Even If It Kills Me is the third studio album by pop punk band Motion City Soundtrack, released on September 18, 2007.
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. 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.
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.
| Released | September 18, 2007 | |
|---|---|---|
| Recorded | Stratosphere Studios in Chelsea, New York Electric Lady Studios in Greenwich Village, New York | |
| Genre | Pop punk | |
| Label | Epitaph | |
| Producer | Ric Ocasek, Adam Schlesinger, Eli Janney | |
Track listing
- "Fell in Love Without You" – 2:33 (Produced by Adam Schlesinger & Eli Janney)
- "This Is for Real" – 3:10 (Produced by Ric Ocasek)
- "It Had to Be You" – 3:43 (Produced by Adam Schlesinger & Eli Janney)
- "Last Night" – 3:17 (Produced by Ric Ocasek)
- "Calling All Cops" – 3:24 (Produced by Ric Ocasek)
- "Can't Finish What You Started" – 3:56 (Produced by Adam Schlesinger & Eli Janney)
- "The Conversation" – 2:50 (Produced by Motion City Soundtrack)
- "Broken Heart" – 3:01 (Produced by Ric Ocasek)
- "Hello Helicopter" – 4:23 (Produced by Adam Schlesinger & Eli Janney)
- "Where I Belong" – 3:23 (Produced by Adam Schlesinger & Eli Janney)
- "Point of Extinction" – 2:39 (Produced by Adam Schlesinger & Eli Janney)
- "Antonia" – 3:16 (Produced by Adam Schlesinger & Eli Janney)
- "Even If It Kills Me" – 3:51 (Produced by Ric Ocasek)
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