chairman_hall wrote:So I got Firewater the other day. Didn't think it was too remarkable on first listen. But man, i'm sitting here with a hangover and listening to it again and this shit is making me almost cry. So beautiful.

Salut.

it is one of the best records you will own.

Due to some kind of wierd mental block I waited til this christmas to own any Silkworm albums. This is made all the more inexcusable as I've even been lucky enough to see them live in camber sands ATP and they were great, one of the standouts of the weekend.
Now I have Italian Platinum, i'm buying them all one at a time. Incredible.

Model Citizen wrote:Now I have Italian Platinum, i'm buying them all one at a time. Incredible.

This will be no small feat.
It took me damn near a year to get everything and that was helped by finding a bunch of the early stuff in used bins.
Just looking on Amazon, it appears that Libertine is worth $40.

I did not really get Silkworm the first time I heard them - I didn't DISLIKE, but I didn't GET. Then, suddenly, it clicked, and now I need to start buying all their records.

Silkworm doesn't appeal to me in the way that rock bands usually do, but rather in the way that blues and folk musicians do.

Christopher J. McGarvey wrote:

Model Citizen wrote:Now I have Italian Platinum, i'm buying them all one at a time. Incredible.

This will be no small feat.
It took me damn near a year to get everything and that was helped by finding a bunch of the early stuff in used bins.
Just looking on Amazon, it appears that Libertine is worth $40.

Hmm, see what you mean. Think i'll just start with firewater and work my way from there

I've been trying my hardest to track down their albums. So far, I've only managed to find two. Italium Platinum, for $2 at a sale at my school's radio station, and Firewater, which I was fortunate enough to find on vinyl in a grimey record store.

Do they still take orders through the paypal store on their site?

At work tonight, someone asked me what my favorite band was. I said Silkworm. I think I'd have a harder time figuring out #2.

Silkworm doesn't appeal to me in the way that rock bands usually do, but rather in the way that blues and folk musicians do.

I could see that. I don't listen to enough blues or folk to have that distinction totally worked out in my mind, but there's something beyond the basic rock aesthetic that gets me. There's something very honest about the human experience in the music -- and not just in the lyrics, although it's there too. It's like each song plays out as a unique snapshot of a different flawed, complex state of mind.

I think that's why it's hard to "get" the first time . . . and sometimes, the second to fifth or tenth times. But eventually it clicks, and you don't just like it, you really appreciate it, and it can be moving.

And it probably doesn't hurt that I've often used alcohol as a way to probe for a deeper meaning to my life. Speaking of which . . .

I also never jelled with the "late night at the bar staring at my beer" angle of many of the songs.

I've been in that situation a lot.

If there is a more joyous sounding record than "Never Met a Man I Didn't Like" I can't think of it .

I can't decide if Silkworm in concert was better than Silkworm on record, but they never failed to bring the goods. Same is true of the Downer Trio and Bottomless Pit.

Dark Flame wrote:Do they still take orders through the paypal store on their site?

Ask tmidgett.


Alibris has some Silkworm CDs.

So what's the best album? Not like, your favorite one...you know, what's the Songs About Fucking or whatever?

Sorry if I sound like a schlemeil, I just wanted to know what the "definitive" one was. I'd like to check it out and then maybe branch out from there.