I know this is most of y'alls favourite track off of the new album. I had avoided/skipped it while listening to the album but today I decided to give it a try. It's raining lightly and the sun has started to peak through a bit this cold day. I feel like the song is carrying me far away. It is so good. Thank god for this band. Good day to you all 🔥
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This week's discussion is on the tenth track off I Built You a Tower, "The Flavor of Metal."
>When I was a kid, I lived in fear
Of razorblades in the candy and Bloody Mary in the mirror
Now when I taste something sweet
The flavor of metal is overwhelming me
>And I try to hide from the rain
Falling inside me again
And all these storms, they never seem to end
>Our summers spent on trampolines
With the lawn darts impaling the groomed fields of green
And the only truth I've ever found
Is that everything that ascends will soon come crashing down
>And I've tried to hide from the rain
Falling inside me again
And all these storms, they never seem to end
They never seem to end
>It takes just a little light
It takes just a little light
To find its way through the cracks
On the darkest of nights
>It takes just a little faith
It takes just a little faith
But nothing happens every time I pray
>And I try to hide from the rain
Falling inside me again
And all these storms, they never seem to end
They never seem to end
>And I've tried to hide from the rain
Falling inside me again
And all these storms, they never seem to end
They never seem to end
I am wondering - is it a lot shirt? from the transatlanticism tour? anyone seen this before?
some weird multi media projects I was working on // turned some terrible film photos into patches that I printed on some fabric and stitched some lyrics on
hi r/deathcabforcutie,
come on, one of the best bandz ever
the postal service, that album
what a fucking side project
man, for sure this band is great
i'm relistening to all of this shit
that i haven't listened to in so long
thx y'all for reading this share
it'z really nice to be able to share
with humanz still
i hope we can maintain the relationship
via this post, i'm happy to respond to you
peace out, this is fitz, aka mike fitz
aka u/fitzgerald1337
I hear some classic Walla guitar on this album! ❤️
I've been seeing discourse on tik Tok especially with people discovering Tiny Vessels and being like "evil fucking song" which like yeah 🤣 I agree. Still a banger though!
My hot take is that Someday You Will Be Loved paints the protagonist in a worse light. Again, banger, but it's subject matter has never sat right with me. I'd be really pissed if someone wrote me a letter like that 😅
It's the high pitched, whirring noise... it's too grating. I immediately had to switch to the normal version of the song after a minute.
The Grateful Dead have The Deadheads
Taylor Swift has The Swifties
Prince has The Purple Army
What are Death Cab fans called?
Morning set ("Plans" album) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gyw_dk66__A
Night set (standard tour setlist) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YsHZCQAZrA8
Enjoy!
Death Cab for Cutie is (obviously) my favorite band, and very special to me and my husband. We first saw them play together in 2008, only two weeks into dating. We’ve seen them a dozen-ish times since, every time they tour. They were incredible at Outside Lands. After almost 20 years of seeing them, 3 kids later, we scored the guitar pick. Incredible night and one we’ll remember for a long time. We hope to one day take our kids to see them when they get a little older, they are big fans of their music too!
-This is specific to their actual tour setlists — no one-off shows or festivals. Just the 21 shows performed in North America this summer, along with how many times each song was played.
-So much of record sounds great live — plenty of these cuts have the potential to fall into regular rotation.
-15 songs never left the nightly setlist once:
Black Sun
Cath...
Crooked Teeth
The Ghosts of Beverly Drive
How Heavenly a State
I Built You a Tower (a)
I Will Follow You Into the Dark
I Will Possess Your Heart
The New Year
Punching the Flowers
Riptides
Roman Candles
Soul Meets Body
Stone Over Water
Trap Door
-Really enjoyed the diversity in song choices, especially in the encores. I want to say nearly every show had either 23 or 24 songs — yet 44 songs found their way onto the setlist at some point on this leg of the tour. In this age, you tend to know the setlist of a show long before it gets to your area. But this tour had anywhere between 6-8 songs that could surprise you, which is saying something for a band with as many “must plays” as Death Cab.
-Much respect to them for abandoning Envy The Birds after the first night. I’m firmly in the camp that it is both the weakest song on the album, and that it wouldn’t work live. It was dropped after opening night for Pep Talk (a song that was played almost every night since) and they never looked back.
-This was the North American Leg, but I doubt this is the final North American Leg for this album. Can think of quite a few areas that didn’t get the chance to see them promote this fantastic record live. I guess we’ll see in 2027.
-They’re still packing the same size venues they always do. Just incredible.
Think Ben still has his?
I’ve taken a long, long hiatus from personal drawing, so I have been trying to get back into the swing of things with studies (I gave up around the time it came down to the guitar/hand 😂). This is based directly off a photo I took during the Raleigh show in July! Surprised it worked out to wrap up around his birthday, haha.
My brother sent me a link to a new death cab tiny desk on YouTube this morning, said it was released today. Clicked the link and it was removed by NPR YT channel, anyone else see this? Know what’s going on? They better repost asap and fix whatever was wrong lol.