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Bon Iver is an indie folk semi-group comprising of Justin Vernon and whoever he has on hand at the time. After undergoing a nasty breakup, Vernon retreated to his father's cabin in Wisconsin and began recording demos for an album, planning to re-record them later. When he sent the demos to friends and record labels, however, they told him almost unanimously that the songs should be left as they were, so he signed with Jagjaguwar Records and released the demos as the album "For Emma Forever Ago." It received widespread acclaim and Vernon & co have been exploring the various ways to [[Tear Jerker|make listeners cry]] ever since. Some of Bon Iver's more well-known songs include "Skinny Love," "Re: Stacks," "Blood Bank," "Holocene," "Perth," "Calgary," and "Beth/Rest."▼
[[File:Bon Iver@Stockholm.jpg|thumb|400px|Bon Iver in 2011]]
▲'''Bon Iver''' is an indie folk semi-group comprising of Justin Vernon and whoever he has on hand at the time. After undergoing a nasty breakup, Vernon retreated to his father's cabin in Wisconsin and began recording demos for an album, planning to re-record them later. When he sent the demos to friends and record labels, however, they told him almost unanimously that the songs should be left as they were, so he signed with Jagjaguwar Records and released the demos as the album "For Emma Forever Ago." It received widespread acclaim and Vernon & co have been exploring the various ways to [[Tear Jerker|make listeners cry]] ever since. Some of Bon Iver's more well-known songs include "Skinny Love," "Re: Stacks," "Blood Bank," "Holocene," "Perth," "Calgary," and "Beth/Rest."
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* ''For Emma, Forever Ago'' - 2007
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* ''Blood Bank'' - 2009
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* [[A Good Name for A Rock Band]]: The name is a slightly Anglicized version of "bon hiver", French for "good winter." Vernon got the phrase from a ''[[Northern Exposure]]'' rerun.▼
* [[Album Title Drop]]: In "For Emma:"
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* [[Audience Participation Song]]: "Skinny Love," "The Wolves (Act I and II)."
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** "Woods" consists of the same stanza repeated over and over, increasingly layered, Auto-Tuned, and distorted each time. It was even sampled by [[Kanye West]], and the resulting song ''still'' has less Auto-Tune than the original.
* [[BSOD Song]]: All of ''For Emma, Forever Ago'' has shades of this, but "Re: Stacks" is the most obvious.
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* [[Drowning My Sorrows]]: "Re: Stacks."
* [[Epic Instrumental Opener]]: "Perth" features one.
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* [[Grief Song]]: All of ''For Emma, Forever Ago'' probably qualifies, but special mention goes to "Re: Stacks," which of all the songs on the album is the most up-front about it.
* [[It Is Pronounced "Tro
* [[Lonely Piano Piece]]: The acoustic version of "Beth/Rest."
* [[Love Nostalgia Song]]: The bridge of "Calgary" [[Word Salad Lyrics|seems]] to be this. [[Tear Jerker|It's one of the most heart-wrenching moments on the album.]]
** Much of ''For Emma, Forever Ago'' toys with this, reflecting on the different aspects of the narrator's relationship with 'Emma' (actually a composite of several of Vernon's previous girlfriends) and eventually concluding that he's better off without her ("Skinny love has no nourishment; it can't grow"). This doesn't stop him for having a drunken breakdown over it in "Re: Stacks."
* [[New Sound Album]]: The [[Self
* [[Non
* [[Obvious Beta]]: Inverted; the recordings found on "For Emma, Forever Ago" were ''supposed'' to be demo versions that would be rerecorded later, but those who listened to them liked them so much that they convinced Vernon to release them exactly as they were- as a result, every track on the album (with the exception of "For Emma," which had horns and drums added, and "The Wolves (Act I and II)," which had its backing vocals processed and distorted) is the original demo. It worked, and the lonely, isolated atmosphere made the album all the more heartrending.
* [[Perfectly Cromulent Word]]: "Flume."{{verify}} Also, 'fide' and 'fane'{{verify}} from "Perth."
** Please verify. Is this a case of [[Small Reference Pools]], or is Bon Iver using [https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/flume Flume] and [https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/fane Fane] in ways other than their dictionary meanings and "fide" in a way other than its Latin meaning?
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** There's one in "Creature Fear" too, but it's used at such an uplifting point in the album ([[Indecipherable Lyrics|and rather hard to make out]]) that a lot of people don't hear it: "so many foreign worlds/so relatively fucked/so ready for us/a creature fear."
* [[Refrain From Assuming]]: A lot, due to [[Non
** Somewhere, somebody thinks that "Holocene" is called "I Was Not Magnificent," or something along those lines.
** It's called "Skinny Love," not "My My My."
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** It's pretty easy to assume that "Minnesota, WI" is actually called "Never Gonna Break." It's not.
* [[Retraux]]: "Beth/Rest."
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** Averted on the [[Self
* [[Siamese Twin Songs]]: "Creature Fear" and "Team."
* [[Signature Song]]: "Skinny Love" and "Holocene."
* [[Sliding Scale of Idealism Versus Cynicism]]: Enthusiastically and unashamedly on the idealism side.
** After being asked whether he was worried Beth/Rest, which uses autotune for artistic purposes, would be misinterpreted as being ironic:
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* [[Subdued Section]]: The first and last verses of "Calgary."
* [[Throw It In]]: In "The Wolves," a siren can be heard in the distance.
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* [[Word Salad Lyrics]]
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