{"id":2747,"date":"2010-05-19T07:14:48","date_gmt":"2010-05-19T11:14:48","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2010-05-19T07:14:48","modified_gmt":"2010-05-19T07:14:48","slug":"death-cab-for-idiots","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/death-cab-for-idiots\/","title":{"rendered":"Death Cab For Idiots?"},"content":{"rendered":"
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How well do you know the sound of a band you like? If I told you to check out the new song by Death Cab For Cutie<\/strong>, would you be interested to check out this link<\/a>?<\/p>\n

I don’t know how to disguise this video – so I’ll just tell you, it’s not DCFC – It’s a band called Velveteen<\/strong>. A blogger named Joe Berkowitz<\/strong> was fooled by another blogger who claimed to have a leak of the last DCFC album, Narrow Stairs<\/em>. But in fact, aside from actually containing the single “I Will Possess Your Heart,” the “leak” actually was music by the band Velveteen.<\/p>\n

Read here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

To Mr. Berkowitz’s credit, he does refer to himself as a “jackass,” and further, I certainly hear the similarity between DCFC and Velveteen. But then, he also goes on to say, “the rest of the album hit all major points on The Death Cab For Cutie Sound checklist.” Now does it? Does it really?<\/p>\n

The writer’s byline is vague, but it’s my feeling that if he really thought this music was by Death Cab, then he has no business writing about music. Despite the similarities, he can’t hear the difference between the vocalists? What about the drumming? Death Cab’s drummer, to me, is very distinctive because he plays some very technical stuff and lays down a deep pocket, deeper than the casual listener might realize. But then, it says he’s an “assistant editor,” so for all I know, his gig is reading manuscripts from the slush pile for a publisher of romance novels.<\/p>\n

This person listened to the wrong album for 16 months, and apparently thought it was great. Do you think you could listen to an album for that stretch of time, not realizing that you were actually listening to something else?<\/em> Really, I want to know.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

How well do you know the sound of a band you like? If I told you to check out the new song by Death Cab For Cutie, would you be interested to check out this link? I don’t know how to disguise this video – so I’ll just tell you, it’s not DCFC – It’s […]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":221,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2747"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/221"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2747"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2747\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2747"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2747"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2747"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}