^^holding up their pants with extension cords
― brodie to the max (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Monday, 13 June 2011 20:04 (twelve years ago) link
I had a stoned friend explain to me one night how that song - from the "mustaches caked with airplane glue" to the midnight execution - was about "Men In Black".
― Pleasant Plains, Monday, 13 June 2011 20:06 (twelve years ago) link
hahahahah that must have been one amazing convo
― brodie to the max (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Monday, 13 June 2011 20:53 (twelve years ago) link
Are you honest, when no one's looking...
― Pleasant Plains, Tuesday, 14 June 2011 00:13 (twelve years ago) link
Man, just moved back to Virginia and this album has been in constant rotation, along with some spins of "Bright Flight". Just seems to be a Virginian album.
― grandavis, Tuesday, 14 June 2011 16:17 (twelve years ago) link
Top 5 album of the nineties. Question: Did Pavement have a better B-side than 'self-ignition'?
― answering_machine, Friday, 14 October 2011 10:35 (twelve years ago) link
I've never heard of Pavement.
― rustic italian flatbread, Friday, 14 October 2011 10:37 (twelve years ago) link
Who is the backing band in the Random Rules video during the first chorus?
At first glance I thought it was the Demolition Doll Rods but I don't think that's right...
― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Monday, 14 January 2013 05:45 (eleven years ago) link
"Can you summon 'honey' from a telephone? "
― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Tuesday, 19 February 2013 00:57 (eleven years ago) link
took me way too long to give this record a proper try. this is phenomenal.
― Van Horn Street, Sunday, 10 June 2018 19:23 (five years ago) link
His best in my humble honest opinion
― calstars, Sunday, 10 June 2018 19:54 (five years ago) link
Search “self ignition” as mentioned upthread
― calstars, Sunday, 10 June 2018 19:57 (five years ago) link
I wish Berman and SM would just grow old making records together.
― calstars, Sunday, 10 June 2018 20:01 (five years ago) link
will do! might just go try the entire discography this afternoon and evening.
― Van Horn Street, Sunday, 10 June 2018 20:01 (five years ago) link
VHS – I recommend the LPs which happen to Malkmus on them (not claiming his presence is what makes those stand out, but for whatever reason they do).
― i’m still stanning (morrisp), Sunday, 10 June 2018 20:17 (five years ago) link
Yes, that's what I believe too. Although I did enjoy Lookout Mountain, Lookout Sea a lot than I expected.
― Van Horn Street, Tuesday, 12 June 2018 17:58 (five years ago) link
Bright Flight might be my fave (coincidentally came out at the height of my Joos fandom), but after that the ones with SM are generally my go-tos.
― constitutional crises they fly at u face (will), Tuesday, 12 June 2018 18:39 (five years ago) link
Natural Bridge is my bummtertime favorite. That's Malkmus-less.
― circa1916, Tuesday, 12 June 2018 18:42 (five years ago) link
American Water by Silver Jews was first released two decades ago. Observing the time between then and now, the album has been half-speed mastered at Abbey Road to provide depth and nuance for all future vinyl listeners - and current ones! Additionally, a cassette version of this timeless album makes its debut, to provide an alternative aural timestamp for intrepid audio voyagers who weren't there the first time around. You can pre-order both versions NOW for the 9/28 release date. American Water - here's to the next 20 years!
(via Drag City)
― empire bro-lesque (morrisp), Saturday, 11 August 2018 21:05 (five years ago) link
That "Blue Arrangements" garnered only ONE VOTE in this poll is a crime for the ages.
― Groove(box) Denied (Raymond Cummings), Saturday, 11 August 2018 22:04 (five years ago) link
And this is emphatically my second or third favorite SJ record. (I wind up in arguments with folks about this now and again.)
― Groove(box) Denied (Raymond Cummings), Saturday, 11 August 2018 22:07 (five years ago) link
haha, i'm not sure i've ever heard anyone ever emphatically claim something as their second or third favorite! but i kind of know what you mean. i will emphatically place it in my top 2!
― Karl Malone, Saturday, 11 August 2018 22:17 (five years ago) link
This is the best SJ rekkid, and not just because SM is all over it
― calstars, Saturday, 11 August 2018 22:45 (five years ago) link
love this record but can't think of any reason why anyone would wanna shell out for an audiophile version of it
― Paul Ponzi, Saturday, 11 August 2018 22:48 (five years ago) link
Holdin up the trousers with extension cords
― calstars, Saturday, 11 August 2018 22:48 (five years ago) link
Paul — I have “Starlite Walker” on vinyl and the sound is crappy; so maybe the same was true for this album, and the remaster rectifies it(?) I have found Matador / Drag City vinyl from the ‘90s to be poorly mastered...
― empire bro-lesque (morrisp), Saturday, 11 August 2018 23:03 (five years ago) link
That makes sense. I just never thought of this as an album I needed to hear in pristine audiophile quality. My CD copy sounds fine! But tbf I've never heard it on vinyl, and 90s DC pressings were notoriously poor quality iirc
― Paul Ponzi, Sunday, 12 August 2018 00:09 (five years ago) link
Air crickets air crickets air crickets air crickets air
― Fedora Dostoyevsky (man alive), Sunday, 12 August 2018 00:41 (five years ago) link
Like sparks from a muffler dragged down the strip, uh huh huh
― calstars, Sunday, 12 August 2018 01:58 (five years ago) link
Why can’t monsters get along with other monsters?
― calstars, Sunday, 12 August 2018 02:11 (five years ago) link
Playin tambourine for minimum wage
― calstars, Sunday, 12 August 2018 02:20 (five years ago) link
People gonna come arrrooooooound
― Groove(box) Denied (Raymond Cummings), Sunday, 12 August 2018 13:22 (five years ago) link
the vinyl version I have of this record is perfectly fine
― Neil S, Sunday, 12 August 2018 14:26 (five years ago) link
how has this thread been around for eight years without one of the most unbelievable verses DB ever wrote in it
got 2 tickets for a midnight executionwe'll hitchhike our way from odessa to houston and when they turn on the chairsomething's added to the airforever
― she carries a torch. two torches, actually (Joan Crawford Loves Chachi), Sunday, 12 August 2018 14:27 (five years ago) link
honestly, i thought we had a whole dedicated to that song! but i'm looking now, and don't see one.
― Karl Malone, Sunday, 12 August 2018 14:39 (five years ago) link
a whole thread, i meant.
but yeah, those words will always give me goosebumps. s&j was my intro to silver jews
― Karl Malone, Sunday, 12 August 2018 14:44 (five years ago) link
Huh — I always thought it was, “
― empire bro-lesque (morrisp), Sunday, 12 August 2018 14:50 (five years ago) link
...“We hitchhike away from a desolate Houston”
― empire bro-lesque (morrisp), Sunday, 12 August 2018 14:51 (five years ago) link
FTR, I think my favorite song on the album is “Like Like The The The Death” — both musically and lyrically (notwithstanding the bum line, “Nobody cares about a dead hooker”)
― empire bro-lesque (morrisp), Sunday, 12 August 2018 16:05 (five years ago) link
― circa1916, Sunday, 12 August 2018 22:28 (five years ago) link
Here comes the coda
Not much water coming over the hillNot much, not much, not muchNot much water coming over the hillNot much, not much, not much
Is there a coda thread? I know Ned has talked eloquently and correctly about New Order's Regret, and that's the greatest thing. But SM's work here is immense. Love this album. Don't think I've seen this thread until today.
― kraudive, Sunday, 12 August 2018 22:34 (five years ago) link
The bird of VirginiaAre flying within yaAnd like background singersThey all come in threesAnd like background singersThey all come in threes
― Heez, Friday, 24 April 2020 03:26 (three years ago) link
I would've been a "We Are Real" voter because it would fit better on his slightly better album Natural Bridge
― Heez, Friday, 24 April 2020 03:28 (three years ago) link
from the op:
During a brief pause in conversation, the delicate sound of ringing guitar from a song called "Self-Ignition" escaped through a studio door. Berman described the song as a future B-side, explaining that the band had run through the track too quickly for it to make the final cut for the album. "We've never sounded tight like this," Berman said. "There's hard-rocking songs where we've never had that level of intensity before. They're really charged songs."
did this ever become a song?
― let me be your friend on the other end! (Karl Malone), Friday, 24 April 2020 04:33 (three years ago) link
Yeah:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W90V4D1P9VY
― I eat fast foods (morrisp), Friday, 24 April 2020 04:39 (three years ago) link
(It was indeed a B-side, to “Send In The Clouds”)
― I eat fast foods (morrisp), Friday, 24 April 2020 04:41 (three years ago) link
oh nice, thanks! i know absolutely zero silver jews b-sides
― let me be your friend on the other end! (Karl Malone), Friday, 24 April 2020 04:43 (three years ago) link
22 years old today. What a beast of a record.
― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Wednesday, 21 October 2020 00:11 (three years ago) link
I've got two tickets to a midnight executionWe'll hitchhike our way from Odessa to HoustonAnd when they turn on the chairSomething's added to the airWhen they turn on the chairSomething's added to the air forever
― treeship., Wednesday, 21 October 2020 00:32 (three years ago) link
So many strange and fantastic moments on this record. RIP.
haha, clever video. I really like the part where the stuntman contemplates a better burrito
― Zach_TBD (Karl Malone), Tuesday, 2 March 2021 18:00 (three years ago) link
Oh man, I'm not sure where to put this but since I just posted about him a few weeks ago on this thread:
https://www.gofundme.com/f/tim-barnes-medical-expenses
― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Tuesday, 23 March 2021 00:04 (three years ago) link
On a lighter note, the painter of the album cover found a photograph of the original cover painting (tho in the comments he mentions that the painting is probably in a landfill or given away):
https://www.instagram.com/p/CI5q152l7yF/
― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Tuesday, 23 March 2021 03:10 (three years ago) link
25 years / 46k beers
https://www.instagram.com/p/CyoGeQhvmMF/
― citation needed (Steve Shasta), Saturday, 21 October 2023 04:12 (five months ago) link
Those NY Press ads are fantastic!
― strawberry ice cream, one scoop or two (morrisp), Saturday, 21 October 2023 05:23 (five months ago) link
NY ‘98, what a time to be alive
― calstars, Saturday, 21 October 2023 06:32 (five months ago) link
“Night Society” remains straight Fire
― The Triumphant Return of Bernard & Stubbs (Raymond Cummings), Saturday, 21 October 2023 23:17 (five months ago) link