Go Tracklist
Go, like the preferred reading of five (or 五) in Japanese, is the fifth major album from Minneapolis-based pop-punk band Motion City Soundtrack. Released in June of 2012, the record was produced by the band’s longtime friend, Ed Ackerson, as they returned to Epitaph Records to release their album through their own newly created imprint Boombox Generation.
“Go” Q&A
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Where did the title of the album come from?
In a video released shortly before the album, the band explained the story behind the title:
Jesse Johnson: Anybody that’s ever seen a Motion City Soundtrack interview or read anything usually knows that one of our favorite places ever to go is Japan. And the word “go”, in Japanese, is the number five.
Justin Pierre: Seeing as how this was our fifth record and there’s five of us we thought, “oh, there could be a theme here somehow”. I kind of realized that the word go, in and of itself, has like a duality to it. And with the songs on this album I feel that it’s kind of like you can look at it two different ways depending on your mood. Go can mean to leave, to give up, to give in; die, basically. Or go can mean to choose life, and to live, to experience, to exist.
Joshua Cain: And then as the record got written and stuff, the songs being so much about life and death and moving on… it just kind of fit.
