Motion City Soundtrack Band • Page 154

Lose Control is the only truly "bad" track I can think of. The rest have all been good to great.

 

I'd take Go over My Dinosaur Life

 

that's what I'm talking about

 

Madness.

 

MDL is very good, but it's always felt a little too pristine or polished for me. I appreciate the swing the took on Go more

 

The swing? Lordy, Go is "the lack of taking any swings" in music form

 

CTTM
EIIKM
MDL
Go/IATM
PS

 

CTTM
IATM
EIIKM
MDL
Go
PS

 

Even If It Kills Me
Commit This to Memory

I Am the Movie
Go
My Dinosaur Life

Panic Stations

 

Commit This To Memory
Even If It Kills Me

My Dinosaur Life
I Am The Movie
Go

Panic Stations

 

CTTM
EIIKM
IATM

MDL
Go

PS

 

Commit This to Memory >= Even If It Kills Me
I Am the Movie >= My Dinosaur Life

That's my solid top 4, but the 1 and 2 / 3 and 4 spots will swap depending on my mood and/or what I listened to most recently.

Then I like Go overall much more than Panic Stations, BUT "I Can Feel You" as a song I like far better than any one song on Go.

 

First four just clearly feel like a band who is fully realized and are nailing it, the last two albums they lost their spark

 

They dropped a good amount of the synth-pop of their sound in favor of organic instrumentation and made a slower, indie-rock-style record. It definitely stands out as having an individual identity in their catalog imo

 

Even If It Kills Me
Commit This To Memory
My Dinosaur Life
I Am The Movie
Panic Stations
Go

 

None of that is what I would consider a swing TBH

 

Making a record that doesn't sound like your other records and may challenge your current audience isn't a swing? Lol

 

now i'm wondering what steve's definition of a swing is

 

I think a song or two on Go, like Everyone Will Die or Happy Anniversary are definitely swings.

The rest, while I do like it, mostly feels like EEIKM b-sides. Boxelder notwithstanding.

 

Go is my go-to MCS album for fall/winter. I think they did a disservice to it releasing it in the warm months. To me, it hits much better in the cold ones.

 

i guess we're just going to disagree here haha. I don't think Go is THAT different from what they did before, it's just slightly slower and less catchy, definitely doesn't do anything I would consider "challenging"

A swing to me is something that takes a big chance, Go is like... a bundt (I don't know sports, but this is what I am going with)

 

Sir that’s a cake

 

I don't think we want to go there

 

I mean I don't necessarily think MCS takes full swings with albums, but they do tend to do it with a song or two on each album at least after CTTM.

EIIKM - The Conversation
MDL - History Lesson
Go - Son of a Gun, Everyone Must Die
Panic Stations - Lose Control (at least in the verses)

By far Go is their most different album

 

Lose Control is good! It’s like an ode to Weezer!