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August 22, 2005

Death Cab & Decemberists - "Go Your Own Way"

Finally an MP3 of DCFC/Decemberists' Fleetwood Mac encore at Summerstage. Thanks You Ain't No Picasso for the link. And Jeff for this img:

Say what you will about Plans as a whole, but "Soul Meets Body" is a fantastic single. Despite the shitty title.

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Plans is great. First comment, bitches.

Posted by: Dave Depper at 08/22/05 1:57 PM  | Reply
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i agree. even though 'plans' turned out to be a pretty weird album, that song alone makes it worth buying.

Posted by: nick at 08/22/05 1:58 PM  | Reply
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I think there should be a Photoshop contest where people replace the mic stand in this picture with something else.

My first attempt would be a hoagie.

Or even better, a plate of spaghetti, Lady and the Tramp style.

Posted by: Topher at 08/22/05 2:03 PM  | Reply
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I think Soul Meets Body is one of the weakest songs on that whole album. I saw them at Lollapalooza in Chicago and I really didn't like the way the new stuff played, but after having listened to the tracks now for over a week and a half, I love Plans, but it is def. not perfect.

Soul Meets Body is too spare, too clean sounding than the rest of the album, so much so, that it is almost as if they purposefully made it that way as the first single, so that it would sound different than anything on Transatlanticism.

And I could without The Stable Song, skip it everytime.
Not a fan.

Posted by: personally at 08/22/05 3:03 PM  | Reply
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Oh man, are we hitting a second wave of half ironic/half sincere Fleetwood Mac appreciation?

I thought we'd seen the end of that sentiment for at least my lifetime with the whole Courtney Love showing up at the MTV comeback special circa '97.

Posted by: Justin at 08/22/05 3:10 PM  | Reply
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"crooked teeth" is another awesome song off the new album.

Posted by: eliza at 08/22/05 3:13 PM  | Reply
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Hahaha Topher, my thoughts exactly.

Posted by: Chu Chu at 08/22/05 3:19 PM  | Reply
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I'd like to submit for the court, this evidence as Exhibit A; "what is wrong with indie music." That modern, so-called "independant rock groups" find inspiration and camraderie in Fleetwood Mac is a disgrace.

(The least they could do is cover something from the Peter Green era)

Posted by: Billy K at 08/22/05 3:52 PM  | Reply
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Now I'm absolutely convinced that they were separated at birth.

And I would have preferred something from "Tusk" or perhaps that temporary-but-fruitful 80's collaboration between Stevie and Tom Petty.

Posted by: Eric at 08/22/05 4:02 PM  | Reply
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I think Plans is pretty good, does that mean I hate America or something?

Posted by: Josh at 08/22/05 4:08 PM  | Reply
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No, I think it means you still like America. But it also means you're indifferent to Seals and Croft and are unsure about Bread.

You definitely think Loggins and Messina are crap.

Posted by: Topher at 08/22/05 4:22 PM  | Reply
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I have to disagree on Soul Meets Body and Crooked Teeth. Good god people these are BORING songs! This album is like Death Cab's "Maladroit".

Posted by: Doug Datish at 08/22/05 4:28 PM  | Reply
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Colin Meloy and Ben Gibbard, the most similar looking men in rock!!!!

Posted by: Faggy O Pantserson at 08/22/05 5:18 PM  | Reply
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First of all, Colin Meloy and Ben Gibbard are very different. Colin Meloy writes and writes and most of the time it comes out right and then there are lyrics and he pushes his band behind the lyrics he creates. Somehow he's a historical/mythologicical/lyrical genius. Ben Gibbard, on the other hand, is OCD. He's anxious and afraid. Any new lyrics that might offend, even those on his new CD, are going beyond for him. He's nervous, and wants none to be offended. He has thoughts. They might be bad. But somehow in his new album, he was trying to be OK with this. I admire it. Both are talented, but Ben Gibbard is still experimenting with his emotions. Colin Meloy is sticking to his lyrical cleverness and pretentious knowledge of many things. Who cares what you've experienced, when what you have experienced can be made into a song that's simple and captures the souls of many?

Posted by: some girl at 08/22/05 11:14 PM  | Reply
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I agree. The first time I listened to the album this is the only song that stood out to me. I didn't even know this was the single and it still was easily the best song...hell I didn't even know what he was saying but the chorus is awesome.

Posted by: craig at 08/23/05 12:49 AM  | Reply
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Ew, chubby indie rock boy orgy.

Posted by: Ocarina at 08/23/05 1:49 AM  | Reply
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Oh Stereogum. I love you almost as much as I love DCFC. And that's a whole lot of love, sugar.

Posted by: Sarah at 08/23/05 1:50 AM  | Reply
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The best thing about this whole Death Cab new album good-bad-backlash-antibacklash doing the rounds is that the album hasn't even been released yet. This is the modern world.

Posted by: Neil at 08/23/05 4:29 AM  | Reply
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heres one due out today...listen first then buy;) at least its ROCK & ROLL

Black Rebel Motorcycle Club - Howl (2005)
Part 1 (tracks 1-7): http://rapidshare.de/files/4261428/Part_1.rar.html
Part 2 (the rest): http://www.qfile.de/dl/199488/Part_2_19.rar.html

Posted by: Yale Bloor at 08/23/05 8:48 AM  | Reply
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Aww! I think they're great. They're both talented in their own ways, and I only wish I'd been there to see it.
(And they're not *that* chubby. And any potential chubbiness on their part is nullified by talented-cuteness)

Posted by: Amber at 08/23/05 10:04 AM  | Reply
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'right: Plans is great. Soul meets body is greatest. Fleetwood Mac, ehm ... oh, they're so embarassing!

Posted by: sir brian jones at 08/23/05 10:30 AM  | Reply
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I think it says more about you than it does the bands to immediately assume there's some irony meant in a couple of indie POP bands covering a great goddamn pop song.

What, did you expect Death Cab and the Decemberists to cover Kraftwerk or the Stooges?

As for a liking for Fleetwood Mac being somehow representative of "what is wrong with indie music"... well, you'd have to be an idiot to be concerned about the state of something so amorphous and ill-defined to begin with. Why not pinpoint the problems with "world music" next (perhaps a preoccupation with that fucking mainstream sellout, Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan?)?

Posted by: Dave at 08/23/05 11:29 AM  | Reply
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ben gibbard ate his band.

however the 'go your own way' cover was fucking awesome. shut up, you overjaded soulseek-addicted nerds.

(anyone who's seen the decemberists' video for '16 military wives' has hopefully seen the flash of a piece of paper taped up in the locker that says 'fleetwood mac rules')

Posted by: eliz at 08/23/05 11:47 AM  | Reply
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mmmh. serious people all around!

Posted by: sir beian jones at 08/23/05 11:59 AM  | Reply
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Horrible! They shouldn't have sang that song. They sound retarded.

Posted by: LL Cool F at 08/23/05 1:11 PM  | Reply
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Soulseek? Um, no. It's all about Oink's Pink Palace, sweetie darling.

Posted by: Justin at 08/23/05 2:55 PM  | Reply
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I'm sure Oink loves the off-site advertising.

Posted by: evelyn bateman at 08/23/05 7:22 PM  | Reply
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Yep, because it's a big secret.

Posted by: Justin at 08/23/05 7:47 PM  | Reply
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We posted the Presale Password for these guys over on our blog, if anyone is interested.
http://bluebucstickets.blogspot.com/

Posted by: BlueBucs at 08/23/05 9:59 PM  | Reply
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I guess I'm stupid...

But I think the Decemberists, Death Cab and Fleetwood are all great bands.

Easy to please, I suppose. Or perhaps I'm everything that's wrong with indie music.

Posted by: jason at 08/24/05 4:27 AM  | Reply
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ok, people, simmer down.
i only posted it b/c i have a serious colin meloy cover crush. anytime the man does someone else's song i try to snag it and share it. which is odd, considering how much i love his own work.

anyway, cheers, dear, enjoy it. (it's ripped from some DC groupie's video, so the quality is just what it is)

also, i am honored to be on SG (even if it is just a little linky), almost as much as when i was linked on Largehearted.

Posted by: cpl bradley at 08/24/05 9:29 AM  | Reply
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Even though I like a couple of Fleetwood Mac songs, especially if you include the theme from "National Lampoon's European Vacation", (Buckingham solo), I think that they do in fact represent a lot about what made the 70s one of the worst decades for mainstream pop music, other than the 90s. I personally blame emo and Fleetwood Mac for the rise to power of very very bland indie rock like DCFC and Iron & Wine and suchits.

And these are my opinions.

Posted by: jed2 at 08/24/05 10:37 AM  | Reply
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