Album of the day (#1608): Lifted Or The Story Is In The Soil

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  • Posted: 04/25/2015 20:00
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Today's album of the day

Lifted Or The Story Is In The Soil, Keep Your Ear To The Ground by Bright Eyes (View album | Buy this album)

Year: 2002.
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Overall rank: 787
Average rating: 79/100 (from 133 votes).



Tracks:
1. The Big Picture
2. Method Acting
3. False Advertising
4. You Will. You? Will. You? Will. You? Will
5. Lover I Don't Have To Love
6. Bowl Of Oranges
7. Don't Know When But A Day Is Gonna Come
8. Nothing Gets Crossed Out
9. Make War
10. Waste Of Paint
11. From A Balance Beam
12. Laura Laurent
13. Let's Not Shit Ourselves (To Love And Be Loved)

About album of the day: The BestEverAlbums.com album of the day is the album appearing most prominently in member charts in the previous 24 hours. If an album, or artist, has previously been selected within a x day period, the next highest album is picked instead (and so on) to ensure a bit of variety. A full history of album of the day can be viewed here.
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This does excel in places and it did have a lot of potential to be great, but about half of the time I'm bored by it.
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HazeyTwilight wrote:
This does excel in places and it did have a lot of potential to be great, but about half of the time I'm bored by it.


More or less this. Very good neighbours meh too often. Very good is very good though.
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Whenever I listen to Oberst, I imagine Jack making jerk-off motions with his hand.

Once I purge that image from my head, though, I tend to enjoy his stuff. Ironically, the parts that sound the most genuinely emotional are those where he's the most restrained.


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One of or perhaps my favorite album by Bright Eyes Smile
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Kiki wrote:
One of or perhaps my favorite album by Bright Eyes Smile


Oh it's his best for sure. At least from what I've heard.
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Norman Bates wrote:
Oh it's his best for sure. At least from what I've heard.


I also heard the Cassadaga album for the first time recently and it was good album too. The song 'Soul Singer In A Session Band' stuck with me. Singer really does have his way with words.
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Kiki wrote:
I also heard the Cassadaga album for the first time recently and it was good album too. The song 'Soul Singer In A Session Band' stuck with me. Singer really does have his way with words.


He has. Maybe an EP would be his best format? On the length of a Long-Playing, I sometimes get bored, like Hazey said.
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I would say that I'm Wide Awake It's Morning is better than this by a wide sizable margin.
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That moment your favourite album is album of the day! Very Happy

Bright Eyes is my favourite band, and Conor Oberst my favourite musician. There is such a wealth to his lyrics its a challenge to digest it all. Heck, it took me over a decade to finally get the Tim Kasher pun in "Nothing Gets Crossed Out". As whiny and immature sounding as Oberst's voice may be at times, he is asking all the profound questions. Does the soul exist? If its all determinism, what utility is there in effort? How can a non-believer resolve the vacuum of salvation in their lives? I wish more albums were as intelligent, as emotional, and as personal as this.
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