Bright Eyes - Five Dice, All Threes (September 20, 2024) • Page 21

Noise floor is top 3 if it counts

 

lol five dice above fevers. Obviously your opinion is what it is, but that’s absolutely deranged

 

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sorry guys, it literally says "definitive" above the picture and was posted in advance of any other "definitive" lists. i don't make the rules. just gotta deal with it, i guess. :(

 

Salutations is the drunk saturday night version.
Ruminations is the sober sunday morning come down version.

both have their place.

 

I just find Ruminations so dull. The fleshed out instrumentation really brings songs to life that I think have no life originally

 

Wide Awake
Lifted
Digital Ash
People's Key
Cassadega

Fever
Weeds
Happiness
Collection

I have only heard Dice once so I dunno

 

"Bells & whistles, fancy cheap thrills cost a lot!"

 

My hard stance is this:

Wide Awake is a very clear No. 1 and Digital Ash is a very clear No. 2

After that, I have a very hard time ranking BE albums because they're all pretty different from one another and depending on my mood - they could change vastly.

 

Cassadaga
Lifted
Fevers
I'm Wide awake
Noise Floor if we're counting it
Digital Ash
People's Key
Letting off the happiness
Five Dice
Weeds
Collection
...the top 4 switch just depending on my mood

 

Cassadaga
Wide Awake
Lifted
People’s Key
Digital Ash
Fevers
Weeds
Happiness
Collection

Haven’t listened to this one too much yet. I also prefer Ruminations, for whatever reason I like the more solo singer/songwriter vibe. Seems more fitting for what the songs are

 

fevers and lifted are by far my favorites. interchangeable depending on day which is my favorite.

 

The REAL definitive BE ranking:

1. Lifted
2. Fevers
3. Digital Ash
4. I'm Wide Awake
5. DITW
6. 5DA3
7. TPK
8. Noise Floor
9. Letting off the Happiness
10. Collection of Songs

 

Right after posting that, I'm not sure on where I placed The People's Key, should be higher. Need to revisit DITW and spend more time with the new one....that was very hard. I love all these records.

 

this is a cybertruck-level ranking what are you doing man

 

damn dorf

 

Typed that before even reading the list. Didn’t even matter

 

Gotta get the zingers in here where I can keep up. NFL moves too fast for my fat ass

 

dorf ain’t playin

 

I'm not a ranking guy but this definitely sits with People's Key way down at the bottom for me. big shame, I loved Weeds

 

This just keeps growing on me with every listen.

 

Yeah, it's very good.

 

I just had an "aha" moment. I keep trying to place why there hasn't been a full album of his that I can't seem to sit through probably since Upside Down Mountain. I like at least a few songs on everything he's put out, but I really don't like most of the companions and each album for the last 10 years has been definitely hit or miss for me. I think it's Conor's voice. I loved the deranged youthfulness of it from basically 98-05 and then I think his sweet spot as a vocalist was around 07-11 or so, he still had the signature warble but there was a deep lushness to it, and I just feel like over the past decade it has regressed and is like...frail sounding or something. Something about the tone of it I just find grating at times now. Idk if anyone feels the same way, but I finally have figured out why his albums don't completely land with me anymore. I just put on Milk Thistle and Ahead of the Curve after listening to like half of Five Dice and my god it's such a noticeable difference to me. And I know people's voices change, it is what it is.

 

man the more i sit with this the more confounding it becomes. some days i resent it for not living up to my expectations and other days i feel like it's a really solid BE record with some slight imperfections. the opening run of bells and whistles through all threes is peak bright eyes. just falls off a bit from there for me.

 

I enjoy the first half more than the second as well

 

alternating to “it was the best” on the final verse of bas jan ader after talking about sailing out to sea with someone who went lost at sea is classic conor haha