Death Cab For Cutie
Death Cab for cutie, 来自华盛顿柏林汉姆的四人Indie Pop乐团Death Cab for Cutie成立于1997年，默默无闻两年之后他们签到了独立厂牌Barsuk（俄语獾熊的意思），并且成功的推出了三张专辑。去年10月份发行的这张《Transatlanticism》（横贯大西洋主义）是他们在Barsuk旗下发行的第四张录音室作品了，不知道他能否续写三年前专辑《We Have the Facts and We're Voting Yes》的辉煌。乐队的名字来自英国六十年代末著名迷幻乐队The Bonzo Dog Band的处女作专辑《Gorilla》里的一首歌的名字，他们不愿对此解释过多，只说去听听那首歌就知道了。Death Cab for Cutie的才华在他们的首张专辑里《Something About Airplanes》里就崭露头角，一曲迷幻气息浓厚的《President Of What》里的风琴和唱腔犹如The Doors的重显就让人们大吃一惊。可是这只是乐队对自己过去的怀念罢了，乐队于2000年发行的专辑《We Have the Facts and We're Voting Yes》以全新的Indie Pop姿态示人，专辑中的歌曲清新馍人。
多数Death Cab for Cutie的歌都像是歌者的自述，他讲的都是生活中的领悟和对未来的美好憧憬。乐队主唱Ben Gibbard说：“我们的歌曲是真诚的，也许我们会为丘比特的冷落而忧心忡忡，也许我们不会把痛苦和听众分享，但是我们只是想唱一些快乐的歌曲与别人分享。”可是不幸在2000年的夏天降临到乐队身上，一连串的事故让这几个年轻人心灰意冷，先是乐队因为经理人的问题产生了激烈的矛盾，然后鼓手Nathan Good的离开让乐队几乎解散。好在最后乐队克服了这些矛盾，他们找来了新的鼓手Michael Schorr并且录制了一张纪念这段经历的EP《Forbidden Love》。2003年出版这张专辑《Transatlanticism》之前，乐队又加入了新的成员，也许这对他们来说是一个新的开始.
Death Cab for Cutie began as a solo project of Ben Gibbard while he was the guitar player for the band Pinwheel. 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 had also worked on the cassette) as an electric guitarist, Nick Harmer as bass guitarist, and Nathan Good to play drums. Death Cab for Cutie was officially formed at Western Washington University 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, and the title of the band's official fan club, DCFC Local Union #1138, references this building, along with the ¡All-Time Quarterback! song “Dinner at Eight in the Suburbs”.
The four released the LP Something About Airplanes on August 18th 1998. The album was favorably reviewed in the independent music scene, and in 2000 the band released We Have the Facts and We're Voting Yes. Nathan Good left the band at some point during this album's production. His playing on “The Employment Pages” and “Company Calls Epilogue” were kept, but Gibbard played drums on all other songs.
Michael Schorr would first appear on The Forbidden Love E.P., released on October 24, 2000. In 2001, 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.
In 2003, there was another change of drummer, with Jason McGerr of Eureka Farm replacing Schorr. McGerr would play drums on the next release, Transatlanticism.
Transatlanticism was released in October of 2003. It received critical praise and also became the band's top-selling album, with 225,000 copies sold during its first year out.[citation needed] Tracks from the album appeared in the soundtracks of television shows The O.C., Six Feet Under, and CSI: Miami, the 2005 movies Wedding Crashers and Mean Creek.
In spring of 2004, the band recorded a live E.P. titled The John Byrd E.P., named for their sound engineer. The E.P. was released on Barsuk Records in March 2004. The album includes tracks from The Wiltern in Los Angeles, The Fillmore in San Francisco, as well as other venues.
专辑简介You Can Play These Songs with Chords (1997)
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)
专辑介绍
You Can Play These Songs with Chords (1997)
Genre：Indie rock
这可以说是Death Cab for Cutie是第一个版本的作品，都是由乐队创始人 Benjamin Gibbard写的歌，这个版本最初发表在一个卡带上，随着它的流行，Gibbard决定召集人员组成一个乐队，就这样，乐队的第一张专辑Something About Airplanes就此诞生了，随着之后2001年的专辑The Photo Album的成功，这个专辑被重新发行，其中增加了10首歌曲
1997 卡带收录
1."President of What?" – 4:06
2."Champagne from a Paper Cup" – 2:34
3."Pictures in an Exhibition" – 4:02
4."Hindsight" – 3:47
5."That's Incentive" – 2:13
6."Amputations" – 4:03
7."Two Cars" – 3:31
8."Line of Best Fit" – 5:49
2002 CD 的重新发行
1."President of What?" – 4:06
2."Champagne from a Paper Cup" – 2:34
3."Pictures in an Exhibition" – 4:02
4."Hindsight" – 3:47
5."That's Incentive" – 2:13
6."Amputations" – 4:03
7."Two Cars" – 3:31
8."Line of Best Fit" – 5:49
9."This Charming Man" (The Smiths Cover) – 2:14
10."TV Trays" – 4:02
11."New Candles" – 3:02
12."Tomorrow" – 2:17
13."Flustered/Hey Tomcat!" – 2:56
14."State Street Residential" – 5:51
15."Wait" (Secret Stars Cover) – 3:34
16."Prove My Hypotheses" – 4:11
17."Song for Kelly Huckaby (Facts Version)" – 3:51
18."Army Corps of Architects" – 4:43
Something About Airplanes（1998）
Genre：Indie rock
Something About Airplanes是美国indie乐队Death Cab for Cutie在1998年的初次登场时的唱片，有五首歌可以在You Can Play These Songs with Chords（1997） 这个早期版本找到，这些录音最终成为这张专辑的一部分。
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" – 7:14[1]
We Have the Facts and We're Voting Yes（2000）
Genre：Indie rock
这是乐队的第二张专辑，是由独立厂牌Barsuk Records发行的，有三首bonus tracks 是由独立厂牌 Fierce Panda Records制作的，这个专辑是乐队献给一个当时去世的英国演员Trevor Adams的.
1."Title Track" – 3:29
2."The Employment Pages" – 4:04
3."For What Reason" – 2:52
4."Lowell, MA" (Gibbard/Walla) – 3:28
5."405" – 3:37
6."Little Fury Bugs" – 3:48
7."Company Calls" (Gibbard/Harmer/Walla) – 3:19
8."Company Calls Epilogue" – 5:16
9."No Joy in Mudville" (Gibbard/Harmer/Walla) – 6:03
10."Scientist Studies" – 5:56
The Forbidden Love EP (2000)
Genre：Indie rock
The Forbidden Love EP 是乐队的第一张EP，里面收录了上张专辑We Have the Facts and We're Voting Yes 中包括的原始版本的 "405" and "Company Calls Epilogue".
1."Photobooth" – 3:46
2."Technicolor Girls" – 3:38
3."Song for Kelly Huckaby" – 3:51
4."405" (Acoustic version) – 2:59
5."Company Calls Epilogue" (Alternate version) – 5:22
The Photo Album （2001）
Genre：Indie rock
这张是乐队的第三张专辑，由 Barsuk Records发行
1."Steadier Footing" – 1:47
2."A Movie Script Ending" – 4:19
3."We Laugh Indoors" (Ben Gibbard/Nick Harmer/Chris Walla) – 4:58
4."Information Travels Faster" (Ben Gibbard/Chris Walla) – 4:02
5."Why You'd Want to Live Here" – 4:44
6."Blacking Out the Friction" – 3:27
7."I Was a Kaleidoscope" (Ben Gibbard/Chris Walla) – 2:50
8."Styrofoam Plates" (Ben Gibbard/Nick Harmer/Chris Walla) – 5:24
9."Coney Island" – 2:40
10."Debate Exposes Doubt" (Ben Gibbard/Chris Walla) – 4:36
Extra tracks
1."Gridlock Caravans" (Japanese & LP bonus track, spliced in as track 6, also found on the UK bonus disc)
2."Coney Island (alternate, hidden track on the "I was a Kaleidoscope" single)
3."Steadier Footing" (acoustic)
4."Blacking Out the Friction" (demo, released on "The New Year" single)
5."All Is Full of Love" (Japanese bonus track)
6."20th Century Towers" (Ben Gibbard/Nick Harmer/Chris Walla) (Japanese bonus track)
7."Stability" (Ben Gibbard/Chris Walla) (Japanese bonus track)
Transatlanticism（2003）
Genre：Indie, alternative rock
乐队的第四张专辑，被鉴定为美国的金唱片,这是Jason McGerr's 第一次做乐队的鼓手，这张专辑有几首歌曲出现在一些电视电影中，比如FOX的the O.C和HBO的six feet under
1."The New Year" (Ben Gibbard, Nicholas Harmer, Jason McGerr, Christopher Walla) – 4:06
2."Lightness" – 3:30
3."Title and Registration" (Gibbard, Walla) – 3:39
4."Expo '86" (Gibbard, Walla) – 4:11
5."The Sound of Settling" – 2:12
6."Tiny Vessels" (Gibbard, Harmer) – 4:21
7."Transatlanticism" (Gibbard, Walla) – 7:55
8."Passenger Seat" – 3:41
9."Death of an Interior Decorator" – 2:56
10."We Looked Like Giants" (Gibbard, Harmer, McGerr, Walla) – 5:32
11."A Lack of Color" – 3:35
Plans (2005)
Genre: Indie rock
乐队第五张专辑，加入Atlantic Records的第一张专辑，首周便空降全美专辑榜第四名，滚石杂志更盛赞“俏妞的死亡计程车”可能成为自9O年代Grunge乐风以来最重要的西雅图乐团”，AMG音乐网站也给予四颗星的高评价。当Ben Gibbard从开场曲《Marching Bands Of Manhattan》唱出“If I could open my arms and span the length of the isle of Manhattan”，相信你会被优美的旋律与词意所感动。听完《Soul Meets Body》，脑中不断盘旋的是那句“A melody softly soaring through my atmosphere”。11首作品，11首充满甜蜜与酸苦的情诗在08年被鉴定为铂金唱片，2006年得到格莱美的Best Alternative Music Album 提名，
1."Marching Bands of Manhattan" – 4:12
2."Soul Meets Body" – 3:50
3."Summer Skin" (Gibbard/McGerr/Walla) – 3:14
4."Different Names for the Same Thing" – 5:08
5."I Will Follow You into the Dark" – 3:09
6."Your Heart Is an Empty Room" – 3:39
7."Someday You Will Be Loved" (Gibbard/Walla) – 3:11
8."Crooked Teeth" (Gibbard/Walla) – 3:23
9."What Sarah Said" (Gibbard/Harmer) – 6:20
10."Brothers on a Hotel Bed" (Gibbard/Walla) – 4:31
11."Stable Song" – 3:42
Bonus tracks
1."Talking Like Turnstiles" – 2:28 – (vinyl-only bonus track)
2."Jealousy Rides with Me" – 2:25 – (Japanese bonus track)
3."Start Again" – 2:38 – (iTunes bonus track)
4."Bad Reputation" – 4:16 – (iTunes bonus track)
Narrow Stairs（2008）
Genre：Indie rock, indie pop
乐队第六张录音专辑，2008年五月12日在英国首发，在美国发行时更是首周就空降第一名，专辑的主打是一首长达八分钟的间ll Possess Your Heart，Rolling Stone、Spin、Alternative Pres三大专业音乐杂志，异口同声率先献上4颗星高评，MTV网站大声赞扬：「DCFC出道以来野心勃勃最佳之作，年度专辑保证名单！」
1."Bixby Canyon Bridge" – 5:15
2."I Will Possess Your Heart" (Gibbard, Harmer, McGerr, Walla) – 8:35
3."No Sunlight" (Gibbard, Walla) – 2:40
4."Cath..." – 3:50
5."Talking Bird" – 3:23
6."You Can Do Better Than Me" – 1:59
7."Grapevine Fires" (Gibbard, Harmer, McGerr) – 4:09
8."Your New Twin Sized Bed" (Gibbard, Harmer) – 3:06
9."Long Division" (Gibbard, Harmer, Walla) – 3:50
10."Pity and Fear" – 4:21
11."The Ice Is Getting Thinner" (Gibbard, Walla) – 3:45
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