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