Motion City Soundtrack "I Am the Movie" (20th Anniversary) 2025-12-12 Since Verve had just decided

Since Verve had just decided to include alternative music to their label

the band started recording material at Celestial Recordings in Wrexham

Gleefully racing through samples by everyone from The Beatles to Johnny Cash (the album has spawned entire websites devoted to tracing the sources

but if you want concrete proof that The Weirdos were the great unsung heroes of L

youthful energy that would earn the band the respect of The Descendents

Motion City Soundtrack "I Am the Movie" (20th Anniversary) 2025-12-12 Since Verve had just decidedBursting at the seams with creativity, this debut disk is bristling with electric guitars and swirling indie synth sounds that flail and furl themselves between the melody lines. The lyrics are bright and clever, funny and tragic, with a wry wit and a keen knack for innuendo often offering the listener an original and skewed commentary on pop culture. Although the sound is by definition loud rock n' roll it's got an amazing sense of harmonic flow and