Narrow Stairs was such an underrated album. Personally one of my favorites that doesn't get the love it deserves. It's home to such greats like, Cath..., No Sunlight, Talking Bird, Grapevine Fires, and I Will Possess Your Heart. Such an amazing album by an even more amazing band. Can't wait to see you guys live and can't wait for the next album!
It’s my favorite Death Cab album, you forgot some deep cuts like You Can Do Better Than Me, Pity and Fear, The Ice is Getting Thinner and Your New Twin Size Bed the whole album is amazing!
I'd go so far as to say I don't understand why it's not considered their best album. You check them on Spotify and only "I Will Possess Your Heart" shows up in the top 10. I listen to the other 9 and feel nothing... none of their other music affects me at all, but this album is Death Cab at perfection. It's like the general public loves Death Cab in a way that's entirely different from how I love them. I appreciate a fellow Narrow Stair lover for sure...
One thing i love about ben gibbard (and you can see this in postal service videos) is he loves throwing guitars on the ground and jumping behind whatever other instrument needs to be played
such an epic live show/collection of songs! this band has such a dynamic, everything is perfectly is place and somewhat chaotic all at the same time, so in love with narrow stairs and this is why
Bixby Canyon Bridge was the last good song I wish I had heard them play live. From spring of 2002 through 2007 I went and saw them a good half dozen times and they always sounded so much better live. I remember leaving an early concert in 2002 and throwing on Pictures in an Exhibition and lamenting how *bad* it sounded in comparison to the live version I had just heard. Ah well. Life goes on.
I used to listen to this version of the Bixby Canyon Bridge but on another UA-cam video... I had intended to write the following at the time but held off because I wanted to make sure I would follow through with it... I did... the poem I wrote about the experience afterward still bleeds through my vision and ears when I hear this song... without much further dramatic adieu: "This was, for me, the last DCFC song I really got into. Sadly, I never saw them perform this song and I regret that. I moved on from them after that, going about my life. I met my wife, fell in love, married her, and ultimately she divorced me. It's coming up on Thanksgiving 2017 and I'm going to visit my parents-in-law in Sacramento, CA, and this song came to me. "Why not go to the Bixby Canyon Bridge?" I thought, then the followup thought was, "What if I throw my wedding band from the Bixby Canyon bridge while jamming to this version of the song?" It's only a few hours from there. The song speaks so completely to where I am at this stage of my life. Wanting to stay in the past of what is gone (or what I wanted) and being afraid to go forward into the unknown, seeing the world so asleep, and having all these expectations. I know the experience will be anticlimactic to what I want it to be in my mind. [Note: it wasn't: there were others there, milling about, doing the exact same thing I was doing. I watched the ring sing through the air and disappear into the morning surf...] I'll stand on the bridge looking at my left ring finger and debating if I should throw the ring that I just so recently had engraved on the inside with, "Forever yours, Suzanne." Tragic? Dramatic? Pathetic? All of them and none of them at the same time. Life is messy and nothing like I dreamed it to be."
Wow, I read this and instantly regretted the fact that I didn’t make the pilgrimage to do the same thing. I’m sorry for the love loss you experienced in your life. I’ve been there as well. Our reality almost never meets those expectations in our mind. I had so many visions of how my life would play out. It has felt like people I meet are asleep. 2020 has been a weird ride with a mixed bag of people being asleep and suddenly self aware. I noticed you posted this several years ago. I hope you found your forever. I can say life has led me on a much better road than my love loss years ago. It’s not always what I want it to be but it is what I need. That sense of knowing it’s where I need to be makes me feel content. I’m a hopeless romantic with the yearning for a Shakespearean love minus the tragedy which has been a regrettable part of my story.
@@peacelove6817 Very thought provoking response to what I had assumed would just be another file in my desperate attempt to distance myself from my past affection for this band but I always make my way back to DCFC and this song in particular. I, like you. am a hopeless romantic and unfortunately it seems that the former seems to trump the latter of such a title. But, for me the poetry that flows from such dire straits are often times worth the price of admission. To be caught up in the tempest, the emotions, the pure bliss of words fumbling, tumbling down arm, into bumbling fingers and spat upon the page in an orgy of expectation born of something far more desirous that can hardly be uttered. Yes, 2020 really did wake a lot of people up but in many ways it's already over the tipping point; the hope is that this self awareness pays off, shakes off the malaise and apathy and gets people thinking and questioning. I guess we'll see...
Thank you DCFC for the nostalgia you've brought me with this video. But please also post "Your Bruise" and "Brothers On a Hotel Bed" I love the intensity you all brought in this session.
Joey Rodriguez wasn’t this part of some tv special or something? I remember watching something like a documentary specifically on the band and this album but I can’t remember the name of it
Narrow Stairs was my first concert ever, and I cannot even begin to explain just how much I love this album. This and Plans will always hold such a special place in my heart for the role they played for me in High School. Thank you, Death Cab!
I saw them 5 days after this was taped at the Admiral Theatre in Bremerton. It ruled just like this video. My note at the time was that it was the 124th and best concert I'd seen.
I ended up here when looking for internal footage of the legendary Reciprocal Recording Studio (which is now called Hall of Justice). I'm not familiar with Death Cab for Cutie and was going to have just a little look at the studio. But in the end I watched the entire thing. So good.
I have the same question… I guess it’s doing a Rhodes type thing but I don’t know much about keyboards. I also just learned from this Cath session that Chris Walla used an Ibanez AD9 for that washy interlude sound.
Guys are pretty good. I didn't know there were actual musicians still making music these days. I'm old and don't get out much. It feels good to hear original music from a guitar rock band in this century.
I think you mean around 3:00? That's an EBow. Those things are awesome. I asked my dad what this was and he happened to have an old one and gave it to me. Amazing day that was.
@@mcride1677 from wikipedia: The EBow uses a pickup in an inductive string driver feedback circuit, including a sensor coil, driver coil, and amplifier, to induce forced string vibrations.
I've never seen a man adjust a mic more than Ben....and not just in this video. Every single time this man has a mic in front of him he has to fiddle with it.
![Death Cab for Cutie - Live 2018 [Full Set] [Live Performance] [Concert] [Complete Show]](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/SOCPpCV36JY/mqdefault.jpg)
Bixby canyon Bridge is one of the best songs imo
It's a shame they don't seem to play it much anymore
16 years has rocketed by. Such incredible music. Narrow Stairs was my soundtrack of 2008.
We old now.
@@powercage bonkers isn't it!
Mine too! Senior year of college, pulling all-nighters, the album on repeat in the background.
@ericfoster5267 amazing! For me it paired with new beginnings and important life lessons. Narrow Stairs is still my favourite album by DCFC.
I’ll say it until my dying day: THIS is peak Death Cab.
The can't peak higher but also they stayed up there.
Legend is 10 years later Ben is still adjusting that microphone
Saw him last july and yes, he was adjusting away.
So fitting...
Not only adjusting microphone but fucking with in ear monitors!
Grapevine fires... Everything's perfect, the drum shuffle, the organ waves, the choirs, the lyrics, the bridge... Great, great song.
2008, those old songs that made the soul meet the body.
When it's 2008 and you don't need Audiotree or KEXP because you have Walla in your Band
‘Nuff said.
*had
Still can't believe he left the band
His absence is felt so much. He really was the special sauce in the band. The albums without him are.......hmmmm....not great.
Yeah walla inserted layers of fucking erogenation that are missing from the stuff Ben has put out since
0:00 Bixby Canyon Bridge
5:31 Cath...
9:25 Grapevine Fires
13:29 I Will Possess Your Heart
Leonardo Cisija Thanx!
Leonardo Cisija 👍 thanks
Is that Grapevine Texas?
@@michaelpanzer3863 No, it’s about the grapevine fires in California
Narrow Stairs was such an underrated album. Personally one of my favorites that doesn't get the love it deserves. It's home to such greats like, Cath..., No Sunlight, Talking Bird, Grapevine Fires, and I Will Possess Your Heart. Such an amazing album by an even more amazing band. Can't wait to see you guys live and can't wait for the next album!
Agreed ... Cath is one those songs that will just hit you one day and have to listen to it right at the very moment.
It’s my favorite Death Cab album, you forgot some deep cuts like You Can Do Better Than Me, Pity and Fear, The Ice is Getting Thinner and Your New Twin Size Bed the whole album is amazing!
No Sunlight is such an underrated Death Cab song. So true, great album
Long Division is another classic with such a good bassline.
The album always takes me back 08 when I first saw the band live too!
I'd go so far as to say I don't understand why it's not considered their best album. You check them on Spotify and only "I Will Possess Your Heart" shows up in the top 10. I listen to the other 9 and feel nothing... none of their other music affects me at all, but this album is Death Cab at perfection. It's like the general public loves Death Cab in a way that's entirely different from how I love them. I appreciate a fellow Narrow Stair lover for sure...
This rules.
There are no rules.
Why are you here, captaaaaaain midnight?
Fancy seeing you here 😏.
@@SiCyrus to tell us what's up.
YES! This is an absolutely killer version of Bixby
I remember listening as a teen back in '08. Damn I feel old now.
I love how they post old stuff for nostalgia. Not a lot of artist do that. Very unique
Mystic Nighthawk agreed, Taking Back Sunday have been sweeping it under the rug for years
One thing i love about ben gibbard (and you can see this in postal service videos) is he loves throwing guitars on the ground and jumping behind whatever other instrument needs to be played
Absolute best version of I Will Possess Your Heart to sit back and smoke a joint to.....
Bixby is such a good jam. Nice live version
If you’re ever feeling depressed, just remember that you are never as sad and lonely as the 13 people that felt the need to downvote this video.
lol ...
Or 13 people have fat thumbs
Ķìĺĺèrs
😂
I don't trust anyone who doesn't love this shit.
Shoutout to all the videographers getting those angles! And syncing it PERFECTLY with the Music!! 📹
Miss you Chris
snowbullet stop I'm gonna cry
The greatest of all time.
There is an audible chasm without him.
Death Cab has saved my life so many times, thank you 🖤🖤
such an epic live show/collection of songs! this band has such a dynamic, everything is perfectly is place and somewhat chaotic all at the same time, so in love with narrow stairs and this is why
Holy crap I can't believe this was 10 years ago.
halffulltome I know right.....I remember not liking narrow stairs at first lul. Such a good record.
imagine this comment being 6 years ago :^D
@@zn8292 I’m old. 😭
@@ViaticalTree if that makes you sad, maybe try reframing ? wise, experienced, grown, etc :')
I've seen these all individually but didn't realize it existed as one singular performance. Thanks guys!!
agreen182 Yay! ( :
DCFC made me learn to apreciate live sessions with this one!
Bixby Canyon Bridge was the last good song I wish I had heard them play live. From spring of 2002 through 2007 I went and saw them a good half dozen times and they always sounded so much better live. I remember leaving an early concert in 2002 and throwing on Pictures in an Exhibition and lamenting how *bad* it sounded in comparison to the live version I had just heard. Ah well. Life goes on.
Been a minute since I listened to this album. Forgot just how good it is.
DCfC isn’t DCfC without Chris Walla.
I said what I said.
just been listening to Bixby Canyon Bridge a few times this week, fuck yes! :')
I used to listen to this version of the Bixby Canyon Bridge but on another UA-cam video... I had intended to write the following at the time but held off because I wanted to make sure I would follow through with it... I did... the poem I wrote about the experience afterward still bleeds through my vision and ears when I hear this song... without much further dramatic adieu: "This was, for me, the last DCFC song I really got into. Sadly, I never saw them perform this song and I regret that. I moved on from them after that, going about my life. I met my wife, fell in love, married her, and ultimately she divorced me. It's coming up on Thanksgiving 2017 and I'm going to visit my parents-in-law in Sacramento, CA, and this song came to me. "Why not go to the Bixby Canyon Bridge?" I thought, then the followup thought was, "What if I throw my wedding band from the Bixby Canyon bridge while jamming to this version of the song?" It's only a few hours from there. The song speaks so completely to where I am at this stage of my life. Wanting to stay in the past of what is gone (or what I wanted) and being afraid to go forward into the unknown, seeing the world so asleep, and having all these expectations. I know the experience will be anticlimactic to what I want it to be in my mind. [Note: it wasn't: there were others there, milling about, doing the exact same thing I was doing. I watched the ring sing through the air and disappear into the morning surf...] I'll stand on the bridge looking at my left ring finger and debating if I should throw the ring that I just so recently had engraved on the inside with, "Forever yours, Suzanne." Tragic? Dramatic? Pathetic? All of them and none of them at the same time. Life is messy and nothing like I dreamed it to be."
Wow, I read this and instantly regretted the fact that I didn’t make the pilgrimage to do the same thing. I’m sorry for the love loss you experienced in your life. I’ve been there as well. Our reality almost never meets those expectations in our mind. I had so many visions of how my life would play out. It has felt like people I meet are asleep. 2020 has been a weird ride with a mixed bag of people being asleep and suddenly self aware. I noticed you posted this several years ago. I hope you found your forever. I can say life has led me on a much better road than my love loss years ago. It’s not always what I want it to be but it is what I need. That sense of knowing it’s where I need to be makes me feel content. I’m a hopeless romantic with the yearning for a Shakespearean love minus the tragedy which has been a regrettable part of my story.
@@peacelove6817 Very thought provoking response to what I had assumed would just be another file in my desperate attempt to distance myself from my past affection for this band but I always make my way back to DCFC and this song in particular. I, like you. am a hopeless romantic and unfortunately it seems that the former seems to trump the latter of such a title. But, for me the poetry that flows from such dire straits are often times worth the price of admission. To be caught up in the tempest, the emotions, the pure bliss of words fumbling, tumbling down arm, into bumbling fingers and spat upon the page in an orgy of expectation born of something far more desirous that can hardly be uttered.
Yes, 2020 really did wake a lot of people up but in many ways it's already over the tipping point; the hope is that this self awareness pays off, shakes off the malaise and apathy and gets people thinking and questioning. I guess we'll see...
My day was shit, now it’s the best of my life
Thank you DCFC for the nostalgia you've brought me with this video. But please also post "Your Bruise" and "Brothers On a Hotel Bed" I love the intensity you all brought in this session.
Joey Rodriguez wasn’t this part of some tv special or something? I remember watching something like a documentary specifically on the band and this album but I can’t remember the name of it
Cath is such an amazing song
There is so much passion and style that goes into all of their music, after all these years, like an undying fire. I love it.
Brilliant band, beautiful performance, and brilliant album 😊🎶❤️😊🎶❤️
Narrow Stairs was my first concert ever, and I cannot even begin to explain just how much I love this album. This and Plans will always hold such a special place in my heart for the role they played for me in High School. Thank you, Death Cab!
Love these vids. Happy 10 Years!
This is a great set. Great band. Great album. Great video!
This is pure gold
I saw them 5 days after this was taped at the Admiral Theatre in Bremerton. It ruled just like this video. My note at the time was that it was the 124th and best concert I'd seen.
My absolute favorite version of IWPYH of all time... I love it
This is possibly one of my favourite things on UA-cam
What a killer band. This line-up is definitely my favorite.
I ended up here when looking for internal footage of the legendary Reciprocal Recording Studio (which is now called Hall of Justice). I'm not familiar with Death Cab for Cutie and was going to have just a little look at the studio. But in the end I watched the entire thing. So good.
Son una banda genial, amo sus canciones
Mariela Nava I love ur profile pic FTP is awesome
Some songs mean a lot in certain periods of life... "The silence it became so very clear that you have long ago dissapeared".
Where is the rest of the session?
Long Division
Brothers On A Hotel Bed
Your Bruise
Talking Bird
I recently found Brothers On a Hotel Bed -
ua-cam.com/video/EDDhfvvvnTs/v-deo.html
Two years late but here’s Your Bruise
ua-cam.com/video/4y1nBatIwjU/v-deo.html
This ended up in my recommended. Here is Talking Bird: ua-cam.com/video/TIIXXTqGCpg/v-deo.html
Long Division: ua-cam.com/video/jYnTqtHWCdw/v-deo.html
Edit: Better Quality Video
@@zachdanny2363 Thank you!
I love it, thanks for your music
Glad 2 see new vids!!
Needed this 🙏🏽
happy anniversary, good old times :)
Finally the whole vid 😃
Uploading this only 3 months ago makes me think the band is really missing Chris as much as the fans are.
Raw and so powerful. Songwriting and passion: Gibbard = Gord Downie (rip) highest praise I can give
True, but Chris leaving would be like if Rob and Paul both left the band after Fully Completely replaced by four generic musicians.
Death cab at their best.
10 years old! What an incredible album but jeez does time fly
I hope I can see them live someday. That is my dream. Their music means so much to me.
Seweeeeeet. Bixby Canyon is a good way to wake up in the morning, and Possess is a great way to start a commute.
Ben has such a next door boy voice But I really like it on their songs.
"And if their hearts were dying that fast they'd have done the same as you. And I'd have done the same as you."
Los amo es un placer que su música exista 💕✨❤
Hooray glad this has been re-uploaded better quality!
Does anyone know what kind of electric piano is being played? Wurlitzer?
I have the same question… I guess it’s doing a Rhodes type thing but I don’t know much about keyboards.
I also just learned from this Cath session that Chris Walla used an Ibanez AD9 for that washy interlude sound.
Grapevine Fires ❤️❤️❤️❤️
So nostalgic
Pierri Eduardo ikr
I'm pretty sure they played "Brothers on a Hotel Bed" too on this session
Legendary classic
From 3:35 to 4:45 is awesome. So much action!
Love this. Love it
Wonderfull!
Wait, where's Long Division & Brothers on a Hotel Bed? I thought they were part of the same session??
truuuuu
Yeah definitely some missing stuff here, I also noticed the lack of Brothers and Bruise..
That’s my favorite performance of Brothers ever.
good stuff
ê tempo bom que não volta... ns é foda.
No hay nada mas perfecto.
Best
20years...
What a Classic I hope all wondering youtube ears stumble across this
Toute ma jeunesse
Guys are pretty good. I didn't know there were actual musicians still making music these days. I'm old and don't get out much. It feels good to hear original music from a guitar rock band in this century.
so sick
If I’m not mistaken, Chris has a think neck on his guitar(s). Explains the range he gets.
I love fatty Ben, he looks so hot now, doesn't even look like the same person
ana the camera adds 20lbs but the 100Ks take them off
Does anyone know what that thing on Ben's guitar is? I'm really curious
Mystic Nighthawk the capo..?
I think you mean around 3:00? That's an EBow. Those things are awesome. I asked my dad what this was and he happened to have an old one and gave it to me. Amazing day that was.
midkay what does it do?
@@mcride1677 from wikipedia: The EBow uses a pickup in an inductive string driver feedback circuit, including a sensor coil, driver coil, and amplifier, to induce forced string vibrations.
There's a longer version of this video without edits.....amnyone got it?
Pretty convinced that cath… is the prettiest sounding song you can play on guitar.
mniss ya
*goosebumps* 👍🔥
Wait.. 04/13 they really are out of this world¡!
13:45 your welcome guys 🙏🏻
Drums - Rob Corddry
Guitar/Keys - Jack McBrayer
Vocals - Clark Duke
Bass - Zach Galifianakis
son capaces de detener el tiempo
son sin tiempo, eternos
I've never seen a man adjust a mic more than Ben....and not just in this video. Every single time this man has a mic in front of him he has to fiddle with it.
*this is awesome but what is LP9 called*
It's a album and it's called narrow stairs, it's from September 2008
Codes and keys was a great comeback, but I really do miss Chris walla
I hope he makes a special appearance on this transatlanticism tour when I see them
Happy tenth anniversary narrow stairs
taken me back to 2008, id fix everything
Same here.
CHRIS :'(((((((((
3 people who disliked this are deaf
Narrow Stairs is the shit.
I'm here Duche baggzzz
chubby Gibbard is BEST GIBBARD!
8:42 i see you there on the mirror, head on the door. how you doin?