Bright Eyes Live At Radio City 3.9.2011

Shell Games

The Calender Hung Itself

Lover I Don’t Have To Love

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SETLIST:

Firewall
Jejune Stars
Take It Easy (Love Nothing)
Hot Knives
An Attempt to Tip the Scales
Padraic My Prince
We Are Nowhere and It’s Now
Shell Games
Approximate Sunlight
Arc of Time
Triple Spiral
Cleanse Song
Trees Get Wheeled Away
No One Would Riot For Less
Beginner’s Mind
Bowl of Oranges
Old Soul Song
Poison Oak
The Calendar Hung Itself
Ladder Song
Encore:
Lover I Don’t Have to Love
Road To Joy
One for You, One for Me

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You can download an archive of the entire show from either of these mirrors below:

Mirror 1 (320 mp3 zip)

Bright Eyes At Radio City

Mirror 2 (320 mp3 rar archive)

Part One | Part Two | Part Three | Part Four | Part Five | Part Six

Torrent (16/44.1 FLAC)

Torrent Download (thanks to jon for uploading)

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SOTW: Commander Venus – Jean’s TV

Commander Venus – Jean’s TV

I listened to this record once roughly a year or two ago but I never really gave it a chance. Now I’m obsessed with it. I went as far as to track down a used copy of the CD (for the liner notes!). I have been listening to almost nothing else for the past 2 weeks. Emo revival 2011.

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Hear two new Bright Eyes tracks from The Peoples Key.

One For You, One For Me

Machine Spiritual (The People’s Key)

(songs removed at the label’s request)

Hey Ian,

This is XXXXX I manage Bright Eyes along with XXXXXXX CC’d above. You should be hearing from Saddle Creek shortly but being as it’s the holidays and I am not sure if they are online today, I wanted to write you quickly and request that you remove the two tracks from The People’s Key that you have posted. Neither track has been authorized by the artist or label for use on any blog or site and so please take them down immediately and let us know that you have received this email.
Very best,
XXXXXXXXX

Team Love
New Paltz, NY

be sure to buy the album direct from saddle creek.

Bright Eyes Drop New Album and Announce Tour

Bright Eyes will release the band’s seventh studio album The People’s Key on February 15th, 2011 on Saddle Creek Records. Recorded in Omaha, Nebraska, at ARC Studios, The People’s Key was produced by Mike Mogis and engineered by Mogis and Andy Lemaster.

In support of the album Bright Eyes can announce two very special shows next year:

Radio City Music Hall in New York City on March 9th (Pre-Sale Begins: December 1 at 12PM EST. Public On-Sale: December 4 at 10AM EST) and
London’s famed Royal Albert Hall on June 23rd (Pre-Sale Begins: December 1 at 12PM EST. Public On-Sale: Saturday, December 4 at 9AM).

Full track list for The People’s Key:

1 Firewall
2 Shell Games
3 Jejune Stars
4 Approximated Sunlight
5 Haile Selassie
6 A Machine Spiritual (In The People’s Key)
7 Triple Spiral
8 Beginner’s Mind
9 Ladder Song
10 One For You, One For Me

Conoroberst.com has also been revamped

SOTW – Magentas – Annex Annex

The Magentas were a short-lived band formed by Conor Oberst and Todd Fink sometime in 1996. They supposedly recorded 3 songs, this is the only one that was ever released.

06 Annex Annex

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Song Of The Week – Bright eyes & Neva Dinova – Spring Cleaning

(Written by Conor Oberst, Performed by Jake Bellows)

Amy’s got a baby in her stomach
She took my hand, I felt it kick
So she’s crying and glowing
She’s 3 months and showing
Seeing her now makes me want to live

But her man’s got an angry mouth
He once told me to rot in hell
He’s poisonous, reasonless
Demons and Jesus
If he died it’d be just as well

So I’m having it out with the rain
It argues so long and so loud
It keeps tapping and talking
We’re walking forever on First Avenue headed south

And all the traffic lights blur
Into a bright bouquet
My heart is in mothballs
It’s been packed away
And I can’t get to it no way
Until the birds return for spring cleaning

All the traffic lights blur into a bright bouquet
I wish I could just turn and walk away
But I can’t do it no way
Until the birds return for spring cleaning

Neva Dinova – Spring Cleaning (jake version)

Bright eyes – Spring Cleaning (conor version)

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Song Of The Week: Park Ave – Lachrymose Obsequious Vehement Elated

Park Ave. was an indie pop group from Omaha, Nebraska. The line up included: Clark Baechle (The Faint) and Jamie Williams (Tilly & the wall) on guitars, Conor Oberst (bright eyes) on drums, Neely Jenkins  (Tilly & the wall) on bass guitar, and Jenn Bernard on keyboards.

I accidentally stumbled upon park ave when looking around for early bright eyes demos. Their 1st and only record, When Jamie Went to London We broke up, isn’t perfect, but its pretty astounding considering how old these kids were when they recorded this stuff (in high school). I’m pretty sure I read somewhere that most of the lyrics were written by Conor, I’m not sure if its true but they certainly seem like early BE style lyrics.

anyway, great song. Its worth checking out the album if you can find it.

Park Ave. – Lachrymose Obsequious Vehement Elated

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New Bright Eyes / Neva Dinova – Happy Accident

The new Bright Eyes / Neva Dinova split ‘reissue’ is out now. This is my favorite new track of the LP. A return to form for Bright Eyes? I think so.

Bright Eyes – Happy Accident

also, listen to this live version of I know you, I think its much better than the LP version anyway, its got more teeth.

and everyone should buy the reissue, because its got some of the best BE/Neva material ever recorded on it.

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Conor Oberst Live @ Terminal 5 11/8/08

I’ve been sitting on this boot for a while, and since I haven’t made any new ones as of late, I figure its a good time to share this here one. It was a fantastic show, hands down this is the best version of breezy you will ever hear.

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