100 Things You Love About The Silver Jews

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heh heh

― 57 7th (calstars), Thursday, 28 July 2005 19:51 (7 years ago) Permalink

WELCOME TO YOUR HOUR OF BATS!

― 57 7th (calstars), Thursday, 28 July 2005 19:51 (7 years ago) Permalink

62. "When I listen to music, I want to hear a person and a person that I trust. I don't want to hear the sound of a culture." (New York Press interview, around the time of American Water)

― goodoldneon (goodoldneon), Thursday, 28 July 2005 20:00 (7 years ago) Permalink

― D.J. Anderson, Thursday, 28 July 2005 22:49 (7 years ago) Permalink

63-1/2. Cocksucker Blues from the 'Hot as Hell' single (and I was at that show!).

― Mike Dixn (Mike Dixon), Thursday, 28 July 2005 23:15 (7 years ago) Permalink

8 x 8. ruth nesius

― Bleece Tauch, Thursday, 28 July 2005 23:21 (7 years ago) Permalink

64. That DC Berman tried to kill himself with crack and xanax and survived to make more wonderful records.

― leonard (tk), Friday, 29 July 2005 00:39 (7 years ago) Permalink

66. i remember me

― Bp, Friday, 29 July 2005 04:46 (7 years ago) Permalink

67. "when the sun sets on the ghetto, all the broken stuff gets cold."

― polyphonic (polyphonic), Friday, 29 July 2005 05:27 (7 years ago) Permalink

"I'm a big fan of John Oswald's Grayfolded CD, which is 150 minutes of [the Grateful Dead's] Darkstar instrumental passages, hundreds of live versions laid on top of each other, twisted and manipulated."

― Suzy Creemcheese (SuzyCreemcheese), Friday, 29 July 2005 12:58 (7 years ago) Permalink

"holdin' up their trousers with extension cords"

― jonter, Monday, 1 August 2005 15:05 (7 years ago) Permalink

69. A kitten from Great Britain

― jed_ (jed), Monday, 1 August 2005 15:50 (7 years ago) Permalink

"its like I caught Hollywood sleeping/ asleep without the dream"

― eric, Thursday, 4 August 2005 17:00 (7 years ago) Permalink

71 (I think). "It's too nice a day to read a novel set in England." -- from Actual Air

― goodoldneon (goodoldneon), Thursday, 4 August 2005 19:34 (7 years ago) Permalink

1 year passes...

When somethin' breaks it makes a beautiful sound.

― Steven Coy (stevencoy), Monday, 11 September 2006 01:52 (6 years ago) Permalink

"What would you say if I asked you to run away? / Oh, it's been done so many times, I hardly know what it means."

― bernard snow (sixteen sergeants), Monday, 11 September 2006 02:28 (6 years ago) Permalink

^73

― bernard snow (sixteen sergeants), Monday, 11 September 2006 02:29 (6 years ago) Permalink

"Sometimes a PONY, Sometimes a PONY, Sometimes a PONY GETS DE-PRESSED!"

― A-ron Hubbard (Hurting), Monday, 11 September 2006 02:47 (6 years ago) Permalink

75. "I've always loved you to the max, I loved you to the max, I loved you to the max!"

― A-ron Hubbard (Hurting), Monday, 11 September 2006 02:47 (6 years ago) Permalink

76. (the line I love the most, for some reason): "When the rain hits you, it hits you slow/ Stitch after stitch, stitch after stitch stitch after stitch, stitch after stitch."

― A-ron Hubbard (Hurting), Monday, 11 September 2006 02:50 (6 years ago) Permalink

77. I SAW GOD'S SHADOW ON THIS WORLD

― p@reene (Pareene), Monday, 11 September 2006 04:02 (6 years ago) Permalink

78. "I've been working at the airport bar
It's like Christmas in a submarine
Wings and brandy on a winter's night
I guess you wouldn't call it a scene"

― ruddy raleigh and the rickets (Jody Beth Rosen), Monday, 11 September 2006 04:07 (6 years ago) Permalink

jeez, that's like something off of gaucho.

― ruddy raleigh and the rickets (Jody Beth Rosen), Monday, 11 September 2006 04:16 (6 years ago) Permalink

"Oil paintings of x-rated picnics"

― Period period period (Period period period), Monday, 11 September 2006 05:10 (6 years ago) Permalink

81. I've got two tickets to a midnight execution.
We'll hitchhike our way from Odessa to Houston
and when they turn on the chair
something's added to the air

― alex in mainhattan (alex63), Monday, 11 September 2006 09:32 (6 years ago) Permalink

82. forever

― Thomas Tallis (Tommy), Monday, 11 September 2006 11:16 (6 years ago) Permalink

83. Singing "It's sunny and 75 / It feels so good to be alive" on shitty overcast 90-degree days until I almost start to believe it.

― bernard snow (sixteen sergeants), Monday, 11 September 2006 14:02 (6 years ago) Permalink

84. "Your third beer will lead you astray"

― M@tt He1geson: Real Name, No Gimmicks (Matt Helgeson), Monday, 11 September 2006 14:19 (6 years ago) Permalink

85. "Scotch and penicillin...please try carlton. cold black maple hangers, and husbands on the run...."

86. "So you've got no friends and
You wander through the night
And now you watch the sunrise through a rifle-sight"

stellar.

― J. Grizzle (trainsmoke), Monday, 11 September 2006 19:26 (6 years ago) Permalink

84. "Your third beer will lead you astray"
-- M@tt He1geson: Real Name, No Gimmicks (matt@game[remove]informer.com), September 11th, 2006.

DRINK. It's DRINK

― Mr. Que (Mr.Que), Monday, 11 September 2006 19:31 (6 years ago) Permalink

it's DRINK. and it's 87.

― J. Grizzle (trainsmoke), Monday, 11 September 2006 19:40 (6 years ago) Permalink

88. He appears to be looking skeptical about a headline that reads "The Greatest Generation"

― A-ron Hubbard (Hurting), Monday, 11 September 2006 20:27 (6 years ago) Permalink

I think it's "The Greediest Generation."

― I'm at WORK, Otto! (samjeff), Monday, 11 September 2006 20:31 (6 years ago) Permalink

89. "And all the New Wave girls wear / Cowboy boots in Alberta."

― I'm at WORK, Otto! (samjeff), Monday, 11 September 2006 20:41 (6 years ago) Permalink

i drink beer

― M@tt He1geson: Real Name, No Gimmicks (Matt Helgeson), Monday, 11 September 2006 20:45 (6 years ago) Permalink

I always liked his print poetry far more than his music, but I suspect that's an opinion that'll get a man killed.

― Myke. (Myke Weiskopf), Monday, 11 September 2006 20:50 (6 years ago) Permalink

92ish. I asked a painter why the roads are coloured black / He said "Steve, it's because people leave and no highway can bring them back"

― 6335 (6335), Monday, 11 September 2006 21:16 (6 years ago) Permalink

93. berman's anger towards SJBB comments about the amount of reverb on his voice on 'tanglewood #'s'

― b. austin (6335), Monday, 11 September 2006 21:21 (6 years ago) Permalink

this quote

"All musicians should write poetry or at least read it if they want to improve their game. Except for people who believe lyrics don't matter. This is the Brian Billick theory of songwriting: Defense (the music) not offense (lyrics) wins championships (Grammys). The best teams of course have both. And the Ravens were very dull and unlikable. They weren't built to last. My songs are built to provide years of shadowplay."

― b335 austin (6335), Monday, 11 September 2006 21:22 (6 years ago) Permalink

94. "The alleys are the footnotes of the avenues"

― Zachary Scott (Zach S), Tuesday, 12 September 2006 01:32 (6 years ago) Permalink

95. "We're gonna live in Nashville and I'll make a career/Out of writing sad songs and getting paid by the tear."

― Jacobo Rock (jacobo rock), Tuesday, 12 September 2006 02:02 (6 years ago) Permalink

96. "black-eyed susans from the Maryland shore"

― I'm at WORK, Otto! (samjeff), Tuesday, 12 September 2006 02:57 (6 years ago) Permalink

97. "I'd rather live in a trash can
than see you happy with another man."

― A-ron Hubbard (Hurting), Tuesday, 12 September 2006 12:24 (6 years ago) Permalink

98.

He arm-wrestled my friend and former roommate Jeff, and we had this picture in our living room.

― A-ron Hubbard (Hurting), Tuesday, 12 September 2006 12:29 (6 years ago) Permalink

99. We're seeing 'em tonight!

― I'm at WORK, Otto! (samjeff), Tuesday, 12 September 2006 15:13 (6 years ago) Permalink

100. "and then it ends"

― ath (ath), Tuesday, 12 September 2006 15:57 (6 years ago) Permalink

When God was young, he made the wind and the sun
Since then, it's been a slow education
And you got that one idea again
The one about dying.
Oh oh oh I'm lightning
Oh oh oh I'm rain
Oh oh oh it's frightening
I'm not the same, I'm not the same,
I'm not the same
There's a screen door banging in the wind
Remember you wanted to be like George Washington back then
Everybody's going down on themselves
No pardon me's or fare thee wells in the end

Oh oh oh I'm lightning
Oh oh oh I'm rain
Oh oh oh it's frightening
I'm not the same, I'm not the same,
I'm not the same

I normally don't care about lyrics in music, but nobody's lyrics sink into my head like Berman's. and this changes things. in fact without the lyrics, there is nothing there. its a different approach to listening. I feel like I'm hearing a real person.

― marbles (marbles), Tuesday, 12 September 2006 16:37 (6 years ago) Permalink

Ain't ya heard the news? Adam and Eve were Jews.

Good for Mr. Berman.

― Savvy Jones (Savvy Jones), Wednesday, 13 September 2006 05:45 (6 years ago) Permalink

Yeah, I noticed the Jewish Forward did an article on him too. It's kind of funny.

― A-ron Hubbard (Hurting), Wednesday, 13 September 2006 12:07 (6 years ago) Permalink

This is one of those things that says more about me than Berman, but is anyone else somewhat frightened about the implications for his next album due to his newfound strong faith?

― like murderinging (modestmickey), Wednesday, 13 September 2006 15:20 (6 years ago) Permalink

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