Bad opinions • Page 201

Frankly I'd be shocked if anyone in 2016 cared enough about DCFC to have an opinion on that record

 

I will always care <x3

 

Honestly Ryan's being willfully ridiculous with his "well actually" shit

 

I love Narrow Stairs. I listen to it a lot in the winter, along with 808s & Heartbreak.

 

Narrow stairs is super good

 

i dont like narrow stairs at all !@!!

 

waking the fallen is a great record

 

1) Ryan Adams: Live at Carnegie Hall is one of the best live albums.

2) Justin Townes Earl will be remembered as one of the best songwriters of our time. He doesn't get near the credit he deserves in present time.

 

Much prefer City of Evil (when it came out, haven't listened in a long time.)

 

same but these days waking the fallen is more listenable

 

I might go back and listen to those. I used to play in a band that covered Unholy Confessions and I got super sick of that song real fast.

 

i was obsessed with them from ages 13-16 haha. i can play most of the guitar riffs from wtf and coe pretty flawlessly, i used to teach myself all their shit

 

Mad chops dude! Never could play like them! My fingers just don't move fast enough for some their stuff. Definitely talented dudes!

 

I love Narrow Stairs man, damn. "Cath" is one of my favorites

 

I had an unbelievable experience putting that album on my drummer/roommate's vintage speakers. Just can't even make sense of how damn GOOD every single guitar hiccup and bass hum and drum tickle on that record sounds

Even though it's not Death Cab's best writing (I prefer Transatlanticism and Photo Album if you're talking strictly songwriting), that album is an audiophile's dream and certainly Chris Walla's magnum opus as a producer.

 

this thread is fascinating to watch

 

this hurts my feelings more than sarcasm honestly

because you actually MEAN IT

 

Narrow Stairs is my favorite damn

 

Narrow Stairs is wonderful.

 

Fair enough. It's all subjective I suppose.

 

Narrow Stairs was the last great album released by DCFC.

 

Yep. After that one Chris Walla lost interest and the band lost its edge.

Walla just has an unbelievable sense of how to turn a simple song into layers of gorgeous guitars, and he is also a master of getting the tones and distortion to be an EXACT fit for the mood/style of each guitar part. One of my favorite guitarists because he doesn't shred ever, his genius is all in creativity and tasteful accents. He always seemed to play the perfect notes to complement Ben.

Narrow Stairs you can just tell that every single little guitar track out of the hundreds on the record has its own amp/pedal/effect settings. Which you really cant say for most guitar albums. He really puts a LOT of emphasis on how the guitars sound not just what is played.

 

I never liked Plans at all really. Narrow Stairs was better.

 

Imo Plans really highlighted what Ben is good at, while Narrow Stairs highlights Walla's strengths

If you stripped the songs of every DCFC album down to just chords and melody, putting all the emphasis on songwriting and none on development of the songs/production, Plans would definitely be the DCFC album that holds up the best