Something About Airplanes

Something About Airplanes
Studio album by Death Cab for Cutie
Released August 18, 1998
Recorded 1998, Hall of Justice
Genre Indie rock
Length 43:23
Language English
Label Barsuk/Elsinor
Producer Chris Walla
Death Cab for Cutie chronology
You Can Play These Songs with Chords
(1997)		 Something About Airplanes
(1998)		 We Have the Facts and We're Voting Yes
(2000)
Professional ratings
Review scores
Source Rating
Allmusic [1]
Pitchfork Media (8.1/10)[2]
Tiny Mix Tapes [3]

Something About Airplanes is the debut studio album by indie rock band Death Cab for Cutie, released August 18, 1998 on Barsuk Records. A remastered anniversary version of the album was released on November 25, 2008.

Early recordings of five songs from this album can be found on the You Can Play These Songs with Chords compilation.

A tenth anniversary edition of the album was released on November 25, 2008, featuring redesigned artwork, liner notes by Sean Nelson and a bonus disc including the band's first ever Seattle performance at the Crocodile Cafe in February 1998.[4]

Contents

Album art

Despite the title referring to airplanes, the image on the album cover is of a rowboat. The image is actually seen through a hole in the cover and a sheet of vellum.[5] Like some of the band's 2000 releases, the text is set entirely in lower case.

Track listing

All songs written by Ben Gibbard except where noted.

  1. "Bend To Squares" (Gibbard/Christopher Walla)  – 4:33
  2. "President of What?"  – 4:01
  3. "Champagne From a Paper Cup"  – 2:38
  4. "Your Bruise" (Gibbard/Walla)  – 4:19
  5. "Pictures In An Exhibition"  – 3:49
  6. "Sleep Spent" (Gibbard/Walla)  – 3:37
  7. "The Face That Launched 1000 Shits" (Jay Chilcote)  – 3:41
  8. "Amputations"  – 4:54
  9. "Fake Frowns" (Gibbard/Walla)  – 4:30
  10. "Line of Best Fit"  – 7:16
Reissue bonus disc – Live at the Crocodile Cafe, February 1998
  1. "Your Bruise"
  2. "President of What?"
  3. "Fake Frowns"
  4. "Sweet and Tender Hooligan (feat. Sean Nelson)"
  5. "State Street Residential"
  6. "Amputations"
  7. "Pictures In An Exhibition"

Personnel

Death Cab for Cutie
Additional personnel
Live at the Crocodile Cafe, February 1998

Notes

  1. ^ Abebe, Nitsuh. Something About Airplanes at Allmusic. Retrieved November 4, 2011.
  2. ^ Cohen, Ian (November 26, 2008). "Something About Airplanes". Pitchfork Media. http://pitchforkmedia.com/reviews/albums/12466-something-about-airplanes/. Retrieved November 4, 2011. 
  3. ^ "Something about Airplanes". Tiny Mix Tapes. http://www.tinymixtapes.com/music-review/death-cab-cutie-something-about-airplanes. Retrieved November 4, 2011. 
  4. ^ "Death Cab For Cutie: News". Official Death Cab for Cutie Website. http://www.deathcabforcutie.com/news/248/something_about_airplanes_to_b/. Retrieved October 3, 2008. 
  5. ^ Tim Frommer. "DAA Artist Archive: Death Cab for Cutie". Dancing About Architecture. http://www.dancingaboutarc.com/artists/deathcab.html. Retrieved April 13, 2008. 
Death Cab for Cutie
Studio albums
Something About Airplanes (1998)  · We Have the Facts and We're Voting Yes (2000)  · The Photo Album (2001)  · Transatlanticism (2003)  · Plans (2005)  · Narrow Stairs (2008)  · Codes and Keys (2011)
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