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Bright Eyes confusion

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? by bob_saull

I just read on nme.com that Conor Oberst is set to release a solo album.

I thought he was a solo artist anyway, as Bright Eyes. Or was that a band? Am I the only person massively confused by this?

bob_saull | 15 May '08, 10:30 | Send note | Report this | Reply

Yeah, pretty much

He basically just has a different backing band with this album. Don't really know why though.

Captain_Power | 15 May '08, 10:33 | Send note | Report this | Reply

Bright Eyes

are a proper band. He's just the frontman. People will be annoyed at this.

Donnie | 15 May '08, 10:33 | Send note | Report this | Reply

but he does

kind of do all the songs. I think he arranges them as well doesn't he?

bob_saull | 15 May '08, 10:34 | Send note | Report this | Reply

Bright eyes is a loose collective

/band put together to play songs which are written by connor, but which are shaped massively by mogois as well... much like many other bands in which there are a core of central members and a fluctuating group of support players.

MrBones | 15 May '08, 10:36 | Send note | Report this | Reply

Think of this as a

Nine Inch Nails vs. Trent Reznor affair.

Nine Inch Nails is Trent Reznor, he writes the music and gets other people to play it live, and the bits he can't do in the studio.

Trent Reznor is Trent Reznor, he scored some of the Lost Highway soundtrack for David Lynch as a seperate artist to Nine Inch Nails.

Basically, Conor is probably just distancing himself from Bright Eyes to do something a little bit new, maybe stuff he's never tried before, and probably doesn't want to be tied down to what people expect of Bright Eyes, by just using his own name rather than his established band name.

yaddayaddayadda

treborforever | 15 May '08, 10:39 | Send note | Report this | Reply

Thank

you.

bob_saull | 15 May '08, 10:42 | Send note | Report this | Reply

except for bright eyes ahs at least 2 members...

permanently and integrally.

MrBones | 15 May '08, 10:42 | Send note | Report this | Reply

or that

i'm not really up to date on his work...i'll check it when I can be arsed.

treborforever | 15 May '08, 14:09 | Send note | Report this | Reply

oh and smog / bill calahan

would work this analogy too.

MrScagdenSir | 15 May '08, 10:44 | Send note | Report this | Reply

I thought this also..

..I was then told otherwise by Bright Eyes fans.

GalacticStar3ruption | 15 May '08, 10:40 | Send note | Report this | Reply

How are people still not getting

that Bright Eyes is a band?

DanielKelly | 15 May '08, 10:47 | Send note | Report this | Reply

THERE ARE TWO MEMBERS!!

so NIN, smog are not really decent analogies..

MrBones | 15 May '08, 10:48 | Send note | Report this | Reply

3 members

DanielKelly | 15 May '08, 10:49 | Send note | Report this | Reply

I thought Bright Eyes was Conor and Mogis

I could be wrong though

Glen_Chap | 15 May '08, 10:48 | Send note | Report this | Reply

he said if he ever recorded without mogis

it wouldnt be a bright eyes record which is what he seems to have done. I am kind of pleased, I love mogis' work but its getting a bit samey, not every song needs slide guitar. Feel abit sorry for nate after finally being given permanant status as I think he is in conors backing band for this too.

ThingsThatFly | 15 May '08, 12:13 | Send note | Report this | Reply

.

my feelings are that bright eyes has gotten to a level, that when using that moniker they have to be producing stuff such as im wide awake its morning, cassadaga, the kind of stuff that Q magazine would love, would get him grammy nominations and allow him to involve emmylou harris and such on his album...... his next album as bright eyes will have to be a finely crafted alt country -ish affair like bright eyes have been doing of late... wheras playing as conor oberst, he can play to slightly smaller crowds, play some songs that he has been knocking around for a while, that maybe couldnt cut it for the next bright eyes record, and also more importantly have some fun.......... could be totally wrong there, but thats what im thinking

scottoneill | 15 May '08, 13:30 | Send note | Report this | Reply

I'm

one of those who always thought he was a solo artist..

jimmyjazz123 | 15 May '08, 13:39 | Send note | Report this | Reply

its a no moggis =no bright eyes thing

for sure.

But i believe in the shows theyve played so far they have done a couple of bright eyes covers.

Roll on September, in a hopefully sunny wiltshire field

rosbeef | 15 May '08, 13:43 | Send note | Report this | Reply

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