no LR72 or cockfight of feelings??
― call all destroyer, Thursday, 14 February 2019 19:08 (five years ago) link
that's gotta be a typo - no way can this album be this album without the saga of the arrow, the clock, and the beer
― del griffith, Thursday, 14 February 2019 19:31 (five years ago) link
Yeah gotta be both of those tunes are classic.
Great album. Bourbon Beard is basically the best drinker's anthem ever..."I don't even like the taste"
― chr1sb3singer, Thursday, 14 February 2019 19:35 (five years ago) link
i tweeted at tim, confirmed it was a typo. fixed now.
― call all destroyer, Thursday, 14 February 2019 19:41 (five years ago) link
Do not like that re-imagined album cover :(
― Evan, Thursday, 14 February 2019 19:44 (five years ago) link
"Tobacco's a help because it clears the mind/But like all your friend's it is vilified."
Andy Cohen is frankly rock music greatest lyricist
― chr1sb3singer, Thursday, 14 February 2019 19:45 (five years ago) link
the original cover was not very inspiring either tbh
― na (NA), Thursday, 14 February 2019 21:06 (five years ago) link
"Did you ever have a friend/who did much better than you had planned?"
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Thursday, 14 February 2019 21:38 (five years ago) link
I always forget that Silkworm is the best then I listen to them and remember
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Thursday, 14 February 2019 21:42 (five years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HyP9CYAEqbw
michael was just a perfect rock drummer...so understated but amazing groove and hit so hard
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 15 February 2019 21:37 (five years ago) link
i miss this band so much
― soaring skrrrtpeggios (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Friday, 15 February 2019 21:57 (five years ago) link
just found out tim and andy are playing solo sets this sunday at a bar in my general neighborhood that i don't remember ever having live music before
― na (NA), Friday, 14 June 2019 16:47 (four years ago) link
Andy is moving to Boston so I bet this would a must see if you could swing it
― chr1sb3singer, Friday, 14 June 2019 16:50 (four years ago) link
planning on it!
― na (NA), Friday, 14 June 2019 16:57 (four years ago) link
oh to stand on the Higgins bridge
I managed to find myself in Missoula today and I walked across the Higgins bridge and I looked northwest across the Clark Fork River and I saw this dude surfin it and I took a picture of it
Silkworm rules
https://i.imgur.com/amrKXwy.jpg
― del griffith, Monday, 17 June 2019 05:30 (four years ago) link
kind of a weird show, there were only about 12 people watching them play, with the loud bar talkers overpowering the beginning of andy's set. but it was nice, andy played some new songs and/or songs i didn't recognize but also played "severance pay" and "summerwind," as well as covers of "warm machine" by bush and "if you want blood (you got it)" by ac/dc. andy and tim played "ooh la la" together in between their sets, a highlight. i had to leave during tim's set but he seemed to playing mint mile and newer songs, and the baritone guitar sounded great.
― na (NA), Monday, 17 June 2019 14:51 (four years ago) link
it did remind me how good the bottomless pit albums are. listened to those this morning for the first time in a while.
― na (NA), Monday, 17 June 2019 15:22 (four years ago) link
That show sounds so much like the time I saw Bottomless Pit. If I recall correctly there were maybe 20 people. In a town of 595,141 people, 20 people coming out to see living rock and roll legends rock and roll just didn't make sense. What is wrong with people. I guess if they don't want to see the stage lights reflecting off Tim's shiny Travis Bean baritone, that can be their problem.
― del griffith, Monday, 17 June 2019 16:49 (four years ago) link
the bottomless pit/mint mile shows i've been to here in chicago were generally well-attended. this bar show just wasn't really promoted much i don't think, i saw it bounce around on twitter but it wasn't listed on the free weekly's website of music happenings for example
― na (NA), Monday, 17 June 2019 17:23 (four years ago) link
The attendance for just about every SKWM/Bottomless Pit show (other than a few notable exceptions) I saw was had..."exclusive" or maybe "elite" is better, turn out
― chr1sb3singer, Monday, 17 June 2019 17:25 (four years ago) link
this one was "intimate"
― na (NA), Monday, 17 June 2019 18:06 (four years ago) link
If I'd had known about this, I totally would have gone to this - I had lunch today with a buddy that bought Andy's old house in Chicago some years back and he said he was too Father's Day tired to go, and then I gave him grief for a few minutes for not letting me know! Long Room, I'm guessing was a bad venue, though.
― BlackIronPrison, Monday, 17 June 2019 20:03 (four years ago) link
Wow this is great. Debut album coming out
https://mintmile.bandcamp.com/track/likelihood?mc_cid=2fb893e4d0&mc_eid=7756ac9c75
― Evan, Monday, 13 January 2020 16:52 (four years ago) link
all the Neil Young Homegrown anticipation energy made me put on the greatest classic rock album of all-time: Marquee Mark
had never noticed til now the lil stage banter part between "Never Met a Man I Didn't Like" and "Heard it Through the Grapevine" where I believe it is Andy who says "no we're not playing any fucking Wallflowers songs, who told you that?"
― the burrito that defined a generation, Thursday, 18 June 2020 02:22 (three years ago) link
and "Don't Look Back" is the greatest anti-classic rock song of all time.
― the burrito that defined a generation, Thursday, 18 June 2020 02:29 (three years ago) link
Absolutely fantastic piece over at Magnet in honor of the 15th anniversary of Dahlquist's death:
http://magnetmagazine.com/2020/09/15/do-look-back-a-brief-history-of-silkworm-one-of-90s-indie-rocks-most-underrated-bands-essential-playlist-included/#more-245353
― soaring skrrrtpeggios (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Tuesday, 15 September 2020 17:17 (three years ago) link
Thanks for posting that. Thought the track selections were excellent choices.
― BlackIronPrison, Wednesday, 16 September 2020 23:48 (three years ago) link
I thought it was a solid list but Treat the New Guy Right and I Hope U Don’t Survive need to be on any top Silkworm songs list imo
Comedy Minus One recently uploaded a Silkworm show from the Empty Bottle in 2000 that rips:
https://youtu.be/b5AgRFZoM9o
― na (NA), Thursday, 17 September 2020 00:02 (three years ago) link
I was at that show and recorded it - need to get it up on dime.
― BlackIronPrison, Thursday, 17 September 2020 00:35 (three years ago) link
Tim is playing in Sunn O))))) far out. First time I saw Silkworm was at the Butchertown Pub in Louisville with Engine Kid opening, so I dig the connection.
― earlnash, Thursday, 17 September 2020 03:33 (three years ago) link
Somehow I'd never heard the electric version of "Couldn't You Wait". This is totally an Albini production if I were to guess, but sounds a little sloppy compared to the acoustic version... which hits harder imho.
― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Thursday, 17 September 2020 03:39 (three years ago) link
Feels like it has more of a Flying Nun/Go-Betweens edge to it.
― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Thursday, 17 September 2020 03:42 (three years ago) link
(the acoustic version id est)
― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Thursday, 17 September 2020 03:44 (three years ago) link
what a band
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Thursday, 17 September 2020 04:13 (three years ago) link
i think i also heard the acoustic version first. they're both great.
― na (NA), Thursday, 17 September 2020 14:14 (three years ago) link
whoa, 'libertine' is incredible. first listen tonight, enjoyed it so much that i spun it a second time. i only had 'firewater' and 'lifestyle' in my library for the longest time.
― maelin, Saturday, 14 November 2020 23:23 (three years ago) link
Firewater for ever
― Mule, Friday, 4 June 2021 15:16 (two years ago) link
that's the one i started with, it will always be a special one for me
― na (NA), Friday, 4 June 2021 15:25 (two years ago) link
but we met with even greater misfortune/in the Armpit of the Americas
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 4 June 2021 15:32 (two years ago) link
some of the lyrics on 'lifestyle' were incoherent to my ears for years, but i looked some up tonight and the calibre is off the charts, occasionally hilarious, though i'm not even sure what the joke is, i laugh.
― maelin, Saturday, 22 January 2022 19:53 (two years ago) link
I listened to "Contempt" recently and thought Lana Del Rey could do a good cover of it.
― deep luminous trombone (Eazy), Saturday, 22 January 2022 19:58 (two years ago) link
haha that’s a great idea
― call all destroyer, Saturday, 22 January 2022 20:25 (two years ago) link
disturbing lack of silkworm tabs on this cursed internet. currently trying to work out tim's part in "wet firecracker" (on a bass rather than baritone guitar).
― adam, Monday, 14 March 2022 22:55 (two years ago) link
Tweet him -- he might help out!
― deep luminous trombone (Eazy), Monday, 14 March 2022 22:58 (two years ago) link
i had a very loose method for playing wet firecracker back in the day, but uh, it's been a few years
― call all destroyer, Tuesday, 15 March 2022 00:42 (two years ago) link
I was listening to Firecracker this morning on the way into work to psyche myself up for a board meeting and I was reminded the sound of the bass drum on Tarnished Angel is one of my favorite in all of music. The sound of the guitar firing up on the chorus is just so viciously anthemic.
― move over GAPDY, now there's BIG THIEF! (PBKR), Wednesday, 16 March 2022 21:03 (two years ago) link
Got robbed in the recent 90s lists, as per
― Mule, Tuesday, 4 October 2022 11:24 (one year ago) link
Criminally underrated then, criminally underrated now
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 4 October 2022 13:42 (one year ago) link
Bottomless Pit criminally unknown, too
― Evan, Tuesday, 4 October 2022 13:47 (one year ago) link
all three posts extremely otm
Maybe they need a lavish Numero Group reissue campaign or something to finally get some attention.
― a superficial sheeb of intelligence (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Tuesday, 4 October 2022 14:13 (one year ago) link