Silkworm: C/D?

oh man chokes is great too

there's a cohen song on it called low blow that is just amazing

for some reason I only have "Bar Ice" (which is great) off that EP, I should buy it

oh yeah Bar Ice kills

much love for "even a blind chicken..." over here

the beginning and end of it'll be cool (don't look back, insomnia, shitty little yacht, the operative) is great but the middle lost me. the guitar solo at the end of shitty little yacht is my favorite solo of andy's - just all over the place - there's almost an extended version of it on "38 souls," one of two new bottomless pit tracks posted on FB today. they both sound great!

ah shit thanks for the tip!!!!! SWEEEEEEEEEEEET!

WHAT

New Bottomless Pit will be called "Blood Under the Bridge." They are hoping for a summer release.

xp - Insomnia is killer. but yeah that album didn't stand up to the two previous, imo

wow, Chokes is awesome. Got that and Blueblood because of this thread. i don't know what the hell "you can keep that piece of Indiana lakeshore" means, but it's been in my head for days.

yeah I finally downloaded all of Chokes after the thread revival and it's really good, especially "Int'l Harbour Of Grace"

blueblood's okay. . . it's like the songs aren't quite there but the solos are. i think they are becoming a new favorite band, i also grabbed the first two songs from It'll Be Cool on emusic.

and "Bar Ice" ... I guess I'm a sucker for the Silkworm songs with female backup vox. Is it Kelly Hogan again on here?

Blueblood has "EFF" on it, right? That song slays. I like "Clean'd Me Out" a lot too.

blueblood will worm its way into yr head eventually. amazing songs on that. i am particularly down w/tonight i'm meat into ritz dance

blueblood was actually the second skwm album i bought and it helped me understand them more. firewater is so big and overwhelming at first.

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tonight i'm meat is one of my favorites. empty elevator shaft---> until the end is great. i hated the first song the first few times i listened to it, but i dig it a lot now. cad, i think you're right, it's a grower.

lol i def do not know any girls who like skwm

Eff is such a late 90's Touch and Go type song

i just love love love "from inseam to hem i am a perfect gentleman." the cadence and rhyming is perfect.

(xp re: tonight i'm meat if thats unclear)

their lyrics are so weird, too. or maybe i'm just dumb. LR72, for one. and "everybody's been riding my ramp," what the hell does that even mean? i like it.

n/a is right, i wish i could solo like cohen. he's fucking amazing.

nah they're just both really, really awesome lyricists. i agree tho--no idea where they get some of their lines.

went driving in the warm spring evening last night with the 1st Bottomless Pit album playing...it's really, really, really good

everybody jam that record when you get a chance it will do you right

you heard the ep they put out? progression and improvement from the first record imo.

I keep meaning to get it but I haven't yet. Eventually. I saw the 2" reels for it at a studio tho!

yeah been listening to "Repossession" a lot

the worm is sounding really great these days

Eff is such a late 90's Touch and Go type song

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this album came out on T&G in 1998 btw

well right, that's kind of what i mean. to my ears, it doesn't sound like any of their other stuff, that much. the first time i heard it, i felt grounded in that certain time and place, and i wasn't sure i wanted to revisit it? does that make sense? i dig the song now, it just seemed dated to me at first. or maybe i just heard it a long time ago, i don't know.

it was the first time they *really* sounded like a "touch and go" type band to me, b/c i had only heard Italian Platinum and Lifestyle before that

ha I just couldn't tell how knowing that statement was

yeah i am not explaining it well, sorry

can't feel the love in a piece of cold steel, can't feel the love in a piece of cold steel

<3

I keep meaning to get it but I haven't yet. Eventually. I saw the 2" reels for it at a studio tho!

oh man, get on this right now!

both bottomless pit records are totally great. but I was obsessed with that EP for a few months.

listening to "Never Met a Man I Didn't Like" and this is just about their best and brightest rock song. big ol open chords by andy, michael just punishing the crash cymbal for the entire duration of the song, save for andy's solo where he only hits the ride for a while, and of course the chorus where he does that awesome hi-hat tug to accentuate the "say it again" line. so many good lines, so much good intonation in the singing too

"never saw such a piece of jap, SHIT"
"it's been weeks since a had a good, FUCK"

and then it's right into "The City Glows," which is kind of a perfect example of the quiet, restrained tension thing they occasionally did? "Moving" was another example, no others come to mind... anyway, love that song also

Hey dudes:

GREAT DEAL ALERT:

Matador must've found some old boxes of Firewater on vinyl, cuz it's only $10 for the record on their online store! : )

https://www.matadorrecords.com/store/index.php?catalog_id=33

taught myself "Treat the New Guy Right" on guitar yesterday (made easier by it not having a solo, I'm not very good at figuring out solos)

YESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS

i want to play the drums on Never Met a Man I Didn't Like

man, the solos on firewater are basically all stunners.

so feeling this right now

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SEXtZzwj0uQ

Italian Platinum today, sounded great walking around at lunch.

If you haven't seen it yet, and you're a Silkworm stan, you should read Sebastian Stirling's take on these guys at One Week // One Band, its a great read.

cool thanks for the link

love this band

LIVED OFF OF MY SEVERANCE PAY FROM THE OLD PIPELINE DAYS

"We suffered even greater misfortune/in the armpit of the Americas"