Bright Eyes - Center of the World

[robbieblack111]

elliot smiths voice is boring compared to conor

[DirtySmo0th]

if i had a time machine this is exactly where i'd be.

[XTheConfuserX]

conor makes my heart hurt

[touchofmetal]

i dislike the fact that there are only 2 videos of this song live!

[lynch03]

from that job that makes you sleep, back to the thoughts that keep you awwwwaaaakkkke

[xchristyisbombx]

Holy fuck.

[PFeezyYo]

This is a beautiful live video. It gives me goosebumps everytime. Such emotion..

[Trackingimage]

His voice is just so raw and real that it tickles my ears.

[jjalstott]

I honestly believe that this is the most beautiful performance ever recorded. Honestly.

[papillon786]

so shit. i can't believe how shit this is. elliott smith was the original. even his band heatmiser rocked.

[lordoftherunescape]

@papillon786 dude it's your opinion. there are elements about conor that are similar to elliott but he's his own person too. stop being so fucking close minded and conservative about this one little fucking detail and just try to enjoy this.

[papillon786]

@lordoftherunescape I'm sorry but I can't enjoy it. I stumbled across it by accident and therefore left my opinion. I must be getting old, because instead of saying "music was better in the 60's" I'm thinking..."the nineties blew this shit away". But, totally my opinion. Enjoy your era. Peace

[lordoftherunescape]

@papillon786 well fair enough, but you know elliott had releases in the 00s and bright eyes had releases in the 90s :P

[papillon786]

@lordoftherunescape not true :) Heatmiser was in 91 and elliotts debut was 94. his last album was 2000. The rest was released after his death.

[lordoftherunescape]

@papillon786 well that's what i meant, his posthumous albums. i still count those as releases from him :P

[johan371]

@papillon786 and Nick Drake+ The Beatles was the original Elliott Smith. I love Elliott Smith and Conor is one talented dude.

[THEGUTTERS1]

chills every time...holy fucuuuuuucucucucucuck

[lordoftherunescape]

this was the dary after my birthday, what a 10th birthday present this would have been...too bad i wasnt even into music back then...

[stemuse]

this is without doubt the best video on youtube. Best performance of this song by a MILE. I want this played at my funeral... you know, just to cheer everyone up =)

[jackers71]

I wish I had been into Bright Eyes back then, but unfortunately I was only 9 and had no idea what good music was haha

[heyjude97]

Alright, maybe it's just 'cause I'm hungry, but that paneling looks like a bunch of chocolate bars.

[ehhmilly666]

@heyjude97 hahahahha i was thinking that too. XD



[BadAlice101]

When he does his screamy voice i get chills and it does something funny to my breathing capabilities

[oftenbach]

That guitar looks oversized slung across Oberst like that.

[threeedjapanese]

literally covered in goosebumps...

[tyrannized]

where is mike mogis ?



[Garthi14]

Who is the female singer/back up guitarist?

[Garthi14]

holy.

[charliepeterlin]

4:23 the female singer is wiping tears from her face

[coolymcool]

@charliepeterlin uh..or sweat...or an itch

[Diablo112687]

How the fuck does one come to write something like this? My god...

[tyler3t]

oh my god

[owarabe]

brilliant!!!

[owarabe]

brilliant!!

[owarabe]

brilliant!

[howdaremysheep10]

I love how into it he gets, I don't think any other musician does that. I mean sure some bang their head and roll on the floor lol but he's different :3

[Diablo112687]

He is a human being like anyone else... things change... he changes... he ages... What the hell do you expect? You have no idea who or what he is... how dare you make any statements on what is going on with him or his performances.

[roarkarchitect]

@lolitaestrange he's saying thanks to Goodlife and Mayday, presumably the Bands that played before his set.

[LolitaLestrange]

Can anyone tell me what he's saying in the beginning before the song starts?

[crustymusic99]

This isn't happeningx5 IT IS!

[heyjude97]

i <3 conor oberst.

and his clothes.

though, i'd rather see them on the floor :3

[K3tchuppopsicle]

powerful. I like near the end when he didn't finish the line and the gal next to him sang out the bit, " corner of the frame that you put around her face." good bit. I dig it.

[neoninagirl]

@K3tchuppopsicle

was just about to comment the same exact thing.

[zxcvnmtgb]

From that job that makes you sleep back to the thoughts that keep you awake

[MysticGrant]

Woah.

[G0D666]

holy fucking shit, oh my god

[nexttorihunter]

This is the most beautiful thing i have ever heard/seen. I fell in love with this song the moment I watched this video. Conor Oberst is beyond amazing. Gives me chills everytime.

[xchristyisbombx]

this is the most amazing video, i swear its so raw and honest

[iwrotealife2]

job that makes you sleep back to the thoughts that keep you awake...

[terminallychill11]

Amazing, speachless or i mean typeless

[zxcvnmtgb]

Intense!

[sculleyyy]

this is passion.

[nikscoolduh]

this song always make me cry

[amrsurfnsnow31]

Good lord this video gives me chills...."....around her face!!!!!" Woa, so intense and amazing!

[wingnut418]

IT IS!!!

[calebfrederick]

wow gave me chills

[deefor3]

this is the 100th time ive watched this, so amazing

[xchristyisbombx]

fucking amazing

[finalFailerxx3]

Touching the first time I came upon this song, and still touching the fiftieth time I've listened to it. My gosh, it's just pure amazing!

[nexttorihunter]

conor oberst is the only man i would give my body to (:

[puppyslut22]

wow.. i had never heard this song before..and its unbelievable .. totally touching.. loves

[theversustheory]

when i pray, i pray to conor.

[thepopekiller]

well when i pray i pray to billy mays so......suck it!

[woahhhchristine]

OH MY CONOR SO DO I.

[IhatefalloutboyAlot]

I love this.... omg, the passion is ah-maz-ing.

[1989oberst]

in terms of song quality and fluency in the lyrics, this song is only surpassed by "Don't Cha" by the pussycat dolls

[luastarlet]

jesus wept, that was better than sex

[AdobeCSTutorials]

@luastarlet

This video is Jesus.

[keliaoberst]

definitely one of my favorite performances. i cant get enough of this video.

[hilby21]

'i wrote this song about dying'

wow.

this man is higher than god to me.

beautiful.

[johnz6808]

anybody else get goose bumps at the end?

[555soil]

Goose bumps? yeah. Totally brings back memories of that time period.

[MyBrightEyes17]

Man I always get goose bumps at the end of this song, And watching it live brings it out even more.

[deathwish124]

YES!

[CalendarHungItself]

!!!!!!!!!!!!

[p3cok]

this was filmed in 2002 but it looks more like 1974

[roxyimawesome]

OH MY FUCKING GOD THE END

[easyluckyfree7]

two pills just weren't enough

[LightLightHighHigh]

his voice is kind of an acquired taste.

[mochalex]

I love this song. Does he have an all-girl back up band? Nice one!

[particleman01]

that asian girl behind him is rose. he talks about how she died in an at the bottom of everything video. she also plays in a fabchannel concert of bright eyes

[johan371]

He says that in the begining of the Austin City Limits video i think..

[pageseventyfive]

is that that flutist girl also?

[nightclover15]

Yea his voice drew me into the band.Its so different from the usual.You can feel his emotions.

[jkewlo]

isnt she the drummer for white strips?

[jimminychristmas23]

the drummer is not meg from white stripes. possibly Janet Weiss, who also plays drums with the Jicks. but this clip looks circa 2001, so I don't know for sure.

[jkewlo]

ahhh

[miriamleaman]

Maria Taylor plays drums for Bright Eyes occasionally, so it might be her; I can't really see who it is due to the quality, but it looks a lot like Maria Taylor.

[johan371]

yep it is. maria is left handed and the drums are reversed

[xtigermilk]

Conor's voice gives to his songs a real meaning, so honest and so pure.

[tuskorainbow3]

I love this song to death. He has some amazing songs. I hate it when I show people his songs and then they don't listen to the lyrics just the way he sings. They say he sings bad. I see the beauty in his voice and i like it. Why don't people understand. Sometime his music makes me very happy ad then sometimes I get all sad and don't want to talk to people just listen.

[iAMoneCOOLguy]

yeah i know what you mean.

his voice is amazing.

i didn't even have to get used to it like a lot of people.

[merrilyx4]

His vocal style is actually what made me interested in the band when I first heard them a few years ago. It was like, "This guy is either gonna start crying or sink his guitar into someone's skull."

[iAMoneCOOLguy]

amazing

[yankees69suck]

im gay.

[iAMoneCOOLguy]

amazing

[barnettolivia]

I love this song

[ColorChangerMichael]

i wish i could see Bright Eyes live...even there, where the acoustics are terrible..

[dejectedxcore]

I didn't pay attention to the lyrics to this song much until I saw this video. He says it's about death.

The words are so powerful; Go read them

5 Stars

[DustFromAMoth]

i went to a bright eyes concert a month or two a go and it was in a pretty small room. pretty much every one was upclose and personal. everyone was close to ther stage....and conor.

[lanvids]

One of the best Bright Eyes songs. I hate how basically every live performance of theirs since 2004 has completely ignored their older material and consisted of just songs from I'm Wide Awake and Digital Ash and maybe one or two from Lifted, while the audience sits 2 miles away in the balcony of an enormous theatre or stadium. I miss the crazy, manic, screaming Conor Oberst and the intimate up-close shows...but those days are pretty much gone forever, I'm afraid.

[HerrAmn]

Me too. I had the whole "two miles away in the balcony" experience last summer, but it was still the best concert I've ever been to.

[iAMoneCOOLguy]

sad :(

[pdumka22]

@lanvids i must say its funny how similar a career he has to Bob Dylan, with the amazingly raw talented beginning, then he gets famous, makes good stuff, but a lot of stuff thats just "meh". now he's in a "super Group". he's already done a xmas album so i wonder whats goign to be next haha

[seastar001]

@lanvids Saw him and the gang @ the Monsters of Folk show earlier this year and it was amazing. Crazy, emotional, wonderful Conor... far from distant and extremely engaging.

[blankwavemessiah]

@lanvids 2nd place, ONLY to lets not shit ourselves, IMO

[Ragnarok6300]

@lanvids You have to understand that Conor's grown up. Although those albums were all classics, I guess he's grown tired of that image of the whiny emo kid we have all known and love.

[PULCHRITUDINOUS]

@lanvids yeah except for center of the world, is from fevers not im wide awake, or digital ash

[morales0789]

those lyrics are some of his finer ones. thanks for the uploads.

(its cool if you dont like bright eyes, a lot of people dont like a lot of types of music, its a fact of coexistance, so shut the fuck up with the "bright eyes sucks" comments and go expience something positive)

[Kint0]

oh and mac, no; you are completely wrong in what I was hinting towards in my first post.

[Kint0]

I'm just tired of bands preaching against the evils in the society; for example Bright eyes "boycotting" Clear Channel. When they are now playing on AOL sessions or selling tickets through ticketmaster, which are in a sense just as bad. To put it plainly; I have a feeling the greed that was buried deep within the roots of Bright Eyes a while backis starting to reveal itself in this new CD release.

[musicalchains]

oh yeah conor oberst seems SOOO greedy for the spotlight all the time.

he's not mariah carey. grow up.

[Kint0]

Get off the internet Mr. Hipster.

[musicalchains]

wow you're mature.

where is the indication that i'm a guy coming from?

let alone the middle-school-esque "[mr.] hipster" comment, sgt. i-feel-the-need-to-point-out-w­hat-i-think-are-hypocrites.

[tony920226]

he deserves it cuz he writes all the songs

[iAMoneCOOLguy]

shut it man

you're dumb

[Kint0]

HerrAmn nice job lol, I love bright eyes and anything...but the shine is starting to dull. The fact that I can flip through the channels and land on fuse to see a video playing of his. Hey, It's great his band is making it; and his art is being acknowledged. I'm truly happy for that...but I miss the feeling. If you understand what I mean, then I shouldn't have to describe this feeling.

[mac8rc]

The feeling that you are the only one who knows about him? that you just wish that only people you approved of like him? I mean, if he has a bunch of emo fans that only know lover i don't have to love then yes, thats shit, and they should probably not ever get to listen to him, but now he is getting attention for his music, not his "emoness" which in my opinion, isn't emo at all.

[iAMoneCOOLguy]

Kint0 didn't say anything about Conor's music being emo.

[xsquizzlxbizzlx]

the good old days...almost...

[annor3xic3l3phant]

why is this tagged as emo. Bright Eyes is not emo.

[HerrAmn]

Just to annoy you.

[annor3xic3l3phant]

what the hell is that supposed to mean? emo music sucks, Bright Eyes is good, so how can Bright Eyes be emo?

[HerrAmn]

Bright Eyes sucks.

[annor3xic3l3phant]

why did you put music up thats by a band that u dont like?

[HerrAmn]

Because you clearly don't understand sarcasm.

[heyjude97]

@HerrAmn bright eyes isn't emo, it's indie, and folk. emo music fucking sucks. bright eyes has to be one of the greatest bands in all eternity.

[G0D666]

@heyjude97 no, emo sucks /now/. it used to be great. look up orchid. and indian summer.

[iAMoneCOOLguy]

WHAT THE HECK?

[tivezaj]

wow! rare!

[dannydunlop]

Wow.

[runrunrun]

love!!!

[TecumsehBand]

Where are you getting all of these badass videos?!

[HerrAmn]

I downloaded these ages ago, haha. :)

[tfleischer]

hilarious... my friend and i filmed these