Silkworm: C/D?

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

― Mr. Que, Thursday, April 1, 2010 10:01 AM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

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"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xzvdh0E2tKo

;_;

HEY ILM my pal Jon has a request for a project he is working on:

http://www.comedyminusone.com/blog/?p=472

"As you likely have gleaned by now, Comedy Minus One has been working on a deluxe reissue of Silkworm’s third album “Libertine” which will be released later in 2013.
There are going to be several preorder tiers for this 2×12″, one of which shall include a download of live recordings from the band in their quartet form.
Tracking down live versions of songs found on “Libertine” has been an incredible pleasure, yet two dead ends have developed.
This may be a long shot, but if you have leads on performances of “The Cigarette Lighters” and/or “Oh How We Laughed,” please get in touch."

If you can help him out, please hit him up! Thank you.

nice. libertine is a classic. yen + janet forever is my fave joel song for silkworm.

was going through some old CDs and ran across the first Joel R.L. Phelps and the Downer Trio album, really good stuff

"As you likely have gleaned by now, Comedy Minus One has been working on a deluxe reissue of Silkworm’s third album “Libertine” which will be released later in 2013."

GASP! :D

Annnd details on that Libertine reissue are here

http://www.comedyminusone.com/blog/?p=477

I'm a little overwhelmed about all of the releases I'm trying to buy, so I'm glad this one comes out way in the fall.

already have the album, i just want the t-shirt

I want that two hours of Libertine-era live songs that's the bonus!

My old t-shirt is mostly shredded at this point...though I am most exicted to hear the remaster/45 rpm pressing

Developer is so fucking amazing

Stop teasing me for not picking up the vinyl that time I was at Academy 2 years ago.

is it bad if i say i just found a pristine copy of it on vinyl for $15?

No actually, because I would have paid $20 for a VG copy if I did get it then.

seriously that is the record that every time you fire it up there's something new

How does it rank in your opinion?

from Libertine through Lifestyle is such a magnificent run I don't really...I can't really put one ahead of the other in that group without goin' "yeah, but.." I guess I'd say it's better than Blueblood (but it has no "Empty Elevator Shaft," an all-time jam) and probably better than Firewater but Firewater's so fuckin' fierce...Developer really feels in its own zone. So many different looks, and so brooding, in a way. "The City Glows," who can fuck with that? Nobody can fuck with that.

Someday, I'll have it all. I love Lifestyle and Firewater but I've up to this point been such a big fan of the more overall wistful Bottomless Pit stuff. Still got that Libertine reissue in my sights since I do not own it in any form.

developer is prob the most emotionally dense of the silkworm records--unlike their other ones nothing on it is really funny.

xp if you like wistful, developer is certainly the silkworm album for you

developer is a weird one for me. firewater was really important and then in comparison developer seemed slight, in scope and sound. but listening to it now there are def some classic skwm jams on there, esp the first three songs.

Won't pass it up next time for sure.

I love 'em all but Developer is def my fave, one of the times I saw them in the early '00s they were playing a double header in Mpls, early all ager, late id (come to think of it one of the last of those I can remember), which was weird cuz they weren't exactly a big draw or anything. But so I went to both, the all ager in particular was sparsely attended and Tim was walking around putting together a set list, asking if anyone wanted to hear anything. No one really spoke up so I picked two songs, the second of which, "Ice Station Zebra" they apparently hadn't played since the Developer era. But since the show had kind of already taken on a sort of what-the-hell-let's-wing-it vibe, they agreed to play.

Comes to show time they start to play the song and right away completely botch it. They were laughing and I kind of got the sense that maybe Tim and Michael felt like skipping it, but Andy sort of shook his head, then they restart the song and just flat out destroy it.

Best band.

Still got that Libertine reissue in my sights since I do not own it in any form.

yeah you gotta get that. "Couldn't You Wait?" is a classic, Libertine overall is where they're leaving behind the "hey these guys sound like Pavement" phase of In the West and doing things that only sounded like themselves ...

Grotto of frickin Miracles

Lifestyle has generally always been my favorite but Developer is really coming on strong in the last week....I definitely rate Developer higher than Firewater now it just seems so much more, uh, "mature" to use a lame term...

Italian Platinum & Blueblood feel really underrated....I think you could make a case for anything from Libertine through Italian Platinum as the best....if you said anything before that or It'll Be Cool i'd look at you funny

i have trouble embracing the phelps stuff in a way because it doesn't feel like the "real" silkworm to me....i do LOVE the first joel r.l. phelps & the downer trio album a lot.