Purple Mountains "Darkness and Cold" (Official Music Video) 

I've heard that too. I wanna say like in 1984?

Story goes that he was screwing his way across Europe... they had to make a correction.

We all work backwards from perfect

..Broken and smokin' where the infrared deer plunge in the digital snake

@@matthewsandoval253 i tell you man, they make it so you can't shake hands when they make your hands shake.

Probably the realest insight to grief in musical form.

@@lindseytaylor4460 A Crow Looked at Me, I would argue, is the most raw grief I've heard for another. This is maybe the most grief contained in an album for oneself

I never knew that an album could be so relatable, funny, AND enigmatic until it came out. I was interning for the company that represented him for licensing for film/tv/commercials/video games at the time. While I was working on updating his profile to include Purple Mountains, a friend gently texted me that he had passed. I froze. A coworker asked me what was wrong. I said "David Berman..." and the coworker said "oh God." And I said... "he ended it." They let me go home very early that day.

I don't think I'll ever get over Dave Berman's death, I really don't want to

@@lindseytaylor4460 In Utero

She stood by David,nobody knows what goes on in others marriage,who are we to speculate. She yearned for life,light and friends and he sadly coukdnt push away the darkness

@@pineapplecircus yeah I'm not speculating on those details. just how funny it is to say "this isn't based on real people" then immediately cut to the real people it's based on

It's the Maneki-Neko (lucky cat) after that which gets me. Being able to poke fun at that is just crazy in my mind but still shows what a great sense of dry humour David had. Sorely missed but it's really what he wanted sadly.

Reminds me of the ironic disclaimers they have before South Park episodes

As an incredibly depressed person, it’s on both. They both knew. There is no finger pointing

Woah

Yes. Wow, I missed that before reading this.

Oh shit...

I think he intended that meaning from the get go. So sad.

Triple meaning. Very tragic.

Ohhh husshhh

We all find peace after this life. And without trying to be morose, death is simply our home.

@@ModestCasanovaa ?

​@@vanleeuwenhoekDavid just went home a bit too early.....❤

The dead know what they're doing when they leave this world behind

same

I'm actually doing really well! I finally got some effective mental health treatment, found a good therapist, and left a toxic relationship, and now I'm actually starting to heal. I haven't listened to Purple Mountains in a while. :-P Sending so much love and hope to you and anyone else who is struggling

hang in there buddy

real shit man. i hope youre good

I’m with you brother

What a wonderful comment. I guess he didn't realize how much bleaker the world is without people like him.

It's unbelievably sad.

Ouch

Great album, but why top himself it's too clichéd to apply it to a " tortured artist" statement.

hey thanks for making me aware of this AMA's existence.

Cassie is literally one of my best friends- hence David is loved! This album breaks me

I love the comment he made about Cassie, "she's downstairs making me a sandwich. Literally" That made me tear up and realize that anything beautiful that anyone makes is a struggle in the environment in the world.

Perfect my friend. Amen

Amen

hi, friend. just know, that 10 months later, someone looking through old videos found your comment and it moved them. Say another kaddish for him this week x

Everytime I read this comment it just gets me. I dunno what I'm looking for down here, but this comment ends up being it

1 Infinity/10 but alas, no more Bermans

'We're all going under. How 'bout a fucking laugh along the way?'

If it makes you feel better, try to think of how hard it would be for someone as prone as self criticism and negativity as David, ever writing anything...let alone getting up on stage and sharing himself with strangers. I try to comfort myself by being amazed we got to share in anything of his creation, once I reconsider how much he struggled for years.

@@TR-yi8up well said, sir

@bricology Hi, I liked your comment so much that I paraphrased it for my band name (Sneak Past Demons). Hope you don't mind!

This album was his suicide note, you should listen to the whole thing

I've been destroyed by this for the last week...grieving over the poor guy. The last few days I haven't even been able to eat. The new Purple Mountains record hit me differently than a lot of records do and I was just sickened by his passing.

great story :)

Fuck yeah dude. Great story :)

Bro wright a damn song about this please

Daniele Milazzo Sadly, It very much is/was... 😢

The more I listen to it, the more I think he intended it that way all along. 😞

Paul Brown Yeah, I hear that as well.

Daniele Milazzo ...I’m gutted still....

@@paulbrown638 from Drag City blog: "Some of his incredible turns of phrase seem to have been written for this awful moment. But know that they weren't. They were written in lieu of this moment, to replace this moment, showing the world (and himself) that maybe he didn't truly know what was going to happen next."

Do drunk husband here 😢😅😅😅the yell and sadness cuts

He wouldn't have Wanted that. Smoke weed and laugh at the afterthought

@@Unknown-gf6mk haha yeah you're right - things have been better since then, still loving the tunes to the max tho :)

@@KitCalder its a great album. Can't seem to get bored of it. Peace.

That’s a really silly stupid thing to do.

@@KaneK1234 Excuse me?

too bad he didn't heed that advice.

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Well fuck

aged like milk. fuck me, you will be missed David Berman

I still can't believe it. I'm all kinds of fucked up today.

Don't lie you moron...

@@nebod1556 ?

Natural Bridge and American Water are two of the greatest that can be found.

Incohate Necroplasma I will second that!

But now you have the rest of your life to use what he left behind bto help you navigate

And the debut has some amazing songs too like new Orleans, underrated album

My Pillow Is A Threshold.

Heroic? He wrote a suicide note of an album with reference to Cassie all over as the source of much of his pain. That’s a horrible thing to do. She would’ve blamed herself either way but he sure tuned this album up for maximum effect. What a creeper. Genius but a creeper.

@@christiangasior4244 I agree. There is nothing heroic in suffering. He was a poet, but not a hero. A hero would have found the strength to live.

Lol

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Reading comments like these are breaking my heart -

K i just learned the news, through your comment, I knew something was up when reading it, I’m freaking out, this way to sad, like losing a real good friend. I met Berman after a show in Montreal and talked to him for 20 minutes, I have nothing but respect for the man ... fuck

@@MeanManu damn man I'm sorry.... your comment just gave me goosebumps. I'm so glad you got to meet him. It's just... fucking sad.

K it really is ...

Alex Aguilera RU-vid either politically radicalizes you or introduces you to great music.

If you like this listen to Silver Jews! It's his first band.

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This might be one of the reasons he killed himself

@@ianloeb1672 Yeah there's a lot on the album about him feeling like a burden to her (particularly this and She's Making Friends...) , probably a factor in it :/

@@WallyBrando Reminds me a little of Anthony Bourdain at the end, but maybe that's a stretch. Not implying anything Argento-related about the crowd Cassie hangs with, for sure!

No it’s not. You didn’t know their personal life. It’s about feeling ignored by your ex you live with.

@ I think I am really sad.