Vinyl Me Please Essentials

[Jeff Lerner]

I have this version: Bright Eyes - I'm Wide Awake, It's Morning which says it is a remastered 2016 reissue, but all the comments are from 2020 or later. Was there another remaster? Is the VMP version going to be any different than the version I have?

 

[duke86fan]

I have this version: Bright Eyes - I'm Wide Awake, It's Morning which says it is a remastered 2016 reissue, but all the comments are from 2020 or later. Was there another remaster? Is the VMP version going to be any different than the version I have?

oh i have a hunch its the exact same version with a color change.. that or its going to be a color repress of what secretly would have done with the album anyway (with no companion EP it seems)

 

[MikeH]

I have this version: Bright Eyes - I'm Wide Awake, It's Morning which says it is a remastered 2016 reissue, but all the comments are from 2020 or later. Was there another remaster? Is the VMP version going to be any different than the version I have?

we'll find out details soon enough. i don't think anybody knows if the master will be different. I'd be a little surprised if it's the same plates as the 2016 but VMP has done stranger things...so maybe that is on brand for them.

 

[duke86fan]

VMP has done stranger things

in more ways than one

 

[spilledleche]

I'd have to pull it off the shelf, but I have the original pressing of that Bright Eyes and I think it was done at RTI and would be hard to beat by VMP, but I'm also dumb and am like "OOH PRETTY COLOR"

the lifestyle brings us down, but what are we to do?

 

[jfitzy]

Revisiting this Bright Eyes record (I haven't listened to it in years) and I'm surprised at how well it holds up. It's actually really good.

I'm definitely getting it.

 

[bdrummond]

I can't think of a single early 2000s indie rock album I enjoyed during that time that didn't get better with age for me, not worse. Not sure what it is, but it's like fine wine for me. Listening to it now is a far better experience than when I discovered the album for the first time.

It's the opposite effect with some (not all but some) early 90s grunge albums.
I don't know why I rated Pearl Jam's Ten so highly.

 

[mgp]

I have the Studio Album boxset, which I think is also the 2016 remaster? All of the pressings sound tremendous. If that's the baseline for this, you guys should be in good shape.

Bright Eyes - The Studio Albums 2000-2011

View credits, reviews, tracks and shop for the 2016 Vinyl release of "The Studio Albums 2000-2011" on Discogs.

www.discogs.com

 

[Urbs_hott]

Shouldn’t this be in the country track? Is this some sort of all time great country record?

 

[duke86fan]

Shouldn’t this be in the country track? Is this some sort of all time great country record?

its indie folk not country

 

[Urbs_hott]

its indie folk not country

Are you basing that solely on him not singing with a twang? I’m listening to it now and most of it seems like pretty straightforward country to me.

 

[bdrummond]

its indie folk not country

This is going to revive that whole folk is country things isn't it?

 

[duke86fan]

Are you basing that solely on him not singing with a twang? I’m listing to it now and most of it seems like pretty straightforward country to me.

the twang and the hokeyness is literally all i hear of country... its specifically what makes it a sore spot for me

(And the fact my mom is obsessed with it and thus the feelings of subtle transphobic behaviours get to me)

 

[Joe Mac]

This is going to revive that whole folk is country things isn't it?

Other way around. Everywhere has its own folk tradition, country is one of America’s.

 

[TenderLovingKiller®]

Are you basing that solely on him not singing with a twang? I’m listing to it now and most of it seems like pretty straightforward country to me.

I think the music is certainly rooted in Country. Lots of people would apply the “Americana” tag to this. Americana is Country music for people that say they don’t like Country Music.

 

[duke86fan]

I won't admit it's country because then it means I really liked a country album and im not becoming a fan of the "Southern pride" crap that kinda pretends the real prejudice and pain doesn't exist

 

[bdrummond]

I won't admit it's country because then it means I really liked a country album and im not becoming a fan of the "Southern pride" crap that kinda pretends the real prejudice and pain doesn't exist

You need some sturgill in your life.

 

[TenderLovingKiller®]

I won't admit it's country because then it means I really liked a country album and im not becoming a fan of the "Southern pride" crap that kinda pretends the real prejudice and pain doesn't exist

Sure some Country artists/fans are assholes but so are some Hip-Hop, Punk, and Metal artists/fans. No need to throw out the baby with the bath water.

 

[duke86fan]

You need some sturgill in your life.

i need much more than sturgill...

i am kinda nervous i accidentally described a kind of PTSD like reaction to the fact that my family is still barely supporting me and they listen to it

 

[BjorgenFjorgen]

I won't admit it's country because then it means I really liked a country album and im not becoming a fan of the "Southern pride" crap that kinda pretends the real prejudice and pain doesn't exist

Dukie have you heard Gillian Welch's Time (The Revelator)?