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The first three are innocent in a way, because we didn’t have an audience when we were making them,” Oberst says. “But from Lifted on, I was definitely aware of an audience. Lifted was well-received right away, and then everything happened with Wide Awake and Digital Ash.” Those two albums came out simultaneously, making quite the splash! Their lead singles “Take It Easy (Love Nothing),” from the austere, remote Digital Ash, and “Lua,” from the warm, folky Wide Awake – debuted in the top two slots on the Billboard Hot 100. “First Day of My Life,” also from Wide Awake, would later be voted the Number One love song of all time by NPR Music’s reader’s poll.Bright Eyes had officially broken through, and what a thrilling time it was! It was a mix of excitement and tension, heightened by the band’s surging fame and the state of the world around them. When Bright Eyes made their Tonight Show debut in 2006, they chose to perform none of their shiny new hits, instead delivering a searing, harrowing rendition of their poignant anti-Bush anthem, “When The President Talks To God.”These days, Oberst continues to find joy in exploring the extremes that Bright Eyes played with during this era. The reworked Digital Ash tracks, originally so clean and elegant, now shine with a delightful mix of “harmonica and mandolins folky vibes,” Oberst shares. Meanwhile, the analogue sweetness of the Wide Awake songs has undergone a fascinating transformation, filtered through a lens of detached nihilism.
SIDE A: 1) The Big Picture 2) Method Acting 3) False Advertising 4) You Will. You? Will. You? Will. You? Will.
SIDE B: 5) Lover I Dont Have to Love 6) Bowl of Oranges 7) Dont Know When But a Day is Gonna Come
SIDE C: 8) Nothing Gets Crossed Out 9) Make War 10) Waste of Paint
SIDE D: 11) From a Balance Beam 12) Laura Laurent 13) Lets Not Shit Ourselves (to Love And to Be Loved)
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