We Have the Facts and We're Voting Yes

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We Have the Facts and We're Voting Yes
Studio album by Death Cab for Cutie
Released March 21, 2000
Recorded The Hall of Justice
Genre Indie rock
Length 41:52
Label Barsuk
Producer Christopher Walla
Professional reviews
Death Cab for Cutie chronology
Something About Airplanes
(1998)
We Have the Facts and We're Voting Yes
(2000)
The Forbidden Love EP
(2000)

We Have the Facts and We're Voting Yes is the second studio album by indie rock band Death Cab for Cutie, released March 21, 2000 on Barsuk Records. It was ranked the 14th Greatest Indie Rock album of all time by Amazon.com.[1]

The album is dedicated to Trevor Adams.

Contents

[edit] Track listing

All songs written by Ben Gibbard except where noted.

  1. "Title Track" – 3:29
  2. "The Employment Pages" – 4:04
  3. "For What Reason" – 2:52
  4. "Lowell, MA" (Gibbard/Walla) – 3:28
  5. "405" – 3:37
  6. "Little Fury Bugs" – 3:48
  7. "Company Calls" (Gibbard/Harmer/Walla) – 3:19
  8. "Company Calls Epilogue" – 5:16
  9. "No Joy in Mudville" (Gibbard/Harmer/Walla) – 6:03
  10. "Scientist Studies" – 5:56

N.B.: Although live recordings dating from before the album's publication suggest that the opening song was originally titled "We Have the Facts and We're Voting Yes", it is listed as "Title Track", and so is not, in fact, a title track.

[edit] Personnel

  • Benjamin Gibbard – vocals, electric & acoustic guitars, drums, percussion, Casiotone, organ
  • Nicholas Harmer – bass
  • Christopher Walla – Telecaster, electric piano, backing vocals, percussion, glockenspiel, samples
  • Nathan Good – drums on "The Employment Pages" and "Company Calls Epilogue"

[edit] Credits

Produced, recorded, and mixed by Christopher Walla at the Hall of Justice. Mastered by Tony Lash.

[edit] Cut Songs

The Forbidden Love E.P. contains an acoustic version of "405" and an alternate version of "Company Calls Epilogue".

You Can Play These Songs with Chords + 10 contains a version of "Song for Kelly Huckaby" that Christopher Walla notes was for Facts. Another version of "Song for Kelly Huckaby" appears on The Forbidden Love E.P.

[edit] References

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