Motion City Soundtrack Band • Page 156

Disagree so hard about the EITKM takes. Their best record.

 

I guess I have to revisit Go

 

hitting play on IATM in 2 minutes!

 

CTTM
EIIKM
MDL
IATM
GO
PS

 

Listening to IATM.

I'm on "my favorite accident" now. This song sends me back to 2003 immediately, seeing them at Warped Tour.

 

Definitely.

 

EIIKM is absolutely top 2 with CTTM, I just slightly prefer CTTM but they are both peak albums

 

Yeah those two are very close for me, two of my favourite albums ever.

 

"Capital H" is sooo good. Top 5 IATM song.

 

Every time I hear "Mary Without Sound", it feels like the first time I'm hearing it. This one's never really stuck with me. The chorus is fun though.

 

This is one of my least favourites on IATM.

This is in my top three on there, haha.

 

and you love MCR and i don't. so yeah... opposites attract, i guess! haha

 

I'm starting COMMIT THIS TO MEMORY now!

 

CTTM is my favourite record of all time. spending more time with panic stations now but so far all i can say is it has really cool artwork.

 

I'm not sure why, but EIIKM also doesn't connect with me. It's like the first two albums are so punchy and in your face and then they toned the energy down on EIIKM and then refined it with My Dino Life.

 

I am the Movie
Commit this to memory

Go
EIIKM

Dino Life

 

Oh yes.

 

This guy gets it.

 

CTTM
MDL
IATM
EIIKM
GO
PS

 

CTTM is untouchable

Capital H is one of their best songs

 

Revisited I Am the Movie in full this afternoon for the first time in probably a few years (not sure if it'll turn into a discog run, certainly not one that will be done in a day!).

There are parts of this album ("Indoor Living," "Autographs & Apologies") that instantly transport me back to when I was first listening to it a lot - wandering around campus to escape my dormmate in the dead of winter. Music is magical!

It's really only the middle of the album the sags for me - I've never been huge on the run of Perfect Teeth (the Limbeck cover is the definitive, superior version imo) > Boombox Generation > Don't Call it a Comeback. And tbh "My Favorite Accident" has never been MY favourite but I still like parts of it. And I don't actually think any of those songs are all that bad, they just all happen to be clustered together in the tracklist.

But there's an energy to so many of these songs that is unique to this album that permeates through every note, every drum hit, even the melodies. I think that's why I love songs like "Red Dress" and "Mary Without Sound" so much - there's just these tiny almost micro-moments that hit so singularly. I don't know if because there's a rawness and lack of polish to Justin's vocals that he never really fully recaptured (outside the Farewell Continental LP).

Anyway, record rules, band rules.

 

MDL is extremely underrated

 

My man

 

feel like most people rate it very very highly

 

The production on MDL is so, so good.