Silver Jews "Sleeping Is The Only Love"

[hydogify]

I heard they were taming the shrew.

I heard the shrew was you.

You might as well say fuck me cause I'm gonna keep on,

Keep on loving you.

I'd crawl over fifty yards of broken

Glass just to hold on your hand.

Sleeping is the only love (x2)

....

[saltemann]

lovely place to be 

[jerkythesandpiper]

I am a tool.

[mostlyharmless11]

berman is the king of the combover

[Drahgoon]

lol lmao who are these fags? Every boody knows that jews like GOLD not silver.

[SuperSaiyenIzaak]

@Drahgoon You're hilarious.

[Drahgoon]

@SuperSaiyenIzaak thx.why does'nt anybooty get my humour?

[Jeetkunow]

Mr. Twinkles is in this video! : )

[americant001]

Hey! Its like Waking Life!

[unfocusedfears]

BEST BAND EVER

[PhilErup2000000]

Cassie Berman sends me dangerously close to infatuation...deep breath...

[sfrsongz]

is sleeping the only love? i thought it was death that was.

[akechi77]

@sfrsongz My friend, sleeping is the cousin of death. But if death weren't as eternal then perhaps there'd be room for two.

[ThiagosbbBR]

Doesn't it sound just like a Stephen Malkus song?

[ChiefOfLife]

This guy is my cousin



[MsPamAnn]

“A KIDNEY BY ANY OTHER NAME WOULD SMELL AS SOUR,” can be said of the recent organ-trafficking and money-laundering FBI sting operation which implicated five Talmudic rabbis from New York and neighboring New Jersey. This international rabbinical operation spanned from Jewish-entrenched New York to the Jewish state of Israel.

The FBI used an informant, a Talmudic Jew named Solomon Dwek, to approach the rabbis.

[catbank]

she is so pretty...what a lucky man...

[Normala5989]

bastard!

[Pscycantropiste]

Best band ever...Bonnie prince billy's got some great tunes as well...

so many others I forget ...but the Joos ..they make me want to walk and sit evrywhere...at the same time if it makes any sense...

"I've never avoided certainty, it's always just eluded me, so let's just call it the death of an heir of sorrow"....

[Pscycantropiste]

To me the joos are the best band ever.

[sk8nike]

this is the only song i like by the silver jews

[Skydigibeef]

strange to think Berman's old man is satan

[1sleep23]

this is so fucking brilliant its like the best thing ever.

[adzman1000]

1:51

Dude, you have to lay off the caffeine!

[djr4r]

David Berman has a gorgeous wife and a charmed life, even despite the drugs, poverty, and depression. I would be thrilled to pieces to have a life 30% as awesome.

[ayenque]

Sólo para hacerlo contigo ... Sleeping is the only love!

[rikskog]

silver jews are fucking awesome

[JusteunMusicien]

I imagine I'd be surprised to see a silver Jew, as well. Do they make those?

[MarylandSquirrels]

@rikskog

[frightskuller]

i thought with the name silver jews it was just a joke....

[bigman1225]

But then you discovered it wasn't...

[kunluv]

David Berman i know you watch this everyday probably after waking up from your nap to have a hot pocket and work on your civil war diorama and read the wall street journal.. Can I just ask you, "Why did you smoke crack?"

[kunluv]

these guys suffer always in everything they ever do all the time except for their art

[kunluv]

did they really make a song about their daily afternoon nap?

[kunluv]

so these guys are just plain Losers, aren't they?

[xxcelinux]

David Berman is correct. His dad Richard Berman is a cocksucker motherfucker asshole piece of shit Rockefeller minion and assclown Monsanto shill.

[bigman1225]

I just think that's so crazy how they're related...

[Damiki94]

MMMOOOOO

[YayZ15]

Hahahahahahhahaha JEWS!! Hahahahahahahahaha

[cjmooney9]

Bassist.

The whole point of Pavement is Malkmus, and the way he performs. His singing is the selling point, weirdly

[bassist4141]

This is better than Pavement. The singer might not be good but he's much better than Malkamus who just talks when he sings.

[jgraham01900]

I love this song so much I want to cry. Poetry my friends, poetry.

[aaronabud]

well then,

yer cousin is damn sexy

[elpoo]

yesss

[hayrayfray1]

The girl on the bike is my cousin, Cassie. no joke haha.

[zoetropez]

Love that Cassie and Dave Berman.

[1snazzyg8r]

The Silver Jews are so good because there is little else out there similar. David Berman is the man, and he formed the band w/ Stephen Malkmus of Pavement 9 years ago. Their namesake is a reference to a blonde-haired Jew. Take the religious conotation and politics somewheres else- enjoy the fricken music and vid.

[Tomakak]

You mean it's still 1998? Oh, thank God. I had this horrible dream that it was 2009, that there were wars and economic recession and bloody freezing cold weather. Now, if you'll excuse me, I have to safe-guard my state-of the art 333MHz computer from Y2K.

[JBrrou]

@Tomakak I think, by this date, we're still living in 1998.

[michover18]

actually the name is from a billboard reading "silver jewelry".

[gchrist]

No it isn't. That's a rumor Berman started. It isn't true

[johnny991965]

Question.Whatever happened to talking about music? Plain and simple? Every bloody post is a party political broadcast these days!!!!

[thesoup]

Seriously, fuck all of you so hard. Shut the fuck up about the goddamn election for 10 seconds and enjoy a pretty awesome video. Your favorite candidate is just as much of a tool as the other guy's favorite candidate, and you're all tools too. Mmyep.

[FancyNancyTeaParty]

Word.

[starlettine]

4ever

[alexsweeley]

@thesoup

"Everything is so... democratic and cool."

[FoldedTapestry]

@thesoup thank god

[TallFastLoud]

@thesoup post modernism sucks

[jobcinzano]

i'm trying to figure out why the silver jews sound so good. i can't put my finger on it. does anyone know why they are good? thanks

[Grinlord]

The vocal style is really unique. Maybe that's it? Everytime I hear their songs, I get the impression of a bored, hungerover person with the slightest hint of Johnny Cash. And it sounds great for some reason.

[tubgirl8000]

get back to talking about the music. fuck politics. can we have just a little (cyber)space where I don't have to hear about jew vs. arab and mccain vs. obama? thanks.

[guitarjoe93]

agreed! politics fucks everything up the ass twice

[ooberpwnage]

lulz.

It's a jew.

[jkqd14]

Maybe perhaps possibly the Jewish people aren't the be-all-end-all of existence? Israel has quite a bit to learn about prejudice and violence, if not quite as much as its more hostile neighbors.

But yeah, Berman rules, Obama rules.

[jabuhrer1]

You must not have a very good grasp of neocon Christian views of Israel. These people want to restore the biblical Jewish state under old testament law because they think that is the only way that Jesus will come back. Of course, when he comes back, he's supposed to kill or convert all the Jews. Seriously, that's what these loonies think. The religious right doesn't care about Israel, they are only interested in using Israel. The best way to support Israel is to promote PEACE, not 'superiority.'

[jcc152509]

How on earth does one promote peace when israel is a fucking mess? Both sides are doing some crazy shit and there appears to be no end in sight.

[deeliciousplum]

um, I hate to break some news to you, but palin is living her life fully engaged in a very deceptive hallucination. I do not mind her as a person living in a community, but she would become a danger to society if given authority greater than that which she has presently. Again, I have nothing against her presence as a neighbour and such.

[hannibalsloat]

I agree jefflh11237, what a load of COCK. RADIOHEAD

[jcc152509]

Tell me how radiohead is not a top notch band? Of course I realize this is all a matter of opinion and arguing about what art is or is not. Curious to hear your reasoning.

[jefflh11237]

This band Suck Ass

fuck em

how is this better than karma police or yramid song or how to dissapear

[LaNoctemLa]

Thanks thanks and more thanks, ever since moving from ny state to charlotte nc, ive grown to do nothing with myself but sleep and work and hope good like-minded people like yrself come along in real life lol.. stay well and (if he stays off drugs lol) long live Berman! :)

[kookooo1]

i heard they were taming a shrew!

I heard the shrew was u

[courtenay13]

nope you arent the only black person ;]

[xcedcx9420]

i fucked silver jew

[LaNoctemLa]

with all the good things in life i have- im seriously depressed as well but fuck it

and i find myself in bed all day and night

sleeping really is the only real true love

and i love Silver Jews (probably the only black person to know/like this band haha)

<3

[fifthcolumnfilms]

Oh My God. How dare they say something bad about Radiohead. These guys suck and something is seriously wrong with his eyes.

[michaelbrackish69]

The best, ever and ever!

[consensation]

what is this supposed to be?

[thesaddestlandscape]

i spell my name with a c, i am proud

[ettlinger]

my name is "marc" with a "c" and I drank manisheivtz every friday night growing up.

do i get a prize?

love the song...

[howelldrake]

In a just universe, sleeping would be a far distant, third love to, a) spending time with your gorgeous wife, and, b) basking in your own genius, but as I know too well, such is the arbitrary nature of depression.

[Tomakak]

I thought he cured himself of that with Orthodox Judaism.

How you manage to be depressed with a wife like Cassie Berman, a published poet and the main geezer of the Silver Jews is beyond me.

Now I, on the other hand, I have reason to be depressed since I'm none of those things.

[howelldrake]

Great post. Tho' don't be depressed based on that. Think of depression as a virus that first and foremost attacks your ability to appreciate, nay, *feel any pleasure*, (*from*) what you have. That's what I was alluding to re: the "arbitrary" nature. There are homeless folks who are surely a lot happier than me and D.C. It just comes down to how ones mind/soul is capable of processing that which it's fed. The depressed just biochemically haven't been dealt the gene to feel good things being ok.

[LaNoctemLa]

with all the good things in life i have- im seriously depressed as well but fuck it

and i find myself in bed all day and night

sleeping really is the only real true love

and i love Silver Jews (probably the only black person to know/like this band haha)

<3

[howelldrake]

I should be the last person typing any notes of inspiration, but LaNoctemLa, from that post alone, I know you're someone I'd wanna hang with. It's going to be okay, bro. For all of us. I'm one of the few Silver Jews fans I currently know--white or black or whatever.

[thesparkthatbledd]

i'm making myself a pair of those eyes! i like the way he puts his sunglasses on OVER them.

silver jews are really great, paper eyes or no

[howelldrake]

And I know you're reading *my* thoughts, too, boy..."Meow, meow, meow, meow..."

Great song/vid, DC

[fieldmarshalmodel]

dogs are the true meaning of existence -good to know that some jews are capable of appreciating them despite the fact that AH was a big dog lover

[grocerylist]

What a ridiculous statement. I've never heard anyone suggest that jews didn't like dogs because Hitler liked dogs. Hitler loved art... so does that mean that jews should hate art?

[Happossai]

Sleeping is the only love...

So much true in this phrase :s

[ralfrecords]

great song great lyrics

[Carpet32]

What a lovely doggie!

[capability2]

Makes me miss Nashville. Great video.

[Carpet32]

Cassie Berman IS Miss Nashville.

[fruitdivision]

the silver jews!!! they are the awesome to the max

[stopclapping]

orgasmic

[davidyow]

love this.

[thecorduroysuit]

cassie berman is so beautiful. Also, David Berman is still my hero. Jew it up.