tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8290900913414076199.post2505939277084010844..comments2024-01-17T14:49:45.625-08:00Comments on Get off my Lawn Kid: Bands That Suck Balls: DEATH CAB FOR CUTIEBagzzzhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00990996422277984562noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8290900913414076199.post-39875547609693886982022-01-05T22:19:54.903-08:002022-01-05T22:19:54.903-08:00I was accidentally exposted to Death Cab for My Mo...I was accidentally exposted to Death Cab for My Mother today while cruising thru random Spotify collections.”Broken Teeth” was a fun song about ending up in a meth head’s house with someone you’d been sleeping with who you never liked. So I went looking for more Death. Jesus H Christ, every single song I listened to (about ten) ,unlike “Broken Teeth”, was awful.Despite the fact they are lonely guys who nobody understands because they’re so sensitive, every song I listened to after”Broken Teeth” - all bad, all cringey and all……Cutie. So I did a search “Why did Death Cab for Cutie suck so badly” and I was led to this blog.<br />Thank you for making me LOL, when I very rarely even L.I’m off to read more of your horrible bands write ups. I’m hopeful they’ll be as wonderfully extremely funny and to the point as the one above for Death Cab for My Aunt Mimi.Thank you for letting me laugh and love again.Fire N.A. SeaParkshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13657013045402587148noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8290900913414076199.post-6606117709104515462012-03-27T06:48:05.503-07:002012-03-27T06:48:05.503-07:00I found this blog post today after a Death Cab for...I found this blog post today after a Death Cab for Cutie Song momentarily invaded my Ben Folds channel on Pandora. (Until I could thumb it down so it would never return.) ... I'd forgotten how gawdawful this band was.<br /><br />Before I'd ever really heard any of the band's songs, I was hired to work concert security at a Death Cab show in Duke University's Cameron Indoor Stadium. The opening acts were a halfway-decent three-man punk band from the U.K. (I forget the name) and Franz Ferdinand -- who rocked. ... Time flew by, especially during Franz Ferdinand's set. When they wound up their last song, I was left wishing for more. ... But, good band is offstage. Show's over, right?<br /><br />No, there will be Death Cab. For God knows how long.<br /><br />Seriously, for the duration of the Death Cab set, I kept checking the time. As each song droned on, I would pull the cell phone from my pocket, look at the clock, and think "Jesus CHRIST! It's only three minutes later? ... OH MY GOD! It's only been FOUR minutes since the last time I checked the time?"<br /><br />Now, my job -- along with another new hire of similar size and starkly different complexion -- was to stand at one corner of the stage front, in a gap between the speaker tower and a waist-high retaining fence intended to keep fans from rushing the stage. ... If a charge began, we were told, just do our best to hold them back and help would come.<br /><br />From my first look at the crowd, I thought any concerns about a stage-rush were ill-founded. By the time Death Cab had played one song, I was wishing someone would rush the stage just to make things interesting or even to make it stop. ... Death Cab fans. Fans of actual music. Hell's Angels. I didn't care. ... But I knew it wouldn't happen, because even the college boys in the crowd were one of three kinds: Those who were into the music as much as the girls, those who knew that sitting through Death Cab with their girlfriend would earn them a little extra-special something after the show, and those who were going to be committing suicide from a dorm window at 2 a.m. because even enduring 90 minutes of waterboarding by Death Cab wasn't enough to get them laid by that pretentious little bitch.<br /><br />Then came the encore: "I Will Follow You Into the Dark." And I thought, "You know ... if that song were sung by ANYBODY else ... ANYbody with actual talent, emotion, personality ..."<br /><br />And in 2008, it was. Amanda Palmer released a cover of "I WIll Follow You Into the Dark" with the alternate tracks of "Who Killed Amanda Palmer." She'd apparently heard the track on an unlabeled mix-CD swiped from some cafe in Hawaii, not knowing who the band even was. (Which, she says, was good.) ... When she went into the studio with Ben Folds in Nashville, she asked to record a cover and nailed it in two takes.<br /><br />http://music.amandapalmer.net/track/i-will-follow-you-into-the-dark<br /><br />So there's the only Death Cab song I find listenable, and then only when somebody else performs it.Glenn Cravenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09760553404742644042noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8290900913414076199.post-79584704961006631762012-03-27T06:45:38.781-07:002012-03-27T06:45:38.781-07:00This comment has been removed by the author.Glenn Cravenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09760553404742644042noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8290900913414076199.post-53015800716361766912011-10-16T18:26:57.714-07:002011-10-16T18:26:57.714-07:00I completely agree that they suck major cock, but ...I completely agree that they suck major cock, but your reasoning is complete bullshit. You shouldn't judge a band completely on their appearance. Sure, it makes an impact, but it should not be your only argument against them.<br /><br />Call me crazy, but I prefer to judge bands by their music. <br /><br />In the first video you showed us, you failed to mention their pathetic writing. Using the exact same chords that every puke brained emo/country/pop/shitty band uses, they managed to bore the daylights out of the sun. The reason music is sucking more and more ass these days is because they are satisfied with I-IV-V, and even worse, I-V, with the occasional iv or vi.<br /><br />In the second video, you again managed to leave out the dull repetitiveness of their "music". They came up with a decent base line, and proceeded to play a 7 minute song with literally that same line playing through the entire thing. That brings up another point: they wrote a 7 minute song, with no dynamics, changes in melody, or any such interesting feature. I, to this day, have never listened to the full-length intro, because of how boring and unchanging it is.<br /><br />Although I agree with everything you said, your post here could be compared to those who hate President Obama just because he's black. They could have argued, "His socialist approach is not right for this country", but instead they just said, "He's black!" Your ignorant and pathetic attempt at persuading readers of your viewpoint was horrendous, and from reading your post, the only thing I have learned is that you have no musical knowledge or sense of quality.Brandonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14051057857326747293noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8290900913414076199.post-59901755477207248172011-10-13T15:24:10.843-07:002011-10-13T15:24:10.843-07:00meh
Just like you, I never checked out Death-Cab-F...meh<br />Just like you, I never checked out Death-Cab-For-Cutie, because the name is just that bad. Now I've heard two songs by them, the first of which just blows, the second kinda rocks. Not in a musical sense, the instrumentation doesn't really rock (although it clearly has audible bass and guitar and the overall effect of it strikes me as laidback) but with the message: he's basically telling this chick he's okay if you get over the fact he looks like one of those guys from revenge of the nerds in winterwear his mom handknitted for him. Which shows he got balls for a nerd, because most people who look like that don't talk to chicks they have the hots for, because they're afraid of the ridicule. All I'm saying is, this band doesn't seem to suck as much balls as dashboard confessional for example, which I knew I was gonna hate from the moment I saw that little kid in the music video (the one you linked to)eye (both of them)https://www.blogger.com/profile/05281069661393309071noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8290900913414076199.post-64185459771357444712011-04-10T22:14:27.742-07:002011-04-10T22:14:27.742-07:00Come off it! Death Cab for Cutie is an awesome phr...Come off it! Death Cab for Cutie is an awesome phrase (although, admittedly, a strange band name at best)!! It's the title of a Bonzo Dog Doo Dah Band song...which is WAY better than anything these hacks will likely do.<br />But the Bonzos will always ROCK.Shashwatihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16722076839735734409noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8290900913414076199.post-36668367325225905632011-04-08T00:13:31.974-07:002011-04-08T00:13:31.974-07:00Yeah...Death Cab For Cutie. WTF kind of a name is...Yeah...Death Cab For Cutie. WTF kind of a name is that? Say no more, I already know they're a wiener band. We need more death cabs for wieners.Stevenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08402684996043015689noreply@blogger.com