Talk:Death Cab for Cutie
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[edit] Moving the page
The band is far more popular than the song that takes its name, as evidenced by the fact that practically all the links are for the band. It belongs there.AaronSw 00:14, 25 July 2005 (UTC)
Moved. violet/riga (t) 18:13, 4 August 2005 (UTC)
[edit] Contradictions
The paragraph that begins "In November, 2004 Death Cab for Cutie signed a 'long-term worldwide deal' with Atlantic Records..." seems to contradict itself. It should be rewritten or corrected. --anon
- How so? — The Storm Surfer 30 June 2005 18:05 (UTC)
[edit] Summary of changes I made on 16 August 2004
- "Nick Harmer" changed to "Nicholas Harmer" and made a link. He is credited as Nicholas on 'Airplanes' and 'Photo'.
- Maybe "LP" should be a link?
- "Forbidden Love EP" changed to "The Forbidden Love E.P." and made a link. The cover says "the death cab for cutie forbidden love e.p." but "death cab for cutie" and "e.p." are in white while "the" and "forbidden love" are in black. I guess maybe the title should be "The Forbidden Love"... who knows?
- It's labeled as Forbidden Love [EP] on Gracenote CDDB, which is generally considered to be the deciding factor on these things.
Why did Meeler posted this in copyright problems if he had posted it?- Anon. Needed to revert it back.
- The text seemed essentially lifted from the Allmusic profile; the phrasing and wording were largely the same in early versions. Thus, it could be a copyright violation; see Wikipedia:Copyrights. Thanks, Meelar (talk) 09:38, Apr 11, 2005 (UTC)
[edit] Information
I visited the page hoping to learn more about the band and did just that. But I still haven't any idea what type of music they play. Could someone knowledgeable include this in the entry? I do realise it's difficult to place them in one genre but would really improve the entry's overall quality...
- Well, the first paragraph of the article refers to Death Cab as an indie rock band, which might be the most descriptive the article can get. Would some comparisons to other bands help? I'm not certain that anything else can be done. - Jersyko talk 15:09, 13 October 2005 (UTC)
- Indie rock is probably best for now. Otherwise we'll have pages of discussion debating bands for comparison...and after listening to the band, I must confess they are difficult to categorise. - Jeffrey King talk 12:13, 14 October 2005 (EST)
- Someone recently changed DCFC from indie rock to rock and I for one support this. I like the band a lot and have for years, but now that they're on Atlantic it's pretty hard to argue that they're indie. If someone wants to rewrite to reflect that their categorization is debatable that would probably help to stem an edit war (battle? skirmish?).--Hraefen 19:19, 25 November 2005 (UTC)
- I don't have a problem with this characterization. I would caution, however, that the signing of a band with a major label does not always indicate that the band is no longer indie. I would certainly argue that bands like Built to Spill and Modest Mouse are still solidly indie rock bands. While indie rock is difficult to define, I think that with the release of Plans, one could convincingly argue that DCFC is no longer an indie rock band, nonetheless. - Jersyko talk 20:14, 25 November 2005 (UTC)
- There's an ungodly long debate taking place is Talk:The Decemberists about this very subject. The majority opinion seems to be that the term "indie rock" has come to refer to a style of music, independent of a band's label affiliation. --djrobgordon 02:16, 31 January 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Band name...
could somone cite their sources? Could have sworn the Beatles were first to use the name... when did "Gorilla" come out in relation to MMT?
Bands Origin For some reason I thought that the band were from Seattle and the liner notes on the albums seem to suggest this. Also I am sure that Gibbard was born in Seattle from an interview in the Rolling STone. Correct me please...
>>Yes they are from Seattle, at concerts they announce themselves as "We are Death Cab for Cuite from Seattle".
- The band formed in Bellingham, Washington north of Seattle where they were attending college at the time. [1]
[edit] Bands Destination
When Death cab played at the Carling Academy Brixton on the night of June 28th, the lead singer announced that this would be their last gig as Death Cab for Cutie as they were all joinging Babyshambles. Any confirmation?
- This definitely sounds like Ben Gibbard having a little fun. I wouldn't take it too seriously.--Hraefen 15:15, 29 June 2006 (UTC)
I was there; it was blatently a joke. It was referring to the contrast between Death Cab and Babyshambles. Not only that, but the official website is the same, and they had other gigs after that billed as Death Cab for Cutie, and they all laughed afterwards. He paused after 'last gig...' and everyone in the audience were shocked and then he continued and they all laughed. Srxcef 19:41, 1 September 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Changes for post indie Death Cab
In November, 2004 Death Cab for Cutie signed a "long-term worldwide deal" with Atlantic Records, leaving their long-time label Barsuk Records and the rank of indie record labels. Gibbard stated on the official website that nothing would change except that "Next to the picture of Barsuk holding a 7", there will be the letter "A" on both the spine and back of our upcoming albums."
One significant change was that their latest album Plans was only sold through sites that use some form of DRM. When they were with barsuk all of their albums were sold throught sites like emusic and audiolunchbox (which offer mp3s). This was the first of their albums not to be offered in this format.
When I went back to look it seems that their entire discography has been pulled from both of those sites. This was not the case as late as the launch of Plans. Makes me wonder if atlantic now has distro rights on all of their music (as this fits with the plans release). Or has barsuk changed their online distro policy also. Regardless I think the fact that Plans was not sold online in a non DRMed format significant enough to be mensioned after that part of the the article because obviously it is not just a 'A' printed on their album. -- eSavior
I emailed Barsuk records about why the discography was pulled from audiolunchbox and Van Riker said that Barsuk never distributed on emusic and as for audiolunchbox "Audio Lunchbox changed to a subscription service from a simple download service which is why we are no longer up with them." So the answer to second paragraph in my original Changes for post indie Death Cab was that Barsuk has not changed their online distro policy but that audiolunchbox has changed its service format which is now at odds with their policy. I emailed Mr. Riker back asking if Barsuk still distributed its music under a unencumbered format and I am now waiting on his responce. -- eSavior, 26 September 2006
Mr. Riker informs with that they will soon be selling through http://insound.com which offers music in mpeg layer 3 format.
[edit] UK singles chart history
I checked Everyhit.com and there is no mention of the band ever having a UK top 40 hit. can someone sort this out please?
I second this.
[edit] Emo?
So how is it figured that Transatlanticism represents some sort of change to Emo? — The Storm Surfer 05:52, 7 November 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Link Added
I just added a link to Ben Gibbard's MOG page, which shows all the music he listens to and has blog posts about a couple of his favorite artists. He just joined MOG and plans to be posting there regularly, so I figured the link would be useful to Death Cab fans. Questions about this, drop me a line... JessMOG, 11 November 2006
