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
Purple Mountains
we've been talking about it on the purple mountains thread
― Clay, Thursday, 8 August 2019 01:02 (four years ago) link
i don't know Purple Mountains at all, lol. was a HUGE Silver Jews fan however
― Bee OK, Thursday, 8 August 2019 01:03 (four years ago) link
anyways carry on...
it was his new project that just released an album that is well worth checking out for any silver jews fan
― Clay, Thursday, 8 August 2019 01:04 (four years ago) link
really like the purple mountains record
― Dan S, Thursday, 8 August 2019 01:06 (four years ago) link
People ask people to watch their scotch They’re playing SJ at the bar !
― ncxkd, Sunday, 23 February 2020 22:10 (four years ago) link
Yr third drink will lead you astray
― Ticket Tout (morrisp), Sunday, 23 February 2020 22:55 (four years ago) link
Amateur hour over here
― ncxkd, Sunday, 23 February 2020 23:01 (four years ago) link
A Pavement ad from back when they were called Jivement and sounded like bees pic.twitter.com/a7vPdIfKzU— Matthew Perpetua (@perpetua) February 9, 2021
― Vaguely Threatening CAPTCHAs, Thursday, 11 February 2021 15:50 (three years ago) link
"Cokehead Quentin Compsons," that's some good stuff.
More Berman ephemera over here: https://doomandgloomfromthetomb.tumblr.com/post/642202376899624960/david-berman-stephen-malkmus-bob-nastanovich
― tylerw, Thursday, 11 February 2021 15:52 (three years ago) link
P3rp3tu@ didn't realize it was DCB until it was explained to him in the comments which is uh... par for the course.
― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Thursday, 11 February 2021 16:22 (three years ago) link
he hates berman, right? questionable.
― tylerw, Thursday, 11 February 2021 16:34 (three years ago) link
I think so, he just also has some really baffling (trying not to say "wrong") opinions for a guy who has been writing about music for as long as he has.
― soaring skrrrtpeggios (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Thursday, 11 February 2021 16:37 (three years ago) link
singing by: Meg Baird Bill MacKay Cory Hanson Cassie Berman David Pajo David Grubbs Matt Kinsey Haley Fohr Emmett Kelly Todd Rittmann Alasdiar Roberts Matt Sweeney George Xylouris Azita Youssefi Sean O’Hagan Ben Chasny Elisa Ambrogio Bill Callahanhttps://t.co/x6hEaBuc1k— will oldham (@signifyingwolf) February 19, 2021
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 19 February 2021 16:33 (three years ago) link
Wonderful.
― We’re Up All Night To Get Lochte (Raymond Cummings), Friday, 19 February 2021 22:30 (three years ago) link
<3
― stimmy stimmy yah (Simon H.), Friday, 19 February 2021 22:35 (three years ago) link
That’s an intense one to listen to in the middle of winter.
― ... (Eazy), Saturday, 20 February 2021 14:06 (three years ago) link
Holding up the trousers with extension cords
― calstars, Sunday, 11 April 2021 20:45 (three years ago) link
The drums March along like an iv drip like a muffler dragged down the strip !!!
― calstars, Sunday, 11 April 2021 22:05 (three years ago) link
I saw the river playing in the valleyRushing round a bend and skipping stonesI saw the meadow wobble In the moonlightI’ve come to get my girl and take her home
― Heez, Saturday, 9 July 2022 02:18 (one year ago) link
The doorbell plays a bar of Stephen Foster
― Legalize Suburban Benches (Raymond Cummings), Saturday, 9 July 2022 02:41 (one year ago) link
xp That part always gets me.
― Am I doomposting? I would say you’re not doomposting enough. (PBKR), Saturday, 9 July 2022 02:41 (one year ago) link
I still try to write lyrics as I’ve done for 20 years now and it’s mostly cause this dude keeps me hungry
― Heez, Saturday, 9 July 2022 02:47 (one year ago) link
I had never seen the TV clip in this Instagram post… fairly bizarre
― Obviously Five Beliebers (morrisp), Tuesday, 20 September 2022 04:19 (one year ago) link
lmao
― flopson, Tuesday, 20 September 2022 05:34 (one year ago) link
holy fuck
― Western® with Bacon Flavor, Tuesday, 20 September 2022 06:04 (one year ago) link
what a piece of work.
― pplains, Tuesday, 20 September 2022 13:23 (one year ago) link
Here's the original story that instagram account stole: https://www.brooklynvegan.com/micheal-sheen-sang-silver-jews-how-can-i-love-you-if-you-wont-lie-down-on-last-nights-the-good-fight/
― pplains, Thursday, 22 September 2022 11:55 (one year ago) link
Check out what Lana’s listening to
― Unidentified rogue Jedi (morrisp), Sunday, 14 May 2023 14:39 (eleven months ago) link
seems many of the top recording artists of the day are only now discovering the late, great Silver Jews
Just discovered the band Silver Jews. Fantastic songs! RIP David Berman.— John Hinckley (@JohnHinckley20) May 4, 2023
― James Fennymore Pooper, Sunday, 14 May 2023 18:57 (eleven months ago) link
Thanks to my gf for putting on a car playlist recently that had a couple Purple Mountains tracks on it. It made me realize that enough time has passed for this record to be fun again <³
― The king of the demo (bernard snowy), Tuesday, 16 May 2023 12:31 (eleven months ago) link
I also revisited it a few weeks ago (for the first time in forever), and – as good as the album is – it felt to me like it’s not “meant” to be listened to as anything other than a tragic document. Just incredibly sad stuff (a few songs in particular)…
― Unidentified rogue Jedi (morrisp), Tuesday, 16 May 2023 14:10 (eleven months ago) link
Night Society is one of the best instrumental tracks ever.They are also referenced in a song by the band Why?
― This Resembles Food, Thursday, 18 May 2023 19:54 (eleven months ago) link
it is indeed.
did it also have a life as a Pavement jam that never turned into a song? i seem to vaguely recall that ... maybe someone else can confirm.
SJ w/ SM is my favorite SJ, but also DCB was smart to move away from SM when he did.
― alpine static, Thursday, 18 May 2023 20:17 (eleven months ago) link
When was that? SM played on every other SJ album (as in, played on one then skipped the next)…
― Unidentified rogue Jedi (morrisp), Thursday, 18 May 2023 20:20 (eleven months ago) link
(co-wrote at least one song, too)
― Unidentified rogue Jedi (morrisp), Thursday, 18 May 2023 20:21 (eleven months ago) link
Pavement Jews ftw
― calstars, Thursday, 18 May 2023 21:58 (eleven months ago) link