This is completely random, but is/was anyone else completely infuriated by the D-Plan?

My friend gave me a copy of Emergency & I a long time ago, and while I didn't hate it, I didn't really get it, either.

For every song like "Girl O'Clock" that's a WTFbrilliant moment, there's a song like "What Do You Want Me to Say" that sounds like the woodshed reject of a band getting ready to headline at Sadlack's.

Whenever I listen to this album I keep thinking, "I love this record, but I hate myself for loving it."

8/3/2006 12:19:43 PM

I completely agree. Some of their songs are amazing and some I think are "meh" at best. I like The City.

8/3/2006 12:30:37 PM

Change is my favorite album by them, but i was addicted to Emergency & I (gyroscope was what did me in).

What happened to D-plan? Break up or just fall off the face of the earth?

8/3/2006 12:35:12 PM

"Ice of Boston" live was the best five minutes of any show I've ever been too. Believe it.

8/3/2006 12:45:41 PM

i've seen them a few times live (the first time, when i wasn't yet a fan -- i was annoyed by morrison's voice). but i grew to really like emergency & i. and by the third time i saw them, i thought they were excellent and a great live show.


but when i dl'ed a live show of theirs, it was totally horrible. i mean AWFUL. i wonder if this was basically how they sounded when i saw them, or if i just happened to download a particularly bad set.

8/3/2006 1:08:30 PM

oh man, they are one of my favorite bands. i saw them live twice i think, at CC and king's, and they were awesome both times. some of their weirder stuff was a little hard for me to get into. Emergency & I probably falls in my top 10 favorite albums though. Change was a pretty good album, but they seemed like they were starting to lose their edge. They broke up because Travis said that they thought they had accomplished everything they could together as band. Travis' solo stuff is absolutely terrible.

8/3/2006 1:40:32 PM

really weird! Ive been listening to them nonstop again the last couple days...and i am listening to them at the moment :p

i actually made a thread for them several months back that didnt seem to get much interest.

If you want any other albums by them let me know. The singer is doing other stuff now on his own. I forget his new bands name off the top of my head.

i think their sound was really unique for the time they were writing music tho, which is one reason i like them i think.

8/3/2006 2:23:55 PM

I went to that show at Kings, but I only cared about Enon so I left before D-Plan played.

8/3/2006 5:35:00 PM

ill admit my gf has listened to them for a long time. and at first years ago when i heard them from her i didnt like them at all. and now i love listening to them.

[Edited on August 3, 2006 at 7:10 PM. Reason : ]

8/3/2006 7:09:54 PM

I really didn't listen to them until after hearing Travis Morrison's solo album.

And I like the solo album better, despite a couple of songs that I love of theirs.

[Edited on August 3, 2006 at 7:14 PM. Reason : .]

8/3/2006 7:14:21 PM

you're going soft bandit

8/3/2006 10:22:39 PM

Perhaps. I really only listen to Smokey Robinson and the Hives now.

8/4/2006 12:03:09 AM

i myself have gone soft

i dont listen to much now that i DIDNT listen to at all before but what i mean is i listen to the laid back stuff i have a LOT more. instead of a lot of metal/hardcore being slightly in the majority of my playlists the only ones i listen to are the ones i listened to the in the past. no new ones really heh.

been listening to a lot of iron and wine, old radiohead, old death cab, sigur ros, old jimmy eat world, texas is the reason, sunny day real estate etc.

8/4/2006 12:33:10 AM

I used to really like them, which isn't to say that I don't like them now.

Death + Dismemberment tour ftw.

8/4/2006 12:38:06 AM

^^ Soft is good, kids.

Or at least I tell myself that because I consistently listen to acoustic versons of everything.

8/4/2006 12:58:30 AM

Quote :

"Death + Dismemberment tour ftw."

8/4/2006 11:42:25 AM

while watching the stupid death cab documentary on starz last night, Ben Gibbard gave a shout to dismemberment plan for their sloppy and unpredictable thrilling live show

8/30/2006 2:43:16 PM

I fell asleep at a concert while they were playing.

8/30/2006 3:16:37 PM

the cities been dead, since you've been goooooooooooooooone

( if you havn't heard the smooth sounding version of this song w/ the sax solo in the middle, you're missing out )

8/30/2006 3:20:46 PM

There are times when you will not like the sound of my voice
there are days when a warm look from a strange face will make me forget my name
there'll be nights when you wonder where the party's at now
and you wonder why you never split this beat scene when a higher life awaits
there'll be days when you don't know how you picked the wrong life
in a second when it's over in our own minds -- and it's gone without a sound
there are fights that'll hear things that we know we don't mean
and we say 'em 'cos we don't know what we both want and we can't get to the other side

There are years that'll fly like wind across a flood plain
unaware of its own weight, free of friction, and immune to its own speed
there are weeks that'll crawl like slugs across a hot road
only moving 'cos it just don't know how to stop on a search for God knows what
and there are songs that'll make your skull ring like a dropped cup
Resonating with the reasons why you worked through -- and the reasons why you stayed

For the long nights when you found a new resolve that I never knew was there
For the cold eye and the warm embrace now
For the righteous vibe that I need like the air I breathe

There are times when you'll think you've got my funny number figured out
there'll be days when I don't feel like I ever knew you all that well
and there are lines, drawn around, behind, above and over everyone
in an effort to figure out the place and time, the right, the wrong, the yours, the mine,
and I'll be damned if I feel like I will ever know anything
but if don't keep moving on that last hill,
we'll never know what's on the other side

8/30/2006 3:39:02 PM