not gonna post david berman lyrics and poems all day, that's sad
but he was a great writer and another terrific musician gone too soon
not gonna post david berman lyrics and poems all day, that's sad
but he was a great writer and another terrific musician gone too soon
new bon iver is out, i like this
I've been carrying around my copy of Actual Air today like it is some sort of security blanket. I'm really affected by this news.Originally Posted by TownieDeac
Birds are real.
and if the apocalypse turns out
to be a world-wide nervous breakdown
if our five billion minds collapse at once
well I’d call that a surprise ending
Runs with deer.
gonna be another day of listening to sad music
I'd forgotten I had bought Purple Mountains tix in DC next week. They're just gonna play DB's music for sadboys who want to come hang out at the venue. Will probably pass on that.
Best Silver Jews album?
I've been listening to The Natural Bridge a lot lately. Doesn't have the Pavement guys on it, and some people really like Tanglewood Numbers because it does (and it is good). The debut (Starlite Walker) and American Water are probably their most highly regarded.
gut punch of an opener
The cover of Actual Air is the Concourse, an Atlanta office complex. Does anyone know why?
Natural Bridge and American Water were great starting points for me. It's a vibe, for sure. I think I read in some remembrance yesterday though that struck me, was -- paraphrasing -- that it just sounds like music that had to be. It's not flashy or anything, but he has a way, and they are all solid records.
I love the new one and was going to see him in Asheville next week. I wasn't super into the Joos, but this has been bumming me out more than it should for some reason.
Runs with deer.
Tool is like Phish stopped taking their antidepressants.
Actually a lot of Phish and Tool parallels now that I think abt it, one being their fans are insufferable.
New Tool:
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"People need celebration in their life. It's part of what it means to be human. We need magic and bliss and power, myth, and celebration in our lives. And music is a good way to encapsulate a lot of it." - Jerry Garcia (August 1st, 1942 - August 9th, 1995)
Runs with deer.
The first Jews song I heard was back in 1995:
My High-school band, named Slacker, was a lo-fi, acoustic guitars in the basement, Pavement and early Sebadoh inspired crew. We wrote a lot of our own songs, and covered a few too, including "Rebel Jew." My band-mate was two years older than me had discovered the Jews thru Pavement. He gave me a cassette tape with Starlight Walker and other obscure songs on it. A year later I was in Tower Records and randomly checked to see if they had the Jews in stock and they had the Natural Bridge which I didn't even know had come out, so I bought it. I really started to love the band at that point. There are hints of the lyrical greatness to come on Starlight Walker (Advice to the Graduate, New Orleans, Trains Across the Sea) But the Natural Bridge is where it really became obvious Berman was an extremely talented lyricist. I'd say that American Water is the pinnacle of their amazingness, but Tanglewood Numbers has some really good songs songs too. I may be exaggerating because of the recency of his death, but I can't think of a single songwriter that has meant more to me over the years. Bill Callahan is up there, Malkmus probably, but Berman had the exceptional capacity to make me laugh and think at the same time, and his songs still offer new insights and ideas years after I first heard them.
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Birds are real.
I don't know for sure, but I always took it as not related to specific buildings or place but the juxtaposition of corporate America overlooking the last remnants of wildness, a meadow edged by forest. I think Berman also had a long running theme in his writing of finding some thing beautiful in the midst of modern ugliness.
Birds are real.
Rayland Baxter just dropped an EP of Mac Miller cover songs and it is great. Here is his version of 2009:
Some background on Mac Miller's impact on Rayland:
Something a little more uptempo:
Jimmy Page got/ripped off his arrangement of Black Mountain Side from Bert. This is good semi-late Bert with some haunting vocals from Anne Briggs, who, if you're into the whole pastoral British witchy vaguely psych-folk thing like I am, has a great album called The Time Has Come.
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Runs with deer.
Birds are real.
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