Artist	Song
Bright Eyes	First Day of My Life
from I'm Wide Awake It's Morning (2005)
Bright Eyes	Lover I Don't Have to Love
from LIFTED or the Story Is in the Soil, Keep Your Ear to the Ground (2002)
Bright Eyes	Four Winds
from Four Winds - EP (2007)
Conor Oberst	Souled Out!!!
from Conor Oberst (2008)
Bright Eyes	Road to Joy
from I'm Wide Awake It's Morning (2005)
Bright Eyes	Bowl of Oranges
from LIFTED or the Story Is in the Soil, Keep Your Ear to the Ground (2002)
Bright Eyes	Shell Games
from The People's Key (2011)
Bright Eyes	At the Bottom of Everything
from I'm Wide Awake It's Morning (2005)
Bright Eyes	Lua
from I'm Wide Awake It's Morning (2005)
Bright Eyes	Take It Easy (Love Nothing)
from Digital Ash In a Digital Urn (2005)
Bright Eyes	We Are Nowhere and It's Now
from I'm Wide Awake It's Morning (2005)
Bright Eyes	Spent On Rainy Days
from Noise Floor (Rarities: 1998-2005) (2006)
Bright Eyes	When the President Talks to God
from When the President Talks to God - Single (2005)
Bright Eyes	Method Acting
from LIFTED or the Story Is in the Soil, Keep Your Ear to the Ground (2002)
Bright Eyes	Haligh, Haligh, a Lie, Haligh
from Fevers and Mirrors (2000)
Bright Eyes	Haile Selassie
from The People's Key (2011)
Bright Eyes	I Must Belong Somewhere
from Cassadaga (2007)
Bright Eyes	Trees Get Wheeled Away
from Noise Floor (Rarities: 1998-2005) (2006)
Bright Eyes	From a Balance Beam
from LIFTED or the Story Is in the Soil, Keep Your Ear to the Ground (2002)
Conor Oberst	Cape Canaveral
from Conor Oberst (2008)
Bright Eyes	Arc of Time (Time Code)
from Digital Ash In a Digital Urn (2005)
Bright Eyes	I Believe In Symmetry
from Digital Ash In a Digital Urn (2005)
Bright Eyes	Land Locked Blues
from I'm Wide Awake It's Morning (2005)
Bright Eyes	I Will Be Grateful for This Day
from Noise Floor (Rarities: 1998-2005) (2006)
Bright Eyes	Light Pollution
from Digital Ash In a Digital Urn (2005)
Bright Eyes	One Foot in Front of the Other
from Saddle Creek 50 (2003)
Bright Eyes	True Blue
from Lua - EP (2004)
Bright Eyes	The Calendar Hung Itself
from Fevers and Mirrors (2000)
Bright Eyes	Reinvent the Wheel
from Four Winds - EP (2007)
Bright Eyes	Kathy With a K's Song
from Oh Holy Fools - The Music of Son, Ambulance and Bright Eyes (2001)
Bright Eyes	The City Has Sex
from Letting Off the Happiness (1998)
Bright Eyes	You Will. You? Will. You? Will. You? Will.
from LIFTED or the Story Is in the Soil, Keep Your Ear to the Ground (2002)
Bright Eyes	Triple Spiral
from The People's Key (2011)
Bright Eyes	Old Soul Song (For the New World Order)
from I'm Wide Awake It's Morning (2005)
Bright Eyes	Seashell Tale
from Noise Floor (Rarities: 1998-2005) (2006)
Bright Eyes	Devil Town
from Noise Floor (Rarities: 1998-2005) (2006)
Conor Oberst and The Mystic Valley Band	Nikorette
from Outer South (2009)
Conor Oberst	I Don't Want to Die (In the Hospital)
from Conor Oberst (2008)
Bright Eyes	I Woke Up With This Song In My Head This Morning
from Lua - EP (2004)
Bright Eyes	Falling Out of Love at This Volume
from A Collection of Songs Written and Recorded 1995-1997 (1998)
Bright Eyes	Something Vague
from Fevers and Mirrors (2000)
Bright Eyes	A Perfect Sonnet
from Every Day and Every Night - EP (1999)
Bright Eyes	Tourist Trap
from Four Winds - EP (2007)
Bright Eyes & Neva Dinova	I'll Be Your Friend
from One Jug Of Wine, Two Vessels (2010 Reissue) (2010)
Desaparecidos	Man and Wife, the Latter (Damaged Goods)
from Read Music / Speak Spanish (2002)

Comment:

Compare Conor Oberst to the greats if you must — Springsteen, Dylan, Young — but here’s the thing: whether he’s assuming the frontman position in his full-time gig, Bright Eyes, or taking a break with the much looser Mystic Valley Band, his back catalog is downright bulletproof. A willingness to wander into the great unknown — the vein-busting chamber-pop of “Method Acting,” the studio-bred symphonies of “Triple Spiral” — certainly helps, but so does the sense that Oberst treats his tracks like journal entries, as he shares his brutally honest thoughts on what life’s really like on the road. Not to mention a political statement or two to remind us that there’s more at stake here than a few broken hearts.

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