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Silver Jews
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(1989 – 2009)
Silver Jews’ earliest incarnation was the college band Ectoslavia, formed by future Pavement founders Bob Nastanovich, Stephen Malkmus and frontman David Berman at the University of Virginia in 1989. An exercise in joyous noise, the band disbanded after graduation and the three friends moved to New York to take up various jobs - Nastanovich, a bus driver, and Berman and Malkmus, art museum security guards.
Pavement, a band started by Malkmus post-Ectoslavia, pre-New York, at this point began to gain attention. This attention resulted in a record deal and a constant inferiority plague placed upon the ‘Joos with Berman totally at the forefront of the group. Misinformed music fans now saw the band as a side-project and, even worse, Berman as being not good enough to play with Pavement, many band members being shared between the two bands.
The connection to Malkmus and the now blossoming Pavement was not all negative, however. Drag City, then not the bastion of American folk music it is today, agreed to release the band’s debut EPs which has led to a fruitful relationship (the label continues to release the band’s records, right up to album number 7 in 2008, (Lookout Mountain, Lookout Sea).
The Silver Jews in their later days primarily consisted of David and Cassie Berman who contributed most of the lyrics, and a changing cast of characters. They had numerous indie stars in a rotating line up, including Willie T. of Lambchop, and Brian Kotzer of Tim Chad and Sherry.
Pavement, a band started by Malkmus post-Ectoslavia, pre-New York, at this point began to gain attention. This attention resulted in a record deal and a constant inferiority plague placed upon the ‘Joos with Berman totally at the forefront of the group. Misinformed music fans now saw the band as a side-project and, even worse, Berman as being not good enough to play with Pavement, many band members being shared between the two bands.
The connection to Malkmus and the now blossoming Pavement was not all negative, however. Drag City, then not the bastion of American folk music it is today, agreed to release the band’s debut EPs which has led to a fruitful relationship (the label continues to release the band’s records, right up to album number 7 in 2008, (Lookout Mountain, Lookout Sea).
The Silver Jews in their later days primarily consisted of David and Cassie Berman who contributed most of the lyrics, and a changing cast of characters. They had numerous indie stars in a rotating line up, including Willie T. of Lambchop, and Brian Kotzer of Tim Chad and Sherry.
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American Water
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Tanglewood Numbers
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The Natural Bridge
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beatbeatbeta wrote:
I lost my ear virginity to Pet Politics. How To Rent A Room has my ear brown belt.
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c2j9h wrote:
hey burger i thought that the thought was that dc is ready for a change in the direction of his talent. he retired the silver jews and is moving on to other things: i think he mentioned "muckraking". he'll be writing poetry until he dies, i'm sure. he just "went as far as he could"--as far as he felt like going--with music accompanying his poetry.
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fjosjd wrote:
anyone ever litsen to the arizona record
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schoenburger wrote:
"you think david berman is going to be releasing music when he's 50? I doubt it. he's a poet, and he went as far as he could with music around poetry." This is basically a way of saying "David Berman does not have enough talent to make more music ". Ezra Pound and T. S. Eliot, to name two recent literary examples, wrote their best poetry after the age of fifty. Scott Walker's best and most original album (The Drift) came out after he turned sixty. David Lynch's best two films (Inland Empire and Mulholland Drive) were both directed after he turned fifty. The "too old for art" argument is nothing more than an excuse.
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schoenburger wrote:
104.5%?
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aurelioins wrote:
I really love "American Water", but cant really listen to all th eother albums, they're pretty boring to me. It's strange I mean, "AW" is a real masterpiece for me, and it's not vey far from the other ones, the style is kinda tthe same....
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Kevin_Urban wrote:
The best.
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dying-is-fine wrote:
but let it be known that they have very little annoying songs. about 99.5% of the songs they've made are fantastic... the other 5% are songs that get on my nerves. i'm not saying that silver jews suck at all. really, they're a favorite.
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dying-is-fine wrote:
i'll admit, some of their songs get kind of annoying, but when they write good stuff, it's really good.
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sambedford wrote:
I just wrote a piece about Tanglewood Numbers here www.shotbybothsides.net See what you think.
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andover wrote:
Hitting 100 plays for the joo's this week. Hit me up with a friend request, if you dare!
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Poppachippa wrote:
death of an heir of sorrows ; ;
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true_til_deaf wrote:
Bright Flight is great. People might be deaf.
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yugman wrote:
Bright Flight... stale? fuck right off - one of the best albums I've ever heard.
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evlstooge wrote:
Really liking the natural bridge...need to get my hands on more silver jews.
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friedeaglemind wrote:
Won't soul music change? Now that our souls have turned strange. I think Bright Flight was a great album, the only one I didnt like as much as the others is Tanglewood. Then Lookout Mountain made up for it. Starlight Walker is epic.
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jph35 wrote:
Disagreed. I go back and forth between Bright Flight and The Natural Bridge being my favorite Silver Jews album. Tanglewood Numbers is up there too.
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secretjunior wrote:
Unfortunately, I have to say that I think the Joos were starting to get stale on Bright Flight. And everything thereafter was unfortunately nothing compared to everything that had gone before. Having said that, stale Joos were better than practically everything else that existed alongside them, and David is the best lyricist of the past 40 years. David did the right thing disbanding when he did.
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Lord_Krichian wrote:
nice
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LoganBridges wrote:
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