{"id":458,"date":"2008-05-14T20:25:24","date_gmt":"2008-05-15T03:25:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.danmarx.org\/blog\/?p=458"},"modified":"2022-07-02T16:53:03","modified_gmt":"2022-07-02T23:53:03","slug":"death-cabs-narrow-stairs-will-grow-on-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.danmarx.org\/blog\/death-cabs-narrow-stairs-will-grow-on-you\/","title":{"rendered":"Death Cab&#8217;s <em>Narrow Stairs<\/em> Will Possess Your Heart"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.danmarx.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/05\/narrowstairs.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.danmarx.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/05\/narrowstairs_small.jpg?resize=475%2C376&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" title=\"narrowstairs_small\" width=\"475\" height=\"376\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-459\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.danmarx.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/05\/narrowstairs_small.jpg?w=475&amp;ssl=1 475w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.danmarx.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/05\/narrowstairs_small.jpg?resize=300%2C237&amp;ssl=1 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 475px) 100vw, 475px\" \/><\/a>The much anticipated new Death Cab For Cutie CD <em>Narrow Stairs<\/em> was released yesterday.  My wife grabbed a copy from Target for only $9.98.  My first reaction is that this is a great overall album.  After a couple more listens, I&#8217;m beginning to think this is an awesome album.  And with each listen, it seems to get better and better.  I&#8217;m resisting the temptation to start figuring out how to play each song.  There&#8217;s something mysterious and enjoyable about listening to a new song and just taking in the melodies, the chords, and the riffs, and not being so obsessed with <em>how<\/em> it&#8217;s played.  I&#8217;m sometimes let down to discover that a song I always thought sounded so cool, so unique, was actually just the same three chords found in every other song.  Besides, there isn&#8217;t just one all-guitar\/piano song that really stands out as a great figure-out-and-play-along song, such as Follow You Into the Dark from Plans or Passenger Seat.  The guitar is bit more distorted and bit more raw.  And aside from a few notes in I Will Possess Your Heart, I haven&#8217;t heard much piano in there either.<\/p>\n<p>But I won&#8217;t attempt to write an actual review, I never seem to be able to write how music sounds to me into plain old words.  But so far I really enjoy it, and the more I listen to it, the more it grows on me.  I&#8217;m looking forward to spending some time listening to it, and maybe I will get around to figuring out a song or two.  We were up watching The Late Show and just before turning it off to go to bed, Letterman announces that the musical guest would be DCFC.  So I recorded it and cut an .mp3 of it that you can download here.  My dumb DVR cut off the last 30 seconds, but I got most of the whole song.  I figure someone else will put the whole thing up on YouTube, but until then, you can at least throw this shorter, live version on your iPod.<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.danmarx.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/05\/iwillposseslateshowDCFC.mp3\"><br \/>\nI Will Possess Your Heart &#8211; The Late Show with David Letterman (mp3, 3.8mb)<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The much anticipated new Death Cab For Cutie CD Narrow Stairs was released yesterday. My wife grabbed a copy from Target for only $9.98. My first reaction is that this is a great overall album. 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