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Maybe not the place for this, but fuck it. Listened to three SKWM albums in a row this weekend. Haven't done that in a while--maybe years? It's just a part of my dna now. No way to separate it or treat it objectively or any of that stuff. It's just there, floating around on a cellular level. The greatest band.

I'm not much for listening to live recordings or bootlegs, but I had dumped a bunch of stuff onto my phone a while back and ended up listening to a live recording of That's Entertainment* from way back in 1999 on the bus home last night. It slays! The extended riffing and interplay between everything kind of gets across the magical nature of the shows that I've heard people talk about. Salut. Shame I'll never get to see them live, but at least there's this.* a.k.a their Cortez the Killer

landspeednyc wrote:night\_tools wrote:FM jonsolomon, did I dream about a reissue of Italian Platinum, or is that a real thing that is happening in the real world?I am not FM jonsolomon, but details/pre-orders were announced on Thursday:https://store.touchandgorecords.com/col ... nie-bundle (beanie optional)They still put shit out where it counts! Brainiac stuff coming too.

I blasted In the West today.About to put on my Silkworm pajamas, and I just found this!

jonsolomon wrote:landspeednyc wrote:Funny- I was just watching that youtube clip above yesterday (thanks for posting!) and wondering why In the West was never released on vinyl ¦.https://shop.comedyminusone.com/product ... -west-2x12https://skwm.bandcamp.com/album/in-the-westA very happy and healthy 311 day to you all.CHILL!

Funny- I was just watching that youtube clip above yesterday (thanks for posting!) and wondering why In the West was never released on vinyl ¦.https://shop.comedyminusone.com/product ... -west-2x12https://skwm.bandcamp.com/album/in-the-west

Very excited! Also stoked about the shirts being available again. I lost mine.

FM tmidyett wrote:By and large, the greater Seattle music scene had no use for us. Not that we were so bizarre, but we weren t garage, grunge, or punk. We were too loud. Hard to book, hard to get, hard to sign. Did anyone want to punch that ticket? Yes, in fact. Some did! I ve often said (only when asked, mind you) that Silkworm didn t have limited appeal as much as we had a limited audience. Within that audience ¦more or less unlimited appeal. Rabid fans. Which, as insular as we were, was nevertheless a source of great sustenance to us at a particularly scrubby time.I spent several years mostly lurking on the old SKWM message board, and then around 2004 when most of the regulars decamped here, I followed. I've been mostly lurking ever since. I'm not surprised that this band still means as much (albeit something quite different, of course) to me now as they did back then -- it was always pretty obvious that they were timeless -- but I am thankful.Beyond stoked for this reissue. And the "remixed" cover art is beautiful.

HOT: awaiting the in the west waxNOT: missing out on the italian platinum beanie