Commit This to Memory by Motion City Soundtrack

Commit This to Memory, Motion City Soundtrack's second studio album, came out on Epitaph on June 7, 2005, produced by Blink-182 bassist Mark Hoppus, who had grown fond of the Minneapolis band after they opened for his group. They spent six weeks in late 2004 cutting it at Seedy Underbelly Studios, a suburban house in the Valley Village part of Los Angeles turned into a studio, with Hoppus mostly helping lock down the arrangements.

Frontman Justin Pierre was getting treatment for alcohol abuse while the songs came together, and he pushed for sharper storytelling, taking cues from Tom Waits, Ben Folds and John K. Samson. The result is bright, hooky pop-punk with Jesse Johnson's Moog squiggling over the top and real anxiety underneath. It became their breakthrough and biggest record, and both the album and "Everything Is Alright" went gold.

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