Conor Oberst - Common Knowledge

Conor Oberst's "Common Knowledge," from his 2014 album, "Upside Down Mountain," out now on Nonesuch Records. Video directed by David Altobelli.
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[@arbin.m.5089]

I've been coming back to this for almost seven years. Life's a trip. Love you guy's

[@RajatChandraOfficial]

I do it too, sometimes.

[@RDotG41]

Take care buddy. See you here in passing again at some point.

[@wurzermichael]

Kinda wish the audio from this video was in the actual song. I come back for that.

[@terrence8007]

Love ya too, KZbin bud. El Cielo es azul, just don't go telling everyone

[@Baizza]

Life is a trip. Stay wild moon child

[@justinreitz2132]

Been coming here for nine years. Love you all.

[@haze4894]

"You were a kind species, but that wasn't enough." will stick in my head like a spike for my entire life.

[@rossheathorn121]

Beautiful stuff

[@adamprivett4779]

This guy is an introspective genius...truly understands the human condition. My favorite along with Dashboard and Death Cab

[@Zvn1c]

A brand new life can lose it's luster Troubles tend to find eachother Call it luck or you can call it fate But either way it's how it happened Not the life that you imagined So just go out with a bang like Hemingway Some will say you're brave Some will say you ain't

[@floriantinschert5542]

This whole video hits different almost two years into the pandemic.

[@PartyPandaMoo]

Wow. This video is so powerful. I'm in tears, its just showing so much of Conor and the way he used to be. This entire album feels like a reflection and his improved state of mind. The video even bring the words better into focus about what hes singing. I'm so happy this is a series and i hope it continues so there can be a resolution to everything.

[@tylercooper1551]

Laura Kamienski im a fan of Connor since 2004ish and im curious as to what you meant by the he used to be

[@Kaalyn_HOW]

Aww, I was so HOPING he'd elaborate on this series. So many things to think about. There's a teeny tiny bit of this 'invaded world' and the woman talking to him that reminds me of The Host. ....but they would've never referred to humans as kind. I love this song so much; but, I also love that his videos continue the Conor legacy of making you think wayyyy beyond what you're given at face value. ....find all the subtleties, nuances and meanings deeper beneath the surface. :)

[@slynngray]

Jesus Christ, this just ripped my heart out of my chest...

[@SlowDown101]

Now I am older and living away from Omaha I respect Conor Oberst a lot more. I thank you. Wish you'd come down to San Antonio and play though. I understand it's a bit further south than Austin but you will still get a lot of people coming to your show. Peace to you brother.

[@XtremelyAmazingPants]

u never disappoint me conor. love U baby girl.

[@JoseHernandez-gl5xn]

"Conor obese" lmao

[@kilejungst4198]

Bahahaha. Bet you "write" huh bud?

[@JonathanRodriguez-il7xs]

Don’t call him a girl. Wtf

[@kilejungst4198]

He wants to be conor oberst SO BAD!!!

[@JonathanRodriguez-il7xs]

Who?

[@khalina420]

Elliott’s Ghost ? 💔 Conor I absolutely adore you. I’m stuck on your mind and would travel around the world to get a chance to shake your hand. To thank you for all you’ve spoken, sung and the beautiful music you’ve brought into this world. Just hoping you’ll read this one day and hopefully you’ll see/know deep down in your beautifully tortured heart that you were never alone in your feelings. You always had me, feeling better, empathizing with your pain and suffering. Beauty has come from the things you went through. The way your life went. Although I don’t know your exact pain I do feel that you know my pain. My respects and sad heart goes out to you Conor. My imaginary friend, Forever ♾ I promise. I’m here for you.. if you want or need.

[@JAnda-wu2nd]

Meet you between the bars

[@kevinaeschbacher6164]

"She moves like a chocolate fountain...pourin'...spillin'...all around him...and he wonders..what else she can do." wow Conor, what a great line! Thanks for another great song. JKL

[@captaincanti]

Conor Oberst should be a religion.

[@noodraider]

It is haha

[@kungfujiujitsufliptrick4832]

noodraider yup, facebook.com/pages/The-Elite-Cult-Of-Conor-Oberst-Worship/158150737576260. and oberstcult.tumblr.com/

[@captaincanti]

how did I not know this was a thing? thank you for showing me the light

[@TheHarrisontemple]

steadfastcoward he is more interesting and insightful then any god I've heard of lol.

[@Maja-ek2mc]

Hahaha, we are Oberstians :-D

[@OMStudios-kh3iu]

Thank you, dear Connor. For the music over the years! What an inspiration over the last twenty years. Your music is substantial and I remember your concert in Berlin in a church. What a lovely show! Love the video about quitting drinking. In case I am wrong, rock on. Thank you for your love in words and chords. Be well and welcome to Berlin anytime!

[@adamprivett4779]

I love his dedication....ain't?

[@jesses.7114]

another good one conoroberst ... I've always let myself interpret your lyrics in a personal way, which is maybe how you'd prefer, this one in particular seemed an easy connection... But then again, it seems you never release a song that I can't relate to without relative ease... so thanks for that man... As long as you keep making music I'll listen brother

[@RCScorch]

I always come back to this.

[@4IndieForever]

love respect this man

[@ErikSkaldeman]

My favorite music video

[@sl33pyyy]

I love the feel these two music videos give off, futuristic, kinda creepy with the end off that voice, and questionable. "The event" causes the watcher to question what is going to happen in the future. Then boom the song starts, conor has such a brilliant mind. I'll be listening to his music for years to come.

[@theworldsnotbad]

Amazing. Loving this series of videos for "Upside Down Mountain."

[@michaelp8995]

timeless song. .legendary work

[@tomb613]

A brilliant end to a phenomenal album. Bravo!

[@lisahorth8430]

Genius.

[@skifullydone8165]

This song is damn beautiful! It's in my auto mix but never heard of it before. This song slaps Conor! See you next year!

[@FranGottfried]

Brilliant song. I typically don't like music videos but these are vague enough to still let you think up your own context. Well done!

[@dadcaylor1385]

Lookn a lot like Elliot Smith @ the end. Love you brothers

[@Gamecube-ds5qt]

Beautiful song.

[@AudenxRyan]

Also, I really hope he continues with the music videos for this album, I can't wait to see where this story goes.

[@beccaleigh7744]

This series of videos tastes so different this year.

[@SlowDown101]

Conor I'd like to thank you for booking a show at The Paper Tiger here in San Antonio, Texas. It's been quite a while since I saw you play in Omaha, NE. I heard the news last night from a bar tender at The Mix. a Bar across the street from The Paper Tiger here on St.Mary's Street. Just letting you know I will be there along with as many people I can drag along to come. It was an honor to watch you grow up in Omaha through your bands wherever I saw you at The Cog, Sokol Hall or where ever through your bands like Commander Venus, Solo stuff, or Bright Eyes. I never got to see you play in The Desaparecidos when I lived in Omaha for the 26yrs. I was there. Well Cheers and thanks for booking the show. San Antonio is kind of an untapped market for music I hope you take the time to check the scene out on youtube before you come. I suggest a band called "War On Sunday" also a musician named Ila Minori is pretty amazing I've known Erica almost since I got here from Omaha 4yrs. ago.

[@NatalieAMoore]

SlowDown101 wow that's really weird

[@kilejungst4198]

Bahahahahahaaaaaa

[@scottgoulet1776]

Truly amazing.

[@sleepy_teethtv]

Godammit, yes. Great stuff.

[@ravenlong9573]

Happy birthday, Conor.

[@margaretmarguerite]

this (edit) IS one of the best songs in the world

[@roydouglas3947]

i think you misplaced this, here you go, "might be" i think you meant, this is one of the best songs in the world, mate

[@margaretmarguerite]

@@roydouglas3947 damn you're right my bad

[@defnotfrankie]

I was bummed he didn't play this at his central park show but this video totally makes up for it.

[@joshuafest8380]

Holy shit. I can feel.

[@carolajones13]

Wonderful lyrics.

[@GlassFan13]

amazing song

[@uponwingsofthewind]

Wonderful message...and your style of singing is so pleasant to listen to. You remind me of Jim Croce.

[@kahvoonwong271]

makes me cry silently inside :)

[@jennifermariedylanjosephwe1345]

I love this song. Excellent work Conor.

[@jasonthefates7311]

To be expected. Nice. Nothing less.

[@marygoodin7616]

I love the part when Oberst cuts his hair. I cant wait to hear him live in October as well ♡

[@christopherdonovan588]

Last bright eyes concert I attended I was arrested soon after

[@KoriBKoriB1993]

I hope it was awesome

[@russellsartor9866]

My all time favorite song

[@girldlm]

so beautiful :')

[@PicalilyProductions]

I can almost smell the carpet 2:46

[@jordanleonmusic6852]

The frames from 4:38 to 4:41 are so beautiful to me.

[@tylervigil519]

anyone still listen 2021?

[@alexarchibald2477]

I feel like the world aligns again when I'm calm

[@danthompson5264]

I had a wish as a young man to be a better writer than you. You were it. The one i wanted to be as good as.

[@the-bottom-of-a-black-hole-.]

"We were actually better than him even when we said that remember Dan?" ,dan'

[@gb5020]

such an underrated song off UDM

[@pinkpony34]

What the fuck happened to your face?

[@gb5020]

@@pinkpony34 ...... what? Its an illustration lol

[@the-bottom-of-a-black-hole-.]

“A gift lasts only as long as your a ghost now and she’s gone don’t kill yourself, over here she is happy and ghosts are or we’re never born.” ,dan’

[@the-bottom-of-a-black-hole-.]

"Born from guilt to gold innocence and lose it by shame. There stands Atlas, tired, weary, hurt." ,dan' (silver)

[@dylannmarie]

"I've suffered long for you.."

[@sokratesanon1744]

Damn, Conor predicted my future…!?

[@nightowlgod]

straight 🔥fire 🚀🚀🚀

[@Maja-ek2mc]

And is it just me, or this song was longer? I watched it about 2 hours after add it there and as far as I remember this vid lasted almost 7 minutes, and at the end he was sitting again in cap, near the window?

[@Birddy_]

yes there was another ending to it where he was talking about hot air balloons

[@Maja-ek2mc]

Diane Rubendall Yeah, hot air balloons, and that they more beautiful than planes! Well I commented this "longer" vid, so it shows on my google+, and when I wanted to watch it, I could, but near the title it was something like a padlock. Today I found out that they canceled this vid. It's really strange. Why they did that?!

[@jamiebourgoin4160]

❤️

[@gungusgoblingungy6212]

Well the event came a couple Years early conor

[@bannahhanana8504]

You beat me to it

[@elipetta4740]

Hahahahhahahahahahahahahhaha

[@terrence8007]

Maybe they know something we don't.

[@scottjohnson2588]

This is clearly inspired by David Foster Wallace. Even the interview portion is obviously a nod to his 2003 interview with the German journalist.

[@ZoidutStudioz]

my soul mate

[@superwaffletacotaco]

ya don't even know him :/ he's more of a private guy, likes making music for people but also keeps to himself mostly..

[@ZoidutStudioz]

Kitty Cat um, i don't think you understand what a soul mate is :/

[@superwaffletacotaco]

Zoidut Studioz i understand that you think you're in love with a person you don't know :/

[@ZoidutStudioz]

noun: soulmate a person ideally suited to another as a close friend or romantic partner. ...and i'm a man btw

[@elises716]

He thinks my similar thoughts too :) I wish he knew truly how deeply he is appreciated and respected. He is noble and brave and sweet. It's that feeling of like... I'm so proud of you. And so impressed and blessed to have something that helps me not feel crazy

[@jac8137]

The tears

[@marbarosi]

Looks like Elliott smith in this video.

[@kilejungst4198]

No. He does not.

[@megoozer]

we're like less than a month away from feb 15 '24

[@CharnekieBoss]

He's my friend but he's no friend to me Ask him why, he'll tell you casually Washed up, bitter, broken, busted Backstabbed everyone he trusted Says he sees what no one else can see And if I had half his guts I'd want it To chase that fatalistic comet Die young in the dark, that's poetry But it was not to be, it was not for me He's always sad but I've never seen him cry When he comes to, sure he'll apologize Find his car, assess the damage Still drunk but he likes the challenge Hold on to his mind just like a kite But a good strong win can keep you honest Fill you with some common knowledge Things when we were young we never tried Just figured we had time with such a long life Money clips, alligator shoes One more dance, he's in that champagne room She moves like a chocolate fountain Pouring, spilling all around him Makes him wonder what else she can do How bittersweet is love's illusion Feelings that cannot be proven Trust me, you'll see, my aim is true I've done this all for you, I've suffered long for you So many times he's tried to play it straight Worked and worked until his body ached But a brand new life can lose its lustre Troubles tend to find each other Call it luck or you can call it fate But either way it's how it happens Not the way that you imagined So just go out with a bang like Hemingway Some will say you're brave Some will say you ain't

[@mathewrichwalski2586]

i could be wrong but this is the antithesis to eminem rapping about only getting "one shot" on about predestination and plans and paths, a spouse selected at birth, that not hitting on the correct note at the right moment makes all the rest of life meaningless and nihilistic, a million dead bodies aimlessly roaming space

[@Daniel121194]

Mathew Richwalski .

[@zachg764]

@@Daniel121194 That's so Mathew Richwalski

[@cinthya2879]

Connor me recuerda un poco a Tom waitts , elliot Smith y Bob Dylan.... Un grande de estos tiempos!

[@wrnpuoifsdanjlfdsanrewquop8595]

how u doin conor?

[@shaneshank466]

It's nice to see Conor with his wife, after four years of keeping her hidden.

[@kilejungst4198]

He didnt keep her hidden. She has her own stuff. Corina oberst is has nothing to do with you. Shes a sweet, talented woman. God damn you are hungry.

[@smaller_cathedrals]

@@kilejungst4198 God damn, you're overreacting. Jesus fucking Christ.

[@garrethgoodworth2494]

Conor's Birthday, 4 years from now.

[@ElliottsRevenge]

February 15th happens every year.

[@the-bottom-of-a-black-hole-.]

"Let me do the wondering Atlas I am devined not with it or beside. Divination is political." ,dan' (if I knew what I wanted to say I wouldn't keep talking)

[@the-bottom-of-a-black-hole-.]

"Give me eternity and I would spend it." ,dan' (I'd break it down and give some to my friends even if it meant that I would die. Forever is in the blink of an eye, never comes but once a year)

[@Maja-ek2mc]

His smoking is so so so perfect 3:45 . Well, I hate smokers but Conor does it in amazing way and it doesn't really annoy me. Wish, that every smoker will does it in "Conor's way".

[@ryanwilson7391]

Hypocrite

[@Maja-ek2mc]

Ron Swanson Who? Me?

[@Renegade7990]

Lmfao dumb fucking comment. “You’re cool at smoking”

[@user-gx7qu4in1n]

My mom has this kinda çement plaster thing with two little girls (I imagined being my sisters) and a little boy (I imagnied me) and it says bright eyes under the faces, weird right?

[@carolineykins]

Money clips, alligator shoes ❤️

[@hellomynameisdoom8208]

Right

[@the-bottom-of-a-black-hole-.]

"The good stay when chased." ,dan'

[@acslater9118]

This aged well

[@AudenxRyan]

i really want to see the other music video that was released on Friday, with the hot air balloon dialect.

[@the-bottom-of-a-black-hole-.]

“Cutting hairs to split. Don’t meander.” ,dan’

[@SlowDown101]

A song about addiction.

[@emilyludovise279]

2:49

[@cameron9815]

What city is this?

[@ivegotpetercriss]

Never realized this was St. Dymphna

[@emilyludovise279]

1:59

[@noneofyoucanspell]

is there a reference to big star in the lyrics?

[@azenethmendoza.]

Just 14 days

[@americannightmare2109]

this is how I use all my 4 gig lol totally what better way than Con? check out his cover btw papa was a rodeo!

[@pinkpony34]

Hope u got a higher data plan

[@matrocious]

from the land of music videos, there is beauty in thought of twenty twenty-four and a lack in desire for outward appearance - regarding hairstyles at least, for me, that was sometime in the late nineties, branded - as well as the reveal that saddle creek might be nothing more than a warner bros affiliate, proving and providing i suppose, all the importance of glassjaw and so then maybe the reveal is on finding the character-form version of sylvester the cat for tweety to arienette and hilarity concerning jeff and wilco

[@spankeedee]

Is this about his brother? I am confused.

[@the-bottom-of-a-black-hole-.]

“If you line up all men and woman and see who can see furthest into the distance without landmarks, I got you by a mile. My name is Daniel and I dunno why I am better than you but I don’t care either.” ,dan’ (find out why)

[@justinfearior357]

Nice statue. I'm glad you drank it before you broke it.

[@pukeyourguts]

lol doesn't he look like a chris lilley character at 1:13

[@roydouglas3947]

[@christopherdonovan588]

Oh how I loathe being a fan boy. Fuck it

[@jessicareynolds4737]

[@StephenAndrew777]

He hasn't uploaded a You Tube video for 2 years. Doesn't he understand that You Tube channel statistics are somehow related to your talent and/or worth?

[@lu-lu85]

he took time off for personal reasons

[@StephenAndrew777]

Laurie Martin I was clearly being facetious.

[@emilyspinach4603]

StephenAndrew777 shut up

[@kilejungst4198]

Personal reasons? You mean being publicly accused of rape? It was a fucked up false accusation, but thats why.

[@adamprivett4779]

I agree with the younger me!

[@gb5020]

black keys attack & release poster in the background