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This is basically my favorite band. If you have never heard of them, they are like electronic indie. This is normally the band I would NOT tell people about because of my guilty pleasure to love considering them not well known, but I think you guys are probably more capable of appreciating it than most people. So if you havent heard them, I'd check them out if you like beautiful well written lyrics, catchy electonica based indie rock. Don't tell a friend. |
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They're alright. I like some of the 8 bit type stuff they put in their songs. |
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p.s. Death Cab for Cutie, the singer of the Postal Service's main band is better though |
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a few good tracks. few meaning literally 3. and a vocal line in one of the songs rips an eels chorus, only it puts it to greater effect i think. a good step to either get electro kids into indy or indy kids into electro. electro meaning electronic. |
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i like postal service but mostly just the instrumental backing, i don't like ben's voice for electro/acoustic i much prefer hood, the notwist, telefon tel aviv, cex... |
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I would agree. The Notwist and Telefon Tel Aviv are a far more advanced version of the electronic/rock/indie/alternative... whatever you want to call it. But let us not forget about Múm,;probably the best of the bunch. |
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I agree that there are like 3 great songs, the rest pretty much sucks |
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mum.. matmos.. four tet.. boom bip |
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3 good songs? try fucking all of them. and i love ben's voice, its so dreamlike, fits perfectly into their sound. And Death Cab for Cutie is definately not better. Well, at any rate I was just trying to consider an incredible musical duo, sorry its not up to your elite tastes. |
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trying to share what I consider |
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jesus, do you honestly expect everyone to agree with you? why even post a topic if your opinion is the only one that you can accept? you should consider yourself lucky, when you post a topic people say something negative and at least know what they're talking about. when i post a music topic people reply with extremely negative comments without having even HEARD it. |
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they're okay I guess. I have their album, and I'm not over-eager about it. |
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death cab for cutie has a new album out last week. They are actually coming to town with Nada Surf, which I hope I can get tickets too. In any event, the DCFC disc "Something About Airplanes" is amazing, their follow up, The Photo Album, was a pretty big dissaspointment. New album is rumored to be much better, but I haven't heard anything from it. The Postal Service. Catchy, but it's just a side project with a cute gimmick, I have a hard time getting attatched to a group like that. |
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oh - i thought this was a thread to bitch about postal services.... cough... er-hem. |
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which is funny, because I can, for about $.45, send a letter to another country in about 5 days. I mean, the fucking letter went from California, across the country. Accros the Atlantic Ocean, across Europe, and to Sweden, in like 5 days. For half a dollar. How did it do that? seriously, it's fucking the best deal ever. |
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and yet it takes me over a week to get a letter from someone a few states away it really depends on how good your local post office is |
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i didnt mean to come off like that, maybe I should have asked why some of you only consider a few of their songs to be any good. I mean, the formula is pretty much the same throughout, and I think each of their songs have something unique to be heard. So now that I have explained myself, maybe you all will make an effort to explain why the rest of their stuff, other than 3 songs, sucks. Which three songs do you like? I agree not all of their songs are personal favorites, but they do not suck. Britney Spears sucks. Celine Dion sucks. Michael Bolton sucks. In this context, I don't see how any of their stuff can be considered bad compared to what else there is out there. I'm sorry but I like them a lot. |
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the postal service really is quite amazing, i looove recycled air. |
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i'm listening to the postal service now, 'tis damn good stuff. i think ben's voice is great for lap-pop stuff - some of the lyrics aren't that great tho'. |
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ehh, i didnt care for them much, the collaboration on the dntel album is better...it spawned the postal service album anyhoo. |
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DNTEL is amazing and the only song i think shows his incerdible talents is the first. production good/okay, singing okay/bad, this makes postal service okay...i guess. |
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DNTL would be even better if it was just instrumental. |
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oh come on. "anywhere anyone" is beautiful largely due to the vocals |
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i think Ben Gibbard walks a fine line between intrigue and sap... |
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BlatantEcho ---> The new album for Death Cab Cutie Transatlanticism KICKS ASS. It is better than anything they've done before, not by a small margin, but an enormous evolution leap. The whole album flows so smoothly and all the songs are awesome. One of my top ten albums. I think Postal Service is great. Songs like: Natural Anthem and Brand New Colony are stand outs for me. I agree the collaboration on the Dntel album for the song "Dreaming Of Evan And Chand" is better than the Postal Service collaboration because it seems edgier/ riskier and the lyrics are brilliant. Still, Give Up is a great album and I had high expectations when I heard about the collaboration and was not let down. |
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good to hear. I bought the photo album and had a hard time listening to it. They are coming to town, and I want tix. With your recommendation, I check out the new album. |
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We have the facts and we're voting yes is a good album to check out of theirs. |
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i think ben's voice is good but the lyrics are often really bad, the production is good on some songs but not on others. death cab is imo much better. i saw them in concert like 2 weeks ago, it was pretty good. i think their new album isn't as good though. |
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such great heights video and song rock tough |
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state some examples of the lyrics you dont like... i think ben writes some of the best lyrics ive ever heard. "knuckles clenched to white as the landing gear retract for flight my head's a balloon inflating with the altitude" i love their shit. |
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postal service is the best pop band ever!!! |
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the song Sleeping In has thy worst lyrics ever...the line about JFK is lreally bad...and the message, "don't wake me I'm better off sleeping" (I'm pretty sure those are the exact words? might be wrong)...that's a really lame message, boring they suck live - it's basically a long karaoke session with the exception of a live drumset, the female singer is ugly, the only tracks that are somewhat innovative are Such Great Heights, the first track, and the one w/the orchestral samples...other then that...boring... They've somehow managed to create generic cliche IDM indie music before the genre was even created |
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i like the postal service. |
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oh yeah Ben Gibbard doesn't sing for Postal Service, he talks i think his singing days are over...maybe boozin it up too much up in the mountains |
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give up! |
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i really like the album now. it took me a while to get into it though. mostly, i didn't care for the guy's voice at first. i thought he sang too much like lisa loeb. very limited range. but like i said, it grew on me and now when i listen to it, i sing along as well. |
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