Bottomless Pit

whoa didn't see this thread had been bumped! sorry i missed it. i just pre-ordered my copy of the new one yesterday, should get it next week i guess. have only heard "38 souls" so far but i've listened to that dozens of times. it's incredible. oh and i got an email response from mr. midgett yesterday confirming their november milwaukee show will be a 15-minute walk from my place. very excite!

so proud of wisconsin for the rhinelander reference

I love Bottomless Pit so much. One of the few current bands that aren't concerned with being hip. I can't wait to get the new one. I'm going to pull out some old Silkworm albums too. They should reissue a few of those.

markers i would go chronologically, not start with developer, but whatevs

also get with the program

I've been listening to the new one a lot over the past few days, so good.

Continuing the discussion from a few posts up, "Firewater" was the first Silkworm album I heard, and I think it took me a while to really get into it too. To be fair I was just like 16 or 17 and probably bought it after reading a positive review in Puncture or something, I think at first it probably seemed like "just boring rock music" with weird artwork, but obviously it really grew on me as they're basically still one of my favorite bands ever.

I'VE BEEN WAITING ON THE REAL YOU ALL ALONG

on this board anytime skwm comes up it's basically you me cutty and sometimes another person

I would claim membership in ilx skwm crew. also m@tt h.

the real depth of emotion that to me was missing from Italian Platinum & It'll Be Cool

man I loooove Italian Platinum. Bourbon Beard and LR72 don't have depth of emotion? The Old You?? (agree about It'll Be Cool though.)

only heard "38 Souls" so far off the new thing but it is great

I lived in Seattle in the 1990-91 grunge years, but was underage for bars (19-20) and mostly went to zydeco and sometimes folk shows (and a lot of all-ages dance clubs). The one relevant rock band I saw, though, was Silkworm, at the OK Hotel, in spring 1991, because I was friends with some Missoula expats. Good then, and good when I saw 'em again in Minneapolis in the early 2000s.

i was seriously getting my first "zone out and listen to music" session since the baby last night and i kicked it off with "firewater"!!

also,

"Dogtag" usually makes me tear up tbh

eazy if you saw 'em in mpls in the early 00s i bet i was there

also aerosmith is right - blueblood is kinda slept on IMO, i think it seems like a transitional record but still it is awesome

Man I'd like to think I'd be considered part of the SKWM crew too, I post about them a lot but I guess dudes have me killfiled.

I really like Italian Platinum, to the point where it's maybe my third-favorite Silkworm album. "I Hope U Don't Survive" is one of their best songs ever and an amazing album-opener. I still don't really get It'll Be Cool aside from "Don't Look Back" and maybe one or two other songs, makes me sad that it was their last album because it was so disappointing to me after Italian Platinum.

u def part of the crew dawg

phew

IT'S. JUST. THAT. GOOD.

seriously like I hate to be the guy putting the OG's from back in the day high up in the year end list but who the fuck is gonna make a better album than this in 2010? this album fucking rules.

man i need to get out to a store and get this, did you get vinyl?

no just the CD. which is like the best-looking CD, even though it's just a standard jewel case - it really stands out somehow, the simple color scheme & the tiny typewriter-typeface.

I'm excited to eventually pick up the vinyl. I think all of their releases come with a CD.

yeah, they do.

vinyl release of the new one looks reeeeeeeeeeeeeal nice.

album is great too, obv.

sh@ke, the show was at the Entry and it closed with cover of "Ooh La La" (never knew the name of that song until I now just googled "wish that I knew what I know now").

in keeping with the cover art theme, allow me to classify "is it a ditch" and "kiss them all" as my favorite mortal's songs on this album, whereas "38 souls" is its lone entry into tier generally reserved for gods/god-like rock guitar demonstrations. i mean the wailage people THE WAILAGE! i finish listening to that song and i feel like tossing andy a gatorade, and not even a mere 16 oz. regular size gatorade, but one of those 32 oz ones. that is how much he brings it, on that song.

"rhinelander" quite beautiful.

eazy man i may have been at that

RHINELANDER IS THE MOST BEAUTIFUL GRATEFUL DEAD STYLE SONG OF THE 2000S WHICH I KNOW IS THE WEIRDEST THING TO SAY, BUT ITS TRUE

even more than usual i am just totally confused as to what the three andy songs on this album are about

this album rules so hard you guys

otmfm

Got it on vinyl. Gorgeous!

every time I listen to this album it's even better than I think it's going to be

Seriously, I hate to keep reviving this thread just to say how unbelievably awesome this album is, but this may be as good as the best Silkworm. Constant rotation here.

Where did you buy the vinyl, Evan?

I got it from insound.com

I know people there, so they put their last copy on hold for me. It could be backordered with them at this point.

Otherwise, I see that Reckless Records has it:

http://www.reckless.com/index.php?RcSes=f7cee9b4f78e9e3b1d979a061b110c58&keywords=bottomless+pit&format=&cond=&store=&is_search=true&srch=Search

I'm going to revive this thread every time I have this album on headphones and say to myself "holy shit"

Dudes, sacrilege, maybe, but...better than Silkworm??

Did you get the vinyl? Its very nicely packaged.

the thing it is is more beautiful that silkworm - I don't think it's reading too much bio into things to say that there's a very wistful feeling to the melodies & overall tone on this record which while present in some of silkworm is less dominant. I can't call this a better record than Developer or Lifestyle, my two favorite Silkworm records, but I think it stands alongside them and has some qualities that they don't.

it just rules every time I play it, and every time I play it I usually end up playing it twice.

OTM re: the melancholy, AND the playing it twice. Me too.

Evan, I saw it for $25, which, at the moment, is too rich for my blood, but I'm thinking this is an album I'm going to need to own on vinyl, so I'm 'listing' it.

Yeah, they're pretty different from Silkworm, although even Silkworm wasn't really sounding too much like Silkworm by It'll Be Cool. All the same, I don't know that I'd even be able to recognize this band as being "ex-Silkworm" if Tim and Andy weren't singing the songs; obviously the lack of Michael's trademark drumsound certainly doesn't help. But this is The Pit, and The Pit is different and The Pit is good.

Anyone know anything about bassist Brian Orchard's other band, .22? The only relevant bit of information I could manage to dig up is a very brief Electrical Audio profile page for him as a former staffer, what with ".22" not exactly being the most Googleable term and all.

I have one of the .22 albums...it's pretty good...very "chicago" and, well, you can tell they are very much Silkworm fans.

not like mindblowing or anything but solid

markers never reported back on what he though of developer

ON WHAT HE THOUGH

WHAT DIDEST THOU THOUGH MARKERS

Playing in Chicago tonight, I can't go :(

go to the milwaukee show! yes it's an hour and a half away, but it's a beautiful drive, even at night. plus i'll buy you a fin du monde (they've got 'em at the cactus club). would love to meet another ilxor/silkworm/pit fan.

waiting on deliverance is just like
waiting on a
tree that you can't get out from under
get out from under it now

Saturday at the Knitting Factory (BK) with Obits

I'm so there

great show last night, but the really exciting thing was that there were three new songs in the set.

hoping to buy the LP tonight if they've got some

they have all of their lps for sale!

No gigs within 100 miles of me boooooo

i love how "winterwind" just drifts on and on it's so gorgeous

they really know how to make good sounding rock records

"I saw the Devil on a commuter train"