Death Cab For Cutie.

I love them too. Lol. Most of my favorite bands are alternative, if you cant tell!


Death Cab for Cutie is an American indie pop rock band formed in Bellingham, Washington in 1997. The band takes its name from a satirical song of the same name, performed by the Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band on their 1967 album Gorilla and in The Beatles experimental movie, Magical Mystery Tour.

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 Tracks from the album appeared in the soundtracks of television shows The O.C., Six Feet Under, CSI: Miami, and Californication, 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.


Studio albums
You Can Play These Songs with Chords (Cassette) - Elsinor - 1997
Something About Airplanes (CD/LP) - Barsuk Records - 1998
You Can Play These Songs with Chords - (CD/LP re-release) - Barsuk Records - 2002
We Have the Facts and We're Voting Yes - (CD/LP) - Barsuk Records - 2000
The Photo Album - (CD/LP) - Barsuk Records - 2001
Transatlanticism - (SACD/CD/LP/Cassette) - Barsuk Records - 2003
Plans - (CD/LP) - Atlantic Records - 2005
Untitled (CD/LP) - Atlantic Records - Spring 2008

EPs
2000 The Forbidden Love E.P.
2002 The Stability E.P.
2004 Studio X Sessions E.P.
2005 The John Byrd E.P.

Virtual albums
2005 iTunes Originals - Death Cab for Cutie






I love their songs::
Crooked Teeth.
Sound of Settling.
Your Heart is an Empty Room.
Title and Registration.
Lack of Color.
Soul Meets Body.
I Will Follow You Into the Dark.


Do you like them? What do you think of them?

I love Lack Of Color! This is a very cool band too