| Artist: | Motion City Soundtrack |
| Studio: | 6 |
| Live: | 1 |
| Ep: | 5 |
| Singles: | 19 |
| Music Videos: | 15 |
| Option: | 5 |
| Option Name: | Split, EPs |
The following is the discography of Motion City Soundtrack, an American rock band that formed in Minneapolis, Minnesota in 1997. The band's line-up consisted of vocalist and guitarist Justin Pierre, lead guitarist Joshua Cain, keyboardist Jesse Johnson, bassist Matthew Taylor, and drummer Tony Thaxton. Over the course of their nearly twenty-year career, the group toured heavily and released six studio albums, the majority on independent label Epitaph Records. The band's sound, at times described as pop punk or emo, made notable use of the Moog synthesizer.
Their first album, I Am the Movie, was originally self-released in 2002 before the group signed to Epitaph, which re-released the album in 2003. Their breakthrough album, Commit This to Memory, arrived in 2005; it achieved the highest sales in the band's discography, selling over 500,000 albums worldwide.[1] Their third record, Even If It Kills Me (2007), also achieved commercial success. The band briefly signed to major label Columbia for their fourth album, My Dinosaur Life (2010), which represented their best performance on U.S. charts, peaking at number 15 on the Billboard 200. They rejoined Epitaph for Go in 2012 and Panic Stations in 2015, both of which represented large drop-offs in sales and chart performance. The group took a much-needed break in 2016 and then began playing shows again in January 2020. They're still touring and recording today.
The band's discography consists of consists of six studio albums, one live album, twenty singles, five extended plays, and five split EPs. The group also produced fifteen music videos, and appeared on numerous compilation albums.
| Album details | Peak chart positions | Sales | Certifications | |||||||||||||
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| US [2] | US Ind. [3] | US Alt. [4] | US Rock [5] | AUS [6] | UK [7] | |||||||||||
| I Am the Movie |
| — | 42 | — | — | — | — | |||||||||
| Commit This to Memory |
| 72 | 2 | — | — | — | — |
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| Even If It Kills Me |
| 16 | 1 | 5 | 5 | 52 | 113 |
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| My Dinosaur Life |
| 15 | — | 3 | 3 | 50 | 191 |
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| Go |
| 46 | 8 | 8 | 21 | 84 | — | |||||||||
| Panic Stations |
| 141 | 22 | 18 | 28 | 80 | — | |||||||||
| "—" denotes a recording that did not chart or was not released in that territory. | ||||||||||||||||
| Title | EP details | |
|---|---|---|
| Kids for America | [11]
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| Back to the Beat | [12]
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| Live at Lollapalooza 2007: Motion City Soundtrack | [13]
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| Acoustic EP |
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| Making Moves 7" |
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| Extended play details | Other artist(s) | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Motion City Soundtrack / Schatzi[14] |
| Schatzi | |
| Matchbook Romance / Motion City Soundtrack |
| Matchbook Romance | |
| Motion City Soundtrack / Limbeck |
| Limbeck | |
| Wait So Long / Disappear |
| Trampled By Turtles | |
| (Sort Of) A Song for Patsy Cline / It's (Sort Of) A Pleasure to Meet You |
| The Wonder Years |
| Year | Peak chart positions | Certifications | Album | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US Bub. [15] | AUS [16] | UK [17] | UK Indie [18] | ||||||
| "Promenade / Carolina" | 1999 | — | — | — | — | ||||
| "The Future Freaks Me Out" | 2003 | — | — | 156 | — | I Am the Movie | |||
| "My Favorite Accident" | — | — | — | — | |||||
| "Everything Is Alright" | 2005 | 16 | — | — | — |
| Commit This to Memory | ||
| "Hold Me Down" | 2006 | — | — | — | — | ||||
| "L.G. Fuad" | — | — | — | — | |||||
| "Broken Heart" | 2007 | — | — | — | — | Even If It Kills Me | |||
| "This Is for Real" | — | 48 | 154 | 6 | |||||
| "It Had to Be You" | 2008 | — | — | — | — | ||||
| "Fell in Love Without You" (Acoustic) | — | — | — | — | Even If It Kills Me – Acoustic EP | ||||
| "Disappear" | 2009 | — | — | — | — | My Dinosaur Life | |||
| "Her Words Destroyed My Planet" | — | — | — | — | |||||
| "A Lifeless Ordinary (Need a Little Help)" | 2010 | — | — | — | — | ||||
| "True Romance" | 2012 | — | — | — | — | Go | |||
| "Timelines" | — | — | — | — | |||||
| "Inside Out" | 2013 | — | — | — | — | ||||
| "TKO" | 2015 | — | — | — | — | Panic Stations | |||
| "Lose Control" | — | — | — | — | |||||
| "It's a Pleasure to Meet You" | — | — | — | — | |||||
| "Crooked Ways" | 2020 | — | — | — | — | ||||
| "Stop Talking" | 2024 | — | — | — | |||||
| "—" denotes a recording that did not chart or was not released in that territory. | |||||||||
| Year | Album | |
|---|---|---|
| "When "You're" Around" | 2005 | Commit This to Memory |
| "Attractive Today" | 2006 |
| Year | Album | |
|---|---|---|
| "Capital H" (Live) "Red Dress" (Live) | 2004 | Mountain Dew Presents: Dew Music Showcase |
| "My Favorite Accident" (Acoustic) | [19] | |
| "Pop Song 89" | 2005 | Punk Goes 80's[20] |
| "Truth Hits Everybody" | [21] | |
| "The Worst Part" | 2006 | Sound of Superman[22] |
| "Always Running Out of Time" | 2010 | Almost Alice[23] |
| "Waiting" | Lost Out in the Machinery – The Songs of the Rentals[24] | |
| "Here Comes the Sun" | 2011 | Minnesota Beatle Project Vol. 3[25] |
| "Left and Leaving" | 2014 | Friends |
| Year | Title | Director |
|---|---|---|
| 2003 | "The Future Freaks Me Out" | Andrew Carranza[26] |
| "My Favorite Accident" | ||
| 2005 | "Everything Is Alright" | Christopher Mills, Chris Grismer[27] |
| 2006 | "Hold Me Down" | Matt McDermitt[28] |
| "L.G. Fuad" | Josh Thacker[29] | |
| 2007 | "Broken Heart" | Jesse Cain[30] |
| "This Is for Real" | Jay Martin[31] | |
| 2008 | "It Had to Be You" | Lauren Simpson[32] |
| "Fell in Love Without You" (Acoustic) | Jesse Cain[33] [34] | |
| 2009 | "Disappear" | |
| 2010 | "Her Words Destroyed My Planet" | Isaac Rentz[35] |
| "A Lifeless Ordinary (Need a Little Help)" | Shane Nelson[36] | |
| 2012 | "True Romance" | Jesse Cain |
| 2015 | "Lose Control" | Dan Huiting |
| "It's a Pleasure to Meet You" | David Prindle |