Thursday, August 07, 2025

Silence is Golden

From 1986, on MTV's much-missed Basement Tapes show, please enjoy The Silent Types and their lost power pop classic "I Can Live With That."

I know very little about those guys, except that apparently they were playing in Greenwich Village around the same time in the '80s as The Floor Models. Lead singer Tom Scarpino informs me that I actually saw them perform at Kenny's Castaways, but highly potent drugs were probably being consumed at the time and I don't really remember. Which is probably a good thing, since I have no doubt that if I did see them I would have been intensely jealous.

In any event, I'd been meaning to post that video for ages. I mean, that's a genuinely great freaking song; if they were doing that when I saw them at Kenny's, it's even more embarrassing that I don't recall it. 😎

4 comments:

Cleveland Jeff said...

That’s one tasty nugget there. Cleveland Jeff

Anonymous said...

As Tom sings: Oh yeah!

I had been enjoying the new remaster of Underwater Moonlight when I saw your post, specifically this tune that seems very pertinent, Insanely Jealous. https://youtu.be/j45sakJOj_E?feature=shared

- Paul in DK

steve simels said...

Heh. 😎

Anonymous said...

you are right it is great! video is fun too imagining song as a geriatric work out - right up my alley.
rs