No Death Cab Thread?

[Charlie Nakatestes, Japanese Golfer]

What are your OTHER favorite Death Cab albums? Ever.
 
 

Originally posted by jude376:
  Transatlanticism is one of my favorite Death Cab albums. Ever.
 
 Thanks for chiming in callat703! I was beginning to think I was the last, lonely Death Cab fan out there.    

[Sage 703]

Originally posted by jude376:
  Transatlanticism is one of my favorite Death Cab albums. Ever.
 
 Thanks for chiming in callat703! I was beginning to think I was the last, lonely Death Cab fan out there.      

Callat703 ("call at 7:03" from "Passenger Seat") is a DCFC reference that I don't think has ever been picked up on here.
 
 And Transatlanticism is wonderful...I suffer a bit from indie-fan syndrome of being a little anti the success it has had...the commodification of the band via the OC didn't sit super well with me.  That's another story. But you can't get around the fact that the album is great, and all of the guys in the band are super people who paid their dues, and make great music.

[bellenseb]

Death Cab has always sounded decent but antiseptic to me...the production, the singing, always came off as emotionally detached, although the songwriting seemed pretty solid. It's funny which indie bands break big, looking back...in my mind it's a shame more pop-oriented acts that came up around the time of Death Cab (I'm thinking Aden, Aislers Set, Pernice Brothers, hell even Magnetic Fields) can't seem to make it into the mainstream the way they have.

[Sage 703]

Originally posted by Charlie Nakajima, Fired by Mascis:
  What are your OTHER favorite Death Cab albums? Ever.
 
   

Originally posted by jude376:
  Transatlanticism is one of my favorite Death Cab albums. Ever.
 
 Thanks for chiming in callat703! I was beginning to think I was the last, lonely Death Cab fan out there.      

[/b]

I'd chime in for We Have the Facts and We're Voting Yes, the EPs, and Transatlanticism as being outstanding.  The band's cover of Bjork's "All is Full of Love" is on The Stability EP - I love their version.
 
 Photo Album, Airplanes, Play These Songs With Chords - all nice in their own respects, but not quite cohesive records.  Plans is a pleasant record too, but not a knockout.

[jude376]

Originally posted by callat703:
   

Originally posted by Charlie Nakajima, Fired by Mascis:
  What are your OTHER favorite Death Cab albums? Ever.
 
   

Originally posted by jude376:
  Transatlanticism is one of my favorite Death Cab albums. Ever.
 
 Thanks for chiming in callat703! I was beginning to think I was the last, lonely Death Cab fan out there.        

[/b]

I'd chime in for We Have the Facts and We're Voting Yes, the EPs, and Transatlanticism as being outstanding.  The band's cover of Bjork's "All is Full of Love" is on The Stability EP - I love their version.
 
 Photo Album, Airplanes, Play These Songs With Chords - all nice in their own respects, but not quite cohesive records.  Plans is a pleasant record too, but not a knockout. [/b]

Crap. You beat me to it. I also quite like We Have the Facts.

[ggw]

I like some of the albums, but let's be honest -- these guys look like the Dungeons & Dragon club at the local community college.  What's with Walla's shirt?  Was that free with a year's membership to the Siegfried and Roy fan club?
 
  <img src="http://musicmedia.ign.com/music/image/article/651/651551/dcfcinline1_092105_1127337685.jpg" alt=" - " />

[Sage 703]

Originally posted by ggwâ?¢:
  I like some of the albums, but let's be honest -- these guys look like the Dungeons & Dragon club at the local community college.  What's with Walla's shirt?  Was that free with a year's membership to the Siegfried and Roy fan club?
 
   <img src="http://musicmedia.ign.com/music/image/article/651/651551/dcfcinline1_092105_1127337685.jpg" alt=" - " />

No doubt.  Walla is a super-nerd.  A super-nerd who also happens to make great records (see the Decemberists, Nada Surf, Death Cab, et. al).  
 
 Try talking with him about sound engineering some time.  Actually, even better - ask him about the song he recorded for Nada Surf.  You can download it from his studio's webpage.  Anybody who is curious, I'll share my interview transcript.  Absolutely fucking hilarious, in a "he's a gigantic music nerd" kind of way.
 
 Links:
 
 http://www.hallofjusticerecording.com/
 
 Nada Surf superhero song:
 
 http://www.hallofjusticerecording.com/MP3/The_Rhone_Occupation.mp3

[Sage 703]

actually, case in point - i opened my last article on death cab by pointing out that Walla is a gigantic nerd:
 
 http://www.ontaponline.com/view_article.php?article_id=10117

[Tom Servo]

Originally posted by callat703:
  No doubt.  Walla is a super-nerd.  A super-nerd who also happens to make great records (see the Decemberists, Nada Surf, Death Cab, et. al).  
 

Hey, Walla's just a regular guy, he puts his white tiger shirt on one sleeve at a time. Except, once his shirt is on, he makes gold records.

[you be betty]

Originally posted by callat703:
   

Originally posted by ggwâ?¢:
  I like some of the albums, but let's be honest -- these guys look like the Dungeons & Dragon club at the local community college.  What's with Walla's shirt?  Was that free with a year's membership to the Siegfried and Roy fan club?
 
     )

[Sage 703]

...And let's not forget Travistan!!
 

...i might have forgotten that one for a reason...

[nkotb]

Do Death Cab have casual fans?  Seems everyone that I know that cares absolutely ADORES them.  
 
 

Originally posted by you be betty:
 

I'm glad that there's at least about two other hardcore fans on here.  [/b]

[you be betty]

Originally posted by callat703:
   

...And let's not forget Travistan!!
 

...i might have forgotten that one for a reason... [/b]

really?  i really liked that album.  i mean you have to look at it completely separate from all the other Dismemberment stuff, but i think singled out it's a really solid record.

[Sage 703]

Originally posted by you be betty:
   

Originally posted by callat703:
   

...And let's not forget Travistan!!
 

...i might have forgotten that one for a reason... [/b]

really?  i really liked that album.  i mean you have to look at it completely separate from all the other Dismemberment stuff, but i think singled out it's a really solid record. [/b]

Well, my apologies to Travis if he is one of the faceless many that are on this board (and my thanks for the keyboard he sold me!), but I really don't care for Travistan.  At all.  It borders on great a lot of the time...but the "humor" just kind of kills it for me.  I can't take it seriously.  It has a nice song or two...but....
 
 And of course, it should also be considered that I was never a huge D Plan fan.

[ggw]

Originally posted by you be betty:
 ...And let's not forget Travistan!!
 

Has anyone else noticed the similarity between the words "Travistan" and "travesty"?