Motion City Soundtrack "Time Turned Fragile" from Commit This to Memory Live at The Rave Milwaukee, WI Feb 16, 2006 PODCAST EXCLUSIVE!

Ever since I first got hold of a copy of Commit This to Memory -- my #1 record of 2005 if I ever finish my write-up, which I swear will be soon -- I'd been anxious to see the new songs performed live. Part of it was that there were spots in both of the first two tracks that just begged for big crowd clap-alongs. They just seemed to have been designed out of the same rave-up mold as songs like "The Future Freaks Me Out" and "My Favorite Accident." But, oddly, when the weird keyboard guy stepped to the front of the stage to get the crowd going, it was never during those songs. There were a couple other moments from the new material, but the explosions I was waiting for in "Attractive Today" and "Everything Is Alright" just weren't there. So now I'm wondering if I just hear these songs differently than everybody else or what. Either way, I still find myself clapping along when it's not too conspicuous.