meh, death cab and postal service sound pretty different though, aside from the singer, they really don't have all that much in common.

:usehead: I know what your saying and i do agree to a point.. but i'm, just sick of the whole same singer deal.. like the singer enough is what made me first listen to the postal because well i thought they were death cab haha..

just saw DCFC on sat and was only decent...

make sure to read the DNTEL thread as well as he's the other half of postal service....

I used to just dislike the Postal Service and the awful pop crap that they managed to convince half a million people was "good" Electronic music.

Then I heard their remix of Feist's "Mushaboom," and now I hate them

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I'd say they convinced half a million people they made "good" Pop music with Electronic influences.

Trust me - when I think of proper electronic music postal service is no where near the list of bands (pan sonic etc, four tet, etc...).

I still very much like PS tho :)

The Postal Service
 

Does any one else really like this band?

i love them, my fav song by then is "nothing better" and "such great heaight"

which is a cover from iron and wine of the same title, all 3 are really good songs!

Yes great band. Such Great Heights is a good song too.

I'm getting into them more and more now!

Iron & Wine did the cover, not PS :)

Love this group - make sure to look into Figurine as very similar, but more rewarding in the long run I find.

A new band that's really good/similar is Electric President too :)

Putting the sickening popularity of "Such Great Heights" aside, The Postal Service isn't bad. I find them kind of overrated (and Death Cab For Cutie), although Ben Gibbard is undoubtedly good at creating simple, melodic, listenable tunes.

"sickening popularity" haha, if a song is good then a song is good. i dont listen to stuff just cause someone cooler than me listens to it.

oh yeh and i just listened to electric president and i like them, I LIKE THEM ALOT!!!!

of course, you should listen to what you like regardless of its popularity or lack thereof. i only mention the popularity because i have a hard time escaping the song, especially since so many of my friends are prone to that style of music. it's on commercials, tv shows, countless myspace profiles, and if i'm in someone else's car there's a 75% chance they have the song on the mixed CD they're playing. i originally enjoyed the song, but it got drilled into my head too much.

yeh i know what u mean. my phone is broke and i have postal service sleeping in as my alarm, ironic i know. but cause i cant chage the song cause my phone is broke i hear it every morning and i dont like the song any more cause it just reminds me of having to wake up early!!

i'm in the UK - so well away from being overexposed to PS. I know what you mean though, I lived in Seattle during Grunge and I was so overexposed I still don't listen to any of the popular albums....

yeh im in the uk as well but my mate got me into them, and now all my friends are listening.

oh - meant to say... a aband I've been supporting for almost a year now and have their first EP coming out soon is called 'Letting Up Despite Great Faults' and you should check them out too. http://lettingup.com/

They are pretty good, although I've only heard a few songs by them.

District Sleeps Alone Tonight!...and agreed theres nothing better than Nothign Better!...
Bad Pun?

this album has been out 3 years!! Why the sudden influx of people interested in them i wonder?

lol yeh bit of a bad pun lol but i agree totally, and yeh distric sleeps alone tonight is a great song!! i think all the postal service songs are really good, dont think there is one song on the give up album that i dont like, apart from of course sleeping in!!lol

dunno just one of them bands that makes people wanna talk about them, i have been into them for about a year now, and still listen to them on a regular basis!

there's a thread on this in the electronica board too FYI - maybe some info there you will be interested in...

postal service is really an amzing band, their sound changing with every cd. been listening to them for a couple of years now.

Um.

I was going to point that out too.
I'm pretty sure they only have 1 CD, and a handful of EPs, that just recycle or remix the songs.

i love them

good band

that is correct

I'm not a huge fan.
I dislike the vox.

I just got their album, and I really like it.

My favorite songs would have to be

Such Great Heights
Recycled Air
This Place is Prison

i like em. not the first thing i reach for but good.

recycled air, clark gable, and district = <333!

Bumpp, I was about to make a thread on them. I've been like, obessed with them today. Such Great Heights, Nothing Better, Be Still My Heart, and Recycled Air are my favorites.

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What about We Will Become Silhouettes?

the postal service is beyong amazing. Electric President is good too. check out PlayRadioPlay! if you really like those two :]

Its alright, I prefer other songs over it. The shins cover of it is dope.

the shins covered that?

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Yepp

mm
Nothing Better, & Such Great Heights are my favoritess.
& maybe Clark Gable
only 'cause I'm lame & stuff..