Any Death Cab For Cutie Fans?
DiscoZombie
Join Date: 2003-08-05 Member: 18951Members
Join Date: 2003-08-05 Member: 18951Members
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<div class="IPBDescription">new movie out</div> for the few of you who actually like indie pop type tunes...
death cab has a new docu-movie coming out, with concert footage and interviews...
the interviews look pretty damn boring tbh, but the concert and tour footage is nicely done...
amazon.com has about <a href='http://www.amazon.com/gp/r.html?R=Q6EUGSA7NXDF&C=9V4NFKXAE5DG&T=C&U=/exec/obidos/ASIN/B0009UZGHI/ref=pe%5Fd%5Fdwsc%5F04&H=JOqpDbW4gk8fqFGmUJBDvnwdgAMA' target='_blank'>10 minutes of the film</a> to preview for free
I just figured, since NIN gets threads, death cab, the near opposite of NIN, should get a thread ;P I wish the show they're doing in my area soon wasn't sold out... playing with the Decemberists, whom I also <3.
anyway, this has been a public service announcement.
death cab has a new docu-movie coming out, with concert footage and interviews...
the interviews look pretty damn boring tbh, but the concert and tour footage is nicely done...
amazon.com has about <a href='http://www.amazon.com/gp/r.html?R=Q6EUGSA7NXDF&C=9V4NFKXAE5DG&T=C&U=/exec/obidos/ASIN/B0009UZGHI/ref=pe%5Fd%5Fdwsc%5F04&H=JOqpDbW4gk8fqFGmUJBDvnwdgAMA' target='_blank'>10 minutes of the film</a> to preview for free
I just figured, since NIN gets threads, death cab, the near opposite of NIN, should get a thread ;P I wish the show they're doing in my area soon wasn't sold out... playing with the Decemberists, whom I also <3.
anyway, this has been a public service announcement.
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...not the ones I like anyway <!--emo&:p--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/tounge.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='tounge.gif' /><!--endemo-->
the <a href='http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll' target='_blank'>all-music guide</a> doesn't classify them as emo so as far as I'm concerned, they're off the hook <!--emo&:D--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/biggrin-fix.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='biggrin-fix.gif' /><!--endemo-->
This is why you post at these forums. And why you must never EVER stop.
Great lyrics. Seriously quality poetry, and very little angst. Most of the songs on that album are really mellow.
<!--QuoteBegin-"Passenger Seat"+--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> ("Passenger Seat")</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin-->
I roll the window down
and then begin to breathe in
the darkest country road
and the strong scent of evergreen
from the passenger seat as you are driving me home.
Then looking upwards
I strain my eyes and try
to tell the difference between shooting stars and satellites
from the passenger seat as you are driving me home.
"Do they collide?"
I ask and you smile.
With my feet on the dash
the world doesn't matter.
When you feel embarrassed then i'll be your pride.
When you need directions then i'll be the guide.
for all time.
for all time.<!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd-->
Don't worry, the price will come down as the emo kids cut themselves to death, and the audiences thin out thanks to the magic of attrition. <!--emo&:D--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/biggrin-fix.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='biggrin-fix.gif' /><!--endemo-->
Because they're sad all the time and sing about sad things and also suck. Combine sadness with suckiness and you get emo.
<!--QuoteBegin--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> </td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin-->I am thinking it's a sign that the freckles
In our eyes are mirror images and when
We kiss they're perfectly aligned
And I have to speculate that God himself
Did make us into corresponding shapes like
Puzzle pieces from the clay
True, it may seem like a stretch, but
Its thoughts like this that catch my troubled
Head when you're away when I am missing you to death
When you are out there on the road for
Several weeks of shows and when you scan
The radio, I hope this song will guide you home
They will see us waving from such great
Heights, 'come down now,' they'll say
But everything looks perfect from far away,
'come down now,' but we'll stay...
I tried my best to leave this all on your
Machine but the persistent beat it sounded
Thin upon listening
That frankly will not fly. you will hear
The shrillest highs and lowest lows with
The windows down when this is guiding you home
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not sad!
<!--QuoteBegin--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> </td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin-->Photographs of the best time you had,
windows smugded by the speed.
Leaving home with our bags from Iron Street,
as morning turned into California,
And smoke trailed from the butt of my cigarette.
Our glass house it threw rocks at all those it past.
Waking up to the sound of 5 A.M. to take my turn at the wheel.
Climbed up Shasta, oh how the engine ached
as the sun tortured California,
and old alleys turned deep at the heart of me.
Murals of heros defacing the blank concrete.
Vision tunneled, Mission Street, hunger beat
lodged out as the engine wheezed.
Still moving regardless of stable ground
and this stable ground.
Photographs of the best time you had,
windows smugded by the speed.
Leaving home with our bags from Iron street
as morning turned into California.
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not sad!
hell, half their songs are in major keys...
what's everyone got against sadness anyway? sadness is way more gutsy than anger, and way more respectable. Anyone can be angry; not everyone can be sincere and poetic. I'd take some sincere guy singing wistfully about how he almost had it perfect over some scrawny, pasty guy like Marilyn Manson or Trent Reznor growling about how god is dead or something any day.
A genre that can accomplish a feeling of sadness without becoming contrived or boring is the blues. If you ever listen to some electric blues, you'll notice that the guitarists are extremely accomplished and very authentic and 'real' sounding. I'd say a good percentage of blues tracks aren't even about feeling depressed, but about observations of the world around them.
Transatlanticism is simply one of the best, most coherent albums I've bought in a long time. Remember when people made records that actually sounded like a <i>collection</i> of <i>related</i> songs, instead of a bunch of insincerely contrived, disparate tunes battling in a free-for-all for radio play?
"Emo" . . . pah. The meaningless catch-all term for stuff a Hoobastank or Linkin Park fan thinks isn't rockin'. They don't have an angry rappin' white teen from the 'burbs in the background?!?!? THEY MUST BE EMO SISSIES!
Think Dashboard Confessional, and then don't stray far from that neighborhood.
And rap-rockers-- I don't care how angry they make it sound; it's still <b>whining</b>.
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Yeah I've basically influenced everything cool at these forums, you can all thank me in the end.