― daria gray, Thursday, 1 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― martin h, Saturday, 3 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― Tracer Hand, Saturday, 3 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― di, Saturday, 3 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― Tom, Sunday, 4 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
www.falsedawn.blogspot.com
― gygax! (gygax!), Tuesday, 30 March 2004 17:53 (twenty years ago) link
http://www.multiply.org/notebook/archives/000476.html
― gygax! (gygax!), Tuesday, 30 March 2004 17:54 (twenty years ago) link
― morris pavilion (samjeff), Tuesday, 30 March 2004 18:03 (twenty years ago) link
True story:
I have 2 friends, room mates at college, one is a the biggest Silver Jews fan in the known universe, one just likes it cause the other one got him into it. The one who just sort of like them and wants to seem indie gets a fake ID to see the David Berman "poetry reading" in Chi-town, which of course turns out to be one of the only Silver Jews concerts ever also featuring Will Oldham and the guy from Smog and long story short he bought a poster for the real fan but still c'mon
― David Allen (David Allen), Tuesday, 30 March 2004 18:19 (twenty years ago) link
"I love to see a rainbow from a garden hose /lit up like the blood of a centerfold /I love the city and the city rain /suburban kids with biblical names"
― Ben Boyer (Ben Boyer), Tuesday, 30 March 2004 18:27 (twenty years ago) link
Nobody writes lyrics better.
― otto, Tuesday, 30 March 2004 20:11 (twenty years ago) link
― scott m (mcd), Tuesday, 30 March 2004 20:32 (twenty years ago) link
― Donna Brown (Donna Brown), Tuesday, 30 March 2004 23:13 (twenty years ago) link
― comic book guy, Friday, 9 April 2004 13:39 (twenty years ago) link
― andrew s (andrew s), Friday, 9 April 2004 14:38 (twenty years ago) link
Otto OTM.
Classic, if it needed saying.
― Snnap Dragon (snnap dragon), Friday, 9 April 2004 17:48 (twenty years ago) link
But despite their lack of technical ability, they had charismaand an infectious sense of rhythm.
I don't hear either in Berman's voice. But that's just me.They have a few great songs, so I can't in fairness dud them.
― Squirrel_Police (Squirrel_Police), Friday, 9 April 2004 18:35 (twenty years ago) link
― comicbookguy, Saturday, 10 April 2004 20:25 (twenty years ago) link
― maria tessa sciarrino (theoreticalgirl), Saturday, 10 April 2004 20:34 (twenty years ago) link
― stockholm cindy (Jody Beth Rosen), Saturday, 10 April 2004 20:35 (twenty years ago) link
― gygax! (gygax!), Saturday, 10 April 2004 22:23 (twenty years ago) link
― adam. (nordicskilla), Sunday, 19 September 2004 20:51 (nineteen years ago) link
― adam. (nordicskilla), Sunday, 19 September 2004 20:59 (nineteen years ago) link
― lauren (laurenp), Sunday, 19 September 2004 21:56 (nineteen years ago) link
― M@tt He1geson (Matt Helgeson), Sunday, 19 September 2004 23:06 (nineteen years ago) link
I say classic, all the way, but i didn't buy his last album. Was it good?
― roger adultery (roger adultery), Sunday, 19 September 2004 23:41 (nineteen years ago) link
― Ian c=====8 (orion), Monday, 20 September 2004 00:43 (nineteen years ago) link
― plugz, Monday, 20 September 2004 01:00 (nineteen years ago) link
― adam. (nordicskilla), Monday, 20 September 2004 01:04 (nineteen years ago) link
― lauren (laurenp), Monday, 20 September 2004 01:12 (nineteen years ago) link
'in 1984 i was hospitalized for approaching perfection / slowly screwing my way across europe, they had to make a correction
― 6335, Monday, 20 September 2004 01:39 (nineteen years ago) link
― Ian c=====8 (orion), Monday, 20 September 2004 01:45 (nineteen years ago) link
― David Allen (David Allen), Monday, 20 September 2004 02:34 (nineteen years ago) link
― roger adultery (roger adultery), Monday, 20 September 2004 04:29 (nineteen years ago) link
― piers (piers), Monday, 20 September 2004 05:03 (nineteen years ago) link
― piers (piers), Monday, 20 September 2004 05:10 (nineteen years ago) link
― David Allen (David Allen), Monday, 20 September 2004 05:14 (nineteen years ago) link
― roger adultery (roger adultery), Monday, 20 September 2004 05:46 (nineteen years ago) link
― piers (piers), Monday, 20 September 2004 05:53 (nineteen years ago) link
1.American Water2. Natural Bridge3.Bright Flight4. Starlite Walker
― james, Monday, 20 September 2004 16:44 (nineteen years ago) link
― Taxi Dancing in the Soft Prison (Ben Boyer), Monday, 20 September 2004 16:59 (nineteen years ago) link
According to gygax, it is still coming out. I hope so, because I Ebayed my copy of The Arizona Record when I was broke and hungry and now I miss it. :(
― adam. (nordicskilla), Monday, 20 September 2004 17:01 (nineteen years ago) link
when smog was on tour last year, i asked dan k. about it and he said it was coming out. as expose sang many moons ago: "seasons change, people change..."
― gygax! (gygax!), Monday, 20 September 2004 17:05 (nineteen years ago) link
I have Bright Flight and American Water, but they have never been favourites. I shall dig them out from where they are stored.
Still, Starlite Walker is great. If they played here, I would go and see them, and as a rule I don't really go to concerts much these days.
I think I like the song about being ill/throwing up that is on the Hey! Drag City comp (I could be wrong about the subject)
I never really got into Smog, Ex-con is the only song I like by them...it's the "casing the joint" line.
― jel -- (jel), Monday, 20 September 2004 17:17 (nineteen years ago) link
― David Allen (David Allen), Monday, 20 September 2004 17:51 (nineteen years ago) link
― Taxi Dancing in the Soft Prison (Ben Boyer), Monday, 20 September 2004 17:54 (nineteen years ago) link
― jel -- (jel), Monday, 20 September 2004 18:12 (nineteen years ago) link
― adam. (nordicskilla), Tuesday, 21 September 2004 02:39 (nineteen years ago) link
The "send in the clouds" b-side "Self-Ignition" is classic
― yahtz, Tuesday, 21 September 2004 04:03 (nineteen years ago) link
― morris pavilion (samjeff), Tuesday, 21 September 2004 04:13 (nineteen years ago) link
Holding up the trousers with extension cords
― calstars, Sunday, 11 April 2021 20:45 (three years ago) link
The drums March along like an iv drip like a muffler dragged down the strip !!!
― calstars, Sunday, 11 April 2021 22:05 (three years ago) link
I saw the river playing in the valleyRushing round a bend and skipping stonesI saw the meadow wobble In the moonlightI’ve come to get my girl and take her home
― Heez, Saturday, 9 July 2022 02:18 (one year ago) link
The doorbell plays a bar of Stephen Foster
― Legalize Suburban Benches (Raymond Cummings), Saturday, 9 July 2022 02:41 (one year ago) link
xp That part always gets me.
― Am I doomposting? I would say you’re not doomposting enough. (PBKR), Saturday, 9 July 2022 02:41 (one year ago) link
I still try to write lyrics as I’ve done for 20 years now and it’s mostly cause this dude keeps me hungry
― Heez, Saturday, 9 July 2022 02:47 (one year ago) link
I had never seen the TV clip in this Instagram post… fairly bizarre
― Obviously Five Beliebers (morrisp), Tuesday, 20 September 2022 04:19 (one year ago) link
lmao
― flopson, Tuesday, 20 September 2022 05:34 (one year ago) link
holy fuck
― Western® with Bacon Flavor, Tuesday, 20 September 2022 06:04 (one year ago) link
what a piece of work.
― pplains, Tuesday, 20 September 2022 13:23 (one year ago) link
Here's the original story that instagram account stole: https://www.brooklynvegan.com/micheal-sheen-sang-silver-jews-how-can-i-love-you-if-you-wont-lie-down-on-last-nights-the-good-fight/
― pplains, Thursday, 22 September 2022 11:55 (one year ago) link
Check out what Lana’s listening to
― Unidentified rogue Jedi (morrisp), Sunday, 14 May 2023 14:39 (eleven months ago) link
seems many of the top recording artists of the day are only now discovering the late, great Silver Jews
Just discovered the band Silver Jews. Fantastic songs! RIP David Berman.— John Hinckley (@JohnHinckley20) May 4, 2023
― James Fennymore Pooper, Sunday, 14 May 2023 18:57 (eleven months ago) link
Thanks to my gf for putting on a car playlist recently that had a couple Purple Mountains tracks on it. It made me realize that enough time has passed for this record to be fun again <³
― The king of the demo (bernard snowy), Tuesday, 16 May 2023 12:31 (eleven months ago) link
I also revisited it a few weeks ago (for the first time in forever), and – as good as the album is – it felt to me like it’s not “meant” to be listened to as anything other than a tragic document. Just incredibly sad stuff (a few songs in particular)…
― Unidentified rogue Jedi (morrisp), Tuesday, 16 May 2023 14:10 (eleven months ago) link
Night Society is one of the best instrumental tracks ever.They are also referenced in a song by the band Why?
― This Resembles Food, Thursday, 18 May 2023 19:54 (eleven months ago) link
it is indeed.
did it also have a life as a Pavement jam that never turned into a song? i seem to vaguely recall that ... maybe someone else can confirm.
SJ w/ SM is my favorite SJ, but also DCB was smart to move away from SM when he did.
― alpine static, Thursday, 18 May 2023 20:17 (eleven months ago) link
When was that? SM played on every other SJ album (as in, played on one then skipped the next)…
― Unidentified rogue Jedi (morrisp), Thursday, 18 May 2023 20:20 (eleven months ago) link
(co-wrote at least one song, too)
― Unidentified rogue Jedi (morrisp), Thursday, 18 May 2023 20:21 (eleven months ago) link
Pavement Jews ftw
― calstars, Thursday, 18 May 2023 21:58 (eleven months ago) link
i'm sorry, i have my history wrong, obviously, and my memory has failed me.
i thought they made American Water, then DCB got frustrated w/ the "side talk" stuff and he went and made Natural Bridge w/ other people, and then on from there. i had those two in the wrong order, and i did *not* realize Bob and SM were on Tanglewood Numbers.
my apologies! i believe myself to be a big fan of all involved but blew it here! :) (i'm getting old.)
― alpine static, Thursday, 18 May 2023 22:00 (eleven months ago) link
You are forgiven!!
― Unidentified rogue Jedi (morrisp), Thursday, 18 May 2023 22:04 (eleven months ago) link
:)
― alpine static, Thursday, 18 May 2023 22:20 (eleven months ago) link
I think it's important to remember that Pavement is a Silver Jews spin-off band.
― But who are we doing it versus? (sunny successor), Monday, 22 May 2023 14:14 (eleven months ago) link
isn't it more accurate to say they're both Ectoslavia spinoff bands?
― majorairbro, Monday, 22 May 2023 21:06 (eleven months ago) link
and yet maybe pavement was a sin-off band of the silver jews who were a spin-off band of Ectoslavia who were a spinoff band of Bag O' Bones.
― But who are we doing it versus? (sunny successor), Tuesday, 23 May 2023 10:39 (eleven months ago) link
v. obscure trivia but Spiral was using the name Pavement for a band when he was living in Tempe AZ with 3 other randos, a couple years before Slay Tracks.
so even Pavement is a Pavement-spinoff.
Hi SS!
-SS
― citation needed (Steve Shasta), Tuesday, 23 May 2023 15:31 (eleven months ago) link
Steve Shasta = Spiral
that's my theory
― alpine static, Tuesday, 23 May 2023 17:12 (eleven months ago) link
It’s too bad that War Comet never moved beyond the loosely conceptual stage.
― The Triumphant Return of Bernard & Stubbs (Raymond Cummings), Tuesday, 23 May 2023 17:33 (eleven months ago) link
Haha shut my mouth https://archive.org/details/warcomet19931110
― The Triumphant Return of Bernard & Stubbs (Raymond Cummings), Tuesday, 23 May 2023 17:35 (eleven months ago) link
Hey, that's cool, thx (these are Silver Jews songs, tho... so it's basically the Joos with West swapped in for Bob?)
― Day 1 fan (morrisp), Tuesday, 23 May 2023 17:56 (eleven months ago) link
West was a member of the Jews around that time, from the Starlite Walker reissue liners:
"Starlite Walker was an Oxford, Mississippi record. David resided on the outskirts of town at the time. He was renting a tiny building that was part of a professor's chemistry lab in the woods. He paid $100 a month. It was mildly suspicious. Stephen and I went there to rehearse for about five days. Oxford is a beautiful town. There are lots of beautiful people. We were well. Peaking physically. We built songs around David's words. David had just about all of his lyrics written down in a notebook. When we were 70% ready, we headed up to Easley Studios in Memphis (which burned to the ground a few years ago). Doug and Davis were ready for us. They were cool and it was welcoming. Steve West joined us on the songs that we needed a 'real' drummer. I just wasn't good enough. It didn't bother me. I was proud of my drums on "Trains Across The Sea" and my moog on "New Orleans." We didn't have any significant problems recording and it turned out well. Our host Sherman Willmott (we stayed above his record shop in a small apartment) did a marvelous job of keeping barbecue sauce on our faces the whole time. I gained six pounds. Upon completing Starlite Walker, Silver Jews felt like a band instead of a project. We became formidable.Bob Nastanovich2/7/11Des Moines, Iowa
Bob Nastanovich2/7/11Des Moines, Iowa
― citation needed (Steve Shasta), Tuesday, 23 May 2023 18:04 (eleven months ago) link
I've never liked "The Walnut Falcon" too much... :/
― Day 1 fan (morrisp), Tuesday, 23 May 2023 19:04 (eleven months ago) link
SS! Missed you! <3 SS
― But who are we doing it versus? (sunny successor), Friday, 26 May 2023 00:36 (eleven months ago) link
My favourite SJ song is Suffering Jukebox
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kT_YIk-a8jU
― Punster McPunisher, Friday, 26 May 2023 01:34 (eleven months ago) link
Can anyone ID the final song in that War Comet set? I’ve never heard it before.
― Day 1 fan (morrisp), Friday, 26 May 2023 02:02 (eleven months ago) link
sounds like an improvised jam.
src: someone who listened to a lot of pavement improvised jams around that time.
― citation needed (Steve Shasta), Friday, 26 May 2023 02:15 (eleven months ago) link
was watching this old Harmony Korine/Gaspar Noe documentary and caught off guard by the Berman cameo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UYiN2um9-Zs
― Western® with Bacon Flavor, Saturday, 29 July 2023 05:12 (nine months ago) link
Bless you, WBF, but you just posted a YouTube video that's 52 minutes long.
I'm going to take your word on the cameo.
― pplains, Saturday, 29 July 2023 13:21 (nine months ago) link
It's in the first few minutes, although he kind of looks like an alternate universe David Berman.
― ヽ(´ー`)┌ (CompuPost), Saturday, 29 July 2023 13:22 (nine months ago) link
9:00
― New No-No Bettencourt (Sufjan Grafton), Saturday, 29 July 2023 13:58 (nine months ago) link
Bob Nastanovich is with David there but doesn't get the call out.
― citation needed (Steve Shasta), Saturday, 29 July 2023 16:42 (nine months ago) link
haha - I didn't even catch Bob there!
― Western® with Bacon Flavor, Saturday, 29 July 2023 17:14 (nine months ago) link