Song:Everything Is Alright
Album:Commit This To Memory: Deluxe Edition
Everything Is Alright is the signature song of the punk influenced pop band Motion City Soundtrack. The 2005 album Commit This To Memory is their biggest selling album. Motion City Soundtrack are from Minneapolis. Lead singer and songwriter Justin Pierre and guitarist Joshua Cain had previously worked together in the band Saddest Girl Story. They formed Motion City Soundtrack in 1997. They released a single in 1999 and they hired musicians to tour as they found there weren't a lot of places to play locally. They added permanent members in 2001. They were Jesse Johnson on keyboards, Matthew Taylor on bass and Tony Thaxton on drums. They recorded an album and sold it out of their tour van. They got several offers from record companies. They signed with Epitaph Records owned by Bad Religion guitarist Brett Gurewitz. They re-recorded a lot of their album I Am The Movie and it was released in 2003. They were on tour with Blink-182 for most of 2004. They asked bassist Mark Hoppus to produce their next album. Commit This To Memory was released in 2005. The album did well and the video for Everything Is Alright was very popular. Pierre says he wrote the song about his OCD. Motion City Soundtrack was never going to be a mainstream band. But Epitaph was a good label for the kind of music they were doing. And sales expectations are lower on a smaller label. Commit This To Memory is available in a Deluxe Edition with a bonus track and a DVD with a band documentary and live footage. Motion City Soundtrack left Epitaph for Columbia for the 2010 CD My Dinosaur Life. When sales were disappointing, Columbia dropped them after one album. It was supposed to be a multi album deal. They returned to Epitaph for the 2012 CD Go. The touring was wearing on them. The schedule forced Tony Thaxton to leave in 2013. After the 2015 album Panic Stations, Pierre and Cain decided to end Motion City Soundtrack in 2016. Pierre has formed The Rapture Twins and he has released a solo album. The band simply got tired of the constant touring for twenty years. Here's the video for Everything Is Alright by Motion City Soundtrack.
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