Album Rating: 4.0

stone. cold. near-classic.

Album Rating: 5.0

I would say the same of The Natural Bridge ;-P

Album Rating: 4.0

battle lines are drawn



I mean they’re both pretty damn near perfect

Album Rating: 5.0

Best Berman



Or maybe that is Purple Mountains there is no answer

Album Rating: 4.0

natural bridge for me but all 3 are contenders

Album Rating: 4.0

coffee and this good morning

Album Rating: 4.0

everything about blue arrangements makes it the most pavement-esque song in the silver jews catalogue

Album Rating: 4.5

perfect Saturday morning album



@Pheremone It definitely has that Pavement wonkiness, I think Federal Dust does too

Album Rating: 5.0

Yeah “Blue Arrangements” is suuuuuper Pavement, the slacker rock solos on that one are so great. This whole album has some of my favorite guitar work ever; The Natural Bridge is the best pure Berman album but I do think the extra twist that Malkmus brings to this one with their guitar and vocal interplay helps bring this one more fully into classic territory (Natural Bridge is like a 4.7 though, I could easily 5 that one too if I really wanted to).

Never given this a proper listen. Always been under the radar as a pavementy band when there’s only one pavement.

Album Rating: 5.0

They’re in the same realm as Pavement of course because Malkmus is a sometimes-member here, but Berman’s songwriting is a totally different beast. Malkmus is great but Berman was a legend. So as much as there’s also only one Pavement there’s only one Silver Jews. 😜

Album Rating: 4.0

im gonna shine out in the wild silence

Album Rating: 4.5

Why can't monsters get along with other monsters?

Album Rating: 4.0

zak wtf listen to this immediately!!!

Album Rating: 4.5

"I do think the extra twist that Malkmus brings to this one with their guitar and vocal interplay helps bring this one more fully into classic territory "



man I kinda feel the opposite... love SM but I could do with like 50% less of him here lol

Album Rating: 5.0

“People” always enters rotation when the temperature hits the seventies

Album Rating: 4.0

I dyed my hair in a motel void

Met the coroner at Dreamgate Frontier

He took my hand, and said, "I'll help you, boy

If you really want to disappear"

Album Rating: 5.0

I asked a painter

Why the roads are colored black

He said, “Steve, it’s because people leave

And no highway can bring them back…”

Album Rating: 4.5

And their moustaches caked with airplane glue

Album Rating: 4.4

Silver Jews absolutely clear Pavement and i fuck with Pavement a lot