Originally Posted by Stone Birds

Bright eyes songs you should never recommend to new listeners:
Coat Check Dream Song - it doesn't represent bright eyes on a whole, it mostly represents itself
Lime Tree - I hear even current fans complaining about how annoying this song is because it builds and builds with no dramatic change like they were expecting.

any song that begins a bright eyes album - because there's always a long usually annoying intro:

A Spindle, a Darkness, a Fever, and a Necklace
The Big Picture
At the Bottom of Everything
Time Code
Clairaudients (Kill or Be Killed)
Mirrors & Fevers