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Death Cab for Cutie, the name deriving from the Vivian Stanshall/Neil Innes song "Death Cab For Cutie", began in 1997 as a solo project by Ben Gibbard when he was a guitarist for the band Pinwheel. He recorded under the name All-Time Quarterback .
May 19, 2022 · The group, which was formally formed in 1997, is originally from Bellingham, Washington, a college town about two hours north of Seattle. After the region-defining genre of grunge peaked, many...
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Oct 12, 2021 · Instead, avant-garde pop tricksters The Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band, who had ties to Monty Python and were friends with The Beatles, performed a parody of ’50s teenage car crash songs called ‘Death Cab for Cutie’ during a scene where the tour’s male patrons visited a strip club. The name was originally meant to obscure the fact that it was ...
Death Cab for Cutie founders Gibbard and Walla met in the mid-1990s at Western Washington University, in Bellingham, Washington, where they began to help each other write and record music in their dormitories.
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Apr 9, 2021 · Ben Gibbard has been the voice of the new wave of Seattle's sound. As the vocalist of Death Cab for Cutie and one half of The Postal Service, he wrote songs that millennials would often turn to when feeling some type of way. After all, Death Cab for Cutie was Seth Cohen's favorite band. Gibbard grew up in Washington state, in the town of ...
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Death Cab for Cutie got their name from a song performed by the Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band in The Beatles' 1967 film Magical Mystery Tour. Lead singer Ben Gibbard says that if he knew people would be referencing the name 15 years after the band began, he would have went with something more obvious.
Jan 13, 2020 · Before the Postal Service, before “The O.C.,” before Zooey Deschanel, Death Cab for Cutie were just some sad-sacks from Bellingham, Washington. The band’s first album, Something About Airplanes , was never going to launch them into the stratosphere like Transatlanticism would; it’s a beautiful album and shows a lot of promise, but it ...
