Even If It Kills Me

Even If It Kills Me
Studio album by Motion City Soundtrack
Released	September 18, 2007
Recorded	Stratosphere Studios in Chelsea, New York Electric Lady Studios in Greenwich Village, New York
Genre	Pop punk, power pop
Label	Epitaph
Producer	Ric Ocasek, Adam Schlesinger, Eli Janney
Professional reviews
AbsolutePunk.net (83%) link All Music Guide link Alternative Press Blender link Rocklouder link
Motion City Soundtrack chronology
Commit This to Memory (2005) Even If It Kills Me (2007)
Singles from Even If It Kills Me
"Broken Heart (Digital Single)" Released: June 26 2007 "This Is for Real" Released: August 7 2007 "It Had To Be You"

Even If It Kills Me is the third studio album by pop punk band Motion City Soundtrack, released on September 18, 2007.^[1] Part of the record is co-produced by the tag team of Adam Schlesinger (of Fountains of Wayne) and Eli Janney (of Girls Against Boys), and part of the record will be produced by Ric Ocasek (of The Cars). Guest vocals on the album include Max Bemis of Say Anything, Rachel Minton of Zolof the Rock and Roll Destroyer and Shawn Harris of The Matches.^[2] The band did their final recording and mixing during early Spring 2007 in New York. The band has been producing webisodes on the making of the album. These webisodes can be viewed at the website http://evenifitkillsme.tv. The first single off the album, "Broken Heart", was released worldwide through all digital outlets on June 26. A video for the single is available to watch at their official website or on their street team website. The second single, "This Is for Real", was released on August 7, 2007 in the US and on September 3 in the UK. The single was released digitally, on CD and on limited edition 7" vinyl, and included three different b-sides: "Not Asking You to Leave", an acoustic version of "Broken Heart" (featuring Korin Louise Cox of The Hard Lessons on vocals), and a cover of the Lifter Puller song "Plymouth Rock". The band shot a video for "This Is for Real" in Southern California in August 2007, which premiered on mtvU.com on September 10. The third single is set to be 'It Had To Be You', set for an early January 2008 release. A low-quality version of the CD was leaked onto file-sharing websites on September 11, 2007, ripped from the web stream available from MTV's The Leak. A high-quality version came out on September 14, 2007. The album debuted at #16 on the Billboard 200 chart, selling about 33,000 albums in its first week.^[3]

Track listing

1. "Fell in Love Without You" – 2:31
2. "This Is for Real" – 3:10
3. "It Had to Be You" – 3:48
4. "Last Night" – 3:17
5. "Calling All Cops" – 3:24
6. "Can't Finish What You Started" – 3:56
7. "The Conversation" – 2:50
8. "Broken Heart" – 3:01
9. "Hello Helicopter" – 4:23
10. "Where I Belong" – 3:23
11. "Point of Extinction" – 2:39
12. "Antonia" – 3:16
13. "Even If It Kills Me" – 3:51

Tracks 1, 3, 6, 9, 10-12 produced by Adam Schlesinger & Eli Janney. Tracks 2, 4, 5, 8 and 13 produced by Ric Ocasek.

Bonus tracks

• "Not Asking You to Leave" – 3:50
  • Japanese bonus track/iTunes bonus track
• "The Worst Part"
  • iTunes bonus track, from Sound of Superman
• "Broken Heart (Acoustic)" (featuring Korin Louise Cox) – 3:10
  • iTunes pre-order only.

Trivia

• Some copies of the album incorrectly read "Fell In Love Without You" as "Fell In Love With You".
• Despite the appearance of some curse words, like the word fuck in the song Broken Heart, the album did not receive a Parental Advisory label.
• However, on popular music downloading site iTunes it did receive a Parental Advisory label. A clean version was also available.

References

External links

• EvenIfItKillsMe.tv — Even If It Kills Me webisodes.
• Even If It Kills Me on MTV's The Leak