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Drive Well, Sleep Carefully - On the Road with Death Cab for Cutie

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Not many "indie" bands get to have their own DVD, especially one of this quality. From start to finish "Drive Well, Sleep Carefully" is a joy for any fan of Death Cab or indie music. The interviews are very insightful (and often times funny) and the music is just awesome. Death Cab sound a lot different live than on record (read: heavier), and it is really great to watch such a finely tuned band play with eachother, giving new dimensions to their songs(new & old alike). Definitely worth a purchase!

I had a Death Cab for Cutie phase, so this DVD was perfect. If you're only semi into them, or only like a few songs, you might not like the DVD. If they're at the top or near the top of your list of good music these days, I'd recommend it.

Every rock band needs to make at least one tour video like this! Drive Well, Sleep Carefully portrays an honest and humble perspective of the band playing at sell-out venues accross the country. What I find really great about this film is, for one, the live songs are not from one single showing, and the track listing on the back cover tells you which city the song is played in. Another is that throughout the video you get to see and hear the band talk about life as a rock band, or life in general, and they may sometimes comment about the song they're about to play or tell you which up-coming movie they're excited to see - it's very fun to watch the band just be themselves having fun and admitting that they're just ordinary people like everyone else.

In addition to this, there are plenty good extras to burn your time away for 41 minutes. One of my favorites is the band practice for Stability - anyone who's ever been in a band can relate to just zoning out and getting lost in a few good measures of music played in a seemingnly endless cycle... that's now captured here on video! :) Altho obviously cut short (10 minutes), Im sure the band carried on for at least another hour.

enjoy!

I saw this last night on the Encore channel and am looking this group up for the first time. So in a sense I'm reviewing this film purely, with no previous notion of who they are. I thought it was a very honest portrail, and showed a beautifully unpolished side of this group, a group which I've only heard as hit songs on the radio until last night. I was struck by how different they sound at live shows. More grinding, organic and when I listened to deeper songs than what I have heard on the radio, their rhythems are really interesting, especially to a musician like me. It's a great thing when I can hear many different layers of things going on in a song. They play loose and tight at the same time. I was impressed with their character too. They seemed very gratious, for example, saying several years ago they couldn't have imagined that they would go from having a little van to a giant tour bus, let alone a need for a bus. I was encouraged by discussion about their song "We Looked Like Giants", how when you are a kid your opportunities seem unlimited and as we get older some of those opportunities become less and less. I was glad someone else felt the same way. I like how the film goes back and forth between songs and interview. And like a previous review said the film matches some of the tour footage really nicely with songs.

Well, this film was good enough to a) stop me from flipping through channels and watch it till the end, b) look up their songs on the internet the next morning, c) write a review about the film. So with that considered i'd say it's a great film, especially for anyone who wants a little more depth in their music. I think I'm going to have some fun now discovering the different songs I liked from the film, this morning I had the song "Transatlanticism" in mind to look up, because I liked the distant drum beat.

i love the dvd the only thing that irkes me is the way that interviews are intertwined with concert footage. sometimes i really want to hear a part but conversation interrupts it. thats the only thing that bothers me. other than that the dvd alone is worth the price to hear the lightness demo.. its so amazing. its funny, on the back it says "the sound of settling" demo but its not on the dvd anywhere. did they just mess that up or is it hidden somewhere?

And I mean that in a good way. There often isn't much connection between what is being said by Death Cab and what is being shown on the screen, but it all works nicely in the end. The concert footage is good, and the guys were really mellow, and all seemed like genuinely nice human beings with zero rock star attitude.

Drive Well, Sleep Carefully is visually interesting with great tunes and tons of live footage. For those who are looking for a "live" dvd with uncut performances, this dvd is not for you. The whole disc feels more like a documentary than a live and uncut sort of disc. That's not entirely a bad thing, because voice overs add to the overall artistic feel of the disc. It seems like some people have given this dvd a lot of negative feedback because the members of Deatcab come off as whiny occasionally;however, it seems that many reviews that give negative feedback do not take into consideration that being a "rockstar" is a difficult job. Frankly, Deathcab is rather honest in many parts of the film, and Drive Well, Sleep Carefully shows a dimension of touring that a lot of music fans do not see. Overall, this disc is worth adding to a disc collection for non-Deatcab and Deathcab fans alike.

I'm the biggest dcfc fan so this documentary was a must. Watched it probably 20 times. Others I showed it to who didn't know the band enjoyed it too.

I`m on the road with Death Cab!!!! I recommend this dvd for all that are fans of this great band. it` so amazing!

This DVD is amazing. It covers the majority of Death Cabs best two albums in the Photo Album and Transatlanticism and the extra commentary lets you into the creative mind of Ben Gibbard. By the dvd you wont be disapointed.