Something About Airplanes (studio album)
by Death Cab For Cutie
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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 434 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 3,928.
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The tracks on this album have an average rating of 79 out of 100 (all tracks have been rated).
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| Rating | Date updated | Member | Album ratings | Avg. album rating |
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| ! | 12/12/2025 01:06 |  Kingturtle | 7,441 | 73/100 |
| ! | 12/01/2025 16:00 |  Keatownrodriguez | 1,479 | 68/100 |
| ! | 10/13/2025 14:35 |  AAL2014 | 3,556 | 75/100 |
| ! | 08/02/2025 01:07 | Scrabbler | 242 | 79/100 |
| ! | 06/21/2025 00:01 | brent13 | 1,636 | 71/100 |
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This album has a Bayesian average rating of 73.0/100, a mean average of 71.7/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 73.1/100. The standard deviation for this album is 15.1.
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HoldenM 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.
TheDude85 11/16/2019 13:19 | #244913
Indie alternative at its finest.
luigybetis 09/10/2018 11:08 | #220868
Some fresh material from DCFC, quite enjoyable. 8/10.
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.
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
HoldenM 11/15/2014 07:50 | #127022
Good debut, and some real classics, but they only went up from here.
drivebytornado 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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