Review: Motion City Soundtrack My Dinosaur Life
Krista Thresh
Issue date: 2/3/10 Section: Lifestyles
Motion City Soundtrack is easily one of the greatest pop/punk bands of our generation. The Minnesota band that formed in 1997 had a great start to their music career with the 2003 album I Am the Movie, but has grown from their first big hit, "The Future Freaks Me Out" to the more mature, "A Lifeless Ordinary (Need a Little Help)" on the new CD.
There's no doubt Motion City Soundtrack's newly released album, My Dinosaur Life, will be a huge hit among younger generations and can be compared to Plain White T's, a more pop version of New Found Glory or The All-American Rejects.
The band reunited with Blink 182's Mark Hoppus, who produced their 2005 album, Commit This to Memory, to create the 12-track catchy album. From the first song on the disk, "Worker Bee," it was known that the Motion City Soundtrack everyone knows and loves was back.
My Dinosaur Life then moves to one of the best tracks, "A Lifeless Ordinary (Need a Little Help)," which is upbeat from the first second to the last. This song will, without a doubt, be one of their top hits off the 2010 album.
"Disappear," the fourth song on the disk is another great track that begins with lyrics, "To the deep end/To the hard line/Hold this trick together, man/Hold this trick together if you can."
You can't go wrong with this album because even after the slower track six, "Pulp Fiction," track eight brings the peppy mood back even with its darker lyrics. Can you imagine wanting to jump on your bed and singing along with a hair brush in hand to the lyrics, "It's like a bad dream/Something from the back of the magazine/Black and white and cheaply put together/Like a slasher film/I'm torn in opposite directions/The plot sucks but the killings are gorgeous."
"@!#?@!," is effortlessly the greatest song on the whole album. The symbols as the song title is exactly what you would believe it is. Motion City Soundtrack may constantly drop the F-bomb every other line in the ninth track, but the lyrics in the three-minute long song is what everyone wants to tell people at some point in the day. "Go f--k yourselves/Leave us alone."
The album ends with another slower song to get you wanting more of the Minnesota boys. "The Weakends" concludes the CD, unless you bought the album off iTunes, as there is a bonus track, "Sunny Day." If you're a fan of pop/punk/rock bands, you will absolutely love this CD because it's undoubtedly one of Motion City Soundtrack's best albums yet.
Critic's Rating: 4 of 4 stars.
There's no doubt Motion City Soundtrack's newly released album, My Dinosaur Life, will be a huge hit among younger generations and can be compared to Plain White T's, a more pop version of New Found Glory or The All-American Rejects.
The band reunited with Blink 182's Mark Hoppus, who produced their 2005 album, Commit This to Memory, to create the 12-track catchy album. From the first song on the disk, "Worker Bee," it was known that the Motion City Soundtrack everyone knows and loves was back.
My Dinosaur Life then moves to one of the best tracks, "A Lifeless Ordinary (Need a Little Help)," which is upbeat from the first second to the last. This song will, without a doubt, be one of their top hits off the 2010 album.
"Disappear," the fourth song on the disk is another great track that begins with lyrics, "To the deep end/To the hard line/Hold this trick together, man/Hold this trick together if you can."
You can't go wrong with this album because even after the slower track six, "Pulp Fiction," track eight brings the peppy mood back even with its darker lyrics. Can you imagine wanting to jump on your bed and singing along with a hair brush in hand to the lyrics, "It's like a bad dream/Something from the back of the magazine/Black and white and cheaply put together/Like a slasher film/I'm torn in opposite directions/The plot sucks but the killings are gorgeous."
"@!#?@!," is effortlessly the greatest song on the whole album. The symbols as the song title is exactly what you would believe it is. Motion City Soundtrack may constantly drop the F-bomb every other line in the ninth track, but the lyrics in the three-minute long song is what everyone wants to tell people at some point in the day. "Go f--k yourselves/Leave us alone."
The album ends with another slower song to get you wanting more of the Minnesota boys. "The Weakends" concludes the CD, unless you bought the album off iTunes, as there is a bonus track, "Sunny Day." If you're a fan of pop/punk/rock bands, you will absolutely love this CD because it's undoubtedly one of Motion City Soundtrack's best albums yet.
Critic's Rating: 4 of 4 stars.
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