Motion city soundtrack and All American rejects were in a weird line between Emo and a modern version of a Cheap Trick style band. These bands had a super bright aesthetic with colorful music videos.

@Johnmrobinson-vb5vd

29 күн бұрын

That's why I like them they where a breath in fresh air in a sea of depressing music

It’s so nice to hear someone else love MCS as much as I do! I think they are hugely underrated. Here in the UK they did a tour where one night they played “I Am the Movie” and “Commit This to Memory” in full, and it was, to this day, the best gig I have ever been to. As someone who was too young to see them tour when these albums came out, it was such a great experience!

@chriscurrallo5700

3 жыл бұрын

the full album tour was great! esp. the IATM & CTTM night :)

I live in the city they formed in and for some reason that I honestly don't know, that very fact motivates me more to pursue music to maybe not a performer extend but something higher than a hobby. To learn about music, it's theories, literacy and genres & what their contrasts from each other are. I just really love this band a lot and they're such a powerful motive.

@XquinlanX

3 жыл бұрын

Motion city 1000% made me realize what a great music city Minneapolis had. I am blanking on the club they were always so thrilled to play but the bands that started thru there and started in that town impressive!

Oh man, this physically, bodily transported me 2005. Time traveling back to high school should come with health warnings. Commit This To Memory kept me alive through the worst years of my life, I think.

Patrick Stump did back up vocals for Everything is Alright. I loved this band. I came onto the bandwagon when I heard Mark Hoppus was talking about how he had been listening to I am the Movie. Even if it Kills me is the cd i listened to all my life when going through a heart break or something devastating. My Dinosaur life is my third favorite album too. But That is because I am the movie is 4th. But it is like comparing four of the cutest babies that are all your children. You can't really pick. I am happy you made this video! Just Courtney Pierre is a really humble dude and I have talked to him a few times on Facebook and he is great. In this drink is great too! Mark Hoppus also produced my Dinosaur life. They supposedly got back together and did release that song crooked teeth or something like that but I haven't given it a listen. I kind of fell off when Panic Stations came out and was not super into it. My Dinosaur Life was amazing though. Great Video. GET IT! WHOOOOOAHOOOHOOHOOOOOOOOOOO.

It's such a criminally underrated band.y favorite live band I've seen them like three times each time the energy was great and it will always be one of my favorite bands.

MCS have quickly become one of my all-time favourite bands thanks to this.

I saw MCS in 2002- it was my first real show I had ever been to. The moog player did handstands and it changed my life. Commit this to memory is absolutely a perfect record, you nailed that review.

This video needs more views. Just like MCS needed more fans. I remember finding them on that old "PunkRockVids.com" website (where that London video was uploaded originally.) Amazing.

coming to this video after watching your fall out boy video-for a long time i thought fob was my Favorite Band of all time, until i revisited mcs’s discography right before they broke up originally. justin’s lyricism has been so important to me as a preteen into adulthood, and musically mcs always wraps me up into a very particular place. i’ve never personally known anyone who loved them much so i appreciate this video! i have SO much unspoken love for them that i wish i could’ve shared with other people. thanks dude

Man I will always love them. I found them by accident on iTunes back in 07 and then saw them on the 2008 Honda Civic tour with panic at the disco. Thanks for the history.

@thecozyrep

4 жыл бұрын

i saw them on that tour too!! good times :)

The fact that the synth line at the end of L.G. F.U.A.D. only repeats four times and not the entirety of a song is criminal lol Thanks for helping me revisit Commit and understand why I loved it so much back then ❤

And I thought I was the only one who not only loved the band, but I love love love delving into lyrics and musical analysis. Dude, you are amazing!!

I’ve been a fan since iatm and just saw them perform in Tampa for their iatm 20th anniversary tour! They’re my all time favorite band and they don’t get enough love ❤️

I saw them in Lexington, Ky for the 20th anniversary tour of I am the movie and they were so tight musically. They even had two fill ins, one on the moog and another playing Justin’s guitar parts. Fantastic show.

I love this band. I have some MCS acoustic songs uploaded if anyone is interested. Very glad I got to see them right before all of the COVID stuff closed down shows.

Dude. Awesome video! MCS is my favorite band and IATM is my favorite album! One of the most underrated bands of all time. Are you going to their house of blues show in Boston?

@thecozyrep

5 жыл бұрын

thank you for watching! agreed, and i have not obtained a ticket yet but i def plan on going!!

I remember seeing them when I was 12 and crowd surfing for the first time. Still love them

I love these videos ❤️

@thecozyrep

5 жыл бұрын

thanks pal!

I bumped into the lead singer of MCS at Warped Tour. When I realized who it was I was like “holy crap dude I’m so sorry, I fucking LOVE your band” and he goes “nice man, I like your band too” and walked away lol

The Spitalfield name drop 🥲

I think MCS is the logical extension of Jangle as it breached the 2000's. Jangle obviously traces it's roots decades back to the Byrds and eventually kind of met a pop death with REM. The heavy arpeggiation and vocals in the higher range really push that. The Braid influence extends that into "oh yes, this is midwest emo" but ignores that the stylistic roots of Midwest emo derive from Jangle. Jangle kind of branched toward the nerdier genres with Weezer and Barenaked Ladies (arguably Fountains of Wayne as well) as well as the main stream of Midwest emo so the classification "Jangle-core" fits the hard branding that they really need to avoid both the pop-punk connotations (REM also struggled to get out of the indie branding for similar reasons) while maintaining that they do fit the genre.

Man, thank you for this "documentary"... this band is so great. Consider do videos about Armor For Sleep. Thanks for the great job. By the way greatings from Brazil!

this is an awesome history lesson, thank you

Keep posting! I’ll keep watching/liking/and sharing!

I got to see motion city soundtrack for the first and only time with the wonder years in 2016 weeks before they announced their breakup. I love panic stations, people sleep on that record hard. TKO and Pleasure to Meet You are my favorites!

I've always considered them more Indie than anything on those first two incredible albums as well. Good shit my dood.

Found your channel today and I love your vids! I miss this era very deeply. Love MCS and first saw them @ Warped Tour. Definitely good times💖

🤲 cozy gang

As a fan of indie and emo, MCS were a band that really work for me and one of my favorites

Love your content man! Been binge watching all of your videos! Any chance of getting a video on Bayside? I feel like they have managed to stay relevant within their core fanbase long after the mall emo scene died.

Shout out to me! That's the pic of my signed copy of the original I am the Movie shown at 3:59. :-D

@thecozyrep

5 жыл бұрын

WHoa big shout out to you!! i'm wicked jealous that you have that haha, holy grail status right there!

@late2theparty

5 жыл бұрын

@@thecozyrep I really enjoyed this video. I hadn't heard of Slide Coaster before. Thanks for putting this together!

hope you're having a safe and happy 4/20 season my friend! Gonna send a fb message. ily 💙

Great video man!

Sunday warning and Throwdown are in no way forgotten and never will be!!! 🥰🥰🥰

Favorite band 💙

@Icynova

4 жыл бұрын

Same.... Big same.

Truuuly under rated

You had me subbed with this one! MCS are top tier.

I saw MCS on the '08 Honda Civic Tour - I was there for the all too fleeting perfection of Pretty Odd-era Panic At The Disco, but had barely heard of MCS before this. All I can remember now is the one guy doing a handstand on his keyboard!

Commit this to memory is a great little album my favorite track is probably invisible monsters

I have the floppy disk version of IATM! Hah, so cool seeing this. They played a festival in Medford, NY (on Long Island) in August 2002 called This Island Earth. It was supposed to happen the next year (with NFG headlining?) or every year but it never did... that one year the line up was amazing (in hindsight.) I was new to this music so didn't know all the bands, including MCS who I was impressed with that day and bought the floppy version of IATM. The festival had Brand New, Taking Back Sunday, The Starting Line, Thursday, Midtown, Hot Rod Circuit, The Early November, From Autumn To Ashes, and a bunch more. was anyone else there? one of my favorite random one-off shows ever!

@chriscurrallo5700

3 жыл бұрын

the different track listing was interesting. in college my friend loved the song "Capital H" and I was like what song?! (this is waaayyy before streaming, etc. I had a land line in my dorm room and no cell phone) they'd play it at shows and he'd sing along, and I didn't know it because my 1st version of IATM didn't include it. Great song, though, as I came to enjoy it.

@chriscurrallo5700

3 жыл бұрын

also here per the recommendation of The Punk Rock MBA (Finn McKenty) - good call Finn!

Amazing!!! Yes dude!

My musical tastes are generally much heavier and darker than the bands you cover, however, I was dating a girl in the mid '00s who was really into the whole scene thing and I honestly didn't like the vast majority of it. I do remember thinking MCS was far and away the best band she exposed me to though. I think I probably started watching your videos because you covered a band I remember her being into and just enjoyed learning about all the bands I was always just peripherally aware of. Motion City were definitely different. Thoroughly enjoyed the video.

Their first albums are genuine classics in my opinion. Incredibly underrated band.

Back in 2007 (maybe 2008) I was at my usual hangout with my bff when I saw a friend sitting a table. He tells us to sit down, we get a drink and he says meet my friend Jesse. We say hey, then it's casually brought up that Jesse is in a band, Motion City Soundtrack (I don't remember if I had ever heard of them), and they had played a show earlier that night with The Postal Service(?) and I can't remember who else. So we leave the bar and walk to some guys apartment where a bunch of people are hanging out, drinking. Then we leave a bit later and it's me, my bff, Jesse and the dude from Postal Service - who is very drunk and keeps saying "we have the number one song in the UK" he says this a million times. So we end up at this very nice hotel downtown is his hotel room but he's so wasted, it's uncomfortable. Jesse and I go and get a room, grab my bff, postal service guy was passed out, and we check in to the room at like 2, 3am? Oh ya, MCS had a show in Vancouver BC the next day with All American Rejects and by bff told him we'd drive him instead of him taking their tour bus there. Jesse was a gentlemen even though he was sharing a bed with two fine, younger ladies. We get to Vancouver the next day (from Seattle) and he gets us tickets to the show and backstage. Tyson, from AAR was soooo drunk and immature and kinda rude. We said goodbye. Jesse hit us up next time he was in town and we all got together. I ended up on their tour bus, spent the night with I don't even know who in one of those bunks. Cringe. In the morning, I'm leaving and at the front of the bus is Justin(?) the lead singer. He had this deer in the headlights look. I was so hungover and about to do the walk of shame. All around great times. Jesse is a very nice, down to earth dude. Definitely not a creep either, like a lot of guys can be, sadly.

I really enjoy the 3 parts of Jhonny Craig man! you rock.

This is great!

@thecozyrep

5 жыл бұрын

thank you!!! :)

I saw them at warped tour 06. God, such a flash back.

saw them in a pizzeria basement with hellogoodbye and limbeck on my birthday one year

Dude I saw them earlier this year and it was so fucking good!!!

I always looked quickly at that All American Rejects cover and thought it was an old school lawnmower, too... but looking again it appears to be some rudimentary go kart?

They sound so much like Weezer and Jimmy Eat World

I saw them in 2005 they played a free show at my university

The only song I ever have known from the is L.G. FUAD and didn't know they made Tell me it's alright, but LGFUAD was a party song to me to just throw caution to the wind while I can.

MCS is everything.

That’s a picture of Silent Drive not Scatter the Ashes.

MPLS 💯

Yeah, it's like if that guy just would have gotten a haircut, wink wink, he could have done much more. I was in high school back then. We knew what we were doing.

3:27 Me when I stretch after getting out of bed.

NICE!

Into it over it was definitely influenced by mcs vocals