American rock band Motion City Soundtrack recorded songs for six studio albums, various soundtracks, compilations, and non-album singles. The majority of the group's original material was written by vocalist and guitarist Justin Pierre. The band also recorded cover versions of other artists' songs at various points throughout their career, including by the Beatles, Limbeck, the Police, R.E.M., the Rentals, Rilo Kiley, Trampled by Turtles, and the Weakerthans. In all, the group has recorded 111 songs, nine of which are covers.
| Indicates single release | |
| Indicates cover versions | |
| Album | Year | Ref. | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| scope=row | "1000 Paper Cranes" | Kids for America | 2000 | ||
| scope=row | "4th of December" | Kids for America | 2000 | ||
| scope=row | "@!#?@ | " | My Dinosaur Life | 2010 | |
| scope=row | "Alcohol Eyes" | Go | 2012 | ||
| scope=row style="background-color:#D8BFD8" | "A Life Less Ordinary (Need a Little Help)" | My Dinosaur Life | 2010 | ||
| scope=row | "Always Running Out of Time" | Almost Alice | 2010 | [1] | |
| scope=row | "Antonia" | Even If It Kills Me | 2007 | ||
| scope=row | "Anything at All" | Panic Stations | 2015 | [2] | |
| scope=row | "A-OK" | I Am the Movie | 2003 | ||
| scope=row | "Attractive Today" | Commit This to Memory | 2005 | [3] | |
| scope=row | "Autographs & Apologies " | I Am the Movie | 2003 | ||
| scope=row | "Back to the Beat" | Back to the Beat | 2000 | [4] | |
| scope=row | "Bad Idea" | Go | 2012 | ||
| scope=row | "Better Open the Door" | Commit This to Memory | 2005 | ||
| scope=row | "Bomb Pops" | Kids for America | 2000 | ||
| scope=row | "Boombox Generation" | I Am the Movie | 2003 | ||
| scope=row | "Bottom Feeder" | Go | 2012 | ||
| scope=row | "Boxelder" | Go | 2012 | ||
| scope=row | "Broken Arrow" | Panic Stations | 2015 | ||
| scope=row style="background-color:#D8BFD8" | "Broken Heart" | Even If It Kills Me | 2007 | ||
| scope=row | "Calling All Cops" | Even If It Kills Me | 2007 | ||
| scope=row | "Cambridge" | Kids for America | 2000 | [5] [6] | |
| scope=row | "Can't Finish What You Started" | Even If It Kills Me | 2007 | ||
| scope=row | "Capital H" | Back to the Beat | 2000 | [7] | |
| scope=row style="background-color:#D8BFD8" | "Carolina" | "Promenade / Carolina" | 1999 | ||
| scope=row | "Circuits and Wires" | Go | 2012 | [8] | |
| scope=row | "The Coma Kid" | Go | 2012 | ||
| scope=row | "The Conversation" | Even If It Kills Me | 2007 | ||
| scope=row style="background-color:#D8BFD8" | "Crooked Ways" | Non-album single | 2020 | ||
| scope=row | "Days Will Run Away" | Panic Stations | 2015 | ||
| scope=row | "Delirium" | My Dinosaur Life | 2010 | ||
| scope=row | "A Dip in the Ocean" | Saving for a Custom Van | 2020 | [9] | |
| scope=row style="background-color:#D8BFD8" | "Disappear" | My Dinosaur Life | 2010 | ||
| scope=row | "Don't Call It a Comeback" | I Am the Movie | 2003 | ||
| scope=row | "Everyone Will Die" | Go | 2012 | ||
| scope=row style="background-color:#D8BFD8" | "Everything Is Alright" | Commit This to Memory | 2005 | ||
| scope=row | "Everything Is Fine" | Panic Stations (Japanese Bonus Track) | 2016 | ||
| scope=row | "Even If It Kills Me" | Even If It Kills Me | 2007 | ||
| scope=row | "Feel Like Rain" | Commit This to Memory | 2005 | ||
| scope=row | "Fell in Love Without You" | Even If It Kills Me | 2007 | [10] | |
| scope=row | "Floating Down the River" | Go | 2012 | ||
| scope=row style="background-color:#D8BFD8" | "The Future Freaks Me Out" | I Am the Movie | 2003 | ||
| scope=row | "Give Up/Give In" | Go | 2012 | ||
| scope=row | "Gravity" | Panic Stations | 2015 | ||
| scope=row | "Hangman" | Commit This to Memory | 2005 | ||
| scope=row | "Happy Anniversary" | Go | 2012 | ||
| scope=row | "Heavy Boots" | Panic Stations | 2015 | ||
| scope=row | "Hello Helicopter" | Even If It Kills Me | 2007 | ||
| scope=row | "The Here Away" | Back to the Beat | 2000 | ||
| scope=row style="background-color:#D8BFD8" | "Her Words Destroyed My Planet" | My Dinosaur Life | 2010 | ||
| scope=row style="background-color:#FFE6EA" | "Here Comes the Sun" | Minnesota Beatle Project Vol. 3 | 2011 | [11] | |
| scope=row | "History Lesson" | My Dinosaur Life | 2010 | ||
| scope=row style="background-color:#D8BFD8" | "Hold Me Down" | Commit This to Memory | 2005 | ||
| scope=row | "Hysteria" | My Dinosaur Life | 2010 | ||
| scope=row | "I Can Feel You " | Panic Stations | 2015 | ||
| scope=row | "Indoor Living" | I Am the Movie | 2003 | ||
| scope=row style="background-color:#D8BFD8" | "Inside Out" | Non-album single | 2013 | ||
| scope=row | "Intersection" | Kids for America | 2000 | ||
| scope=row | "Invisible Monsters" | Commit This to Memory (Deluxe Edition) | 2006 | [12] | |
| scope=row style="background-color:#D8BFD8" | "It Had to Be You" | Even If It Kills Me | 2007 | ||
| scope=row style="background-color:#D8BFD8" | "It's a Pleasure to Meet You" | Panic Stations | 2015 | ||
| scope=row | "It's (Sort of) A Pleasure to Meet You" (with Dan Campbell) | (Sort of) A Song for Patsy Cline / It's (Sort of) a Pleasure to Meet You | 2015 | [13] | |
| scope=row | "Last Night" | Even If It Kills Me | 2007 | ||
| scope=row style="background-color:#FFE6EA" | "Left and Leaving" | Friends | 2014 | [14] | |
| scope=row style="background-color:#D8BFD8" | "L.G. FUAD" | Commit This to Memory | 2005 | ||
| scope=row style="background-color:#D8BFD8" | "Lose Control" | Panic Stations | 2015 | ||
| scope=row | "Make Out Kids" | Commit This to Memory | 2005 | ||
| scope=row | "Major Leagues" | Making Moves Vol. 6 | 2012 | ||
| scope=row | "Mary Without Sound" | I Am the Movie | 2003 | ||
| scope=row | "Modern Chemistry" | I Am the Movie | 2003 | ||
| scope=row style="background-color:#D8BFD8" | "My Favorite Accident" | I Am the Movie | 2003 | ||
| scope=row style="background-color:#FFE6EA" | "My Valuable Hunting Knife" | "The Future Freaks Me Out" | 2003 | [15] | |
| scope=row | "Not Asking You to Leave" | Even If It Kills Me | 2007 | ||
| scope=row | "Opening Night" | Back to the Beat | 2000 | ||
| scope=row | "Over It Now" | Panic Stations | 2015 | ||
| scope=row | "Perfect Teeth" | I Am the Movie | 2003 | ||
| scope=row style="background-color:#FFE6EA" | "Pictures of Success" | Making Moves Vol. 6 | 2012 | ||
| scope=row | "Plymouth Rock" | Even If It Kills Me | 2007 | ||
| scope=row | "Point of Extinction" | Even If It Kills Me | 2007 | ||
| scope=row style="background-color:#FFE6EA" | "Pop Song 89" | Punk Goes 80's | 2005 | [16] | |
| scope=row style="background-color:#D8BFD8" | "Promenade" | "Promenade / Carolina" | 1999 | [17] | |
| scope=row | "Pulp Fiction" | My Dinosaur Life | 2010 | ||
| scope=row | "Red Dress" | I Am the Movie | 2003 | ||
| scope=row | "Resolution" | Commit This to Memory | 2005 | ||
| scope=row | "The Samurai Code" | Panic Stations | 2015 | ||
| scope=row | "Severance" | Making Moves Vol. 6 | 2012 | [18] | |
| scope=row | "Shiver" | I Am the Movie | 2003 | ||
| scope=row | "Skin and Bones" | My Dinosaur Life | 2010 | ||
| scope=row | "So Long Farewell" | My Dinosaur Life | 2010 | ||
| scope=row | "Son of a Gun" | Go | 2012 | ||
| scope=row | "Stand Too Close" | My Dinosaur Life | 2010 | ||
| scope=row style="background-color:#D8BFD8" | "Stop Talking" | Soundtrack for the film 'Dìdi | 2024 | [19] | |
| scope=row | "Sunday Warning" | Kids for America | 2000 | ||
| scope=row | "Sunny Day" | My Dinosaur Life | 2010 | ||
| scope=row style="background-color:#FFE6EA" | "The Sun Woke Up the Whole State" | Motion City Soundtrack / Limbeck | 2004 | [20] | |
| scope=row style="background-color:#D8BFD8" | "This Is for Real" | Even If It Kills Me | 2007 | ||
| scope=row | "Throw Down" | Back to the Beat | 2000 | ||
| scope=row style="background-color:#D8BFD8" | "Timelines" | Go | 2012 | ||
| scope=row | "Time Turned Fragile" | Commit This to Memory | 2005 | ||
| scope=row style="background-color:#D8BFD8" | "TKO" | Panic Stations | 2015 | ||
| scope=row | "Together We'll Ring in the New Year" | Commit This to Memory | 2005 | ||
| scope=row style="background-color:#D8BFD8" | "True Romance" | Go | 2012 | ||
| scope=row style="background-color:#FFE6EA" | "Truth Hits Everybody" | 2005 | [21] | ||
| scope=row style="background-color:#FFE6EA" | "Waiting" | Lost Out in the Machinery – Songs of the Rentals | 2010 | [22] | |
| scope=row style="background-color:#FFE6EA" | "Wait So Long" | Wait So Long / Disappear | 2011 | [23] | |
| scope=row | "The Weakends" | My Dinosaur Life | 2010 | ||
| scope=row | "When "You're" Around" | Matchbook Romance / Motion City Soundtrack | 2004 | [24] | |
| scope=row | "Where I Belong" | Even If It Kills Me | 2007 | ||
| scope=row | "Worker Bee" | My Dinosaur Life | 2010 | [25] | |
| scope=row | "The Worst Is Yet to Come" | Go | 2012 | ||
| scope=row | "The Worst Part..." | Even If It Kills Me | 2007 | ||