It's no surprise I come back to this band when I'm drunk, I guess.
― kraudive, Monday, 9 February 2015 23:36 (nine years ago) link
menthol mountains hasn't been updated since July. I wonder what he's been up to.
― calstars, Tuesday, 10 February 2015 00:00 (nine years ago) link
Anyone else ever just worry about Berman?
― RAP GAME SHANI DAVIS (Raymond Cummings), Tuesday, 10 February 2015 00:09 (nine years ago) link
like, a lot, actually.
― The Complainte of Ray Tabano, Tuesday, 10 February 2015 02:07 (nine years ago) link
There are still a few stragglers on The Silver Jews Bulletin Board. Like 3 of 'em
― braunld (Lowell N. Behold'n), Tuesday, 10 February 2015 02:22 (nine years ago) link
I think I started that board.
― RAP GAME SHANI DAVIS (Raymond Cummings), Tuesday, 10 February 2015 02:27 (nine years ago) link
o rly
― pplains, Tuesday, 10 February 2015 03:00 (nine years ago) link
I could be wrong, the one I started was very basic and barebones, back in...oh god, 1999? 2000? maybe earlier.
― RAP GAME SHANI DAVIS (Raymond Cummings), Tuesday, 10 February 2015 03:13 (nine years ago) link
disc server, very basic. similar color scheme to this board. it's riddled with ads, but still it was fun to fuck around on in 2002.
― braunld (Lowell N. Behold'n), Tuesday, 10 February 2015 03:21 (nine years ago) link
the original board for Civil Jar fans to dig
― del griffith, Tuesday, 10 February 2015 03:57 (nine years ago) link
I'm against people who are against reunions in general so I'd welcome their return, if only to enjoy the inevitable UB40 comparisons
― PaulTMA, Tuesday, 10 February 2015 10:53 (nine years ago) link
hour-long podcast interview with bob, talks a lot about jews: http://vishkhanna.com/2015/02/18/ep-165-bob-nastanovich-of-silver-jews/
― calstars, Friday, 20 February 2015 02:08 (nine years ago) link
apparently berman doesn't have wifi in his house because he believes it inhibits creativity, so he goes to coffee shops in Nashville to get his fix
― calstars, Friday, 20 February 2015 02:19 (nine years ago) link
I read something about how lack of boredom in the post-iPhone era is affecting creativity. He's probably onto something.
― Iago Galdston, Friday, 20 February 2015 02:27 (nine years ago) link
he also says berman is looking and feeling well and sounds like all the pieces are in place to make shit happen
― calstars, Friday, 20 February 2015 02:40 (nine years ago) link
oh man, the quote that's basically like "he's discovered that there are a lot of very funny people on the internet these days..."
― how's life, Saturday, 28 March 2015 22:47 (nine years ago) link
Having a major Silver Jews phase after "rediscovering" them while drunk. When I say "rediscovering" I mean "seeing a CD on the shelf and happening to play it". But I really, really am enjoying them.
― djh, Wednesday, 17 June 2015 18:26 (eight years ago) link
CD-R80: A Silver Jews Compilation
What If Not Could Be IfNight SocietyLike Like The The The DeathInside The Golden Age of Missing YouI Remember MeBallad of Reverend War CharacterThe Frontier IndexHow To Rent A RoomPeopleDallasBlack and Brown BluesAlbermarle StationRandom RulesFederal DustSend In The CloudsThe Wild KindnessPet PoliticsHonk If You're LonelySmith and Jones, ForeverStrange Victory, Strange DefeatThe Right To Remain Silent
* Compiled from "Bright Flight", "Lookout Mountain, Lookout Sea", "The Natural Bridge" and "American Water".
― djh, Tuesday, 14 July 2015 19:21 (eight years ago) link
Would anything make it on from "Starlite Walker", "Tanglewood Numbers" or "Early Times"?
― djh, Tuesday, 14 July 2015 19:22 (eight years ago) link
Sorely missing New Orleans, Advice to the Graduate, Trains Across the Sea, and Punks in the Beerlight off the top of my head.
― circa1916, Tuesday, 14 July 2015 19:25 (eight years ago) link
I'm Getting Back into Getting Back into You, How Can I Love You If You Won't Lie Down, and Sleeping Is the Only Love from Tanglewood are three of my favorites
― mizzell, Tuesday, 14 July 2015 19:30 (eight years ago) link
v fond of starlite walker
New Orleans, Advice to the Graduate, Trains Across the Sea
otm, especially new orleans & trains across the sea
― drash, Tuesday, 14 July 2015 19:46 (eight years ago) link
Marvellous. Ta.
― djh, Tuesday, 14 July 2015 19:52 (eight years ago) link
"there is a place" closes tanglewood numbers on kind of the same oracular high as "the wild kindness" does american water
― reggie (qualmsley), Tuesday, 14 July 2015 20:19 (eight years ago) link
http://gothamist.com/2015/08/30/rick_berman_times_square_billboard_fast_food.php
Oh God, David's dad is up to it again...
― Iago Galdston, Tuesday, 1 September 2015 01:55 (eight years ago) link
Found the Silver Jew doc on youtube last weekend, the one that's about their 2006 tour through Israel, but is really just a prelude to the scene of David crying through a prayer at the wailing wall (in a trucker hat). Other scenes of honorable mention include the shopping for dog toys scene, and the broom shopping scene. Both good scenes also.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K5fb3vD4uYU
― del griffith, Tuesday, 1 September 2015 03:03 (eight years ago) link
Bob N. talks state o' Silver Jews and Pavement, but it's a video, and my inboxes are crammed stuck w those; watch it and tell me what he says, okay? Thanks in advance.http://consequenceofsound.net/video/exclusive-bob-nastanovich-offers-update-on-silver-jews-and-pavement/
― dow, Monday, 25 April 2016 22:09 (seven years ago) link
Basically the only news there is that Berman's writing lyrics for other bands now.
You'll learn more from this: http://www.chicagotribune.com/entertainment/music/ct-bob-nastanovich-ott-0401-20160325-story.html
― Crazy Eddie & Jesus the Kid (Raymond Cummings), Monday, 25 April 2016 22:50 (seven years ago) link
appreciate that, rc
― dow, Monday, 25 April 2016 22:57 (seven years ago) link
My pleasure.
I kinda wish Bob could find a new, raw band to be part of, you know? (Though the other news in that video is that his hearing's pretty bad now.)
― Crazy Eddie & Jesus the Kid (Raymond Cummings), Monday, 25 April 2016 23:02 (seven years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K5fb3vD4uYUwasn't aware of this til now
― rip van wanko, Tuesday, 2 May 2017 10:16 (six years ago) link
📹wasn't aware of this til now
― It's always (sunny successor), Wednesday, 3 May 2017 12:59 (six years ago) link
Ah nice! I've been wanting to see that.
― how's life, Wednesday, 3 May 2017 14:34 (six years ago) link
sunny, i searched "david berman" on twitter, hoping to find out what's he's been up to lately (didn't uncover much), and saw this mentioned in a random tweet
― rip van wanko, Wednesday, 3 May 2017 20:59 (six years ago) link
I believe he is in Cali writing a screenplay
― It's always (sunny successor), Thursday, 4 May 2017 05:43 (six years ago) link
Anyone has seen the documentary about his tour in Israel?
― Van Horn Street, Tuesday, 12 June 2018 18:00 (five years ago) link
Yeah it’s on YouTube!
― badg, Tuesday, 12 June 2018 18:02 (five years ago) link
https://youtu.be/K5fb3vD4uYU
― badg, Tuesday, 12 June 2018 18:03 (five years ago) link
lol oops it's already there a couple of posts back
Probably where I saw it in the first place
― badg, Tuesday, 12 June 2018 18:21 (five years ago) link
I liked Lookout Mountain/Lookout Sea well enough to give it an Hon Mention on my 10th Annual Nashville Scene Poll ballot ("an EP's-worth, anyway," of the good stuff, but that's what I think about most albums I like). Don't know what he thinks now, but on Rolling Country 2008, leading Scene scribe Edd Hurt went from Meanwhile, the new Silver Jews Lookout Mountain, Lookout Sea is as lugubrious as before but with a, you have to admit it, real sense of humor and some real interesting textures. The thing is, I could as easily hear these particular words, even "Aloysius, Bluegrass Drummer" done over some improvised drone or big punk chords as well as over the country-whatever he's cobbled together here.toI think I was wrong about Silver Jews' record; the guy or whoever made the thing did some real interesting music, the old Velvet Underground vibe, and I guess Berman actually did try to match words to music and write "country songs," and he strikes me as one of those guys for whom everything be funny and nothing is, you know. Anyway, some cool sounds on Lookout Mountain, Lookout Sea.
― dow, Tuesday, 12 June 2018 21:45 (five years ago) link
re "the old Velvet Underground vibe," I think Edd might agree with me that "Pale Blue Eyes" is a country classick. Here's still hoping for a Willie Nelson & Lee Ann Womack duet---if she declined, LeAnn Rimes 'ud jump on it, I feel sure---c'mon Willie, time's a-wastin'!
― dow, Tuesday, 12 June 2018 21:52 (five years ago) link
The SJ song "Honk if You're Lonely" always struck me as kind of a country cousin to VU's "After Hours."
― i’m still stanning (morrisp), Tuesday, 12 June 2018 21:57 (five years ago) link
Yeah---somebody told me they thought of the Silos as countryside of the VU too---of course there are obvious Velvets like "Lonesome Cowboy Bill," "Train Comin' Round The Bend," some stuff on the live double-LP Paul Nelson put together from the 1969 Texas shows, like the slow "Sweet Jane" with lyrics that didn't make the Loaded version (and Cowboy Junkies' medicated dream dirge)
― dow, Tuesday, 12 June 2018 22:18 (five years ago) link
since her dad, a local barber, had been beaten to death/she had become a vocal martyr in the vegan press
― flopson, Tuesday, 12 June 2018 22:47 (five years ago) link
Think this was mentioned on another thread, but there was a bit of news in a recent Malkmus interview:
I heard that there's a new Silver Jews record that's in the works, and that you may have made an appearance on it up in Canada. That is not verified, but we did some demos up there. And there are songs that are good songs, but they have not been laid to tape as I know it. Unless it's happening right now.
Would you go back up to play on it? It's not going to be in Canada if it happens, and I don't know. It depends on what the situation is. If it's really going to happen or not. There's potential. The songs exist. They're awesome. They've been vetted through multiple rewrites, and I think that almost all the lines have been put through Google to make sure no one's said them before in any way, shape, or form. (Laughs)
Oh, Google Purity! I remember that. Yeah, it's happening. It's happening in Silver Jews world. We're filthy that way, it's not going to happen with our record. So I think...I'm hoping. All I can say is I'm hoping. I'm not talking much about it. I've been told to just keep it on the down low, whatever's happening. I know there are songs, and they are good. I've heard them.
http://gothamist.com/2018/05/22/stephen_malkmus_interview_sparkle.php
― Vaguely Threatening CAPTCHAs, Tuesday, 12 June 2018 23:56 (five years ago) link
Cana-daaaaahhhhhh
― i’m still stanning (morrisp), Wednesday, 13 June 2018 00:04 (five years ago) link
The rumor I heard a while back from some random dude on a Facebook group was that he was recording with Dan Bejar, so now that recording in Canada has been confirmed I don't feel quite as bad about spreading it.
― cwkiii, Wednesday, 13 June 2018 01:52 (five years ago) link
That’s a very beardy combo.
― i’m still stanning (morrisp), Wednesday, 13 June 2018 02:44 (five years ago) link
i don't know if this has been posted anywhere else but this seems to be the main Silver Jews thread:
https://variety.com/2019/music/news/david-berman-dead-dies-silver-jews-1203296128/
David Berman, a singer-songwriter who formed the 1990s indie group Silver Jews as well as creating poetry and cartoons, has died, according to music label Drag City. He was 52. Musician Joe Pernice tweeted that he died by suicide.
― Bee OK, Thursday, 8 August 2019 00:59 (four years ago) link
FUCK this sucks!
RIP
― Bee OK, Thursday, 8 August 2019 01:00 (four years ago) link