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the awful sweetness of escaping sweat
what kind of ear biter writes a song called that?
bright eyes thats who!
'kill myself music' no wonder there are so many murders in america if thats what everyones listenin to!
tuneless drivel. just gave it listen on me mate's computer. if anyone can tell me why this 'material' is worthy of any form of attention then please attempt to.
bright eyes thats who!
'kill myself music' no wonder there are so many murders in america if thats what everyones listenin to!
tuneless drivel. just gave it listen on me mate's computer. if anyone can tell me why this 'material' is worthy of any form of attention then please attempt to.
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I find Mr Oberst's music incredibly beautiful, I dont find it in the least depressing.
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Also may be worth checking out the despericados which is connor's heavier band, from looking at your ratings you dont seem to like acoustic stuff (only a guess, sorry if im wrong) so that might be a better fit for you.
It's quite funny this in a way, i've been listening to bright eyes pretty much constantly for the last few days (not the new albums dont have them yet, skint)
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which is better "fevers and mirrors" or "lifted..."?
this post is aimed at nobody in particular...
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Do you like Digital Ash?
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I would recomend that you dont start with letting off the happiness unless you like lo-fi (this is hard to do, rate some bands it'd make it a bit easier to offer advice).
Lifted is quite self indulgent (for connor so read very self indulgent) but you avoid fevers and mirrors 'radio interview' which might put you off despite the rest of album being very good.
Erm yeah hope that helps, sorry i havent really said you should definately go for that one.
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i have the impression that "digital ash..." is an experimental side to his music but i might be wrong.
nevertheless its a very good record overall even though i think it doesnt thread too well at times.
its brave.
the last track "lucky/easy/free" is excellent.
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I played Wide Awake a lot at first. Now i'm all about the Digital Ash.
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Fevers and mirrors good, but it's partly what put me off him for ages, a little indulgent, song to pass the time is beautiful though,
Lifted's fairly solid, prob my fav album of his as 'Brig
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Letting off the happiness might be worth getting instead of fevers too, got a couple of stunning tunes,
collection of songs is to be bought after you've got all the others, and if you're desperate to hear more, not a good way of 'getting into' him, which is fair enough, given he was 14-17 when recording them
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desperacidos are great too
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"radio: Now you mentioned empathy for others. Would you say that that motivates you to make the music that you make?
Connor: No, not really. It’s more a need for sympathy. I want people to feel sorry for me....When I was a kid I used to carry a safety pin around with me every where I went in my pocket, and when people weren’t paying enough attention to me, I’d dig it into my arm until I started crying "
=funny, its not not even him talking its todd from the faint, connors the one taking the piss in the background saying " saddle creek fuckin records with their fuckin new wave groups and ethereal sad, sad folk..."
A song to pass the time is probably my favourite ever song
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End of?
Nay my friend, I fear this is just the beginning....
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I don't particularly like him, but he isn't crap. he is actually quite a talented songwriter.
At least justify your opinion.
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You could also argue that such humour is possibly out of place on a bright eyes album given the tone of the music.
Still either way, all it actually involves is learning to use the track skip button if you have fevers on cd.
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