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« Reply #135 on May 18, 2011, 11:20am » | |
On so many different levels is that fantastic.
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« Reply #136 on May 18, 2011, 10:14pm » | |
I will take your word for it & watch their set.
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« Reply #137 on May 18, 2011, 10:15pm » | |
Nice! You won't regret it. Their new album is pretty festival friendly actually. Hell, they're playing every major festival in the U.S. this year.
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« Reply #138 on May 19, 2011, 12:44pm » | |
I saw that. What's their newer sound like? I'm into the more "Calendar Hung Itself", "Waste of Paint" - shrieking borderline tone-deaf sound because if I'm going to listen to something depressing I want to commit fully and have the person sound like they are dying. I'm assuming their new stuff is more polished?
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« Reply #139 on May 19, 2011, 3:04pm » | |
Yes, way more polished. If you think about it though, that's what it had to come to. Conor is 31 years old now, he can't keep singing songs like he did when he was a 19 year old depressed alcoholic emo kid. He was even considering ending Bright Eyes just because he didn't want to be known for that anymore. I think The Peoples Key is the perfect transition into what will be a new chapter for Bright Eyes. In a recent interview he was talking about reconsidering ending Bright Eyes because of that. He wanted to quit, but touring with the Mystic Valley Band and Monsters of Folk made him realize how much he loves to perform with Bright Eyes rather than his side projects. Don't get me wrong, I love Calendar, Waste of Paint, and all the old stuff, but I do respect their decision to move forward and evolve their sound.
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« Reply #140 on May 19, 2011, 3:23pm » | |
May 19, 2011, 12:44pm, romanticizer wrote:| What's their newer sound like? |
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shitty. really shitty.
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« Reply #141 on May 19, 2011, 5:39pm » | |
Stamper you are usually right about a lot of things, and I usually respect your opinion, but you are wrong about this one. 
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Feb 11, 2013, 2:30am, peatrick wrote:| "Foo Dr. Garbanzohters" sounds like a title of a movie I would end up watching at 3am at Stormy and Gramma's house. |
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| | Re: Bright Eyes Thread (You knew this day would co
« Reply #142 on May 19, 2011, 5:43pm » | |
To my ears it still sounds like the whining of a privileged white kid on a never-ending quest for the Golden Pity Fuck.
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« Reply #143 on May 19, 2011, 5:53pm » | |
You've listened to it? You didn't illegally download it did you?
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Feb 11, 2013, 2:30am, peatrick wrote:| "Foo Dr. Garbanzohters" sounds like a title of a movie I would end up watching at 3am at Stormy and Gramma's house. |
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« Reply #144 on May 19, 2011, 5:54pm » | |
He sings about science fiction, religion, singularity, and spirituality.....how is that whining?
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« Reply #145 on May 19, 2011, 5:56pm » | |
dude, i'm not even a major bright eyes hater... but this new album is absolutely shittastic.
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« Reply #146 on May 19, 2011, 6:01pm » | |
May 19, 2011, 5:53pm, Switch wrote:| You've listened to it? You didn't illegally download it did you? |
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Yeah, I compromised a strong belief that I hold dear and which I constantly harangue you knuckleheads about so I could listen to a Bright Eyes album.
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« Reply #147 on May 19, 2011, 6:03pm » | |
May 19, 2011, 5:56pm, stamper wrote:| dude, i'm not even a major bright eyes hater... but this new album is absolutely shittastic. |
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Fair enough. I love it, you hate it, that's cool. I don't want to start another 3 page argument about Bright Eyes. But I would like to present song lyrics from one of the songs because I really think that it shows the maturity in writing that has come with the new album versus some of their older stuff:
I do my best to sleep through the caterwaul
The classicist, the posturing avant-garde
I bought a grey macaw, named him Jules Verne
He'll probably outlive me - he's a bright bird
Keeps me company, I teach him new words
I saw a hologram at the theme park
She looked as real as me through the white fog
Then she melted down to her ankles
Turned into a million-watt candle
If I knew where she went, I would follow
Walking through the land of tomorrow
Martian trinkets, plastic Apollos
In the sunshine, try to act normal
My veins are full of flat cherry cola
Slept on the bench by the rollercoaster
Dreamt I was riding on a motorbike
Lion of Judah, painted on the side
I'm doing fine, I'm back in the Palisades
Life's a wash, a pastoral school play
China shops and cold ivory towers
I and I, make toasts to the Caesars
Forcing down the dregs of Decembers
Madeline, she spins in a slow bang
All through the house, the strong smell of burnt sage
Let's make it clean and run out the spirits
I know a diving bell when I hear it
We're going down now under the surface
Light to dark can shift in an instant
Feeling close but keeping my distance
On all fours she's just so insistent
Fills my mind with jump ropes and slit wrists
Bust through the Firewall into Heaven
And then I'm standing in that blinding light
Crooked crosses falling from the sky
Seen, yeah, seen by I and I...
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Feb 11, 2013, 2:30am, peatrick wrote:| "Foo Dr. Garbanzohters" sounds like a title of a movie I would end up watching at 3am at Stormy and Gramma's house. |
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| | Re: Bright Eyes Thread (You knew this day would co
« Reply #148 on May 19, 2011, 6:04pm » | |
Harangue is woefully underused these days. Harangue.
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Mar 5, 2013, 1:11am, jasonburrito wrote:| NO REAL NAMES Dr. GarbanzoINSKI |
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| | Re: Bright Eyes Thread (You knew this day would co
« Reply #149 on May 19, 2011, 6:08pm » | |
Mailboxes drip like lampposts
In the twisted birth canal of the coliseum
Rim job fairy teapots mask the temper tantrum
O' say, "Can you see 'em?"
Stuffed cabbage is the darling of the Laundromat
'N' the sorority mascot sat with the lumberjack
Pressing, passing, stinging half synthetic fabrications of his time
The mouse with the overbite
Explained how the rabbits were ensnared
'N' the skinny scanty sylph trashed the apothecary diplomat
Inside the three-eyed monkey within inches of his toaster oven life
In my mind, I'm half blind
My inner ref is mostly deaf
I'm smell impaired if you cared
My sense of taste is wasted
On the phosphorescent orange peels
Of San Francisco axe-encrusted frenzy
So let me touch you
Let me touch you
Let me touch you
Let me touch you
Where the Royal Jelly gets made
Coloratura singers bringing weeds and social clingers
Hangers-on and fancy flinger's to the dress ball
Mushrooms and bowling pins
Stove pipe hats and other things I can't recall from Juvenile hall
We're so unlucky and stuff
Woodrow Wilson never had it so tough
Dairy Queen and Vaseline and Maybelline
Paul Bunyan and James Dean
Allegory agencies of pre-Raphaelite paganry
And Shenandoah tapestries compared with good mahogany
Collapsing the undying postcard romance
With feline perspicacity by the university
That night I held a paucity
Which you deemed common courtesy
I wasn't what you thought I'd be
I shouldn't have invited you to dance
In my tree I'm halfway free
And in my chair one quarter there
In my dream one-sixteenth cream
In the coffee of the courtier
Of the sycophant assistant to the king
So let me touch you
Let me touch you
Let me touch you
Let me touch you
Where the Royal Jelly gets made
You're a liar
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