Plans
by Death Cab For Cutie

Album
Plans by Death Cab For Cutie
Year: 2005
Release date: 2005-08-29
Overall rank: 798th   Overall chart history
Average Rating: 
76/100 (from 530 votes)
  Ratings distribution   Average rating history
Accolades:
Award Top 20 albums of 2005 (12th)
Award Top albums of of the 2000s (128th)
Award Top 1,000 albums of all time (798th)

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Death Cab For Cutie bestography

Plans is ranked 2nd best out of 17 albums by Death Cab For Cutie on BestEverAlbums.com.

The best album by Death Cab For Cutie is Transatlanticism which is ranked number 450 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 3,737.

Death Cab For Cutie album bestography « Higher ranked (450th)
Transatlanticism This album (798th)
Plans Lower ranked (1,684th) »
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Plans track list

  Track ratings The tracks on this album have an average rating of 83 out of 100 (all tracks have been rated).

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Marching Bands Of Manhattan
Average Rating: 84 (103 votes)Comments: View 2
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Soul Meets Body
Average Rating: 87 (144 votes)Comments: View 2
3.
Summer Skin
Average Rating: 82 (89 votes)Comments: View 1
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Different Names For The Same Thing
Average Rating: 80 (86 votes)Comments: View 1
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I Will Follow You Into The Dark
Average Rating: 88 (168 votes)Comments: View 6
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Your Heart Is An Empty Room
Average Rating: 81 (88 votes)Comments: View 1
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Someday You Will Be Loved
Average Rating: 78 (87 votes)Comments: View 1
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Crooked Teeth
Average Rating: 86 (109 votes)Comments: View 1
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What Sarah Said
Average Rating: 83 (93 votes)Comments: View 4
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Brothers On A Hotel Bed
Average Rating: 82 (87 votes)Comments: View 1
11.
Stable Song
Average Rating: 76 (81 votes)Comments: View 1

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Plans rankings

Plans rankings summary
Overall rank: 798th | 2000s rank: 128th | 2005 rank: 12th  Overall chart history
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76/100 (from 530 votes)
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 !		08/27/2026 13:12 Dalcio  Ratings distribution  29278/100
 
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From BestEverAlbums 09/01/2026 16:00 in Monthly overall chart movements
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From 09/14/2023 00:08 | #299112 | TOP COMMENT Help Vote up your preferred comments and the comments with the most votes will be flagged.
I will always love this album, despite how disjointed it is. I don't know. Something about it just doesn't flow. Which is weird, because almost every individual track is excellent. Still, I don't mind a glossier, bigger-sounding Death Cab. The sheen of a major label suits them just fine. If the songwriting is a step down, it's not a big one. And at the end of the day, this is still one of my favorite records and one of the most formative discoveries of my lifetime. (Edited)
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45/100
From 02/28/2019 21:17 | #232788
I'm not sure why, but I just find this kind of music incredibly depressing and sad. Not in a good 'I will learn something from this sadness way', it just sounds like music they play when someone dies on a TV show to me. Not all songs on this album are like that, but a lot of them are.
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95/100
From 09/11/2018 13:45 | #220891
Best album by DCFC. 9+/10. (Edited)
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85/100
From 08/04/2018 17:48 | #219217 | TOP COMMENT Help Vote up your preferred comments and the comments with the most votes will be flagged.
This album contains a lot of my favorite DCFC songs:
Marching Bands Of Manhattan
Soul Meets Body
Summer Skin
Different Names For The Same Thing
What Sarah Said
Brothers On A Hotel Bed

All those hits force me to rate this album high. However, I don't think it is their more cohesive album. Narrow Stairs and The Photo Album sound more like great albums to me, even though they might have a few less hit songs. Plans is great because many songs in it are great, as those other two are just great albums because of how you can listen to them as a whole and feel a sense of continuity and greatness.

That being said, I love Plans and "What Sarah Said" has to be one of the most touching song I ever heard, I can hardly listen to this song without crying even after all those listens.
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75/100
From 04/07/2018 07:34 | #212442
I do like me a nice slice of Indy Pop yet somehow the D.C.F.C catalogue had completely passed me by ...until now

'Plans' is the rather excellent major label debut for the band and bursts with sparkling melodies and infectious hooks from beginning to end

The absolute high point for me was "Crooked Teeth" , followed by the other 2 album singles "Soul Meets Body" and "I Will Follow You Into The Dark"

I'm so glad I've connected with D.C.F.C and 'Plans' , I'll definitely be digging deep into their remaining albums

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