Bright Eyes Letting Off The Happiness CD

Letting Off The Happiness Music

List Price	$12.98 (You save $2.19)
Category	Rock Albums, Rock/Pop CDs
Label	Saddle Creek
Orig Year	1998
All Time Sales Rank	21845
CD Universe Part number	1209937
Catalog number	23
Discs	1
Release Date	Jun 01, 2000
Studio/Live	Studio
Mono/Stereo	Stereo
Personnel	Kevin Barnes - background vocals Bright Eyes - Conor Oberst Jeremy Barnes - drums, percussion Mike Mogis - guitar, pedal steel, piano, keyboards, air organ, melodica Andy LeMaster - vocals, bass, percussion Matt Maginn Ted Stevens - drums Aaron Druery - bass Matt Fotch Neely Jenkins - vocals

Bright Eyes Letting Off The Happiness Songs

	1.	If Winter Ends
	2.	Padraic My Prince
	3.	Contrast and Compare
	4.	City Has Sex, The
	5.	Difference in the Shades, The
	6.	Touch
	7.	June on the West Coast
	8.	Pull My Hair
	9.	Poetic Retelling of an Unfortunate Seduction, A
	10.	Tereza and Tomas

Letting Off The Happiness Music Review

Average Rating: (3.8 out of 5 stars) 4 stars

3 stars bright eyes album = money well spent
some say he is whiny, some say he is a genius. in my eyes he is a whiny genius who writes good songs and has a voice that makes me happy even though it seems he could slit his throat at any moment. good album.
Submitted by a reviewer (charlevoix, mi, usa)
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5 stars Happiness
This album is up there with his best work.
Submitted by Tiffany_Chars (boston, ma)
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4 stars Great except.....
After ordering this I read some people ragging on Bright Eyes "Lifted..." album putting it down (although they were somewhat out numbered by praises)so I though this one might not be good even though I liked the sound samples. I thought it was excellent, except why the repetitive drone on the last 15 or so minutes? It's as if Bright eyes was testing your patience. However there's an albums length of greatness and I recommend you buy it. I didn't mind the sound quality as much as I thought. Sometimes this album reminds me of John Frusciante's Niadra Lades album.
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3 stars Sloppy firsts
This CD is from 1998, with some songs performed by Coner when he was only 16, 17 years old. He's no less a great song writer at such a young age, but the recording is a bit sloppy. These were all home made in friends' "home studios" and they definitely sound like it.
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