100 Things You Love About The Silver Jews

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11.
Grass grows in the icebox
the year ends in the next room
it is autum and my camouflage is dying
instead of time, there will be lateness

12.
The stars don't shine upon us, we're in the way of their light

― mike powell (mike powell), Wednesday, 27 July 2005 15:11 (twenty years ago)

AUTUMN, of course

― mike powell (mike powell), Wednesday, 27 July 2005 15:11 (twenty years ago)

13. "In the cold places where Spanish is spoken, most wars end in the fall"

― Hurting (Hurting), Wednesday, 27 July 2005 15:31 (twenty years ago)

14. "My ski vest has buttons like convenience store mirrors and they help me see/that everything in the room right now is a part of me."

― Hurting (Hurting), Wednesday, 27 July 2005 15:32 (twenty years ago)

15. “I saw BB King on General Hospital/In the Oakland dramhouse where we stayed...”

― Raymond Cummings (Raymond Cummings), Wednesday, 27 July 2005 16:03 (twenty years ago)

16. “The shattered glass cussed/and when it broke it spoke to us...”

― Raymond Cummings (Raymond Cummings), Wednesday, 27 July 2005 16:06 (twenty years ago)

17. “Watchin’ the make-up girls make out with the mannequins...”

― Raymond Cummings (Raymond Cummings), Wednesday, 27 July 2005 16:08 (twenty years ago)

"We're off to the land of hot middle-aged women."

― Suzy Creemcheese (SuzyCreemcheese), Wednesday, 27 July 2005 16:09 (twenty years ago)

19. "I love your amethyst eyes and your protestant thighs/
you're a shimmering socialite jewel."

― Suzy Creemcheese (SuzyCreemcheese), Wednesday, 27 July 2005 16:11 (twenty years ago)

20. The way he convinces the reader/listener of a concrete world filled with magic realism so casually (seemingly without effort)

― edsgsdg, Wednesday, 27 July 2005 16:18 (twenty years ago)

21. "Honk if You're Lonely" (obviously)

― PB, Wednesday, 27 July 2005 16:24 (twenty years ago)

22. D.C. Berman's drawings!

― Mike Dixn (Mike Dixon), Wednesday, 27 July 2005 16:27 (twenty years ago)

23 "No, I don't really wanna die / I only wanna die in your eyes",
and everything after.

― marc (drums) (marcdrums), Wednesday, 27 July 2005 16:35 (twenty years ago)

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 (twenty years ago)

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 (twenty years ago)

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 (twenty years ago)

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 (twenty years ago)

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 (twenty years ago)

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

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

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 (twenty years ago)

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 (twenty years ago)

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 (twenty years ago)

"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 (twenty years ago)

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

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

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

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

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 (twenty years ago)

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 (twenty years ago)

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 (twenty years ago)

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

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

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

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

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 (twenty years ago)

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

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

47. "Suburban kids with biblical names"

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

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 (twenty years ago)

49. Andre was a young black Santa Claus

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

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

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

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 (twenty years ago)

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

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

53. the photo on the back of Starlite walker

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

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

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

55. The decrepit zone that is the SJBB

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

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 (twenty years ago)

57. Night Society

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

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 (twenty years ago)

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 (twenty years ago)

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

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

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

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

HOUSE not HOUR. yeeesh.

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

heh heh

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

WELCOME TO YOUR HOUR OF BATS!

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

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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 (fourteen years ago)

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 (fourteen years ago)

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 (fourteen years ago)

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 (fourteen years ago)

*to take, not taking..

― Mule, Friday, 2 March 2012 18:42 (fourteen years ago)

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 (fourteen years ago)

I think we all do

― Mule, Friday, 2 March 2012 18:48 (fourteen years ago)

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 (fourteen years ago)

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

― Mule, Friday, 2 March 2012 18:57 (fourteen years ago)

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 (fourteen years ago)

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 (fourteen years ago)

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 (fourteen years ago)

Before I knew what I said I said KILLER CUT

― Raymond Cummings, Friday, 2 March 2012 22:38 (fourteen years ago)

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 (fourteen years ago)

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

― Raymond Cummings, Saturday, 3 March 2012 04:16 (fourteen years ago)

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 (fourteen years ago)

one 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 (fourteen years ago)

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 (fourteen years ago)

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

― Walter Galt, Thursday, 3 May 2012 14:05 (fourteen years ago)

five 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 (thirteen years ago)

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 (thirteen years ago)

187. Chanting more and of rumors of more

― how's life, Wednesday, 31 October 2012 11:56 (thirteen years ago)

188. Punks in the beerliiiiight/Toulouse-Lautrec!

― how's life, Friday, 2 November 2012 18:05 (thirteen years ago)

http://mentholmountains.blogspot.de/

― Duke, Friday, 2 November 2012 20:33 (thirteen years ago)

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 (thirteen years ago)

191. (or 189a.) http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-_yIBGsKsYPY/UFlru21EChI/AAAAAAAABZE/2mNukn2eQ5I/s1600/if+i+were+out+in+space.jpg

― Perfect Chicken Forever (Merdeyeux), Friday, 2 November 2012 20:45 (thirteen years ago)

ten months pass...

192. when there's trouble i don't like running
but i'm afraid i got more in common
with who i was than who i am becoming

― JoeStork, Sunday, 22 September 2013 17:01 (twelve years ago)

193. With no light on the door
I wasn't quite sure
If a night clerk was working within
From behind a red curtain
Limped a perilous person
He appeared to have some egg on his chin

This old yankee warlock
Brushed back a gray forelock
And bid me to sign in the book
With no bonhomie
He proffered the key
Never once did he give me a look

― how's life, Sunday, 22 September 2013 17:10 (twelve years ago)

That song is so fucking scary

― Beatrix Kiddo (Raymond Cummings), Monday, 23 September 2013 02:54 (twelve years ago)

black planet
black freighter
black sea

― how's life, Wednesday, 25 September 2013 13:13 (twelve years ago)

194.^

― how's life, Wednesday, 25 September 2013 13:13 (twelve years ago)

195.
Robot walks into a bar/orders a drink/throws down a bill
Bartender says hey we don't serve robots
and the robot says, "Oh, but some day you will"

― #fomo that's the motto (Hurting 2), Wednesday, 25 September 2013 14:45 (twelve years ago)

three years pass...

196. I dyed my hair in a motel void
Met the coroner at the Dreamgate Frontier
He took my hand, said "I'll help you, boy.
If you really want to disappear"

― how's life, Wednesday, 2 August 2017 15:22 (eight years ago)

each stands for a kindness

― reggie (qualmsley), Wednesday, 2 August 2017 15:25 (eight years ago)

two years pass...

198. Than a wet kiss on the mouth
Fake I.D.'s and honeybees
The jagged skyline of car keys
I never knew the bird could fly so low

― walking towards the sun since 2007 (alex in mainhattan), Saturday, 1 February 2020 07:43 (six years ago)

here is the complete stanza:
198. Well the water looks like jewelry
When it's coming out the spout
And nothing could make me feel better
Than a wet kiss on the mouth
Fake I.D.'s and honeybees
The jagged skyline of car keys
I never knew the bird could fly so low

― walking towards the sun since 2007 (alex in mainhattan), Saturday, 1 February 2020 07:45 (six years ago)

I can see you in your room at night
Pictures on your walls
Little forest scenes
and high school Halloweens
But they don't come to you
They don't come to you at all

― circa1916, Saturday, 1 February 2020 08:58 (six years ago)

One of these days, these days will end
The kitchen window, the light will bend
You'll be carving a pumpkin with a knife
When someone at the table says:
"That's not what I call a life!"

― circa1916, Saturday, 1 February 2020 09:00 (six years ago)

201.

*foghorn sounds*
Send us your coordinates, I'll send a Saint Bernard.
This is lake directory, calling party barge.
*gull squawks*

(Possibly their least loved song? Still great.)

― Nag! Nag! Nag!, Saturday, 1 February 2020 09:58 (six years ago)

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