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Re: Conor Oberst appreciation thread
Posted: Tue Dec 08, 2015 12:11 am
by kbit
The other day I told my friend the b-sides record was my favorite Bright Eyes record.
She said, "of course it is."
/hipsterdissed
Re: Conor Oberst appreciation thread (now w/ Desap. pedalboa
Posted: Tue Dec 08, 2015 6:10 am
by futuresailors
I only listen to Bright Eyes C-sides
Re: Conor Oberst appreciation thread
Posted: Tue Dec 08, 2015 10:06 am
by casecandy
kbit wrote:The other day I told my friend the b-sides record was my favorite Bright Eyes record.
She said, "of course it is."
/hipsterdissed
BUT...
It is legitimately the best Bright Eyes album!
"It's Cool, We Can Still Be Friends" is classic LOL
Re: Conor Oberst appreciation thread (now w/ Desap. pedalboa
Posted: Thu Dec 10, 2015 7:25 pm
by blakestree
Re: Conor Oberst appreciation thread (now w/ Desap. pedalboa
Posted: Fri Dec 11, 2015 12:51 am
by casecandy
Wow, I'm such a bad fan... didn't even know they had an album out.
Yahoo! knew, but I didn't know.
Re: Conor Oberst appreciation thread
Posted: Fri Dec 11, 2015 12:01 pm
by odontophobia
casecandy wrote:kbit wrote:The other day I told my friend the b-sides record was my favorite Bright Eyes record.
She said, "of course it is."
/hipsterdissed
BUT...
It is legitimately the best Bright Eyes album!
"It's Cool, We Can Still Be Friends" is classic LOL
Y'all talking about Noise Floor?
Really like "Drunk Kid Catholic" and the cover of "Devil Town" a lot. Otherwise that record isn't really doing it for me.
No lie though, kinda into the Christmas album.
Re: Conor Oberst appreciation thread
Posted: Fri Dec 11, 2015 12:09 pm
by blakestree
odontophobia wrote:
No lie though, kinda into the Christmas album.
Eewww.
Re: Conor Oberst appreciation thread (now w/ Desap. pedalboa
Posted: Fri Dec 11, 2015 12:55 pm
by skullservant
Casecandy makes me feel like I'm 15 again and being forced to listen to the cd's in my girlfriend (now wife's) car.
Re: Conor Oberst appreciation thread (now w/ Desap. pedalboa
Posted: Sat Dec 12, 2015 9:26 am
by daseb
lololololl
Re: Conor Oberst appreciation thread (now w/ Desap. pedalboa
Posted: Sat Dec 12, 2015 11:09 am
by theactionindex
skullservant wrote:Casecandy makes me feel like I'm 15 again and being forced to listen to the cd's in my girlfriend (now wife's) car.
"Can you grab Dashboard Confessional from my CD book real quick, bb?"
Re: Conor Oberst appreciation thread (now w/ Desap. pedalboa
Posted: Sat Dec 12, 2015 3:28 pm
by futuresailors
skullservant wrote:Casecandy makes me feel like I'm 15 again and wishing I had a girlfriend to listen to the cd's with in the car.
Re: Conor Oberst appreciation thread (now w/ Desap. pedalboa
Posted: Sat Dec 12, 2015 5:46 pm
by skullservant
theactionindex wrote:skullservant wrote:Casecandy makes me feel like I'm 15 again and being forced to listen to the cd's in my girlfriend (now wife's) car.
"Can you grab Dashboard Confessional from my CD book real quick, bb?"
Spot on. This happened more than once.
Re: Conor Oberst appreciation thread (now w/ Desap. pedalboa
Posted: Sat Dec 12, 2015 11:06 pm
by casecandy
I fucking love Dashboard Confessional and I will on my death bed.
LOL, once I had a conversation with the violinist in a "hip" indie rock band in my hometown of Fredericton, NB.
I said, "So... this is your life? You're the violin girl in an indie band? It seems a little niche, doesn't it?"
She said, "Yeah, I suppose. But I can't play the music I really wanna play in this town."
"What music do you wanna play?"
"I can't say."
I literally took her hands in mine and said, "Come on, Ruby, you can tell me. I mean, I like Dashboard Confessional. You're in good company."
As I said the words "Dashboard Confessional," she withdrew and covered her mouth with her hand.
"I swear to God, I was gonna say—Dashboard Confessional! That's my favourite band! I wanna play emo music! But these Pitchfork people won't let me!"
There was moment of silence, and we understood each other, there on the patio of the hipster bar in Fredericton, surrounded by coked-out Vampire Weekend fans exchanging saliva and money for drugs.
"I just feel... I feel like this is so illicit," she told me.
Re: Conor Oberst appreciation thread (now w/ Desap. pedalboa
Posted: Sat Dec 12, 2015 11:18 pm
by popvulture
Hahahaha—I can't do Carrabba, but that is an excellent story
Re: Conor Oberst appreciation thread (now w/ Desap. pedalboa
Posted: Wed Jan 06, 2016 11:05 pm
by casecandy
Today my wife and I were listening to Sufjan Stevens and she said, "His voice is too perfect."
I said, "Yeah, it's just so emotional."
Then she said, "The funny thing is, the two singers that convey emotion best for are Sufjan and Conor. But they're so different. One is classically trained and technically gorgeous and one is a yelpy teenager."
And I thought about it and I said, "I guess the most important thing, whether you can barely sing or you're a trained opera singer, is that you have something to say, and you mean it when you say it."
We agreed about that.
It reminded of this Henry Miller quote:
To sing you must first open your mouth. You must have a pair of lungs, and a little knowledge of music. It is not necessary to have an accordion, or a guitar. The essential thing is to want to sing. This then is a song. I am singing.
