is "sound of settling" the best death cab song

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Postby oscilloscope » Sat Sep 11, 2021 8:59 pm

Feel like this is peak death cab for me
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Postby endoskeleton » Sat Sep 11, 2021 9:51 pm

the more post rock it is the more likely i am to like a death cab song. the record sucks but i kinda think "i will possess your heart" crushes, embarrassing gibbard cliches and all
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Postby 6 Foot 7 Foot 8 Foot Chunt » Sat Sep 11, 2021 9:52 pm

chairkicker wrote:"i will possess your heart" crushes
Tom Waits for no man
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Postby hologram » Sat Sep 11, 2021 9:56 pm

chairkicker wrote:the more post rock it is the more likely i am to like a death cab song. the record sucks but i kinda think "i will possess your heart" crushes, embarrassing gibbard cliches and all


I think they ripped off this song

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Postby transitive » Sat Sep 11, 2021 10:12 pm

I still spin Something About Airplanes and We Have The Facts. The Photo Album is a little too on the nose and everything after that I just can't get past the image of Ben Gibbard drinking and housing a whole pizza.
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Postby endoskeleton » Sat Sep 11, 2021 10:21 pm

"the new year" has got to be the best track on transatlanticism. that's just good space rock. i'm not a fan of that record, though. "lightness" and "we looked like giants" are pretty alright too
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Postby badhat » Sat Sep 11, 2021 10:41 pm

little fury bugs is the only dcfc track i’ve ever dug. can’t say i’ve ever dug in or have any particular antipathy for them.

love dream of evan and chan tho.
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Postby Jerry Lundegaard » Sat Sep 11, 2021 10:41 pm

this is one of those albums that i love(d) but probably only need to revisit once every couple of years, if that

top tier is New Year, Title and Reg, and Sound of Settling

then everything else
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Postby the sequel » Sat Sep 11, 2021 10:41 pm

back in the early days of the iphone there was this guitar hero esque rhythm game i remember playing a ton that had the sound of settling as one of the three free tracks in the game so i would play just this song constantly throughout my freshman year of college

"plans" has always been my death cab album of choice though
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Postby Jerry Lundegaard » Sat Sep 11, 2021 10:46 pm

everything on The Photo Album is better than any song on Transatlanticism
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Postby vivian darko » Sat Sep 11, 2021 10:54 pm

disgusted by those who think they’re too good for transatlanticism
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Postby vivian darko » Sat Sep 11, 2021 10:59 pm

pre transatlanticism, 90s indie rock pastiche. post transatlanticism, kitsch. but transatlanticism? cringe. and cringe is the necessary precondition of great art
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Postby vivian darko » Sat Sep 11, 2021 11:02 pm

tbh i like narrow stairs
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Postby vivian darko » Sat Sep 11, 2021 11:02 pm

cringe is the necessary precondition of posting
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Postby walt » Sat Sep 11, 2021 11:11 pm

I liked transatlanticism when it came out. Now i dont think about it much but when i do i still enjoy some of the songs like sound of settling.

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Postby alaska » Sun Sep 12, 2021 12:46 am

IN THE BACK OF MY GRAY SUBCOMPACT
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Postby beardhurts » Sun Sep 12, 2021 1:37 am

Plans fucking rules
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Postby odilon redon » Sun Sep 12, 2021 7:37 am

expo '86 is so good y'all (and better than tsos)
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Postby odilon redon » Sun Sep 12, 2021 7:39 am

IT'S SO STRANGE THEY'RE ALL BASICALLY THE SAME
SO I DON'T ASK NAMES ANYMORE
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Postby Jerry Lundegaard » Sun Sep 12, 2021 12:11 pm

gonna listen to DCFC all day today
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Postby Milquetoaster Strudels » Sun Sep 12, 2021 12:48 pm

Movie Script Ending is the only song I ever liked by them. They always kinda just seemed to be aping a bunch of bands without doing any of it particularly well.

Probably the most jading thing about growing older is seeing wave after wave of hype bands that are just doing shitty knockoffs of older artists and learning to accept that people are gonna lose their shit over extremely mediocre pastiches and there's no use fussing about it.
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Postby WAC » Sun Sep 12, 2021 1:13 pm


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Postby bluestoy » Sun Sep 12, 2021 1:19 pm

oops...I did it again (oopsy DOOPSEY!)
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Postby buglight » Sun Sep 12, 2021 4:08 pm

Yeah Title Track is my favorite from them

I like A Movie Script Ending until it gets to the "highway" part, it always throws me way off. How many times do you need to tell us you were on the highway Ben
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Postby broodstar » Sun Sep 12, 2021 4:15 pm

this isn't the greatest song but i find the classical exegetic cuts to a guitarist/drummer jamming hilarious still

🄱🄰🅁🅂.
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Postby Grumby » Sun Sep 12, 2021 4:26 pm

so many visor beanies in that video
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Postby Grumby » Sun Sep 12, 2021 4:28 pm

been listening to death cab a lot today. feeling a little cringe about it. but also a little cutie
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Postby Grumby » Sun Sep 12, 2021 5:05 pm

is this band not balm for people that were in their very early teen/pre-pubescent years and discovering indie adjacent music. i would say it was the postal service first. but i hear any of this stuff and i get all balmy.

ben gibb the cringe balm king
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Postby Milquetoaster Strudels » Sun Sep 12, 2021 7:35 pm

I might've been too old, or I was just influenced by a much older crowd. My sister introduced me to stuff like Neutral Milk Hotel, REM, Hayden, Red House Painters, and a bunch of other stuff in that vein, and I don't think she was ever too much into Death Cab, so my vector into indie was through Elephant Six-adjacent bands, 4AD, grunge, and then all the punk and '70/'80s art rock/post-punk stuff that I was mining on my own time, which led to shoegaze, IDM, trip hop, and indie/backpack hip hop for the rest of my late teens
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Postby beardhurts » Sun Sep 12, 2021 9:27 pm

what sarah said touches me terribly and it’s probably manipulative in that the music mimics a cardiac heart monitor but is still really cool
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