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Motion City Soundtrack Motion City Soundtrack is an American rock band that formed in Minneapolis, Minnesota in 1997. The band's line-up consists of vocalist and guitarist Justin Courtney Pierre, lead guitarist Joshua Cain, keyboardist Jesse Johnson, bassist Matthew ...

. It is the second single off their third studio album, ''

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''. It was digitally released on August 7, 2007, and physically released on September 3, 2007 in the United Kingdom. The song impacted radio on September 25, 2007.

Music video

The

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, directed by Jay Martin, features the band playing in a

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. In addition to performing the song as Motion City Soundtrack, each band member, except for Pierre, plays as a different character that appears in the video. Johnson plays an old man, Taylor plays a

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, Cain plays a

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, and Thaxton plays as a man with an '80s style mullet. The video was officially released by the band on September 10, 2007, on

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Trivia

*A portion of the song is also featured on an

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commercial advertising its annual "Monsterfest" 10-day special. *The song was released into the Singstar Singstore on 12 December. *The song was also featured in the trailer for the film '' 17 Again'' starring

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that came out 17 April 2009. *The bass guitar is a Fender Japanese Jaguar Hot Rod Red Bass.

Track listing

;CD # "This Is for Real" # "Plymouth Rock (Lifter Puller cover)" ;CD 2 # "This Is for Real" # "Not Asking You to Leave" ;AU CD # "This Is for Real" # "Not Asking You to Leave" # "Plymouth Rock (Lifter Puller cover)" ;iTunes download # "This Is for Real" # "Broken Heart" (Acoustic) ;Download # "This Is for Real" # "The Worst Part..."

Charts

References

External links

Evenifitkillsme.tvEpitaph Records Artist Page
{{Motion City Soundtrack 2007 singles 2007 songs Motion City Soundtrack songs Songs written by Joshua Cain Songs written by Justin Pierre Epitaph Records singles