February 2012
624 posts
sullengrrrl:
Breakfast in Bed - Conor Oberst...
imwideawakeitssmorning asked: What kind of person do you think Conor, our savior, hangs around with?
perfection
oberstcult:
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Interviewer: “The People’s Key” is one of your most glossy records to date. Do have any plans to do any more lo-fi recordings like your old stuff?
Conor: I’m not sure what I’m going to do next for a record, so it’s hard to say. I will say I’m always doing home recordings, demoing songs, so that’s something that’s never really stopped. It just used to be that would be the actual recording. Now we usually demo the songs and figure them out and then bring them into the studio. But I really like all levels of fidelity when it comes to recording — I don’t think there’s a right way or wrong way, it’s just what feels the best with the music you’re making at that time. I could see it being fun to make a more, as you said, lo-fi record. The record we made in Mexico was kind of like that. It was sort of a makeshift studio — we recorded it all on a one-inch, 16-track, analog machine. It was a pretty old-school approach. I don’t know about the four track days, I don’t know if those are gone for good or not.
themessiahconoroberst:
The fact that Monsters of Folk may be recording again makes me pee a little bit.
WHAT THE WHAT
frightsandshivers:
Life's too short. Death doesn't ask.
oberstingwithconor:
It don’t owe you that.
Some things you lose, you don’t get back.
SO JUST KNOW WHAT YOU HAVE.
AND THAT LITTLE FUCKER SHOT ME DEAD!
July, 2008
Interviewer: There's a lyric off one of your new songs, “Moab,” that has been puzzling me a bit. It's "They say the sun won't burn forever/ But that's a science too exact/ I'll prove it, watch we're crossing the state line/ See the headlights coming towards us?/ That's someone going back/ To a town they said they'd never, yeah, they swore it on their lives/ But you can't break out of a circle/ That you never thought you were in." What'd you mean by that?
ConorOberst: I guess that's just about things that are so embedded in your blood and your DNA that you just can't escape. Like the idea of becoming your father, really. So many people swear off their hometown and think they're never going back and they find themselves back there.
Interviewer: So you think the sun coming up and setting all the time, is kind of one of those things that's embedded in us?
ConorOberst: Yeah exactly, I think it's just those things that are just so much a part of you that you just can't escape them, even if that's all you want to do.
