Silver Jews: Classic or dud

did malkmus show up for "wild kindness" or anything?

Dude from American Songwriter magazine (who posted the pic) said this on twitter: "Just saw Silver Jews' final show in a deep cave. in crowd: Dan Deacon and Animal Collective fellows, Bradford Cox, S. Malkmus, B. Bare Jr."

"uh huh, i was at the final show. the audience was amazing"

Yeah, that is weird now that I think about it. : /

i bet it was super, but they're kind of a weird band to see live i think. what you get from the records isn't at all present from hearing it live. they have that great velvetsy guitar player but it sounds kinda heavy and thick. the dynamics should be like a james brown strings song or something, with his voice big and booming.

i mean whatever about the crowd. i was just wondering if malkmus jammed with berman one last time. some of both their finest moments are on american water

berman's, definitely

Tanglewood Numbers is actually my favorite Joos record, but I'm way in the minority there.

sleep on your back
and ash in your shoe

http://www.knoxkoupons.com/ktown_photos/photo_gallery/images/RockCity-1.jpg

tanglewood demos > tanglewood. less pounding and intense, more a guitar sound.

tanglewood demos

Are these easy for anyone to find?

first google result yields links

lol indeed it does, thanks

np that sounded a little snotty, not my intent, i just didnt wanna post links here ya know

Tanglewood Numbers is actually my favorite Joos record, but I'm way in the minority there.

― Johnny Fever, Sunday, February 1, 2009 12:47 AM (7 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

love this album - less of the sad sack aspect more reveling in absurdity - prob for the hardcore they demand the heavy depressio tho

Oh my god, I went to Rock City when I was a kid and lived in Lookout Mountain...is that where they did their final show?

interesting showdown tonight between rachel maddow and dave's dad

San Francisco BC is some kind of aweseome epic

Classic for Tanglewood Numbers alone. That's the record, trust me.

San Francisco BC is some kind of aweseome epic

Recently been admiring the rhyme scheme of "Since her dad a local barber had been beaten to death /
She had become a vocal martyr in the vegan press"

What is Berman doing these days?

http://mentholmountains.blogspot.com/

Pleased to see he is still active

"Lookout Mountain" is probably me favourite these days

when i was hungover the other day i spent a long time phasing in and out to 'the natural bridge' and i went: huh! i think every song on this album mentions rain! or even: 'the rain!' but i stopped paying attention when i had to go and vomit around track six

Does anyone remember what magazine had that harrowing profile of DB around the time of Tanglewood Numbers, the one where he told of being holed up at the hotel where Gore conceded the 2000 election and was going to kill himself?

That was "Dying in the Al Gore Suite," by Nick Weidenfeld, in Fader 31 (Jul/Aug 2005). Part of it can be read on Google Books here.

Thanks, one way street

no problem

Was kind of surreal to hear Marc Maron talking about this stuff...

Maron's trying to reach out to Berman via Twitter to set up an interview as he's going to Nashville in a couple weeks...doubt he'll have much luck

http://www.stereogum.com/1728068/silver-jews-had-band-practice-in-nashville-last-night/news/

!!!

cool news, was hoping berman would get the itch to write songs again.

WHAT

i never realized that the 15 songs performed during the last silver jews performance in the Cumberland Caverns were apparently his very favorite songs. here's the setlist:

1) We Are Real

2) Trains Across the Sea

3) How to Rent a Room

4) Slow Education

5) K-Hole

6) What Is not but Could Be If

7) The Wild Kindness

8) Room Games

9) Suffering Jukebox

10) I'm Getting Back Into Getting Back Into You

11) Random Rules

12) Tennessee

13) We Could Be Looking for the Same Thing

14) Pretty Eyes

15) Smith & Jones Forever

Happy enough to hear this news , but sure hope if there is a record involved it moves away from the last one's trajectory (it had very little staying power with me and kind of made me think it was a good time for him to walk away). Would love to get to chance to hear something new though, as really I just hope Berman is doing well and does whatever the hell he wants to do.

Happy enough to hear this news , but sure hope if there is a record involved it moves away from the last one's trajectory (it had very little staying power with me and kind of made me think it was a good time for him to walk away). Would love to get to chance to hear something new though, as really I just hope Berman is doing well and does whatever the hell he wants to do.

― grandavis, Thursday, January 8, 2015 11:03 AM (5 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

^^this

I suspect the break from music has reinvigorated him. Glad Nast is involved.

Yeah, agree on both fronts.

i liked the last two records when they came out, but they are definitely not the jews i reach for when i'm in the mood for Berman.

further news: http://www.wonderingsound.com/silver-jew-band-rehearsal-first-new-song-veranda-toy-shoppe-nashville/

Yes!!!!!!

xxp I agree on the last record but Tanglewood Numbers is all-time classic imo.

haha you're right -- i just looked at the tanglewood tracklisting and i was like "those songs are all fucking great"

It is only the last record that really does very little for me, though I would cut "The Farmer's Hotel" from Tanglewood in a heartbeat. Skip it every time but really enjoy the rest of the record.

I've never bothered with the last one before. No good?

kinda like news of new twin peaks; wonderful as much for the thought of its creator's renewed activity as for its individual merit. really great to hear.

faraway gaze of dcb redolent of historic presidents

maybe on my own, but I really love the last one - Suffering Jukebox and San Francisco BC are two of my favourite SJ songs & I keep coming back to the whole thing, has so many moments that make me happy - language of virtue in 2nd verse of Strange Victory, Strange Defeat (ha and also of course "What have they done with the fat ones? The bald and the goateed?"); the jolly/bleak mania of Party Barge; whole ornately developed conceit of Candy Jail.

It is an odd album - What Is Not But Could Be If feels a bit like he's writing against his talents & trying this slightly mystical abstract style, and a couple of tracks don't quite come off (never been keen on My Pillow… and We Could be Looking…). But it's between this and Tanglewood Numbers for my favourite.

I have a lot of time for LMLS, although the fact I did a moderately indepth review of it probably meant I gave it more attention than might otherwise have been the case. there are less ~quotable vignettes~ on it than others which (understandably) disappoints ppl I suspect. (unsure how much crossover there is in the fanbases but the new Half Man Half Biscuit album has a comparable deal in that regard I think)