anyways carry on...
― Bee OK, Thursday, 8 August 2019 01:03 (four years ago) link
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
i'm sorry, i have my history wrong, obviously, and my memory has failed me.
i thought they made American Water, then DCB got frustrated w/ the "side talk" stuff and he went and made Natural Bridge w/ other people, and then on from there. i had those two in the wrong order, and i did *not* realize Bob and SM were on Tanglewood Numbers.
my apologies! i believe myself to be a big fan of all involved but blew it here! :) (i'm getting old.)
― alpine static, Thursday, 18 May 2023 22:00 (eleven months ago) link
You are forgiven!!
― Unidentified rogue Jedi (morrisp), Thursday, 18 May 2023 22:04 (eleven months ago) link
:)
― alpine static, Thursday, 18 May 2023 22:20 (eleven months ago) link
I think it's important to remember that Pavement is a Silver Jews spin-off band.
― But who are we doing it versus? (sunny successor), Monday, 22 May 2023 14:14 (ten months ago) link
isn't it more accurate to say they're both Ectoslavia spinoff bands?
― majorairbro, Monday, 22 May 2023 21:06 (ten months ago) link
and yet maybe pavement was a sin-off band of the silver jews who were a spin-off band of Ectoslavia who were a spinoff band of Bag O' Bones.
― But who are we doing it versus? (sunny successor), Tuesday, 23 May 2023 10:39 (ten months ago) link
v. obscure trivia but Spiral was using the name Pavement for a band when he was living in Tempe AZ with 3 other randos, a couple years before Slay Tracks.
so even Pavement is a Pavement-spinoff.
Hi SS!
-SS
― citation needed (Steve Shasta), Tuesday, 23 May 2023 15:31 (ten months ago) link
Steve Shasta = Spiral
that's my theory
― alpine static, Tuesday, 23 May 2023 17:12 (ten months ago) link
It’s too bad that War Comet never moved beyond the loosely conceptual stage.
― The Triumphant Return of Bernard & Stubbs (Raymond Cummings), Tuesday, 23 May 2023 17:33 (ten months ago) link
Haha shut my mouth https://archive.org/details/warcomet19931110
― The Triumphant Return of Bernard & Stubbs (Raymond Cummings), Tuesday, 23 May 2023 17:35 (ten months ago) link
Hey, that's cool, thx (these are Silver Jews songs, tho... so it's basically the Joos with West swapped in for Bob?)
― Day 1 fan (morrisp), Tuesday, 23 May 2023 17:56 (ten months ago) link
West was a member of the Jews around that time, from the Starlite Walker reissue liners:
"Starlite Walker was an Oxford, Mississippi record. David resided on the outskirts of town at the time. He was renting a tiny building that was part of a professor's chemistry lab in the woods. He paid $100 a month. It was mildly suspicious. Stephen and I went there to rehearse for about five days. Oxford is a beautiful town. There are lots of beautiful people. We were well. Peaking physically. We built songs around David's words. David had just about all of his lyrics written down in a notebook. When we were 70% ready, we headed up to Easley Studios in Memphis (which burned to the ground a few years ago). Doug and Davis were ready for us. They were cool and it was welcoming. Steve West joined us on the songs that we needed a 'real' drummer. I just wasn't good enough. It didn't bother me. I was proud of my drums on "Trains Across The Sea" and my moog on "New Orleans." We didn't have any significant problems recording and it turned out well. Our host Sherman Willmott (we stayed above his record shop in a small apartment) did a marvelous job of keeping barbecue sauce on our faces the whole time. I gained six pounds. Upon completing Starlite Walker, Silver Jews felt like a band instead of a project. We became formidable.Bob Nastanovich2/7/11Des Moines, Iowa
Bob Nastanovich2/7/11Des Moines, Iowa
― citation needed (Steve Shasta), Tuesday, 23 May 2023 18:04 (ten months ago) link
I've never liked "The Walnut Falcon" too much... :/
― Day 1 fan (morrisp), Tuesday, 23 May 2023 19:04 (ten months ago) link
SS! Missed you! <3 SS
― But who are we doing it versus? (sunny successor), Friday, 26 May 2023 00:36 (ten months ago) link
My favourite SJ song is Suffering Jukebox
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kT_YIk-a8jU
― Punster McPunisher, Friday, 26 May 2023 01:34 (ten months ago) link