I wonder if this is actually happening would make sense as most bands just don't do one reissue only, especially when it's the most loved 'indie' record from death cab on barsuk.

We can only hope brother.

Reissues, reissues.

Hmmmmm....................

Just another way to extract more cash from the fanbase for the same product?

10th Anniversary this, remastered that.

There have got to be better ways of celebrating anniversaries than just re-issuing surely.

Let us hear the demo's maybe? Alternate takes? Songs recorded but never used? Acoustic versions of the recorded material?

Well, I actually like what they did with Something About Airplanes. I really enjoyed the Crocodile Cafe disc and it would be awesome if they include a similar disc with stuff from the Facts era with the reissue (if it's coming, that is).

It would be lame if it's just a remastered version of regular Facts.

I didn't really bother with the SAA re-issue. It just didnt seem worth it to me to spend $20 for the crocodile cafe songs.

It really wasn't, got it for the t-shirt package deal and the Sean Nelson foreword mostly but demos etc. would have been way more interesting sure. But i have a feeling that everything worth listening to from that period is already out there... this was a time when they were on splits and spreading stuff all over... and what didn't get out this way was collected on the "Chords" re-issue.

In defense of re-issues: it gives leech fans like me a chance to support the band while still feeling as if you're getting something new with the purchase. If anything, they're a good idea for the piratebay generation.

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Originally posted by Tomatoes&RadioWire:
I didn't really bother with the SAA re-issue. It just didnt seem worth it to me to spend $20 for the crocodile cafe songs.

I totally agree. And the Crocodile Cafe tracks are out there if you want them.

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Originally posted by Kasper:
It really wasn't, got it for the t-shirt package deal and the Sean Nelson foreword mostly but demos etc. would have been way more interesting sure. But i have a feeling that everything worth listening to from that period is already out there... this was a time when they were on splits and spreading stuff all over... and what didn't get out this way was collected on the "Chords" re-issue.

You know, it seems to be the current vogue for bands and artistes to put out old material repackaged with extra goodies.

In the main, this is good if done imaginatively, and I can't believe that somewhere in the Death Cab archive there isn't recorded material that's worth listening to. No band ever put out a record where the recorded take is the only take.

For example, a few years back, I bought the 30th anniversary reissue of T.Rex - Electric Warrior. Although I had both vinyl and cd versions the extra purchase was made worthwhile. It came with a second disc featuring early take or work in progress versions of the entire album. It was interesting to see how the finished song came to be. Best of all, you could hear Bolan discussing how he was gonna play the song with the engineers. How he would use later overdubs or double track a guitar solo etc. Really enlightening, and a real insight into how the atmosphere in the studio must have been.

It doesn't take much to excite the real fans and I might respectfully suggest that some SAA era live recordings, no different to tons of stuff already available, is not tres exciting.

A rehearsal or demo of Sweet and Tender Hooligan however would be a different matter. And I would be surprised if one didn't exist.

When would we know if they're going to do a re-issue? How much in advance was the SAA announced?

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Originally posted by Natro:
When would we know if they're going to do a re-issue? How much in advance was the SAA announced?

Quite a while. If they were going to re-issue anything this side of Christmas I believe they would announce round about now.

Don't hold your breath.

how come they only repressed something about airplanes like 3 times, but no other albums?

Facts didn't come out until march 2010 it's still 2009, you can just call me future boy
As for davey's question it only got reissued due to the reissue of the record, i'd say if facts got a reissue they'd do a vinyl reissue.

yeah im talkin bout the vinyl represses. transatlanticism was also a sonicboom LP release, why dont they repress that one too?

Well something about airplanes was reissued just a month or so after the ten year anniversary cd so i'm guessing that had something to do with it. To coincide with the cd reissue.