My Dinosaur Life
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My Dinosaur Life is the fourth studio album
by American pop punk
band Motion City Soundtrack
, released through Columbia Records
on January 19, 2010. It is the band's first album on a major label, after they moved from Epitaph Records
in June 2008. Akin to their second album, Commit This to Memory
(2005), the album was produced by Blink-182
singer-bassist Mark Hoppus
.
My Dinosaur Life was released to universal acclaim from critics; multiple reviewers stated that the album is the best of the band's career and called it a resounding success for the band. The album debuted at number 15 on the US Billboard 200
, with nearly 30,000 copies sold in its first week.
, Motion City Soundtrack signed a multiple-album deal with Columbia Records
in late 2006, months prior to releasing their previous album Even If It Kills Me
. Following the move, guitarist Joshua Cain said "it just felt right to make the move when there was the right interest there". With the new signing, the band's promotional team aimed to develop a balance between the benefits of a new major label and their previous grass-roots approach.
The band's Columbia debut was produced by Blink-182
frontman Mark Hoppus
, who also worked with the band for their second album, Commit This to Memory
. Hoppus revealed that the band wanted to follow in the tracks of Commit This to Memory, but push things further. He said the album would incorporate a heavier, more experimental side of the group. "There's an edge on this record that I'm really excited about getting into," he said. "But it still has all the catchiness of everything that I personally love about Motion City Soundtrack. As a fan, it's really exciting to get to work with them again and help them flesh out this new vision of themselves."
The band announced they were to begin recording sessions with Hoppus in April 2009. Due to drummer Tony Thaxton's broken arm, the band were forced to rearrange the sequence in which they recorded. The drums were replaced by electronic beats and drum machine
s until Thaxton was able to play properly in the last week of recording. It was confirmed recording had been completed on June 28, 2009.
with Mark Hoppus, in which it was revealed that the band's fourth album would be titled My Dinosaur Life. The album title was derived from frontman Justin Pierre misquoting a line ("My dragon life") from the 2008 film American Teen
.
Throughout November 2009, Pierre undertook a promotional tour called On the Dino Trail. Along with the band's tour manager and a friend, Pierre made appearances and played acoustic shows throughout the US Midwest and East Coast. The tour's itinerary was planned with fans' help through Twitter
, with it all being chronicled online at MyDinosaurLife.com. Guitarist Joshua Cain commented that he felt their use of Twitter had helped reconnect the band with fans; "I feel like in the last few years, that stuff's gotten harder to do... [Twitter has] really re-engaged us as a band to be able to communicate with everybody." The band played three sold-out Chicago shows in mid-December, each of which featured one of the band's previous records in full. They then composed a touring schedule which would include supporting Weezer
on several dates in December and January, as well as beginning a headlining tour in late January covering the United States. Then following the album's release they recommenced touring, and within the first three months following the album's release the band travelled to Australia for the national Soundwave festival, as well as Japan and the United Kingdom.
On November 3, 2009, My Dinosaur Life was announced to have a release date of January 19, 2010. Pre-orders for the album went on sale through the band's official website on November 13, 2009. The pre-orders came in three varieties: digital, standard and deluxe edition. The physical form of the deluxe edition features five bonus tracks, a hard-bound book with six 7-inch picture discs, a signed Pulp Fiction
—style lyric booklet and album artwork for each song by Joe Ledbetter. The digital deluxe edition includes the bonus tracks and the artwork in PDF
form.
In October 2009, the band released the first song off of the album, "Disappear", as a free download on their website. The band released a music video online for the song on November 19, 2009. "Her Words Destroyed My Planet" was first publicly released in November 2009 on Spin
s website for streaming, the song was one of the site's most popular streams in 2009. Becoming the album's first single
, "Her Words" was serviced to modern rock radio in December 2009, before having a music video released on January 11, 2010. A third song, "A Lifeless Ordinary (Need a Little Help)", was also released on Spin prior to the album.
Throughout January 2010 the band undertook a series of song by song video testimonials to each of the album's tracks. The clips were released on numerous music websites including AbsolutePunk, Spin
, Buzznet
, Purevolume
, Alternative Press, Punknews.org
, Alloy.com, The Minneapolis Star Tribune, The A.V. Club
, Ultimate Guitar Archive
, Buzzgrinder.com and Twitvid. The album was uploaded for streaming on the band's MySpace on January 12, 2010.
, which assigns a normalized
rating out of 100 to reviews from critics, the album received a score of 79 from 13 reviews.
The album was given a nod of approval by Spin
prior to its release, who awarded it 3.5/5 stars. The reviewer Mikael Wood said "the band strikes a radio-ready balance between mayhem and melody, (which) may well trigger their long-awaited breakthrough." Drew Beringer of AbsolutePunk also gave the album a glowing review, awarding a 92% rating. He stated that the album, "combines the mayhem and melody of Commit This to Memory
, while maintaining the pop sensibilities they showed on Even If It Kills Me
. It has the ferocity of a debut album while maintaining the expertise that seasoned bands possess". He also made comparisons to Weezer
's earlier work; "If Weezer created the nerdy/quirky pop-rock sound, then Motion City Soundtrack has perfected it on their best album to date". Scott Heisel of Alternative Press was equally impressed, awarding My Dinosaur Life a full five stars. He praised, "Mark Hoppus' fantastic production, which never gets in the way of the song (a complete 180 from his work on 2005's Commit This To Memory); and the unique, textured, background role Jesse Johnson has allowed his synth to play this time around. So let's just end it on this: Motion City Soundtrack have made the best album of their career". The A.V. Club
critic Kyle Ryan gave a positive review, giving the album a "B+" grade. He claimed the album is full of "maddeningly catchy rock
—associated with punk
, but undeniably pop
with clever, sensitive-boy lyrics". Minor complaints included, "("A Lifeless Ordinary") veers a little too close to Weezer-esque cheese in its generic chorus, and budding “sensitive homeboys” anthem ("@!#?@!")—“Go fuck yourselves, leave us alone”—is a little groan-inducing, but those missteps are pretty minor". Entertainment Weekly
writer Andy Greenwald awarded the album an "A-" grade. He stated that frontman Justin Pierre "lets his geek flag fly, likening a breakup to the destruction of Superman's home world ("Her Words Destroyed My Planet") and puzzling over ephemera ranging from acid rain (the lovely "Skin and Bones") to Busta Rhymes ("Stand Too Close"), all backed by soaring choruses guaranteed to fossilize themselves into your brain". Lincoln Journal Star
journalist L. Kent Wolgamott gave the album a "B-" grade in his review. While stating that their blend of "classic power pop
and punk pop" was repetitive, he did also praise the lyrical content; "My Dinosaur Life is full of complaints and clever cultural observations, insecurities and determination to move forward, a heap of modern confusion that is bound together by the catchy if repetitive music".
; all music composed by Motion City Soundtrack.
pre-order/Japanese bonus track
Deluxe edition bonus disc
Studio album
A studio album is an album made up of tracks recorded in the controlled environment of a recording studio. A studio album contains newly written and recorded or previously unreleased or remixed material, distinguishing itself from a compilation or reissue album of previously recorded material, or...
by American pop punk
Pop punk
Pop punk is a fusion music genre that combines elements of punk rock with pop music, to varying degrees. Allmusic describes the genre as a strand of alternative rock, which typically merges pop melodies with speedy punk tempos, chord changes and loud guitars...
band Motion City Soundtrack
Motion City Soundtrack
Motion City Soundtrack is an American rock band from Minneapolis, Minnesota, formed in 1997. The band consists of founding members Justin Pierre and Joshua Cain , along with keyboardist and moog synthesist Jesse Johnson, bassist and backing vocalist Matthew Taylor, and drummer, percussionist and...
, released through Columbia Records
Columbia Records
Columbia Records is an American record label, owned by Japan's Sony Music Entertainment, operating under the Columbia Music Group with Aware Records. It was founded in 1888, evolving from an earlier enterprise, the American Graphophone Company — successor to the Volta Graphophone Company...
on January 19, 2010. It is the band's first album on a major label, after they moved from Epitaph Records
Epitaph Records
Epitaph Records is a Hollywood, California based independent record label owned by Bad Religion guitarist Brett Gurewitz. The label was originally "just a logo and a P.O. box" created in the 1980s for the purpose of selling Bad Religion records, but has evolved into a large independent record...
in June 2008. Akin to their second album, Commit This to Memory
Commit This to Memory
-Re-issue:The band released a deluxe edition of the album in mid-2006. The new version featured a bonus track originally featured on the Japanese edition and a bonus DVD featuring previously unreleased material, including a Documentary directed by and a live performance from the 7th Street Entry...
(2005), the album was produced by Blink-182
Blink-182
Blink-182 is an American rock band consisting of vocalist and bass guitarist Mark Hoppus, vocalist and guitarist Tom DeLonge, and drummer Travis Barker. They have sold over 27 million albums worldwide since forming in Poway, California in 1992...
singer-bassist Mark Hoppus
Mark Hoppus
Mark Allan Hoppus is an American musician, record producer, and television host. He is the bass guitarist and one of the two lead vocalists of the pop punk band Blink-182, as well as the bass guitarist and lead vocalist of the alternative rock band +44. He is a co-founder of both bands...
.
My Dinosaur Life was released to universal acclaim from critics; multiple reviewers stated that the album is the best of the band's career and called it a resounding success for the band. The album debuted at number 15 on the US Billboard 200
Billboard 200
The Billboard 200 is a ranking of the 200 highest-selling music albums and EPs in the United States, published weekly by Billboard magazine. It is frequently used to convey the popularity of an artist or groups of artists...
, with nearly 30,000 copies sold in its first week.
Production and recording
After releasing three records on independent label EpitaphEpitaph Records
Epitaph Records is a Hollywood, California based independent record label owned by Bad Religion guitarist Brett Gurewitz. The label was originally "just a logo and a P.O. box" created in the 1980s for the purpose of selling Bad Religion records, but has evolved into a large independent record...
, Motion City Soundtrack signed a multiple-album deal with Columbia Records
Columbia Records
Columbia Records is an American record label, owned by Japan's Sony Music Entertainment, operating under the Columbia Music Group with Aware Records. It was founded in 1888, evolving from an earlier enterprise, the American Graphophone Company — successor to the Volta Graphophone Company...
in late 2006, months prior to releasing their previous album Even If It Kills Me
Even If It Kills Me
Even if It Kills Me is the third studio album by American pop punk band Motion City Soundtrack, released on September 18, 2007. The album was a follow up to their 2005 album, Commit This to Memory and was co-produced by Adam Schlesinger of Fountains of Wayne and Eli Janney of Girls Against Boys,...
. Following the move, guitarist Joshua Cain said "it just felt right to make the move when there was the right interest there". With the new signing, the band's promotional team aimed to develop a balance between the benefits of a new major label and their previous grass-roots approach.
The band's Columbia debut was produced by Blink-182
Blink-182
Blink-182 is an American rock band consisting of vocalist and bass guitarist Mark Hoppus, vocalist and guitarist Tom DeLonge, and drummer Travis Barker. They have sold over 27 million albums worldwide since forming in Poway, California in 1992...
frontman Mark Hoppus
Mark Hoppus
Mark Allan Hoppus is an American musician, record producer, and television host. He is the bass guitarist and one of the two lead vocalists of the pop punk band Blink-182, as well as the bass guitarist and lead vocalist of the alternative rock band +44. He is a co-founder of both bands...
, who also worked with the band for their second album, Commit This to Memory
Commit This to Memory
-Re-issue:The band released a deluxe edition of the album in mid-2006. The new version featured a bonus track originally featured on the Japanese edition and a bonus DVD featuring previously unreleased material, including a Documentary directed by and a live performance from the 7th Street Entry...
. Hoppus revealed that the band wanted to follow in the tracks of Commit This to Memory, but push things further. He said the album would incorporate a heavier, more experimental side of the group. "There's an edge on this record that I'm really excited about getting into," he said. "But it still has all the catchiness of everything that I personally love about Motion City Soundtrack. As a fan, it's really exciting to get to work with them again and help them flesh out this new vision of themselves."
The band announced they were to begin recording sessions with Hoppus in April 2009. Due to drummer Tony Thaxton's broken arm, the band were forced to rearrange the sequence in which they recorded. The drums were replaced by electronic beats and drum machine
Drum machine
A drum machine is an electronic musical instrument designed to imitate the sound of drums or other percussion instruments. They are used in a variety of musical genres, not just purely electronic music...
s until Thaxton was able to play properly in the last week of recording. It was confirmed recording had been completed on June 28, 2009.
Promotion and release
Whilst on tour with Blink-182, Motion City Soundtrack did an interview for MTVMTV
MTV, formerly an initialism of Music Television, is an American network based in New York City that launched on August 1, 1981. The original purpose of the channel was to play music videos guided by on-air hosts known as VJs....
with Mark Hoppus, in which it was revealed that the band's fourth album would be titled My Dinosaur Life. The album title was derived from frontman Justin Pierre misquoting a line ("My dragon life") from the 2008 film American Teen
American Teen
American Teen is a 2008 documentary film directed by Nanette Burstein and produced by 57th & Irving. It competed in the Documentary Competition at the 2008 Sundance Film Festival, where it received the Directing Award: Documentary...
.
Throughout November 2009, Pierre undertook a promotional tour called On the Dino Trail. Along with the band's tour manager and a friend, Pierre made appearances and played acoustic shows throughout the US Midwest and East Coast. The tour's itinerary was planned with fans' help through Twitter
Twitter
Twitter is an online social networking and microblogging service that enables its users to send and read text-based posts of up to 140 characters, informally known as "tweets".Twitter was created in March 2006 by Jack Dorsey and launched that July...
, with it all being chronicled online at MyDinosaurLife.com. Guitarist Joshua Cain commented that he felt their use of Twitter had helped reconnect the band with fans; "I feel like in the last few years, that stuff's gotten harder to do... [Twitter has] really re-engaged us as a band to be able to communicate with everybody." The band played three sold-out Chicago shows in mid-December, each of which featured one of the band's previous records in full. They then composed a touring schedule which would include supporting Weezer
Weezer
Weezer is an American alternative rock band. The band currently consists of Rivers Cuomo , Patrick Wilson , Brian Bell , and Scott Shriner . The band has changed lineups three times since its formation in 1992...
on several dates in December and January, as well as beginning a headlining tour in late January covering the United States. Then following the album's release they recommenced touring, and within the first three months following the album's release the band travelled to Australia for the national Soundwave festival, as well as Japan and the United Kingdom.
On November 3, 2009, My Dinosaur Life was announced to have a release date of January 19, 2010. Pre-orders for the album went on sale through the band's official website on November 13, 2009. The pre-orders came in three varieties: digital, standard and deluxe edition. The physical form of the deluxe edition features five bonus tracks, a hard-bound book with six 7-inch picture discs, a signed Pulp Fiction
Pulp Fiction (film)
Pulp Fiction is a 1994 American crime film directed by Quentin Tarantino, who co-wrote its screenplay with Roger Avary. The film is known for its rich, eclectic dialogue, ironic mix of humor and violence, nonlinear storyline, and host of cinematic allusions and pop culture references...
—style lyric booklet and album artwork for each song by Joe Ledbetter. The digital deluxe edition includes the bonus tracks and the artwork in PDF
Portable Document Format
Portable Document Format is an open standard for document exchange. This file format, created by Adobe Systems in 1993, is used for representing documents in a manner independent of application software, hardware, and operating systems....
form.
In October 2009, the band released the first song off of the album, "Disappear", as a free download on their website. The band released a music video online for the song on November 19, 2009. "Her Words Destroyed My Planet" was first publicly released in November 2009 on Spin
Spin (magazine)
Spin is a music magazine founded in 1985 by publisher Bob Guccione Jr.-History:In its early years, the magazine was noted for its broad music coverage with an emphasis on college-oriented rock music and on the ongoing emergence of hip-hop. The magazine was eclectic and bold, if sometimes haphazard...
s website for streaming, the song was one of the site's most popular streams in 2009. Becoming the album's first single
Single (music)
In music, a single or record single is a type of release, typically a recording of fewer tracks than an LP or a CD. This can be released for sale to the public in a variety of different formats. In most cases, the single is a song that is released separately from an album, but it can still appear...
, "Her Words" was serviced to modern rock radio in December 2009, before having a music video released on January 11, 2010. A third song, "A Lifeless Ordinary (Need a Little Help)", was also released on Spin prior to the album.
Throughout January 2010 the band undertook a series of song by song video testimonials to each of the album's tracks. The clips were released on numerous music websites including AbsolutePunk, Spin
Spin (magazine)
Spin is a music magazine founded in 1985 by publisher Bob Guccione Jr.-History:In its early years, the magazine was noted for its broad music coverage with an emphasis on college-oriented rock music and on the ongoing emergence of hip-hop. The magazine was eclectic and bold, if sometimes haphazard...
, Buzznet
Buzznet
BuzzNet is a photo, journal, and video-sharing social media network, owned by Buzz Media. Like other social networking sites, Buzznet is a platform for members to share content based on their personal interests...
, Purevolume
PureVolume
PureVolume was the first independently run website of its type, allowing for the upload and stream of music files. It was created in 2003 by Jennifer Welch , in conjunction with the Unborn Media team; Brett Woitunski, Nate Hudson, and Mitchell Pavao; all from the University of...
, Alternative Press, Punknews.org
Punknews.org
Punknews.org is a website founded by Aubin Paul which launched in 1999. The website publishes music news and album reviews relating to punk rock, hardcore punk, ska, indie rock and heavy metal...
, Alloy.com, The Minneapolis Star Tribune, The A.V. Club
The A.V. Club
The A.V. Club is an entertainment newspaper and website published by The Onion. Its features include reviews of new films, music, television, books, games and DVDs, as well as interviews and other regular offerings examining both new and classic media and other elements of pop culture. Unlike its...
, Ultimate Guitar Archive
Ultimate Guitar Archive
Ultimate Guitar Archive, also known as Ultimate-Guitar.com or simply UG, is a large guitarist community website known for its large amount of guitar and bass tablature, reviews of music and equipment, interviews with notable musicians, online written and video lessons, and forums...
, Buzzgrinder.com and Twitvid. The album was uploaded for streaming on the band's MySpace on January 12, 2010.
Reception
Critical response to My Dinosaur Life was generally positive. At MetacriticMetacritic
Metacritic.com is a website that collates reviews of music albums, games, movies, TV shows and DVDs. For each product, a numerical score from each review is obtained and the total is averaged. An excerpt of each review is provided along with a hyperlink to the source. Three colour codes of Green,...
, which assigns a normalized
Standard score
In statistics, a standard score indicates how many standard deviations an observation or datum is above or below the mean. It is a dimensionless quantity derived by subtracting the population mean from an individual raw score and then dividing the difference by the population standard deviation...
rating out of 100 to reviews from critics, the album received a score of 79 from 13 reviews.
The album was given a nod of approval by Spin
Spin (magazine)
Spin is a music magazine founded in 1985 by publisher Bob Guccione Jr.-History:In its early years, the magazine was noted for its broad music coverage with an emphasis on college-oriented rock music and on the ongoing emergence of hip-hop. The magazine was eclectic and bold, if sometimes haphazard...
prior to its release, who awarded it 3.5/5 stars. The reviewer Mikael Wood said "the band strikes a radio-ready balance between mayhem and melody, (which) may well trigger their long-awaited breakthrough." Drew Beringer of AbsolutePunk also gave the album a glowing review, awarding a 92% rating. He stated that the album, "combines the mayhem and melody of Commit This to Memory
Commit This to Memory
-Re-issue:The band released a deluxe edition of the album in mid-2006. The new version featured a bonus track originally featured on the Japanese edition and a bonus DVD featuring previously unreleased material, including a Documentary directed by and a live performance from the 7th Street Entry...
, while maintaining the pop sensibilities they showed on Even If It Kills Me
Even If It Kills Me
Even if It Kills Me is the third studio album by American pop punk band Motion City Soundtrack, released on September 18, 2007. The album was a follow up to their 2005 album, Commit This to Memory and was co-produced by Adam Schlesinger of Fountains of Wayne and Eli Janney of Girls Against Boys,...
. It has the ferocity of a debut album while maintaining the expertise that seasoned bands possess". He also made comparisons to Weezer
Weezer
Weezer is an American alternative rock band. The band currently consists of Rivers Cuomo , Patrick Wilson , Brian Bell , and Scott Shriner . The band has changed lineups three times since its formation in 1992...
's earlier work; "If Weezer created the nerdy/quirky pop-rock sound, then Motion City Soundtrack has perfected it on their best album to date". Scott Heisel of Alternative Press was equally impressed, awarding My Dinosaur Life a full five stars. He praised, "Mark Hoppus' fantastic production, which never gets in the way of the song (a complete 180 from his work on 2005's Commit This To Memory); and the unique, textured, background role Jesse Johnson has allowed his synth to play this time around. So let's just end it on this: Motion City Soundtrack have made the best album of their career". The A.V. Club
The A.V. Club
The A.V. Club is an entertainment newspaper and website published by The Onion. Its features include reviews of new films, music, television, books, games and DVDs, as well as interviews and other regular offerings examining both new and classic media and other elements of pop culture. Unlike its...
critic Kyle Ryan gave a positive review, giving the album a "B+" grade. He claimed the album is full of "maddeningly catchy rock
Rock music
Rock music is a genre of popular music that developed during and after the 1960s, particularly in the United Kingdom and the United States. It has its roots in 1940s and 1950s rock and roll, itself heavily influenced by rhythm and blues and country music...
—associated with punk
Punk rock
Punk rock is a rock music genre that developed between 1974 and 1976 in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Australia. Rooted in garage rock and other forms of what is now known as protopunk music, punk rock bands eschewed perceived excesses of mainstream 1970s rock...
, but undeniably pop
Pop music
Pop music is usually understood to be commercially recorded music, often oriented toward a youth market, usually consisting of relatively short, simple songs utilizing technological innovations to produce new variations on existing themes.- Definitions :David Hatch and Stephen Millward define pop...
with clever, sensitive-boy lyrics". Minor complaints included, "("A Lifeless Ordinary") veers a little too close to Weezer-esque cheese in its generic chorus, and budding “sensitive homeboys” anthem ("@!#?@!")—“Go fuck yourselves, leave us alone”—is a little groan-inducing, but those missteps are pretty minor". Entertainment Weekly
Entertainment Weekly
Entertainment Weekly is an American magazine, published by the Time division of Time Warner, that covers film, television, music, broadway theatre, books and popular culture...
writer Andy Greenwald awarded the album an "A-" grade. He stated that frontman Justin Pierre "lets his geek flag fly, likening a breakup to the destruction of Superman's home world ("Her Words Destroyed My Planet") and puzzling over ephemera ranging from acid rain (the lovely "Skin and Bones") to Busta Rhymes ("Stand Too Close"), all backed by soaring choruses guaranteed to fossilize themselves into your brain". Lincoln Journal Star
Lincoln Journal Star
The Lincoln Journal Star is Lincoln, Nebraska's major daily newspaper. Owned by Lee Enterprises, the Journal Star was created by the 1995 merger of Lincoln's morning newspaper and its evening newspaper The Lincoln Journal Star is Lincoln, Nebraska's major daily newspaper. Owned by Lee...
journalist L. Kent Wolgamott gave the album a "B-" grade in his review. While stating that their blend of "classic power pop
Power pop
Power pop is a popular musical genre that draws its inspiration from 1960s British and American pop and rock music. It typically incorporates a combination of musical devices such as strong melodies, crisp vocal harmonies, economical arrangements, and prominent guitar riffs. Instrumental solos are...
and punk pop" was repetitive, he did also praise the lyrical content; "My Dinosaur Life is full of complaints and clever cultural observations, insecurities and determination to move forward, a heap of modern confusion that is bound together by the catchy if repetitive music".
Track listing
All lyrics written by Justin PierreJustin Pierre
Justin Courtney Pierre is a singer, songwriter and guitarist originally from Mahtomedi, Minnesota, United States. He is the co-founder and lead vocalist of the pop punk band Motion City Soundtrack, and is known for his interests and pursuits in film making and production of music.-Early...
; all music composed by Motion City Soundtrack.
- "Worker Bee" — 2:25
- "A Lifeless Ordinary (Need a Little Help)" — 3:23
- "Her Words Destroyed My Planet" — 3:38
- "Disappear" — 3:12
- "Delirium" — 3:29
- "History Lesson" — 2:35
- "Stand Too Close" — 2:48
- "Pulp Fiction" — 3:53
- "@!#?@!" — 3:00
- "Hysteria" — 3:05
- "Skin and Bones" — 3:36
- "The Weakends" — 4:48
Bonus tracks
iTunesITunes Store
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pre-order/Japanese bonus track
- "Sunny Day" — 3:10
Deluxe edition bonus disc
- "A Lifeless Ordinary (Need a Little Help)" (Alternate version) — 3:20
- "Pulp Fiction" (Alternate Version) — 3:23
- "So Long Farewell" — 3:07
- "Worker Bee" (Alternate Version) — 2:36
- "Disappear" (Alternate Version) — 4:07
Chart performance
| Chart | Peak position |
|---|---|
| Australian Albums Chart ARIA Charts The ARIA charts are the main Australian music sales charts, issued weekly by the Australian Recording Industry Association. The charts are a record of the highest selling singles and albums in various genres in Australia. ARIA commenced compiling its own charts in-house from the week ending 26 June... |
50 |
| US Billboard 200 Billboard 200 The Billboard 200 is a ranking of the 200 highest-selling music albums and EPs in the United States, published weekly by Billboard magazine. It is frequently used to convey the popularity of an artist or groups of artists... |
15 |
| US Billboard Billboard (magazine) Billboard is a weekly American magazine devoted to the music industry, and is one of the oldest trade magazines in the world. It maintains several internationally recognized music charts that track the most popular songs and albums in various categories on a weekly basis... Alternative Albums Billboard charts The Billboard charts tabulate the relative weekly popularity of songs or albums in the United States. The results are published in Billboard magazine... |
3 |
| US Billboard Rock Albums | 3 |
Motion City Soundtrack
- Justin PierreJustin PierreJustin Courtney Pierre is a singer, songwriter and guitarist originally from Mahtomedi, Minnesota, United States. He is the co-founder and lead vocalist of the pop punk band Motion City Soundtrack, and is known for his interests and pursuits in film making and production of music.-Early...
– lead vocals, rhythm guitarRhythm guitarRhythm guitar is a technique and rôle that performs a combination of two functions: to provide all or part of the rhythmic pulse in conjunction with singers or other instruments; and to provide all or part of the harmony, ie. the chords, where a chord is a group of notes played together...
, lyricsLyricsLyrics are a set of words that make up a song. The writer of lyrics is a lyricist or lyrist. The meaning of lyrics can either be explicit or implicit. Some lyrics are abstract, almost unintelligible, and, in such cases, their explication emphasizes form, articulation, meter, and symmetry of... - Joshua CainJoshua CainJoshua Allen Cain is a guitarist and record producer from Saint Paul, Minnesota. He is the co-founder and lead guitarist of American pop punk band Motion City Soundtrack...
– lead guitarLead guitarLead guitar is a guitar part which plays melody lines, instrumental fill passages, guitar solos, and occasionally, some riffs within a song structure...
, backing vocals - Jesse Johnson – moog synthesizerMoog synthesizerMoog synthesizer may refer to any number of analog synthesizers designed by Dr. Robert Moog or manufactured by Moog Music, and is commonly used as a generic term for older-generation analog music synthesizers. The Moog company pioneered the commercial manufacture of modular voltage-controlled...
, keyboard - Matthew Taylor – bass guitarBass guitarThe bass guitar is a stringed instrument played primarily with the fingers or thumb , or by using a pick....
, backing vocals - Tony Thaxton – drumsDrum kitA drum kit is a collection of drums, cymbals and often other percussion instruments, such as cowbells, wood blocks, triangles, chimes, or tambourines, arranged for convenient playing by a single person ....
, percussion, backing vocals
Production
- Mark HoppusMark HoppusMark Allan Hoppus is an American musician, record producer, and television host. He is the bass guitarist and one of the two lead vocalists of the pop punk band Blink-182, as well as the bass guitarist and lead vocalist of the alternative rock band +44. He is a co-founder of both bands...
- producerRecord producerA record producer is an individual working within the music industry, whose job is to oversee and manage the recording of an artist's music... - Joe Ledbetter - artwork
- Christopher Holmes - Engineer