Song · Bright Eyes
“Lover I Don't Have To Love” by Bright Eyes
From the album LIFTED or The Story Is in the Soil, Keep Your Ear to the Ground (2002)
“Lover I Don't Have To Love” by Bright Eyes appears on 1 radio countdown from 1 station in 2004. It was first released in 2002 on the album LIFTED or The Story Is in the Soil, Keep Your Ear to the Ground. Its best result is #56 on the 89X Top 89 Songs of 2004. In the combined RockLists rankings it is the #525 alternative song of 2004.
"Lover I Don't Have to Love" came out as a single on Saddle Creek in 2002 and sits on Bright Eyes' Lifted or The Story Is in the Soil, Keep Your Ear to the Ground, and it's Conor Oberst's show from the pen down: he wrote it, sings it, and plays guitar, organ, piano and Rhodes. Mike Mogis turns the arrangement into a junk shop of sound, stacking banjo, mandolin, pedal steel, resonator guitar, hammered dulcimer, glockenspiel, vibraphone, bell and electric guitar, while Gretta Cohn's cello and Tiffany Kowalski's violin saw away over Matt Maginn's bass.
One lyric nods to Salinger's The Catcher in the Rye, and the video plays it as karaoke, the words laid out for a sing-along.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
RockLists rankings
Alternative & Modern Rock
All Rock Formats
Year-end countdowns
| Year | # | Station | Countdown | of |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2004 | 56 | 89X Detroit, MI / Windsor, ON | 89X Top 89 Songs of 2004 | 89 |
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