i was reading an interview that some radio station did with conor oberst and i got halfway through and just remembered that i was reading about conor not craig nicholls. does anyone else think they act/ talk alike?

yeah conors weird... is that the one where he said he had five brothers that drowned and they all had the same name

yes. how did you know which one it was? it's just so craig.

not at all, craig, though a good musician, is no conor oberst.
i mean compare lyrics:
vines- gonna get free, im gonna get free, im gonna get free ride it to the sun
bright eyes- now im drunk as hell on a paino bench, but when i press the keys it all gets reversed, the sound of lonliness makes me happier.

and if you happend to pick up the new filter, when the man is talking to fans at a bright eyes concert, hes asking them what it was that appeals to them about the bright eyes. and most talk about how he means so much to them, his poetry is amazing and like no other. so i really dont think they could ever be compared.

and if you all make this post into a, "conor sux he winez." ill beat you all.

BLONG BLONG!

I don't really care for bright eye's music because mostly of the lyrics. Grand as they might be to some, eventually their words become very strained in authenticity of loneliness and/or just general statements of depression. I've never been into the Emo scene...but please forgive fans of Bright Eyes, it turns into that to me. And Joe, even if I don't agree with you on a matter...you're still not entitled to change what appears on the screen in my statement box. Also, is my new signature too big still?

Bright Eyes isn't emo. Emo fails to exist nowadays.

this is it isnt it
http://www.wichita-recordings.com/brightey...r-interview.htm

its a bit.. riiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiight

hey life's a wait, tou got the lyrics to get free wrong! i didn't mean to compare their music i just meant in interviews like they both say stuff.

yeah it is it.

haha i sa tomato you say tomato episode was on last night. are you from aus

yes! yes! i live in murray bridge do you know where that is?
i heard bright eyes for the first time about 2 weeks ago( i've only been listening to triple j for 6 months coz it took me a year to figure out how to make it work) and i always used to think that Conor was just a german with very good english because he looks so foreign. and he is in the new roling stone, only a tiny pic though.

how old is Conor when is his b day?

Times like these makes me want to quote "Bigmouth strikes again" and than act it out.

huh?
i finally got a bright eyes album 2 days ago ( i had to get it oredered in) and i can honestly say that it is the first thing to have ever left me speechless. it was that good like you can feel his pain. i haven't stopped listening to it since i got it, in fact i'm listening to it now.
oh, by the way the one i got is lifted or the story is in the soil keep your ear to the ground. i'll get fevers and mirrors soon. i hope.

did Conor ever try and kill himself?

look what i found, look what i found!!

way, he wouldn't just vote to oust President Bush from office in November — he'd personally kick his backside out of the White House Singer/songwriter Conor Oberst is livid about the current administration. If the Bright Eyes singer had his.



And while he isn't certain his recent participation in the Vote for Change Tour changed anyone's mind, he nonetheless feels fortunate to have been part of the event.

"I am happy to be here and do what I can to hopefully cure the world of this really sad disease that's infected it," Oberst, 24, said bitterly of the current Republican leadership (see "Vote For Change Kickoff: Springsteen Seeks Humanity, Oberst Wants 'This Madman' Out"). "This off-the-leash American administration is no longer playing by the rules and doesn't [care] what is acceptable for the [rest of the] world."

Oberst has been politically outspoken all year: He contributed to the Future Soundtrack for America, and last month he played a Brooklyn, New York, benefit for protesters detained during the Republican National Convention. But apart from his side project Desaparecidos (see "Desaparecidos: Raging Against The Widening Of Easy St."), Oberst's own music has been played out in the emotional arena more than the political one.

And that's not necessarily going to change.

"I don't try to necessarily conceive of a message and deliver it to people," Oberst said of his Bright Eyes songs. "I just write about what is going on in my head. Now, obviously, [the current political climate] has consumed a lot of my thoughts, my daily thoughts. It's just more present to me because of the gravity and sort of the crisis situation that we are in."

Those waiting to see what the Nebraskan emo-folksinger is cooking up next won't have long to wait. In fact, the prolific Oberst will be offering up two different servings of his Bright Eyes styles: the country-tinged, more traditional Bright Eyes record I'm Wide Awake It's Morning and the more experimental and beat-driven Digital Ash in a Digital Urn. Both records are due on January 25 (see "Two New Bright Eyes Albums On The Way").

Like Guns N' Roses and Nelly before him, Oberst plans to drop two singles from both records on the same day. "Lua" (from Wide Awake) and "Take It Easy (Love Nothing)" (from Digital Ash) will be released on October 25. Both singles will include songs not on the albums: "I Woke Up With This Song in My Head This Morning," by Bright Eyes player and Bruces frontman Alex McManus, and "Burn Rubber," a rendition of the 1994 Simon Joyner song.

The albums have a surfeit of guests on them as well, including Nick Zinner of the Yeah Yeah Yeahs (featured on five Digital Ash tracks); Norah Jones' songwriter Jesse Harris; country singer Emmylou Harris; Jim James of My Morning Jacket; Jimmy Tamborello of the Postal Service; Jason Boesel of Rilo Kiley; and members of The Faint, Tilly and the Wall, Cursive and Now It's Overheard, all of whom are part of Saddle Creek, the label Oberst co-founded.

But since Bright Eyes have traditionally been known to wade in the waters where emo and folk somehow meet, the more experimental disc, Digital Ash and Digital Urn, is a left turn for the singer.

"I've been getting into making beats and more computer-generated stuff," Oberst said. "It is more electronic, but it's more trippy. A lot of it [has] natural drums, but two drummers on a bunch of songs — like one in each speaker so you kind of get the ear candy, like the tickling in your ears."

Track list for I'm Wide Awake, It's Morning, according to Bright Eyes' publicist:
· "At the Bottom of Everything"
· "We Are Nowhere and It's Now"
· "Old Soul Song (for the New World Order)"
· "Lua"
· "Train Under Water"
· "First Day of My Life"
· "Another Travelin' Song"
· "Landlocked Blues"
· "Poison Oak"
· "Road to Joy"


Track list for Digital Ash in a Digital Urn:
· "Time Code"
· "Gold Mine Gutted"
· "Arc of Time"
· "Down in a Rabbit Hole"
· "Take It Easy (Love Nothing)"
· "Hit the Switch"
· "I Believe in Symmetry"
· "Devil in the Details"
· "Ship in a Bottle"
· "Light Pollution"
· "Theme From Pinata"
· "Easy/Lucky/Free"


Bright Eyes tour dates:
· 10/15 - Berkeley, CA @ Zellerbach Auditorium
· 10/16 - Portland, OR @ Roseland Theatre
· 10/18 - Seattle, WA @ Moore Theatre
· 10/19 - Vancouver, BC @ Commodore Ballroom

i'm just talking to myself today aren't i? well anyway i just found a bright eyes forum it is: http://zine.onetomesone.com.

i cant find any bright eyes ringtones. please help!!

well It doesn't work

I'm really in love with Bright Eyes stuff 'tis just amazing...

speaking of bright eyes, they're coming on january 22nd and im most probably going to go. wo0t!

i love bright eyes, i talk about conor a lot actually (to my family, god knows why)... i ll say 'conor oberst', my mum ll get that questioning look and i just have to say "you know, queer sounds and a great voice" and she knows who it is.

I just read the interview with Conor. Wow, I like him.

He's a bit like a depressed Craig. And he shares stuff about his personal life and really explains symbolism and stuff. Craig just usually clouds over when people ask him stuff like that. But I still like Craig more.

Omg! I just found this thread, and I love love love Connor Oberst soooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo much!!! Ya, you guys should also Desaparecidos if you like Bright Eyes.

yeah ive heard of them but ive never heard them. i should. at the moment i aonly have one bright eyes album and two new singles on order but im trying to get every album hes ever dones but theres just soooooooooooooooooooo many! and hey ihatemusic, i always go on about craig and conor at school and stuff and at home too and noone ever nows what the fuck im on about.

oh god, i think im gonna cry. conor oberst is going out with( drum roll please).............................WINONA RYDER!

They broke up two years ago.

yeah i know that now i think you told me on the other thread. thankyou for making my day liveable.

you should play emo game www.emogame.com its got conor in it.

thanks, ill try itnow.

thats heaps cool but i dont have time to play it now so i play it another day.

Wow, doesn't Craig have a crush on her?



Oh well, lucky Craig.

ive got a live video of the calendar hung itself off limewire. hes so good. im really glad im gonna see him and he'll be good. cos if its crap ill be so dissapointed cos i paid so much for it

you can donwload some songs in the saddle creek record's website

http://www.saddlecreekrecords.com

Conor Oberst is the greatest person in the world and if i dont meet him when he's in adelaise im gonna die coz im starting to have panic attacks already and its not even april or march yet- i hope i can get tickets!!!!!!!!!!!!!

youll never guess what my dad just said. i was listening to the calender hung itself and he walks past and goes " oh, thats terrible meghan" and then it got to that sunshine bit and hes like " look, hes so bad that he has to wreck other peoples songs now" and i think that if it werent for the fact that hes my dad i wouldve screamed and yelled and....attacked.

i think conor has the same color eyes as me.

I didn't even think that they were a couple because I don't really care about things like that. Unfortunately I'm in a mood sometimes and then I think about that a lot. Aaaaaah... Dot Allison, who are you?!

Well, I could also have the same eye colour.

really? thats soo cool. i have brown eyes. i think conor does

mine are hazel i wish they were green

my mum has like green eyes no brown eyes with a ring of blue around them or something it's very cool and she said that mine eyes, which are brown have a nother colour around them too.

you lost me

huh?what?*hug*

YAY *HUGS BACK*

*HUG*

uh yeah, i bumped this..because i want a bright eyes thread

im in love with light pollution

conor oberst = deh sexx

truly.

There's no doubt about his lyrics being really special, but i just can't get into it. There's not enough of a melody in it. I guess i'm just along with all the clueless people that love lover i don't have to love. I like lua too, but i think that's because i listened to it so much it just grew on me.

I have the complete Bright Eyes back catalogue (im wide awake its morning/ digital ash backwards)
and yes... i downloaded it but i own a fair few cds.

If anyone wants any particular songs i can upload them