Artist	Song
Bright Eyes	If Winter Ends
Bright Eyes	A Scale, a Mirror, and Those Indifferent Clocks
Bright Eyes	Drunk Kid Catholic
Bright Eyes	Going For the Gold
Bright Eyes	Nothing Gets Crossed Out
Bright Eyes	From a Balance Beam
Bright Eyes	Haligh, Haligh, a Lie, Haligh
Bright Eyes	Oh, You Are the Roots That Sleep Beneath My Feet and Hold the Earth In Place
Bright Eyes	A Song to Pass the Time
Bright Eyes	The City Has Sex
Bright Eyes	Lover I Don't Have to Love
Bright Eyes	Touch
Bright Eyes	When the Curious Girl Realizes She is Under Glass
Bright Eyes	Padraic My Prince
Bright Eyes`	You Will, You Will, You Will You
Bright Eyes	A Perfect Sonnet
Bright Eyes	First Day of My Life (Live on KCRW's Morning Becomes Eclectic 10-04-03)
Bright Eyes	The Movement of a Hand

Comment:

There are several Bright Eyes compilations in the Art of the Mix archive. Most of these mixes, however, rely heavily on either educating others about Bright Eyes, or to serve only as a list for self-gratification (or self-loathing in the case of Bright Eyes' music). This mix seeks not to compile rare songs, b-sides, singles, live versions, remixes, or covers either. It is exclusive in fact to Bright Eyes and does not rely on Obersts other musical outlets (The Desaparecidos, for example, may be actually be stronger work of Obersts than Bright Eyes). But simply, they are just not the same. I made this to appeal mostly to the seasonal affect some of Bright Eyes songs seemed either concerned with or made from. With little doubt I suspect Oberst is at least somewhat affected by location and the seasons. In many cases we may like to think we "hear" the cold and the emptiness of a January day in Omaha on "If Winter Ends." Or we might "feel" the midwestern winds blowing on the chords of "Going for the Gold," while they play from a lonely wooden front porch. It's crap really, but I feel I share this assumed notion of seasonal affect and thus, this mix was made to reflect this notion. It plays remarkably well on long drives, and it being the fall season, the music fits right in. I hope someone shares this sentiment of the mix and enjoys it as much as I did.

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