Aquarium Drunkard welcomes one of our all-time favorites, Silver Jews, to the Echoplex Friday September 26th. We have five pairs of tickets to give away to AD readers. Joos fan? Leave your name, email address and your favorite David Berman lyric(s) in the comments below. James Jackson Toth supports.
Previously: Silver Jews, David Berman, interview – Part One, Part Two
Download:
MP3: Silver Jews :: Send In The Clouds
MP3: Silver Jews :: People
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Tickets: AD Presents :: Silver Jews, Echoplex, Sept. 26th
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“When I go downtown
I always wear a corduroy suit
cause it’s made of a hundred gutters
that the rain can run right through
but a lonely man can’t make a move
if he can’t even bring himself to choose
between a pair of black and a pair of brown shoes”
Black and Brown Blues, 1996
man AD do i love me some joos, too – and i’d love to see them at the echoplex – but i lives in charleston, sc – a bit too far for a night out – thanks for the offer!
1 | bristone September 18th, 2008 at 10:22 amit comes down to
“My ski vest has buttons like convenience store mirrors
and they help me see, that everything in this room right now is a part of me.”
or
“Half hours on earth
2 | clobbox September 18th, 2008 at 11:46 amWhat are they worth
I don’t know”
i like the riddles….
3 | Jimmy September 18th, 2008 at 11:58 am“How does an animal see when the sun has set”
No I didn’t really want to die
4 | bryan September 18th, 2008 at 12:55 pmI only wanted to die in your eyes
one of the most classic ways to start out an album: “in 1984 I was hospitalized for approaching perfection…..”
5 | Carlos September 18th, 2008 at 12:56 pmDave Rock
6 | Dave R. September 18th, 2008 at 8:24 pmemaildaverock@gmail.com
“People got to synchronize to animal times.”
Black and Brown Blues from above is the clear winner. That’s what came to mind first. These soon followed…
In 27 years, I’ve drunk 50 thousand beers
and they just wash against me
like the sea into a pier.
Or
The drums march along at the clip of an I.V. drip
like sparks from a muffler dragged down the strip.
Or
There is a house in New Orleans, not the one
you’ve heard about. I’m talking about another house.
Or
Repair is the dream of the broken thing
Like a message broadcast on an overpass
all my favorite singers couldn’t sing.
How bout a bunch of great lines from “Self Ignition”
gently thinking backwards
on the psychedelic promises god made to me in the dark
some of these kids don’t have words
they’re as helpless as parakeets in a park
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if dreams are your body telling you it’s confused
then i’ve got a dream i think you can use
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i don’t like magic, and i don’t like tricks
having a helluvah time believing we exist
the mailman dreams he’s paul revere
he wants the whole town to buy him a beer
and i have to remember that your not wanting me
7 | Ed September 18th, 2008 at 11:03 pmdoesn’t make me any less here
‘what looks like sleep is really hot pursuit’ is my current favorite line. great delivery.
would love to see the show
8 | Chris September 19th, 2008 at 3:04 amI’ll be in Los Angeles that night! I would love to see them! I love so many of their lines: “I wish they didn’t set mirrors behind the bar / cause I can’t stand to look at my face / when I don’t know where you are” and also “I know that a lot of what I say has been lifted off of men’s room walls / Maybe I’ve crossed the wrong rivers and walked down all the wrong halls” and then of course, “my friends, don’t you know that I never / want this minute to end / and then it ends.” God, he’s good.
9 | Avishay Artsy September 20th, 2008 at 3:58 pm“What’s with all the handsome grandsons in these rockband magazines? What have they done with the fat ones, the bald & the goateed!?”
10 | Justin Stone September 20th, 2008 at 8:02 pm“In 1984 I was hospitalized for approaching perfection.”
and
“There is a place past the blues I never want to see again”
and…just because i love this line:
“You were always at the dog track
11 | Becky September 22nd, 2008 at 11:03 amWith your brother and all his friends”
“you’re a tower without a bell. you’re a negative wishing well.”
12 | noah green September 24th, 2008 at 10:10 amI agree. The riddles are the one that drew me to the song. Aquarium Drunkard adds flair to their post images. *Love*
13 | Chanteuse Sanders September 26th, 2008 at 11:43 amSomething hits me hard in “How to Rent a Room”:
“You’re a tower without the bells; you’re a negative wishing well.”
“Chalk lines around my body, like the shoreline of a lake.”
“Now there’s a lot of things I’m gonna miss, like thunder down-country and the way water drips when you’re runnin’ for the door in the rain.”
Whoa. It’s not all lines – a lot of it is delivery.
14 | Deadhand September 27th, 2008 at 10:36 pm