Bright Eyes - Noise floor (Rarities 1998-2005): A companion LP

One of the things that struck Oberst as he and the band went through twenty-plus years of music is that he may in fact have been writing the same song this whole time. Not sonically, of course, but conceptually. This last wave contains, in Noise Floor, early Bright Eyes songs so raw Oberst never even released them back in the day, as well as, in Cassadaga and The People’s Key, the band’s most polished and sophisticated albums. When Bright Eyes toured Cassadega they performed an epic 7 sold-out nights at NYC’s Town Hall. What’s more grown-up rock-star than that? And yet …“Thematically those early songs are not that different than the songs I make now,” Oberst says, shaking his head. “There’s something affirming and disheartening about it. It’s like, have I really changed or grown? But maybe it’s just that I knew what I wanted to write about from the beginning.”

1. Nunca Seré Feliz Otra Vez (Companion Version)
2. The Vanishing Act (Companion Version)
3. Soon You Will Be Leaving Your Man (Companion Version)
4. Blue Angels Air Show (Companion Version) 03:13
5. I Will Be Grateful For This Day (Companion Version)
6. Motion Sickness (Companion Version)
7. I Won't Ever Be Happy Again (Companion Version)