Death Cab for Cutie

Narrow Stairs: 1. Bixby Canyon Bridge 2. I Will Possess Your Heart 3. No Sunlight 4. Cath... 5. Talking Bird 6. You Can Do Better than Me 7. Grapevine Fires 8. Your New Twin Size Bed 9. Long Division 10. Pity and Fear 11. The Ice Is Getting Thinner

Plans: 1. Marching Bands of Manhattan 2. Soul Meets Body 3. Summer Skin 4. Different Names for the Same Thing 5. I Will Follow You into the Dark 6. Your Heart Is an Empty Room 7. Someday You Will Be Loved 8. Crooked Teeth 9. What Sarah Said 10. Brothers on a Hotel Bed 11. Stable Song

Transatlanticism: 1. The New Year 2. Lightness 3. Title and Registration 4. Expo '86 5. The Sound of Settling 6. Tiny Vessels 7. Transatlanticism 8. Passenger Seat 9. Death of an Interior Decorator 10. We Looked Like Giants 11. A Lack of Color

The Photo Album: 1. Steadier Footing 2. A Movie Script Ending 3. We Laugh Indoors 4. Information Travels Faster 5. Why You'd Want to Live Here 6. Blacking Out the Friction 7. I Was a Kaleidoscope 8. Styrofoam Plates 9. Coney Island 10. Debate Exposes Doubt

Something About Airplanes: 1. Bend to Squares 2. President of What? 3. Champagne from a Paper Cup 4. Your Bruise 5. Pictures in an Exhibition 6. Sleep Spent 7. The Face That Launched 1000 sh*ts 8. Amputations 9. Fake Frowns 10. Line of Best Fit

You Can Play These Songs with Chords (2002): 1. President of What? 2. Champagne from a Paper Cup 3. Pictures in an Exhibition 4. Hindsight 5. That's Incentive 6. Amputations 7. Two Cars 8. Line of Best Fit 9. This Charming Man 10. TV Trays 11. New Candles 12. Tomorrow 13. Flustered/Hey Tomcat! 14. State Street Residential 15. Wait 16. Prove My Hypotheses 17. Song for Kelly Huckaby(Facts Version) 18. Army Corps of Architects

You Can Play These Songs with Chords (1997): 1. President of What? 2. Champagne from a Paper Cup 3. Pictures in an Exhibition 4. Hindsight 5. That's Incentive 6. Amputations3 7. Two Cars 8. Line of Best Fit

John Vanderslice sang low vocals on Blacking Out the Friction and backing vocals on I Was a Kaleidoscope

Sean Nelson sang high vocals on Blacking Out the Friction and harmony vocals on I Was a Kaleidoscope

The cello on Bend to Squares and The Face That Launched 1000 sh*ts was written, arranged and played by Erika Jacobs

Ben Gibbard once introduced Song For Kelly Huckerby as California on a radio show

The songs President of What, Champagne from a Paper Cup, Pictures in an Exhibition, Amputations and Line of Best Fit of the album You Can Play These Songs with Chords were re-recorded for the album Something About Airplanes

Death Cab for Cutie recorded a cover of the Smiths song This Charming Man in 1996, it was released on the 2002 re-release of You Can Play These Songs with Chords

I Will Possess Your Heart is the first single to be released from the album Narrow Stairs. 95.5 WBRU of Providence, Rhode Island was the first station in the U.S. to play the song at approximately 1:30 p.m. on March 18, 2008

Death Cab for Cutie has received two Nominations for "Best Pop Performance By A Duo Or Group With Vocal" and "Best Long Form Music Video" in the 2007 Grammys.

Death Cab for Cutie's song "Your Heart Is an Empty Room" was featured in the theatrical trailer for the film The Science of Sleep

Death Cab for Cutie's song "Transatlanticism" was played at the ending of CSI:Miami's 100th episode

Death Cab for Cutie performed the title song "Little Boxes" for the Showtime series Weeds in episode 2 of season 2

The indie film "The Puffy Chair" pays homage to a classic movie moment from "Say Anything" using a Death Cab for Cutie song: its lead character holds up a boombox outside his girlfriend's window blaring Death Cab for Cutie's "Transatlanticism" instead of Peter Gabriel's "In Your Eyes."

Death Cab for Cutie's current label is Atlantic Records. The first release under Atlantic Records was Plans

The John Byrd E.P. was Death Cab for Cutie's last release under Barsuk Records

Death Cab for Cutie have a split Single with the band The Revolutionary Hydra, called Your Bruise

Death Cab for Cutie have a split Single with the band Fiver, called Death Cab for Fiver

Singles & E.P's 1999 - Prove My Hypotheses 2000 - Underwater! 2000 - The Forbidden Love EP 2001 - A Movie Script Ending 2002 - I Was A Kaleidoscope 2002 - We Laugh Indoors 2002 - The Stability EP 2003 - The New Year 2004 - The Studio X Sessions 2004 - The Sound of Settling 2004 - Title and Registration 2005 - John Byrd EP 2005 - Soul Meets Body 2006 - Crooked Teeth 2006 - I Will Follow You Into The Dark 2008 - I Will Possess Your Heart 2008 - Cath 2009 - Grapevine Fires 2009 - The Open Door EP

The album "Plans" was nominated for a Grammy Award for Best Alternative Music Album at the 48th Annual Grammy Awards, held February 8, 2006.

In 2005 Death Cab for Cutie released the DVD Drive Well, Sleep Carefully - On the Road with Death Cab for Cutie , a film following their 2004 tour of the U.S.

Death Cab for Cutie were in the running for the Streaming Woodie Award with "Crooked Teeth" at the "MTVU Woodie Awards 2006". They also performed.

In 2006, a DVD titled "Directions" was released. The DVD was an anthology of 11 short films all inspired by tracks of "Plans."

The vinyl release of "Plans" features the bonus track "Talking Like Turnstiles". The Japanese release includes the bonus track "Jealousy Rides With Me".

You Can Play These Songs with Chords was expanded with ten more songs and re-released in 2002 on the heels of the success of The Photo Album.

You Can Play These Songs with Chords (1997), the first release from the band Death Cab for Cutie, was originally released on cassette.

Plans has been certified Gold in the US selling more than 500,000 copies.

Transatlanticism has sold more than 225,000 copies.

The Forbidden Love E.P. contains an acoustic version of "405", an alternate version of "Company Calls Epilogue" and another version of "Song for Kelly Huckaby"

Legendary drummer Neil Peart of Rush has called Death Cab for Cutie one of his favorite new bands on his official website

The band originally released the twelve-minute song "Stability" in 2002 with The Stability E.P. Three years later, a new, four-minute version of "Stability" entitled "Stable Song" was released on the full-length album Plans

Many of the early songs were recorded in the basement of the home Ben lived in with several roommates in Bellingham.

Lyrics from many of the early songs include local references of Bellingham that were important to the band's development

Death Cab for Cutie was officially formed in Bellingham, Washington.

Highest UK Singles chart position: #15 with "Stability" in 2002

Highest US Modern Rock chart position: #5 with "Soul Meets Body"

Roles of the band members: Benjamin Gibbard - Guitarist, Vocals, Songwritter Chris Walla - Electric Guitarist Nick Harmer - Bass Guitar Jason McGerr - Drummer

Album Discography: 1997 You Can Play These Songs with Chords 1998 Something About Airplanes 2000 We Have the Facts and We're Voting Yes 2001 The Photo Album 2003 Transatlanticism 2005 Plans 2008 Narrow Stairs