My first thought when the RNG chose this as my weekly revisit was to skip it. After all, I only just reviewed this for my music site. And then I checked the timelines and realised I reviewed this in 2023. Christ, time, what the hell? I still co-sign my more analytical, long-form ramblings which you can read through link the above, so there isn't really much to say in that respect without risking repeating myself. Because Bright Eyes were a US indie project, the whole concept of "b-sides" was never particularly ingrained into Conor Oberst's head and musical behaviour in the same way it was for many of his UK-based peers, who knew that there was an expectation for each album to be surrounded by another album's worth of extra material. The "rarities" in the title is therefore an apt description: we've got some single b-sides yes, but primarily these are non-album singles, regional or format bonus tracks, various compilation or split release appearances and all kinds of other ephemera…
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