¡All-Time Quarterback! is the third and final release from Ben Gibbard

Ben Gibbard

Benjamin "Ben" Gibbard is an American musician known as a member of several successful indie rock bands. He is the lead singer of Death Cab for Cutie and The Postal Service, and is also known for his project ¡All-Time Quarterback! and his first band, Pinwheel.-Personal life and career:Gibbard was...

's solo project ¡All-Time Quarterback!. It is a collection of tracks from the now out of print EPs ¡All-Time Quarterback!

¡All-Time Quarterback! (EP)

¡All-Time Quarterback! was the first release of Ben Gibbard's solo project ¡All-Time Quarterback!. A limited number of the CD EP was released on Elsinor Records and is now out of print. All of the tracks from this release were collected and re-released by Barsuk on 2002's ¡All-Time Quarterback!...

 and The Envelope Sessions

The Envelope Sessions

The Envelope Sessions is the second release from Ben Gibbard's solo project ¡All-Time Quarterback!. The tape was a limited release on Elsinor Records and is now out of print. Tracks from this tape were later taken and put together with the ¡All-Time Quarterback! EP and re-released by Barsuk records...

. Oddly, the ¡All-Time Quarterback! album excludes the tracks "Don't Touch the Tape", "Lullaby, Lullaby", "Dig It!" and "Stark Mobile," despite its short album length. However, it includes the previously unreleased track "Dinner At Eight in the Suburbs".

The enhanced CD

Enhanced CD

Enhanced CD, also known as CD Extra and CD Plus, is a certification mark of the Recording Industry Association of America for various technologies that combine audio and computer data for use in both Compact Disc and CD-ROM players....

 features the video for "Plans Get Complex", filmed in London and edited by Aaron Stewart.

Track listing

Trivia

The track "Underwater!" went on to become a 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 ....

 song, released on 7" inch as part of the Sub Pop Singles Club (March 2000).

Credits

• Ben Gibbard – all instruments and vocals
• Nick helped by playing percussion on "Untitled".
• Drums on "Why I Cry" were looped from a Rat Cat Hogan song, and, as such, were played by Rob.
• "Why I Cry" is a Magnetic Fields song written by Stephin Merritt
  Stephin Merritt
  Stephin Merritt is an American singer-songwriter based in Los Angeles , best known as the principal singer and songwriter in the band The Magnetic Fields...
  
  , copyright 1995.