Death Cab FOr Cutie: C or D?

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.

if/when there's a poll, everyone owes me a beer for each whiney complaint/shitpost

weirdly, on my downtime learning early DCFC guitar parts for no real reason. “405” is an earworm.

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

Haha, great timing for this bump. DCFC have a new album Asphalt Meadows coming out in 21 days.

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.

Low have opened for Death Cab before. At least a decade back I think?

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.

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!

Tix resale only $150 + fees

We Have the Cash But We’re Voting “Nah”

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?

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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.

i haven't listened to the whole new album but the singles were the best they've sounded in years, i thought

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.

Yeah, it's really good. I was surprised by how much I really liked it.

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.