| Conor Oberst and Bright Eyes
Posted: 12/24/2008 9:44:46 PM | There are rare moments in my life where I have been thunderstruck while listening to music.
My first vinyl record ELO - Out of the Blue
The day I bought Led Zeppelin Zoso and Houses of the Holy home from the store (and the teenage cashier behind the counter saying how blown away I was going to be?)
Discovering Yes and Progressive Rock and sitting by the record player...for hours.
The day Nirvana - Smells Like Teen Spirit first played on the radio and I was...... WTF?
and two nights ago when this artist unknown to me... by the name of.....Conor Oberst played on a late night talk show.
Normally, most of the bands (in my humble opinion) that play on these late night talk shows... just suck? I usually lose interest about a minute into the song and I head for the fridge for munchies. Conor Oberst and his band.... quite a few members actually... packed the stage and looked loaded for bear. (Lot's of instruments up there)
I chuckled. There was a second guy on guitar that reminded me of Keith Richard's during his "No Expectations" acoustic period. I would give this a shot and let the snacks wait...for just a few seconds.
Then they played a song called "Cape Canaveral"......
The guy sounded like a cross between Bob Dylan and Tom Petty and the song was...beautiful. It turns out this guy has been around the indie circuit for awhile and has many albums under the band name Bright Eyes.
They should have used this music for Twilight.
Bright Eyes - Easy, Lucky, Free...... WOW.
This is great music and I encourage everyone to investigate. You won't be sorry. This blows a lot of what is on the air away.
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| Conor Oberst and Bright Eyes
Posted: 12/24/2008 10:38:03 PM | Okay, I found some stuff on Conor Oberst..... and forget the stupid comment about comparing him to Bob Dylan and Tom Petty. I'm old and grasping for straws here.
Check out this funny bit on Conor Oberst...
http://www.nerve.com/screeningroom/music/conoroberst/
1. You can't walk five feet anymore without someone going nuts about Conor Oberst. Just today the girl at the bagel shop called him "the next Bob Dylan," and my mailman said he was "blown away" by his "trenchant, gut-wrenching lyrics that make him seem like a precocious mix of Joan Baez and Leonard Cohen."
2. Okay, I'm making up the thing about the mailman, but still. People won't shut up about the guy.
3. I have to admit it: I'm having a tough time getting on the bandwagon. I think he's pretty inspiring as a story, genuinely decent as a human being, and he's got a neat haircut, but he strikes me as a bit of a guitar-pounder who never met a lyric he couldn't overwrite, and you can find a lot of those at an open mike near you. Something tells me without the neat haircut, he'd just be Conor, the guy serving me a Mochaccino in Omaha.
4. I feel evil saying these things. I mean, pop music is truly terrible. We should be bending over backwards to thank guys like Conor Oberst for existing. Who would we rather have, Ashlee Simpson?
5. I mean, really, it's probably just me. I can't handle young genius of any kind. I'm a huge jerk. Really.
6. Still, if some guy showed up at your house party and started playing heart-tugging songs like Conor Oberst does, you'd be like, "Who is this clown?"
7. Which is to say: musical genius is all about the context. Put Conor Oberst on Austin City Limits and it's like, "Wow, guy's a genius." Put him on the subway, and it's like, "Shut up, dude! I'm trying to read Harry Potter."
8. I'm probably just envious. Conor Oberst has done more by the age of twenty-four than I'd do with five lifetimes. When I was twenty-four I spent most of my time trying to watch porn on scrambled cable channels. | |
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| Conor Oberst and Bright Eyes
Posted: 1/6/2009 5:26:35 PM | | Oberst was recently featured on the World Cafe. You might be interested in the archived interview and performance. Try worldcafe.org and then search his name. | |
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| Conor Oberst and Bright Eyes
Posted: 1/6/2009 5:33:00 PM | | P.S. Perhaps you can suggest your mailman listen to Oberst's "Get-Well-Cards" as he mentions "the postman" several times. My mailman never talks music with me. Just lingers a bit now and then waiting for a cold one. | |
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| Conor Oberst and Bright Eyes
Posted: 1/6/2009 5:56:48 PM | | I can't stand the way he sings. But he hates George Bush, so he can't be all bad, LOL. | |
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| Conor Oberst and Bright Eyes
Posted: 1/8/2009 10:55:14 PM | | i have seen bright eyes several times...and recently saw conor solo. he always puts on excellent shows and i love his music...probably a little too much. i think he is one of the most honest musicians around. | |
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