The band solidified its reputation for making smart, highly catchy pop-rock on its next three albums - "Even If it Kills Me" (2007), "My Dinosaur Life" (2010) and "Go" (2012) - while building an audience big enough to consistently fill theaters and large clubs across the country. "If I can imagine what it was like for Josh, here's this guy who is really excited about music and he's got what he thinks is a great singer and a good partner in crime in terms of music, but he's also this huge (profanity)."ĭespite Pierre's issues, Motion City Soundtrack has not only survived, but thrived. "I don't want this to sound negative, it's just that I wasn't really aware of what was going on in a certain degree," Pierre says. Motion City Soundtrack originally did A Dip in. Pierre is proud of "Commit This To Memory," but his addictions cause him to have some less pleasant memories of the making of it. Motion City Soundtrack covered A Dip in the Ocean, Left and Leaving, Waiting, Pop Song 89 and other songs. Motion City Soundtrack is known for John Tucker Must Die (2006), Bad News Bears (2005) and Hotel for Dogs (2009). "Commit This to Memory" was also the first production project for Blink-182 vocalist-bassist Mark Hoppus, who has gone on to produce albums by New Found Glory, the Matches and Idiot Pilot. Motion City Soundtrack, Soundtrack: John Tucker Must Die. 2 on Billboard's Independent Albums chart and featured a single, "Everything Is Alright," that has become Motion City Soundtrack's signature song. It was the first album made after the band signed with indie powerhouse Epitaph Records, and it was also the group's commercial breakthrough. "Commit This to Memory" is significant to the band for other reasons as well. " 'Commit This to Memory' was the first time all five of us from scratch sat in a room together and wrote an album," Pierre says. Over the course of their career, the group has toured heavily and released six studio albums, the majority on independent label Epitaph Records.
The band's line-up consists of vocalist and guitarist Justin Courtney Pierre, lead guitarist Joshua Cain, keyboardist Jesse Johnson, bassist Matthew Taylor, and drummer Tony Thaxton. Formed in Minneapolis in 1997 by Pierre and guitarist Joshua Cain, the group went through several lineup changes before keyboardist Jesse Johnson, bassist Matthew Taylor and drummer Tony Thaxton (who left the group and was replaced by Claudio Rivera in 2013) came on board in time for the recording of the 2002 debut album, "I Am the Movie."īut because many of the songs on "I Am the Movie" were written before that lineup was in place, the group considers "Commit This To Memory" to be the real debut album by Motion City Soundtrack. Motion City Soundtrack is an American rock band that formed in Minneapolis, Minnesota in 1997. For the band as a whole, "Commit This To Memory" is a milestone for several reasons.
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