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And Finally
Death Cab on their non-snappy name
By CMU Editorial | Published on Tuesday 12 May 2009
Death Cab For Cutie have been talking to CNN about how they came up with their band’s name, and revealed that they often joke about changing it.
The name, taken from a song by The Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band performed in the 1967 Beatles’ film ‘Magical Mystery Tour’, was apparently chosen by founder Ben Gibbard. The group’s Chris Walla explained: “Ben was in a Magical Mystery Tour all-the-time kind of phase. He made a grand proclamation from the couch at one point that if he ever had another band, he was going to call it Death Cab For Cutie”.
Bassist Nick Harmer added: “Knowing what we know now, Ben has said that he would have loved to have shortened it somehow to a snappier name”. How about Death? That’s a good name for a band. Well, it’s better than Cutie.
