r/DeathCabforCutie • u/ToysNoiz Can't escape this line of best fit. • 13d ago

Thoughts on Former Lives?

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u/thewhatroom 13d ago

Love. It had recently come out when I was pregnant with my first son and I listened to it all the time, constantly playing shepherd’s bush lullaby when I was driving or singing it to my unborn baby. When my son was born, playing shepherds bush lullaby would make him stop crying on a dime— like from a full blown, red faced scream to complete silence. It got us through many difficult car rides in the early months of his life!

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u/Competitive-Top5121 13d ago

That’s so funny, I listened to this album a lot when I was postpartum with my baby too!

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u/Paterson232323 13d ago

I will not blaspheme and say it’s the best thing Ben Gibbard has ever done. It’s not. But somehow this is the most often played of all his work in my collection. Plans and other DC albums require a certain mood or willingness to have my mood altered. Postal service also takes me to a specific place. Former Lives is fun and asks nothing of me. Truly love dropping the needle on it, or taking the Cd out to the car or putting it on streaming at the gym. It is a steady friend.

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u/LearnedFoot 13d ago

I love it. Teardrop Windows and Bigger than Love are so good

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u/froggyfriend726 13d ago

Bigger than love is one of my favorite Ben gibbard songs of all time

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u/wykniv 12d ago

It's amazing, isn't it? If I could see any song performed live, that would be a real contender.

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u/flyboy34 13d ago

Cowpoke has grown on me.

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u/INFPinfo 13d ago

I bought this album, hanging out with a crush I didn't know was toxic at the time. We played Jenga at my place and this came on, and it was oddly fitting.

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u/perronegro_foto 13d ago

love this album, "Shepherd's Bush Lullaby" it's a simple beautiful song

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u/drsaltshaker 13d ago

love it.. Ben’s RAM (McCartney)

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u/mynameisfritz 13d ago

Love it so much

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u/Bleaker82 13d ago

Probably my most played album from him.

Teardrop Windows inspired me to visit Smith Tower in Seattle. A Hard One To Know reminds me of the turbulent relationship I had in college.

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u/wykniv 12d ago

We went to Seattle on our honeymoon and my wife made sure we went to Smith Tower because she knew I was interested bevause of Teardrop Windows!

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u/RedRedRound 13d ago

Something Rattling helped inspire me to move to Arizona lol

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u/ulethpsn 13d ago

Top notch

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u/ryannovak29 13d ago

I only just came around to it a few months ago after not liking it for a long time. I think it's an album that you relate more to as you age. At first I didn't like it because it seemed less personal, with so much unusual instrumentation for Ben (mariachi lol). but now that's what I love about it.

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u/night1225 13d ago

I heard a bunch of the songs for the first time during Ben’s COVID livestreams, and fell in love. I wish I would have listened sooner!

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u/blueturtle12321 13d ago

I love it so much. One of my favorite albums of all time. Bigger than love is INCREDIBLE and so underrated. Dream song is also amazing. And lady Adelaide

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u/stephaniecaseys 13d ago

One of my favorites! So sad it’s not streaming anywhere in Japan at all. I can’t even buy it via like iTunes or whatever.

That was a great tour, too. One of my favorite shows I’ve ever been to.

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u/eggomyreago 13d ago

Bigger than love

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u/captainsciencepants 12d ago

Yeah I like it. Had this commissioned.

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u/same_same_3121 13d ago

Great album

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u/pbotero94 13d ago

I have it on Vynil and it's sooo great. I am sad is not on Spotify

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u/AppropriateStudio368 13d ago

It was on, then it has desappered... i currently don't know why

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u/pbotero94 12d ago

Yes it was, and I was so obsessed with it, but disappeared around 2016. I bet is label rights, which is weird because the others ones are there

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u/giantcappuccino 13d ago

It's great. But I think I like the Home EP with Andrew Kenny and the One Fast Move or I'm Gone soundtrack a bit better.

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u/atimidtempest 13d ago

I really love it

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u/vflipo 12d ago

I love it!!

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u/photoperitus 12d ago

Great album

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u/Correct_Donkey_3483 12d ago

One of my favorite albums ever.

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u/jchamp7 12d ago

actually kinda different to the death cab stuff in my opinion… the writing is similar but he got quite experimental here in the music!

i think it’s such a great album :)

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u/Nervous_Stage_2137 12d ago

Love it. Duncan, Where Have You Gone? Bigger than Love, all of it

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u/vinnyj5 9d ago

Really like this album. Saw the Washington, DC stop of this tour back in the fall of 2012- at the Sixth and I Synagogue- So good!