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The Postal Service — Such Great Heights
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tutakea
Posted: May 08, 2013 - 06:24
 
this sounds like The Lightning Seeds without genius, or sugar without spice...

Trip_Estes
Posted: May 08, 2013 - 06:21
 
Great song! I love both versions. 

kingart
(Brooklyn NY)
Posted: Mar 06, 2013 - 14:45
 
Death Cab for Too Cutie. 

ycb661
Posted: Sep 30, 2012 - 19:34
 
great lyrics - Iron & Wine cover is more my style

tomvela
Posted: Aug 30, 2012 - 06:38
 
great song on a dancefloor!

kurtster
(Back in Ohiya, for now ...)
Posted: May 27, 2012 - 12:58
 
Is someone shuffling on sandpaper ?

aquadonia
(Green Bay, WI)
Posted: May 13, 2011 - 23:18
 
{#Bounce} {#Sunny} {#Bounce}

CasaE
Posted: Mar 11, 2011 - 20:37
 
Yuck! What happened to the GOOD friday night songs on RP?!{#Frustrated}

I promise I'll post something nice if they play a good song!

adroc
(T dot O dot)
Posted: Oct 05, 2010 - 07:32
 
 buddy wrote:
A really poor cover of a great song.
 
This one you're commenting on by The Postal Service is the original.  Which poor cover are you referring to? I&W?


Stingray
(EUROPE)
Posted: Sep 03, 2010 - 07:30
 
20% of that song is WORLD-CLASS!

The rest,....is not!


Delawhere
Posted: Aug 02, 2010 - 07:33
 
this is a cool song, I've never heard anyone sample a commercial before

ziggytrix
(Dallas, TX)
Posted: Aug 02, 2010 - 07:31
 
 RadioDoc wrote:

Amusingly, both this and the Iron and Wine version were released at the same time, with I&W being the B side of the Postal Service single.  So which is the cover?



The Iron & Wine version is the cover.


ericconrad
Posted: Apr 28, 2010 - 21:39
 
 RadioDoc wrote:
In some parallel universe, Ben Gibbard actually works for the Postal Service, preferably in a back room somewhere far away from recording equipment.

Right now I wish I lived there.
 
I disagree with the sentiment, but have to give credit where it's due. You made me laugh. {#Lol}


simon-hk
(Hong Kong)
Posted: Feb 24, 2010 - 18:10
 
excellent!!

RadioDoc
(Chicagoland)
Posted: Feb 24, 2010 - 16:50
 
In some parallel universe, Ben Gibbard actually works for the Postal Service, preferably in a back room somewhere far away from recording equipment.

Right now I wish I lived there.

dewhead
(Big Orange Country)
Posted: Jan 18, 2010 - 12:25
 
I love the Iron & Wine version of this. This version made my want to throw my speakers out the window.

RadioDoc
(Chicagoland)
Posted: Nov 16, 2009 - 17:02
 
 buddy wrote:
A really poor cover of a great song.
 
Amusingly, both this and the Iron and Wine version were released at the same time, with I&W being the B side of the Postal Service single.  So which is the cover?


Stave
(San Francisco)
Posted: Sep 14, 2009 - 16:27
 
No, Kaiser Permanente, I will not buy your crappy insurance!

Oh wait, this isn't a smug commercial.  it's an actual song on RP.  Well that's not so bad, I guess.


Dahlia_Gumbo
(San Francisco)
Posted: Jul 19, 2009 - 07:29
 
Uh, no thanks. Background sounds like sandpaper on the mic.

ziggytrix
(Dallas, TX)
Posted: Jul 13, 2009 - 13:21
 
 Danimal174 wrote:
One other comment...there are quite a few comments below about Iron & Wine's "cover" of this song...he (Sam Beam, force behind Iron & Wine) wrote this song, then The Postal Service covered it, so his version isn't a cover...it's the original.

Sorry, just being nitpicky.

Nitpicky and misinformed.  Not a great combo.

Check the album credits. Copied and pasted directly from DCFC's website.

The Postal Service - Such Great Heights

Sub Pop Records
January 2003
Buy the CD | The Postal Service - Such Great Heights - EP

Back to Related Bands
Back to Discography

Tracklisting

  1. Such Great Heights
  2. Theres Never Enough Time
  3. We Will Become Silhouettes
  4. Such Great Heights - Iron & Wine

Credits

The Postal Service are Jimmy Tamborello and Benjamin Gibbard.  All songs written by Jimmy Tamborello and Benjamin Gibbard / Dying Songs (BMI) / Fake Songs (BMI). Songs 1 & 2 recorded and produced by the Postal Service at Dying Songs (L.A.) and Computerworld (Seattle).  Guitars on Song 2 recorded by Chris Walla at the Hall of Justice, Spring 2002.  Song 3 recorded and produced by James Mercer 12/2002 (Portland, Oregon).  Song 4 recorded and produced by Sam Beam 11/2002 (Miami, Florida).

Song 1 from the forthcoming album "Give Up" (sp595).

Art by: Kozyndan.




sirdroseph
(Outer Mongolia)
Posted: Jul 13, 2009 - 13:12
 
Whats funny is I used to work for UPS and now I work for NCR supporting the Postal Service. Oh yea, Iron and Wine good; postal service remake bad.{#Puke}

Danimal174
(Upstate South Carolina)
Posted: Jun 17, 2009 - 12:11
 
One other comment...there are quite a few comments below about Iron & Wine's "cover" of this song...he (Sam Beam, force behind Iron & Wine) wrote this song, then The Postal Service covered it, so his version isn't a cover...it's the original.

Sorry, just being nitpicky.

Danimal174
(Upstate South Carolina)
Posted: Jun 17, 2009 - 11:58
 
 ginger wrote:

Yeah, I had thought about that too. And I know we need one more person to weigh in on this like we need a collective hole in the head, but I give this version a 2 and Iron and Wine's a 9.
 

I agree completely. Love the I&W version, and could definitely do without this one. The little guitar "solo" (not much of a solo, but, still) is pretty cool, but that's about it for this version, for me.

Carl
(The Summit City)
Posted: Jun 11, 2009 - 17:44
 
 ginger wrote:

Yeah, I had thought about that too. And I know we need one more person to weigh in on this like we need a collective hole in the head, but I give this version a 2 and Iron and Wine's a 9.
 
 Just listened to each of them and they're like two different songs! I like them both.


scraig
(Santa Barbara, CA)
Posted: Apr 09, 2009 - 10:38
 
Finally just listened to the lyrics...very nice.

ginger
(Connecticut)
Posted: Apr 01, 2009 - 17:26
 
 redstorm wrote:
Does anyone else find it funny/ironic that The Postal Service is used in the UPS/whiteboard TV ad's? {#Ask}
 
Yeah, I had thought about that too. And I know we need one more person to weigh in on this like we need a collective hole in the head, but I give this version a 2 and Iron and Wine's a 9.

RadioDoc
(Chicagoland)
Posted: Mar 18, 2009 - 09:47
 
 MJMJ wrote:

Postal Death for Cutie Cab Service

Death Cab for Postal Service

Cutie Cab for Postal Death Service

Death Service for Postal Cutie Cab
 
All of the above.  Stick them in a brown box, load them in a brown truck and take them far away from here.


RadioDoc
(Chicagoland)
Posted: Mar 18, 2009 - 09:46
 
 jenakle wrote:
 Shimmer wrote:
Iron & Wine's cover of this song will open your eyes.
 


i concur
I hate this version
 
{#Yes}


lovemydog
Posted: Mar 18, 2009 - 09:46
 
What can brown do for you?

redstorm
(East Coast!........ Lou!)
Posted: Mar 14, 2009 - 14:36
 
Does anyone else find it funny/ironic that The Postal Service is used in the UPS/whiteboard TV ad's? {#Ask}

bindi
(North Carolina)
Posted: Mar 14, 2009 - 14:33
 
love all the versions, and I think they all have merit - this is my favorite though!  {#Roflol}

lambret
(Florianópolis - Brasil)
Posted: Mar 14, 2009 - 14:33
 
i am havin great heights

rjoslyn
Posted: Mar 08, 2009 - 22:07
 
i don't think i could choose between the postal service and iron & wine on this one...they're both great. depends on your mood.

james mercer of the shins also plays some supreme postal service covers. not sure where i got my hands on the recording, but it's one of my favorites!

Shimmer
(Bethesda, MD)
Posted: Feb 09, 2009 - 21:54
 
 darrenwwwa wrote:

Their cover of this song is even better than this? Wow. I must hear that!

 
Play it without expectations and I think you'll be impressed. You have to forget you've ever heard this version first.


Shimmer
(Bethesda, MD)
Posted: Feb 09, 2009 - 21:53
 
 darrenwwwa wrote:

It is a good cover, but becuase it is so slow it looses the happy energy that the Postal Service's version has.
Both are good, but I prefer the original.

 
But the slow tempo fit the words and music better. Much like Gary Jules' version of Mad World. They should've saved that happy energy for a different song.


darrenwwwa
(Amsterdam)
Posted: Feb 05, 2009 - 08:16
 
 Shimmer wrote:
Iron & Wine's cover of this song will open your eyes.
 
It is a good cover, but becuase it is so slow it looses the happy energy that the Postal Service's version has.
Both are good, but I prefer the original.


jenakle
(Tallahassee, FL)
Posted: Feb 05, 2009 - 08:12
 
 Shimmer wrote:
Iron & Wine's cover of this song will open your eyes.
 




i concur
I hate this version

darrenwwwa
(Amsterdam)
Posted: Feb 05, 2009 - 08:11
 
 Shimmer wrote:
Iron & Wine's cover of this song will open your eyes.
 
Their cover of this song is even better than this? Wow. I must hear that!


Mugro
(Lane Village, Red Sox Nation)
Posted: Feb 05, 2009 - 08:11
 
All of the crappy 80s synthesizer music, but without the hair. I guess there might be something good about this song. {#Sick}

Shimmer
(Bethesda, MD)
Posted: Feb 05, 2009 - 08:10
 
Iron & Wine's cover of this song will open your eyes.

keesbriggs
Posted: Jan 28, 2009 - 14:53
 
This song makes me, a perfectly secure and contented person, want to slit my wrists. Soulless garbage crapped out of a 1/4" keyboard jack.

trekhead
(Set On FUN!!!)
Posted: Jan 14, 2009 - 03:24
 
 realsleep wrote:


     Indeed—- hence the "postal service"..... get it? get it?

 

{#Eh}     {#Doh}

Papernapkin
(Mountain View, CA)
Posted: Jan 10, 2009 - 09:04
 
Gives the post office a bad name.

xs9095
(Dayton, Ohio)
Posted: Jan 10, 2009 - 09:03
 
NO!!!!!

the postal service sucks here too!!! {#Beat}

gutboy
(hanging out in)
Posted: Dec 09, 2008 - 18:34
 
 gutboy wrote:
?????
is this why my unemployment check is late?
 

still waiting


oilydwarf
Posted: Dec 04, 2008 - 02:48
 
First heard this on a 'Virgin Recommends 10' compilation CD apparently put together by Virgin employees for their favourite new bands.  It had some great bands of which this was one. Anyone know if Virgin still do the compilations?

flapser
Posted: Dec 04, 2008 - 02:45
 
One of my favorite songs!!

When are they releasing a new cd...!!


faehnledj
(rather be flying)
Posted: Nov 26, 2008 - 09:45
 
I would play this song in the car LOUD when it first came out.  At the end my daughter (I think three at the time) would say "Again Daddy!"  So I would have to repeat the track.  Ahh, memories.  I wonder if in 20 years she'll hear this song on the oldies station and go back to that time, as I do with songs my parents played on road trips?

posworld
(Michigan)
Posted: Nov 26, 2008 - 09:43
 
 MJMJ wrote:

Postal Death for Cutie Cab Service

Death Cab for Postal Service

Cutie Cab for Postal Death Service

Death Service for Postal Cutie Cab
 

Love it.

wade44
(2900 Km East of Paradise, CA)
Posted: Nov 11, 2008 - 23:19
 
Ironic that UPS chose to use this song in their commericals although it is sung by a group named after their chief competitor.