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¡All-Time Quarterback! (EP)
''¡All-Time Quarterback!'' was the first release of Ben Gibbard's solo project ¡All-Time Quarterback!. A limited number of the CD EP was released on Elsinor Records. All of the tracks from this release were collected and re-released by Barsuk on 2002's ''¡All-Time Quarterback!'' along with a number of tracks from '' The Envelope Sessions''. The original CD EP release came with two inserts: one blue insert containing the lyrics and one orange insert with the credits. Track listing # "Plans Get Complex" # "Untitled" # "Why I Cry" # "Rules Broken" # "Send Packing" Credits *Written, recorded, and performed by Ben Gibbard at The Hall Of Justice, winter '99 *Nick helped by playing percussion on "Untitled" *Drums on "Why I Cry" were looped from a Rat Cat Hogan song, and thus were played by Rob *"Why I Cry" is a Magnetic Fields A magnetic field (sometimes called B-field) is a physical field that describes the magnetic influence on moving electric charges, electric current ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
¡All-Time Quarterback!
All-Time Quarterback (stylized ¡All-Time Quarterback!) was a solo side-project of Ben Gibbard, best known as the singer/guitarist for Death Cab for Cutie and as one third of the Postal Service. Gibbard started the project in the spring of 1997, and a series of songs resulted in two lo-fi EPs, '' ¡All-Time Quarterback!'' and '' The Envelope Sessions'', released in 1999 on Elsinor Records, which was documenting the Bellingham, Washington music scene. Gibbard had also started Death Cab for Cutie in 1997, a second side-project which eventually grew into a full band. A small tour occurred in 1999 to support the releases, but afterwards Gibbard went back to Death Cab for Cutie to record their second album. The song "Underwater!" from ''The Envelope Sessions'' was later re-recorded by Death Cab for Cutie for a 7" single on Sub Pop Records. In 2002, with both original releases out-of-print, Barsuk Records released an album on CD titled '' ¡All-Time Quarterback!''. The album contains ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Indie Rock
Indie rock is a Music subgenre, subgenre of rock music that originated in the United Kingdom, United States and New Zealand in the early to mid-1980s. Although the term was originally used to describe rock music released through independent record labels, by the 1990s it became more widely associated with the music such bands produced. The sound of indie rock has its origins in the New Zealand Dunedin sound of the Chills, Tall Dwarfs, the Clean and the Verlaines, and early 1980s college rock radio stations who would frequently play jangle pop bands like the Smiths and R.E.M. The genre solidified itself during the mid–1980s with ''NME''s ''C86'' cassette in the United Kingdom and the underground success of Sonic Youth, Dinosaur Jr. and Unrest (band), Unrest in the United States. During the 1990s, indie rock bands like Sonic Youth, the Pixies and Radiohead all released albums on major labels and subgenres like slowcore, Midwest emo, slacker rock and space rock began. By this time ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Envelope Sessions
''The Envelope Sessions'' is the second release from Ben Gibbard's solo project ¡All-Time Quarterback!. The tape was a limited release on Elsinor Records and is now out of print. Tracks from this tape were later taken and put together with the ''¡All-Time Quarterback!'' EP and re-released by Barsuk records on the ¡All-Time Quarterback! ''album''. The tracks "Don't Touch the Tape," "Lullaby, Lullaby," "Dig It!" and "Stark Mobile" were excluded from the re-release. Ben recorded these songs straight to walkman, accompanied only by a toy guitar. The track "Underwater!" went on to become a Death Cab For Cutie song, released on 7" inch as part of the Sub Pop Singles Club in March 2000. Track listing # "Don't Touch the Tape" # "Underwater!" # "Sock Hop" # "Lullaby, Lullaby" # "Dig It!" # "Cleveland" # "Stark Mobile" # "Factory Direct" # "Empire State" Credits Ben Gibbard: Toy guitar, vocals. ''The Envelope Sessions'' were written June 3–5, & 7, 1999 and recorded live onto a S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ben Gibbard
Benjamin Gibbard (born August 11, 1976) is an American singer, songwriter and guitarist. He is best known as the lead vocalist and guitarist of the indie rock band Death Cab for Cutie, with whom he has recorded ten studio albums, and as a member of the indie pop supergroup The Postal Service. Gibbard released his debut solo album, '' Former Lives'' (2012), and a collaborative studio album, '' One Fast Move or I'm Gone'' (2009), with Jay Farrar. Early life Gibbard was born to Allen and Margaret (née Flach) Gibbard in Bremerton, Washington. His father was in the Navy and his family moved around the country, including spending time in Northern Virginia before returning to Washington. Gibbard spent his early life there during the grunge music explosion of the early 1990s. He graduated from Olympic High School in Bremerton in 1994, and studied environmental chemistry at Western Washington University. He was raised Catholic. Career In 1996, while playing guitar in the band Pin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Barsuk
Barsuk Records ( ) is an independent record label based in Seattle, Washington which was founded in 1998 by Christopher Possanza and Josh Rosenfeld, the members of the band This Busy Monster, to release their band's material. Its logo is a drawing of a dog holding a vinyl record in its mouth. Barsuk played a key role in shaping the mainstream view of indie rock in its early years, with albums like Nada Surf's ''Let Go'', The Long Winters' ''When I Pretend to Fall'', and Death Cab for Cutie's influential fourth album, ''Transatlanticism''. The label also became a platform for Seattle-based singer-songwriters such as Rocky Votolato, Jesse Sykes, and David Bazan. The name of the label comes from the Russian word ''барсук'' , "badger". However, the label is named after Possanza and Jason Avinger's dog, a black Labrador. The dog can be heard barking in two This Busy Monster tracks: "Song 69" and "Time to Sleep". Artists * Active Bird Community * ¡All-Time Quarterback ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
¡All-Time Quarterback! (album)
''¡All-Time Quarterback!'' is the debut album and final release from Ben Gibbard's solo project ¡All-Time Quarterback!. The album comprises a collection of tracks from the now out-of-print EPs ¡All-Time Quarterback! (EP), ''¡All-Time Quarterback!'' and ''The Envelope Sessions''. Oddly, the ''¡All-Time Quarterback!'' album excludes the tracks "Don't Touch the Tape", "Lullaby, Lullaby", "Dig It!" and "Stark Mobile," despite its concise length. However, it includes the previously unreleased track "Dinner At Eight in the Suburbs". The enhanced CD features the video for "Plans Get Complex", filmed in London and edited by Aaron Stewart. Track listing Trivia The track "Underwater!" went on to become a Death Cab for Cutie song, released on 7" vinyl as part of the Sub Pop Singles Club (March 2000). Credits *Ben Gibbard – all instruments and vocals *Nick helped by playing percussion on "Untitled". *Drums on "Why I Cry" were looped from a Rat Cat Hogan song, and, as such, w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Magnetic Fields
The Magnetic Fields are an American Band (rock and pop), band founded and led by Stephin Merritt. Merritt is the group's primary songwriter, producer, and vocalist, as well as frequent multi-instrumentalist. The band is named after the André Breton/Philippe Soupault novel ''Les Champs Magnétiques''. The band released their debut single "100,000 Fireflies" in 1991. The single was typical of the band's earlier career, characterized by synthesizer, synthesized instrumentation by Merritt, with lead vocals provided by Susan Anway (and then by Stephin Merritt himself, from the ''The House of Tomorrow (album), House of Tomorrow'' EP onwards). A more traditional band later materialized; it is now composed of Merritt, Claudia Gonson, Sam Davol, and John Woo, with occasional guest vocals by Shirley Simms. The band's best-known work is the 1999 three-volume concept album ''69 Love Songs''. It was followed in the succeeding years by a "no-synth" trilogy: ''i (The Magnetic Fields album), i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1999 Debut EPs
1999 was designated as the International Year of Older Persons. Events January * January 1 – The euro currency is established and the European Central Bank assumes its full powers. * January 3 – The Mars Polar Lander is launched by NASA. * January 25 – The 6.2 Colombia earthquake hits western Colombia, killing at least 1,900 people. February * February 7 – Abdullah II inherits the throne of Jordan, following the death of his father King Hussein. * February 11 – Pluto moves along its eccentric orbit further from the Sun than Neptune. It had been nearer than Neptune since 1979, and will become again in 2231. * February 12 – U.S. President Bill Clinton is acquitted in impeachment proceedings in the United States Senate. * February 16 ** In Uzbekistan, an apparent assassination attempt against President Islam Karimov takes place at government headquarters. ** Across Europe, Kurdish protestors take over embassies and hold hostages afte ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
