by That Dog. and loved it.

 

I really need to do a discography run-through. It's been way too long.

 

NICE. Such a great, underrated album

 

I know I love this album a lot because my favorite song keeps changing. Currently it seems to be Things Like This

Taking a riiiiiide, wayyy outttt thiiiis timeee

 

Yeah I think Things Like This is taking the title of my favorite off the album.

It’s also becoming one of the MCS tracks, period. It’s so great

 

i finally got around to this last night. was a very casual motion city fan until i watched their warped livestream set w my partner and then fell head over heels. we listened to the record together and had such a great time with it. downer and melancholia seem to be my early favorites. shoutout to the guys. great stuff.

 

Even after sitting with the whole thing for a while now, "She Is Afraid" remains my fave

 

Same

 

This is a great bridge in a career full of them. It absolutely makes the song.

 

I love this album but I think my biggest gripe with it is the guest vocals. I wish the features were more prominent. I get wanting to tag featured artists on streaming services but when I see (featuring _______) in a track title I expect more than background vocals or one line to be sung but them lol.

 

I can definitely hear Patrick in Particle Physics but yeah I couldn’t tell you where the other guests sing during their respective songs.