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Bon Iver – U (Man Like)
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“U (Man Like)” is a piano-driven ballad that touches on modern social issues. The Gospel-influenced song features silvery backing vocals from Jenn Wasner, Moses Sumney and Elsa
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Bon Iver – Hey, Ma
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“Hey, Ma” is a nostalgia-evoking song with sentimental imagery of childhood and a mother’s affection. The song features subtle instrumentation behind Vernon’s gliding falsetto with
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Bon Iver – U (Man Like) Samples
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See all of “U (Man Like)” by Bon Iver’s samples, covers, remixes, interpolations and live versions
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Bon Iver – Skinny Love
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Released as the first single from For Emma, Forever Ago, “Skinny Love” is a song about a failed relationship and the regret that stems from it.
The term “skinny love” has two
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Bon Iver – I Can't Make You Love Me/Nick of Time
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nW9Cu6GYqxo
This is a cover of Bonnie Raitt’s “I Can’t Make You Love Me”
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Bon Iver – Holocene
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Regarding “Holocene”, Bon Iver’s Justin Vernon told NPR:
Holocene is a bar in Portland, Ore., but it’s also the name of a geologic era, an epoch if you will. It’s a good example
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Taylor Swift (Ft. Bon Iver) – exile
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“exile” describes two ex-lovers seeing each other following a break-up. Justin Vernon describes feelings of confusion about how quickly a lover moved on, while Swift offers a
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Bon Iver – Do You Need Power? (Walk Out Music)
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[Bon Iver] / Talk back, talk back with 'em / With your full rebound / I ain't nothing with such cautious time / The buzzards all over now / It all ain't nothing if you don't
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Bon Iver & St. Vincent – Rosyln
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“Rosyln” a melancholic ballad by the indie folk band Bon Iver and rock pioneer St. Vincent. The collaboration itself was used in the second movie of the Twilight trilogy, Twilight
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Bon Iver – Beach Baby
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During the Philadelphia stop on Bon Iver’s 2011 tour, Justin introduced this song by saying that it’s about when your ex-girlfriend is sleeping with someone else, but you get to
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Bon Iver – 29 #Strafford APTS
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“29 #Strafford APTS” is the fifth track on Bon Iver’s third album, 22, A Million. The track was first performed at Eaux Claires 2016.
Vernon is accompanied on the vocals by Bon
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Francis and the Lights (Ft. Bon Iver & Kanye West) – Friends
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On “Friends,” Francis and the Lights combines with rapper Kanye West as well as Bon Iver (the two of which have worked together on multiple occasions including the songs “Lost in
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Bon Iver – Towers
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[Verse 1] / For the love, I'd fallen on / In the swampy August dawn / What a mischief you would bring, young darling / When the onus is not all your own / When you're up for it
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Bon Iver – Re: Stacks
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“Re: Stacks” laments love frozen in the ground.
When asked about the purpose of “Re” in the song title, Justin Vernon replied:
It’s ‘Regarding.’ People use it in letters and
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Bon Iver – Faith
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“Faith” is an ethereal and uplifting song in which Vernon sings about faith, both in a spiritual sense and within personal relationships. Vernon opens up about how the faith he
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Bon Iver – I Can't Make You Love Me (AIR Studios – 4AD/Jagjaguwar Session)
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[Studio Chatter] / Bonnie Raitt cover, take four / Middle, Bonnie Raitt cover, take four / Up there, Bonnie Raitt cover, take four / [Verse 1: S. Carey] / Turn down the lights
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Bon Iver – Blood Bank
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The title track to Bon Iver’s 2009 EP, Blood Bank, describes a blossoming love between Justin and a woman. In the song, he goes into detail about various interactions and moments
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Taylor Swift (Ft. Bon Iver) – evermore
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The titular closing track on the standard edition of evermore is a meditative piano ballad tracking the narrator’s journey from a seemingly unending period of deep depression and
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Bon Iver – Yi
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“Yi” is the airy instrumental introduction to Bon Iver’s 4th studio album i,i. The intro has some foreshadowing, using chopped sounds that can be heard in other songs to follow on
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Kanye West (Ft. Bon Iver, JAY-Z, Nicki Minaj & Rick Ross) – Monster
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One of the most highlighted posse cuts of 2010, Kanye, Rick Ross, JAY-Z, and Nicki Minaj boast on how they’re a “Monster” on the mic. Fittingly, the song comes with a couple of
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Bon Iver – 22 (OVER S∞∞N)
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The opening track of Bon Iver’s third album, 22, A Million, “22 (OVER S∞∞N)” introduces the album’s more electronic-centric sound. The song features a sample of Mahalia Jackson’s
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Bonnie Raitt – I Can't Make You Love Me
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“I Can’t Make You Love Me” is the third song on Bonnie Raitt’s Grammy-winning album from 1991, Luck of the Draw. The song, written by Mike Reid and Allen Shamblin, sat on the
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Bon Iver – AUATC
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The new Bon Iver track “AUATC” – an acronym for “Ate Up All Their Cake” – was released on 5 August 2020 and is characterized by a surprising vocal blend featuring appearances of
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Bon Iver – 33 “GOD”
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33 “GOD” is the fourth track off 22, A Million, released on August 29, 2016. The official lyric video opens with an epigraph quoting Psalm 22:
Why are you so FAR from saving me
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Bon Iver – Naeem
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“NAEEM” is a song which, like “Hey Ma,” was first performed in Washington, D.C. in December 2017. Since then, it has been used in Bon Iver’s collaboration with TU Dance on “Come
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Bon Iver – Your Honor
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Who the safety is for / Danger knocks not at the door / Don't let your heart hit the floor now / There is pillage in villages, all have been labored to fight / Please get this
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Bon Iver – We
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We was the sixth track to be released from Bon Iver’s fourth studio album i,i. The track was released on August 8, 2019, the day after fans were able to hear i,i in its entirety at
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Bon Iver – The Wolves (Act I and II)
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Perhaps the most lyrically direct song on the album. It is also the most musically elaborate. It features auto-tune, densely multi-tracked vocals and significant use of percussion
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Bon Iver – PDLIF
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“PDLIF” (Please Don’t Live In Fear), is the first glimpse of new material from Bon Iver since 2019 album i,i. The song was created by Justin Vernon and a handful of collaborators
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Bon Iver – Perth
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Lead Justin Vernon said this about Perth and the inspiration behind the track:
The first thing I worked on, the riff and the beginning melodies, was the first song on the record
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Zach Bryan (Ft. Bon Iver) – Boys of Faith
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[Chorus: Zach Bryan & Justin Vernon] / High tide, it's been risin' up / I've been gettin' up with some boys I used to know / We're tryin' to get our pockets up / This year has just
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Bon Iver – Blindsided
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The intertwining bass-drum note in “Blindsided” gives the song a suspenseful rising towards a climax, which come in waves as the five-minute track plays out.
Justin Vernon said at
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Bon Iver – iMi
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“iMi” is the fifth track to be released from Bon Iver’s fourth studio album i,i. The track was released on August 8th, 2019, the day after fans were able to hear i,i in its
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Francis and the Lights (Ft. Bon Iver, Caroline Shaw, Chance the Rapper & Kanye West) – You Still Take Me To the Light
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This is the final version of “Take Me to the Light” posted to Francis and the Lights' website on June 8, 2020. The full song was released on streaming services on September 18
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Bon Iver – Haven, Mass
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In early February 2016, early ticket purchasers of the upcoming summer’s Eaux Claires Music & Arts Festival were sent a Deux cassette mixtape, including this Bon Iver B-Side, “
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Bon Iver – Calgary
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[Verse 1] / Don't you cherish me to sleep, oh-oh, oh-oh-oh / Never keep your eyelids clipped / Hold me for the pops and clicks / I was only for the father's crib / [Verse 2] / Hair
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Bon Iver – Michicant
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[Verse 1] / I was unafraid, I was a boy, I was a tender age / Melic in the naked, knew a lake and drew the lofts for page / Hurdle all the waitings up, I know it wasn't wedded love
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Bon Iver – RABi
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“RABi” is the 13th and final track on i,i. The song’s title comes from the lyric “I could rob I”.
Justin Vernon(Writer) from Apple Music: “Just some ‘life feels good now, don’t it
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Bon Iver – Second Nature
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[Verse 1] / Is this our first? Or second nature? / When's that Rapture? Will there be merch? / Where is Mother? She was a stunner, can we page her? / What mine eyes have seen
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mxmtoon – bon iver
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“bon iver” is the first single from mxmtoon’s 2020 EP dusk. The first song released by mxmtoon since her EP dawn, “bon iver” is a track that introduces the theme of dusk and the
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Bon Iver – Your Love (The Outfield cover)
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Josie's on a vacation far away / Come around and talk it over / So many things that I want to say / You know I like my girls a little bit older / I just wanna use your love tonight
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Bon Iver – Heavenly Father
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“Heavenly Father” is the fifth track off of the soundtrack for Zach Braff’s 2014 film Wish I Was Here.
This is the first song released by the band since their 2011 self-titled
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Bon Iver – Wisconsin
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Although this song wasn’t on the original release, it remained as a bonus track on iTunes. Accompanied by the simplicity of a muted guitar, Wisconsin perpetuates the solemness of
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Jim-E Stack (Ft. Bon Iver) – Jeanie
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[Verse: Bon Iver] / Don't want you to feel too much / But you need to feel too much / But my love, whenever it breaks / My love, it feels / I don't want to be a fool / But I hope I
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Bon Iver – 10 d E A T h b R E a s T ⚄ ⚄
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The second track from Bon Iver’s third album, 22, A Million, an extended version of the track was released as a promotional single ahead of the album’s release.
While the
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Bon Iver – 8 (circle)
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“8 (circle)” sticks to the numerical theme throughout 22, A Million, referencing the fact that it is the eighth song on the album, and how the number “8” consists of two circles.
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