Beantown Podcast - Transatlanticism Track Power Rankings (09152023 Beantown Podcast)

Episode Date: September 15, 2023

Quinn comes to you LIVE on the eve of Riot Fest and Transatlanticism's 20th anniversary to power rank the tracks from the iconic album

I'm going to sing a song for you. I'm going to sing a song for you. I'm going to sing a song for you. The roll of windows down, and the passenger seat as you are driving me home. Then looking up words I strain my eyes to try To tell the difference between Shooting stars and satellites from passenger seat as you were driving me home. Do they collide? could lie, I ask, and you smile with my feet on the dash the world doesn't matter

When you feel embarrassed and I'll be your bride, when you need direction, and I'll be the guy for all time For all time Oh, 2023. There's a bunch of hooligans going on outside. I don't know what what the curveuffle is. I'm still seated at the piano here. I can't quite see outside, but we got whining dogs that I don't know this could be dog at cost part two, making too much noise going to be hiding under the floorboards. I do think dog at cost could be a great like Wes Anderson movie, right? Just, I won't know, maybe it's maybe a little bit too on the nose, but something to consider. My name is Quinn David Fernson. This is my show, Quinn David Ferns Presents, The Bean Town Podcast.

That was, of course, a cover of one of my favorite bands, and it's Thematic, I promise, Death Cat for Cutie. Today is going to be all about trans-islandicism. We are going to riot fest here in Chicago. Tomorrow it actually day one is today food fighters playing tonight down in Douglas Park and then headliners tomorrow. Deathcap for QD and the postal service been both Ben Givert projects doing their 20 year album and aversaries for Transit Lannises, which is what we're talking about today and give up by the Postal Service.

So, listen to your discretion as advised when you're listening to this program. Number one, we'll occasionally use some language number two, this podcast is objectively terrible. We're gonna be talking a lot of Death Gav today. I'm excited. This is gonna be maybe like my fourth show, fifth show, something like that.

But this is a completely new one, right? This is a, this is, I've never been to a band. I don't think where they just like play through an album straight. I think maybe when I saw Chicago in Baltimore, which I recognized the confusion in that, the band Chicago played at the opera house in Baltimore, which I recognized the confusion in that. The band, Chicago, played at the opera house in Baltimore randomly when I was living out there back in Beentown. And it was just one of those things where I found out

the morning of like, oh, Chicago is playing half a mile from my apartment tonight and tickets are like 30 bucks. And it's just like, yeah, obviously I'm gonna just go do that. But I think they may have played to an entire album when I saw them. It was like the first half of the show and then the second half was just like all the other hits basically. I think that happened with Chicago but not sure. But I forgot if we already did this this is embarrassing for me. I haven't even had anything

to drink yet. Listen to discretionary advice when you listen to this program number one will cater to some language number two podcasts subjectively terrible. I do want to also I forgot to do this last week which is extra embarrassing. Shout out our friends and the great nation of Pakistan. Thank you for listening to us. Thank you for making us the 112th ranked comedy podcast in the great nation of Pakistan up there with the Joe Rogans, the club randoms, and Bill Burr, Money Morning Podcast, right? Conan, Conan O'Brien needs a friend really. He's just talking about the Pantheon, P-A-N-T-H-E-O-N, of, you know,

kind of comedy giants in Pakistan and the Greater Middle East. It's an honor, truly, to kind of be giants in Pakistan and the greater Middle East. It's an honor, truly, to kind of be thrown up there. Excuse me. I do want to mention one thing quickly before we jump in. Basically, what we're going to be talking about today, I have a three part that are three unrelated, but tied together trivia questions for you.

So it's a three for one. A paladrum of the day is taking a week off. I had a substitute segment for paladrum of the day that I thought of in the shower and had the bright idea to not write it down. So if that comes back to me, we will go there. I promised. But I also wanted to mention before we, oh, and then we're going to be, this is tough. I did this on a walk about an hour ago.

Power ranking, the transatlanticism tracks. There's 11 of them total, and we'll get into that. But just, here's the thing. If you're a big transhead or a death cab, a death cab ite, you might have a completely different list than I do because it's just really tough because that album is a banger. It is certifiably a banger, one of those albums where there are no bad songs. There are, you know, some songs, some days you're in the mood for this one, some days this

one maybe doesn't scratch your itch, but just objectively there are no bad songs, which makes ranking it really tough. And I could probably rank it again in a month and have a different list, right? So we'll get into that. I do want to mention though, we are, because this, this was, has been a staple of the beans on podcasts in the past, although maybe not as, uh, passionately now is, is three years ago, but the real housewives of Salt Lake I'm not sure if it's going to be a good start. I'm not sure if it's going to be

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a good start. I'm not sure if it's going to be a good start. I'm not sure if it's going to be a good start. I'm not sure if it's going to be a good start. with my stream and then failed to do it. Excuse me, failed to get a good stream on Tuesday night. So we waited to stream at the next day on Wednesday. But so this is season four. So to just give you a quick, I can't really remember.

Basically, season three, everything that season three center round was Gen Shaw because season three was, she was arrested in season two. And the season three was really just was arrested in season two and the season three was really just like, we pretty much know, I don't remember the whole timeline, but it was basically like we knew she's going to go to prison at some point after that season concluded after wrapped. So the cast in season three, of course, was Jen Shaw and then Whitney and Heather and

Meredith and Lisa. The big changes from two to three were that Mary Cosby left after she just like, didn't show up to the season two reunion and it was basically like she quit without ever telling anyone. And then Jenny, who I think, if I remember, Jenny was like,

I think Jenny got a full season, right? Season two, she was the agent, Vietnamese lady married to Dewey, the chiropractor, and their whole storyline, the season was the midwife thing, which was just really not entertaining. And then it came out that Jenny had made a lot of offensive like pro-Trump Facebook posts over the years, which apparently they didn't bravoent uncover until after they had filmed her full

season. I think what happened they had filmed some portion of season three with Jenny. And then they had to go back and not maybe not reduced up, but it was just a lot less season three, I think was easily the weakest season. There were only 16 episodes after 24 in season 2. And it just was like not that interesting at all. Because a lot of it, they were just milking the Gen Shaw stuff for all you could get out of it. The season 3 storyline for Lisa was basically like she had a big blow up behind closed doors against Meredith and she thought the cameras weren't rolling

But they were and so then Lisa just had to like try to dig out of that hole against Meredith the whole season Meredith's whole storylines that she's just like Zanaxed into eternity and Seth her husband kind of shows up here and there Brooks her want to be designer fashion designer son shows up here and their Brooks, her wanna be designer, fashion designer son shows up here and there. Most of the time she's just like in a bathtub. Then the Heather Whitney thing right there, cousins and they were portrayed as like best friends on the first two seasons and they like tried to, the producers wanted there to be drama between those two

and season three and it just felt really weird and fake but they didn't really show them getting along very well which just didn't feel like it didn't feel like the real housewives of Salt Lake City that we fell in love with you know. It was basically their independent storylines where Heather was writing a book, a bad Mormon right, that it was revealed in season four that none of the ladies have read yet. And then Whitney's whole thing was she was dealing with her trauma, her abuse as a child, and her dad is flown to coop and a glorious black hair, no where to be seen. So that's really what happened in season three, season four again, or two episodes in. Basically the big changes. So Mary Cosby is back as a friend of.

And if you're curious, like, what exactly does that mean? Well, she's not featured in the main credits, but there are currently on their first cast trip of the season. Usually they'll do two or three. They're in Palm Springs, and Mary Cosby did come with. And the whole thing with Mary Cosby is like, she clearly hates being on the show and she really doesn't like being with the ladies at all. She really hates everything except for the paycheck, right?

So she's just there. Obviously, Lisa Meredith, Heather, Whitney, or back. Those four, kind of the core at this point, Jen Shaw is obviously a really big part of it. Now she's in prison for like six years. So I'm sure Bravo is really holding out hope that they could like get her back if this show survives that long, but who knows what's going to happen.

And then there are two new main cast members this season. One of them we knew before Angie Kaye and it was extremely confusing in season three because there were two friend of Angie Kaye and Angie H and Dana. And Dana and Angie Kaye kind of the same style like big oils like hypoony and like super kind of maybe not tall but just like very like upright and narrow that kind of look. And so that was confusing to me as well. Angie Kaye who I'm not a big fan of.

She's not the fat fucking elf on the shelf husband that's Angie H. So Angie Angie Kaye who really in my opinion doesn't really bring anything to the show and has a very irritating voice is now a main cast member Angie H and Dana are nowhere to be seen this season through two episodes I would not be surprised if they show up at some point and then Monica Garcia is a new main, okay? We haven't heard anything from her before we don't know anything about her. She's new this season We got a little bit more of her backstory and episode two of the other night. It's confusing. She talks about having never, you know, never having to work

a day in her life. She married super rich. And she's got all these like designer clothes. It's just a very nice house and beautiful kids and all that stuff and now apparently she's divorced. We don't know anything about her ex-husband. She's running some sort of like drop ship thing from her house where she's using her mom for free labor and her storyline so far is that she feels very discriminated, not discriminated, but just like out of place, FOMO, not FOMO, but imposter syndrome with the other ladies because Lisa has a $40,000 ring that she lost at the Palm Springs Airport in this episode and Monica's handbag is only worth $3,000.

So she feels very much like, just she doesn't belong because she's super poor. And there you go. So we'll try to be consistent with our real house, this is all like city updates for you. That was a lot to catch up on because we haven't talked about it and probably, while season three ended in like January, I think February maybe.

So we haven't talked about it for over half a year. Anyway, so that's that. Let's very quickly give a shout out to our sponsors, Home Pied Organ. When you need your home inspecting essential organ, call the experts, someone who's safe, certified, good for plumbing, HVAC, air conditioning, a separate of HVAC.

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whether you've got a business, ventures, or partnerships. Maybe beantownpodcast gets into the barbecue space. I don't know. There's a new barbecue place just open up down the street for my office. So it's at the Northwest corner of Wabash and Jackson right next to like the central camera set between central camera and the 7-11 on the corner. And this is called Clumsy Cow Barbecue. And I think I saw the menu as I was walking past

that I did, I wanna confirm these prices. So I'll say this, I recognize two things very briefly before we just look at this menu for the first time ever. And again, this is just right by my office, which is why I'm looking at it. Barbecue is more expensive than you always think it's going to be. Having just had barbecue last week in Kansas City, that's just the way it goes. I think it had like a normal dinner.

I mean, it was like a large portions that I purchased intentionally, right? So it was, you know, a work trip and I just wanted to like, pick out, pun intended. But it was the whole thing after tax and tip, I didn't even do delivery, I just picked it up. It was like 46 bucks, right? So it's a lot. And there are things Chicago loop

that's gonna be expensive that real estate's pricey. So let's just, I have not making any comments on these many prices one way or another yet. I just thought when I caught a glance out of the corner of my eye, I was walking back from the gym yesterday that it seemed expensive. So just going down again, this clumsy cow barbecue in Chicago opened up maybe a month ago. French fries $5.00. Okay, very reasonable. Loaded potato salad, five or nine. I'm guessing that's like a cup or a pint. Dilly's Slaw 3 or 6. Jimmy Red Corn Red $5 with honey butter.

Okay, side prices, not bad. $5 or fries, but I don't blanket that. That's pretty normal. Okay, smoked meats, this includes one, two ounce signature sauce per half pound. So these prices are either half pound or full. So brisket, 18 or 36, that's my first,

that's the first thing I take issue with. You're gonna to list different prices for half pound and full, but you're not giving me the consumer any sweet, sweet discounts. If you're going to list, if you're going to do separate prices, you can't just double it. You got to give me a dollar or two off, right? And I think that that's probably, I mean, that's like the norm in restaurants, right? And that feels like a good business practice. Like I'd be more likely to purchase a full pound if I knew that I was getting, if I was saving money, you know?

So breast kit, 18 or 36, pork, 14, 28, smoked wings, 12 each for 16. That's not so bad. Smoke Turkey breast, 16 or 32, spare ribs 16, 32 rib tips 10 or 20, smoked beef, killboss a link, one each for $9. So that's really not terrible. This seems way more reasonable than what I thought I saw on the website, or excuse me, on the menu outside as I was walking. Sandwiches, you can make it a combo for $23,

which would include a sandwich, a fountain drink, cornbread, and choice of fries, dillies, so I'd potato salad. So for $23, and I think that's the tough thing about this, not that I ever really eat out for lunch when I'm in my office, but I wouldn't spend, you know, $23 on this for lunch. I would never spend $23 plus tax in tip on lunch just generally. Like that's only happened if I'm not paying for it, right? So that's a tough thing.

These sandwiches without the combos, so all combos are 23 sandwiches are anywhere from 13 to 15 dollars. Not terrible, but it's just like a little bit more than I want to spend on lunch, you know? And there's really nothing else crazy going on here. So that was not meant to oh the salad, one salad, the chopped smoked turkey salad. That was not meant to be smurch clumsy cow barbecue in any way. I think the prices are fairly reasonable. The only

concern that I have, it's not even a concern, it's just, it feels less relevant to me because, or in general, it feels less relevant because the loop is very much a lunch spot, right? And it's, unless you have, unless you can really cultivate like a nice inside of the place, sit down restaurant experience, it's going to be hard to sell it as a dinner spot, especially in the loop where there's just not very many people eating out that time of day. So all the best to clumsy Calibur with you, I would love to give it a try sometimes, I just don't know when I'm going to because I don't eat dinner in the loop and I don't spend, you know, hey, let's just say I wanted to do a sandwich by itself. It's still 15 bucks plus tax and tip.

Probably not going to do that, right? So there you go. Clumsy color barbecue. I don't even know how we got on that topic. So Trans-Atlanticism is a fantastic album. It came out in 2003. It's probably Death Cab's most famous album. They had a run of three, starting with Trans-Inlannicism,

Trans-Inlannicism followed by plans followed by Nero Stairs, Nero Stairs, Nero Stairs that were just all three, just three straight bangers, kick ass albums. And look, the stuff before that block of three and the stuff after, still fantastic, very different. They've evolved as an artist a lot, right? They've been around for, where are we at, like, 25, 26 years now, which is, so that's natural, that's good. But Trans-Atlanticism kind of stands alone as a hallmark. It is really, I think what you can say more than anything about Trans-Atlanticism is it is very much like when people in today's day and age think of deathcap for cutie, that's what you think of, right? So they've done a lot of stuff since then, Ben Geberd has changed a lot as an artist and a songwriter and he writes about different

things and you know, that sort of thing. But trans-adanticism, 20 years later, is really like Death Cav's legacy, I think, which is fair. I mean, it's a fantastic album. Not only are Ben Giverts an absolute slam and poet, but the music is spectacular as well. It was the height of their musical powers. And I think they stayed at that height through those three albums and those tours. And then it, I wouldn't say it fell off after Chris Walla left, but it's very different. And I don't think that it is without his production value nor his musicianship. I love Dave Depper, their new guitarist. He's not that new anymore.

It's been there for 10 years. And Zach, right? Those guys are great. But I just don't think they quite bring the same, the nucleus just isn't as strong anymore, right? So to give you the track listing of trans and lanicism, and we'll throw in our three trivia questions. We'll sprinkle them in.

I won't go too crazy on the timing of this episode. But here's the order, and I would encourage you to go listen to the album straight through. It's like 45 minutes, something like that, not bad. The order, the track list, the new year, lightness, title and registration, Expo 86, sound is settling, tiny vessels, transatlanticism, title track. I've got to be careful what I say, title track is also the name of a death cab, a death cab song just not on this album. After Trans-Atlanticism is passenger seat, death of an interior decorator, we looked like giants and a

lack of color. So if you're just a casual music fan, you're not even really into death cab, you probably know Trans-Atlanticism, the song, and there's a good chance you've heard sound of settling, because I think it was featured in an Apple commercial or something like that, which is just funny, based off of what the song is actually about. That's a great thing about that song, in particular,

we'll get to it in a little bit here. But it's a very sad, kind of depressing song with a high energy like upbeat kind of tune. And that's just, that's what makes Ben Gibber so great. So here we go. So I'm going to take the cap out here with number 11. Again, we're going 11 to 1, worst to best. Although worst is not how I would describe any of these tunes number 11 is I think the crowd consensus pick for yeah this is the this is number 11 on this album death of an interior decorator I'll say this it is not one of those songs where it's like

if I'm listening through the album I got to skip it because it's just like doesn't do anything for me I still love it it's a good song and it's got some really't do anything for me. I still love it. It's a good song. And it's got some really interesting, just kind of rhythmic and melodic layers, which this whole album has, the guitar layering against the drums and the bass spectacular. And I'm so pumped to see how Ben and Dave and their drummer, it's escaping my mind, Nick, their bassist, Jason, Jason McGurd, their drummer, how they do that layering live, because there's going to be a lot of tracks in here that they never play live. I mean, they threw in the new year we saw them last year at the Salch, they played that live. Title of the registration of registration obviously they play live occasionally, but there's a ton of songs in here.

We look like giants they throw in and out, but in obviously Trans-Alesis, they do a lot, but they didn't even play that last time we saw them. So there's a lot going on, but a lot of opportunities to see songs live that you normally wouldn't get to see ever. In that vein, the other half of this tour is the Postal Service, right?

Also 20 years old, give up great album, they're only album. And I think I saw somewhere when they kicked off this tour a month ago, or it was just like two weeks ago, and they played such great heights, which is probably their most famous song off of not only that album, but the most famous song they ever created.

I think the first time they've played it live in like 10 years or something, Postal Service doesn't do much. They're not very active, right? Ben has Death Cab, Jenny Lewis has her solo career and then what's his name? The other guy, Jimmy Tamborello, is that his name, has his producer and DJ stuff.

So I'm pumped for that as well. I will say this, I don't claim to be like a postal service ride till I die kind of person in terms of like knowing the lyrics to every single one of their songs. But I know most of the songs off that album and it's just gonna be kind of a fun, different experience, right? Before we get into number 10 here,

let's do our first trivia question of the week. So Transatlannicism was recorded at the Hall of Justice, which was bought and then owned by former band member, Chris Walla. And the Hall of Justice is located in this city, which is just very close to Bellingham, which is where Ben Gibber originally hails from. So you tell me what city is close to Bellingham and where the Hall of Justice was located, is located. Chris still owns it. I think I was researching

the Hall of Justice a couple of days ago. It's this crazy little recording studios are kind of a fascinating thing in and of themselves, right? You think about just like pop your music and you think like oh it's got to be like Los Angeles get this mix like probably some like big fancy space. The Hall of Justice is just like this triangular corner building at an intersection here in a neighborhood of the town we're looking for. The Fremont neighborhood I think is what it's called, it's a north part of town. And it's just like the most, you know, windowless, discreet looking building, like you would never think twice just walking past it on the street even to this day.

And then you realize like it's this culturally, extremely significant place where a bunch of major artists and albums have been recorded, including this one, just, I don't know, kind of fascinating to think about, the musician and me, the musicologist and me. If you're curious, the Hall of Justice, and this is kind of semi-unefficiently deathcabs hometown, because Bellingham is right outside of Seattle, Washington,

okay, classic, Pacific Northwest band, death cap for QD. Uh, number 10 on our list, I will say this. I knew I wanted to do death, interior decorator number 11. And then I would say the next two on this list, well, I'll give to you right now where ones I was like, I think I'm going to put them here as well. And then one through eight, I honestly was just like staring at my phone for two or three minutes trying to decide like how am I actually gonna rank these? And it could easily change.

Next time we do this, which won't happen on this show, but it could happen independently. So number 10 is going to be lightness for me. It's a pretty laid back track, but it's got a great drum bit going on. It's just a little bit, it's very mellow. It's not a bad song, it doesn't really like speak to my soul though. And it's kind of, it's an interesting song, it just like jumps right in and it's like the song is going, there's not like an intro. So just boom that one Jason McGurd drum beat and then it's, it's

starting. So for me, Lightness is 10 for me, number nine is that the opening track, The New Year, which it did get to here live about a year ago this time. Great song, kind of a mid tempo and great to play on January 1st every year. every year. It really gives the album a good like some good power strumming to start off the album, but it doesn't quite reach the depths or the emotional highs or lows. One way or another that the majority of the album reaches for me, but it's still a good title track. When you hear the new year, you hear those first, that the sound kind of amps up for a couple of seconds and then boom right in that first chord, boom, boom, and then the guitars go and that's the new year. Okay, and that's just a great way to start a great album. Okay, that's number nine. Now as we get through one through eight here, this is where it was really for me, just like, gosh,

almost throw in dark to the dart board. And this might, number eight might be controversial. I think there's a lot of death cat fans who are with me on this and that it's a little bit kind of like a hollow song. And then there's plenty of others who really love it. I mean, they closed with this song last time we saw them. So this song is not a pushover by any means. It's very pop, probably the most pop song on here on this album and I pretty well known in just like mainstream music circles, but for

me, the sound is settling as number eight. I love it. I mean, you got the high energy upbeat music. I love it. I mean, you got the high energy upbeat music. Drums are pervasive going up against those just lyrics that just do not match the music at all. And if you're not, it's one of those songs where you could just play it for someone and if you weren't carefully, intently listening to what the song is about,

you'd just be like, oh yeah, cool, like fun, happy, upbeat song. And it's a very depressing song. I like the sound of settling. And stuff in one of those songs you can just like play for me anytime. I'm like this gonna be a great three minutes but hard choices. I wasn't, I wasn't, wasn't joking when I said these are some extremely hard choices that I have to make. So for me sound of settling is number eight and it doesn't, it's not like, oh, we got one out of the way. So now it's going to be easy.

Nope, it just is extremely tough moving forward because number seven for me is Expo 86. I love this song for a variety of reasons. If you're curious, Expo 86 is named after the world's fair in Vancouver in 1986. Very close, just about half an hour drive from Bellingham where Ben grew up. So obviously in 1986 would have been a key point in his life. He was probably what like a teenager at that point. A little bit younger than that maybe. But I love Xpo 86 because I think it rocks harder when it hits its peak. You wouldn't really, this song doesn't really have verses and choruses and bridge or anything.

But you know when Xpo 86 just hits the zenith of sound and energy, that's just like a, that's just like a concept that Deathcap doesn't get into very often and look, they're a great band and they got a lot of energy on certain songs and they showcase that live, especially, but there's something about expo 86 when they just it's big long crescendo, they get that portion, you know, two thirds the way in and that's just if you don't know the song because if you don't then this is just going to be really boring way of me describing it, but you got to go listen to it. Because when you think of Deathcap for QD, the casual fan, you're probably thinking of sad, emo. I will follow you into the dark from plans. So go listen to Expo 86 and you'll just see the energy that I'm talking about. Before we get to our top six here, which is geez, this is just, these could all be tied for number one, frankly. Our second trivia question is proceeding through the Death Cab timeline here.

So basically what happened around, right after, I think it was right after Nero Stairs, then their next album was Codes and Keys, which is a pretty like happy, I got some love songs on it, Codes and Keys, although not critically well reviewed. And then the album after that, Kinsugi, is sort of a breakup album, not even sort of, it is a breakup album. So Ben Gibber for a time moved to Los Angeles,

still on the West Coast, but away from his Pacific Northwest roots, because he was married to this actress. And then Kinsugi was the breakup album after they got divorced because she cheated on him. And to this day, I am not a big fan of this actress. If you need clues, she had her own kind of hit show that was really about her, a sitcom for maybe like six or seven seasons along with I don't even know the name so those other actors. The show was known for it being like she was the main character sharned by a bunch of guys. Okay. Another clue I guess her sister was the lead actress in bones. Okay. So two sisters both actresses. If you still need clues I don't know how much more I can do

to help you. Zui and Deshinel. Z-O-O-E-Y space D-E-S-C-H-A-N-E-L. This daughter of Caleb, and Deschanel, is that his name? He's like a screenwriter, I think. Let's go look at Caleb Deschanel. If your curious Ben and Zui were married from 2009 to 2012, did not last very long. Caleb Deschanel is a cinematographer.

That's what he is. He's not a writer. He's a cinematographer. That's what is he's not a writer is a cinematographer Let's see his filmography Cinematographer what has he done that we would know here in the being on podcast the right stuff 1983 I've actually never seen the right stuff nor do I know much about it, but I am just aware that it is a pretty Culturally significant film. So we're learning a lot. Other things that Kale Gdashinal did, the Sinmetari fee for the Patriot,

which was pretty much playing 24-7 at our extremely conservative Christian homeschool friends house growing up. Great Mill Gibson, kind of anti-Jew film, excellent. Other things national treasure he did, the passion of the Christ kill shot, which I've never seen, but I've heard it's fun. Abraham Lincoln vampire hunter Jack Reacher The Lion King the Disney remake the live action quote with real live CGI this time great stuff So that's Caleb Dachianel for you He also did cinematography for twin peaks law and order bones, which I just mentioned so

There you go. That's the answer to our second trivia question of the week here. As we progress through now this kind of second half, the top half of this album, although it's a shame to say, oh yeah, Expo 86 and Sound of Settling, they're not in the top half. That's kind of silly. Number six. I Just feel terrible putting this here, but it's just kind of sort of if I have to really think about like man Where do those songs they really hit for me? This is in the middle of this album number six We already heard it once today. It's passenger seat It's a fantastic song obviously

very simple musically right doesn't do anything too crazy, but a nice just kind of like little poem almost put to music, but beautiful, very soothing. There's a great library, recording. It's just Ben and Zach Ray, who at the time is very new to the band playing piano, but they're by like a fireplace. It's gorgeous. Gotta go check it out. And I think I have a YouTube cover on my own of passenger seat, you go check out my YouTube channel from years ago and I lived up in Rogers Park the second time I think.

Probably during the pandemic, I was doing some more like covers and recordings then because there just wasn't anything to do, literally except for go walk around the block and I wasn't even drinking that year and work and run and Pretty much for a year year and a half my life was running and Working and going for walks and cooking Crazy to think I mean, I think we're, although COVID is still going,

obviously, like we, in it has been for a while now, right? But like we're officially out of the like pandemic stay at home kind of thing, right? I mean, that's an obvious statement. But it was a slow transition, and it wasn't just like a flip of the switch. And I definitely don't, I'm not saying this to be like, oh yeah, I still feel like we're in the pandemic sometimes,

but there are definitely, I don't know, definitely like aspects of it that I miss, most of it I don't miss, but aspects of it I do, okay. But passengers seat number six, sorry for butchering it at the top of the show, we're almost wrapping up here. Number five, we look like giants I love this one and it's way better live because they jam in fact older older recordings if we look like giants they used to whip out a second drum set and Ben would play

drums he and Jason would play drums at the same time I don't think they do that anymore but you know they're gonna jam it's towards the end of the album it's would play drums at the same time. I don't think they'd do that anymore. But you know they're gonna jam. It's towards the end of the album, it's a penultimate track. So it's a great time, especially because the last song is a lack of color, which is like solo guitar essentially and vocals. But we look like giants, great imagery, good metaphors and similes. It's like a very much, although it's not like the popular radio hit.

It's very much like a quintessential death cab song and very much in the vein of trans and lanusesum, it's a little bit angsty. And that's why I love we look like giants. A number four, a very popular track. Everyone's probably heard it before. If we looked like giants as a quintessential death cab track, this one might even take it up a further notch because title and registration is a song about

driving in a car and how the glove compartment is not named correctly because he's never seen any gloves in there and then He reaches in there and he sees a photo of a long less love and he reminisces about her and that's what title and registration is about And it's just such a simplistic kind of lyrical thing But you have this great guitar Hello, it's Rachel. You have anything you want to share? What's your favorite track from Trans-Atlanticism?

We can ask you tomorrow after you watch it live. That's okay. Well, still be...no, it's 20 years old. That's why they're touring right now. That's not embarrassing. She'll probably come back five minutes to give her side of the story. But title of registration, obviously a very iconic guitar opening, right? This is just quality stuff.

I mean, it is just peak bendgibber could write a song about anything and then find music to just make it sound like an amazing song. And then you take a step back and you look at the lyrics and like, what did I just listen to? And but it's like, it's magic, how he does it. And that's why Deathcap is just, I don't know any other bands like that who can just find like a Super mundane thing

How many other songs are titled title and registration right this just like it's not a thing it's crazy Okay, gosh, we're into the top three here. I Okay, gosh, we're into the top three here. I also mentioned, you know, I kind of already said this, but I would love if, hey, if you're a death cab head out there, you can definitely email us and let us know what you liked, what you didn't like, and give us sort of your own opinions. If you wanna do that, you can let us know,

hey, this sucked or this was awesome. Doesn't really matter to me either way. So go ahead and just let us know. Let's give me one second here. Got sidetracked by a notification on my phone. Number three, so we're down to three tracks left here and we still have one more trivia question. It was really this at this point.

I mean, hey, we've already ranked title and registration. Once you've sort of crossed that Rubicon, R-U-B-I-C-O-N, there's really no more place to go. It's not like, oh yeah, this one is definitely better than title and registration, right? There are no songs that are better than title and registration. At this point, it was really just a gut thing,

like what was I feeling at that point in time. I'm putting a lack of color, the closing track three. It's such a beautiful song. It's basically just been a guitar and some backing vocals. And again, it's about like how the eye works essentially, seeing things upside down, the cornea flips on, right? The iris, whatever it is, the pupil in it, but it's such a beautiful song.

Just, I have this great way to summarize this whole album. The lyrics are kinda, what the heck, but the metaphors he makes are just timeless. And that's why this album is so amazing, because he just hit like 11 home runs essentially. So a lack of color, great song, fun to play in the guitar, I miss my guitar a little bit,

I kind of wish I still had it. The good news is they're not that hard to come by. One day when you have a little bit more space, I will bring the guitar back. I will get another one. Okay, number two, maybe another hot take. I think our first hot take was putting sound of settling at eight, but here's my other hot take. Number two, transit lenses. Okay, it is probably outside of I will follow you into the dark. It's probably the song that like the general public knows the most because it's just so anthemic like I don't know champagne supernova or something by oasis where it's just like this big long like crescendo like it just goes hard. like Crescendo, it could just go hard. So the title track, right? I don't need to sit here and say why this song is so great.

It's just amazing. Just the piano at the start, even on the album version, I love this, it was kind of like echoing drums in the background. And it's just, I don't know, it's beautiful. Seeing it live is gonna be awesome. I've seen the live before, but the fact that you now could see it in the context of like the album was built around this as a concept, I think is going to be really neat.

So I'm excited for that. The number one song is the song that leads into trans-Atlanticism, which is one of my favorite parts about how the two songs are kind of connected. That's why I hate when you just listen to like this number one song without the number two song that I just drank transatlanticism. It stops kind of in the middle and it really pisses me off. What's just happened when I was in the shower? I took a shower, I listened to this number one song, Tiny Vessels, and was just like on my YouTube, weighing in a prayer, maybe the YouTube is smart enough

to transition tiny vessels into transatlanticism as it's intended to be, and they weren't. They played like Ron Canoli, gospel music, which I will never be upset about. It's just not, there's a big difference between Ron Canoli, Ancient of Days, and Ben Gibber, St. John's Atlantisism, right? Tiny vessels, maybe a hot take, but it is like the most angsty sad boy, almost beyond,

not even sad boy, but just like rude, spurned lover kind of. This was like Kinsugi before Kinsugi was a thing 10 years later. Tiny vessels is Ben Gibber just at his absolute nasty as he does not pull punches. If you never looked at the lyrics to this song, it's kind of shocking just like how hard he goes on this song. And almost I always kind of associate XBO86 and tiny vessels together in my head because they both have kind of those middle sections two thirds of the way through the songs they just go hard on everything all together the power chords the drums and the bass and that's just not a normal death cab thing they only do it in a couple songs in their entire

especially after Trans-Atlanticism they don't do it that much you see that a little bit more in their earlier music music music as they were more punk influenced but not much after 2005 plans or so but you still get it from tiny vessels it's angsty it is parts of transatlanticism are very like sweet and romantic and then parts are it parts of it are just like sad depressing angry sound of settling right tiny vessels and I don't know to me just give me that energy I love that I don't think I've ever seen tiny vessels live and I get to see it tomorrow so I'm very excited that was our power ranking 11 through 1 death of an interior decorator, 10 lightness, nine, the new year,

eight sound of settling, seven, xpo86, six passengers seat five, we look like giants, four title and registration, three, a lack of color, two transatlanticism and number one on this list, tiny vessels. There you go. Our last trivia question of today's show references spanning the Atlantic, Transatlantic,

Sism. So if you follow Death Cab at all, Chris Walla, one of the founding members of the band, left right after they recorded Kinsugi, which is probably right about when I started to get really serious about Death Cab about eight years ago, something like that. When I like, I listened to them in high school because my brother, Jack, friend of the brother of the show, had CD, is probably like a full trans-Atlanticism CD in his car, I don't even know, but I knew of them, I listened to them,

but it wasn't until I saw them at Summer Fest when I was in college when I was really like, oh my gosh Like I'm gonna be a fan of this band like listen to them and YouTube that sort of thing But Chris Walla left which is a whole other episode and tough to stomach and Hard for the band, but he moved across the Atlantic and he now lives in the city of Trondheim in this European country. So where does Chris Walla live now? It's not Seattle, it's not Bellingham, it's not Los Angeles, it's all the way across the pond at Trondheim, TR, O-N-D, H-E-I-M, Trondheim. Trondheim. Dates back to the 11th century per Wikipedia.

Gothic Nidaros, Cathedral features in... Gothic Nidaros, like Nidaran male female. Nidaros Cathedral features an Ornate rose window in a detailed west facade, nearby the Archbishop's Palace Museum, houses archaeological fine-eating sculptures, including gargoyles, spook, removed from the cathedral. Oh, well why were they removed? Ring the R-I-N-G-V-E museum is a music museum in a former

manor house and barn. Of course, a former manor house and barn. Okay, we got to wrap this up. Trondheim is in Norway. There you go. So that was our power ranking of Trans-N-Land-Assystem Tracks or three trivia questions or shout-out to our sponsors. Did it go longer than I wanted it to? Yes, but I enjoyed it. It was fun. And I think if you, no deathcap for QD at all,

or if you want to get into them, hopefully you'll enjoy it too. If you get the chance, you can go see them on their give up tour. It is, they play through two albums, one death cap, transatlanticism, and one postal service, the only postal service album, give up. And then they come out together as a band at the end and play like two songs in Unison together.

So seeing them tomorrow at Rye Fest, they're actually splitting up their sets. They'll do one and then an hour break and then the other. And in between the Queens of the Stone Age, who I know one song from, but it's like, it's gonna be right there and maybe I'll become a big queenhead. I don't know. Guys, that's what I got for you. No death cat be closes out. It'll be a regular closer for you.

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