The ONLY Bright Eyes Thread
 

what do you think of them? they seem pretty good. im going to get their cd.

For me a bit hit n miss, some of the stuff is wonderful, some of it is just a bit meh. I prefer Desparaceidos myself.

I LOVE Bright Eyes.

Definately my favourite band... I have all the cds but I recommend "Fevers and Mirrors" especially. Enjoy!

I agree with franscar. I find i either love the song or dont like it at all."No Lies, Just love" is a great song!

i just got lifted...

awesome band check out "lover i don't have to love" and "Haligh, Haligh, A Lie, Haligh"

theyre awesome. Conor Oberst is a great songwriter

conor oberst is a lyrical genius... !
i recommend bright eyes to anyone and everyone who's willing to actually listen to the lyrics of a song... o_o

im not a huge fan. conor is going to be on austin city limits soon, which is pretty cool.
id give it a 5

5 out of......

Bright eyes
 

out of 10. youd have to be pretty stupid not to figure that out.

I can't stand the singer's voice.

10 what else would it be out of? i mean normally its out of 10

a million...wtf do you think it is out of.

I can't stand alot of it and everyonce and awhile they'll put out something other than just big words strung together. Also Oberst is like super-Kerry. And I don't understand why you'd go to a concert just to cry. Seems like you could do that at home...

i have changed my position, anyone who doesnt support the next dictator is good in my book.

vote kerry 2004

Pretty cool
 

I like bright eyes i think they are pretty awesome.My favourite song is Lover I don't have to love or falling out of love at this volume. :love:
They're bloody bonkingly good :bonkhead:

i should listen to bright eyes. but... i have no money, and i'm download impaired.

theyre decent, the voice gets annoying though and they have a lot of bad songs.

there is no they're....Bright Eyes is just one guy, i mean there's other musicians that play with him, but Bright Eyes is just Conor Oberst.

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Bright Eyes...What a joke
 

So I've read about 4 articles about Bright eyes in the past 2 weeks(including one in the new yorker whats with that?) And about half of those have compared Conner Oberst to...Bob Dylan?!?! Conner Oberst is nothing more than a trendy emo singer. How the hell does anybody think he is a reosanable comparison to Bob Dylan? Blenders reasoning was that musicly hes remeniscent of Dylan....thats crap In dylans later years he didnt even play on a diatonic scale how is it possible that bright eyes could sound like him? I especially dont get why The New Yorker a magazine of much prestige would call him a folk musician when he obviously has no relations to folk music at all. Conner Oberst is one cat that really know how to get me steamed. Some things I will never understand.....

HAHA... yes!

My ex girlfriend loves Bright Eyes & was always trying to get me to listen to them.

I told her that when she could find one fan of theirs that wasn`t either female or under 18 I would.

Needless to say she never found one.

Oh yeah, I read that in the music section of the New York Times. Why are you mad at him though? He's just making music. Its not like he told the reporters that he's emo. He's just a victim of writers that know nothing about music. This also happened to the Promise Ring, Cap'n JAzz, The Get Up Kids, etc... They never said they were emo they are just named that by uneducated writers.

i hate Bright Eyes.

I'm not saying I agree with them (the writers) but I think they figure since some of his songs are politically motivated then he's automatically like Bob Dylan. It's a bunch of crap, but hey, most people don't try to think about it they just agree with it because it's in some magazine.

Or the new Billy Bragg

I agree with you, I never said he was the one who gave himself this title. Its just pathetic how poor music journalism has gotten. You would think the Newyorker of all magazines would be able to find a better represntation of our generations Dylan than f-n bright eyes. Its just kind of pathetic what lots of music journalism will publish today. Rolling stone has turned into a magazine with a political core, new yorkers music section is shotty at best when it comes to anything outside jazz or the like, blender is obsessed with the T and a and not the music. Spin has been doing a pretty good job though. I think there one of my favorite music mags out there. Or he handful of cool punk zines i.e. Profane Existence, slug and lettuce, suburban blight. Magazines written by people who know and love the music and bands.

but I do blame Conner Oberst for having such a bad band.

I say we start a MusicBanter.com zine.

I'm a bright Eyes Fan and I'm over 18 and male.

Bright Eyes...What a joke
 

oh...


thats depressing.

Whats really terrible is the praise of his two new albums. A friend bought both and forced me to listen to them on the way to The Sleeping show. lordy i almost crahsed the car. I thought it couldn't get worse. Made me want to kill myself.


Needless to say Race The Sun and The Sleeping made my night.

^ wait, you were the driver, and you let him play a CD you hated? My friends know that if they want to stay in the car, they have no say in the music. If they don't like it, they can walk.

she couldnt find you in time.

what can i say, i miss my [ex]girl. she was a beautiful person, phyiscally and personally. conner makes me feel better sometimes and thats that.

i can think of one person, willy mason.

im not saying i like the guy bearing in mind ive only heard 1 song, but from what i saw the only thing emo about him was his hair. is that why you guys think hes emo?!

Those are the internationally agreed rules of sharing someones car.

Bright-crybaby-eyes taught me a lot about whining and self pity.