One of the handful of reasons I wanted to start a widely syndicated, well regarded and generally impromptu kegger party of a blog was to have an outlet for the occasional bootleg I tend to maneuver. Frequently I team up with my partner RareMatthew on these endeavors. . .thus making the original title of this post, “Ben Gibbard is having my love child and it’s Steve Perry’s fault” seem self-centered. Actually I did the Journey boot myself but RareMatthew was very influential on the Death Cab mix and its alternate version.
Journey is a very hate or love band, but if you haven’t stopped believing and don’t own the hits by now - get them - you’ll thank me upon relistening to the opening riff to “Who’s Crying Now” or Perry’s sinewy tenor on “Lights”, ’nuff said.
Playfel vs Journey - Streetlight People
As far as Death Cab goes, I wish I could play them up more but I don’t own the album “Soul Meets Body” is from or its predecessor. “The O.C.” darlings that they are, I recall a *very trippy* video and reasonably well constructed song for the follow up single to the point where I was singing along with it in my car at one point but I can’t remember the damn song is called at the moment. Regardless, I love Gibbard’s voice and his lyrics generally tend to be evocative such a way that as Cleveland from Family Guy might say, “Oh, Ben, that tickles me in a way, that if Loretta tickled me in that way, I’d say, Oh yea… that’s nice … that’s the spot.”
Playfel & RareMatthew vs Death Cab for Cutie - Soul Meets Body (Hard)
Playfel & RareMatthew vs Death Cab for Cutie - Soul Meets Body (Soft)
So yeah, Ben Gib rah rah rah, his guest vocals on Jenny Lewis‘ cover of “Handle Me with Care” are super sweet and to really dig up some lovely old skeletons, listen to his My Bloody Valentinesque ode with the precursor to Postal Service known as DNTEL on the single “(This is) The Dream of Evan and Chan”. Oh, tickle me Ben:
“He then played every song from nineteen ninety three.
The crowd applauded as he curtsied bashfully.”
Great wikipedia entry on this song I just dug up, I didn’t realize the Cat Power/Final Fantasy portents so evocatively spelled out in “Evan and Chan”. By the way, if you get the single, the Barbara Morganstern and Superpitcher mixes are NOT TO BE MISSED. Utterly classic.
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