Directions: The Plans Video Album
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Directions: The Plans Video Album is a Grammy-nominated video album from Death Cab for Cutie
Death Cab for Cutie
Death Cab for Cutie is an American alternative rock band formed in Bellingham, Washington in 1997. The band consists of Ben Gibbard , Chris Walla , Nick Harmer and Jason McGerr ....

, corresponding to their major-label debut album Plans
Plans (album)
Plans has received positive reviews. On the review aggregate site Metacritic, the album has a score of 66 out of 100, indicating "Generally favorable reviews."-Track listing:-Personnel:*Ben Gibbard – vocals, guitars...

. It was released on April 11, 2006 on Atlantic Records
Atlantic Records
Atlantic Records is an American record label best known for its many recordings of rhythm and blues, rock and roll, and jazz...

/WEA Records. Proposals from around the world were submitted to Death Cab for Cutie
Death Cab for Cutie
Death Cab for Cutie is an American alternative rock band formed in Bellingham, Washington in 1997. The band consists of Ben Gibbard , Chris Walla , Nick Harmer and Jason McGerr ....

, and a budget was allowed for 12 finalists to create videos that would translate their visions of every song from Plans
Plans (album)
Plans has received positive reviews. On the review aggregate site Metacritic, the album has a score of 66 out of 100, indicating "Generally favorable reviews."-Track listing:-Personnel:*Ben Gibbard – vocals, guitars...

. Directions also includes an interview with the band, directors' statements, treatments and profiles, animatics, and artwork, along with two bonus videos, "Jealousy Rides With Me" and "Talking Like Turnstiles."

At the 2007 Grammy Awards, the videos were nominated for Best Long Form Music Video.

Track listing

  1. "Marching Bands of Manhattan (version #2)" (Director: P.R. Brown)
  2. "Soul Meets Body
    Soul Meets Body
    "Soul Meets Body" is a single by Washington-based indie rock band Death Cab for Cutie, released October 10, 2005. It was the first single from the group's 2005 album Plans, their first collaboration with Atlantic Records. It is the group's highest charting single in the United States. The song...

     (version #2)" (Director: Cat Solen)
  3. "Summer Skin" (Director: Lightborne)
  4. "Different Names for the Same Thing" (Director: Autumn de Wilde
    Autumn de Wilde
    Autumn de Wilde is an American photographer best known for her portraiture and commercial work photography of musicians.-Early life:...

    )
  5. "I Will Follow You into the Dark
    I Will Follow You into the Dark
    "I Will Follow You into the Dark" is a song by Death Cab for Cutie and the third single from their fifth album Plans. It is a solo, acoustic ballad written and performed by frontman Ben Gibbard and was recorded in monaural with a single microphone and little editing. The song details the singer's...

    " (Director: Monkmus)
  6. "Your Heart Is an Empty Room" (Director: Jeffrey Brown
    Jeffrey Brown
    Jeffrey Brown is a comic book writer and artist born in Grand Rapids, Michigan.-Biography:After growing up in Grand Rapids, Michigan, a 25-year-old Jeffrey Brown moved to Chicago in 2000 to pursue an MFA at the School of the Art Institute. By the time he finished his studies, he had abandoned...

    ; Animator: Eliza Kinkz)
  7. "Someday You Will Be Loved" (Director: Ace Norton)
  8. "Crooked Teeth
    Crooked Teeth
    "Crooked Teeth" is the second single released by the band Death Cab for Cutie on Atlantic Records. It features the single "Crooked Teeth" and two B-side tracks. "Talking Like Turnstiles" is a B-side from their 2005 album Plans...

     (version #2)" (Director: Rob Schrab
    Rob Schrab
    Rob Schrab is a comic book creator, actor, comedian, writer, and film and television producer. Schrab grew up in Mayville, Wisconsin. He is known as the creator of the comic book, Scud: The Disposable Assassin, co-writer of the feature film Monster House, the unaired pilot Heat Vision and Jack,...

    )
  9. "What Sarah Said" (Director: Laurent Briet)
  10. "Brothers on a Hotel Bed (version #1)" (Director: Josh Victor Rothstein)
  11. "Stable Song" (Director: Aaron Stewart-Ahn)


DVD only
  1. "Jealousy Rides With Me" (Director: Keith Schofield
    Keith Schofield
    Keith Schofield is an American director of music video and television commercials based in Los Angeles, California.Schofield received the "Best Rock Video" award at the 2008 UK Music Video Awards, for his direction of Supergrass's "Bad Blood" video...

    )
  2. "Talking Like Turnstiles" (Director: Lance Bangs
    Lance Bangs
    Lance Bangs is an American filmmaker, documentarian, and music video director who has created videos for Sonic Youth, Nirvana, Green Day, the Arcade Fire, the Shins, The Thermals, Belle & Sebastian, Menomena, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, R.E.M., Mike Watt, Death Cab for Cutie, The Black Keys, Kanye West, and...

    )


iTunes only
  1. "Directions Interview"
  2. "Directions Trailer"
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