So what do you think of Bright Eyes?

mindi

My daughter listened to them and I really started liking them. I'm sure she hates that
So anyone else like them? Or I guess it is just a him, Conor?
The kids all know what I am listening too now. When Bright Eyes is on if I ask them who it is they say Bright Eyes, it's Conor your mopey boyfriend My husband thought it was Eddie :shock: :?

soulsinging

I dig them, though I'm the potentially rare guy that likes the later work better than the earlier. Lifted and beyond he has been pretty incredible, and his solo album is excellent. Not a huge fan of the two albums prior to Lifted though. He gets a bum rap because of this image, but I think people are finally getting over that and recognizing his talent.

UKDave

Definitely a fan...

Last 2 Bright Eyes albums and solo especially, very very good

pjfan021

i think everything up to casadaga is terrible. His voice is extremely whiney and out of key and just too much for me to take. Casadaga and his work with the Mystic Valley Band is pretty good. He can have great lyrics but I feel like there's a lot of times where he has zero melody in his voice. I saw him live in October and he wasn't really that good. If the crowd isn't reacting the way that he wants, he kind of ruined the vibe of the show...felt kinda awkward.

keeponrockin

Absolultey brilliant..

I need to get the albums 'pre lifted, however, I really like his stuff a lot. "I'm Wide Awake It's Morning' is one of my favourites of the decade.

mindi

pjfan021 wrote:

i think everything up to casadaga is terrible. His voice is extremely whiney and out of key and just too much for me to take. Casadaga and his work with the Mystic Valley Band is pretty good. He can have great lyrics but I feel like there's a lot of times where he has zero melody in his voice. I saw him live in October and he wasn't really that good. If the crowd isn't reacting the way that he wants, he kind of ruined the vibe of the show...felt kinda awkward.

That is how I feel about Smashing Pumpkins. I can not stand Billy's voice, but they have some really good lyrics.

musicismylife78

Bright Eyes is easily one of the most important and talented artists of our generation.

The lyrics are so impressionistic, unbelievable descriptive.

While its hard to compare anyone to Dylan because Dylan is the best and most important songwriter in history, but Conor's lyrics are pretty mindblowing.

"Squatters made a mural of a mexican girl, with 15 cans of spraypaint in a chemical swirl, shes standing in the ashes at the end of the world, 4 winds blowing through her hair"


"All this automatic writing I have tried to understand
From a psychedelic angel who was tugging on my hand
It's an infinite coincidence but it doesn't form a plan
So I'm headed for New England or the Paris of the South
Gonna find myself somewhere to level out

Are your brothels full, Oh Babylon, with merry Middlemen?
Never peer out of their periscopes from those deep opium dens
All this death must need a counterweight always someone born again
First a mother bathes her child then the other way around
The Scales always find a way to level out

I tried to pass for nothing
But my dreams gave me away"

musicismylife78

mindi wrote:

pjfan021 wrote:

i think everything up to casadaga is terrible. His voice is extremely whiney and out of key and just too much for me to take. Casadaga and his work with the Mystic Valley Band is pretty good. He can have great lyrics but I feel like there's a lot of times where he has zero melody in his voice. I saw him live in October and he wasn't really that good. If the crowd isn't reacting the way that he wants, he kind of ruined the vibe of the show...felt kinda awkward.

That is how I feel about Smashing Pumpkins. I can not stand Billy's voice, but they have some really good lyrics.

Sure melody is important, and any of his songs or most of them have a backing band behind him, but does a singer's voice have to have melody to be good?

Did Dylan's? Or Uncle Neil's? Tom Waits?

mindi

I just can't stand Billy Corgans voice. As I was telling my daughter once it sounds like he is singing a different song than what his band is playing. And I just can't stand how he sings, talk about whiney.
They have some really awesome lyrics tho so I try to get past his voice. I never liked any of their "hits" but was lucky that someone recommended a few of their other songs to listen to, and I really like them. I would have never even listened if someone hadn't pointed them out to me.

I actually really like Conor's voice. I think he is a great singer and I love his lyrics. I LOVE "Don't Know When But A Day Is Gonna Come" and "Waste Of Paint", I think right now those two are my favorites, but of course I like some others too.

I really wish they had been with Pearl Jam on the VFC tour! That would have made an awesome show!