![]() As 2005 was just waking up, the Omaha based Bright Eyes simultaneously released two albums: I’m Wide Awake, It’s Morning and Digital Ash in a Digital Urn. This isn’t a double album with a collection of twenty or so songs, but two unique pieces that are inextricable from one another. Play full-length songs from I'm Wide Awake, It's Morning (Remastered) by Bright Eyes on your phone, computer and home audio system with Napster. Increase the curb appeal of any house exemption. An album by Bright Eyes on Napster. I'm Wide Awake, It's Morning (Remastered) Bright Eyes. Play on Napster. Free download Bright Eyes – Lua Mp3. We have about 49 mp3 files ready to play and download. To start this download Lagu you need to click on [Download] Button. Remember that by downloading this song you accept our terms and conditions. Awake is a tight, well focused analog folk record and Ash is a more experimental digital and electric album. Ibm cognos active reports samples. The connections between the albums go much deeper than the realization that the same beach blanket lyric is in ‘First Day of My Life’ and ‘Take it Easy (Love Nothing).’ The records are compliments and foils, one not complete without its opposite. ![]() The most intriguing thing about Bright Eyes has always been the lyrical mastery of self-reference, supernatural self-awareness, self-deprecation and even self-obsession. Through the prism that is Conor Oberst, a listener who pays close attention to the words will better understand the full spectrum of his human experience. This ranges from small feelings of emotional disparity in relationships to the overwhelming distress about the purpose of existence. One of the most fascinating things about Bright Eyes is the progression throughout the albums of the “narrator’s” character and his interactions with fictitious loves, including the all too real Laura. It seems as if, since Conor began writing, he began telling a story and each album is another chapter. There is one theme that is a constant undercurrent behind Conor’s pen. ![]() In the song ‘Milk Thistle’ from his first solo record, Conor Oberst and the Mystic Valley Band, Mr. Oberst wrote the line, “I keep death on my mind like a heavy crown.” To get a better understanding of these two albums, it’s important to look at their predecessor: Lifted or The Story is in the Soil, Keep Your Ear to the Ground. The final song, after an album’s worth of examination of himself, his relationships, his world and his lack of faith, Conor seems to sum everything up in ‘Let’s Not Shit Ourselves (To Love and Be Loved).’ At first, one might think this is just one of his ‘punch-line’ songs, filled with clever observations and criticism, similar to ‘The Big Picture,’ ‘At the Bottom of Everything’ and ‘Road to Joy.’ However, it all comes together with the final verse as one realizes that the whole song is a list of reasons why Conor took far too many pills and downed it with whiskey. Awake and Ash are albums that are obsessed with and woven together around Conor’s conflicting and confused notions of life and death. ![]() I’m Wide Awake, It’s Morning is the woe begotten hymnal of vitality. It contrasts the light and hope of the rising sun with the darkness of a cynical poet/social commentator and the somber tone of sad guitars, moaning lap steel, twinkling mandolin and patient piano. Digital Ash in a Digital Urn is the easygoing jamboree of death. Night and the omnipresence of the eternal end are met with upbeat guitar riffs, dancy digital melodies and a full string section that enlightens acceptance and, dare it be said, faith. As the albums travel below the surface, it becomes clear that neither is definitively about life or death, sorrow or joy, but about being lost between the two. The two records serve to exemplify Conor’s most potent statement, “There is no truth. There is only you and what you make the truth,” from Lifted’s ‘Don’t Know When, But a Day is Gonna Come.’ Nothing is ever quite definitive or conclusive, it’s all about him learning how to deal with it.
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