The fact that Elsinor and Barsuk, two relatively small labels, conspired to co-release Something About Airplanes should give some indication as to its quality. It's a solid, emotive, and frequently amazing indie rock record that foreshadows Death Cab for Cutie's eventual ascent into the mainstream. Sonically, the band falls somewhere on the dreamier and more pop-oriented end of Built to Spill's sound (particularly on Keep It Like a Secret), alongside the Posies' most pensive tracks, or with Delta Haymax -- that is, dynamic, melodic, and somewhat atmospheric Northwestern ock. What's important, however, is that the composition, arrangement, and perfect vocal harmonies of Something About Airplanes are all hugely effective; the band uses light touches of flute, synth, or cello to add the necessary textures to its well-crafted pop songs, and the result has a consistently impressive and thoroughly engaging quality that rivals Built to Spill's Keep It Like a Secret. Which is quite a complement -- but tracks like "Bend to Squares" and "Pictures in an Exhibition" deserve as much adulation as one can offer.
Cool service, first post, niftySo its 5am, workin on this paper for my TCOM 203 class, Media and the Creative Process. Gotta compare and contraste 2-3 similar peices of media. I decided to to all Death Cab Albums, just because the whole indie vs. major label interestes me. So i did their first album, Something About Airplanes (its not technically the first, but it has most of the songs of You C...
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so, i finally heard the entire new incubus song, anna molly. i like it, but my mind wanders to mexico, a certain shade of green, stellar, etc. why are bands so sappy with the concept of love when they first come around, depicting it in all these great images, but as they age they lose it?a great example of this would be my favorite band, death cab for cutie.something about airplanes is superb. ...
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I didnt get much sleep saturday cause bryce was up my ass at like 7. we only got like 4 hours of sleep.
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so, i finally heard the entire new incubus song, anna molly. i like it, but my mind wanders to mexico, a certain shade of green, stellar, etc. why are bands so sappy with the concept of love when they first come around, depicting it in all these great images, but as they age they lose it?a great example of this would be my favorite band, death cab for cutie.something about airplanes is superb. ...
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Cool service, first post, niftySo its 5am, workin on this paper for my TCOM 203 class, Media and the Creative Process. Gotta compare and contraste 2-3 similar peices of media. I decided to to all Death Cab Albums, just because the whole indie vs. major label interestes me. So i did their first album, Something About Airplanes (its not technically the first, but it has most of the songs of You C...
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Why did I sign up for this if I have dial-up? I can't listen to anything. I think I will go over to my mom and dad's later and listen over there where they don't have ghettofied internet. Anyway I had the WEIRDEST dream last night. I dreamed that I met up with this girl I knew in fifth grade and went over to her house. She had stuffed animals everywhere, and had little beds made up for them...
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im back and now ive got some musical sense. ill be uploading some good music and sharing my recommendations with the world and hope you do so tooo. -z
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Death Cab For Cutie are set to reissue their 1998 debut album 'Something About Airplanes' later next month. The special release will be a limited-edition deluxe reissue and is set to mark the 10th anniversary of its original 1998 release date. The album will be released in the US via Barsuk Records on November 25 and will include a bonus disc featuring a live recording of their first ever Seatt...
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Go right now, and put Narrow Stairs on. Listen. Done? Good. Now, do the same for Plans & Transatlanticism and then come back to this review. The reason for the previous demands is because those three albums, although diverse and perhaps even superior in places, bear very little resemblance to the bands earlier work.
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Something strange is afoot at the Circle K. Bees are just disappearing - this wouldn't be so serious if, oh say, all of human life wasn't dependent upon the little fuzzy things.But then I read this about Dick Cheney being protested at Bringham Young University. Now if Pat Robertson turns Bush into the antichrist, then hell has frozen over. I always knew Bush would have been...
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new to this...pretty tight lookingsomething to keep me occupied for nowfound out about from reading stuff about ben gibbard. inspirational? i love his lyrics.anyways i've been trying to figure these lyrics out(i'm really getting into interpreting lyrics lately... wasting my time?thinknot), i dont know if hes singing of suicide or higher living, and the problems that come with it...-writing mus...
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| 1 Bend to Squares |
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| 2 President of What? |
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| 3 Champagne from a Paper Cup |
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| 4 Your Bruise |
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| 5 Pictures in an Exhibition |
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| 6 Sleep Spent |
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| 7 The Face That Launched 1000 Shits |
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| 8 Amputations |
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| 9 Fake Frowns |
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| 10 Line of Best Fit |
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