The Postal ServiceGive Up Deluxe

The cd package is beautiful, befitting a classic disk, reimagined. Audio quality is nice. The Postal Service is a one off project of Ben Gibbard, lyrics, and Jimmy Tamborello, music and programming. In 2013, Tamborello was making tasty electronic music at home. When he had a song, he would put the disk in the mail and send it to Gibbard. (Think Elton John and Bernie Taupin or Grateful Dead and Robert Hunter or the reverse.) Gibbard says the anticipation of the daily mail created a vibe. For the record, Gibbard recruited Jenny Lewis and Jen Wood for backing vocals and Chris Walla for a piano solo. The package includes a second cd with remixed takes of the originals and covers by the Shins and Iron and Wine along with a Postal Service cover of John Lennon's Grow Old With Me and Phil Collins' Against All Odds (Take a Look at Me Now). Death Cab for Cutie and The Postal Service are touring celebrating Give Up and Transatlanticism in what should be a tremendous event.

Five stars+. Other reviewers have said it all about this great music. Buy this CD, you will enjoy it.I just wanted to comment about a song on the second CD written by John Lennon, "Grow Old With Me." John had so much talent it was scary but he could not always channel that talent into work product. However "Grow Old With Me" is one of those classic John Lennon songs that only he could write, stunningly beautiful music with stunningly beautiful lyrics (it is a love song to Yoko). Even on a bad day John had more talent than 99% of the other musicians out there. The story is John wrote this song and was working on it about the time he was killed on Monday, December 8, 1980. There are only a "demo" versions of this song by played and sung by John (see Wikipedia entry for the song)."The Postal Service" take on this song is great.

Great CD!!

This is my favorite album. Nothing sounds exactly like it and I find the songs stuck in my head all the time

This is number 1 in my top five albums of all time. The 10th anniversary re-release gives you their entire catalog and a collection of covers and re-mixes which is essential for any fan of this album and the artists who for a short time collaborated on one of the most accidentally successful side projects in history. The quality of the three LPs and the collectors packaging cannot be understated. The audio quality is fantastic, the packaging is complete with the original album artwork and artwork for the singles "Such Great Heights", "The District Sleeps Alone Tonight" and "We Will Become Silhouettes. I'm VERY happy with this purchase Its truly unfortunate they will never make another record, but perhaps its best this way. These songs will always bring me back to 2003-2004, a time where so much was changing in my life and these songs were there to be the perfect compliment to it.

So everyone's heard "Such Great Heights" a bazillion times by now. I'm pretty sure it's required listening for every coffee shop in America. And is it a great song? Yes, it is. I still leave it on the radio when I hear it come on.So I finally decided to get The Postal Service's first, and only(?) album. Lucky for me, there's a Super Deluxe Edition available.But seriously, 10 years? It's been 10 year since this was released? Wow.Anyway. It's a good album. I don't think it's a GREAT album, at least not in my humble opinion. Maybe it just hasn't aged well, and this type of Millenial-Alternative just seems, well, "old" now? It's been done, and it's been done a lot in the last 10 years. Did The Postal Service start it? Not sure, but there seems like a LOT of Postal Service copies since then.But back to their album. I usually judge how many stars to give something by my first listen-through. Did I love it the first time, is it something I like, but need to listen to again, did time fly while listening, or drag? I did like a few songs the first listen-through, and I did give it a full listen, there wasn't anything on there that I felt the need to skip. But it did seem to drag on. Maybe it's because this is the Deluxe Edition, maybe it's because it's 17 songs long (minus the remixes). But it just didn't click with me on the first listen. And I didn't really feel the need to go back and do a full listen again.I do like the extra tracks, though. There are 5-6 good mixes in there, and the Iron & Wine version of Such Great Heights is excellent.So it gets a solid 4 stars. I'll keep it around, and put my favorite tracks in my Shins-style playlist.

was first turned on to TPS after iron & wine's cover (cd 2) made the garden state soundtrack. even though not an original, that TPS song is arguably the strongest of a ridiculously strong soundtrack album. after that film and soundtrack i became both a zach braff and TPS junkie. i scoured the web for other braff musical suggestions and any TPS single that i could find. once my hope faded that TPS would produce more albums after give up, i relied on my own TPS compilation library to get my fix. this album could have been the future of music 10 years ago and remains a terrifically distinctive 21st century album well worth your hard-earned money. although i already owned every one of these 25 songs, i grabbed this after previewing it since the sound quality is notably better all-around. (note - i have never cared much about sound quality, so perhaps that last point is my self-rationalization for spending more money on MP3s that i already own.)

The track Such Great Heights is the single greatest song I have ever heard. It has defined my life in so many ways I can only say it's a life changing experience. The album itself is very relaxed, sometimes nostalgic, a little sad, but very good. I enjoyed the bonus tracks as well as the remixes as well! If you've never heard this album before, give it a chance. Its certainly quite special

On paper (soooo 19th Century) this 2003 odd collaboration shouldn't work! and yet it's a winner everytime I put in on, and I can easily get carried away with it's beep beep, plinky plink, swish swish rythms and the whimisical and kinda mad lyrics from Ben of the band DCFC. Here we speak of JFK, Clarke Gable, Asphalt carparks and what's underneath? strange dreams, lost love and sleeping in! (cutting edge themes obvs) but again who cares, it all fits together and as their only album its a point in time captured for us all to enjoy. Jen Wood and the lush Jenny Lewis add some feminine wiles to the whole thing and kinda take the sharp edges from some of the songs in a really good way. The fast one follows the slow one, it's got lots of sing-a-long moments...err...cough...apparently.. and all in all it's just a great pop album! beep!

Ben at his best. If you like Death Cab .... You will love this.Look for the trailer with weird al and see for yourself what it's about

Edición especial de 3 vinilos. Muy buena presentación y gran calidad de audio. Incluye algunas fotos y arte del disco.

Sacré groupe un des meilleurs albums que j ai écouter jusque-là

The media could not be loaded. Eines meiner TOP20 Alben. Ich liebe die Stimme von Ben Gibbard und auf dem Album sind einige Spitzen-Tracks drauf, die ich nicht mehr missen mag.Die Vinyl-Box hat einiges zu bieten. Die Musik auf 180g Vinyl und dazu ordentlich Bilder und Texte.Sehr gut!