I'm Wide Awake, It's Morning
| I'm Wide Awake, It's Morning | ||||
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| Studio album by Bright Eyes | ||||
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January 2005 |
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| Label (s) | Saddle Creek (USA), Polydor (rest of the world) | |||
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Title (number) |
10 |
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running time |
approx. 46 minutes |
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Vocals , guitar : Conor Oberst Mandolin , 12-string guitar : Mike Mogis |
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Mike Mogis |
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I'm Wide Awake, It's Morning is an album by Bright Eyes . It was released in January 2005 at the same time as Digital Ash in a Digital Urn , another Bright Eyes album.
The album was recorded in the Presto! Studios in Lincoln , Nebraska . Compared to the Digital Ash in a Digital Urn , which was published at the same time , it is more folky and traditionally orchestrated and less influenced by electronic elements. Stylistically, it is more in the tradition of the previous albums as Digital Ash in a Digital Urn , which is a kind of outlier in Bright Eyes' discography .
content
The album begins with a spoken introduction, in this case a story about a plane crash, and then turns into a traditional 3-chord folk song. On the second song We Are Nowhere and It's Now Colonel is accompanied by Emmylou Harris .
Many of the following pieces, especially the first single Lua , are arranged very sparingly. On Another Travelin 'Song and Landlocked Blues , Oberst is again accompanied by Emmylou Harris.
The last piece Road to Joy is musically based on the Ode to Joy (English Song to Joy ) by Ludwig van Beethoven . A line of text from this piece also gave the album its name.
Lyrically, the album criticizes America's politics under George W. Bush . A quote from the song Landlocked Blues should serve as an example : "And our freedom's a joke [...] If you're still free start running away!" (And our freedom is a joke [...] if you are still free, then start running away!)
success
I'm Wide Awake, It's Morning was a huge success and received mostly positive feedback from the critics. So it was at laut.de full marks. In the British magazine Q it was named the fifth best album of 2005, in Rolling Stone it was eighth in this rating.
In Germany, the album stayed in the Top 100 for six weeks. The highest ranking was 21st. The single Lua reached number 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 Singles Sales Charts .
Track list
- At the Bottom of Everything - 4:34
- We Are Nowhere and It's Now - 4:12
- Old Soul Song (For the New World Order) - 4:29
- Lua - 4:31
- Train Under Water - 6:05
- First Day of My Life - 3:08
- Another Travelin 'Song - 4:16
- Landlocked Blues - 5:47
- Poison Oak - 4:39
- Road to Joy - 3:54
Participating musicians
Since Bright Eyes is mainly Conor Oberst's project , the line-up of fellow musicians often changes from album to album. However, Mike Mogis and Nate Walcott became full members of the band during the course of the recording.
- Conor Oberst - vocals, guitar
- Mike Mogis - mandolin, 12-string guitars (song 1, 3, 4, 5, 7, 9, 10)
- Nick White - piano, organ, vibraphone (song 2, 3, 5, 7, 8, 9, 10)
- Jesse Harris - guitar (song 1, 2, 5, 6, 7, 8)
- Tim Luntzel - bass (song 1, 3, 6, 7, 8)
- Jason Boesel - drums (songs 2, 3, 5, 7, 9)
- Matt Maginn - bass (song 2, 5, 9, 10)
- Nate Walcott - trumpet (song 2, 3, 8, 10)
- Clark Baechle - drums (song 3, 7, 10)
- Emmylou Harris - vocals (song 2, 7, 8)
- Alex McManus - guitar (song 3)
- Maria Taylor - vocals (song 3, 9)
- Jake Bellows - harmonica, vocals (song 5)
- Jim James - vocals (song 1)
- Andy LeMaster - vocals (song 3)
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ http://www.laut.de/lautstark/cd-reviews/b/bright_eyes/im_wide_awake_its_morning/index.htm
- ↑ http://www.charts-surfer.de/musiksuche.php