Round II of Desert Island Discs is Missoula, Montana's Silkworm.

You find yourself adrift on a desert island with only one Silkworm record to your name. Which album would you like it to be? Please vote and explain your answer below.

As per usual, you are also given a copy of the Bible and the Complete William Shakespeare. Maybe you could cut individual words out of both and write your memoirs. That would certainly kill some time.

An autobiography that was also an anagram of the Bible would be a George Perec style feat.

Italian Platinum is the first one I heard in its entirety, even though I remember CJMcG loaning me a bunch of their stuff a long time ago. Shame on me. But anyway, it is the one I know the best and the one I would want to hear again if I were on this mythical desert island with only one cd by every band I've ever liked. Being on an island without LR72 would be rough.

godDAMN. Firewater. 'Killing My Ass' is perfect.

i cannot get over: 1) how great the few albums i have heard are for any number of reasons and 2) how i was so late to catch on. so it goes...



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not sure about a whole album, but certainly a mixtape with that fantastic lizard sounding chok chok chok chok chok chok ping ping ping ping starting riff alternating with the drums, super song with awesome geeeeeetar....

My only complaints with Firewater are that it's a little long and not all that cohesive.

On a desert island, maybe those aren't bad things.

All the albums are reasonable choices, and trying to distill out my true favorites just brings me to realize that I'd have taken a different view of it six months ago. There's no b-list -- just different choices based on circumstances and temporary feelings and moods.

The circumstances being as they are, I'll take Firewater.

Gareth Keenan wrote:My only complaints with Firewater are that it's a little long and not all that cohesive.

On vinyl, this isn't such a problem because you can take each side as a 'suite' of songs. The last four songs on that record are fucking perfection -

13. Drag The River
14. Killing My Ass
15. Caricature of A Joke
16. Don't Make Plans This Friday

Are there many albums that have four sequenced songs of this quality? I can't think of many and most of them are also by Silkworm.

Gareth Keenan wrote:My only complaints with Firewater are that it's a little long and not all that cohesive.

i could do without Miracle Mile dropped in the middle, but it is my choice all the same. i don't mind the length.

I own this Silkworm promo CD called New School/Old School (i think) that Matador put together in the early/mid '90s. It has material from most, if not all, of their records up to that point, a couple of covers, a live song...don't have it in front of me rite now, otherwise i'd list the tracks. I do recall it contains, "Cariacture...", "Couldn't u wait", "The Chain (live)
(yes, the fleetwood mac song), a Dylan cover with Malkmus playing on it... { I'm really bad at recalling song titles, even on some of my favorite albums. }
Anyhow, I would take that one. Pretty good track by track liner notes by TM, too.

Firewater, hand's down, for any album ever made.

Developer would be a close, close second, but that's sort of a bummer record for me. Like a dark time in the woods album.

RE: The Chain, it's not actually live, but from an old 7 inch by the band. I think it's great. It also contains The Grand Tour, which is Tim Cook's favorite song of all time.
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