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i heard this when i was a teenager and i have been looking for it for YEARS! thank you

I'm obsessed with this

a whole new interpretation of a classic. this is how you do a cover

He has lyrics on his guitar - that is genius! why have I never done that?

XD

Was.

"What's the next line again?" Excellent.

"You hear the door slam" *CLAP* ...awesome.

divorced

stupid audience. Why do they feel the need to cheer over his voice? Didn't they go to hear him?

original pwns

omg. i have the same looking guitar!

@SlaineAdhseidh Not anymore. ='(

BEN GIBBARD IS THE MAN

@paperinotregua no, there are more covers of thriller out there ^_^

i wish i could have made it to that concert

Hahaha! This is one of the coolest things I've seen/heard in my whole life.

Damn, I was expecting him to belt the chorus.

i love him and i love this song... so good

I don't know why I should hate this guy more. Because he is painfully talented or because he is married to Zooey Deschanel.

i just spent the last half hour looking up creep covers :P i LOVE Radiohead

i hate him, he got zooey deschanel.. hate in a good way :)

OMG I LOVE THIS COVER :)

Hooray, now I can understand the lyrics!

He writes the songs...

no...him and 3 or 4 other dudes are death cab

HAHAHAHAHAHAHA

that doesn't make sense.

ben gibbard is amazing...

He is death cab.

agreed

death cab is better....

how do you NOT know the lyrics to that song?

right um, michael jackson didn't write thriller. so there's that.

Its not a tribute. It was made 5/9/07, two years prior to his death. It is a cover. I do however like DCFC and Postal Service.

this is hilarious. i love it. i think i'm going to try to learn it immediately. XD

Ben Gibbard you talented douchebag, go back to The Postal Service and make another album!

You do realize that the chord progression was created by Michael Jackson, not Ben Gibbard, and thus insinuating that Michael Jackson is the one with no imagination and no skill...

Thanks for the nice Hallowe'en/Samhain treat.

bland? are you kidding? it's a no-brainer that this song was obviously not meant to be done on one instrument, especially not guitar. most of Gibbard's covers have taken a basic approach which is completely understandable because an artist never wants to out-play someones song.

hating? what.

Its just something fun he did at a show for everyone to sing along to. Everyone loves this song and its entertaining its not like he recorded it and started selling it to show how much of a badass he is(I'm not saying he is or isn't). He just played it for fun stop hating.

Haha this is hilarious. Thriller was originally "played" by a bunch of fake instruments in the first place. I don't think those crappy old drum machines are very offended by Ben Gibbard playing their tunes :-P Given that, this isn't like, more high brow or low brow than the original really. The singer probably just intended to surprise people at the beginning.

okay so ben gibbard doesn't destroy great music. he creates it. then again i have to agree this isn't really his style. i mean it's not bad on its own but going by the originaly its not one of his best.

why the fuck this guys destroy good music

I just have to say it's the chord progression be it what it may. I like Death Cab as well, but I don't really like this cover either. It's one of those I-can't-believe-he-would-cover-that-with-that-style covers.

Ben Gibbard took this song, flattened it, and turned it into a 5 minutes constant drone. Flame away Death Cab groupies, flame away.

i didn't notice a difference between this and the original, spot on ben, great job.

tacojohn69- Its called an interpretation. And a really good one, imho.

you probably have not listened to any of his other stuff. this is a cover, Ben Gibbard is amazing.