100 Things You Love About The Silver Jews

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24. "Why can't get monsters get along with other monsters" and the whole "Soi Disantra" debate that usually ensues.

25. "All houses dream in blueprints . . ." and "Pretty Eyes" in general

― eternal fields (eternal__fields), Wednesday, 27 July 2005 16:41 (7 years ago) Permalink

26.
you can't change the feeling
but you can change the feeling
about the feelings
in a second or two, uh uhhhuh

― teh Nü and Impröved john n chicago (frankE), Wednesday, 27 July 2005 16:44 (7 years ago) Permalink

27. I wish they didn't set mirrors behind the bar / cause I can't stand to look at my face when I don't know where you are

28. How did you turn a billion steers / into buildings made of mirrors

― mcd (mcd), Wednesday, 27 July 2005 16:46 (7 years ago) Permalink

29.) "I love to see a rainbow from a garden hose / lit up like the blood of a centerfold."

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Wednesday, 27 July 2005 17:35 (7 years ago) Permalink

30.) "we're like plug-in reindeer / Whose cords can't stretch far enough to fly."

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Wednesday, 27 July 2005 17:37 (7 years ago) Permalink

31.) (And that the SJ are indirectly responsible for me finding my beautiful bride.)

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Wednesday, 27 July 2005 17:38 (7 years ago) Permalink

32. "Night Society" - my favorite Malkmus guitar moment
33. The piano on "Trains Across the Sea"

― Roadkill Bingo (Roadkill Bingo), Wednesday, 27 July 2005 18:02 (7 years ago) Permalink

34. The drums march along like the clip of an IV drip, like sparks from a muffler dragged down the strip, uh huh huh.

35. Why is there something instead of nothing?

― 57 7th (calstars), Wednesday, 27 July 2005 18:21 (7 years ago) Permalink

36. That they only ever played like one live show, and they did it under another name! (War Comet)

37. "The myth about the microphone is that you gotta eat it raw."

― Douglas (Douglas), Wednesday, 27 July 2005 18:22 (7 years ago) Permalink

"Ain't you heard the news? / Adam & Eve were Jews / And I Always Loved You To The Max."

― aegewagwes, Wednesday, 27 July 2005 20:42 (7 years ago) Permalink

39. "On the last day of your life, don't forget to die!"

― dar1a g, Wednesday, 27 July 2005 21:21 (7 years ago) Permalink

38. "So Hunter called/& said to me/'It's not as good as the first EP'"

― gygax! (gygax!), Wednesday, 27 July 2005 21:23 (7 years ago) Permalink

39. legends of gold i've tried to hold / in the grey half-light of the hallway at night

― andrew s (andrew s), Thursday, 28 July 2005 00:45 (7 years ago) Permalink

40. In 27 years I've drunk 50,000 beers.. and they just wash against me like the sea into a pier.

― shine headlights on me (electricsound), Thursday, 28 July 2005 00:52 (7 years ago) Permalink

41. my promo copy of bright flight, labeled as such on the disc, with an exed out drawing of a used record store below (also labelled as such)

42. "i have not avoided certainty / it has always just eluded me"

― andrew s (andrew s), Thursday, 28 July 2005 00:56 (7 years ago) Permalink

"how can i love you/if you won't lay down?"

― ginger, Thursday, 28 July 2005 01:08 (7 years ago) Permalink

44. "Mother and child / with magazine / into a story / into a dream."

― Evan Kindley (goodoldneon), Thursday, 28 July 2005 03:17 (7 years ago) Permalink

45. the dream i have that one day berman will collaborate with howe gelb.

― club soda (Jody Beth Rosen), Thursday, 28 July 2005 04:36 (7 years ago) Permalink

46. rhyming "south dakota" with "here comes the coda"

― club soda (Jody Beth Rosen), Thursday, 28 July 2005 04:47 (7 years ago) Permalink

47. "Suburban kids with biblical names"

― PB, Thursday, 28 July 2005 14:01 (7 years ago) Permalink

48. Cause I'm a man who has a wife who has a mother who married one but she loved another

― ddb (ddb), Thursday, 28 July 2005 14:24 (7 years ago) Permalink

49. Andre was a young black Santa Claus

― ddb (ddb), Thursday, 28 July 2005 14:39 (7 years ago) Permalink

50. The font used in the "Silver Jews" logo.

― PB, Thursday, 28 July 2005 15:17 (7 years ago) Permalink

51. "Boy wants a car from his dad / Dad says 'son, first you gotta cut that hair' / 'Dad, Jesus had long hair / 'Yes son, and Jesus walked everywhere''"

― DJ Mencap (DJ Mencap), Thursday, 28 July 2005 15:24 (7 years ago) Permalink

52. "It's been evening all day long, it's been evening all day long..."

― BlastsOfStatic (BlastsofStatic), Thursday, 28 July 2005 16:08 (7 years ago) Permalink

53. the photo on the back of Starlite walker

― Palpatean Mists, Thursday, 28 July 2005 16:11 (7 years ago) Permalink

54. A black halk nailed to the sky/Tape hiss from the trees

― Palpatean Mists, Thursday, 28 July 2005 16:13 (7 years ago) Permalink

55. The decrepit zone that is the SJBB

― Palpatean Mists, Thursday, 28 July 2005 16:15 (7 years ago) Permalink

56. The poster Drag City made and sent out with copies of the Natural Bridge, festooned with photos from the liner notes -- a racing form, a smoking woman displaying cash, etc.

― Raymond Cummings (Raymond Cummings), Thursday, 28 July 2005 16:16 (7 years ago) Permalink

57. Night Society

― Palpatean Mists, Thursday, 28 July 2005 16:20 (7 years ago) Permalink

58. Sentimental as a cat's grave/Her fucking body broke my mind. and she said "I'm gonna love, the hell out of you"

― Palpatean Mists, Thursday, 28 July 2005 16:51 (7 years ago) Permalink

59. Oh looooooooooooooooooooooooord, please come down from the mountain. Some of us are broke and havin' PROBLEMS

― Tossin' Bleach, Thursday, 28 July 2005 16:57 (7 years ago) Permalink

60. Malkmus' hanna barbara-isms (gutiar coloring) on American Water.

― Tighty Whitey, Thursday, 28 July 2005 16:59 (7 years ago) Permalink

61. WELCOME TO THE HOUR OF THE BATS!!!!!!!!

― Raymond Cummings (Raymond Cummings), Thursday, 28 July 2005 19:47 (7 years ago) Permalink

HOUSE not HOUR. yeeesh.

― Raymond Cummings (Raymond Cummings), Thursday, 28 July 2005 19:49 (7 years ago) Permalink

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

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PP, how did the Silver Jews help you meet your bride?

I caught that 2006 tour - will have to post a link to my review here later.

176 (or whatever): BEING IN LOVE DOESN'T MEAN BEING YELLED AT ON A FRIDAY NIGHT (I'm sure Ive misquoted that)

177. All of The Portable February

― Raymond Cummings, Friday, 2 March 2012 15:22 (1 year ago) Permalink

178. 'I wish I had a thousand bucks / I wish I was the Royal Trux'

― Despite all my cheek, I am still just a freak on a leash (bernard snowy), Friday, 2 March 2012 18:33 (1 year ago) Permalink

176 (or whatever): BEING IN LOVE DOESN'T MEAN BEING YELLED AT ON A FRIDAY NIGHT (I'm sure Ive misquoted that)

I think you have too! What song are you trying to quote?

― beachville, Friday, 2 March 2012 18:41 (1 year ago) Permalink

178. I'm gonna shine out in the wild kindness and hold the world to it's word.

I've always found that line kinda hopeful, like he's finally ready taking the world on again (although it's written before the suicede attempt.. In the context of the song then at least)

― Mule, Friday, 2 March 2012 18:41 (1 year ago) Permalink

*to take, not taking..

― Mule, Friday, 2 March 2012 18:42 (1 year ago) Permalink

whenever i see a silver jews thread revived here i hope it's news of berman returning to music-making. respect to the guy for bowing out if he wasn't feeling it anymore, but i miss the Jews!

― tylerw, Friday, 2 March 2012 18:46 (1 year ago) Permalink

I think we all do

― Mule, Friday, 2 March 2012 18:48 (1 year ago) Permalink

I miss him too, but I did not love that last record. I think it signalled a need to give it up for at least a while.

― grandavis, Friday, 2 March 2012 18:50 (1 year ago) Permalink

I't didn't quite convince me either, but I still hunger for more..

― Mule, Friday, 2 March 2012 18:57 (1 year ago) Permalink

If he comes back I imagine it will be because he feels he has something new to say musically. I think that last record was evidence that he just wasn't feeling it any more. I think he made the right call for now.

― grandavis, Friday, 2 March 2012 19:04 (1 year ago) Permalink

179. the line he leaves to the bass in "I'm Gonna Love The Hell Out Of You"

― beachville, Friday, 2 March 2012 19:28 (1 year ago) Permalink

Beachville : it was from a b side on an ep that dropped in advance of Bright Flight

― Raymond Cummings, Friday, 2 March 2012 21:56 (1 year ago) Permalink

Before I knew what I said I said KILLER CUT

― Raymond Cummings, Friday, 2 March 2012 22:38 (1 year ago) Permalink

Sleep on your back, and ash in your shoes, and always use the old sense of the word.

― simulation and similac (Hurting 2), Friday, 2 March 2012 23:55 (1 year ago) Permalink

http://www2.citypaper.com/arts/story.asp?id=11635

― Raymond Cummings, Saturday, 3 March 2012 04:16 (1 year ago) Permalink

182. "She and he laid the stems down flat in the middle of a field"

― Despite all my cheek, I am still just a freak on a leash (bernard snowy), Saturday, 3 March 2012 06:19 (1 year ago) Permalink

1 month passes...

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/05/02/arts/design/renzo-pianos-nasher-museum-in-dallas-has-sunburn-problem.html?hp

Oh Dallas, you shine with an evil light
How'd you turn a billion steers
Into buildings made of mirrors?

― how's life, Wednesday, 2 May 2012 15:48 (1 year ago) Permalink

183. Every line of "I Remember Me" is amazing, but the ending to the story never fails to absolutely devastate me:

He bought a little land with the money from the settlement
And he even bought the truck that had hit him that day
He touched the part where the metal was bent.
And if you were there you would hear him say.

I remember her and I remember him
I remember them and I remember then..
I'm just rememberin' I'm just rememberin'

― Walter Galt, Thursday, 3 May 2012 14:03 (1 year ago) Permalink

184. My horse's legs look like four brown shotguns

― Walter Galt, Thursday, 3 May 2012 14:05 (1 year ago) Permalink

5 months pass...

185. Girl in a special economic zone
Girl in a special economic zone
Closed sign swinging in the window of a liquor store

― how's life, Wednesday, 31 October 2012 09:56 (6 months ago) Permalink

186. How can I love you
(how can I love yoooouuu)
If you won't
(if you won't)
Lie down?
(LAH DOWN!)

― how's life, Wednesday, 31 October 2012 10:44 (6 months ago) Permalink

187. Chanting more and of rumors of more

― how's life, Wednesday, 31 October 2012 11:56 (6 months ago) Permalink

188. Punks in the beerliiiiight/Toulouse-Lautrec!

― how's life, Friday, 2 November 2012 18:05 (6 months ago) Permalink

http://mentholmountains.blogspot.de/

― Duke, Friday, 2 November 2012 20:33 (6 months ago) Permalink

190. If it ever gets really really bad
If it ever gets really really bad
And let's not kid ourselves:
It gets really really bad

― xanthanguar (cwkiii), Friday, 2 November 2012 20:38 (6 months ago) Permalink

191. (or 189a.)

― Perfect Chicken Forever (Merdeyeux), Friday, 2 November 2012 20:45 (6 months ago) Permalink

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