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Conor Oberst - Desert Island Questionnaire

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  1. [4]
    trojanhorse
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    So weird you posted this. I have been listening to a lot of Tim Kasher today. Different projects bur mostly the Good Life. He and Oberst are good friend which I am sure you know. I always liked...

    So weird you posted this. I have been listening to a lot of Tim Kasher today. Different projects bur mostly the Good Life. He and Oberst are good friend which I am sure you know. I always liked Kasher's stuff better. BE you have to be on a mood for. And it makes you sad listening to alot of it. I'm Wide Awake was a huge album. I really like that Monsters of Folk album they put out. Whichever the first one was. I don't know if they did more.

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    1. [2]
      cyps
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      Also love The Good Life (and early Cursive) One of the first songs I ever showed my ex was Album of the Year. That song perfectly fit our relationship. Even she mentioned it to me, a year later,...

      Also love The Good Life (and early Cursive) One of the first songs I ever showed my ex was Album of the Year. That song perfectly fit our relationship. Even she mentioned it to me, a year later, as she was packing up her stuff in the tiny apartment we shared. Can't listen to that one off the album anymore, but still love his other songs.

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      1. trojanhorse
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        Black Out is my favorite. AOTY was huge in my corcle when it came out, but I go back to Black Out.

        Black Out is my favorite. AOTY was huge in my corcle when it came out, but I go back to Black Out.

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    2. Eva
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      Oberst's definitely great at selling tragedy. Gotta love him. Kasher's got a nice catalogue, too.

      Oberst's definitely great at selling tragedy. Gotta love him. Kasher's got a nice catalogue, too.

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  2. [2]
    Eva
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    This song is one of my favourite songs from an easy top-five album for me. An absolute masterpiece lyrically, and so, so fantastic sonically. It manages to keep the illusion of minimalism, but...

    This song is one of my favourite songs from an easy top-five album for me. An absolute masterpiece lyrically, and so, so fantastic sonically. It manages to keep the illusion of minimalism, but it's honestly fairly complex and I love that.

    Conor Oberst in general's made some of the best music of the past two decades, and he's only gotten better with time.

    If you're unfamiliar with who he is, he's more famous for the work he's done under the name Bright Eyes. Which coincidentally had another two top-twenty albums for me. (Digital Ash in a Digital Urn and I'm Wide Awake, It's Morning.)

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    1. cyps
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      Hey, Conors music has a special place in my heart. Every Bright Eyes album up to Casadaga has largely been the soundtrack to my life. I've even had the pleasure of seeing them a few times with the...

      Hey, Conors music has a special place in my heart. Every Bright Eyes album up to Casadaga has largely been the soundtrack to my life. I've even had the pleasure of seeing them a few times with the full band, back in the early 2000s.

      Unfortunatly I have a hard time listening to that stuff now-a-days, it brings back the memories of lost love and good friends who have since past away. But once in a while I'll put on Fevers and Mirrors and just cry.

      But anyway, thanks for posting this song. I haven't heard much of his newer stuff.

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