Conor Oberst - Salutations (March 17, 2017) Album • Page 6

1. Lifted
2. Fevers & Mirrors
3. Wide Awake
4. Cassadaga
5. Conor Oberst

 

trying to process such a request makes my brain error out

 

Lifted, fevers and mirrors, I'm wide awake, read music/speak Spanish, probably Ruminations I think. Only really lifted and fevers are set in stone though

 

1. Cassadaga
2. Wide Awake
3. Upside Down Mountain
4. Ruminations
5. Fever and Mirrors

 

He added some more tour dates, and there's finally something near me haha. I'll be at the Clifton Park show!

 

FYI

May

11 Grass Valley, CA @ Grass Valley Center for the Arts

12 Oakland, CA @ The Fox %#

13 Los Angeles, CA @ The Greek Theater #

14 San Diego, CA @ The Observatory %

16 Tucson, AZ @ Rialto %

18 El Paso, TX @ Tricky Falls %

19 Austin, TX @ ACL Live at The Moody Theater %#

20 Dallas, TX @ Granada Theater %

21 McAllen, TX @ Cine El Rey %

23 Fayetteville, AR @ George’s Majestic Lounge %

24 Wichita, KS @ Orpheum Theater %

31 Royal Oak, MI @ Royal Oak Music Hall*


June

1 Nelsonville, OH @ Nelsonville Music Fest

2 Richmond, VA @ Friday Cheers Festival *

3 Norfolk, VA @ NorVa*

4 Wilmington, NC @ The Throne Theater*


July

13 Omaha, NE @ The Waiting Room – Outside *

14 Springfield, OH @ Gillioz Theatre *

15 Birmingham, AL @ Sloss Music & Arts Festival

16 Louisville, KY @ Forecastle Festival

17 Knoxville, TN @ The Mill & Mine

20 Brooklyn, NY @ Celebrate Brooklyn ^

21 Boston, MA @ The House of Blues +

22 Clifton Park, NY @ Upstate Concert Hall +

23 Portsmouth, NH @ Prescott Park Arts Festival +

26 Washington, DC @ 9:30 Club +

28 Camden, NJ @ XPoNential Festival with Wilco & Hop Along

September

1 Bellingham, WA @ The Wild Buffalo

5 Billings, MT @ Pub Station Ballroom

7 St Paul, MN @ Palace Theater

8 Milwaukee, WI @ Pabst Theater

9 Chicago, IL @ The Riviera

12 Ithaca, NY @ The State Theatre

13 Toronto, ON @ Danforth Music Hall

14 Buffalo, NY @ Asbury Hall at Babeville

15 Pittsburgh, PA @ Carnegie of Homestead Music Hall

16 Cincinnati, OH @ Taft Theater

17 Bloomington, IL @ Castle Theater


* Big Thief support

% Phoebe Bridgers support

^ Hop Along and Big Thief support

+ Hop Along

# Julien Baker

 

Really enjoyed seeing his show a couple weeks ago. Was the first time I saw him live and he did not disappoint.

 

why doesn't he play philly anymore?

 

You've never gotten into his post Bright Eyes work? If Wide Awake's your favorite, there should be at least three albums that you love.

 

Probably because last time he was here people were acting like heathens. Girls yelling at him the whole time for Lifted songs, someone through a bra on stage. He's 37 for crying out loud.

 

Oh, I've listened to everything of his, but those remain my favorite. My main issue with the 5 solo albums is that I feel like there's less diversity, a lot of it sounds the same overall, but still tons of great stuff of course. The Desaparecidos albums almost made my cut as well. Monsters of Folk is a great album, but I don't love it all the way through the same way as the BE albums.

 

I think a lot of his best Bright Eyes albums suffer from inconsistency. Most of the time it's the kind where the highs are so high that even the good doesn't measure up, and sometimes those good songs can feel like filler next to these flash in the pan, flat out brilliant songs. The good thing though is that those good songs reveal themselves on subsequent listens. His solo stuff is way more consistent, more consistently good than inconsistently incredible. This is just my opinion though and how I feel going through his stuff

 

He's playing an awesome venue in my city in September, got tix, pretty pumped.

 

Today I realized that "Don't Know When But A Day's Gonna Come" is one of his worst. Like, real bad. Real b

 

What makes you say that? Jw

 

It's not a song I like to visit often. The lyrics are really drab, some of his most obvious and most pretentious. I mean, I understand that it fits with Lifted's themes and such but...it hammers in the point that a lot of the other songs tell way better.

It also ruins the end of Bowl of Oranges and that makes me very sad.

 

I think I agree it's obvious, but I think I could go either way on whether I think it's pretentious. I think a plainspoken song like that is pretty interesting in the context of Lifted because it's so heavily contrasted with the rest of the songs but I definitely understand what you mean and where you're coming from

 

Conor Oberst – Oregon Zoo – Portland, OR – September 3rd, 2017

I have not really listened to Conor in several years, but I'm definitely going to this so I'll have to catch up.

 

Listen to ruminations and salutations you won't regret it

 

I'm coming around to this album. Can totally see why he'd make it after Ruminations... I wouldn't want to tour behind that ish after what he went through.

 

Is it wrong that I reordered Salutations into the Ruminations order and then tacked the extra tracks on as a bonus disc?

Ruminations absolutely wrecked me, and merely see this album as a "bonus" with an extra EP... sort of like all of the random stuff Bright Eyes released through the years in between albums and so forth.

 

I guess I really like ruminations better, idk why

 

That's how I view but I just like the rumination versions better

 

Got a kinda weak show from him last night. 15ish songs, no encore (looking at setlist.fm every other show had one). He seemed pretty out of it and took like 5 minutes to tune his guitar for the last song. He was also like drunkenly leaning on Phoebe while she was playing Lua and she seemed kind of annoyed.

 

looking at setlists.. He plays 10 women at shows?? thats awesome... sorry your set was short but it does look like hes been playing a nice mix of things.. did they at least sound good?