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Bright Eyes - Messenger Bird's Song (There Is No Beginning To The Story EP)
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Bright Eyes - Messenger Bird’s Song
Nod your head if the plans have changed
Shake it, love, if they stayed the same
Smile at me and I will stay
Start to cry and I’ll go away
Just please don’t keep me waiting
Just nod your head if your mind’s been changed
Shake it, love, if some hope remains
Just say the word and of course I’ll stay
Roll your eyes and I’ll go away
Just please don’t leave me guessing.
Just please don’t keep me waiting
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Me:
Oh you like Bright Eyes?
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Friend:
Yeah! They're a really good band!
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I click on it and see that they only have First Day of My Life
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Me:
We can't be friends anymore.
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Conor Oberst & The Mystic Valley Band - One Of My Kind (One Of My Kind)
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maxwellhearts:
One of My Kind by Conor Oberst and the Mystic Valley Band
Studio version.


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Looking back, what stands out is how little relation it has to emo or just about anything. There is no Fugazi in Bright Eyes, no Sunny Day Real Estate, no punk rock, to be honest. And there’s no Bob Dylan either and crucially much less Jeff Mangum than in the past, at least musically. Some songs here ride a single melody for their entirety in service of Oberst’s words; others explode into nimble choruses, and the arrangements are every bit as volatile as the narrator: “The Calendar Hung Itself…” moves in lockstep with Oberst’s breathless and nervy howling, its Latin churn interrupted by buzzing G-funk synths, clinking percussion, and before its climactic verse, what sounds like Q-bert falling to his death. “Sunrise, Sunset” predates Beirut’s fixation with klezmer but finds little comfort in nostalgia, punctuated by distorted pummeling and rupturing Fevers’ quieter second half. The opening line of electric piano on “The Movement of a Hand” undergoes subtle mitosis throughout its four minutes, accumulating an unnerving alien beauty as it layers over itself. Though hardly a big-budget affair, Mogis’ production sounds absolutely perfect in recreating the scenes set by Oberst’s lyrics, warm and tactile but with an unsettling cabin fever effect— long overdue for this vinyl reissue. Intoning, “this barren land is alive tonight,” “Arienette” reimagines the Omaha plains as a claustrophobic hell filled with bloodthirsty predators and paranoid prey, “Haligh, Haligh, a Lie, Haligh” mills about a disheveled apartment, “When the Curious Girl Realizes She Is Under Glass” bangs at a piano in drunken disgust. Like many other teen headphone symphonies, from Dark Side of the Moon to Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness, Fevers and Mirrors is a world unto itself, even if it just happens to be a somewhat large city stuck in the middle of Nebraska.
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Bright Eyes - Cartoon Blues (Live - 03/19/2011, SXSW NPR Stream, Bright Eyes)
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Bright Eyes - Mushaboom (Motion Sickness)
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