Scott Bush

Death Cab for Cutie concert

24 June 2008

This post will likely win me the “least chronologically-relevant post” of 2008. But I found a set list I’d scribbled down on the back of a receipt during the Death Cab for Cutie concert at the Key Arena waaaaay back on 4 December, 2006! A friend had two extra tickets so we went along at the last minute. With the release of their latest album, Narrow Stairs, it made sense to finally post this.

I did my best to record the set list. Some songs I knew instantly, others I had to think about for a while before the tile came to me. Others, I could only jot down some of the memorable lyrics (show below in quotes). If you know the song names of any of them, let me know. They played:

405 (from 2000’s We Have the Facts and We’re Voting Yes)
Your Heart is an Empty Room (from 2005’s Plans)
The New Year (from 2003’s Transatlanticism)
“I Love You Guinevere”
Crooked Teeth
Title and Registration (Transatlanticism)
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Unconcious states - “Highway”
Company Calls Epilogue (We Have the Facts…)
What Sarah Said (Plans)
I Will Follow You Into the Dark (Plans)
Soul Meets Body (Plans)
The Face That Launched 1000 Shits (from 1998’s Something About Airplanes)
We Looked Like Giants (Transatlanticism)
“C’mon C’mon C’mon”
Marching Bands of Manhattan (Plans)
Things all change but basically the stay the same - “cycle never ends, skin on steel”
Coming Home - A cover of a song by the Sonics

Also notable about this concert: it introduced me to Jenny Lewis and the Watson Twins, whose excellent Rabbit Fur Coat I later bought (and still listen to regularly). Imagine my happy surprise when I learned Jenny Lewis was the frontwoman for a band called Rilo Kiley who had put out like four studio albums that I could also enjoy.