Death Cab For Cutie

Death Cab for Cutie
Origin	Bellingham, Washington, USA
Years active	1997 - present
Genres	Indie rock, Indie pop, Alternative rock
Labels	Atlantic Records Barsuk Records
Members	Ben Gibbard Chris Walla Nicholas Harmer Jason McGerr

Overview

Death Cab for Cutie began as a solo project of Ben Gibbard while he was the guitar player for the band Pinwheel (he has also recorded solo as All-Time Quarterback). As Death Cab for Cutie, Gibbard released a cassette, titled You Can Play These Songs with Chords; the release was surprisingly successful, and Gibbard decided to expand the band into a complete project. He recruited Christopher Walla, who also recorded "Songs with Chords", as an electric guitarist, Nicholas Harmer on bass, and Nathan Good to play drums, a configuration that released the LP Something About Airplanes in the summer of 1998. The album got favorable reviews from the independent music scene, and in 2000, the follow-up was released: We Have the Facts and We're Voting Yes. Nathan Good left the band at some point during the recording of We Have the Facts. His playing on "The Employment Pages" and "Company Calls Epilogue" were kept, but Gibbard played drums on all other songs. New drummer Michael Schorr would first appear on The Forbidden Love E.P., released in fall of 2000. The following year, another LP was released, entitled The Photo Album. Limited editions of this album contained three bonus tracks, which were later released separately as The Stability E.P.

Simliar Artists

My Morning Jacket, Jamieson Tobey

Discography

Studio albums

• 1997 You Can Play These Songs with Chords
• 1998 Something About Airplanes
• 2000 We Have the Facts and We're Voting Yes
• 2001 The Photo Album
• 2002 You Can Play These Songs with Chords [expanded]
• 2003 Transatlanticism
• 2005 Plans

EPs

• 2000 The Forbidden Love E.P.
• 2002 The Stability E.P.
• 2004 Studio X Sessions E.P.
• 2005 The John Byrd E.P.

Virtual Albums

• 2005 iTunes Originals - Death Cab for Cutie

Singles

Year Song Title Chart Positions Single Release Album Release US Hot 100 US Modern Rock UK Singles Chart 2002 "Stability" #15 Stability EP * Stability EP * 2002 "A Movie Script Ending" A Movie Script Ending The Photo Album 2002 "We Laugh Indoors" We Laugh Indoors The Photo Album 2002 "I Was A Kaleidoscope" I Was a Kaleidoscope The Photo Album 2003 "The New Year" #52 The New Year Transatlanticism 2004 "Sound of Settling" #37 #30 Sound Of Settling Transatlanticism 2004 "Title And Registration" #43 Title And Registration Transatlanticism 2005 "Soul Meets Body" #60 #5 #25 Soul Meets Body Plans 2006 "Crooked Teeth" #10 #69 Crooked Teeth Plans 2006 "I Will Follow You Into the Dark" #28 #30 I Will Follow You Into the Dark Plans

• "Stability" was released only with the The Stability E.P., which is considered both an EP and single.

Compilation albums featuring Death Cab for Cutie tracks

• 1999 The Four Dots Compilation
• 2001 Barsuk Treats Vol. 1
• 2002 Live The Dream: A Fierce Panda Sampler
• 2004 Future Soundtrack for America
• 2004 Wicker Park (Soundtrack)
• 2004 The Late Great Daniel Johnston: Discovered Covered
• 2004 Music from the OC: Mix 2
• 2004 Maybe This Christmas Tree
• 2005 Atticus: Dragging the Lake, Vol. 3
• 2005 Six Feet Under, Vol. 2: Everything Ends
• 2005 Wedding Crashers (Soundtrack)
• 2005 iTunes Originals - Death Cab for Cutie
• 2005 Stubbs the Zombie (The Soundtrack)

Filmography

DVDs

• Drive Well, Sleep Carefully - On the Road with Death Cab for Cutie (2005 · Plexifilm)
• Directions: The Plans Video Album (2006 · Atlantic Records)

Music videos

• A Movie Script Ending (2001) (UK Video)
• The New Year (2003) (UK Video)
• The Sound of Settling (2004)
• Title and Registration (2005) (UK Video)
• Soul Meets Body (2005) (video high res online from Bedlam Society)
• Crooked Teeth (2005)
• I Will Follow You Into The Dark (2006)

Trivia

• Death Cab for Cutie was officially formed in Bellingham, Washington, and lyrics from many of the early songs include local references that were important to the band's development. Many of the early songs were recorded in the basement of an Ellis Street home Ben lived in with several roommates in Bellingham.
• The band originally released the twelve-minute song "Stability" in 2002 with the Stability E.P. Three years later, a new, four-minute version of "Stability" entitled "Stable Song" was released on the full-length album Plans.
• Legendary drummer Neil Peart of Rush has called Death Cab for Cutie one of his favourite new bands on his official website.
• The indie film "The Puffy Chair" pays homage to a classic movie moment from "Say Anything" using a Death Cab for Cutie song: its lead character holds up a boombox outside his girlfriend's window blaring Death Cab for Cutie's "Transatlanticism" instead of Peter Gabriel's "In Your Eyes."
• Death Cab for Cutie performed the title song "Little Boxes" for the Showtime series Weeds in episode 202.
• Death Cab for Cutie's song "Transatlanticism" was played at the ending of CSI:Miami's 100th episode

External links

• Death Cab for Cutie · Official site
• Barsuk Records · Former Record Label
• Death Cab For Cutie Tour History
• Death Cab for Cutie Lyrics
• Death Cab for Cutie 2006 Tour Mapped on Platial.
• Collection of Tabs and Chords
• A collection of Death Cab album reviews
• Death Cab for Cutie video interview at Musicbrigade
• Death Cab For Cutie articles at This Is Fake DIY
• Interview at Brian M. Palmer
• Live Photos 1 and 2
• Death Cab for Cutie at Last.fm

Audio/video

• DCFC Videos at MTV
• Live concert from NPR website
• Videos and Live Mp3s
• Videoville's DCFC videography

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