Motion City Soundtrack Band • Page 157

The production on MDL is almost too clean. It has a very weird artificial sound on some songs. I don't know how to explain it. I love the album even so.

 

How people don’t drool over Pulp Fiction is weird to me. One of the “most” MCS songs there is imo

 

Whenever I think of MDL that is the first song that comes to mind. Love it.

 

Killer opening track too, they're so good at opening tracks

 

Both versions are perfect

 

EIIKM
CTTM
MDL
GO
IATM

 

Commit This To Memory
I Am The Movie
Even If It Kills Me

My Dinosaur Life
Panic Stations
Go

 

this is how I feel as well

 

There are so many good songs on MDL. Her Words Destroyed My Planet is killer too.

 

MDL also has The Weakends, which is easily a Top 5 song of theirs for me

 

"I sent you a postcard, but the post office sent it back..."

 

I see we're ranking things again.

CTTM
EIIKM
MDL
IATM
Go
PS

MDL and IATM are pretty even for me, but I think their first four are as close to flawless and this genre gets. Fairly big drop off between 4 & 5, and 5 & 6 for me.

 

I revisit MDL less and less as time goes on, not sure why. Solid album regardless.

 

MDL was such a big album for me when it came out, partially because it was the first album that came out after I really got into them, so it's hard to separate that nostalgia of it all. I do think I reach for it a little less these days, but I still think it's great.

 

EITKM
CTTM

MDL
IATM


Go
PS

 

Gotta say I liked MDL alot more when it first came out. I never listen to it anymore outside of Stand Too Close and Her Words.

 

Disappear absolutely has to be top-10, no?

 

My Dinosaur Life was the album that got me into them so I'll always have a special place for it in my heart.

 

MDL is my favorite MCS record, but it also has one of my least favorite songs of all time “History Lesson”. Ole O.A.R. Sounding ass song.

 

I remember Alternative Press giving it a perfect score and comparing it to Pinkerton in their review and I think that probably overhyoed it quite a bit for me personally. I do not think those records could be much more different in songwriting or production lol

 

MDL is an all-timer for me, but also I was 13 when it dropped, so a bit of a different timeline for diving into the band.

This thread also made me look for MDL on vinyl, and looks like it got repressed! Running out of shelf space, but going to jump on that to complete my MCS collection.

 

"History Lesson" and "@!#?@!" keep MDL from being my favorite album of theirs, but the rest of the tracklist is fantastic. Also the alt take of "Disappear" is incredible

 

That 5 star review is why I bought the album!

 

Motherfuckers is a great song.

 

Indeed it is