All-Time Quarterback [Enhanced]

All-Time Quarterback [Enhanced]

Editorial Reviews

Product Description
Reissue, compilation from out-of-print sessions from Death Cab For Cutie songwriter/frontman Ben Gibbard. 11 audio tracks plus the video for 'Plans Get Complex'. Barsuk Records.

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All-Time Quarterback [Enhanced]

All-Time Quarterback
Average customer rating: 4 out of 5 stars
  • Ben Gibbard has grown a lot as a songwriter.
  • eh..ummm. yeah
  • some people know nothing. i am not one of those people.
  • Great
  • All-Time Quarterback
 All-Time Quarterback
¡All-Time Quarterback!
Manufacturer: Barsuk
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B000066JEM
Release Date: 2002-06-18

Tracks:

  1. Plans Get Complex
  2. Dinner At Eight In The Suburbs
  3. Cleveland
  4. Empire State
  5. Rules Broken
  6. Untitled
  7. Factory Direct
  8. Why I Cry
  9. Underwater
  10. Sock Hop
  11. Send Packing

Album Description

Reissue, compilation from out-of-print sessions from Death Cab For Cutie songwriter/frontman Ben Gibbard. 11 audio tracks plus the video for 'Plans Get Complex'. Barsuk Records.

Customer Reviews:

2 out of 5 stars Ben Gibbard has grown a lot as a songwriter........2006-01-29

There are 2 really good songs on here. The first is "Untitled," which sounds like Gibbard was listening to a lot of Brian Wilson at the time he wrote it. The percussion sounds like it could have been on pet sounds. "Underwater" is a pretty good song...but the real jewel on the album is "Send Packing." It really is a beautiful, well-written song. The rest of the album sounds kind of thrown together and most of the songs would have been much better if they had been recorded with real instruments. Basically, the novelty of the kid instrument thing wears off really quickly. All in all, I wouldn't spend 10 bucks on it, but a couple tracks are pretty good.

3 out of 5 stars eh..ummm. yeah.......2005-12-03

you gotta love ben gibbard but the quality of the recordings are really grainy, some songs i cant even listen to but there are a couple that are pretty stellar, if you love Death cab, and you already have all the death cab albums and you already got the postal service album than you might as well go ahead and get this one to finish off ur collection, thats the way to go, if ya love death cab then you like this

5 out of 5 stars some people know nothing. i am not one of those people........2005-07-26

first off, let me get some things straight with the idiot below me.

1. dntel is jimmy tamborello. not ben gibbard.
2. ben gibbard recorded under ATQ before he ever formed death cab for cutie. he released the tape on elsinor in 99.

now, the album is a pleasant listen for fans of gibbard and fans of lo-fi indie pop. broken guitar and a microphone can do wonders when utilised the way gibbard has on this record.

in a way, it reminds me of smog, who is one of ben's influences.

5 out of 5 stars Great.......2005-01-20

I really enjoy this album. I think that is all there is to say! If you are a Deathcab, Postal Service, or general fan of anything Ben Gibbard...you should own this right now.

4 out of 5 stars All-Time Quarterback.......2003-11-29

¡All-Time Quarterback! shows what potential your kids could have. Death Cab For Cutie's Ben Gibbard plays around with kid instruments and comes up with a warm and charming low-fi masterpiece. Half of this 11-song, 28-minute disc was originally recorded to walkman and many of the songs previously released as part of 1999's ¡All-Time Quarterback! CD-EP and the home-recording cassette-only The Envelope Sessions. As a whole, ¡All-Time Quarterback! has the feel of an album of hidden tracks or studio outtakes. "Plans Get Complex" is simply sing-song with its toy guitar and broken Casio underpinning. The previously unreleased "Dinner At Eight In The Suburbs" and the jaunty "Untitled" sound like early Pet Sounds demos while Gibbard employs a toy piano to seriously alter the mood on his cover of the Magnetic Fields' "Why I Cry." Unfortunately, despite this present collection, Gibbard has hung up the ATQ mantle writing it off as a fun one-off side project. ¡All-Time Quarterback! is a fine example of songs that stand on their own merits, recordings that haven't seen Pro Tools, and a combination of the both into a darn good album.

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