Death Cab For Cutie - Asphalt Meadows (September 16, 2022) Album • Page 22

It's probably my second favorite on the record after the title track, but I can't fault you too much. 10 perfect songs on that album, and "Interior Decorator" is pretty good too.

Eighth grade for me, LOL.

Yeah, I wasn't even going to respond to that post, but these three songs not being there were problems #1, #2, and #3 with it.

 

stay young is nice instrumentally and honestly fine vocally but it's his most embarrassing lyric writing, which is saying something.

 

the bridge brings it to a solid 8.5/9

 

If I think about it, I would definitely agree that his melodies are pretty great on TYFT, even if everything else about a lot of the songs are a big letdown. "Near/Far" sticks out in my head as having a great melody but musically it's boring as all hell and it's just not very exciting or good.

 

I Dreamt We Spoke Again is probably their weakest opener imo and my least favorite on TYFT (which i think is good overall)

 

Also my least favorite on that record. Always felt like a false start to an album that gets much better on the next track.

 

All their openers are fantastic, at least since Transatlanticism. Much stronger than their closers.

 

Oh this is little easier than closers:

Marching Bands
New Year
Title Track
Bixby
I Don't Know How to Survive
No Room in Frame
Steadier Footing
Bend to Squares
Home Is A Fire
I Dreamt We Spoke

 

IDWSA might be my favorite track on TYFT, and I love that album. Maybe I'm just a sucker for an extended tom fill

 

Title Track is the undisputed GOAT Death Cab opener. Might be their best song

 

Title Track
Bend to Squares
Marching Bands of Manhattan
The New Year
Bixby Canyon Bridge
I Dreamt We Spoke Again
I Don't Know How to Survive (for now)
Steadier Footing
Home is a Fire
No Room in Frame

 

The New Year
Marching Bands of Manhattan
No Room in Frame
Title Track
Bend to Squares
Bixby Canyon Bridge
I Don't Know How I Survive
I Dreamt We Spoke
Home is a Fire
Steadier Footing

 

I definitely have a firmer hierarchy with openers:

Bixby Canyon Bridge
The New Year
Marching Bands
No Room In Frame
I Don't Know How I Survive
Steadier Footing
Title Track
Home Is A Fire
Bend To Squares
I Dreamt We Spoke Again

 

Marching bands >

 

Marching Bands
The New Year
Bixby
Title Track
No Room In Frame
I Dreamt We Spoke Again
Steadier Footing
Home is a Fire

Not ranking Bend to Squares because I haven’t heard it enough and IDKHIS because it’s too new

 

came here to say this exact thing

 

S
Marching Bands
New Year
Title Track

A +
Bixby

A
I Don't Know How to Survive
No Room in Frame

B
Steadier Footing
Bend to Squares

C
Home Is A Fire
I Dreamt We Spoke

 

There's not a bad one in the bunch, but I'll give it a shot:

Title Track
Marching Bands of Manhattan
New Year
No Room in Frame
Bixby Canyon Bridge
I Don't Know How to Survive
Steadier Footing
I Dreamt We Spoke Again
Bend to Squares
Home Is A Fire

 

I like Home is a Fire a lot even if it would be toward the bottom of my list

 

it’s always been hard for me to see the song as the clear low point on the record like most seem to personally, largely in part to that bridge, bc I sincerely think it’s one of the best parts of the entire record

 

To be clear, I'm saying the bridge brings the song UP

 

no, I know, that was a long-winded way of saying “I agree” haha

 

Fragments from the decade….beautiful and could have been plucked from Transatlanticism

 

Love "Bend to Squares" as a proper introduction to the band

 

Pink galaxy just showed up