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Drive Well, Sleep Carefully: On the Road with Death Cab for Cutie
In Stores July 26th
Over 2 Hours of Death Cab for Cutie live performances, interviews, outtakes, and extras on DVD.
Drive Well, Sleep Carefully joins the band Death Cab for Cutie on tour in the spring of 2004. Filmmaker Justin Mitchell captured dozens of shows across the country and interviewed band members at length in their hometown of Seattle. Shot entirely on 16mm film, the stunning live footage is mixed with candid conversations about the creative process and life on the road.
http://www.plexifilm.com/deathcab
(Justin was at the last Cat & Fiddle FAP - he also directed Songs for Cassavetes and the recent Ted Leo live DVD)
― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Thursday, 19 May 2005 17:34 (nineteen years ago) link
So how are things shaping up for Plans:http://www.rollingstone.com/news/story/_/id/7242529/deathcabforcutie?pageid=rs.Home&pageregion=single1&rnd=1113102715090&has-player=true&version=6.0.12.1040
― BeeOK (boo radley), Friday, 20 May 2005 06:04 (eighteen years ago) link
― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Monday, 11 July 2005 19:16 (eighteen years ago) link
their new album has just leaked and is called Narrow Stairs and i'm listening now. :-)
― Bee OK, Friday, 4 April 2008 00:53 (sixteen years ago) link
Guess what? [nabisco] is spot on, again.
lolol
how is the new album
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Friday, 4 April 2008 01:28 (sixteen years ago) link
I haven't checked today, but the one that leaked 2 or 3 days ago was supposedly a fakearoo.
― Johnny Fever, Friday, 4 April 2008 01:30 (sixteen years ago) link
Huuuuuuuge dud, this band.
― stephen, Friday, 4 April 2008 05:55 (sixteen years ago) link
i had to let em get undermy skin before i liked em.
saw em live once and they were really boring.
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Friday, 4 April 2008 06:08 (sixteen years ago) link
can't get past his voice. if there's an aural equivalent to the argyle sweater and english riding cap indie fuckmeisters wear, it's this guy's voice.
― bug, Friday, 4 April 2008 06:32 (sixteen years ago) link
How anybody can truly appreciate music and still say they hate death cab for cutie is beyond me. Their songs are so well crafted and so easy to listen to and so hard not to sway along with. -- Mike Donaldson, Saturday, 10 November 2001 01:00 (6 years ago) Link
― ian, Friday, 4 April 2008 13:43 (sixteen years ago) link
Classic. I like argyle sweaters.
― jon /via/ chi 2.0, Friday, 4 April 2008 14:00 (sixteen years ago) link
"half of my female friends referring to Gibbard as "walking sex"
I feel like there may have been a bit of a paradigm shift in the past 7 years there.
― Z S, Friday, 4 April 2008 16:55 (sixteen years ago) link
yeah, it was a fake. i thought it was very average at best, glad this one is not real...
― Bee OK, Saturday, 5 April 2008 04:02 (sixteen years ago) link
the one floating around these days is. Is it me or does this album sound like DCFC is trying to get dropped by their label? Second song is almost completely instrumental, there's one track where massively distorted guitar almost overtakes all the vocals during the chorus...there isn't one single pop hook on the entire album from my one listen this morning.
― akm, Thursday, 1 May 2008 03:54 (sixteen years ago) link
I like this band but get the impression that this admission blows one's (severely depleted) cooldom.
Saw their tour DVD - they came across as nice, dependable blokes.
Guess that makes me an emo wusswanker
Xpost this new album sounds worth checking
― Fer Ark, Thursday, 1 May 2008 19:36 (sixteen years ago) link
i really hated narrow stairs for like 6 months but somehow it's become my favorite album of theirs
― the insane Dr. Morbius and his HOOSical steens (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Tuesday, 12 May 2009 08:27 (fifteen years ago) link
http://marquee.blogs.cnn.com/2009/10/09/new-music-video-for-new-moon/
so this has pretty effectively cooled my lingering "but I kind of like these guys' songs..." confusion re: this band
― as strikingly artificial and perfect as a wizard's cap (HI DERE), Friday, 9 October 2009 17:37 (fourteen years ago) link
Death Cab for Cutie's Codes & Keys has leaked. it not sounding promising.
1 Home Is A Fire2 Codes And Keys3 Some Boys4 Doors Unlocked And Open5 You Are A Tourist6 Unobstructed Views7 Monday Morning8 Portable Television9 Underneath The Sycamore10 St Peter’s Cathedral11 Stay Young, Go Dancing
― Bee OK, Tuesday, 24 May 2011 02:27 (twelve years ago) link
they are past their expire date. which is too bad because their first few albums are really good.
― akm, Tuesday, 24 May 2011 04:15 (twelve years ago) link
I really like the single, sounds a little more exciting than anything else they've done since jumping to a major, but I'm still not terribly enthused for this.
As a sidenote, what is being done differently to prevent leaks now? This one leaks only 8 days before release, the Gaga about the same timeframe, it seems to be increasingly common for albums to stay buried until a lot closer to release date.
― 'what are you, the Hymen Protection League of America?' (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Tuesday, 24 May 2011 13:44 (twelve years ago) link
i think one week ahead is kind of the standard "the physical copies are starting to get shipped out and it wouldn't hurt sales much at this point anyway" leak and anything before that is a more serious security breach (studio/media/label personnel deliberately sharing it with the outside world) that can be prevented to some extent or at least they can make sure someone loses their job over it
― Waluigi Weingoomba (some dude), Tuesday, 24 May 2011 14:23 (twelve years ago) link
i'd fuckin quit my job if i worked at a studio/label that peddled death cab records
― i genuinely thought when i first joined that he was the admin (ilxor), Tuesday, 24 May 2011 18:42 (twelve years ago) link
Its important to have ethics to stand behind, I suppose.
― 'what are you, the Hymen Protection League of America?' (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Tuesday, 24 May 2011 18:44 (twelve years ago) link
at least you would have a job to quit?
― You made the right choice, Deanne... (stevie), Tuesday, 24 May 2011 18:46 (twelve years ago) link
But, yeah, I suppose working for Atlantic Records would be really awful for you anyway.
― 'what are you, the Hymen Protection League of America?' (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Tuesday, 24 May 2011 18:47 (twelve years ago) link
You know, I've never really listened to this band, though generally like the singles when they come on the radio. But over the weekend I saw one of Gibbard's solo shows, and while the songs lose a lot played just on acoustic guitar, it really made me appreciate the rest of the band and in particular their arrangements. Like, the studio versions of "Soul Meets Body" or "Crooked Teeth" are pretty well put together songs, and hearing all the stuff that makes that so taken away was pretty striking.
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 5 November 2012 17:07 (eleven years ago) link
what does ilm think of the new album? i kind of like "autumn love":https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h-Hnl8inGPo
― Ich bin kein Berliner (alex in mainhattan), Monday, 20 August 2018 12:59 (five years ago) link
i still haven't gotten around to the new one but i've been in a real death cab mood for the first time in ten years. forgot how much i've always loved narrow stairs? they really pushed themselves musically on that one even though the rot in gibbard's lyrics had already set in
we have the facts is their inarguable masterpiece still imo
― princess of hell (BradNelson), Monday, 20 August 2018 15:41 (five years ago) link
― the insane Dr. Morbius and his HOOSical steens (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Tuesday, May 12, 2009 1:27 AM (nine years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
past hoos otm
Ben Gibbard lives in the same congressional district as me
― faculty w1fe (silby), Monday, 20 August 2018 15:43 (five years ago) link
After that last record, they completely lost me. At one point, I'd have called them my favorite band. I saw Amoeba advertising the new record was released this past Friday on my Instagram feed, and I just kind of had one of those, "Huh" type reactions. Good for them, for still being around, I guess. But I the amount of which I care about them anymore is starkly in disproportion to just how much I cared ten or twelve years ago. Absolutely no desire to hear this new one.
― outside, you're never alone. (Austin), Monday, 20 August 2018 15:57 (five years ago) link
i'd love to love anything this band puts out at this point, but i just can't see it ever happening.
from Something About Airplanes thru Photo Album, they were probably my favorite band, too. i blindly played Airplanes on my college radio show (thanks to the Built to Spill mention on the little review someone had stuck on the jewelcase) and absolutely fell in love with it ... then when Facts finally showed up in the play box, i just played the whole thing on my show, front to back, totally blown away.
― alpine static, Monday, 20 August 2018 16:55 (five years ago) link
Yup. I have the LP and it's all the DCFC I really need (besides "Stability")
― wayne trotsky (Simon H.), Monday, 20 August 2018 16:56 (five years ago) link
forced myself to do a death cab pox
405company calls epilogueyour heart is an empty rooma movie script endingstabilitylong divisionsong for kelly huckabycath...styrofoam platesno joy in mudville
― princess of hell (BradNelson), Tuesday, 21 August 2018 21:22 (five years ago) link
transatlanticism was one of my favorite records of all time in high school and i don't like it at all anymore? i even like plans more, which at the v least has one of walla's best production jobs
― princess of hell (BradNelson), Tuesday, 21 August 2018 21:23 (five years ago) link
little fury bugs!
― droit au butt (Euler), Tuesday, 21 August 2018 21:46 (five years ago) link
oh yeah that one too hm
― princess of hell (BradNelson), Tuesday, 21 August 2018 21:59 (five years ago) link
song for kelly huckaby is of a piece with it, really those are the only two songs I need from this band. but two for the ages.
― droit au butt (Euler), Tuesday, 21 August 2018 22:14 (five years ago) link
Transatlaticism was the one that made me a fan, but after sitting with those records for many years, I have to agree that We Have the Facts and We're Voting Yes is their best one.
Still love the Facts-era b-side 'Army Corps of Architects' more than anything else. That is such a flat out gorgeous tune.
― outside, you're never alone. (Austin), Tuesday, 21 August 2018 22:19 (five years ago) link
Also, yeah: Stability EP is another favorite. I was way into Pygmalion and Sigur Rós at the time, so it was very much preaching to the choir with its clean toned delay trailing off into oblivion at a snail's pace.
― outside, you're never alone. (Austin), Tuesday, 21 August 2018 22:28 (five years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-VK_jfL3r7o
this is a great late b-side that should've been on narrow stairs
― princess of hell (BradNelson), Wednesday, 22 August 2018 17:00 (five years ago) link
i really love the lyrics of that one too, which is rare for me and post-photo album gibbard (the lyrics on plans are largely awful for example)
― princess of hell (BradNelson), Wednesday, 22 August 2018 17:02 (five years ago) link
feel bad about it in a way though, in that "clearly my favorite death cab material after we have the facts is the stuff where ben gibbard was going through a major depressive episode"
― princess of hell (BradNelson), Wednesday, 22 August 2018 17:07 (five years ago) link
also god "cath..." is so good
― princess of hell (BradNelson), Wednesday, 22 August 2018 17:52 (five years ago) link
This band covered Waterfalls on their latest ep! Turns my stomach! Very wrong. I don't mind this band but this is awful!
― black dice live ft. jerry garcia (rizzx), Thursday, 21 January 2021 08:11 (three years ago) link
okay, i didn't know about that and i'm a minute in and. . . fuck, this is bad. he wants to be coldplay and it's fucking irritating. stop, ben. or at least stop calling this death cab for cutie. ugh.
"ya'll don't hear me"
YA CUZ I'M CRINGING SO HARD MY EARDRUMS WINCED INTO MY BRAIN AND I'M TEMPORARILY DEAF FFS
― Totally different head. Totally. (Austin), Thursday, 21 January 2021 23:18 (three years ago) link
i listened to whole thing.
― Totally different head. Totally. (Austin), Thursday, 21 January 2021 23:20 (three years ago) link
now i'm angry.
This is interesting! I had pretty much the diametric opposite reaction. I heard this cover for the first time a few minutes ago and thought it was an excellent reinterpretation of the song. But then, I love Death Cab and have no particular opinion either way regarding the work of TLC. I do remember the video of the original song being quite innovative.
Waterfalls came out in 1995. This is enough - heh! - water under the bridge for some people hearing Death Cab's version not to have heard the original. Like all covers, we need to ask - do you dislike it as you feel a classic has been messed up, sullied, or do you dislike it *on its own terms*? Maybe this is an impossible question to answer. Maybe we should ask someone below the age of 20 who is familiar with the modern output of Death Cab, but oblivious to the oeuvre of TLC.
― Grandpont Genie, Friday, 26 August 2022 23:56 (one year ago) link
Would someone below the age of 20 be familiar with the modern output of Death Cab(??)
― Porcine-lina of the Pig Oceans (morrisp), Saturday, 27 August 2022 00:03 (one year ago) link
I would have thought so, yes, why ever not?
― Grandpont Genie, Saturday, 27 August 2022 00:13 (one year ago) link
I was thinking of polling all their albums but have held off because ILM never talks about them so not sure if it's a good idea? Even this thread is under 100 posts.
― Bee OK, Saturday, 27 August 2022 00:42 (one year ago) link
in college circa 2002 loved them. i was listening to the Photo Album in my dorm. i had no friends, just like now. "a movie script ending" touched me one evening, i was listening to it on headphones, mouthing to it with only the noise of lips softly smacking and breath pushing through holes but without resonance. my roommate walked in and heavily made fun of me. he smoked the cheapest cigarettes in Missouri by the carton, and was from Springfield. His name was Josh. He didn't give me too hard of a time, he just raised his eyebrows and closed the door. I was left alone with Death Cab, embarrassed and wondering what to do
― Karl Malone, Saturday, 27 August 2022 00:48 (one year ago) link
i wouldn't mind if they all fukken shit their pants now, me too
― Karl Malone, Saturday, 27 August 2022 00:49 (one year ago) link
i love early dcfc. we have the facts and we're voting yes and the stability ep are things i can still revisit with much appreciation. i thought transatlanticism was stellar at the time and saw them on that tour. they were great! album has not aged as well. diminishing returns with plans and narrow stairs (though the opening two or three track sequence on that is still one of their best moments on record). couple really good tracks here and there. then they lost me. chris and ben made meh solo records, then chris quit, then ben covered "waterfalls" and here we are.
would vote in an albums poll.
― ミ💙🅟 🅛 🅤 🅡 🅜 🅑💙彡 (Austin), Saturday, 27 August 2022 01:22 (one year ago) link
we have the facts is maybe the greatest indie rock album of all time
― flamenco drop (BradNelson), Saturday, 27 August 2022 01:29 (one year ago) link
transatlanticism was my entry point. Loved the album when I first heard it and still do. I would definitely vote in an album poll or indeed a singles poll. Making a decision on a favourite single would be tricky.
― Grandpont Genie, Saturday, 27 August 2022 03:36 (one year ago) link
if/when there's a poll, everyone owes me a beer for each whiney complaint/shitpost
― mookieproof, Saturday, 27 August 2022 03:47 (one year ago) link
weirdly, on my downtime learning early DCFC guitar parts for no real reason. “405” is an earworm.
― Western® with Bacon Flavor, Saturday, 27 August 2022 04:59 (one year ago) link
This is probably more my age, but everything through Transatlanticism was fine for the most part and then Plans hit and i went into that “I’ll hold back on giving this band money for a bit mode and see how it plays out.”
sidebar - the second twilight soundtrack is a who’s who that deserves a poll
― Western® with Bacon Flavor, Saturday, 27 August 2022 05:06 (one year ago) link
Haha, great timing for this bump. DCFC have a new album Asphalt Meadows coming out in 21 days.
― Bee OK, Saturday, 27 August 2022 06:29 (one year ago) link
This gets even crazier, tonight in DC...Monday in New York and the opening band is Low. In a month from now when they play Los Angeles the opening band is going to be Yo La Tengo.
― Bee OK, Saturday, 27 August 2022 06:56 (one year ago) link
Low have opened for Death Cab before. At least a decade back I think?
― Grandpont Genie, Saturday, 27 August 2022 08:02 (one year ago) link
I haven't seen Death Cab live since Transatlanticism (I saw Gibbard solo once) but I am going to go to their show here to see Low open up and maybe I will stick around for a bit of the main event.
― Josh in Chicago, Saturday, 27 August 2022 15:49 (one year ago) link
i just looked at the lineup because i assumed that it was ben having at it with a bunch of new guys, but no — jason and nick are still there!
― ミ💙🅟 🅛 🅤 🅡 🅜 🅑💙彡 (Austin), Saturday, 27 August 2022 16:09 (one year ago) link
Tix resale only $150 + fees
― Bee OK, Sunday, 28 August 2022 03:13 (one year ago) link
We Have the Cash But We’re Voting “Nah”
― Porcine-lina of the Pig Oceans (morrisp), Sunday, 28 August 2022 03:23 (one year ago) link
I think the show is sold out here. $150 (these days) seems about right for resale in that situation. I mean, Gaslight Anthem is sold out here, too, and resale prices for that are about the same. For sure I'm not paying that, I have an "in," but Death Cab is a reasonably popular band for people of a certain age (probably because they're pretty MOR indie, though as I wrote on this thread or some other I'm surprised how many single songs of theirs I enjoy when they come on).
Remember when landing a spot on the soundtrack to "The O.C." was considered a big deal?
― Josh in Chicago, Sunday, 28 August 2022 12:50 (one year ago) link
Outstanding sub-head!! 🎩 https://t.co/ql5B2NcbcZ pic.twitter.com/lKNxqXWteg— Toby Nangle (@toby_n) September 8, 2022
― Portsmouth Bubblejet, Thursday, 8 September 2022 13:33 (one year ago) link
Still not really my thing, but they were good last night, really slick, bunch of good songs. I don't think I'd seen them in 20 years (!), but I don't remember Gibbard going full-frontman like he does now. Lots of dancing and moving around and stuff like that.
― Josh in Chicago, Sunday, 25 September 2022 13:55 (one year ago) link
i haven't listened to the whole new album but the singles were the best they've sounded in years, i thought
― alpine static, Sunday, 25 September 2022 17:16 (one year ago) link
ok, a month later i'm back to say this album is actually really good. their best since ... Narrow Stairs, maybe? (i have to admit, i've barely heard Kintsugi and Thank You For Today)
they were my favorite band '99-'03ish and i didn't think i would ever even enjoy listening to anything new by them ever again. but i am enjoying this one.
― alpine static, Monday, 7 November 2022 02:36 (one year ago) link
Yeah, it's really good. I was surprised by how much I really liked it.
― a superficial sheeb of intelligence (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Monday, 7 November 2022 15:19 (one year ago) link
yeah I like this album, I haven't liked anything by them in some time (probably Narrow Stairs). We won tickets to go see them last week and it was really enjoyable as well; I haven't seen them since Transatlaticism or Photo Book era, and most of the shows I saw them play were at tiny clubs 20+ years ago.
― akm, Monday, 7 November 2022 18:53 (one year ago) link