Bright Eyes - Five Dice, All Threes (September 20, 2024) • Page 17

Thank you for the idea, Bright Eyes closers ranked:
1.Easy/Lucky/Free
2. Let's Not Shit Ourselves
3. Road to Joy
4. Song to Pass the Time
5. Comet Song
6. Lime Tree
7. Tin Soldier Boy
8. Tereza & Thomas
9. One For You, One For Me
10. Feel Good Revolution

 

After listening to all the closers it occurred to me that more often than not they are some of my least favorite songs on the albums. Honestly my favorite closer of his ever is probably Milk Thistle

 

lime tree road to joy and lets not shit ourselves have arguments as the best songs on their albums imo. i always forget about one for you one for me and consider ladder song the real closer to that album.

 

For some reason I've never been crazy about Lime Tree, but yeah if Ladder Song was the closer it would be wayyy up there

 

Ladder Song should have been a closer

 

Let’s Not Shit Ourselves is not only the best BE closer, but the best BE song ever.

 

road to joy is my favorite BE song

 

Something Vague is my favorite Bright Eyes song, but shoutout to If the Brakeman Turns My Way and Poison Oak

 

Love tin soldier boy

 

I gotta say.... hard disagree, doesn't feel like a closer at all to me. Great song but doesn't have any sense of ending or closing. One For You, One For Me absolutely has that closer energy

 

Poison Oak always been my favorite since it came out.

 

couldn’t disagree more haha

 

Seeing One for You, One for Me live multiple times made me appreciate it more. Plus I dig the message behind it:

 

Hated One For You on first listen since he dropped it as pre-release single like a fool but it’s grown on me hugely since he’s made it a live set closer for years

 

One For You is one of my least favorite BE songs of all-time.

And I’ve seen it live several times including last Sunday.

No thanks.

 

Im Wide Awake
Lifted
Fevers and Mirrors
Cassadaga
Letting Off the Happiness
Down in the Weeds
The People's Key
Digital Ash
Five Dice All Threes

 

Something like

Lifted, Or The Story Is In The Soil, Keep Your Ear To The Ground
Down In The Weeds, Where The World Once Was

The People's Key
Cassadaga
I'm Wide Awake, It's Morning

Fevers And Mirrors
Digital Ash In A Digital Urn
Five Dice, All Threes
Letting Off The Happiness

My annual listen of A Christmas Album is probably in this above grouping

A Collection of Songs Written And Recorded 1995-1997

 

I find it so interesting how many people (mainly in the subreddit) seem to love down in the weeds. I find that album to be an absolute slog, but hey to each their own! I enjoy the kind of deranged energy of peoples key way more

 

Dance & Sing? Mariana Trench? Calais to Dover?!

 

I like dance and sing and Mariana Trench! And Calais to Dover is an example of what my issue with the album is- on paper I should love it but idk I just don’t like how the music sounds all that much, it’s like Cassadaga but way more overwrought and like grating to me for some reason. It sounds like music from like a hallmark movie, idk. But that’s cool other people are into it, and I know some people hate peoples key so it’s all good

 

Song to Pass the Time is pure magic

 

People’s Key is the worst, just so little good material after the great first three songs. As much as Collection should probably be last by default, I can’t not give it credit for how good some of those songs are. The companion ep for that one was legit fascinating.

And lifted is the best by a lot though wide awake is relatively perfect in its own right.

 

I haven't heard the new one yet but I'm oddly not that excited for it? loved Down in the Weeds too, Marianas and To Death's Heart are banner Bright Eyes tracks

 

Lifted
Weeds
People’s Key
Fevers
Wide Awake
Cassadaga
Digital Ash
Five Dice

have only heard the companion versions of the rest

 

I get you. Both LPs have a nice glossy sheen to their sound that is not present on others. It doesn’t bother me on Weeds like it does on Cassadega though.