Talk:Conor Oberst/Archive 1

message: "Oberst was also called out by many for increasing ticket prices on his last US tour. Tickets were up to $30 in some markets which is very high for an idie artist. This has led many to call Conor a "sell-out."" -- that just sounds like someone got pissed at having to pay $30 for a ticket and decided to try and defame him with a poorly structured addition to his Wikipedia article.  Unless someone has a source for ticket prices/reaction to ticket prices/what is or is not considered high for tickets to see an indie artist, I'm going to go ahead and remove it; it doesn't add much anyway.  I've copied and pasted it exactly in case anyone thinks I'm wrong.  Whampir 00:34, 3 May 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Is this appropriate?

message: I'm not an expert at Wikipedia formatting, but I think I've done it. I will get around to cleaning it up later, but if anyone wishes to do it themselves, go ahead and help out. By merging the articles, we have to make sure no information is repeated, which includes discography.
:I unmerged the articles. Please don't merge them without discussing it first on Talk:Bright Eyes. Elvrum 04:30, 27 March 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I am unmerging the latest merge.  Oberst is different from Bright Eyes, though he's the "primary" figure. TKE 04:47, 30 March 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Article merged with Bright Eyes (Band)

message: "CONCON ISNT A VEGETARIAN OK GET OVER IT YOU     ER. AND HES NOT BISEXUAL. OK!?"  <-- you shouldnt talk about what you dont know.
Calm down.
http://www.timmcmahan.com/desa2.htm
Who decides where you're gonna eat when you're on tour?
Dalley: Denny's was the consensus. We also eat at Taco Bell a lot because their bean burritos are vegetarian. Denny's has a be--A Sunshade Lust 18:44, 3 January 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I agree, but that's as a result of the disagreement on this talk page as to whether he's vegetarian or not. If you could help to redress the balance by adding to the more pertinent sections, that'd be great. --Sanguinus 08:46, 22 January 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Vegetarian 

message: Some one added a comment to the New York section of the February 15, 2003 anti-war protest article about the single Old Soul Song (For the New World Order)which appears on Conor Oberst's I'm Wide Awake, It's Morning cliaming it contains the lyrics; "We walked the forty blocks to the middle/Of the place we heard that everything would be/And there were barricades to keep us off the street/But the crowd kept pushing forward/'til they swallowed the police/Yeah, they went wild/Yeah, they went wild..." and that they are about the demonstration in NY. This sounds pluasable, however the poster provided no ref's. Can any one here confirm that these are the lyrics and that they relate to the event in question. Thankyou. --JK the unwise 15:51, 5 January 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Are you saying that it is not about the NY anti-war rally or just that it has multiple layers of meaning?--JK the unwise 14:12, 7 February 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: i'm saying that while the song might be referring to that event, more likely the song is about an existential alienation from society. 68.233.140.140 04:31, 12 February 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Old Soul Song (For the New World Order) 

message: ==See also== 
*List of songs with particularly long titles 
-- Gbeeker 01:51, 23 March 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Should this page have a link to long song titles like this?

message: "whose knack for social commentary and philosophy have garnered him countless comparisons to Bob Dylan, although his darker themes of depression, anxiety, and alcoholism are much more reminiscent of Leonard Cohen and Simon Joyner."
unless there is some sort of source to back this up I think it should be removed. It isn't exactly NPOV. I hardly think this guy should be compared to Leonard Cohen or Boby Dylan. His music doesn't sound anything like either of them, nor is his influence anywhere near on par. Rizla 04:01, 26 March 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: In the Rolling Stone review for Lifted..., they compaired him to Dylan.  However, please see Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/List_of_people_compared_to_Bob_Dylan for any inclusion along those lines.  In album reviews, critics rip off each other all the time and the Dylan comparison is no big whoop. TKE 04:51, 30 March 2006 (UTC)

text: The statement doesn't not say that Conor Oberst sounds like or is as influential as Bob Dylan. It states that he has been compared to Bob Dylan on several occassions, which is a fact. Just do a google search for "indie Bob Dylan" and see how many Conor Oberst/Bright Eyes references come up. Citing them all would be rather redundant. Elvrum 23:43, 27 March 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: bob dylan?