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Post by ebay on Mar 23, 2011 13:52:49 GMT -8
best thing I can say about Bright Eyes is that I'm glad I won't feel bad for missing anything cool on the mainstage during Iron & Wine
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Post by Horned Gramma on Mar 23, 2011 13:54:46 GMT -8
I said it elsewhere recently, but Fevers and Mirrors has aged pretty well.
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Post by J. Walter Weatherman on Mar 23, 2011 13:56:44 GMT -8
I thought Iron and Wine was playing the mainstage before WKD?
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Post by Warily on Mar 23, 2011 14:11:04 GMT -8
I thought Iron and Wine was playing the mainstage before WKD? Yeah I think they are. Robyn got moved to Bigfoot remember?
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Post by Switch on Mar 23, 2011 15:06:46 GMT -8
so what should a kid who hasn't been super impressed with all of the 3 or 4 songs he has heard download? Well Brendan that is a great question. All of their albums have a different style. I would say start with the 2 albums that were released together because they cover the spectrum pretty well: I'm Wide Awake Its Morning - This is probably the album that Conor is most respected for. It is a mix of folk, blues, and rock. Its a gem. Digital Ash in a Digital Urn - This album is more electronic and beat oriented. Another gem. Try these two, if you don't like them then you won't like anything else.
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Post by Switch on Mar 23, 2011 15:08:05 GMT -8
I will give that SXSW performance a try once the video is up though. Please do because I think it is one of their best concerts that I have seen on video. I am biased though so nothing is going to be boring for me.
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Post by Switch on Mar 23, 2011 15:12:05 GMT -8
Switch, what is your opinion on the Devil Town cover? To be honest, I skip over it every time I listen to Noise Floor. Noise Floor is a Bright Eyes album that has a collection of rare songs. It is probably my favorite album, but yeah I usually skip Devil Town. Saddle Creek is a neat little label in my opinion. I like Cursive and Tim Kasher's other band The Good Life.
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Post by Switch on Mar 23, 2011 15:21:50 GMT -8
I said it elsewhere recently, but Fevers and Mirrors has aged pretty well. I love Fevers and Mirrors, but I know why some people might develop a disliking for Bright Eyes because of that album. Musically it's fantastic, lyrically it is really really depressing. I love the lyrics, but you can't just roll up to a party or something and throw on Fevers and Mirrors.
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Post by Horned Gramma on Mar 23, 2011 15:25:27 GMT -8
You can't roll up to a party and throw on ANY Bright Eyes album.
Unless it was a funeral.
For the WRONG KID.
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Post by Switch on Mar 23, 2011 15:28:59 GMT -8
One of my all time favorite songs, From a Balance Beam. I love these lyrics:
There is a man holding a megaphone So he must have been the voice of God The bystanders claimed they saw angels Flying up and down the block Well, they must have been attached to wires I saw one laying in the lawn with a broken arm So I called 911 So that's one less founded opinion One more cause for a dispute So the street filled like a basin Up with cameras and their crews And they washed away the rumors Leaving just the concrete truth It was a spectacle No, I, I mean a miracle So then I fell like that girl from a balance beam A gymnasium of eyes were all holding on to me I lifted one foot to cross the other and I felt myself slipping It was a small mistake Sometimes that's all it takes
Now I'm staring at my wrist Hoping that the timing is right When the planets will align There will be no planets to align Just the carcass of the sun And those little painted marbles Spinning senseless through an endless black sky
(And so it never started and it will never stop just like I am and you are)
It was in a foreign hotel's bathtub I baptized myself in change And one by one I drowned all of the people I had been I emerged to find the parallels were fewer I was cleansed I looked in the mirror and someone new was there Still I was as helpless as a chess piece When I was lifted up by someone's hand And delivered from the corner My enemies had got me in But in all of my salvation I still felt imprisoned inside That holding cell that is myself So I wait for the day when I'll hear the key As it turns in the lock and the guard will say to me "Oh, my patient prisoner, you have waited for this day and finally You are free! You are free! You are freezing"
Now I'm staring at the sun waiting for it to explode Because a day is gonna come Don't know when but it will come And then we will finally know the way out of here
And I will throw away this wrinkled map And my chart of stars and compass, cracked And I'll climb that tree all wet with sap To avoid the hungry beasts below I'll cut out my lover's tongue and sing Of a graveyard gray and a garden green And then we won't have worry no more No, we won't have to wonder again About how this song or story ends About how this song and story will end
You have to listen to this with headphones or good speakers to hear all the layers
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Post by Lump on Mar 23, 2011 16:30:52 GMT -8
You can't roll up to a party and throw on ANY Bright Eyes album. Unless it was a funeral. For the WRONG KID. Radiohead too apparently! I got a lil' temp job at a flower shop for a week working with 3 college girls and 3 60+ women. One of the other college girls played some Radiohead and the old ladies called their songs "funeral dirges." It was fun watching the arguments between the girls and the old women on the merits of Radiohead.
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Post by Lump on Mar 23, 2011 16:31:53 GMT -8
Sorry doods, didn't mean to take you away from your discussion of ol' Connie Obie
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Post by Horned Gramma on Mar 23, 2011 16:36:27 GMT -8
the old ladies called their songs "funeral dirges." Was it Hail to the Thief? That's usually how I describe that album too.
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Post by Lump on Mar 23, 2011 17:15:39 GMT -8
See, I think it was OK Computer. Which I find to possibly be their "happiest" album (if that's possible).
It was hard for me to argue either way though. The times I get full enjoyment from Radiohead are the times I'm super depressed, so I had my feet on both sides of that line.
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Post by Switch on Mar 24, 2011 5:54:02 GMT -8
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Post by Horned Gramma on Mar 24, 2011 7:17:52 GMT -8
I don't hear anyone screaming "WRONG KID DIED" in that video, so that's not a very good example of what you can expect when Bright Eyes play Sasquatch.
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Post by wompwomp on Mar 24, 2011 7:28:24 GMT -8
can someone explain this wrong kid died thing to this noob over here. Its from that Walk Hard movie right?
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Post by Switch on Mar 24, 2011 7:29:41 GMT -8
AHHHHHH. HG. You will be too impressed to yell WKD when Bright Eyes takes the stage.
I wouldn't mess with those Conor Oberst freaks either. If you think I am bad....I'm not even close to some of those wackos. That's the reason I am not a part of any Bright Eyes message boards. They don't even know who Mike Mogis is. Its like talking to a bunch of Tool fans that don't know who Adam Jones is. I got in a fight with some of those hardcores in the NPR chat during the SXSW broadcast.
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Post by Horned Gramma on Mar 24, 2011 7:31:36 GMT -8
I promise you I won't be too impressed to yell WRONG KID DIED. And I have no reservations about messin' with a bunch of wine-drunk teenage girls in skinny jeans.
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Post by Switch on Mar 24, 2011 7:32:28 GMT -8
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