Tuesday, April 04, 2006
They got the death part right
Last night's performance by Death Cab for Cutie was, in a word, underwhelming. I love me some live music and this show needed the equivalent of some music Cialis. It's like the show really wanted to be good, but something was preventing it from getting hard.
Maybe it was the awful view I had because I was late and had to stand three rows deep in the balcony at Sokol. Maybe it was because every current Westside student was singing his/her little heart out to each and every Ben Gibbard lyric. Maybe it was the attractive 29-year-old standing next to me. I don't know.
Maybe it was a lot of things. But most likely, the reason the show was so marginal was because it came from a marginal band.
Don't get me wrong, I enjoy "I Will Follow You Into the Dark" as much as the next Joe, but I was looking for a bit more. Death Cab For Cutie did NOT play a bad show. They played all their popular songs. The accoustics were good. The band sounded pretty tight. They just seemed to be on autopilot. Oh sure, they thanked the crowd and told us where they were from, but I think Collective Soul does the same thing.
I just expected more from the band that The OC crowned as our indie rock saviours.
Maybe it was the awful view I had because I was late and had to stand three rows deep in the balcony at Sokol. Maybe it was because every current Westside student was singing his/her little heart out to each and every Ben Gibbard lyric. Maybe it was the attractive 29-year-old standing next to me. I don't know.
Maybe it was a lot of things. But most likely, the reason the show was so marginal was because it came from a marginal band.
Don't get me wrong, I enjoy "I Will Follow You Into the Dark" as much as the next Joe, but I was looking for a bit more. Death Cab For Cutie did NOT play a bad show. They played all their popular songs. The accoustics were good. The band sounded pretty tight. They just seemed to be on autopilot. Oh sure, they thanked the crowd and told us where they were from, but I think Collective Soul does the same thing.
I just expected more from the band that The OC crowned as our indie rock saviours.
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