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September 6, 2005

Death Cab Cover "Hungry Like The Wolf"

Another day, another live Death Cab cover. Josh alerts us that the band you hate to love played a "secret show" as Transatlantic Orchestra, the house band for 826Seattle.org, at this weekend's Bumbershoot festival. Their encore was "Hungry Like The Wolf" featuring Mike Doughty and Daniel Handler (Lemony Snicket) on accordion. Check out audio and video (coutesy of Jami Attenberg) by going here.

Amazing. I think Death Cab have covered every Top Ten single from the 1980s! Well done boys.

Posted at 4:27 PM




16 Comments

ENOUGH WITH THE DURAN DURAN COVERS! Ugh.

I've had "I Will Follow You Into the Dark" stuck in my head for the last 5 days, and it's not stopping anytime soon. Damn you, Gibbard.

Posted by: Vic at 09/06/05 4:45 PM | Reply
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As a longtime member of the I-found-out-about-the-cool-secret-gig-too-late club, I was amazed that I was actually present for this. The cover was goofy but an appropriate ending to an excellent event for a very good cause. (Support an 826 project in your area! Seattle, NYC, Valencia)

As good as the encore was, the best bits of the evening were Dave Eggers letter to Seattle from Steve the dog (very funny and motivating) and Sarah Vowell's history of The Battle Hymn of the Republic. Gibbard accompanied Eggers for his reading and DCFC played support for the musical examples in Vowell's essay.

BTW, If anyone has a copy of DCFC playing the "Mine eyes have seen the glory of the burning of the school..." version, please post it.

Bummer for my friends who said, "We heard Doughty is only doing spoken word so we're going to skip the show." (He lied.)
Welcome to the club, guys.

Posted by: Skatelip at 09/06/05 5:34 PM | Reply
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has anybody posted DCFC's version of "Bad Reputation"? iTunes doesn't have anything for it, i guess since they only offered it with a pre-order

Posted by: Mr. Donkey at 09/06/05 5:35 PM | Reply
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Man, you guys are cranking about the music updates and am definitely impressed especially after that long lull with the Kayne BS.... Keep up the good work guys..... I guess I won't give up on the gum after all.....

Posted by: musicmania at 09/06/05 5:37 PM | Reply
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I still stand by my decision to go on Sunday and see Common instead.

Posted by: Mat at 09/06/05 6:11 PM | Reply
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ok ok ok hold up fellas, maybe today is a big news day, but we got too many updates here. now if i miss a day, i miss a lot. i don't like that. maybe you guys could alternate every day - like my parents used to with custody!

Posted by: prolific=problem at 09/06/05 8:43 PM | Reply
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Mike Doughty's site has a bunch of behind the scenes pictures and etc here: http://www.mikedoughty.com/blog/archives/000291.html#more

http://script.blogs.com

Posted by: script at 09/06/05 9:57 PM | Reply
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thanks for posting that.
us ancient-but-still-around-duranies all feel a bit proud.

Posted by: c at 09/06/05 10:58 PM | Reply
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wow, guess this site doesnt suck after all

Posted by: gutbag at 09/07/05 1:20 AM | Reply
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Yes, but this doesn't change the fact that Bush does not care about the Black Keys.

Posted by: topher at 09/07/05 9:03 AM | Reply
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yeah gutbag i GUESS it doesn't..........

Posted by: gutbag2 at 09/07/05 10:15 AM | Reply
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jesus, i am a gutless motherfucking gutbag and deserve being dissed.... i stand corrected the gum does not suck.... i am man enough to admit it .....i was driven to insanity by a nightmarish kw political fiascorama, driven to lash out at the almighty gum that i worship........... lost on the outside of an indie insider world and hoping one day to gain the respect of the chosen gum elite... for now i languish in utter obscurity. listening to my little pod, reading gum, and hoping of one day being a gum cool kid... forgive me for my momentary lapse of reason
how about that accordion on the Hungry like the wolf cover?

Posted by: musicmaniac at 09/07/05 10:36 AM | Reply
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Does anyone know where I can find DCFC setlists from their resent shows??

Posted by: acrade mike at 09/07/05 11:48 AM | Reply
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Here's a link to the "Hungry Like the Wolf" performance.

http://students.washington.edu/joshbis/mp3temp/dcfc_hungrylikethewolf.mp3

Posted by: The Pop View at 09/08/05 1:36 PM | Reply
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No way can any band cover "Hungry Like The Wolf" better than Reel Big Fish. Scott Klopfenstein is a God compared to Ben and his bullshit.

Posted by: cindy at 09/08/05 6:45 PM | Reply
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