Something Corporate - Leaving Through The Window

Something Corporate - Leaving Through The Window

I Want To Save You

Punk Rock Princess

I Woke Up In A Car

iF yoU C Jordan

The Astronaut

Hurricane

Cavanaugh Park

Fall

Straw Dog

Good News

Drunk Girl

Not What It Seems

You're Gone

Globes & Maps

Produced by: Jim Wirt

Drive Thru Records / MCA (2002)

Leaving Through The Window was the much anticipated full-length, debut album from Orange County, California's Something Corporate. The album was released on Drive Thru Records/MCA in 2002 and features rerecorded versions of the Audioboxer EP's "(Hurricane) The Formal Weather Pattern", "Punk Rock Princess", "iF yoU C Jordan"; and Ready...Break's "Cavanaugh Park", "Straw Dog", "Drunk Girl".

"I Want To Save You" references the band's good friends and labelmates New Found Glory in the opening verse: "standing on the edge of morning, scent of sex and New Found Glory". McMahon and New Found Glory's lead singer Jordan Pundik had lived together for an unknown period of time. The song was also featured in the infamous online game [Emo Game 1.5: Alkaline Trio vs. Hell] as you descend into the fiery underworld to begin your journey.

"Punk Rock Princess" and "I Woke Up In A Car" are the only singles released from Leaving Through The Window--both in 2003. The song "I Woke Up In A Car" pays homage to all of the bands they've ever toured with.

"The Astronaut" was played for the Space Shuttle Discovery on July 17, 2006 (http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/shuttle/news/sts121/STS-121-26_prt.htm). McMahon also references the song in the chorus of "La La Lie"--taken from Jack's Mannquin's Everything In Transit (Maverick, 2005). The line: "the spaceman that can't get high" refers to "calling out to the astronaut, I need some of what you've got. I need to be high" (The Astronaut, Leaving Through The Window, 2002).

"Cavanaugh Park" is about an actual park that Andrew frequented as a kid. It's located off the Santa Ana Freeway (I-5) just northwest of the Laguna Hills Mall. *The name of this blog, "My Friend Adam" is taken from the verse: "at Cavanaugh Park we used to get high watching teams as they fought, they loved my friend adam but he always got caught, man that kid made fucking up look cool, aren't we all so cool? no no..."

Something Corporate's Leaving Through The Window is my all-time favorite album--not simply because of its rampant musicianship or honest lyricism; but because of what it represents and what it means to me--it's everything I used to be, everything I am today, and everything I ever dreamed of being. This album changed the way I view, listen, and love music.

Something Corporate is:

Andrew McMahon (vocals, piano, hammond)

Brian Ireland (drums, percussion, background vocals)

Josh Partington (guitar, background vocals)

William Tell (guitar, background vocals)

Clutch (bass, background vocals)

Something Corporate (1998 - 2006)