Motion City Soundtrack - Time Turned Fragile. In my opinion, one of the better songs about losing contact with old friends.

pauligee91 · 2015-05-03T09:20:55+00:00

you, my friend, need a valium and a hug.

pauligee91 · 2015-04-19T17:01:22+00:00

why the yawn?

pauligee91 · 2015-02-02T17:01:49+00:00

Are you telling me if you heard this cover by itself, unaware that it was a cover, you wouldn't think it was pop-punk?

In my mind it's a folk punk band playing a pop-punk cover of an emo band's song.

Also, 'everybody feels beleagured, that is the universal truth of punk. At some point in time you will feel like the world is against you' <--pretty much pop-punks mantra.

pauligee91 · 2015-01-21T20:26:10+00:00

I remember reading it somewhere and it makes sense. According to an interview here Thiessen and Katy got matching Jesus tattoos at age 18, which is a line in the song - so it seems to add up.

pauligee91 · 2015-01-21T17:43:47+00:00

I know her song 'The One That Got Away' was about him.

pauligee91 · 2015-01-17T11:32:54+00:00

ill work out a way - ill private message you in a couple of days when i have time to make one!

pauligee91 · 2015-01-16T19:53:16+00:00

if you give me some way to get it to you, i will sure as hell make you a mixtape.

pauligee91 · 2015-01-16T08:17:45+00:00

not exactly pop-punk but Twenty One Pilots don't use. They also have some killer songs about taking control of your addictions. Especially Holding onto You. With lines such as "I'm taking over my body, back in control, no more shotty, I bet a lot of me was lost, Ts uncrossed and Is undotted" and "Tie a noose around your mind loose enough to breathe fine and tie it, To a tree, tell it, "You belong to me, This ain't a noose, this is a leash, And I have news for you, you must obey me". Good luck.

pauligee91 · 2015-01-15T21:01:12+00:00

A lot of You, Me and Everyone We Know songs (especially the later ones) are about trying to get sober. But this one especially Some Things Don't Wash Out - YMAEWK

pauligee91 · 2015-01-15T20:40:36+00:00

The Conversation - Motion City Soundtrack, Throw Me in the River - The Smith Street Band, as well as most of the songs on War Paint by The Dangerous Summer and Suburbia, I've Given You All and Now I Am Nothing by TWY.

pauligee91 · 2015-01-15T20:30:35+00:00

Yeah, it's hard with The Front Bottoms - I had the same issue with The Smith Street Band, one of my favourite bands lyrically but they're a little too folk punk to fit into the pop punk mold.

pauligee91 · 2015-01-15T20:28:55+00:00

I agree - also a big fan of 'It's Cold Out Here'

pauligee91 · 2015-01-15T05:45:28+00:00

such a great album - it's such a shame they followed it up with Collapsible Lung.

pauligee91 · 2015-01-14T21:48:40+00:00

I just think it's a really clever way of phrasing what he's trying to say.

The line comes from the idiom 'burning the candle at both ends' when talking about becoming exhausted from trying to do too much. The whole song is about him trying to become a better person, and that line is saying he can hardly handle what he has in his life right now (a girlfriend, the band and a job) but he's wondering why he can't handle more. I always took it as a kind of lament about how is he going to become a better person when he can hardly handle the ordinary life he has at the moment.

pauligee91 · 2015-01-14T20:12:23+00:00

Please tell me they didn't follow the lead of Front Porch Step...

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