Bright Eyes - Down In The Weeds Where the World Once Was (August 21, 2020) Album • Page 14

i dunno how to rank the desa albums. i might actually prefer payola.

 

I don't think there's many of us out there, but you're right, this is the cross-over hit of the century if you're a fan of both

 

Middle MAn in the top 5 is wild

 

Between that, no entries from the four winds EP, and way too much early catalog stuff, I think they wrote this to piss us off & get us chatting

 

i cant even rank the albums, let alone think about doing the songs.

 

Bright Eyes / Britt Daniel: Home: Split EP Series Vol. IV

P4K even reviewed it. A nice 7.9

 

Wow. I don’t like that Paste top 15. An impossible task but I’ll give it a go, and my BE fandom is a little rusty. Off the top quickly....


20. Messenger Bird’s Song
19. No Lies, Just Love
18. Kathy With a K’s Song
17. Bowl of Oranges
16. Four Winds
15. You Will. You? Will. You? Will. You? Will.
14. Easy/Lucky/Free
13. The Trees Get Wheeled Away
12. At the Bottom of Everything
11. Haligh, Haligh, A Lie, Haligh
10. Gold Mine Gutted
9. Hot Knives
8. Pull My Hair
7. The Calendar Hung Itself
6. Hit the Switch
5. Spent on Rainy Days
4. Poison Oak
3. Nothing Gets Crossed Out
2. From a Balance Beam
1. Something Vague


Edit: forgot waste of paint. Love that one.

 

man. bad job by them lol

 

BE + Spoon fan reporting for duty

 

I like that list precisely because no one else in the world would make it.

 

Fixed! I think when I first made it I felt like those songs were majority covered elsewhere.

 

the only thing im certain of is that loose leaves is the best bright eyes song.

 

A random attempt:

June on the West Coast

An Attempt to Tip the Scales

Waste of Paint

Easy/Lucky/Free

We Are Nowhere and It's Now
Lua
Landlocked Blues

Four Winds
Cartoon Blues

Classic Cars

Happy Accident

Shell Games
Jejune Stars
Ladder Song
One for You, One for Me

 

Think my favorite has to be either Lua, We Are Nowhere, or Old Soul Song. Can you tell which record got me into Bright Eyes?


Actually also Lime Tree and Nothing Gets Crossed Out should also be up there

 

Poison Oak & Balance Beam - hell yeah

 

"Poison Oak" is no 1 imo

 

So much songs could be number 1. Poison Oak and No Lies, Just Love are great contenders, but for me it's probably The Center of the World or Haligh, Haligh, a Lie, Haligh.

 

so uhhh this album is really good eh ?

 

Oh yeah

 

yup. this album is fucking fantastic.

 

yeah it rules - been listening to this for a few weeks

 

Has it leaked with the missing track?

 

I've waited 9 years, think I can handle another 2 weeks. I've purposely not been listening to the pre-release singles a lot so they're still somewhat fresh but damn, Mariana Trench is something else.

 

nah the leak is missing the track

 

the missing one is "To Death's Heart" right? that's probably my favorite after "Comet Song"