365 project:"we're going to a birthday party. its your birthday party, happy birthday, darling."

39.

artist:bright eyes
album:I'm wide awake, its morning

ill come right out and say it-i am not a fan of bright eyes. yes, Conor oberst is adorable. there is just something about bright eyes, though, that is too whiny and mopey for even my taste. however, I'm wide awake, its morning is an exception to my distaste for all things bright eyes.

i had already purchased a few bright eyes albums before the release of this one, and i never really listened to them after the first go around. i just wasn't feeling it, you know? but enough of my friends were drooling over these releases (digital ash in a digital urn was released on the same date) that i figured i needed to suck it up and give it a go. i bought both of these albums on vinyl (though i do have I'm wide awake... on CD) and while i know I've listened to I'm wide awake..., i know i haven't made it very far on digital ash.

I'm a sucker for folk-y, country stuff. wide awake does that. i actually really enjoy each and every song on this album. there isn't one that i like to skip over or tune out when its playing, which says a lot for an album in general but even more for bright eyes. i find myself occasionally humming these tunes or singing the lyrics randomly, even when i haven't listened in months. i notice other references to this album, though if the same person was referencing another bright eyes album, id be lost. i feel like this album "gets" me where i have a hard time connecting with anything else I've heard from Conor.

this album will remain on my "once in a while" list. its something that, while i find it more than just listenable, it wouldn't ever last if i listened to it more than once in a while. id probably snap the record in half or bake it into a bowl.

(2/8)