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Silver Jews
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New York, United States (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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wplashgirlchild wrote:
Natural Bridge... absolutely incredible.
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ar99 wrote:
http://turningthelightbulb.wordpress.com/
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linkdood wrote:
Will check those out, thanks.
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General_Tso wrote:
Starlite Walker or The Natural Bridge should do you a solid. Also, don't miss "Punks in the Beerlight" off Tanglewood Numbers
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linkdood wrote:
I really like American Water, what should I listen too next?
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1226 wrote:
jews that are silver
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nicxla wrote:
I like Bright Flight and American water equally. I don't like any of the other albums. They seem so messy and either overproduced or, I don't know. I can't get into any others anyway, but I still will say the Silver Jews are my favourite band based on how much I love those 2 albums.
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LePlatypope wrote:
ALSO: I accidentally called the album Natural Bridge The Frontier Index in my previous previous post. So sorry.
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LePlatypope wrote:
Yeah HeylmLost (it's spelled hymen) they broke up. Which I mean sucks but so did all their recent albums so it's not really THAT big a deal, imo.
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Gripton wrote:
I'll get me some American Water then, cheers folks.
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HeyImLost wrote:
(1989 – 2009) WAIT WAT
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LePlatypope wrote:
Tanglewood Numbers sucks. American Water and The Frontier Index, Gripton.
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MinnieWeis wrote:
@Gripton - American Water & Tanglewood Numbers
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Gripton wrote:
Sorry to come across as uneducated, but where's the best place to start with Silver Jews? I'm looking to dig deep(ish) and get an LP.
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americantruck wrote:
@fjosjd, yes. It's good. Just different. And a lot harder to listen to if you aren't into lo-fi stuff at all.
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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:
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