I went to college with Dave. Me and another friend from those days were planning on going to his show on Monday. She had emailed him and asked if we could see him, to say hi. He said he would wait after the show for us, and he said he never does that, but that he would do it for us. I am crushed. I never met anyone like Dave. I will never forget when he was offering haircuts to make extra money, and he shaved my head. I dyed the rest black :) He had a great radio show on WTJU with his friend Rob called "The Black Hair Show." He wrote amazing poetry even then..much of it was written in the UVa morgue where he worked. He was so funny. Super witty and smart. Too much talent, gone too soon. This song is haunting me "some of them were once people I was happy to know".. I was happy to know you, Dave. RIP.
Just in case you see this David, I've been listening to your music for over ten years now, read all the poetry of yours I could find, never got bored. You've been an enormous inspiration and your work has helped me through several hard times. Much love.
Hey exurb1a, thank you for turning me onto this band. The video you made about Nashville was something I really needed to hear as I’ve been dealing with a suicide in the family recently. Now that’s a lot to put on a stranger, but something about you putting your grief into words coupled with this music has made me feel a little better tonight. And that, as you might say, is grand. So Thank you. Hope all is well and that your next pint doesn’t have too much foam in it.
As someone battling with a depression that doesn’t seem to end, it saddens me that David took his life. I feel both ingrained in the melancholia and removed from it when I listen to him. Stay safe everyone.
Why? Obviously, it was quite intentional. The guy put out an album as a suicide note and killed himself literally the day before the first show of the tour.
Just listened to this album on a late night drive back from a live show with my brother. I was going to fall asleep on the ride but every song just kept grabbing my attention. David’s lyrics are just so damn profound , and the rest of the band is damn good at having catchy production. At the end I could barely even say anything. Knowing these were the final words of a man that was staring into the face of death for so much of his life, it’s so intensely depressing and cold, but it sounds so hopeful that it’s hard to let it get to you so much and want to turn it off. I’m so glad to have heard this. Thanks brother for showing me this. Rip David
Ive been thinking of ending my time in my meat vessel . I can relate so much , I have just been sooo sad for so long I’m just so tired , and I think that’s the point you don’t have the energy to continue . When the tangible sorrow is gone & your just so tired of being sad . I just don’t have the guts to do it , I figure I’ll just relapse on that Kensington Philadelphia fentanyl and that should do the job... die on a dirty sidewalk in north Philly . Who knows maybe I’ll just keep trudging threw this for another decade , idk . But all my happiness is gone also David
Today marks 1 year since Davids passing. The first time I was introduced to his music was when I was working at Yellowstone last summer '19. This was the first song I heard and couldn't comprehend how much this song said to what I was and at sometimes am feeling. I worked at night at the hotel and would blare this album loud because no one was there, just myself. My best friend would come to visit me and we went hiking. One day my knee was bothering me and I told my friend I'm going to sit down for a bit to rest up. While I waited for him to come back from a short hike, I checked my phone and saw that David had passed. It hit me even though I was fairly new to his music. Hope you found that peace.
I'm sorry to ask, I just discovered this and really like it and believe to need it right now in my passing through this world. I'm very curious without having to look it up, how did this person pass??
Ally. This makes me want to marry you because you knew where to find me. I’ll be back in Austin in a few weeks. I think you have an Instagram? If you do, my IG is jeauxdiego. Let me know if you want another contact method. Love you long teem
god damn this song never fails to make me cry for a variety of reasons. My parents raised me on pavement and silver jews and so theres this childhood connection I have to this music but theres also my coming of age connection becoming addicted to drugs and escapism due to the trauma and anxiety from childhood and puberty. I got into harder drugs and remember listening to this song soon after it came out when my best friend and I were having trouble scoring some opioids. Having finally got some we drove out to the absolutely beautiful illinois countryside and got high in my car on some abandoned country road and I remember hearing this song kick in as soon as my high did and holding in tears realizing what my life had come to and how I already felt this songs sentiment deeply being so young. Im doing a bit better now but I can't listen to this without becoming emotional. RIP and thank you dave for giving us the words to describe what we all feel.
But for me I can’t sing along any louder and cry and exclaim more than I do with this song. It’s magical and true and sad and beautiful. We all will experience this feeling and no one put it to music more beautifully.
My youngest son (28) and my daughter (38) are devastated about the loss of this incredible poet, singer/songwriter. They were going to go see him at Mercy Lounge in Nashville in a few weeks. I am so sorry to hear of his loss, and my heart goes out to all who knew and loved him.
This song breaks my heart every time. I almost took my life last week and understanding how hard it is to be pulled so close to the void without succumbing just makes me feel for poor Dave.
Hey!!listen to me and us.. don't cha go nowhere stranger!! Trust me when I say yes I know things are bad,for my thread at least,and Idk how bad it is for you...but..I been telling myself 2 main things-1)no matter how it gets,ALWAYS REMEMBER, that there is someone out there who has it BETTER than you,and someone out there has it WORSE than you! 2)if there is still any REAL emotion flowing thru you(non-negative meaning), think about the suffering and sadness that ur friends and family will go thru, reeling from ur loss!!yes that will happen,you will make others crushed by this harm u will cause on urself and them... I get upset and depressed at myself when I think about how it could end,then I think about those 2 things,makes me just ughh..don't wanna do that to ppl in my life...And I already have a strong sense OF WANTING TO SURVIVE!!!YOU SHOULD TOO!!STAY ALIVE &SURVIVE... you need a friend,get ahold of some of us lol!!😁✌️🍻🤟🍻😌
You know it says a lot about the Grammys when they don't even include the modern day Bob Dylan in their tribute.... I knew they were always a joke but hearing about them not including David was a big error since he's one of the most inspirational and honest songwriters within the past 30 years.
same chords/tempo as Trains Across the Sea, which DCB said was the first song he ever wrote... even the lyrics: compare "10,000 afternoons ago" to "in 27 years I've drunk 50,000 beers" - 10,000 days is roughly 27 years. i wonder how many other hints he hid in this last record - I'm sure his mind was made up. love you David, and miss you
New to David’s stuff, started with this album a week ago, now I’m listening to the first album. Picked up on this as well, such a great artist RIP. Can’t wait to go through the rest one album at a time
often thought to myself “i hope david berman is doing ok out there”. usually while listening to silver jews late at night with a beer on the back porch. i never met him but i loved him like a brother. his songs always had the words for the little moments and pervasive feelings we all experience but don’t know how to describe; he was like the soundtrack to my clinical depression but also my hope for things to get better. i was going to go to one of his shows for my birthday, and was excited to crash-deal with my own social anxiety by trying to talk with him. that’ll never happen, and i’ll never hear another new song of his, and instead of wondering if david berman is ok, i will only hope he’s with his mom in heaven. i wish we’d all recognized a suicide letter for what it was a month ago. may You who are the source of mercy shelter him beneath Your wings eternally, and bind his soul among the living, that he may rest in peace. and let us say: Amen.
i hope you're doing ok. if not great, ok will suffice. you can still crack a beer on your porch and listen to SJ on your birthday, that's the good thing. take care and hang on. it does get better, eventually.
"It's not the purple hills It's not the silver lakes It's not the snowcloud shadowed interstates It's not the icy bike chain rain of Portland, Oregon" I love David's words, always will. Rest in peace.
It doesn't seem like a coincidence that this is the last thing David put out to the world. It was an explanation. Hard to listen to, but beautiful regardless. Thank you.
I agree, but coming back to this fucking kills. It hurts, man. It really did feel like someone was wrong for a few years, things are just settling now with the ship righting itself. But David didn’t make it through that, and we’ve lost others. It’s time to heal.
Having been a Dave Berman fan for 25 years, I am genuinely upset by his passing. One of the greatest songwriters of my generation. Good bye Dave. We Are Real.
I'm devastated to say that I just found out about Silver Jews, Purple Mountains, and David Berman tonight. These groups, and their front man are some of the most talented artists that I've heard in a while, and I love their music for so many reasons already. But, just finding about David Berman and the music of Purple Mountains and Silver Jews just tonight is heartbreaking for a whole other reason. And it's that the world is a lesser place for the loss of such a brilliant mind as David Berman.
This was immediately one of the best albums I’d ever heard, shortly before David left. Understood what it was immediately. Thank you David. Wish we could have been friends. Hope you’re somewhere/something happier now
"It's not the purple hills, it's not the silver lakes it's not the snow cloud shadowed interstates it's not the icy, bike chain rain of Portland, Oregon. Nothing's wrong and no one's asking but the fears so strong it leaves you gasping. No way to last out here like this for long. Cause everywhere I go I know all my happiness is gone." Damn David Berman. RIP Silver Jews Can't wait to see what's next.
Chris Rutledge I’m sorry about your friend. I ran in to him once in Nashville, but he wasn’t my friend, but that hasn’t kept me from catching myself feeling sad many times over the last month. David was just that kind of guy to make you feel like you knew him intimately. I’m sorry about the loss of your friend. May his memory be a blessing
He was one of my brother's best friends. He was going to be opening for David on his tour. I am heartbroken for my brother and Cassie and all of David's loved ones. Rest easy 😢
"Silence is the artist's ultimate other-world gesture; by silence, he frees himself from servile bondage to the world, which appears as patron, client, audience, antagonist, arbiter, and distorter of his work." Susan Sontag, "The Aesthetics of Silence" (1967)
He actually required that some journalist read The Aesthetics of Silence before they met in Chicago for an interview. I can't remember which media it was, sorry. I've read so much about him in the last few days.
This could be the best album ever made, if it wasn't so incredibly saddening. Dave hit exactly the right spots in letting you feel how depression feels. Thank you Dave, for all the good music. Still miss you.
Man, it's already been more than a year and I still keep crying over the fact that David left us. I barely even knew who he was when this released, if Spotify didn't randomly recommend me Purple Mountains when it was out and didn't have the cover art it has, I would probably never become aware of David's existence, but I'm so glad I got around to listening to it. I'll be first to admit that I didn't really "get it" at first, but after repeated listening I realized how much of a genius he was and the more I listened to it, the more I feel in love with it and just as I was yearning for them to make more music *BAM* I suddenly discover David used to be the front-man to another group prior to Purple Mountains (The Silver Jews). After further reading I saw that Stephen Malkmus of Pavement which further spiked my interest. I was totally in love with this guy's music, not even a month into discovering this man's art and then suddenly I saw in my FB feed "Silver Jews' David Berman Dies At 52"..... he had taken his own life. I don't remember crying about a celebrity's death since Steve Irwin's back when I was 5. I felt as if had lost a life-long friend, I was just as unaware of his existence just as he was as mine less than a month ago, but there I was bawling my eyes out. Now that we're going through a global pandemic with the world seemingly just at the edge of total collapse and my personal life taking a quick turn for the worse these past few weeks, I've found shelter in not only David's music, but his poetry, and the few interviews and interactions with other's I've happen to come across. I'll forever be grateful for that, but this only makes me miss him even more and the fact that he took his own life just makes dealing with the pain a thousand times worse. He was probably feeling worse than how I'm feeling right now. I just wish he was able to find some solace during the last moments of his life. Nobody should ever go through that sort of pain, especially such a kind hearted person as him. I'm rolling in tears as I write this. I'm so sorry if I made anyone sad because of reading this, I needed to vent out somewhere, I just didn't know where else I could. Bless your soul, David Berman, wherever you may be.
@@treebendsinthewind oh right yeah i wish it was on the album i love the lo-fi bit too. fuck i miss him so much already. Havent stopped listening to him since he passed.
RIP DAVID. So sad you were in so much pain and couldn't find hope after giving us such a great last piece of work. I will cherish your work. Many will too.
Friends are warmer than gold when you're old And keeping them is harder than you might suppose Lately, I tend to make strangers wherever I go Some of them were once people I was happy to know Mounting mileage on the dash Double darkness falling fast I keep stressing, pressing on Way deep down at some substratum Feels like something really wrong has happened And I confess I'm barely hanging on All my happiness is gone All my happiness is gone It's all gone somewhere beyond All my happiness is gone Ten thousand afternoons ago All my happiness just overflowed That was life at first and goal to go Me and you, and us and them And all those people way back when All our hardships were just yardsticks then, you know You know It's not the purple hills It's not the silver lakes It's not the snowcloud shadowed interstates It's not the icy bike chain rain of Portland, Oregon Where nothing's wrong and no one's asking But the fear's so strong it leaves you gasping No way to last out here like this for long 'Cause everywhere I go, I know Everywhere I go, I know All my happiness is gone All my happiness is gone It's all gone somewhere beyond All my happiness is gone
Full lyrics: Friends are warmer than gold when you're old And keeping them is harder than you might suppose Lately, I tend to make strangers wherever I go Some of them were once people I was happy to know Mounting mileage on the dash Double darkness falling fast I keep stressing, pressing on Way deep down at some substratum Feels like something really wrong has happened And I confess I'm barely hanging on All my happiness is gone All my happiness is gone It's all gone somewhere beyond All my happiness is gone Ten thousand afternoons ago All my happiness just overflowed That was life at first and goal to go Me and you and us and them And all those people way back when All our hardships were just yardsticks then, you know You know Not the purple hills It's not the silver lake It's not the snowcloud shadowed interstates It's not the icy bike chain rain of Portland, Oregon Where nothing's wrong and no one's asking But the fear's so strong it leaves you gasping No way to last out here like this for long 'Cause everywhere I go, I know Everywhere I go, I know All my happiness is gone All my happiness is gone It's all gone somewhere beyond All my happiness is gone
David Berman was a poet. In the truest sense of the word. It's a shame his personal life was such a struggle... Rest in Peace, Dave, you'll be missed. Your words will continue to inspire and be cherished by the people that care. God bless you - Louis
This album is such a jam yet pensive and thank you David for all your thoughtful music. R.I.P from a Pakistani. American Water will always be one of my fave albums, in this dimension.
Say it isn't true, David. Natural Bridge meant more to me than most albums in my life time and I can't believe that your light has dimmed out. I hope you at least have finally found some peace. RIP to the lyrical genius of my lifetime.
For the past two decades your music has been a close companion - it gave me strength and helped me make sense of moments when I was lost and barely hanging on. We are overjoyed to have you back. But know that your music has never left. And how could it? Your music is timeless - it doesn't fucking age. Thank you and thank you and thank you, DCB.
He's been a great influence to many musicians who admire fine lyricism. This particular song has some beautiful imagery and associations. Icy bikechain rain of Portland Oregon. I think he would have been pleased with that, the good man.
Whether we look to the past, the now, or the future, I sense your songs as a shining light and a voice for those who have been, are, or will be suffering. Eternity can be glimpsed in your deep creations. Thank you for this, David.
Tripping balls last night and my friend showed me this song/band. This is the saddest most hauntingly beautiful song I've heard in years. Bitter I'm "late to the party" and will never get a chance to see Berman live. Rest in piece man, you earned it.
Unfortunately, I only started listening to David's music after he passed. I relate to this album so much.. He really knew how to pierce your soul with such simple, yet poignant lyrics. If any family or friends of his are readings this.. judging by the comments, David's words and music touched so many lives. Such a sad loss. We really do need a new word from such a subtle G-d soon. Rest in peace David. Shalom.
Damn David... All your happiness was truly gone I guess.. You were a very special, fragile soul in this harsh world and yet you managed to let us see the poetry through it all.. Thank you so much for giving me the perfect soundtrack to my life.... Shine bright, wherever you are.. I hope it's like Christmas in a submarine.. Your music, your words, your presence will be with me, always. Thank you, I love you
So happy to see other Berman fans. I never understood the desire to wall off our idols, the way we did in the 90s with Sebadoh and Palace Music. Every car should have a Starlight Walker sticker and every kid should sing "Albemarle Station" at kindergarten.
I only recently discovered his amazing music after hearing a song from Purple Mountains. There's a certain joy with not learning about an artist until after they've been around for many years, you get to just totally binge on everything for the first time all at once. Such an amazing person. Wow. So sad.
To write such honest, raw, deep feelings down in such a clear and insightful way, whilst suffering through such hell.... takes a remarkable person. There are too few of those, and sadly you're no longer amongst us, I can only be grateful that you have left us with this amazing album that soothes my hurts 💜
This hurts. I've listened to this countless times before and after it happened but it hurts man, as brilliant as it is. I wish I could be mad at him but he's so honest and brilliant here, like he always has been and that's the hard part. Godspeed David.
Not much cracks through the shell these days, but I was surprised to shed a couple tears when I heard this singular man was gone. Been listening to Silver Jews and Purple Mountains all week. Grateful for your music David, sad to see you go. RIP
I love this album, David. It gets me through hard times, though it's filled with your desperation. Thank you for this last gem. Wherever you are, thank you.
I just learned of Dave’s death today while I was driving at work just streaming music on my phone, and wondered why Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billie and Cassie Berman were doing a version of “The Wild Kindness.” I am expostulating a little bit based on things I have learned digging for information today, but it’s devastating to me to think of Dave living in a little room above his record label (the room that present-day David sings to us from in this video), reeling from his and Cassie’s divorce, wondering whether he had done the right thing to disband the Jews, and feeling isolated, defeated, being fairly deeply in debt (which his rich corporate lobbyist father easily could have helped him with, but they were estranged and Dave felt his father to be a morally reprehensible person and publicly denounced him), and wondering whether he had the fortitude to go on tour (something he only did for the first time in 2006, after recording since ‘91, and explained he only found the strength to do after an attempt with suicide and finding sobriety from alcohol and drug addictions)… It breaks my heart. I’m sure Dave had his demons, and he seems like he could be a stubborn person. But his music and lyricism has helped me through some difficult times and feeling in my life. You always feel his wry view on life and his beautifully askance way of expressing himself with language come through in every song he sang. I hope his soul is at peaceful rest, and I continue to be grateful for the solace the Silver Jews brought to me as a band. I want to look into his poetry and writings, but I may need to take a moment before I can. I watched the documentary ‘Silver Jew’ today and spent my entire shift delivering packages listening to their music, and his loss still feels fresh, even though this is someone the world lost almost three years ago now, and I never met him in person, or even sent a fan email. I wish I would have now.
Only casually listened to Silver Jews throughout my life, but Purple Mountains lately is what hooked me on Berman. Was supposed to go to his show in 6 days and could not wait to see him in person. Out of the overwhelming amount of phoney shit on this earth he truly seemed like a guy who understood the irony of our existence in a way that just made so much damn sense. This is one of those rare albums that I felt like I've been listening to my whole life. He describes things I've always felt in words that I could never come up with. "Friends are warmer than gold, when you're old. Keeping them is harder, than you might suppose" - I hope you've finally found peace sir.
So sad. Been a Silver Jews fan a long time. I heard a Purple Mountains song on the radio last week. Looked them up right away and went from so excited for new music to incredibly sad in a few minutes.
I went to college with Dave. Me and another friend from those days were planning on going to his show on Monday. She had emailed him and asked if we could see him, to say hi. He said he would wait after the show for us, and he said he never does that, but that he would do it for us. I am crushed. I never met anyone like Dave. I will never forget when he was offering haircuts to make extra money, and he shaved my head. I dyed the rest black :) He had a great radio show on WTJU with his friend Rob called "The Black Hair Show." He wrote amazing poetry even then..much of it was written in the UVa morgue where he worked. He was so funny. Super witty and smart. Too much talent, gone too soon. This song is haunting me "some of them were once people I was happy to know".. I was happy to know you, Dave. RIP.
Thank you for sharing your memories of David. I'm so sorry to hear of this loss, RIP.
So sorry for the lost. And thank you. RIP
yes! thank you for sharing Sandra.
Thank you for sharing your memories. I'm so sorry for the loss of your friend. He was a really special person.
Heartbreaking. Sending
Just in case you see this David, I've been listening to your music for over ten years now, read all the poetry of yours I could find, never got bored. You've been an enormous inspiration and your work has helped me through several hard times. Much love.
Hey exurb1a! You make wonderful content; I'm glad to see your taste in music is just as refined.
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came here after watching your video. Really sad, really nice music.
Hey exurb1a, thank you for turning me onto this band. The video you made about Nashville was something I really needed to hear as I’ve been dealing with a suicide in the family recently. Now that’s a lot to put on a stranger, but something about you putting your grief into words coupled with this music has made me feel a little better tonight. And that, as you might say, is grand.
So Thank you.
Hope all is well and that your next pint doesn’t have too much foam in it.
I doubt he will
As someone battling with a depression that doesn’t seem to end, it saddens me that David took his life. I feel both ingrained in the melancholia and removed from it when I listen to him. Stay safe everyone.
Thinking of you, friend.
I’ve been on the edge for years. But I’ll have to learn to love myself. Most powerful video ever.
you are still here. Andthat says something. go back to early silver jews. It's saved me so many times
Why? Obviously, it was quite intentional. The guy put out an album as a suicide note and killed himself literally the day before the first show of the tour.
@@duffharris9295 what is the point of this comment? I can’t tell what you’re trying to say or responding to
Just listened to this album on a late night drive back from a live show with my brother. I was going to fall asleep on the ride but every song just kept grabbing my attention. David’s lyrics are just so damn profound , and the rest of the band is damn good at having catchy production. At the end I could barely even say anything. Knowing these were the final words of a man that was staring into the face of death for so much of his life, it’s so intensely depressing and cold, but it sounds so hopeful that it’s hard to let it get to you so much and want to turn it off. I’m so glad to have heard this. Thanks brother for showing me this. Rip David
We’re all still healing.
Thank you David.
I’m still trying. RIP my member of the tribe.
Everywhere I know I know
I miss the music and him.
"The dead know what they're doing when they leave this world behind."
You will be missed.
You saw the news, too?
DealerTags Any confirmation on cause of death yet?
Club Astro Transcendental Motor Where was this confirmed?
Spencer McKay I heard it was suicide
Vadim Filatov If it is, that fucking sucks man
'I confess I'm barely hanging on' sends shivers through my spine.
So fucking sad.
me too.
Know the feeling
It's terrible how he looks at the camera when he says it...
Ive been thinking of ending my time in my meat vessel . I can relate so much , I have just been sooo sad for so long I’m just so tired , and I think that’s the point you don’t have the energy to continue . When the tangible sorrow is gone & your just so tired of being sad . I just don’t have the guts to do it , I figure I’ll just relapse on that Kensington Philadelphia fentanyl and that should do the job... die on a dirty sidewalk in north Philly . Who knows maybe I’ll just keep trudging threw this for another decade , idk . But all my happiness is gone also David
'Way deep down in some substratum, feels like something really wrong has happened' That is one of the most touching and sad lines I have ever heard.
Today marks 1 year since Davids passing. The first time I was introduced to his music was when I was working at Yellowstone last summer '19. This was the first song I heard and couldn't comprehend how much this song said to what I was and at sometimes am feeling. I worked at night at the hotel and would blare this album loud because no one was there, just myself. My best friend would come to visit me and we went hiking. One day my knee was bothering me and I told my friend I'm going to sit down for a bit to rest up. While I waited for him to come back from a short hike, I checked my phone and saw that David had passed. It hit me even though I was fairly new to his music. Hope you found that peace.
I was fairly new to his music as well and you summed up the way i felt quite nicely.
I'm sorry to ask, I just discovered this and really like it and believe to need it right now in my passing through this world. I'm very curious without having to look it up, how did this person pass??
@@tappytibbon927 He took his own life. Check out this interview a few months before his passing...th-cam.com/video/K7jYMwoqX_o/w-d-xo.html
yo wyoming is the perfect setting for this song, i live in lander so i can relate.
Ally. This makes me want to marry you because you knew where to find me. I’ll be back in Austin in a few weeks. I think you have an Instagram? If you do, my IG is jeauxdiego.
Let me know if you want another contact method. Love you long teem
god damn this song never fails to make me cry for a variety of reasons. My parents raised me on pavement and silver jews and so theres this childhood connection I have to this music but theres also my coming of age connection becoming addicted to drugs and escapism due to the trauma and anxiety from childhood and puberty. I got into harder drugs and remember listening to this song soon after it came out when my best friend and I were having trouble scoring some opioids. Having finally got some we drove out to the absolutely beautiful illinois countryside and got high in my car on some abandoned country road and I remember hearing this song kick in as soon as my high did and holding in tears realizing what my life had come to and how I already felt this songs sentiment deeply being so young. Im doing a bit better now but I can't listen to this without becoming emotional. RIP and thank you dave for giving us the words to describe what we all feel.
This album is a warm jacket you put on before walking into the bush and never come back.
Sometimes it's just nice to have someone sharing the same bus.
This has to be one of the saddest songs of all time.
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No. There were sadder ones... Unfortunately.
But for me I can’t sing along any louder and cry and exclaim more than I do with this song. It’s magical and true and sad and beautiful. We all will experience this feeling and no one put it to music more beautifully.
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We cannot tear out a single page of our life, but we can throw the whole book in the fire - Rip, dude. You'll be missed.
Dean Faragher Great movie!
My youngest son (28) and my daughter (38) are devastated about the loss of this incredible poet, singer/songwriter. They were going to go see him at Mercy Lounge in Nashville in a few weeks. I am so sorry to hear of his loss, and my heart goes out to all who knew and loved him.
Goodbye to one of the truely genius songwriters of our time. Hope what's next is a better trip.
He is part of glorious Biomass now supporting nature to grow ....poetic fertiliser...all that awaits us sooner or later. ...
This song breaks my heart every time. I almost took my life last week and understanding how hard it is to be pulled so close to the void without succumbing just makes me feel for poor Dave.
Hang in there @adventureface666
please stay with us, friend.
Stay
Hey!!listen to me and us.. don't cha go nowhere stranger!! Trust me when I say yes I know things are bad,for my thread at least,and Idk how bad it is for you...but..I been telling myself 2 main things-1)no matter how it gets,ALWAYS REMEMBER, that there is someone out there who has it BETTER than you,and someone out there has it WORSE than you!
2)if there is still any REAL emotion flowing thru you(non-negative meaning), think about the suffering and sadness that ur friends and family will go thru, reeling from ur loss!!yes that will happen,you will make others crushed by this harm u will cause on urself and them...
I get upset and depressed at myself when I think about how it could end,then I think about those 2 things,makes me just ughh..don't wanna do that to ppl in my life...And I already have a strong sense OF WANTING TO SURVIVE!!!YOU SHOULD TOO!!STAY ALIVE &SURVIVE...
you need a friend,get ahold of some of us lol!!😁✌️🍻🤟🍻😌
You matter! And there IS beauty in the world, and much/many worth fighting for. Compassion is the way. We're rooting for you
You know it says a lot about the Grammys when they don't even include the modern day Bob Dylan in their tribute.... I knew they were always a joke but hearing about them not including David was a big error since he's one of the most inspirational and honest songwriters within the past 30 years.
same chords/tempo as Trains Across the Sea, which DCB said was the first song he ever wrote... even the lyrics: compare "10,000 afternoons ago" to "in 27 years I've drunk 50,000 beers" - 10,000 days is roughly 27 years. i wonder how many other hints he hid in this last record - I'm sure his mind was made up. love you David, and miss you
you blew my mind a little.
You blew mine too.
Yep, and the first words "No, I" are the exact first words of first track on Natural bridge
New to David’s stuff, started with this album a week ago, now I’m listening to the first album. Picked up on this as well, such a great artist RIP. Can’t wait to go through the rest one album at a time
@@chawsae enjoy your journey, some of those albums ended up being really important to me.
often thought to myself “i hope david berman is doing ok out there”. usually while listening to silver jews late at night with a beer on the back porch. i never met him but i loved him like a brother. his songs always had the words for the little moments and pervasive feelings we all experience but don’t know how to describe; he was like the soundtrack to my clinical depression but also my hope for things to get better. i was going to go to one of his shows for my birthday, and was excited to crash-deal with my own social anxiety by trying to talk with him. that’ll never happen, and i’ll never hear another new song of his, and instead of wondering if david berman is ok, i will only hope he’s with his mom in heaven. i wish we’d all recognized a suicide letter for what it was a month ago.
may You who are the source of mercy shelter him beneath Your wings eternally, and bind his soul among the living, that he may rest in peace. and let us say: Amen.
i hope you're doing ok. if not great, ok will suffice. you can still crack a beer on your porch and listen to SJ on your birthday, that's the good thing. take care and hang on. it does get better, eventually.
No man this does not exist ...He is part of a glorious Biomass now supporting nature to blossom...This waiting all of us sooner or later....
You might like Sparklehorse as well.
Closest I got was a smile and thank-you with Cassie. DM me if you ever need to talk, from someone who's been where you need to get out of.
Well said
"It's not the purple hills
It's not the silver lakes
It's not the snowcloud shadowed interstates
It's not the icy bike chain rain of Portland, Oregon"
I love David's words, always will. Rest in peace.
So crushing when you don’t appreciate genius until it’s gone.
The chorus is so dang catchy that lately I've been finding myself cheerily singing it as I go through my day. It's a funny old world.
It doesn't seem like a coincidence that this is the last thing David put out to the world. It was an explanation. Hard to listen to, but beautiful regardless. Thank you.
Who needs "13 reasons why" when we have a song that's 6:54 minutes long that explains it better?
well said
best album of 2019, best song of 2019, one of the best pieces of writing ever
I agree, but coming back to this fucking kills. It hurts, man. It really did feel like someone was wrong for a few years, things are just settling now with the ship righting itself. But David didn’t make it through that, and we’ve lost others. It’s time to heal.
@@SneedyKetler things are still wrong
Having been a Dave Berman fan for 25 years, I am genuinely upset by his passing. One of the greatest songwriters of my generation. Good bye Dave. We Are Real.
Same. Trains Across the Sea got me into Indie rock.
"That was life at first and goal to go"
DCB the great lyricist of our time. Rest in peace
I'm devastated to say that I just found out about Silver Jews, Purple Mountains, and David Berman tonight. These groups, and their front man are some of the most talented artists that I've heard in a while, and I love their music for so many reasons already.
But, just finding about David Berman and the music of Purple Mountains and Silver Jews just tonight is heartbreaking for a whole other reason. And it's that the world is a lesser place for the loss of such a brilliant mind as David Berman.
This was immediately one of the best albums I’d ever heard, shortly before David left. Understood what it was immediately. Thank you David. Wish we could have been friends. Hope you’re somewhere/something happier now
this song is permanently linked with few of the best memories I've made when i was at my worst
that's what a good artist is for, i guess. hope you're feeling better. today is one of the hard ones, tomorrow will be a bit brighter. or so i hope.
"It's not the purple hills, it's not the silver lakes
it's not the snow cloud shadowed interstates
it's not the icy, bike chain rain of Portland, Oregon.
Nothing's wrong and no one's asking
but the fears so strong it leaves you gasping.
No way to last out here like this for long.
Cause everywhere I go I know
all my happiness is gone."
Damn David Berman.
RIP Silver Jews
Can't wait to see what's next.
Death...
Yes, it's pretty fucking awful. He was my hero and my friend.
@GrilledCheezeSammich It's really sad to me that you think that's funny. I hope you learn empathy at some point.
Chris Rutledge hey man he is just a troll ignore him
Chris Rutledge I’m sorry about your friend. I ran in to him once in Nashville, but he wasn’t my friend, but that hasn’t kept me from catching myself feeling sad many times over the last month. David was just that kind of guy to make you feel like you knew him intimately. I’m sorry about the loss of your friend. May his memory be a blessing
He was one of my brother's best friends. He was going to be opening for David on his tour. I am heartbroken for my brother and Cassie and all of David's loved ones. Rest easy 😢
A pioneer of lockdown music videos, almost a year early... RIP
the way he looks up when he says beyond like he's gazing at something outta that room
Every time I see this video/song, I realize it is even more extraordinary than the last time.
"Silence is the artist's ultimate other-world gesture; by silence, he frees himself from servile bondage to the world, which appears as patron, client, audience, antagonist, arbiter, and distorter of his work."
Susan Sontag, "The Aesthetics of Silence" (1967)
He actually required that some journalist read The Aesthetics of Silence before they met in Chicago for an interview. I can't remember which media it was, sorry. I've read so much about him in the last few days.
wow. Well now he's really free from the bondage of the world. The ultimate silence.
Two years have passed since he left us. What a special and unique voice of a genius. Thanks David.
This could be the best album ever made, if it wasn't so incredibly saddening. Dave hit exactly the right spots in letting you feel how depression feels. Thank you Dave, for all the good music. Still miss you.
what a heartbreaking, gorgeous album. Little moments bring tears to my eyes... RIP David.
This song gets me in a way no other song has
Man, it's already been more than a year and I still keep crying over the fact that David left us. I barely even knew who he was when this released, if Spotify didn't randomly recommend me Purple Mountains when it was out and didn't have the cover art it has, I would probably never become aware of David's existence, but I'm so glad I got around to listening to it.
I'll be first to admit that I didn't really "get it" at first, but after repeated listening I realized how much of a genius he was and the more I listened to it, the more I feel in love with it and just as I was yearning for them to make more music *BAM* I suddenly discover David used to be the front-man to another group prior to Purple Mountains (The Silver Jews). After further reading I saw that Stephen Malkmus of Pavement which further spiked my interest.
I was totally in love with this guy's music, not even a month into discovering this man's art and then suddenly I saw in my FB feed "Silver Jews' David Berman Dies At 52"..... he had taken his own life.
I don't remember crying about a celebrity's death since Steve Irwin's back when I was 5.
I felt as if had lost a life-long friend, I was just as unaware of his existence just as he was as mine less than a month ago, but there I was bawling my eyes out.
Now that we're going through a global pandemic with the world seemingly just at the edge of total collapse and my personal life taking a quick turn for the worse these past few weeks, I've found shelter in not only David's music, but his poetry, and the few interviews and interactions with other's I've happen to come across.
I'll forever be grateful for that, but this only makes me miss him even more and the fact that he took his own life just makes dealing with the pain a thousand times worse. He was probably feeling worse than how I'm feeling right now. I just wish he was able to find some solace during the last moments of his life. Nobody should ever go through that sort of pain, especially such a kind hearted person as him.
I'm rolling in tears as I write this. I'm so sorry if I made anyone sad because of reading this, I needed to vent out somewhere, I just didn't know where else I could.
Bless your soul, David Berman, wherever you may be.
sums up exactly how I felt, my friend. I've never grieved so hard over someone I didn't know personally. Can't come back here without crying.
Beautifully said
Thank you for sharing, friend
Yeah that's what he's here for. He's stronger and weaker at the same time. I love him.
He was cursed with too much bandwidth, as the kids say.
What's fucked up is how unbelievably catchy the chorus is. I'm dancing with tears in my eyes, rest in peace.
David Berman's lyrics could always stop me in my tracks. Such a unique perspective. Such a loss.
I'll be listening to his songs all day and night. Rip David
That first part is gorgeous.
The synth strings bit?
@@alex_angri No the Lofi bit
@@treebendsinthewind oh right yeah i wish it was on the album i love the lo-fi bit too. fuck i miss him so much already. Havent stopped listening to him since he passed.
no musician has ever touched me so deeply. i’m sad i found him after he passed, but i’m so eternally grateful to have his music.
Life is too short to be happy!
RIP DAVID. So sad you were in so much pain and couldn't find hope after giving us such a great last piece of work. I will cherish your work. Many will too.
Club Astro Transcendental Motor His asshole of a father certainly didn’t help matters
@@ianloeb1672 thought he worked thru it many years ago
What a blow to the heart. We miss you David, you’ll be forever loved.
Rest easy, David. Shine out in the wild silence.
Pain is released. Rest in Peace. Thanks for all you have given us.
His momma named him after a king. So good to have you back king david. Youre music means so much to me
Hope u found what you needed. Thanks for telling us about it along the way.
Rest in peace. Random Rules played at my wedding 6 months ago and I often find myself thinking about you. Sending you love from this realm my friend.
It's a better world with David Berman songs to lift us up.
I'm back to this medicine.. love u big man.. wherever u are x x x
Friends are warmer than gold when you're old
And keeping them is harder than you might suppose
Lately, I tend to make strangers wherever I go
Some of them were once people I was happy to know
Mounting mileage on the dash
Double darkness falling fast
I keep stressing, pressing on
Way deep down at some substratum
Feels like something really wrong has happened
And I confess I'm barely hanging on
All my happiness is gone
All my happiness is gone
It's all gone somewhere beyond
All my happiness is gone
Ten thousand afternoons ago
All my happiness just overflowed
That was life at first and goal to go
Me and you, and us and them
And all those people way back when
All our hardships were just yardsticks then, you know
You know
It's not the purple hills
It's not the silver lakes
It's not the snowcloud shadowed interstates
It's not the icy bike chain rain of Portland, Oregon
Where nothing's wrong and no one's asking
But the fear's so strong it leaves you gasping
No way to last out here like this for long
'Cause everywhere I go, I know
Everywhere I go, I know
All my happiness is gone
All my happiness is gone
It's all gone somewhere beyond
All my happiness is gone
I get exactly what he is saying... same age, same feelings, similiar experiences. RIP.
Hope alls goin well, great music
It really doesn't get better than this. Perfect song, incredible.
Full lyrics:
Friends are warmer than gold when you're old
And keeping them is harder than you might suppose
Lately, I tend to make strangers wherever I go
Some of them were once people I was happy to know
Mounting mileage on the dash
Double darkness falling fast
I keep stressing, pressing on
Way deep down at some substratum
Feels like something really wrong has happened
And I confess I'm barely hanging on
All my happiness is gone
All my happiness is gone
It's all gone somewhere beyond
All my happiness is gone
Ten thousand afternoons ago
All my happiness just overflowed
That was life at first and goal to go
Me and you and us and them
And all those people way back when
All our hardships were just yardsticks then, you know
You know
Not the purple hills
It's not the silver lake
It's not the snowcloud shadowed interstates
It's not the icy bike chain rain of Portland, Oregon
Where nothing's wrong and no one's asking
But the fear's so strong it leaves you gasping
No way to last out here like this for long
'Cause everywhere I go, I know
Everywhere I go, I know
All my happiness is gone
All my happiness is gone
It's all gone somewhere beyond
All my happiness is gone
Still at the top of his game. Damn.
Thank You!
So sad, DCB. So fucking sad. You were a great person.
David Berman was a poet. In the truest sense of the word. It's a shame his personal life was such a struggle... Rest in Peace, Dave, you'll be missed. Your words will continue to inspire and be cherished by the people that care. God bless you - Louis
Silver Jews helped me through the hardest part of my life so far. The humor really cuts through the sadness sometimes
This album is such a jam yet pensive and thank you David for all your thoughtful music. R.I.P from a Pakistani. American Water will always be one of my fave albums, in this dimension.
Say it isn't true, David. Natural Bridge meant more to me than most albums in my life time and I can't believe that your light has dimmed out. I hope you at least have finally found some peace. RIP to the lyrical genius of my lifetime.
Hurts like a David Berman song should
hertz
Now it hurts even more :(
Rest in peace.
Miss you David
Survival of the fittest...
I hope David's family knows how much he meant to us, and how he made our lives better. He was a wonderful artist.
What an achingly beautiful song by one of our best poet/songwriters.
For the past two decades your music has been a close companion - it gave me strength and helped me make sense of moments when I was lost and barely hanging on.
We are overjoyed to have you back. But know that your music has never left. And how could it? Your music is timeless - it doesn't fucking age.
Thank you and thank you and thank you, DCB.
well he's fucking gone for good now :(
He left us with this incredible album. Like suicide notes are dumb and boring. David gave us this. Love this man forever for this
He's been a great influence to many musicians who admire fine lyricism. This particular song has some beautiful imagery and associations. Icy bikechain rain of Portland Oregon. I think he would have been pleased with that, the good man.
Whether we look to the past, the now, or the future, I sense your songs as a shining light and a voice for those who have been, are, or will be suffering. Eternity can be glimpsed in your deep creations. Thank you for this, David.
that intro is so hauntingly beautiful
Tripping balls last night and my friend showed me this song/band. This is the saddest most hauntingly beautiful song I've heard in years. Bitter I'm "late to the party" and will never get a chance to see Berman live. Rest in piece man, you earned it.
You are forever missed, you will be forever loved.
Unfortunately, I only started listening to David's music after he passed. I relate to this album so much.. He really knew how to pierce your soul with such simple, yet poignant lyrics. If any family or friends of his are readings this.. judging by the comments, David's words and music touched so many lives. Such a sad loss. We really do need a new word from such a subtle G-d soon. Rest in peace David. Shalom.
I dont really like his indie band so much. But lyrically hes fucken good
Best goodbye ever put to words and video.
This whole album is like a musical suicide note. As fucked up as that is, it’s still so good.
As above, so below.
Damn David... All your happiness was truly gone I guess.. You were a very special, fragile soul in this harsh world and yet you managed to let us see the poetry through it all.. Thank you so much for giving me the perfect soundtrack to my life.... Shine bright, wherever you are.. I hope it's like Christmas in a submarine.. Your music, your words, your presence will be with me, always. Thank you, I love you
So happy to see other Berman fans. I never understood the desire to wall off our idols, the way we did in the 90s with Sebadoh and Palace Music. Every car should have a Starlight Walker sticker and every kid should sing "Albemarle Station" at kindergarten.
Bad roads
I only recently discovered his amazing music after hearing a song from Purple Mountains.
There's a certain joy with not learning about an artist until after they've been around for many years, you get to just totally binge on everything for the first time all at once.
Such an amazing person. Wow. So sad.
To write such honest, raw, deep feelings down in such a clear and insightful way, whilst suffering through such hell.... takes a remarkable person. There are too few of those, and sadly you're no longer amongst us, I can only be grateful that you have left us with this amazing album that soothes my hurts 💜
This hurts. I've listened to this countless times before and after it happened but it hurts man, as brilliant as it is. I wish I could be mad at him but he's so honest and brilliant here, like he always has been and that's the hard part. Godspeed David.
Not much cracks through the shell these days, but I was surprised to shed a couple tears when I heard this singular man was gone. Been listening to Silver Jews and Purple Mountains all week. Grateful for your music David, sad to see you go. RIP
I've never been so sad for learning about the passing of someone I never knew personally. Such a great man. RIP.
David Berman is the Poet Laureate of fuckups and black sheeps. I commend him for that. Thank you for the new music.
Beautifully said my friend
I love this album, David. It gets me through hard times, though it's filled with your desperation. Thank you for this last gem. Wherever you are, thank you.
Of all of the people I knew
I always looked up to you
And after millions of years of cryin'
The sun still shines and shines
❤ RIP
love you and miss you david, thank you for everything
"Lately I tend to make strangers wherever I go" Genius!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I can’t believe I first listened to the album a day before his passing. Surreal, and tragic
R.I.P
Everything is gone, even the bad feelings, rest in poetry my friend
One of the greatest albums of the decade and probably of all time. So true it hurts. You will remain, Dave ❤
Ghosts don’t die. Ache doesn’t die. Love don’t. Long love the rolling purple mtns
Discovered this song Christmas day. The greatest present I could ever have wished for. An awesome epiphany for a fiercely fantastic songwriter.
I'll stop the world and melt with you.. obviously an inspiration for this.. dave loved that tune I'm sure..
I just learned of Dave’s death today while I was driving at work just streaming music on my phone, and wondered why Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billie and Cassie Berman were doing a version of “The Wild Kindness.”
I am expostulating a little bit based on things I have learned digging for information today, but it’s devastating to me to think of Dave living in a little room above his record label (the room that present-day David sings to us from in this video), reeling from his and Cassie’s divorce, wondering whether he had done the right thing to disband the Jews, and feeling isolated, defeated, being fairly deeply in debt (which his rich corporate lobbyist father easily could have helped him with, but they were estranged and Dave felt his father to be a morally reprehensible person and publicly denounced him), and wondering whether he had the fortitude to go on tour (something he only did for the first time in 2006, after recording since ‘91, and explained he only found the strength to do after an attempt with suicide and finding sobriety from alcohol and drug addictions)… It breaks my heart.
I’m sure Dave had his demons, and he seems like he could be a stubborn person. But his music and lyricism has helped me through some difficult times and feeling in my life. You always feel his wry view on life and his beautifully askance way of expressing himself with language come through in every song he sang. I hope his soul is at peaceful rest, and I continue to be grateful for the solace the Silver Jews brought to me as a band. I want to look into his poetry and writings, but I may need to take a moment before I can. I watched the documentary ‘Silver Jew’ today and spent my entire shift delivering packages listening to their music, and his loss still feels fresh, even though this is someone the world lost almost three years ago now, and I never met him in person, or even sent a fan email. I wish I would have now.
I can only pray you met with that infinite goodness that we so oft little know here on this wretched world.... God Bless you David
Only casually listened to Silver Jews throughout my life, but Purple Mountains lately is what hooked me on Berman. Was supposed to go to his show in 6 days and could not wait to see him in person. Out of the overwhelming amount of phoney shit on this earth he truly seemed like a guy who understood the irony of our existence in a way that just made so much damn sense. This is one of those rare albums that I felt like I've been listening to my whole life. He describes things I've always felt in words that I could never come up with.
"Friends are warmer than gold, when you're old. Keeping them is harder, than you might suppose" - I hope you've finally found peace sir.
The way I'm relating to this and the rest of the album is both frightening and comforting at the same time. He knew. Boy did he know.
@@senoritamandita it is. Sad and beautiful. I keep being drawn back to this like a moth to a flame.
So sad. Been a Silver Jews fan a long time. I heard a Purple Mountains song on the radio last week. Looked them up right away and went from so excited for new music to incredibly sad in a few minutes.
Born, torn from unity, we spend our lives alone, all connections fleeting, an illusionary distraction, merely to die in our own arms only.