[.ca] You Can Play These Songs With Chords

A Long-term Resident in My CD Player:
This CD was a Christmas gift and an amazing one at that. The melodies are addictive! I was a somewhat interested DCfC fan before I heard this album, now I am a true fan. The number of tracks makes this CD a bargain and the cover is a really neat picture of Bellingham. If you like DCfC or want to get to know their music, this is a great addition to your CD collection.

Not Your Typical Death Cab:
What the heck was Ben Gibbard thinking?!?! The cover of the Smith's "This Charming Man" is downright embarassing and should of never seen the light of day. The keyboards in the track "Tomorrow" borrow heavily from New Order's "Temptation." Bernard Sumner and Co. deserve writing credit for this song. The rest of the tracks are pretty mediocre at best...painful as going to the dentist at their worst. If you are new to Death Cab...skip this cd and go get "The Photo Album" or "We have the Facts" instead. And while you're at it get the Postal Service's "Give Up" as well. These albums are better in every possible way than this cd of rare B-sides and demos.

Great album for fans or newbies:
I'm fairly familiar with DCFC, having seen them live three times and hearing most of their songs. This is one of my favorite Death Cab albums. It's raw and fun. It feels like the band is having fun as they play the music. It has a garage jam session feel yet sounds great. If you like Death Cab, you should have this album. Whether or not you've heard this band before, I strongly reccommend this album!

Fun album:
Out of sheer randomness, this seems to be the first Death Cab For Cutie album that I've acquired or even listened to, so I have not all that much in the way of context here. That said, I like this a lot. It's happy bouncy music, and there's absoutely nothing to dislike. I hear some echoes of Built To Spill here and there, and perhaps even a touch of Olivia Tremor Control. I'd have to say that my initial preference is for the first 8 tracks that, as I understand it, composed the original album - they seem a bit more consistent and hang together nicely. But the 10 additional tracks are damned fun (especially the Smith's cover, lyrical gaffes aside)- the band seems to be having a great time, and it's infectious. Considering that this album seems to be peripheral to the bulk of these guys' output, I'm looking forward to see what the rest of their catalogue has in store.

Death Cab album for die hard fans:
This album is a collection of rarities and b-sides and I would not reccomend it to the first time death cab buyer your best bet is to pick up the photo album the biggest plus to this album is the smiths cover of this charmning man which is done semi tastefully aside from a few lyrical miffs.

• President of What?
• Champagne from a Paper Cup
• Pictures in an Exhibition
• Hindsight
• That's Incentive
• Amputations
• Two Cars
• Line of Best Fit
• This Charming Man
• TV Trays
• New Candles
• Tomorrow
• Flustered/Hey Tomcat
• State Street Residential
• Wait
• Prove My Hypotheses
• Song for Kelly Huckaby
• Army Corps of Architects