Album · Conor Oberst
Upside Down Mountain by Conor Oberst
Upside Down Mountain is an album by Conor Oberst, released in 2014. 2 songs from it have charted on rock radio countdowns, with 5 countdown appearances in total. The biggest is “Hundreds Of Ways”, on 4 lists with a best position of #38.
Upside Down Mountain, Conor Oberst's sixth solo album, arrived on Nonesuch on May 19, 2014, and it finds the Bright Eyes songwriter circling back to the way he used to write. Oberst framed it as a record about language, closer and more private than what came before, and it plays that way: unhurried Americana, warm and dusty, built to put the words front and center.
He's always been frank about not being a virtuoso on guitar, piano or even vocals, and here that modesty becomes the point. The melodies are sturdy rather than flashy, the arrangements leave room to breathe, and the lyrics carry the weight, with the kind of plainspoken poetry that got him named Rolling Stone's best songwriter of 2008. "Hundreds of Ways" and "Time Forgot" were the songs that reached the countdowns, and both sound like a guy comfortable in his own skin.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
Songs from Upside Down Mountain on radio countdowns
| # | Song | Strength | Lists | Best | #1s | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Hundreds Of Ways | 4 | #38 | – | 2014–2016 | |
| 2 | Time Forgot | 1 | #62 | – | 2014 |
Only songs that appear on at least one countdown are listed. Release data from MusicBrainz.