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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. Motion City Soundtrack, formed in 1997, had first found success with their debut album, ''I Am the Movie'' (2002). The band toured in the interim years, creating positive word-of-mouth. In 2004, the band joined Blink-182 on the road for a string of shows, which led to their bassist, Mark Hoppus, joining the band in the studio for his first producing effort. Recorded over six weeks in late 2004, ''Commit This to Memory'' was created largely at Seedy Underbelly Studios, a suburban home converted into a studio in Los Angeles' Valley Village region. The album was written partially in their hometown of Minneapolis and partially in Los Angeles, during a period in which frontman Justin Pierre was seeking treatment for alcohol abuse. He hoped for his lyricism to better emphasize storytelling, inspired by the lyrics of Tom Waits, Ben Folds and John K. Samson. Hoppus mainly worked with the band on completing song arrangements. The album became the band's breakthrough, with lead single "Everything Is Alright" becoming the band's signature song. The album peaked at number two on ''Billboard'' Independent Albums chart. The singles' music videos achieved rotation on cable channel MTV2 while the band toured alongside Fall Out Boy and Panic! at the Disco on the Nintendo Fusion Tour, later also joining the Warped Tour for a stint. In 2014, ''The A.V. Club'' referred to the album as a classic of pop punk, "full of hook-laden, keyboard-assisted songs whose bright melodies don’t mask the despair and self-loathing lurking beneath them." ==Background== Motion City Soundtrack formed in 1997 in Minneapolis, Minnesota. The band signed to Epitaph Records in 2003 after recording ''I Am the Movie'', their debut, independently and selling copies of it out of the back of their tour van for a year.〔 Motion City became part of a slew of Epitaph signings, including Matchbook Romance, Scatter the Ashes and From First To Last, amid concerns the Southern California label had strayed too far from its roots, and seemed "a little too emo." By the time the band began production on their sophomore record, ''I Am the Movie'' had sold nearly 62,000 copies.〔 The group had accumulated significant buzz, and were regarded as a "must-see" act on the Warped Tour 2004.〔 Mark Hoppus' involvement stems from when an Atticus Clothing employee played him ''I Am the Movie''. He was so taken with it that he raved about the band in ''Rolling Stone'', inviting them to open for his group, Blink-182 on their 2004 European tour. On the trek, he became good friends with the musicians.〔〔 He told them that he had purchased an abundance of recording gear and amplifiers for the previous Blink-182 album and told the band of his interest in recording music from a production standpoint.〔 At the final show of the tour, guitarist Joshua Cain went to Hoppus' dressing room and asked him to produce their next record. Although Hoppus had never produced anything before, he was excited to be a part of the album and accepted the offer.〔〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Commit This to Memory」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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