Commander Venus: Uneventful Vacation LP Bright Eyes OOP

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New, sealed copy of Commander Venus: The Uneventful Vacation LP (featuring Conor Oberst of Bright Eyes and Tim Kasher of Cursive on vocals/guitar).

Originally released on Saddle Creek/Wind-Up records in 1997.

This LP is long out of print, and finding an unopened copy is pretty tough.

Buyer pays $4 shipping in the US, $8 international.

Check or Money Order preferred, and item will ship ASAP upon payment clearance.

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From Allmusic.com: A super group of sorts before they even realized it, Commander Venus was made up of Conor Oberst (Bright Eyes), Tim Kasher (Cursive), Matt Bowen (the Faint), and Saddle Creek Records head Robb Nansel. In almost atypical form, the record sometimes sounds less like what the members later developed on their own and more like a slightly more emotional version of the Archers of Loaf. Oberst's often pained vocals do dominate the record, but even they are often pushed over the line towards more guttural screams. Kasher also throws in an impressive vocal yawp from time to time, and mixed with the surprisingly brutal guitar tones the band comes up with, the results represent some of the toughest material these boys from Omaha have come up with. The Uneventful Vacation does sound like a young band still perfecting their style, but in its sloppiness is a lot of its charm. Like Cap'n Jazz and other bands of soon to be indie stars, Commander Venus have a raw untamed energy and though it overextends itself from time to time; numbers like "Jeans TV" and the vocal trading "Lock'n'Chase" are filled with the kind of infectious rock that makes a band truly endearing. Fans of any of the member's later endeavors should find something to love on this record, and by the end, anyone who is a supporter of noisy emotional rock will probably find something on the LP that they can really appreciate. Barely into his first year of high school, Conor Oberst had other things on his mind rather than the pressures of who to ask out for homecoming, stupid jocks and weekly football games. Along with the slightly older Ben Armstrong (drums), Robb Nansel (guitar) and Todd Baechle (bass), Oberst got together Commander Venus in 1994 at the ripe age of 14 with himself on guitar and vocals. Cutting class and pep rallies for gigs in and around his native Omaha, Nebraska, Oberst and company got together some money, formed their own label Saddle Creek and put out their first album Do You Feel At Home? in 1995; lots of comparisons to Sunny Day Real Estate, Pavement, Pixies and Superchunk followed. Commander Venus' second album Uneventful Vacation came out two years later on Chicago's Thick Recordings.