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| | Every Day and Every Night | | | Music Style : | | General | | Record Label : | | Saddle Creek | | Release Date : | | 1999-11-01 | | Store Price : | | $8.98 | | Artistopia's Price: $8.98 | | Usually ships in 24 hours | | |
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CD Tracks/Songs
Disc 11. a line allows progress, a circle does not
2. a perfect sonnet
3. on my way to work
4. a new arrangement
5. neely o'hara
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Customer Reviews of This Album/CD |
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 for those who swallow their sleep
Submitted on: 2009-10-16 |
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| to me, this is essential. bright eyes' music up to (and including) LIFTED is my favorite music ever recorded. period. FEVERS AND MIRRORS is my fav album ever, blah blah blah. and this EP (every day and every night) came out the year before F & M, and really feels like he was in that dark and brilliant mindset that can never be duplicated or returned to (i feel all artists who create something truly otherworldly, are only given a brief window to do so). so basically, if early bright eyes blows yr mind, you have to have this. if not, get that 4 winds thing or whatever, i don't care. |
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 An objective Bright eyes review
Submitted on: 2005-10-22 |
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Well, before buying this I had never even heard of bright eyes. Just so you know my background, I generally dislike indie and Emo. I usually listen to hardcore and Screamo. But for some reason I became interested in this band. (or person)
Someone compared a CD of their's to A Death Cab CD. Me being a pretty big Death Cab fan, I decided to go out and buy this EP to see if I liked this band at all. This review is the result of that listen.
The EP opens up with the slow acoustic guitar picks of "a line allows prgress"... A few seconds into the song I am greeted with with drums and an organ. This song sounds like a slower Cursive song. The guy's voice sounds decent. I guess the vocal effects he uses are for emotional purposes. Overall this is a pretty decent song. It reminds me of hotel california.
Next in line comes one of my favorite tracks on here: "a perfect sonnet". I don't know if it's the simple guitar stum or the sense that his voice is going to explode any moment. Seriously, the whole song I was thinking that everything was about to fall apart...but it didn't. He keeps going and going. It must be his voice that creates this mood. This was also the point of the CD where I realized that it was a bit more than music I was listening to. Bright eyes will make you feel moods that other music can't. It's got a unique brand of emotion that is new to me. It's too bad this song ends so quickly.
As I press on to: "on my way to work" I begin to get the feel for the CD. He's almost whispering on this track. There's an odd sounding guitar picking and a country sounding synthesizer. Quite frankly, I hate this song. It sounds like an offkey country ballad... Who wants that?
The next two tracks are more or less the same feel. A new arrangement provides better quality music than the craptastic on my way to work, but doesn't reach the level of A perfect sonnet.
Finally, the EP is ended with the techno atmospheric: Neely o hara... I don't know what to say. It's meaningless. I don't see how you can like this. It's just pointless.
Overall this is a half and half EP. The first two tracks are good... But the rest of the CD falls between failing and decent. If Bright Eyes good churn out more tracks like a perfect sonnet, this band would get at least a 4 star. Sadly thats not the case. So I don't recommend this for anyone other than the really dedicated fans. Perhaps the other CD's are better. |
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i'd tell you how touching this album is;but such a word doesnt exist.
Submitted on: 2005-09-17 |
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God it is soo perfect that i cant even begin to describe.
Every day&Every night starts with "a line allows progress,a circle does not",a song that also holds the album title inside its gracefull lyrics;"this feeling always used to pass,but now it's every day and every night."it is a song about someone who forgot the purpose of her life,someone totally lost and alone, have nothing to do but get drunk and looking for an exit desperately.As they always does;conors lyrics tell the story in a natural,mournful way with lyrics that will haunt you whenever you hear them in your ordinary life.The song will pass you by with its haunting guitar melodies and will probably leave you questioning your own life,possibly with tears in your eyes..
Then,as you think if connor can ever do anything more touching then this one,"a perfect sonnet" will begin.And believe me no words i say is enough to tell you how touching,moving,rocking, devastating this song is!!As the song gets slower and faster over and over,it will make you think about each line connor tells,each section;which is another dagger to your heart,and you may cry over and over screaming this song in nights thinking of everything you did wrong and everything you've lost for all your life.
Ęt's a classic bright eyes song,what can i say?!!!
"Then comes on my way to work" a song questioning about the passing life and death,in a way that you dont really wanna like thinking about.The song is not that great as overall,but it is still bright eyes,and it has the quality to turn you upside down in the moment you least expect,by some line you've missed out before,or some piece of melody that you havent noticed...
A new arrangement;it resembles to arienette,one of the greatest bright eyes song ever;it's not as good as arienette but it is like a passage,a preparation to it.The most of this ep resembles fevers&mirrors,so if it has been released just before it,it'd make total sense.
The last song,i didnt got into it yet,never even listened it with all my ears but i'm sure sime time from now i'll really see what that song is about and it'll effect me just like all the others did in time.
A final,important note..Yes ; bright eyes songs are not songs to listen and just,like.You need to be ready for the songs and for the things he'll say to you,otherwise they will probably not make sense.
i see that some people are giving low stars to bright eyes telling that BE is not a great musician or a lyricist as we all say,and they blame him for pretending to be sad.and i just want to say that i know,that these people are just not ready,or not strong enough for him,and sadly some of them will never be.
but if you are one of those deep people,still confused about the way life works and ends,or figuring out how love matters to give a meaning to it all,buy this EP..you'll not regret i promise
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 misunderstood, i think
Submitted on: 2004-11-26 |
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listening to a variety of bright eye's albums over the last few days in particular, i found myself disecting the "depressive" feel to it all. i've decided that bright eye's music isn't depressing at all. it's just realism with a dark use of symbolism/metaphor. I think that the utter darkness of it all just helps to force the listener into thinking about it all at a deep level. it moves you to really consider the notions and concepts that he picks at.
anyway, anything by bright eyes is definately worth purchasing, and i hope people who maybe thought otherwise at first, can understand his music a little better after reading this :) |
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Such sweet sorrow
Submitted on: 2004-10-22 |
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| Every Day and Every Night is indie rock(?) at its best. It packs a lot of emotional punch without any cheese! Its poetic and highly interspective. Conner Oburst deals with a lot of darkness in the this EP. AND, it just sounds good. The style is dynamic: melodic and catchy yet original and unconventional. I could decribe Bright Eyes style as -elements of blue-grass and folk combined with acoustic indie rock. Sometimes there is screaming/sobbing, sometimes there are clean cut, pretty harmonies. That sounds strange I know. But give it a chance if you like bands like Cursive, Grandaddy, Modest Mouse, etc. Every Day and Every Night is deep and passionate and if you're deep and passionate, you just might like it. |
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