#26

I would add Ruminations to that too.

@beastie Bright Eyes albums are all fairly different. Wide Awake has very strong songs but is also the most commercial and not as interesting as the other albums.

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#27

I never got into Ruminations, but the consensus would be that it is up there. I don’t know why I dont like it, on paper I should, I just don’t think the songs are particularly good, and thought upside down mountain was loads better

#28

Fair enough. I think with ruminations everyone was excited to hear stripped down Conor again. Personally I never got on with Upside down Mountain as much as his other stuff, felt a bit like treading water singer song writer stuff. But that everyone loves different albums of his shows what a great writer he is.

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#30

Anything

#31

All the Bright Eyes ones except Cassadaga
Both Desapraceidos albums

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#32

Quite a bit of Conor / Bright Eyes chat and recommendations here. For me I’d go for Lifted… as a first Bright Eyes album to check out (his/their best in my view but they’re all pretty damn good) and of Conor’s more recent solo stuff Ruminations is great and definitely worth a listen (I personally didn’t like the Salutations album that followed at all but each to their own)

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#33

it’s so weird to see conor and him not look like this anymore

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#34

not heard Phoebe Bridgers before but this sounds pretty great so far and will be going back to her album (is it named after the infamous re-dubbing of Big Lebowski? I hope so :smiley: )

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#35

Yes it is! :laughing:

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#36

Really liking this!

Not quite up there with boygenius (my intro to Bridgers) but that was one of my fave records of last year, and is quite different I guess, so maybe it’s unfair to compare them.

#37

his nose has got bigger

#38

I got into Bridgers fairly recently, didnt twig she supported him in London the time before last

#39

love that conor still uses a baritone

also, nick zinner!

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#40

Yeah that was my introduction to her. Her albums great too. Never knew about the big lebowski thing.

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#41

remember there was some moron in the audience that kept shouting request for ‘first day of my life’ and booing other songs during C-dogs set

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#42

when i saw Bright Eyes in Portsmouth in 2005 someone kept doing the ‘oooh yes’ from the Churchill Car Insurance adverts all the way through the gig, much to Conor’s bemusement - they eventually changed tack to yelling ‘fish & chips!’ after he mentioned the band had it for dinner. seemed to handle it pretty well from what i remember.

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#43

I think I might of been there, the wedge wood rooms? definitely remember something about fish and chips

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#44

missed the train home for that gig too, stranded in portsmouth

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#45

The rule with bright eyes albums is the ones the better the good stuff is, the worse the bad stuff is. Definitely my favourite artist to have never made a single stone cold 10/10 consistently great album

Would chuck a mention for noise floor, too. Really good as far as B side collections go

#46

what’s bad on fevers?