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EmaleeMae
03/03/09, 08:04 AM
Choose which Album you think is their best.
ihatecayte
03/03/09, 09:32 AM
transatlanticism and narrow stairs are close, but transatlanticism won my vote.
it's just such a solid fucking album.
-ben
03/03/09, 10:24 AM
Photo Album, just because I got my first handjob whilst it was on :)
dpetty21
03/03/09, 12:17 PM
Photo Album, just because I got my first handjob whilst it was on :)

Haha then you made the right choice:)

I voted Trans because it is amazing. Also because it brings back memories of the love of my life(although she's dumped me and I now can't listen to it without being pissed haha).
circatbs
03/03/09, 01:15 PM
Trans
Cuddleworthy
03/03/09, 01:31 PM
We Have the Facts
theguy77
03/03/09, 01:43 PM
come on. trans is CLEARLY the best.
EmaleeMae
03/04/09, 06:55 AM
My personal choice was Narrow Stairs, only because my absolute favourite song byDCFC is Cath.
But, right behind Narrow Stairs would definitely be Transatlanticism and Photobooth.
Jeremy Aaron
03/04/09, 07:58 AM
I know everyone goes for Transatlanticism, but I'm all about Narrow Stairs.
fran.182
03/04/09, 08:29 AM
Plans!
juliab3291
03/04/09, 10:37 AM
trans, followed by we have the facts
hf57
03/04/09, 12:47 PM
transatlanticism. just barely beats plans though.
jster2000
03/04/09, 07:46 PM
Transatlanticism all the way
Plans is somewhat close though
it just can't compare
It doesn't have a song that comes close to "We looked like Giants" or "Transatlanticism"
EmaleeMae
03/05/09, 07:00 AM
I know everyone goes for Transatlanticism, but I'm all about Narrow Stairs.
I agree completely.
batmannj
03/05/09, 07:15 AM
Narrow Stairs for me because it is the one that got me into them.
Troggy
03/05/09, 07:43 AM
come on. trans is CLEARLY the best.

I would have thought this poll is completely unnecessary as well but people are actually voting for some of the other records :shrug:
ship of fools
03/05/09, 09:47 AM
tans>plans>>>>>>>everything elsle
Everiggs
03/05/09, 01:47 PM
Trans, just because I got into The Postal Service at the same time and Ben Gibbard became a staple in my life for the next few years.
EmaleeMae
03/06/09, 06:39 AM
Trans, just because I got into The Postal Service at the same time and Ben Gibbard became a staple in my life for the next few years.
The first album I heard Of DCFC's was Trans.
And after that, I searched for more.
And The Postal Service came up,
I was amazed.
So, I continued my search for more of Ben Gibbard's work.
IceAge/HeatWave
03/06/09, 03:52 PM
narrow stairs for me, with photo album close behind.
TheZeroKid
03/06/09, 04:42 PM
I have the facts...and I'm voting Transatlanticism
just.Starla.
03/07/09, 12:14 PM
Plans because it was the album that got me to like them.
Neo Cassady
03/08/09, 09:47 AM
Plans. And Directions.
SeanEBoy2686
03/08/09, 11:51 AM
their three most recent were all great... but i like Plans the most
tonyC4L
03/09/09, 02:23 AM
Translatlanticism is just a really solid, beautiful album.
MyNameIsRoss
03/09/09, 05:27 AM
tranz
VIVALAMATT
03/09/09, 11:11 AM
Transatlanticism, then Stairs, then Plans
KyleMcr
03/09/09, 12:29 PM
come on. trans is CLEARLY the best.

This.

We've Got The Facts and We're Voting Yes is fairly close though
drewziph
03/10/09, 07:14 PM
Narrow Stairs for me because it is the one that got me into them.

Where oni earth have you been the last decade? haha.
sumcorporate911
03/10/09, 08:01 PM
fuck all yall

forbidden love!
voncorn
03/10/09, 08:12 PM
Something About Airplanes > We Have The Facts And We're Voting Yes > Transatlanticism > The Photo Album > Plans > Narrow Stairs

They're all fucking good though, but that's the order I'd put them in if I had to.
theguy77
03/10/09, 09:24 PM
transatlanticism >> plans > something about airplanes > photo album >> narrow stairs >>>>>>>>>>>>>> we have the facts

the first five are actaully all really good though, plans/SAA/PA are so close their order is almost interchangable depending on my mood -- if i want to hear piano-led music that tugs the heartstrings its plans; if i want to hear something cute, modest, and catchy its photo album; if i want to hear something quirky and different from everything else i listen to, its SAA.
FUCKDIRTYWIPES
03/10/09, 11:14 PM
trans...with the photo album very close
FUCKDIRTYWIPES
03/10/09, 11:14 PM
transatlanticism >> plans > something about airplanes > photo album >> narrow stairs >>>>>>>>>>>>>> we have the facts

the first five are actaully all really good though, plans/SAA/PA are so close their order is almost interchangable depending on my mood -- if i want to hear piano-led music that tugs the heartstrings its plans; if i want to hear something cute, modest, and catchy its photo album; if i want to hear something quirky and different from everything else i listen to, its SAA.
nice avatar, one of my favs of all time.
batmannj
03/11/09, 06:50 AM
Where oni earth have you been the last decade? haha.
lol unfortunately, I spent half my years in high school believing that the only place you could discover new music was the radio. Obviously I was sadly mistaken, and I moved on to bigger and better things haha.
Cody Nelson
03/11/09, 06:59 AM
I gotta go with plans. Trans is a great record, but some of the songs on Plans just hit me way differently, and I learned to love it more.
Say Nothing
03/11/09, 10:54 AM
Very difficult poll but I went Plans
theguy77
03/11/09, 01:07 PM
nice avatar, one of my favs of all time.

oh hell to the yes, in my opinion, based on the music ive heard, a pop/rock album has not been more well written or well-produced since abbey road, even if it is more psychedelic pop than anything. flaming lips are ridiculously good at what they do.
FUCKDIRTYWIPES
03/11/09, 11:45 PM
oh hell to the yes, in my opinion, based on the music ive heard, a pop/rock album has not been more well written or well-produced since abbey road, even if it is more psychedelic pop than anything. flaming lips are ridiculously good at what they do.
100% agree.
Cuddleworthy
03/12/09, 01:57 AM
trans is clearly fucking awful
Keagan Ilvonen
03/12/09, 04:46 AM
Trans
lesto17
03/13/09, 09:52 PM
Plans. Easily.
BigAl
03/14/09, 11:05 AM
I've gotta go with plans.
RonStoppable
03/16/09, 10:02 AM
Personally it's between Trans and Narrow Stairs, but I knew that's what everyone else would be voting for. So I went with Something About Airplanes, the first Death Cab I ever heard, even though it's spelled wrong.
EmaleeMae
03/17/09, 06:28 AM
Personally it's between Trans and Narrow Stairs, but I knew that's what everyone else would be voting for. So I went with Something About Airplanes, the first Death Cab I ever heard, even though it's spelled wrong.
Yeah, it's only spelled wrong because I can't go back and change it.
TheZeroKid
03/17/09, 08:08 AM
trans is clearly fucking awesome

Fix'd.
RonStoppable
03/17/09, 09:23 AM
Yeah, it's only spelled wrong because I can't go back and change it.
I'm not holding it against you.

Looking at the results, I wish I voted for Narrow Stairs. It deserves a lot more love.
Cuddleworthy
03/17/09, 03:42 PM
Fix'd.

you listen to terrible music so your opinion is null and void. thanks, come again.
xsinkshipsx
03/17/09, 03:50 PM
transatlantism obvs but I'm surprised the photo album isnt gettin that much love
EndSerenading
04/22/09, 07:40 PM
I knew these rankings would be very very different than how I rank them. If
I ranked just their full length studio albums it looks like this for me:

we have the facts and we're voting yes
photo album
something about airplanes
transatlanticism
plans
narrow stairs

As stated in another thread, I really enjoy them all except for NS which I enjoy some of the songs on but was disappointed in as a whole. So dont look at trans or plans so low and think I dislike them. I really like those albums.

I think the biggest difference in my list versus some other peoples' lists here is age I suppose. I picked up my first death cab album *10 years ago.* when a friend burned me "something about airplanes" and "you can play these songs with chords." And I say that not because it makes me a bigger better fan than any of you or something silly like that (because it does NOT so lets get that straight since some people do try to spin age that way and I don't want my post to be taken like that) but because their albums that affected me the most were the ones that I was listening to around the age that some of you are now or were when trans came out. (if that makes any sense).

i distinctly remember going to the record store in Charlotte to pick up "we have the facts and we're voting yes" the day it came out and I was about 16 (and had actually just met the girl recently at that time that I am marrying this year haha). So by the time trans came out for me, I had already been heavily impacted by chords, airplanes, facts, photo album, forbidden love, stability etc. so I can definitely understand why people love trans and plans so much, but for me, while I loved those albums, I had already been heavily impacted by dcfc and it's hard for a great band to make the same impact on me several albums into their career sometimes that their early albums did.

I dono maybe that all came out gibberish and no one understood what I meant haha.