Motion City Soundtrack

Hometown : Minneapolis, MN

Lead Singer : Justin Pierre

Genre : Alternative retro-rock

Best Albums : I am the movie (2003)

 

 

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The indie-rock quintet originally formed in 1999 when Pierre and Cain were still in high school. The two were big fans of Sunny Day Real Estate, Jawbox, The Flaming Lips and Superchunk and soon formed a band. Motion City Soundtrack self-released a seven-inch before the start of 2000, but it wasn't until Taylor, Thaxton and Johnson joined the group that things came together. Thaxton and Taylor moved from Richmond, VA to the band's hometown of Minneapolis, MN and the band immediately started recording, and producer/engineer Ed Rose (Coalesce, Get Up Kids, Ultimate Fakebook) worked his magic from his studio in Lawrence, KS. Motion City Soundtrack's punk-glazed debut I Am the Movie was released in summer 2003. ~ MacKenzie Wilson, All Music Guide

Recommended songs: The whole album is worth buying, every single song rocks.

 

 

The future freaks me out

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I’m on fire and now I think I’m ready to bust a move
Check it out I’m rocking steady
Go!

Betty won’t stop listening to modern rock
How she hates to be alone
I try to compensate her lack of love with coffee cake
Ice cream and a bottle of ten dollar wine she says hey
I rock the Haro sport
I rock the cow girl blues
I rock too fast for love I’m footloose in my Velcro shoes
What’s up with Will & Grace?
I don’t get drum and bass
The future freaks me out

I’m on fire and now I think ready to bust a move
Check it out I’m rocking steady
To the beat in my head
It goes oh, oh, oh, oh
I know she’s the only one
I’d rather waste our time together
Yea, ‘cause we can get down

Betty can’t quit carving question marks in my wrist
How come we’re so alone
We waste away the days with nicotine and television samples
From an era we hate to admit we embrace
We fail to represent
We fail to be content
We fail at everything we ever even try to attempt
And so the story goes
As only Betty knows
It’s time to take control

I’m on fire and now I think ready to bust a move
Check it out I’m rocking steady
To the beat in my head
It goes oh, oh, oh, oh
I know she’s the only one
I’d rather waste my time with her

(Betty, I need you
I miss you
I’m so alone without you
To call up on the weekends with my cellular phone)

Betty it’s so hard to relate
To the whole human race
I don’t know where to begin
I don’t know where to begin
If we can both find a way
To do the things that we say
We might not sit in our rooms
And drink our daydreams away
Betty, I’m a dreamer
No i’m not a vicious schemer
Oh betty won’t you.. ah fuck it

I’m on fire and now I think ready to bust a move
Check it out I’m rocking steady
To the beat in my head
It goes oh, oh, oh, oh
I know she’s the only one
I’d rather waste our time together
Yeah, ‘cause we can get down.

My favorite accident

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I got the message long before you said you knew
There was no chance of us at all
With no velocity an empty heading hard and far to long
I spent two years alone with you
Just when I thought I had forgotten
You came back soft without a sound

You said we were an accident
With accidents you’ll never know what could happen
So we were an accident
You’ll always be my favorite one

You hit the road and left me an ocean
I can't swim in the silence of your skin-skin please let me in
Side the times we never had right
Inside two years alone with you

You said we were an accident
With accidents you’ll never know what could happen
So we were an accident
You’ll always be my favorite one

we could have been
we could have been
instead of accidental running always running
why can’t you believe

Long winded promises of future company
Up close the sound remains the same
Without the reign of terror over every momentary change
We are exactly as before

You hit the road and left me an ocean
I can't swim in the silence of your skin-skin please let me in
Side the times we never had right
Inside two years alone with you

 

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