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Such Great Heights is a single released on January 21, 2003 by The Postal Service, under the Sub Pop Records label. The single includes a previously unreleased track “There’s Never Enough Time” and two cover tracks by The Shins and Iron & Wine of “We Will Become Silhouettes” and “Such Great Heights”, respectively.

The tracks were recorded in early 2002, and were written by Ben Gibbard and Jimmy Tamborello, and included backing vocals in the studio recording by Jen Wood, whose other collaborations include work for The Black Heart Procession and Joan of Arc. It was the first CD released by The Postal Service, and a preview of Give Up, which was released a month later. The cover artwork was designed by Kozyndan.

The title song “Such Great Heights” has exhibited unusual staying power. It has consistently been one of the weekly top 5 most frequently played tracks on social music site Last.fm since the website began, holding the top spot for the majority of 2005. The song’s reign in the top 10 ended in March 2007, when after the release of the Arcade Fire album, Neon Bible, the song did not make it as the top 10 was predominantly songs from Neon Bible. The song was featured on a 2004 episode of Veronica Mars. It has also been used in several television commercials, for organizations such as Ask.com, Kaiser Permanente, Target, UPS and M&M’s. The song was also featured in the trailer for the 2004 film Garden State and the Iron & Wine cover version was featured in the film and its soundtrack. An instrumental version of the song is currently featured as part of UPS’s “Whiteboard” ad campaign, which was launched 6 January 2007, almost four years after the song was officially released.
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  • RedHawk04

    Awesome song

    Thursday evening

  • MinimalIllusion

    Great song.

    21 days ago

  • clashingnotes

    owl city rhetoric

    last month

  • EmanonGirl

    I wish my radio would play other Postal Service songs and not just this one.... although I do like it, would appreciate some diversity here ;/

    last month

  • EricValeev

    Such Great Heights

    last month

  • Petite_Cherie

    oh... this song reminds me of high school, Royksopp, discovering electronica... the memories :)

    last month

  • Sugaronion

    my summer jam

    March 2012

  • tagtraum_83

    it´s popping great...

    March 2012

  • Abkinxoc

    def a great song. cant remember what soundtrack made me fall in love

    March 2012

  • silvasonicsurfa

    ...<note to self> must get this album...

    March 2012

  • heres_mez

    brilliant and great album [2]

    February 2012

  • Petite_Cherie

    I'm still hoping they would make another album :(

    February 2012

  • bhangraprincess

    The popping sound in the beginning is awesome!

    February 2012

  • JerryZola25

    brilliant and great album

    January 2012

  • coloronthewalls

    the memories...

    January 2012

  • bhangraprincess

    This song is too amazing for words!

    January 2012

  • ChrisTeam

    This song is on the most played tracks of all time on last.fm list: The Stairway List

    January 2012

  • musykfreekx10

    what a take-me-back-memory song. NO matter when you hear it or have heard it it's still good.

    December 2011

  • captainyodel

    sophomore year captainyodel would have had at least 5000 plays on this song. 7 years later and current captainyodel still feels this way about this song (and the whole album give up, really)

    December 2011

  • meggnuttz

    ohh this takes me back to middle school <3

    December 2011
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