Death Cab for Cutie Wiki - Recently Updated Pages

Death Cab for Cutie Wiki - Recently Updated Pageshttp://deathcabwiki.wetpaint.com/pageSearch/updatedRecently Updated Pages on http://deathcabwiki.wetpaint.comen-usinfo@wetpaint.comThu, 10 Apr 2008 20:13:39 CDTThu, 10 Apr 2008 20:13:39 CDTwetpaint.com60Death Cab for Cutie Wikihttp://image.wetpaint.com/image/3/O_EQqjDBzK1Dk8LT_ca4gw56628/GW204H200http://deathcabwiki.wetpaint.comDeath Cab for Cutie Wiki: A community for friends & fans of the Seattle-area band, Death Cab for Cutie. Find videos, history of the band and their albums, biographies as well as info on side projects.Death Cab for Cutie Fan Wikihttp://deathcabwiki.wetpaint.com/page/Death+Cab+for+Cutie+Fan+Wikithisisaaronhttp://deathcabwiki.wetpaint.com/page/Death+Cab+for+Cutie+Fan+WikiThu, 10 Apr 2008 20:13:39 CDT

This Wiki is for friends and fans of the Seattle-area band - Death Cab for Cutie. This site offers: Videos A history of Death Cab For Cutie's Albums, Biographies Interesting information on side projects. and other links & resources.	Say Hi to the band.
Learn more by reading the band's biography or check out their album pages below: Plans Something About Airplanes You Can Play These Songs With Chords Transatlantacism We Have the Facts And We're Voting Yes	Listen to Death Cab For Cutie's songs while you add content to the site!
You Can Help! Just Click Easy Edit on any of the pages and add your 2 cents!

Did you know that Death Cab Started out as a side project of"All-time Quarterback?

]]>Nick Harmerhttp://deathcabwiki.wetpaint.com/page/Nick+Harmerthisisaaronhttp://deathcabwiki.wetpaint.com/page/Nick+HarmerWed, 09 Apr 2008 09:41:23 CDT

Note: Can't be from wikipedia. I will some do some research, later.
--thisisaaron

]]>Jason McGerrhttp://deathcabwiki.wetpaint.com/page/Jason+McGerrthisisaaronhttp://deathcabwiki.wetpaint.com/page/Jason+McGerrWed, 09 Apr 2008 09:41:04 CDT

Note: Can't be from wikipedia. I will some do some research, later.
--thisisaaron

]]>Ben Gibbardhttp://deathcabwiki.wetpaint.com/page/Ben+Gibbardthisisaaronhttp://deathcabwiki.wetpaint.com/page/Ben+GibbardWed, 09 Apr 2008 09:40:46 CDT

Note: Can't be from wikipedia. I will some do some research, later.
--thisisaaron

]]>Death Cab for Cutie Concerts Bloghttp://deathcabwiki.wetpaint.com/page/Death+Cab+for+Cutie+Concerts+Blogjeff_mcdowellhttp://deathcabwiki.wetpaint.com/page/Death+Cab+for+Cutie+Concerts+BlogMoved from: Death Cab for Cutie Fan WikiWed, 09 Apr 2008 04:00:10 CDT

]]>Death Cab for Cutie Concert Reviewshttp://deathcabwiki.wetpaint.com/page/Death+Cab+for+Cutie+Concert+Reviewsjeff_mcdowellhttp://deathcabwiki.wetpaint.com/page/Death+Cab+for+Cutie+Concert+ReviewsWed, 09 Apr 2008 03:59:12 CDTyou want more info go to recordbreakers.wetpaint.com
Key Arena, Seattle Center, December 9, 2006

The home town crowd enjoyed the homecoming of Death Cab for Cutie. The show was more up-beat and energetic than I imagined from listening to their albums. It was clear that they like to feed off of the crowd. And the crowd responded to them. The lead signer showed his talents playing guitar, singing, playing the drums, and the piano at different times during the show. It was clear that they were a little surprised and excited about the size of the crowd. I'm guessing that Key arena was their biggest venue yet. They seemed modest and humbled at the exuberance of their fans. It was exciting to be there watching the band realize that at that instant, they may have finally made it BIG!

]]>Death Cab For Cutie Biographyhttp://deathcabwiki.wetpaint.com/page/Death+Cab+For+Cutie+Biographyjeff_mcdowellhttp://deathcabwiki.wetpaint.com/page/Death+Cab+For+Cutie+BiographyRenameWed, 09 Apr 2008 03:52:16 CDTPlans is Seattle quartet Death Cab for Cutie’s fifth album, but in many ways it’s an album of firsts. It’s their first for Atlantic Records, after a long and productive relationship with Seattle-based indie Barsuk. It’s their first recorded on 48 tracks, their first recorded on the East Coast, and their first with a song originated by a member other than Ben Gibbard (“Brothers on a Hotel Bed,” by Chris Walla). It’s their first recorded with the same drummer (Jason McGerr) as the previous one. It’s their first album since OC TV character Seth Cohen professed his undying love for their music, and their first since tireless touring helped bring them hundreds of thousands of new fans across the U.S. and around the world.

First and foremost, however, what makes Plans so fresh and so stunning is that it is an album that lives up to its potential and its promise. In a hyperspeed culture where bands are signed from their practice spaces, where overhyped genres live and die between issues of a magazine, Death Cab for Cutie is an anachronism, a throwback: a dedicated group of friends and musicians with talent to spare and a fanbase that grows larger with every day, every disc, and every download. And with Plans they’ve delivered a masterpiece.

Plans comes exactly two years after the release of DCFC’s most artistically complete and commercially successful work up to that time, the acclaimed Transatlanticism. With so much accomplished and so much yet to do, the members of Death Cab decided to plunge right back into the studio following their extensive 2004 world tour. The result is the record of their still young careers. Says Harmer, “this album is very much a brother or a sister to Transatlanticism. Despite the title, we never sat down to plan it, it just came out – fully formed – from the momentum of our last two years.” But it’s drummer McGerr who perhaps sums it up best: “If Transatlanticism was an inhale, Plans is the exhale.”

“And it came to me then, that every plan is a tiny prayer to Father Time.”

Plans was recorded over 28 wintry days in early 2005 at Longview Studios, housed in a converted barn in Massachusetts. Chris Walla, as always, served as producer – and claims not to have seen daylight once during the recording. Perhaps that’s why he suddenly blurted out the album title to Harmer during a lull in conversation over burritos.

If Transatlanticism – with its ageless refrain of “I need you so much closer” – ached over the distance, both literal and emotional, that sometimes springs up between two people, Plans concerns itself with the yawning gap that waits in front of us all: aging and eventual death. “All of us in the band are starting to turn a corner and realize our youth is basically over,” says the 29-year-old Gibbard. “That’s not a bad thing; it’s just that the feeling of invincibility begins to fall by the wayside. I’ve got a house now, a serious relationship. I’m becoming an adult. And for me, that means being aware of the slow process of losing people in your life.”

The album begins with the wide-eyed hope of “Marching Bands of Manhattan,” a gorgeous, spiraling song about living in the moment – or at least trying to. “I’m the sort of person that’s always dwelling on the destination rather than the journey,” Ben says. “Even when I’m in a great situation there’s always this moving thought that it all is going to have to end. ‘Marching Bands’ and the next song, ‘Soul Meets Body,’ are about me trying not to fall back into old habits.” Indeed, themes that begin in one song are continued throughout the album, building, piece by piece, into a satisfying emotional whole.

On “Soul Meets Body” – the album’s chiming, addictive first single – Gibbard’s layered “ba-ba-ba”s and the band’s subtly shifting instrumentation (based on a demo that Gibbard built around sampled sounds) combine to transform a lyric about death (“and if the darkness takes you I hope it takes me too”) into one of the most romantic love songs he’s ever penned. That same morbid-yet-ecstatic Smiths-ian rapture pops up again in the haunting and bare “I Will Follow You Into the Dark,” an acoustic folk number with a timeless lyric already called “better than most songs anyone has written” by the Seattle Times. It’s a credit to Walla’s prodigious gifts as a producer and arranger that both songs – one constructed, one untouched – feel equally rich in texture and fully alive. “Our communication as a band has improved so much over the last two records,” says Walla. “I just found myself saying ‘yes’ a heck of a lot more than I said ‘no.’”

The sweaty and slinky “Summer Skin,” anchored by Harmer’s lascivious bass and McGerr’s relentless snare, relates a tale of a first love bookended by the seasons. “Different Names for the Same Thing” is both Gibbard’s favorite song on the album and its most musically adventurous. “It’s a simple thought, really,” he says. “It’s a song about traveling by yourself in a foreign country and the frustration of being isolated by language, even when you’re surrounded by people.” But when the story is over, the simplicity stops as well: the song suddenly bursts and blooms into a cacophony of multi-tracked vocals and frantic rhythms.

The kaleidoscopic “Your Heart Is an Empty Room” and the jaunty “Crooked Teeth” each tackle themes of regret and renewal – the former with its vision of a cleansing fire and the latter with its sober take on a failed relationship – while “Someday You Will Be Loved” churns up the same waters as Transatlanticism’s bitter “Tiny Vessels,” but this time with a more optimistic bent.

It’s with “What Sarah Said” that Plans arguably reaches its emotional zenith – and ironically the song very nearly didn’t make the cut. “It stewed for a year and a half,” Gibbard says. The song sets Gibbard’s heartbreaking story of being trapped in an emergency room “that reeks of piss and 409,” waiting for news of a critically ill or injured loved one.

It turns out that what Sarah actually said – “love is watching someone die” – is the thesis of the entire album. “The song was inspired by a friend,” says Gibbard. “She was walking with her husband one day and just burst into hysterical tears because she realized that one day one of the two of them would have to watch the other die.” Only a songwriter as dexterous as Gibbard could make a tear-jerking refrain about the end of love (“so who’s going to watch you die?”) sound as effortless and bright as falling in love in the first place.

Plans concludes with “Brothers on a Hotel Bed,” which finds Gibbard transforming Walla’s warm and wistful melody into another reflection on age and aging and, finally, “Stable Song,” a clear-eyed ode to the quiet life. “Our longevity and history come through a lot on this record,” says Harmer. “There’s now an unspoken trust and communication between all four of us, a great flow. All we had to do was not interrupt it.”

Plans is a beautiful and mature album from a group that itself is still evolving. Death Cab for Cutie is that rare band that isn’t afraid to tackle the big thought, to wrestle with the complex, never black and white realities of human interaction. From its soaring beginning to its somber end, Plans is the sound of growing up, of gaining friends and losing them, of realizing, perhaps for the first time, the weight and consequences of every decision we make, of every heart we touch. It is an album about growing old that can grow old with us.

“I feel like the album is a complete thought,” says Harmer with pride in his voice. “Hopefully it’s 45 minutes that can block out the din of life, make you put your phone down, and provide some solace.” You heard the man: set the phone to “silent,” and the stereo to “play.” And we promise you won’t need to take our word(s) for it anymore.

A Short History

Formed in the tiny college town of Bellingham, WA, Death Cab for Cutie started out as a solo project from engineering student and committed indie rocker Ben Gibbard. Having turned a freshly broken heart into nine songs he wasn’t embarrassed to share with someone else, he recruited fledgling four-track producer (and fellow Teenage Fanclub fan) Chris Walla and bassist Nick Harmer, the most amiable (and comic-book obsessed) musician on campus. The result was the 1997 cassette, You Can Play These Songs With Chords (finally released on CD in ’02, expanded to include various DCFC rarities).

To set the record straight, the band’s name comes from a song performed by British jazz/rock/comedy combo the Bonzo Dog Doo Dah Band in the Beatles’ Magical Mystery Tour film.

Generating a Seattle-area buzz, Death Cab for Cutie quickly became a proper band, releasing their official debut album – Something About Airplanes – in 1998 on the burgeoning area indie Barsuk. Then came touring. And new drummers. And more touring. And more albums – including 2000’s We Have the Facts And We’re Voting Yes and 2001’s The Photo Album – each more successful, in content and sales, than the last.

Having created a substantial body of work as a band, Ben, Chris & Nick looked around and realized this wasn’t a college extracurricular anymore, this was a life. So they did what all sensible people do: they took a break. Chris returned to his first love, producing, working on widely hailed releases by The Decemberists, The Thermals, Nada Surf, and Travis Morrison. Ben spent some time in the L.A. neighborhood of Silverlake recording electropop songs with his friend, producer Jimmy Tamborello. This little side project, called The Postal Service, yielded an album, Give Up, that has, to date, sold over 600,000 copies.

In 2003, refreshed and renewed by their time apart – and inspired by the recruitment of ace drummer Jason McGerr – Death Cab recorded and released the rave-spawning Transatlanticism. Milestones began to fall like dominos: sales that doubled those of any previous release, successful tours of Japan and Australia, magazine features, TV appearances (including a memorable spring ’05 performance on The OC), and a personal invitation to join Pearl Jam on the Vote for Change tour.

Death Cab’s 2004 Transatlanticism tour is documented on the just-released DVD, Drive Well, Sleep Carefully, directed by noted filmmaker Justin Mitchell.

In the fall of 2004, Death Cab for Cutie inked a worldwide deal with Atlantic Records. The band’s label debut, Plans, will be released in August 30 2005.

]]>Death Cab For Cutie Albumshttp://deathcabwiki.wetpaint.com/page/Death+Cab+For+Cutie+Albumsjeff_mcdowellhttp://deathcabwiki.wetpaint.com/page/Death+Cab+For+Cutie+AlbumsRenameWed, 09 Apr 2008 03:51:46 CDT

]]>Side Projectshttp://deathcabwiki.wetpaint.com/page/Side+Projectsjeff_mcdowellhttp://deathcabwiki.wetpaint.com/page/Side+ProjectsMoved from: Death Cab for Cutie Fan WikiWed, 09 Apr 2008 03:51:09 CDT
Death Cab band member side projects include:

The Postal Service.

]]>Postal Servicehttp://deathcabwiki.wetpaint.com/page/Postal+Servicejeff_mcdowellhttp://deathcabwiki.wetpaint.com/page/Postal+ServiceMoved from: Side ProjectsWed, 09 Apr 2008 03:48:15 CDTThe Postal Service is an electronic indie pop band featuring singer Ben Gibbard of Death Cab for Cutie and producer Jimmy Tamborello.

Several songs on their first LP, Give Up, feature guest vocals from Jenny Lewis, solo artist and the lead singer of Rilo Kiley, a band which was once on the same label as Death Cab (Barsuk Records) and vocals from Jen Wood, an indie rock musician.

]]>Widgethttp://deathcabwiki.wetpaint.com/page/Widgetjeff_mcdowellhttp://deathcabwiki.wetpaint.com/page/WidgetMoved from: Death Cab for Cutie Fan WikiWed, 09 Apr 2008 03:46:30 CDThttp://es-cat.org/~nanderson/getalifeaaron/Site/Site/Download.html

]]>Links & Resourceshttp://deathcabwiki.wetpaint.com/page/Links+%26+Resourcesjeff_mcdowellhttp://deathcabwiki.wetpaint.com/page/Links+%26+Resourcesreverting contentWed, 09 Apr 2008 03:45:33 CDT

The band's official site
MySpace page
Wikipedia page
and your own! click EasyEdit and start typing!

]]>ill+follow+you+into+the+darkhttp://deathcabwiki.wetpaint.com/page/ill%2Bfollow%2Byou%2Binto%2Bthe%2Bdarkjeff_mcdowellhttp://deathcabwiki.wetpaint.com/page/ill%2Bfollow%2Byou%2Binto%2Bthe%2BdarkMoved from: Death Cab for Cutie Fan WikiWed, 09 Apr 2008 03:44:04 CDT
]]>Death Cab for Cutie Band Membershttp://deathcabwiki.wetpaint.com/page/Death+Cab+for+Cutie+Band+Membersjeff_mcdowellhttp://deathcabwiki.wetpaint.com/page/Death+Cab+for+Cutie+Band+Membersrestoring contentWed, 09 Apr 2008 03:40:46 CDT

Get started adding band members to this page.

Just click the 'add a new page' link on the right (or left), name the page (probably with each band members name) and fire away!

Death Cab for Cutie is comprised of:

]]>Chris Wallahttp://deathcabwiki.wetpaint.com/page/Chris+Wallathisisaaronhttp://deathcabwiki.wetpaint.com/page/Chris+WallaNO WIKIPEDIA!Mon, 07 Apr 2008 23:49:38 CDT

Note: Can't be from wikipedia. I will do some research, later.
--thisisaaron

]]>Suggestions Anyone?http://deathcabwiki.wetpaint.com/page/Suggestions+Anyone%3Flilyloveslollipops..http://deathcabwiki.wetpaint.com/page/Suggestions+Anyone%3FSat, 22 Mar 2008 17:11:04 CDT
nobody here knows me, but i really wish you people would grow up and stop destroying other peoples wikis... get your own! and i didnt write that above... for the record

]]>Something About Airplaneshttp://deathcabwiki.wetpaint.com/page/Something+About+AirplanesAnonymoushttp://deathcabwiki.wetpaint.com/page/Something+About+AirplanessdfsssfsdfsfddfsdfsdfsfdsfsdfsfsfsfsfsfffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffsssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssdddddddddddddSun, 09 Mar 2008 10:25:14 CDT Our Review:
"Not The best, and not the worst, kinda, if you know what we mean"
Track List:
1.Bend to Squares
2.President of What?
3.Champagne from a Paper Cup
4.Your Bruise
5.Pictures in an Exhibition
6.Sleep Spent
7.The Face that Launched 1,000 S**ts
8.Amputations
9.Fake Frowns
10.Line of Best Fit

]]>Death Cab for Cutie Videoshttp://deathcabwiki.wetpaint.com/page/Death+Cab+for+Cutie+VideosAnonymoushttp://deathcabwiki.wetpaint.com/page/Death+Cab+for+Cutie+VideosSat, 16 Feb 2008 21:32:27 CST

check out our new pimpin video it rox

]]>Death Cab for Cutie Pictureshttp://deathcabwiki.wetpaint.com/page/Death+Cab+for+Cutie+Picturesthisisaaronhttp://deathcabwiki.wetpaint.com/page/Death+Cab+for+Cutie+PicturesMon, 31 Dec 2007 22:38:49 CST

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