Here's one of the most beautiful letters I've ever read.

David Berman's letter on sobriety: https://pivic.blog/blog/david-bermans-letter-on-sobriety/

#DavidBerman #sobriety #SilverJews #PurpleMountains

Get ready for the most niche poll ever.

In the Silver Jews’ song “Tennessee,” when David Berman sings “Her doorbell plays a bar of Stephen Foster/Her sister never left, and look what it cost her,” what Steven Foster song are you imagining?

#IndieRock #SilverJews #DavidBerman

https://songwhip.com/silver-jews/pet-politics

'Still wearin' last night's mascara
Now that her pet was gone for sure
She was shiverin' so hard
It looked like there were two of her'

I love Berman's music.

#SilverJews #DavidBerman #MusicTips

From the Purple Mountains reddit AMA:

'Q: What’s your biggest lyrical regret, and what will your gravestone say? Thank you, I’ve missed your music all these years!

A: So many. It hit me just recently that in the first 4 lines i rhyme myself with myself! That was not something i intended to do!

I FUCKED up on the opening lyric of the opening song though i had pored over it for months- I had to laugh.

I was "crestfallen" until i thought of the mirroring themes mentioned elsewhere, and was able to rationalize it as a great mistake.

HEADSTONE:

"HE WAS CRESTFALLEN UNTIL HE WAS ABLE TO RATIONALIZE IT AS A GREAT MISTAKE"'

https://www.reddit.com/r/indieheads/comments/cdjakw/purple_mountains_ama

#DavidBerman #PurpleMountains #AskMeAnything #SilverJews #music #lyrics #regret #humour

In the latest Recliner Notes post on the songs of #BillCallahan, Smog's "Feather by Feather" demonstrates how Callahan can play with and sometimes subvert country music forms to explore deep, emotional themes.

The post also includes comparisons with Callahan's #DragCity peers #DavidBerman of the #SilverJews and #BonniePrinceBilly who also have been known to take on similar artistic modes as Callahan.

http://reclinernotes.com/2023/01/08/feather-by-feather/

"In 1984, I was hospitalized for approaching perfection."

A long time ago a friend tipped me off about Silver Jews. Said I should listen to the American Water album. And with an opening line like this, it was love at first listen.

#DavidBerman #SilverJews

https://silverjews.bandcamp.com/track/random-rules

blew my mind last night, still blowing my mind this morning, & possibly of only interest to me: on the front cover of the #SilverJews' 2001 album "tennessee," #DavidBerman (who would have turned 56 today) is wearing a t-shirt for the glenn phillips band, led by the hampton grease band co-founder. apparently, berman & #pavement's bob nastanovich saw phillips in college & had their minds blown. happy birthday, DCB & dig glenn's unfuckwithable "lenore": https://glennphillips.bandcamp.com/track/lenore #indie #suckrock

"Final Words Are So Hard to Devise" - Culture.org https://culture.org/logger/final-words-are-so-hard-to-devise/

what a story:

And there were stories. In 2009, for example, the band Hallelujah the Hills, from Boston, was opening for Silver Jews on tour. The two bands were driving separately from Toronto to their next gig in Montreal. Ryan Walsh, Hallelujah’s singer, and his bandmates were zipping down the boring highway when Walsh spotted the entire Silver Jews line-up on the shoulder, up ahead. They were running from their parked tour van up a hill towards another group of people.

Confused, Walsh called Cassie Berman, David’s then partner and bandmate. She told Walsh that they had seen a guy drag his girlfriend out of a car, and they felt they had to intervene. “And then David took the phone from Cassie, and said, in his earnest deadpan, ‘Ryan—it was a job for the headliners.’”

#DavidBerman #BrentKatz #SilverJews

Were he still alive, #DavidBerman would today turn 56 years old. He founded #SilverJews and #PurpleMountains.

As #PurpleMountains, David made the best album of 2019: https://songwhip.com/purple-mountains/purple-mountains

That album contains some of my favourite rock lyrics. It's also so very well composed and made out.

I've missed David every single week since he died.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Berman_(musician)

It's totally pointless 2022 playlist time..

Featuring:
#BreannaBarbara
#Heartworms
#GraceCummings
#SilverJews
#Wussy
#TheWebbBrothers
#TamarAphek
#EverythingEverything
#TRAMMS
#Stereolab
#RoziPlain
Everyone's favourite #Jockstrap
#Loop
#Junip
#Lewsberg
#Gong
#BonnyLightHorseman

https://open.spotify.com/playlist/2Bz9PVxFXOrLc1uBvxveJZ?si=12cd24356b824b85

https://songwhip.com/mogwai/ritchiesacramento

This is the track 'Richie Sacramento' by #Mogwai.

There's a story behind this one:

'Brathwaite explained, "Ritchie Sacramento's title came from a misunderstanding a friend of ours had about how to say Ryuichi Sakamoto. The lyrics were inspired by a story Bob Nastanovich shared about his friend and bandmate David Berman who proclaimed 'Rise Crystal Spear' as he threw a shovel at a sports car."'

#DavidBerman #RyuichiSakamoto #SilverJews

Music #introduction
#indie #classicalmusic #folk #postpunk #country #americana #punk #synthpop #blues #daisyagehiphop #silverjews #allodarlin

Today it's three years since David Berman died.

listen to Purple Mountains. they were wonderful.

https://niklasblog.com/?p=23909

#dcb #davidberman #silverjews #purplemountains