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'''''Commit This to Memory''''' is the second studio album by American rock band [[Motion City Soundtrack]]. Produced by [[Mark Hoppus]], the album was released on June 7, 2005, in the United States by [[Epitaph Records]]. The Minnesota-based rock act formed in 1997, developing their emotionally-charged, pop-punk sound over the interim years. Their debut
act for multi-platinum group [[Blink-182]]. Blink bassist Hoppus took a liking to the quintet, offering to produce their next studio effort.
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Pierre characterized Hoppus as both "very involved and not involved", with his job as producer mainly giving notes on the sound of the instruments and offering suggestions to improve songs. Hoppus mostly worked with the band on arrangements, believing the songs were too packed and "needed to breathe".<ref name="Hoppus"/> Hoppus mentioned that label politics had hindered the creativity of Blink's ''[[Take Off Your Pants and Jacket]]'' (2001), and did not want to see the same fate befall the band.<ref name=ca>{{cite news| author=Keith Carman| date =April 27, 2005| title =Motion City Soundtrack Give Mad Props To Blink's Hoppus| work=[[ChartAttack]]}}</ref> He was "meticulous" in his approach, partially due to the fact that it was his first production job. Hoppus was the one who advised the band to merge two previously unrelated songs—a slower, softer song and a pulsating drum track—into one, which became "Time Turned Fragile".<ref name=pierrepodcast/> The frontman of [[Fall Out Boy]], [[Patrick Stump]], contributed guest vocals to "[[Everything Is Alright]]", and Hoppus to "Hangman".<ref name="liner">{{cite AV media notes | title=Commit This to Memory| year=2005| others=[[Motion City Soundtrack]] | type=liner notes | publisher=Epitaph | ___location=US | id=86750-2}}</ref> With production completed, Hoppus was very excited for the band that he felt was on the cusp of "great things", recalling, "After six weeks of these guys living all together in two rooms of this house with a studio attached they created this amazingly beautiful and honest album. Justin's lyrics are so brutally truthful."<ref name="Hoppus"/> The group completed recording in November 2004, and judged final mixes over the interim months.<ref name="cleve"/> Pierre later called ''Commit This to Memory'' his personal favorite album by the band.<ref name="noisey" />
==Music and lyrics==
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In a 2015 interview, Pierre notes that fans have told him that they find ''Commit This to Memory'' a "winter album", to which he agrees, noting the unintentional mention of the new year in several songs.<ref name=pierrepodcast/> His lyricism on ''Commit This to Memory'' centralizes around [[Personal development|change]] and, in his words, "being a complete fuckup, yet, at the same time, being somewhat successful".<ref name="altpress05"/> On the record, he "addresses the themes of [[substance abuse]], [[psychological disorder]]s and failing relationships."<ref name="pga">{{cite news|url=http://puregrainaudio.com/interviews/interview-with-motion-city-soundtrack-vocalist-and-guitarist-justin-pierre-discusses-commit-this-to-memory-songwriting-and-the-shortest-lifetime-ever|title=Interview with Motion City Soundtrack; Vocalist and Guitarist Justin Pierre Discusses 'Commit This To Memory', Songwriting and the Shortest Lifetime Ever|date=January 12, 2015|author=Justin Franco|access-date=January 15, 2015|publisher=Pure Grain Audio |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150206083534/http://puregrainaudio.com/interviews/interview-with-motion-city-soundtrack-vocalist-and-guitarist-justin-pierre-discusses-commit-this-to-memory-songwriting-and-the-shortest-lifetime-ever |archive-date=Feb 6, 2015}}</ref> Pierre penned "[[Everything Is Alright]]" as a summary of his OCD ([[Obsessive–compulsive disorder]]) tendencies. He intended to utilize his [[social anxiety]] and fears in the song's form, which he has since employed in numerous other compositions. "I don't think the [phrase] "[[tongue-in-cheek]]" is correct, but it's something where the verses are one thing and then the chorus is another, but it's sort of like giving yourself a pep talk", said Pierre.<ref name="AP">{{cite magazine|url=http://www.altpress.com/features/entry/backtracking_the_story_of_everything_is_alright_by_motion_city_soundtrack|title=BackTracking: The story of "Everything Is Alright" by Motion City Soundtrack|author= Jason Pettigrew|date=July 29, 2013|magazine=[[Alternative Press (music magazine)|Alternative Press]]|access-date=April 15, 2014 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130801165943/http://www.altpress.com/features/entry/backtracking_the_story_of_everything_is_alright_by_motion_city_soundtrack |archive-date=Aug 1, 2013}}</ref> The song's lyrics include hating such mundane things as "theme parks, flying, strangers, [and] waiting in line," things that Pierre genuinely disliked at the time of the song's writing.<ref name="AP" /> For the record, he intended to simplify his lyrics to enhance [[storytelling]] and he drew inspiration from [[Tom Waits]], [[Ben Folds]] and [[John K. Samson]]'s writing styles.<ref name="altpress05"/> Keeping in the Waits/Folds inspiration, Pierre strove to write from another person's point of view; in the case of "Time Turned Fragile", it is sung from the perspective of his father.<ref name=rs>{{cite journal| last =Robertson| first =Jessica| date =June 9, 2005|url=https://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/motion-city-soundtrack-get-committed-20050609|title =Motion City Get Committed| journal =[[Rolling Stone (magazine)|Rolling Stone]]| issue =976 | issn =0035-791X }}</ref> Pierre has also suggested the [[Carpenters (band)|Carpenters]] were an unlikely influence,
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Pierre has in retrospect labeled half of the album's writing as being completed while inebriated and the other half while getting sober.<ref name="noisey"/> For example, he penned the lyrics to "Attractive Today" and "Time Turned Fragile" while drunk in his apartment, in a "sad and lonely place".<ref name=pierrepodcast/> In this approach, words mostly "just came out", and were not substantially revised. In addition, he was listening to the 2003 album ''[[Reconstruction Site]]'' by [[the Weakerthans]], and found himself inspired by the songwriting of frontman [[John K. Samson]].<ref name=pierrepodcast/> Pierre would often take lyrics from other bands songs for song titles; "Time Turned Fragile" is lifted from a lyric in [[Limbeck]]'s "[[Hi, Everything's Great|Julia]]", while "Together We'll Ring in the New Year" was pulled from the Tom Waits song "[[Franks Wild Years|Please Wake Me Up]]".<ref name=pierrepodcast/> "[[L.G. Fuad]]"—which stands for "Let's Get Fucked Up and Die"—grew out of a night on Motion City Soundtrack's 2003 UK tour with [[The All-American Rejects]], in which the latter band's merchandise manager was severely inebriated.<ref name="altpress05"/> He stood on the merchandise stand and shouted what became the song's refrain. All involved found great humor in the "mantra", which went on to be printed on business cards as a joke.<ref name=altpress05>{{cite journal| date =July 2005| title =Motion City Soundtrack Article| journal = [[Alternative Press (music magazine)|Alternative Press]]| issue = 204| pages =129–130 | issn =1065-1667 }}</ref> "Hold Me Down" was inspired by a former roommate of Pierre's. After she had moved out, Pierre found a portion of her math homework in a couch cushion, leading to him imagining a scenario of finding a letter from a departed lover.<ref name=pierrepodcast>{{cite video|people = Lucy, Evan (Interviewer); Pierre, Justin (Interviewee)|date = January 15, 2015|title = Episode 025: Justin Pierre (10-Year Motion City Soundtrack Retrospective)|url = http://ec.libsyn.com/p/4/0/0/4005c806b8ff4410/VV025.mp3?d13a76d516d9dec20c3d276ce028ed5089ab1ce3dae902ea1d06ca8634d4cc5d4645&c_id=8177547|format = mp3|medium = Podcast|publisher = Voice & Verse|access-date = January 15, 2015|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20150115195117/http://ec.libsyn.com/p/4/0/0/4005c806b8ff4410/VV025.mp3?d13a76d516d9dec20c3d276ce028ed5089ab1ce3dae902ea1d06ca8634d4cc5d4645&c_id=8177547|archive-date = January 15, 2015|url-status = dead}}</ref>
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