Tag: bright-eyes

We Are Nowhere And It’s Now, by Bright Eyes.

Something upbeat on a Saturday night! (Just kidding.)

I might mess around and try to play every song on this album before I’m done. It feels like Conor Oberst is just plain showing off his one-liners on this song, and I, for one, am here for it.

“If you hate the taste of wine, why do you drink it till you’re blind?”

Kills me every time.

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Put a goofy effect on the noodly guitar, and left the vocals all lonely and vulnerable. Didn’t play it all the way through before recording, so you can watch the lyric about his “favorite neon sign” catch me by surprise and make me smile. 😉

[EDIT: Also kinda glad I didn’t try to do the background vocal, because on the album it’s Emmylou Harris, and I don’t think I can keep up with her.]

Lua, by Bright Eyes.

Feeling vulnerable this week, y’all… did you notice? This song is one of seven or eight on this album that break my heart every time. I think I wrote about this earlier in the year when I did a more upbeat Conor Oberst song, to be fair, so you were warned.

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Used the MIDI keyboard for the first time in a bit and tried out some little underlying synth thing, but it wasn’t really coming off, and the vocal was too quiet to really layer in much of anything, so I switched it to a drippy little piano and called it a night.