Bright Eyes Austin City Limits Full Show 10 10 2004

i do not own the rights to this video, i love conor and he has gotten me through the worst of times and this video in particuliar has been catalyst to open my heart and his songs are times and have countless new meanings ever time i listen to it.
love you guys

[@ThatNinjaPerson]

i love how this one performance has been getting deleted and re-uploaded for like the past 10 years

[@lipebkg]

the people that reupload this amazing performance after many times youtube has taken down are the true heroes, thank you very much

[@Bostonao]

Thank you

[@Bostonao]

I was stabbed twice last year by my exschizophrenic best friend.. once he tried to cut a girl that after I had saved and he got me in the liver when he got out of jail, I forgave him , he consumed some drugs during that Time and then stabbed me with a sword then. Tried to run me over twice , I’m thankful to be alive. But wouldn’t. Change my actions. Stay golden my friends

[@ericgallegos8620]

I thought it was gone forever😭😭

[@dalto15]

Boston. You doing alright?

[@Bostonao]

@@dalto15 yes thank you. I'm finally getting out of a learning season in life and have recently been actively growing and working to grow. I love how this video has had nothing but positive feedback and gives me massive hope in believing that creating the right content (authentically yourself) can unite like minded people and people that actually care about each other. Thank you, I appreciate you and your genuine concern and love. How are you doing randomdalto?

[@mariosola1]

At the bottom of everything is one of the greatest songs ever written

[@freegadflyathome]

I'm happy just because, I found out I'm really no one!

[@adriaan9944]

Lua - (1:03) Waste Of Paint - (5:30) my favorite song We Are Nowhere And Its Now - (13:00) Going For The Gold - (18:50) Hit The Switch - (24:22) O'Brien - (29:43) First Day Of My Life - (34:28) Train Under Water - (39:03) Golden - (46:05) Land Locked Blues - (52:55) Girl From The North Country - (1:01:55) At The Bottom Of Everything - (1:06:24) To Rose

[@kanyewest9378]

Waste of paint is the best by far

[@angelinac7411]

Thank you for this. Happy Thanksgiving everyone.

[@Bostonao]

Thank you for this my friend!

[@JG-ep1mz]

I wonder if this was the first time they played we are nowhere and it’s now.

[@borntogazeintonightskies]

God Of Ostrichs Thank you, God!

[@NEUR0MANCER_]

First time i heard bright eyes, it was from a mix cd my girl friend made me back in 05. So this music will always remind me of her. Someone i truly loved, and still do to this day. I will always love ya courtney.

[@TehOneTrewIdjut]

This man. I was an arrogant artist. I was a proud artist. I thought I had it. My ex (when she was just one of my best friends) handed me a copy of Lifted right after it was released. I couldn’t believe what I was hearing. I immediately bought it and a 3rd press copy of Fevers and Mirrors (was a very valuable before record store day). I couldn’t write at all for almost a year. I couldn’t believe someone could write so brilliantly. Every word was amazing. I didn’t think I had anything to say after hearing it. My roommate and I used to put that record on (Lifted), smoke, drink, and just get lost in it. He said, “all four sides of this record is it’s own thing, each just building on the last part, probably the best four sided record ever”. Man. I’d love to go back for a day. I can’t believe it’s been 20 years. My god. Where did it go?

[@xinthisdiaryx]

Time escapes us

[@christownsend4058]

it doesn't leave, it just escapes for a while

[@samfinnie3202]

Bright Eyes have gotten me through one of the worst times for my mental health that I have ever experienced. Doing much better now. Just learned Lua on guitar. It's the first song that I've learned to both play AND sing.

[@Cptidris]

I'd like to hear you sing it. Please message me when you post it. I love Lua so much

[@danbeck1593]

Been there, sad and singing Lua. Chin up bud.

[@mcstrakka]

I hope you are doing well

[@kilakr13]

I'd like to hear what you were going through, beacuse I'm going through it too.

[@jennabrauer9335]

That’s why I’m here

[@DJCadwell]

These four gentlemen were a very big part of a personal evolution in my early 20's. This is the music that made me the person I am today. A person that I can love. I am forever grateful for the gift that they shared with us. I continue to share it with my kids. Please do the same. May you all find your peace, love, and be loved. ✌️❤️

[@xinthisdiaryx]

I’ll never forget listening to “we are nowhere and it’s now” for the first time and how it changed my life.

[@chloedapurr6716]

First day of my life never fails to make me cry. it reminds me of the first time I ever bought a dress. I remember walking home, just bought my very first little black dress, listening to music on random and first day of my life played and I had to stop walking because it made me cry. As a trans person, having my first dress was like liberation for me. it was indeed the first day of my life as me :')

[@SmittenKitten.]

💝

[@sondogs98]

Oh my gosh I almost cried reading this

[@coltonnixon1046]

Lol

[@bibidhchalise5156]

❤❤

[@rip.takito7627]

literally same sis

[@Disco.Wizard]

Michael Mogis is like the John Paul Jones of Bright Eyes. The unassuming background multi instrumentalist without whom we wouldn't even have the band as we know it. Much respect

[@4DimensionRocketeer]

The fact that he chose these songs, for this show, reaffirm my belief that I really do understand what he is saying on a core level...

[@Owen-hd3oq]

"i know you have a heavy heart I can feel it when we kiss so many men before me have thrown their backs out back trying to lift it but me I'm not a gamble you can count on me to split" is still the most beautiful and ingenious lyric ever written over 10 years later

[@Bostonao]

Mine change. Like every time I hear his songs but something about this performance is pure magic. I try to let even the subtle lyrics have infinite new meanings for the future beholds, things can can always be looked new. For example I’ve listened to this performance. Over 1,000 times for sure, yet only until a friend pointed out two weeks ago that he hugs himself in between songs. I close my eyes a lot when I listen, so that’s why I never noticed it. Idk, it made me shed a tear or two.

[@battlecat1046]

Godly performances by all involved.

[@jPup_]

Time was created just so that this performance of Waste of Paint could exist.

[@astralnova1435]

Still blows me away every time. So amazing.

[@olegetor]

Why am I crying ?!? Connor every time you get me in my feels. Best poet and writer of my time ✨❤️

[@Bostonao]

Hey guys, this is an announcement that I will be seeing these guys in concert in New Orleans @ The Orpheum Theatre. May 23rd to be exact so expect another upload soon after that! :) Cheers!

[@elsvaughn7959]

Me too!!!! I just hope Bridgers isn't there... I just can't w her. A few of their songs are good, I just don't like that she just kind of whisper- sings . I hate that style lol

[@elsvaughn7959]

O wait, that was last years show in nawlins lol. I haven't decided whether I want to do Arkansas or New Orleans....

[@MysterSer333]

there's almost no instrumentation, just his voice, sheer power, all the emphasis comes back to the lyricist, the poet -- beauty

[@courtneyn.m.1687]

AHHHH omg hearing this 2004 rendition of Lua. It's everything. I knew there was a reason I didn't listen to this song, on another video, last night. This is perfect, thanks everyone who went into to making this song

[@philp521]

Hearing Wide Awake songs mixed in with earlier tunes is always striking to me. The other songs are great, but that record was such a leap in artistic maturity for Conor that it’s like hearing songs written by two different men.

[@wtylermcgee]

I dunno, I feel like Wide awake was the beginning of a different chapter, much more polished but I don't think better. I love the early songs before he got too slick 🤣 I guess I'd be the opposite of you... I like his later stuff, but the early songs were so raw and passionate! True artistry :)

[@maxcichon7756]

The only conor/bright eyes song from before wide awake that they play in this set is waste of paint, which is an absolute banger and completely holds up to the wide awake/digital ash era songwriting. Edit: oh and going for the gold, which I agree is pretty soft.

[@shaneb7245]

I searched for this performance a few months ago, and was sad to see that it was taken down. Thanks for reuploading!

[@sarahh6062]

This performance changed my life 💕

[@worldsbiggesttruck]

just found a 1/100 show poster print of this on the side of the road in Austin today while biking around. This was everything to me back in the day. Luck is cool.

[@tito2gonzo460]

Best performance ever on ACL Beautiful, honest and 100 years before it's time.

[@israelcastelan4012]

I’ve always seen clips of this performance. After seeing these comments, i’m glad that someone actually took the time to reupload. What a show!

[@tristramcoffin926]

2005 was an amazing year for indie music. To this day the best album of that year is the album i listened to last; Sufjan Stevens-Illinois or I'm Wide Awake It's Morning by Bright Eyes. Both are damn perfect.

[@SteelyDanimal]

20 years later, and I’m asking myself the same question

[@Whatever1992]

My favorite artist of all time. There is nothing I wouldn't do to see this live.

[@andrewlee2194]

Conor is one of the greatest song writers ever this is so amazing no matter how many times i watch it

[@leotravassosmilone3608]

Hands down one of the best concerts of my life... I just hope I could have been there in person :/

[@elisabethandersen1102]

I remember seeing this on tv when I was 15. I already was a huge Bright Eyes fan, and God damnit, I felt so lucky to have caught it on cable.

[@codyb9205]

Thanks for this.... Found this exactly when i really needed it.

[@robirob3820]

I saw Bright Eyes in Berlin 2022... It was sooo amazing.... Conor is one of the Greatest 👏👌👍

[@orcawelles8747]

My goodness, Girl From the North Country pulverized me into an emotional wreck. They nailed that.

[@wanderinggeri8477]

Yeah, I liked it too but why is he claiming they wrote it?

[@gotrusty]

Idk, I love that song, wasn't a big fan of the cover. Also the Johnny Cash version their doing is not my jam, so that probably plays in. Great show though

[@CHell-hf2ch]

I was just a kid when I first discovered Bright Eyes via this performance which aired on KPBS. Have been hooked ever since then.

[@shelby8364]

damn I would have killed to have this whole video back when I was like 15 lol but am happy to find it now over 11 years later

[@blixtenmusik]

He really gives it all during Waste of paint, it’s crazy intense.

[@finalnuts6595]

I love a fine song. Thank you.

[@vvalpal]

i come back and watch this every now and then

[@cozyfrogASMR]

The dedication to rose, the pain in this voice. I'm balling.

[@adriaan9944]

thanks was just looking for this show

[@malefic575]

This is one of my favorite bright eyes performances. Thanks for the upload

[@jeromarmates2241]

Thank You For Your Service

[@johanetalicekriel1362]

Hallelujah, Boston Osborne! I've been a fan since 2005 and their music has saved me in so many ways, so many times. I love their music and the life that pours through it more than any other form of music (next to Chopin, maybe). Anywho, many thanks for uploading this again, esp. in 2020. Love all the way from South Africa. PS Do check out their new NPR Tiny Desk performance - soooo good!

[@Bostonao]

Wow ! Thank you! first day of my life was my first life saver. the depth of lhis emotions man. that song is super simple but i saw it as a way to look at each new day as the first day o my life. i get frustrated with people, romantic partners who start liking the song and think that i am talking about them. and at the very core essence of it, im listening to thinking about how ive been my own best friend in so many crucial moments!! i am glad i have me. i was unaware they had a new one. im starting it up as soon as i press send reply. lol Im going to check out chopin. i know of him, but im going to dive into some stuff and i seem to like the same things as other fans of conor

[@eric3262]

im never lonely with a Conor Oberst concert on the internet

[@yrantiquebrand]

mood for tonight

[@clintonkotcha7452]

my favorite BRIGHT EYES perfotmance

[@AndiKnittel]

Thanks a lot for sharing this great performance. Greetings, Andi 🎸🕊

[@TonsMoreCowbell]

I miss the days when we thought our only problem was George W Bush and that as long as we don’t vote for him again everything will be fine.

[@Bostonao]

Hahaha, yesss!

[@jimjimmy7365]

News flash all politicians suck where have you been. How many politicians send your kids to a fake bs war all of them so until they go and do it themselves so they all suck and Biden is the worst of all time the guy is legit mentally handicapped

[@michaelmiguel3674]

Hell yeah, brother. You tell ‘em. Nothing beats that pre-Obama era. Shocking to see how from the early-2000s on through to now, we somehow ended up closer in time to 1963 than we possibly could have dreamed back 20 years ago. Those where the halcyon days right there. Agreed all around.

[@juliawirch2454]

"Bushit"...😏

[@elsvaughn7959]

I was still in middle school, but I know what you mean. So so so much

[@kylecolebrook7354]

tears, first strum.

[@jamesfestini]

If one of my kids began writing songs like this I would totally assumed that soon they were manic depressive and I should get a therapist and keep an eye out for suicidal tendencies. That being said I am glad he continued to make music and not end it all. This is a guy who clearly channeled hi pain for good.

[@Bostonao]

Very well put my friend. that's beautiful that you can recognise that.

[@silverandexact]

Conor was so damn attractive in his early & mid 20s.

[@the_camera_eye_8898]

needed this today, thank you

[@nebulae87]

OMG i've been waiting forever to watch this somewhere!!! THANK YOU SO MUCH! The last time i had seen this was the night it aired on PBS back when i was still a young high school kid. It was a two part special with bright eyes being the first part and John Mayer/Buddy guy being the second.

[@richellaeden2655]

still watching this in 2021

[@recordcollection1523]

thank you so much for posting this video, i was looking for it on youtube! could you please try to keep up this video? :) i haven't gotten to watch the whole show in a while. from your description of this video, you sound like a really sincere fan of conor's.

[@marksink1652]

Loved this show when is aired. One of ACL's best. 46:05 Golden. ...We'll go through this together... If you just preserve that voice And follow its inspiration ...then we'll all be millionaires. And on Heaven's Golden shore we'll lay our heads.

[@NewlandJ987]

Awesome concert. But then, every Conor/Bright Eyes concert I’ve seen has been awesome.

[@happytreefriends1fan]

such a bad ass show....a collection of finer gentlemen has never been assembled on a stage.

[@dtc119]

This is amazing

[@kensworld81]

he looks like an anime character, writes like bob dylan, sounds like a young freddie mercury, and we are here for it all brother.

[@taraarmstrong9506]

RIP, Rose!

[@bibidhchalise5156]

Conor is such a beauty💛🌻

[@gabrielmoreno-bn5ts]

brother of a folk singer lol

[@angelinac7411]

If he he never felt all he felt he wouldn't have communicated it to us while we feel what we feel... Sober for a number of months now, it's not always easy.

[@tylermckinney5189]

Five years in November. It gets easier.

[@LANTOR317]

His voice...it's such pain

[@k1lgore_trout_177]

bro...just.................bro

[@Moondancin]

Jim James has such a great voice. Was starting to sound like Robbi Roberston singing "The Weight" 1:03:41 Take a load off Annie

[@achambala]

How good is "Going for gold" - fucking incredible...

[@JayChuckOnFire]

Timeless Perfect

[@dalto15]

Thank you

[@Neonb1bLes]

WHAT a set. 🔥

[@DukeFame88]

Outstanding!

[@tom23rd]

No finer way to relive the death of my 20s on a melancholy Sunday morning 🌄

[@davidmckelvey2601]

Conor Oberst is the sweetest person ever.

[@upsidedownpyramid7617]

He is, im glad to see a fellow bright eyes fan with the intruder as a profile pic, I have the same thing on instagram lol

[@nnaru_555]

I wish I was there..

[@october72393]

I mean who would ever like me ... I don't even like me...

[@algernon-ox2lw]

Think im in love with the girl in the center of first 18 seconds, she encapsulates the look of the time the best and she is sad girl to my sadboi

[@StevenWesleyGuiles]

LOL. I just clapped sitting in my room watching We Are Nowhere And It's Now.

[@user-cr4ml2rp6w]

Jim James the LEGEND

[@juliawirch2454]

My mom literally recorded this on VHS for me...

[@yourvirtualdad]

i was not born yet

[@raccoontycoon6972]

Are we not gonna talk about the dude from My Morning Jacket being there? Thats him on bass right?

[@rimbaudification]

You can’t teach genius. When it comes knocking, you pick it up.

[@lightupthebranches2440]

shalawam YAHSHARALLAH

[@adriaan9944]

Hi person

[@mikeyskorch5156]

I searched for 2 hours just for o brien

[@Spoonamundo]

1000th like!

[@crystalucinda]

🌻

[@SLAWDOGUSBRAND]

Epic

[@Onionbaron]

Girl From The North Country, wow!

[@benholland1331]

46:00 ♥️❤️

[@thehappychemicals6753]

Train Under Water from all these tears :')

[@suzamanentertainment9083]

is that Jim James on bass?

[@jamieadams164]

7 people are wrong

[@Cptidris]

I love Lua

[@light_and_sound]

Ahck! Look at all the baby faces!

[@jiridobes6128]

How does it come that any Bright Eyes live performance I have seen so far always sounds soooo damn good? :)

[@Bostonao]

prodigy from a young age an angel, an alien. idk. but hs out of this world1

[@deprogramdesensitize]

15:15 Side Effects

[@justinx590]

Yes

[@samhendry2305]

Here bc of phoebe bridger’s shout out on her recent acl performance

[@ParkerPPipe]

Feelings….boo