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Silver Jews is tagged as: indie, lo-fi, indie rock, alt-country, folk

Silver Jews’ earliest incarnation was the college band Ectoslavia, formed by future Pavement founders Bob Nastanovich, Stephen Malkmus and frontman David Berman at the University of Virginia in 1989. An exercise in joyous noise, the band disbanded after graduation and the three friends moved to New York to take up various jobs - Nastanovich, a bus driver, and Berman and Malkmus, art museum security guards.
Pavement, a band started by Malkmus post-Ectoslavia, pre-New York, at this point began to gain attention. This attention resulted in a record deal and a constant inferiority plague placed upon the ‘Joos with Berman totally at the forefront of the group. Misinformed music fans now saw the band as a side-project and, even worse, Berman as being not good enough to play with Pavement, many band members being shared between the two bands.
The connection to Malkmus and the now blossoming Pavement was not all negative, however. Drag City, then not the bastion of American folk music it is today, agreed to release the band’s debut EPs which has led to a fruitful relationship (the label continues to release the band’s records, right up to album number 7 in 2008, (Lookout Mountain, Lookout Sea).
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Top 10 Silver Jews Songs
Random Rules
Smith & Jones Forever
People
Night Society
Federal Dust
Punks in the Beerlight
Blue Arrangements
Send in the Clouds
We Are Real
Sometimes a Pony Gets Depressed
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Top 10 Silver Jews Albums
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American Water
Starlite Walker
Bright Flight
The Natural Bridge
The Arizona Record
Tennessee
Natural Bridge
Send in the Clouds
Dime Map of the Reef
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