Chances of Death Cab becoming the Modest Mouse of 2005?

i wouldn't use the word "thoughts."

heh.

hmmm...

"Does anyone have anything to say about this?"

There, that's much more efficient and easy to understand.

I think Transatlanticism was that album already! "The Sound of Settling" wasn't quite as popular as "Float On," but it did get some airplay on forward-thinking rock stations (especially those new "indie" stations), was played on MTV, etc. (And it sounds more like an anthem than anything on Plans.)

What's confusing is that I felt like Moon and Antarctica --> Good News for People Who Love Bad News felt like a sudden leap into public consciousness, despite the fact that both albums were on a major label. Whereas I feel like Transatlanticism --> Plans doesn't represent a significant rise in popularity, even though the former album was on Barsuk and the new one on Atlantic. The O.C. had already made plenty of people aware of DCFC at least a year and a half ago.

chances of me caring? 0

I'm a noted Death Cab/Ben Gibbard detractor, but if they release "Crooked Teeth" as a single and get it played in the right places, it could rival "Float On." It's a song I hate to love.

I think that although plenty of people were aware of them when Transatlanticism came out, there's been a noticeable increase in their press coverage. I happened to work at a store on the release dates for both Transatlanticism and Plans. For the former, about 3 people bought it, they weren't on any magazines, there were no phone calls about it, and so on. For Plans, it sold about 20 copies, they were on the cover of Spin and Under the Radar, people were calling to make sure we had it, one girl bought Taking Back Sunday, Plans, and complained that we didn't have the Used, all at the same time.

By the way, it was a little weird that they were on the cover of Under the Radar, because the guitar player writes a little column for them at the beginning of each issue.

theyre in the latest issue of Time

If by "the Modest Mouse of" you mean slipping from indie-hero status to mainstream also-rans and then to nobody cares, I think DC will escape such a fate.

I liked the last modest mouse even though I do prefer lonesome crooked west. But im not keen at all on the new DCFC even tho ive liked a lot of what they released until now. Maybe it will grow on me but im all meh on it while i played the MM all the time and I even bought it.

i like the new DCFC but it indeed seems to lack some real catchy tunes.

is there a "featuring members of the Postal Service" sticker on the cd?

Thanks to my friends over at the Obner music board for this info:

Here's the Billboard blurb :

One time indie kingpin Death Cab For Cutie reaches the highest chart spot of its career with its major-label debut, "Plans." Featuring the modern rock airplay single "Soul Meets Body," the Atlantic album debuts at No. 4 on sales of 90,000 copies. It's a huge leap from the band's 2003 Barsuk set "Transatlanticism," which started with just 13,000 at No. 97 before falling off the chart two weeks later.

"is there a "featuring members of the Postal Service" sticker on the cd? "

hahahahahaha

as for the original question, the answer is no.

"lonesome crooked west"

is this the lost pavement album?!!!
GLORY WON'T FLOOR ME!!!!

Indie-type rock is much more popular now than when Moon & Antartica came out, don't you think?

hahaha why did I write "crooked" . I really shouldnt post when im up late.
I was tired! Damn I wish I could edit my posts.

I think I was listening to pavement at the time actually.

"Float On" was essentially that Sublime song about not caring when your dog runs away, therefore, mass appeal. Plus corny carnival-ass old timey video, and that's always solid gold see e.g. "Tonight"

No such song or visual will come from the Death Cab, indeed it's more hand wringing and the death and the oh and the ooh woe is me. I predict mostly embarrassing Dashboard Confessional-type INTENSITY of preference for the band, but no mass breakthrough.

Both bands will have a fat frontman with a neckbeard though. They'll share that.

also with respect to can't-missness of carnival-ass old timey video see "take me out." That would've been maybe a better example.