(oh so empty were the faces)

[azurelunatic]

I heard a song, driving home from grocery shopping last night, that reminded me in the bass line of both "the stompy boots song" (Queens of the Stone Age, "No One Knows") and "that cowboy song" (George Thorogood, "Who Do You Love"). I had to wait for it to get stuck in my head to figure out enough about it to look it up -- I knew it was Death Cab for Cutie, and I knew it was about Vegas, but since Vegas isn't mentioned by name ("The Eiffel tower built to smaller scale", tell me that's not Vegas) I had to wait for "empty were the" in order to find it.

Fun fact: the video here is a fanvid that the band blessed (and then the label hired the director).

Coldplay, "Little Bribes"

Death Cab for Cutie - Little Bribes from Ross Ching on Vimeo.

http://rossching.com/little-bribes/
http://consequenceofsound.net/2009/07/06/watch-death-cabs-favorite-fan-video-little-bribes/