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| Bright Eyes > Albums & Lyrics |
A Collection of Songs: Recorded 1995-1997 Album- The Invisible Gardener
- Patient Hope In New Show
- Saturday As Usual
- Falling Out Of Love At This Volume
- Exaltation On A Cool, Kitchen Floor
- The Awful Sweetness Of Escaping Sweet
- Puella Quam Amo Est Pulchra
- Driving Fast Through A Big City At Night
- How Many Lights Do You See?
- I Watched You Taking Off
- A Celebration Upon Completion
- Emily, Sing Something Sweet
- All Of The Truth
- One Straw (Please)
- Lila
- A Few Minutes On Friday
- Supriya
- Solid Jackson
- Feb. 15th
| Christmas Album Album- Away In A Manger
- Blue Christmas
- Oh Little Town Of Bethlehem
- God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen
- The First Noel
- Little Drummer Boy
- White Christmas
- Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas
- The Night Before Christmas
| Digital Ash In A Digital Urn Album- Arc of Time
- Devil In The Details
- Down In A Rabbit Hole
- Easy/Lucky/Free
- Gold Mine Gutted
- Hit the Switch
- I Believe In Symmetry
- Light Pollution
- Ship in a Bottle
- Take it Easy (Love Nothing)
- Theme From Pinata
- Time Code
| Every Day And Every Night Album- A Line Allows Progress, A Circle Does Not
- A Perfect Sonnet
- On My Way To Work
- A New Arrangement
| Fevers & Mirrors Album- A Spindle, A Darkness, A Fever, And A Necklace
- A Scale, A Mirror And Those Indifferent Clocks
- The Calendar Hung Itself
- Something Vague
- The Movement Of A Hand
- Arienette
- When The Curious Girl Realizes She Is Under Glass
- Haligh, Haligh, A Lie, Haligh
- The Center Of The World
- Sunrise, Sunset
- An Attempt To Tip The Scales
- A Song To Pass The Time
| Letting Off the Happiness Album- If Winter Ends
- Padraic My Prince
- Contrast And Compare
- The City Has Sex
- The Difference In The Shades
- Touch
- June On The West Coast
- Pull My Hair
- A Poetic Retelling Of An Unfortunate Seduction
- Tereza And Thomas
| Lifted or The Story Is in the Soil, Keep Your Ear to the Ground Album- The Big Picture
- Method Acting
- False Advertising
- You Will. You? Will. You? Will. You? Will
- Bowl Of Oranges
- Nothing Gets Crossed Out
- Make War
- Waste Of Paint
- From A Balance Beam
- Laura Laurent
| Motion Sickness Album- At The Bottom Of Everything
- Old Soul Song (For The New World Order)
- Make War (Short)
- Make War
- A Scale, A Mirror And Those Indifferent Clocks
- Landlocked Blues
- Method Acting
- Train Under Water
- When The President Talks To God
- Road To Joy
- Mushaboom
- Southern State
- True Blue
- The Biggest Lie
| There Is No Beginning To The Story [EP] Album- From A Balance Beam
- We Are Free Men
- Loose Leaves
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At just 20 years old, Conor Oberst certainly hasn't wasted any time. When he was 13, he put out his first solo cassette--an acoustic-based four-track tape with just his voice and his guitar.
At 14, Oberst formed a band called Commander Venus. Their first CD, Do You Feel At Home? grabbed the attention of New York-based Grass Records (then home of Brainiac, The Wrens, New Radiant Storm King). Grass Records eventually became Wind Up records and put out Commander Venus' second full-length, The Uneventful Vacation (1997). Tim Kasher (Cursive), Matt Bowen (formerly of The Faint) and Robb Nansel (Saddle Creek) rounded out the rest of the band.
Along with writing songs for Commander Venus, Oberst continued to record songs on his father's old reel-to-reel four-track. He laid down dozens of songs between the years 1995 and 1997, but none were intended for release. It wasn't long after the release of the second Commander Venus record that Oberst began focusing more of his efforts on what originally got him interested in music, acoustic-based songwriting, and less on the loud, distorted guitar styling of Commander Venus. After Commander Venus disbanded in 1997, Oberst and some friends started a new project--Park Ave.--with the intention of writing pop music.
Oberst decided to learn to play drums, and Clark Baechle, the drummer from The Faint, joined up to learn how to play guitar. They asked three girlfriends to help round out the lineup on vocals, bass and keyboards. None of them knew how to play their instruments either. Park Ave. released a split 7" with The Wrens, had two songs on a Saddle Creek sampler CD, and put out a full-length of four-track recordings as well. When one of its members moved to London, Park Ave. broke up.
Saddle Creek had been listening to the home four-track recordings that Oberst had been making over the past few years and decided that they wanted to release them. Oberst and friends sifted through the reels of tape and came up with 20 songs, which became the first Bright Eyes release--A Collection of Songs Written and Recorded 1995-1997--in 1998. Frustrated by trying to get consistent band members, Oberst decided that Bright Eyes would be the moniker for his music and whomever else he could get to play with him at the time. When it was time to record the studio full-length Letting Off The Happiness, Oberst got his friends and acquaintances together, went to Athens, and played with a bunch of people. He then released the Every Day and Every Night EP, followed by the full-length Fevers and Mirrors in 2000. In January 2001, Oberst dropped Oh Holy Fools--The Music of Son, Ambulance and Bright Eyes. A new album is expected in 2002.
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