Something About Airplanes
by Death Cab For Cutie

Something About Airplanes by Death Cab For Cutie
Year: 1998
Overall rank: 9,049th   
Average Rating: 
73/100 (from 95 votes)
     
Accolades:
Award Top albums of 1998 (143rd)
Award Top albums of the 1990s (1,467th)
Award Best albums of all time (9,049th)

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Death Cab For Cutie bestography

Something About Airplanes is ranked 10th best out of 16 albums by Death Cab For Cutie on BestEverAlbums.com.

The best album by Death Cab For Cutie is Transatlanticism which is ranked number 435 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 3,907.

Death Cab For Cutie album bestography « Higher ranked (7,220th)
Thank You For Today
This album (9,049th)
Something About Airplanes
Lower ranked (39,711th) »
The Blue EP

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Something About Airplanes rankings

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Overall rank: 9,049th | 1990s rank: 1,467th | 1998 rank: 143rd

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73/100 (from 95 votes)
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From 09/13/2023 01:11 | #299101
An album I've been underrating for a long time, but on balance, I love basically every song here--give or take their Revolutionary Hydra cover, which I still have a fondness for. While Death Cab's debut is often compared to their Pacific northwest indie contemporaries, there's a bookishness and sheen to their songs that set them apart, as well as a pop appeal that eludes most artists of their ilk while still maintaining immense feeling and intelligence.
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From 11/16/2019 13:19 | #244913
Indie alternative at its finest.
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From 09/10/2018 11:08 | #220868
Some fresh material from DCFC, quite enjoyable. 8/10.
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From 09/03/2017 06:51 | #197155
Their best album. Not yet being to into them selves, trying to hard not to try. Sounding to much of something smoth and irritating. It's not a major band in history but this album is most ok.
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From 05/04/2016 16:37 | #165191
First two Death Cab albums are junk, don't listen to the indie heads who get their rise out of finding obscure starts from popular bands.

Skip straight to The Photo Album if you want to get into Death Cab. Everything after is at least listenable at it's worst, unlike this pile of indie emo poorly produced garbage
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Good debut, and some real classics, but they only went up from here.
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From 03/02/2013 02:34 | #66613
The sophomore album by this band out of Seattle. To me Death Cab is the kind of band that I enjoy when I'm listening to it, but then have very little desire to ever seek it out to listen to it again. I don't see how anyone could despise this band, but also don't see how this could be anyone's favorite band either.
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