Death Cab For Cutie: The Complete Discography Calum Marsh

Death Cab For Cutie - A Movie Script Ending EP Rating: 8.0 You know the scene: 'Movie Script Ending' is playing in the Cohen car when Summer disses the sound. "Never insult Death Cab", Seth quips, standing up, for the first time, to his obsession. It's a great single with an equally great B-Side ('Photobooth'); probably worth picking up even if you have the orignal LP. ___________________________________________________________________ Death Cab For Cutie - Death Cab For Fiver 7" Rating: 5.8 Surprisingly bad. Avoid. ___________________________________________________________________ Death Cab For Cutie - Forbidden Love EP Rating: 7.9 Though the two alternate version of album tracks available here (an acoustic version of '405' and an alternate cut of 'Company Calls Epilogue') aren't much to get excited about, the two brand new B-Sides, 'Technicolor Girls' and 'Song For Kelly Huckabee', are terrific. If you're interested in picking up some rare Death Cab EPs, this is as safe bet. ___________________________________________________________________ Death Cab For Cutie - Plans Rating: 5.2 Dreadfully disappointing. I know it's trendy to whine about Death Cab's latest LP, but it's not that they "sold out" - it's just that they stopped making good music. There are two, maybe three good songs on this disc - the rest is completely (and tragically) disposable. I miss you, Ben Gibbard. ___________________________________________________________________ Death Cab For Cutie - Prove My Hypotheses 7" Rating: 7.7 The title track is reasonably fair, but that's not why we're here: 'Wait', this single's B-Side, is one of the best Death Cab songs ever. It's amazing that it was excluded from the LP, but I suppose its rarity only adds to the charm. ___________________________________________________________________ Death Cab For Cutie - Something About Airplanes Rating: 8.2 It's not a particularly great album, but it's an enjoyable release from what may be a great band. When I saw them live last year, they played a track from this album. They prefaced it by saying "you probably won't know this song, it's an old one". I hope he's wrong, because it'd be a shame if Death Cab fans were ignoring the band's beginnings. There's a lot to like here. ___________________________________________________________________ Death Cab For Cutie - Stability EP Rating: 8.9 Though it's only a few short songs long, the Stability EP is the single strongest record Death Cab For Cutie have ever released. The Bjork cover ('All Is Full Of Love') is surprisingly tight, opener '20th Century Towers' is very enjoyable, and the previously unenjoyable 'Gridlock Caravans' is a lot of fun - but it's the title track, 'Stability', that steals the show. Though it appears on Plans as an alternate (and stupidly shortened) version, it's here, in its rough extended form, that it really hits home. ___________________________________________________________________ Death Cab For Cutie - The John Byrd EP Rating: 8.8 Death Cab fans looking for new material will be sorely disappointed with The John Byrd EP, but nobody can deny that this is probably the best collection of the band's material available. This works as both an excellent introductory course for new fans or a reasonably priced compilation for Cabbies on a budget. ___________________________________________________________________ Death Cab For Cutie - The New Year 7" Rating: 5.9 'The New Year' (the song, that is) works well as an album opener but falls weirdly flat as a stand-alone single. 'TV Trays', the otherwise unavailable B-Side, is an unfortunate disappointment. ___________________________________________________________________ Death Cab For Cutie - The Photo Album Rating: 8.4 Very, very good. Like Airplanes, it might not be a great album in and of itself - but I can't deny this record's wealth of fantastic material. Interesting to note is that most of this LP's strongest tracks can be found on various other Death Cab releases (most notably The John Byrd EP and Stability), which might be a smarter investment than this. ___________________________________________________________________ Death Cab For Cutie - Transatlanticism Rating: 8.8 Before Transatlanticism, Death Cab For Cutie whose songs you used to flesh out mix tapes and recommend to your friends. They were good, sure, but they wrote great songs, not albums. Oh, but this stands as an exception. It's near-perfect and uncharacteristically solid. I hope this doesn't go down as "the last great Death Cab album", but if Plans is any indication of things to come, it might. ___________________________________________________________________ Death Cab For Cutie - We Have The Facts And We're Voting Yes Rating: 7.7 It's good, but not great. We Have The Facts lacks the quirky charm of Airplanes and the solidarity of Transatlanticism, and although there are some spot-on tracks scattered about here, they're widely available elsewhere. ___________________________________________________________________ Death Cab For Cutie - We Laugh Indoors EP Rating: 5.0 Two alternate mixes and a live recording are exciting to some people, I guess, but they're the kind of cuts you find online; you definitely don't pay money for them. Like the majority of Death Cab singles and EPs, We Laugh Indoors feels extraneous and, to be honest, like a waste of goddamn money. Pass. ___________________________________________________________________ Death Cab For Cutie - You Can Play These Songs With Chords Rating: 5.1 Totally pointless. It seems like the majority of Death Cab's releases are shameless rehashes of their older material - what's going on here? ___________________________________________________________________ Download: Death Cab For Cutie - Wait Death Cab For Cutie - Song For Kelly Huckabee Death Cab For Cutie - Photobooth Buy: Death Cab For Cutie - Transatlanticsm Death Cab For Cutie - Plans