~*SILVERCHAIR FREAKS*~ #21 10/12/97

~*INTRO*~
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Hey, and welcome to yet another issue of silverchair freaks!! Well I'm happy to announce we have reached a member count of 60 people! Pretty cool eh? Anyway, lets see, as I said last issue I am running out of silverchair songs to talk about, so please if anybody can think of something to either replace this section of our mailing list, or if you want to keep repeting songs, let me know what you think of this alright? Thanks heaps! I have finally solved the problem once and for all of my stupidity of deletling the issues every week (thanks heaps to Amanda for helping me out with my problem ;) ) and I have added my email address so that I get a copy of the list as well, and I don't have to just make sure not to delete it every week. Well that's about it, now on with the list!
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~*SILVERCHAIR NEWS*~
Well as most of you already know "The Door" single has been relesed in Australia and Europe I believe. Us people in the states and Canada will, as always basicly just have to either check import stores, do trades, or order online the single. Btw does anybody have the single yet? Is it good? Has anyone heard "The Door" on the radio yet? Lemme know if you have any of the above. In other news, the 7th issue of the L.A.S has been sent out and recived by most of the members of it so far. For those of you who aren't part of the L.A.S I highly recomend joining, it's the best sorce for up to date silverchair info and stuff like that. Anyway, the last issue said that silverchair have no plans for next year besides relaxing in various ways. So most likely they won't have the next album out until probably very late 98 or early 99. Now most of you probably think that's a long long time, but think about it, Frogstomp was relesed (here in the states at least) in the summer of 95 and then Freak Show didn't come out until Feburary 97 so it's basicly the same ammount of time. But don't worry, I'm sure we'll here lots about what they are doing during the break thru the L.A.S or otherwise. And also in the 7th issue of the L.A.S they printed the correct lyrics to "Spawn" which I think most of us (deffonitly me) thought were something else, so to help you all out here are the correct lyrics:

Spawn
Death becomes clearer through bloodshot eyes
As a death from old age becomes nearer
Why can't the livestock be free?
When trading soldiers for steak

Learn to evolve with the new transition
To act upon a hypocritical vision
Discard the old and in with the new
Discard the old and in with the fashion

Learn to evolve with the new transition
To act upon a hypocritical vision
Learn to evolve, learn to, learn to evolve

Who's the bad guy? Who's the bad guy?
Who's the bad guy? Who's the bad guy?
Who's the bad guy? Who's the bad guy?
Who's the bad guy? Who?

Learn to evolve with the new transition
To act upon a hypocrtitical vision
Learn to evolve, learn to, learn to evolve

Bring on the ape farm
Demolish the monkeys
Drink up, Drink up
Look down on junkies

A new hypocritical look ambition
The time has come to make the dicisision you
Drink up drink up look down
I'll hold it back, I hold it back

Discard the old and in with the fashion
Death becomes clearer through bloodshot eyes
Death becomes clearer through bloodshot eyes

And there you have it! That's it for the news for this week!
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~*NEW MEMBERS*~

*Name:lauryn
*Age:16
*Where from: st. louis
*Favorite silverchair member:all of them
*Favorite silverchair song:slave, pop song
*Favorite silverchair CD:freak show
*Why you like them: i like their music and i think they're just cool
*people. they also have good live shows
*What other bands you like:prodigy, nin, radio iodine( a local band)
*hole, lots of others that i can't think of at the moment

*Name: Liz
*Age: 17
*Where from: St. Louis, Missouri, USA
*Favorite silverchair member: Chris
*Favorite silverchair song: The Door
*Favorite silverchair CD: Freak Show
*Why you like them: They play really good music
*What other bands you like: 311, Pearl Jam, Oasis

*Name: Crystal
*Age: 14
*Where from:Houston, Texas but living in Melbourne, Australia for a
*couple of years
*Favorite silverchair member: like them all :) but Chris is a kind of
*favorite
*Favorite silverchair song: tough question..Suicidal Dream, Pure
*Massacre, No Association...too many of them :)
*Favorite silverchair CD: Frogtstomp..but I still like Freak Show heaps
*Why you like them: They're legends! They can play music and they're
*good at what they do!! Plus they're kinda cute, wouldn't ya say?
*What other bands you like: heavy stuff like Tool, Korn, Nirvana,
*Everclear, Spiderbait, etc.
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~*POSTS*~
To:schubert@uic.edu
From:schubert@uic.edu
Subject:umm.. a post from me!! woo hoo!

Hey everybody!

Well here's another probably stupid post from me, but this is all I can think of at the moment..um.. well first of all I'll talk about Faultline,..

Personally I love this song! Now some people may say it's stupid, or isn't really about anything, but have you ever really listened to the lyrics? I have heard that it is about one of Daniel's friends who died in a big earth quake or "Faultline" in New Castle a while back..so that's what it means to him I guess, but to me, since that's what we're talking about it just has this sense of over all loss, and emtpyness, and just feeling like you can't get past some sort of loss of something or soomeone or whathave you, and just feeling like helpless in some situation, feeling like there's nothing you could have done, but yet you kinda feel like you should have tryed or something? I dunno.. those are just some of the feeling I get when listening to that song.

And about the other question of the week which was how has silverchair changed your life... now I'm going to post something that I sent in for a concest that Sarah was running, so you can just skim over this okie Sarah? But yeah, her contest basicly had the same question, and so I'm just going to post what I answered to her, cause it's the way I feel and so um yeah.. so here it is: this is basicly how silverchair have affected my life.. my god, my life would be.. probably non existant if it wasn't for silverchair, i mean almost everything in my life has something to do with them *l* god that sounds pathetic doesn't it? but it's true, i mean think about it, most of my friends online are silverchair related so if they had never been a band i probably wouldn't have made all these friends, and probably wouldn't have been online so much, or even much at all. most of the bands i like silverchair have introduced me to really, i mean i never would have gotten in to magic dirt, minor threat, handsome, helmet, tool, black sabbath, ammonia, ect if i haden't started liking silverchair, cause most of all the other bands that i had liked before silverchair were very trendy alternative bands.. never would have given other stuff a second thought..really..they got me believing that i could start a band and i could really truely get my feeling out thru lyrics, so that got me started on writing lyrics which helped me thru a lotta really hard times, a lotta the lyrics that daniel has writen made me feel not so alone when i was feeling horibly depressed..silverchair are like one of my main things in life i need to survive it's like: food, water, clothing, shelter, and silverchair *heh* it's true though, i mean the first time i saw the tomorrow video (even though i had heard it on the radio a lot and liked it) it was when i was worried sick about my mom and feeling really depressed and stuff and i dunno just the whole "you gotta wait till tomorrow" thing really made me feel better and then i knew everything would be alright.. and it was.. hell i even risked my life just to see silverchair (you remember, you were there!) and i'd do it all over again in a second! and when i went thru probably the hardist time in my life.. when i had wanted to commit suicide and my parents forced me to stop speaking to my best friend last year, august, for like a few months.. silverchair helped me stay alive during that time, i listened to suicidal dream all the time, and the rest of the songs on frogstomp and somehow i just felt like i wasn't alone. and then with the relese of freak show, my god that album discribes so many parts of my life, and from the relese of that cd till now, almost everysong has helped me get thru a horible or horibly hard time in my life.. even now, i've been feeling really depressed lately, and have been constently listening to nobody came, i mean that song it's just like such a perfect discrition of someone who's depressed but wants help, and feels like there isn't anybody or anything that can help them get better.. sadly enough that's the way i've been feeling lately. anyway i just wanted to say that silverchair have probably been the most influential thing that has ever happend to me in my life, i'm so glad i found out about them, god i wonder what my life would be like if i never knew who silverchair were, or if they never had become a band.. that's really really a scary thought!

Alrighty that's it from me
Later
Heidi

PS are any of you Chicagoins or Chicago area people going to be at the Local H show next Saturday? Lemme know if you are cause I will be there and it'd be cool to hook up and stuff!

To: schubert@uic.edu
From: pointlisteners@juno.com (freak of nature)
Subject: hey! a POST, from ME!! go figure :)

hey all,

well, i just wanted to post about a few things...i 4got to post about the grrl band thing. if silverchair were a chick band, i dont think they would be nearly as popular...i dunno if i woulda ever noticed them...see, when i first heard them, i thought it was pearl jam, and at the time, i was obsessed with pearl jam...so, see, the first time i heard them if they were a chick band prolly wouldnt have been the same :) hehe...also, i know this sounds stupid, but it's true....a TON of the people out there listening to the music are girls, and a lot of them are obsessed with daniel being a "hottie" and that woulda made a difference as well....whoah! i've wrote a lot...hehe...ok, and on the subject of how my life would be without silverchair...i dunno, i dont really wanna think about it... they have had so much effect on me....i would prolly be some big nerd if it werent for them ;) hehe...actually, i love silverchair and if there wasnt silverchair....ooh, i just don't wanna even think about it.....ok, next sunject--faultline--great tune! at first i didnt like it, cuz when i first got the cd all i wanted to listen to was tomorrow and pure massacre...and shade....so, when i would go listen to it, it was kinda that "song in the way" of pure massacre...hehe..i know that sounds dumb, but it was true :) but now it is one of my fave songs....actually, what am i talkin about, ALL of them are my faves... hmm, it is really hard to pick a fave....i think leave me out is my fave tho....really hard to pick...well, i've rambled long enough for now....have a good week or whatever, and if you want someone to talk to, email me, i am always lookin 4 kewl ppl to talk with :)

daniel

hey again...uhm, i run a few mailing lists...one about veruca salt (heidi helps a lot with this one!)....if you wanna join, email ...another is about music in general....it's very cool, tons of kewl people are on it...email to join it...cya later!!!

To: "~*SILVERCHAIR FREAKS*~"
From: "the new race"
Subject: in the perfect garden

hey everyone!

well, in answer to how my life would be different if silverchair didn't become a band, i don't know. me and heidi have talked about this, and i honestly cannot see myself being anything like i am today. i'd probably be into techno and cRAP (as that was what i liked before i got into silverchair and the tea party and all other bands alike) either that or i would just not be here, becuz, believe it or not, silverchair's lyrics and music have helped me through a lot in my life. just a few days ago someone told me daniel johns' lyrics were meaningless. i wasn't sure what to do, to sit there and listen to him, and believe that if sc's lyrics were meaningless so was i, or to punch him in the face right in the middle of french class, or to start arguing with him. you know what i did? i told him to give me an example of a line that was so stupid, so retarded that it meant nothing, and he came up with "your babies got rabies". umm, hello? yeah, you can tell he's never actually LISTENED to sc, at least not as far as i'm concerned.

laterz!
Amanda

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~*THE CLOSING*~
Welcome to the closing..well I was thinking maybe we could plan a online chat with all of us, the most convenient place for me and some of us i think, would be IRC or WBS which ever would be best for you guys lemme know alright? I think it would be cool if we all could get to know one another and stuff like that, email me with yr ideas! Thanks! Next week's song will be.. um.. Blind. I hope everyone has heard it, or at least some of you have! And next week's question will be um.. lemme think here.. What do you hope silverchair's next album will sound like? Okie that's it! Enjoy this issue and keep sending in posts!

Later!
Heidi
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