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I'm Wide Awake It's Morning (Vinyl)

~ Bright Eyes (Artist)

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Audio CD (Jan 25 2005)
Original Release Date: Jan 25 2005
Number of Discs: 1
Label: Outside Music
ASIN: B00070FV0M
In-Print Editions: LP Record

Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (8 customer reviews)

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1. At The Bottom Of Everything - (with Jim James)

2. We Are Nowhere And It's Now - (with Emmylou Harris)

3. Old Soul Song (For The New World Order) - (with Emmlou Harris)

4. Lua

5. Train Under Water

6. First Day Of My Life

7. Another Travellin' Song

8. Landlocked Blues - (with Emmylou Harris)

9. Poison Oak

10. Road To Joy

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Conor Oberst is running on dangerous ground: getting his first Dylan comparisons at 12, frolicking with Winona Ryder, releasing two separate albums at once. Didn't he learn anything from Ryan Adams' mistakes? It's a good thing he can write such haunting, intimate songs. I'm Wide Awake, It's Morning (released simultaneous with Digital Ash In A Digital Urn) is the album the Omaha native has always threatened to make, channeling his country rock influences into articulate, witty ballads that come to life with gorgeous harmonies supplied by Emmylou Harris. The tumbling "We Are Nowhere and It's Now" might be his first actual masterpiece, while the words of album closer "Road To Joy" ("I could've been a famous singer if I had someone else's voice/ But failure's always sounded better") indicate that Oberst might have his head screwed on straight after all. -- Aidin Vaziri

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5.0 out of 5 stars best Bright Eyes cd yet, April 13 2005

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Simply put the best Bright Eyes cd yet. Beautiful lyrics put to well-constructed music. There's more control than in his previous cds and the album flows better than the others. It's the kind of CD you'll want to listen to over and over again

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5.0 out of 5 stars Bravo, Bright Eyes, Jul 29 2007

By	Austin Sprankle (Falls Church, VA USA) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

An excellent album for a rainy Sunday afternoon. Every song flows well into the next. "Land Locked Blues" and "Old Soul Song (For the New World Order)" are both top notch. Expect to hear a vast assortment of sounds in this album; trumpets, subtle electronic effects, mandolins, banjos, vibraphones, harmonicas, and more. Oberst's vocals are borderline whiny, but it works. A definite 5 stars is what this album deserves.

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4.0 out of 5 stars Wide awake, Mar 31 2007

By	E. A Solinas "ea_solinas" (MD USA) - See all my reviews (TOP 10 REVIEWER) (REAL NAME)

Most bands take years to polish up their mediocre albums. But indie-country-rock wunderkind Conor Oberst has released TWO albums at the same time, "I'm Wide Awake It's Morning" and "Digital Ash in a Digital Urn." Startlingly, neither one suffers. "I'm Wide Awake It's Morning" is perhaps the more powerful of the two, although it stays rooted in safer territory.

Oberst keeps his eye on sadness and disenchantment, with his life and the city around him. All that emotion gives the twenty-four-year-old's songs a raw feeling, especially the first single "Lua." It's a fragile, wounded ballad where Oberst sounds a little hungover and a lot depressed. ""We might die from medication/but we sure killed all the pain/what was normal in the evening/by the morning seems insane," he sings, in a voice that sounds like it's about to break into sobs. Poor guy.

That dramatic tremble keeps going in the slower, simpler songs. But Oberst indulges in more bluesy-rockiness in songs like the pensive "We Are Nowhere And It's Now," or the angsty yet bouncy "Another Travellin' Song," which has train whistles in the background. But surprisingly, Oberst never SOUNDS indulgent.

While its sister album experiments in the tradition of Radiohead -- synth wobbles and all -- "I'm Wide Awake It's Morning" sits firmly on an alt-country foundation. Reportedly it's all about Oberst moving to New York, and all the nerves, loneliness and bewilderment of his move.

Many of the songs are mostly Oberst and a guitar, both quietly trembling through his sad songs; a few of them have more instrumental backup, especially the catchier tunes. The stripped-down sound suits Oberst, since it lets his songwriting skills shine through, be it an anti-war rant or a drug-hazed night out with a date.

The album ends on an upbeat note with "Road to Joy," where Oberst sings " The sun came up with no conclusions/Flowers sleepin' in their beds/The city cemetary's hummin'/I'm wide awake, its mornin'." It's the logical finale to a melancholy, pensive album -- one that may well be a classic, twenty years down the line.

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4.0 out of 5 stars The perfect introduction to Conor's universe
It,s a great album : the firts i've listen to ! It took me like 4-5 time to appreciate it . But I am convertate to his music. Like every song is different . Read more

Published on Jan 15 2006 by JC

5.0 out of 5 stars How I've always wanted country , blues, rock to sound
To be listned to repeatedly. The appreciation grows with every following song. Sing along with...sure...I do...on the daily. Read more

Published on April 28 2005 by Kristin B. Gataveckas

1.0 out of 5 stars Pretentious
Wonderful ideas and instrumentation ruined with a whining voice and an affected, self-destructive manner--difficult to take. Read more

Published on Mar 24 2005

4.0 out of 5 stars Wonderful.
I put four stars because compared to the records put out by other artists, this record is definitely a 5, but compared to previous efforts from Conor, this album is only a 4. Read more

Published on Feb 2 2005 by sketchedward