You MUST pick one or die by gunshot: DASHBOARD CONFESSIONAL or BRIGHT EYES

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I choose Dashboard.. only in that, while that voice and those lyrics are really, for lack of a better term, blunting, I don't mind the instrumentation of Dashboard songs.. and if I can have a tolerance for singers that aren't perfect, or even downright bad, if the music is at least somewhat tolerable, then I could deal with it. I can't say the same for 'Da Eyes, these days.

― donut debonair (donut), Wednesday, 16 February 2005 22:22 (twenty years ago)

dashboard!

― j blount (papa la bas), Wednesday, 16 February 2005 22:23 (twenty years ago)

I would like to save the bullet for a worthy cause, like controlling the pet population and/or skeet shooting.

― David R. (popshots75`), Wednesday, 16 February 2005 22:24 (twenty years ago)

how about i pick neither and they both die by gunshot?

― Felonious Drunk (Felcher), Wednesday, 16 February 2005 22:24 (twenty years ago)

Considering all things are exactly even, Bright Eyes loses on the hype.

― David Allen (David Allen), Wednesday, 16 February 2005 22:24 (twenty years ago)

bright eyes (Though if he didn't put out digital ash this would be a much tougher decision).

btw all Dashboard Confessional songs should be sung by Enrique Iglesias. Think about it.

― miccio (miccio), Wednesday, 16 February 2005 22:26 (twenty years ago)

I just heard Bright Eyes for the first time ever this weekend, and it's not half bad.

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Wednesday, 16 February 2005 22:28 (twenty years ago)

Yeah, it's 100% bad

― jedidiah (jedidiah), Wednesday, 16 February 2005 22:31 (twenty years ago)

Bright Eyes, easy ... Fevers and Mirrors goes well beyond Dashboard's adolescent mewling.

― zaxxon25 (zaxxon25), Wednesday, 16 February 2005 23:07 (twenty years ago)

Bright Eyes, definitely. Dashboard is like the worst music ever.

― Mike O. (Mike Ouderkirk), Wednesday, 16 February 2005 23:10 (twenty years ago)

how about i pick neither and they both die by gunshot?

My choice was stolen from me!

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 16 February 2005 23:11 (twenty years ago)

oh and to clarify BE is a lock pre-2004. Wide Awake and DC, though...damn...

― miccio (miccio), Wednesday, 16 February 2005 23:11 (twenty years ago)

Bright Eyes. He does have one song I like (just the one, "Lover I Don't Have To Love"), and also he is cuter.

not that I would willingly listen to or shag either of them, in an ideal world.

― The Lex (The Lex), Wednesday, 16 February 2005 23:13 (twenty years ago)

Seriously, some folks judgment get pretty fucked up when talking dealing with Bright Eyes for reasons that I just don't get. I could live in a world where all music sounded like Bright Eyes so long as the line "Your Hair is Everwhere" never past my ears again.

― dan. (dan.), Wednesday, 16 February 2005 23:14 (twenty years ago)

Yeah, it's 100% bad

oooh, snap.

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Wednesday, 16 February 2005 23:15 (twenty years ago)

can we put one behind the other and do like in last crusade?

― f--gg (gcannon), Wednesday, 16 February 2005 23:15 (twenty years ago)

bright eyes for "haleigh" alone

― kyle (akmonday), Wednesday, 16 February 2005 23:30 (twenty years ago)

-note to self

ILM = kindergarten

(sometimes)

― Rizz (Rizz), Wednesday, 16 February 2005 23:43 (twenty years ago)

dashboard

― his face was burned off in a flaming crossbow accident (King Kobra), Thursday, 17 February 2005 00:25 (twenty years ago)

Bright Eyes is far more tolerable.

― Hurting (Hurting), Thursday, 17 February 2005 00:26 (twenty years ago)

Bring on the gunshot.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Thursday, 17 February 2005 00:37 (twenty years ago)

I read this as :

You MUST pick one TO die by gunshot: DASHBOARD CONFESSIONAL or BRIGHT EYES

― Ben Dot (1977), Thursday, 17 February 2005 01:01 (twenty years ago)

I read this as :

You MUST pick one TO die by gunshot: DASHBOARD CONFESSIONAL or BRIGHT EYES

That would've made more sense.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Thursday, 17 February 2005 01:04 (twenty years ago)

This thread is hilarious because ILM hates these bands! I bet it generates a lot of clever jokes!

next up: How dance music was influenced by black people! Complaints about Pitchfork! How all the best music was made by British people in the 80's!

― bnw (bnw), Thursday, 17 February 2005 01:08 (twenty years ago)

Yeah, Bright Eyes far and away on the strength of a few songs from Letting Off the Happiness. Also, all music aside, I would just rather see Carraba dead. I hate him and I hate his ass face.

― roxymuzak (roxymuzak), Thursday, 17 February 2005 01:16 (twenty years ago)

Bright Eyes is fun, sometimes. DC, never.

― Aaron A., Thursday, 17 February 2005 01:21 (twenty years ago)

I'd just like to say that until yesterday, having never heard a single note sung Bright Eyes, I had an irrational and downright hatred for him. BUT, I got the chance to listen to a track from his new record in the store yesterday! And now my hatred is legitimate (and even stronger). I'm sure a couple other people have heard this song that starts off with Conor telling some STUPID FUCKING STORY about two people in an airplane that's about to crash (and I could hardly think of a premise more trite), but since his life is so shambolic and spontaneous and artistic, he has to stutter the entire time (because he obviously didn't have time to rehearse it before the session/gig) and mosey away from the microphone to get a drink of something (probably breast milk or beer) and then mosey on back to start some STUPID FUCKING SONG, which I only listened to for two seconds before switching it off (so, again: irrational hatred) and turning on the new Game record (which is great)...

Maybe we can shoot both of them at the same time when they're sobbing on each other's shoulders?

― poortheatre (poortheatre), Thursday, 17 February 2005 01:25 (twenty years ago)

"Also, all music aside, I would just rather see Carraba dead. I hate him and I hate his ass face. "

he is bastard people!

― latebloomer: HE WHOM DUELS THE DRAFGON IN ENDLESS DANCE (latebloomer), Thursday, 17 February 2005 01:28 (twenty years ago)

bnw, forgive me. i've been pretty ill this week. sometimes i just want to get free easy thrills.

― donut debonair (donut), Thursday, 17 February 2005 01:32 (twenty years ago)

OH YOU SLEAZO.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 17 February 2005 01:37 (twenty years ago)

I read this as :
You MUST pick one TO die by gunshot: DASHBOARD CONFESSIONAL or BRIGHT EYES

That would've made more sense.

Even more so...

"You MUST pick one to die by gunshot, the other to be beaten to death with his own shoes..."

In which case Dashboard Confessional gets the bullet.

― Ben Dot (1977), Thursday, 17 February 2005 01:47 (twenty years ago)

Dashboard is better because at least we can label them as emo and move on from there. With Bright Eyes we have to explain to people that Conner is not Dylan and that he's not all they say he is.

The difference between Dylan and Bright Eyes (among many differences) is that Dylan could write good songs about things other than himself. The reason a lot of mainstream rock is bad is because it's all too self-absorbed. I blame violent video games and Morrissey.

― Cunga (Cunga), Thursday, 17 February 2005 03:05 (twenty years ago)

i like both of them, and i firmly believe that no one should judge Bright Eyes unless they listen to fevers and mirrors all the way through (hes really just been repeating himself from there, but it is a pretty good album)

but i agree, too self-absorbed. my heart chooses Ted Leo, who makes me want to do good things for other people, not just cry over my sorta-not-really fucked up life.

― JD from CDepot, Thursday, 17 February 2005 06:23 (twenty years ago)

i'd make fun of the gunman for owning cds by both artists.

― eman (eman), Thursday, 17 February 2005 06:53 (twenty years ago)

dashboard, since I'm more likely to score at one of their shows

― ¬_¬ (PUNXSUTAWNEY PENIS), Thursday, 17 February 2005 08:47 (twenty years ago)

'I'm wide awake' is a wonderful record. Never heard of that other band. So easy-peasy.

― Jay-Kid (Jay-Kid), Thursday, 17 February 2005 10:26 (twenty years ago)

bright eyes by a mile

― peter smith (plsmith), Thursday, 17 February 2005 14:16 (twenty years ago)

unquestionably Bright Eyes....Oberst is the one with a future, Dashboard will go the way of the Gin Blossoms

― Space Is the Place (Space Is the Place), Thursday, 17 February 2005 15:16 (twenty years ago)

How much longer until Bright Eyes is on the cover of SPIN?

― billstevejim, Thursday, 17 February 2005 15:42 (twenty years ago)

I figured he probably had been.

― roxymuzak (roxymuzak), Thursday, 17 February 2005 15:50 (twenty years ago)

They chose me, and I reject them both.

― Colin Meeder (Mert), Thursday, 17 February 2005 15:57 (twenty years ago)

Dashboard Confessional doesn't irritate me as much, and at least they have a whole bunch of R.E.M. covers.

― Matthew C Perpetua (inca), Thursday, 17 February 2005 16:01 (twenty years ago)

That last bit didn't really compute.

― roxymuzak (roxymuzak), Thursday, 17 February 2005 16:02 (twenty years ago)

i'd say Bright Eyes by infinity as well, but i definitely agree that airplane story at the beginning of 'wide awake' is fucking interminable - i especially hate the whole bit about the woman reading the "really arduous" magazine article about the country she "can't even pronounce" - man, girls sure are stupid, aren't they Conor?

poortheatre's breast milk joke was fucking hilarious btw.

― Josh Love (screamapillar), Thursday, 17 February 2005 16:19 (twenty years ago)

It computes because even if I hate their versions of R.E.M. songs, at least the songs are strong, as opposed to the nonstop tunelessness of Bright Eyes.

― Matthew C Perpetua (inca), Thursday, 17 February 2005 16:20 (twenty years ago)

oh i read this the way ben dot did.

― f--gg (gcannon), Thursday, 17 February 2005 17:54 (twenty years ago)

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