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You Can Play These Songs With Chords

~ Death Cab for Cutie
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Product details

  • Audio CD (17 Sep 2007)
  • Number of Discs: 1
  • Label: Barsuk
  • ASIN: B00006L3PW
  • Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 11,840 in Music (See Bestsellers in Music)

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Track Listings

1. President Of What
2. Champagne From A Paper Cup
3. Pictures In An Exhibition
4. Hindsight
5. That's Incentive
6. Amputations
7. Two Cars
8. Line Of Best Fit
9. This Charming Man
10. TV Trays
11. New Candles
12. Tomorrow
13. Flustered/Hey Tomcat
14. State Street Residential
15. Wait
16. Prove My Hypotheses
17. Song For Kelly Huckaby
18. Army Corps Of Architects

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CD Description
A collection of singles and rarities from this Washington State quartet. Originally released as an 8 track cassette it has been expanded to include singles released on Sub Pop andBarsuk as well as covers of The Smiths 'This Charming Man' and Secret Stars 'Wait'.

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17 of 17 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars Great, if a little inconsistant., 20 Jul 2004
This CD is comprised of the early Death Cab cassette 'You Can Play These Songs With Chords' and ten extra songs. Much of the original cassette was re-recorded and released again on 'Something About Airplanes', but three of the songs were not. Hindsight is a fairly solid song, but Two Cars and That's Incentive are better, and are excellent.

The extra material is more hit and miss. In particular TV Trays is incredibly bad (as Ben Gibbard seems to accept in the sleeve notes), and it's the only Death Cab song I actively dislike, and Flustered/Hey Tomcat! seems pretty pointless and a little self indulgent. Nevertheless, the better songs more than make up for this. State Street Residential, and Army Corps of Architects are particularly noteworthy. These are all pretty downbeat compared to New Candles (the only DCFC song I've heard with Chris Walla on lead vocals), a perky pop/punk-ish song which is similar to TV Trays while miraculously managing to be enjoyable. This Charming Man takes a similar style, and although I find it quite enjoyable, I'd imagine others would see this as heresy towards the original. Gibbards 'creative' interpretation of Morrisey's lyrics might also cause offense with some of Morrisey's more fanatical followers, but only those without a sense of humour.

All in all a pretty inconsistant compilation, but worth it for the gems, and 18 songs for this price isn't bad either. If you are a fan, buy it. If not, I'd suggest starting with 'The Photo Album', or 'We Have The Facts And We're Voting Yes'

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1 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars short and cheerful, 31 May 2004
this album owns you all!
It's not just the perfect background noise for any situation but it demands attention and can make the saddest man remember when everything was better. With loops, jangly guitars, and the occasional Farfisa, DCFC craft a melodic backdrop for Benjamin Gibbard's cozy vocals.
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