‘Broken Social Scene - You Forgot it in People’ would go so hard, has that same 00’s indie feeling.

more recs: LIFTED- bright eyes innervisions- stevie wonder blue rev-alvvays blue-joni mitchell axis:bold as love- jimi hendrix from a basement on the hill- elliott smith karma-pharaoh sanders head hunters- herbie hancock songs about leaving- carissas wierd

Lua and Poison Oak are both in my top 15 songs of all time

i will not rest until you listen to age of adz

LETS GOOOOOO WE MADE JT

it would be so sick to see ur reaction to a Joanna Newsom album!!! i would reccomend starting with Ys. her albums are works of frickin art

Lifted Lifted Lifted Lifted Lifted Lifted Lifted Lifted Lifted

Oh, wow. I clicked SO fast. Edit: I remember back when this dropped & how blown away people were. I can recall sitting in a coffeeshop, having a smoke & reading a review of this album in the USA Today & thinking I needed to check the album out (I didn’t get a chance until a couple years later, when a girl I was dating played it for me. I was blown away too. His lyricism is so goddamned good!)

Just finished watching the full video on Patreon, wanted to come drop a comment here. First off, Conor Oberst is one of, if not the best, songwriter of my generation. Personally, this is one of my least favorite albums of his so I’m really hoping you check out at least 1 or 2 more of his. Recommend Digital Ash in a Digital Urn and Cassadaga. Cassadaga, in my opinion, is peak Bright Eyes when it comes to musicianship and lyricism. He also did an album with Phoebe Bridgers under the moniker Better Oblivion Community Center that might be worthwhile. Glad you did this one man but really hoping you give some of his other works a shot….he’s in so many different projects and is an extremely versatile musician. Cheers bro (whispers in animal collective)

Please do By The Time I Get To Phoenix by Injury Reserve PLEAAASE🙏🙏🙏

Sun Kil Moon - Ghosts of the Great Highway next?

Suggesting Death Cab for Cutie - Transatlanticism Broken Social Scene - You Forgot it in People

recs: Modest Mouse - This Is a Long Drive for Someone with Nothing to Think About (Amazing album, very nearly as good as The Lonesome Crowded West) Crystal Castles - Crystal Castles (Insanely badass aura filled production and vocals, extremely unique) Weezer - Pinkerton (Some of the nicest sounding guitar/drums/everything you'll hear in 90s alt rock, with crazy honest lyrics, ended up inspiring some emo bands) The Prodigy - The Fat Of The Land (badass big-beat dance music) Dinosaur Jr. - You're Living All Over Me (amazing ahead of its time 1987 alt/noise rock) Guided By Voices - Bee Thousand (lovely 90's lo-fi) Hella - Hold Your Horse Is (Math Rock with the drummer from Death Grips, before he was in Death Grips) Pavement - Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain (Absolutely perfect 90's indie rock album)

OMG BRIGHT EYES CAN'T BELIEVE IIIIT

Such a wonderful record!!! Excited to see your reaction of it :3

Yes! Was asking for it since months!!! Thank youuuuuuuuuu

Aw man right in the nostalgia, love it! I think you’d dig The Ugly Organ by Cursive 🔥

Bright Eyes! So good to see you listening to them! I totally recommend you LIFTED, their 2002 album. It has a similar vibe to this one but the main theme it's identity, with a lot of details spread all across the record. My personal favorite of them. And this one, what to say about I'm Wide Awake, it's Morning, it was my introduction to Bright Eyes when I was 15, and it became a very good friend of mine during those highschool years. It blew my mind how well written it is, like an intimate letter, destined to a close friend. I was lucky enough to see them play in Mexico in 2022, a rainy night and the production sucked, but the show was something I'll always remember. Cheers

You should check out Ghosts of the Great Highway by Sun Kil Moon or Rollercoaster by Red House Painters, I feel you'll really mess with it

FINALLY DUDE FINALLY DUDE PLEASE PLEASEEE AHHHHHHHH AHHHHH

Hold on freakbob calling ☎️🧽🥵

Repeater by fugazi would be a great reaction, quality album

i loooove this album!! Im glad you finally came around to it!!

Well there you have it

I can’t be the only person that thinks the female vocals on this album sound so much like Adrianne Lenker I know it’s not but it drives me crazy how much it sounds like her

Thank you for reacting to this

FINALLYYYYYYYYYY, THE FIRST TIME I LISTENED TO IT I WAS SO IMPRESSED, MAN, THE VOCALS AND LYRICS....

OMG YOU DID IT THIS IS ONE OF MY PERSONAL FAVORITE ALBUMS EVER JFKDKFJF

man, haven't heard this in so long man. takes me back to sophomore year, like twelve-thirteen years ago at this point, starting my morning to first day of my life, having nowhere near the same understanding of it that i do now, or of any of these songs really. man, sometimes it gets old having to learn and grow all the time. i know im not that old, but man im tired already. i miss when i didn't know as much as i do now and these songs felt like lessons from someone beyond my years

For sure gotta check out the 2 bright eyes albums that came before this one, LIFTED as wells as Fevers and Mirrors

I've been recommending Serotonin ii by Yeule and Caligula by Lingua ignota for months, and I won't give up, I love you

I recommended this album a couple months ago, so glad you liked it.

Love the vid as always some recs: Wilco - Summerteeth TV on the Radio - Desperate Youth Bloodthirsty Babes Belle and Sebastian - Tigermilk Bob Dylan - The Times They Are a Changin Wolf Parade - Apologies to Queen Mary Pulp - Different Class

You should check out the band Friko, their lead singer is literally your Doppelganger haha and their debut album released this year is kinda similar to this and is depressingly beautiful Other recs: PAINLESS - Nilufer Yanya Songs About Leaving - Carrissa's wierd Reading, writing and arithmetic - The Sundays Everybody else is doing it, so why can't we? - The Cranberries And then nothing turned itself inside out - Yo La Tengo STRUGGLER - Genesis Owusu Below The Heavens - Blu and Exile Fearless Movement - Kamasi Washington Modal Soul - Nujabes Plastic Death - Glass Beach You Forgot it in People - Broken Social Scene

Songs about leaving

WE UPPPPP

BRO FINALLY. THANK YOU

had to get the uncut version after recommending this for like 6+ months lmao I'd definitely recommend Conor's project with Phoebe Bridgers "Better Oblivion Community Center". And if you want to check out more of Bright Eyes my personal recommendations would be Digital Ashes (similar vibe but all electronic instrumentals), or Down in The Weeds (latest album, fuller more mature band sound). (alot of ppl probably recommend going backwards in their discog from here but i think it'll be another "id like this more if i was depressed" vibe for you lmao)

Parachutes by Coldplay recently turned 20 years old, honestly really worth checking out, also the new clairo - charm

IVE BEEN BEGGING LETS GOOO

Fun fact: Bright Eyes released another album on the same day as this one, Digital Ash Digital Urn, and it's just as good but in a completely different style.

this album is amazing, yeah

Gonna keep recommending Ben Folds Five- The Unauthorized Biography of Reinhold Messner until it happens

BANGER VID MAN ILY

Lifted has to be your next Bright Eyes album

Funny thing, Ive been owning this album for decades, and I only always constantly relistening to Road to Joy, because I love that song. Never listened to the other songs on that album. I think I got the abum when I heard Road to Joy somwhere. Please do Takk by Sigur Ros and/or Before The Dawn Heals Us by M83. ;*

More bright eyes, under-reacted to, such a deep catalogue...

We need that 'Symbolic' by Death reaction man

The lyrics are always central and important to any Conor Oberst/Bright Eyes song. The dude was recognized very early on as being a rare, special lyricist. Like a modern day Bob Dylan.

LET’S GOOOOOO ITS TIME TO CRYYYYYYYYYY

I KNOW THATS RIGHT!!! YUPPPPPPP heres some suggestions :p vitalic - flashmob crystal castles - (III) Justice - Justice the unicorns - who will cut our hair when we're gone? blood orange - negro swan injury reserve - injury reserve

hell yes. you should do their next album after this one (and digital ash, released same day as wide awake) anyway it's called cassadaga.

Fevers and Mirrors next please!!!

I WANTED THIS FOR A WHILE.....

ohhhh.finally breaking out some bright eyes! can't wait to watch!

My daily portion of smags

finallyyyyyy this is why smags the goat man

FINALLY IVE BEEN WAITING

Awesome Video Man, Highly recommend Ram by Paul McCartney and HiLo by Jack Stauber!! Two of my favorite albums of all time!!!

You have to listen to after the magic by Parannoul, It's maybe evn better than To See the Next Part of the Dream.

Lifted is another great album of theirs, and i think you would enjoy the singer Conor Oberst's solo stuff too. I really love his self titled album and his album Ruminations

If you want more folk (but less emo and more progressive) I'd HIGHLY recommend the crane wife by the Decemberists

SMAGS DO THE AGE OF ADZ AND MY LIFE IS YOOUUUUUUUUUUUUUURRRRSSSSS (thanks for this doing this album too it's great.)

hey you should totally do fiona apple’s ‘fetch the bolt cutters!’ imo it’s her best album. so emotional and sonically interesting. it’s a very rewarding listen.

LETS GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

LOVE YOUR VIDEOS MY GUY a few recommendations: Process - Sampha (experimental r&b, great production) Nurture - Porter Robinson (light summer electric with fun production) Koi No Yokan - Deftones (very heavy, sexier and heavier radiohead imo) Hypochondriac - Brakence (very experimental emo rap, glitch pop) Reading Writing And Arithmetic - The Sundays (the smiths ish, with beautiful female vocals)

You gotta do Hejira - Joni Mitchell 🙏

'The Texas-Jerusalem Crossroads - Lift to Experience' The album that quote "don't judge the book by its cover". Definitely feels blessed after hearing the whole album...

at the bottom, lua, and first day of my life make this album a classic

yooooo I love bright eyes…….speaking of eyes you need to do Third Eye Blind’s self-titled album especially this summer other recs: Sun Kil Moon - Ghosts of the Great Highway Parannoul - After the Magic clipping. - Visions of Bodies Being Burned

since you liked Gorillaz so much, why not listen to Damon Albarn's original band Blur?

LETS GOOO (day 2 of asking for Uchu Nippon Setagaya by Fishmans)

Check out Carissa’s weird-songs about leaving. A hauntingly beautiful album that’s similar to works by bright eyes and Elliot smith and also one of my favorite projects

fantastic

FINALLY. One of my favorite albums. You should also listen to Cassadega it’s a little more upbeat but still has the same feel

let’s goooo

Based off this I recommend AJJ - Knife Man

that’s nice that’s real nice that’s beautiful honestly but Nurture by Porter Robinson

FINALLYYYYYYYYYY WOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

Love these reviews, such a cool way to discover new music! I also think you'll like Before The Dawn Heals Us by M83 :)

some more recs! fevers and mirrors - bright eyes stranger in the alps - phoebe bridgers souvlaki- slowdive caligula - lingua ignota fetch the bolt cutters - fiona apple

oh hell yeah

you need to hear Corea's Los Peores 7km De Mi Vida at some point, it's my favorite emo/screamo album ever

I am one in a very small camp of people who think "Lifted, or The Story is in the Soil, Keep Your Ear to the Ground" is the better album. I think that if you liked IWAIM, this one should be your next stop.

Bright Eyes are great!! I'd love to see what you think of Methodrone by the Brian Jonestown Massacre :) thanks so much for the videos!

Great album, Connor’s got a few more good ones. I’m thinking Between the bars playing at the end was an omen, time to listen to Basement on the hill.

i don't know if the others in the comments would recommend this to you, but i think you'd really like the Lomelda album "Hannah", it was an indie-folk album that released in 2020 that's a personal fav of mine. You might like it if you like this album

omg bro the comments have been BEGGIN

Almost can't listen to this album anymore because it got me through a break up. Shit hurts

FINALLY AAAAAAAAAA,

Great album. Decided on the next Bowie reaction yet.......what else we getting before Blackstar?

Paul McCartney - RAM Ween - The Pod PLEASE

Amy Winehouse plsss

“men in black, black men” lmaoo

YESSS

Have you listened to any early 2000s freak folk like Devendra Banhart or Joanna Newsom? If not the I highly recommend Milk Eyed Mender and Ys, both by Joanna Newsom and Rejoicing in The Hands by Devendra Barnhart

Ni ce choice bruh🫡

Bury me at makeout creek - mitski

BLUE REV - ALVVAYS PLEASSEEEE KING 🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏💦💦💦💦

this album is kinda a grower so u shld def give it a few listens to get used to the sound more