Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Silence

Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Silence is the debut album of American post hardcore band Glassjaw, released in 2000. It was produced by Ross Robinson. Glassjaw has been rumored to discourage the purchasing of this album due to their acrimonious split from Roadrunner Records. Instead, they encourage people to download their music via file sharing software, such as Limewire. Robinson claimed that the label showed no interest in the band until he pushed to have them signed and showed little interest after. It has a strong influence within the Post-Hardcore genre, amongst others and is widely noted as a milestone in Post-Hardcore.

Track listing

All lyrics written by Daryl Palumbo. All music written by Glassjaw, except "Lovebites and Razorlines", "Hurting and Shoving (She Should Have Let Me Sleep)" and "Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Silence", written by Glassjaw and Ross Robinson.

Personnel

• Daryl Palumbo - Vocals
• Justin Beck - Guitar
• Manuel Carrero - Bass guitar
• Todd Weinstock - Guitar
• Sammy Siegler - Drums
• Ross Robinson - Production, mixing
• Steve Evetts - Mixing
• Chuck Johnson - Engineering
• Ted Jensen - Mastering
• Kaz Kiriya - Band photography
• Paul Brown - Image photography

Trivia

• On the UK release of the album, the song "Motel of the White Locust" is actually entitled "Hotel of the White Locust".
• The song "Pretty Lush" is about an ex-girlfriend of vocalist Daryl Palumbo, whom he claims was a virgin but left him and had sex with a random guy while she was intoxicated. Hence the lyric, "You can lead a whore to water, and you can bet she'll drink and follow orders".
• "Ry Ry's Song" is about a mutual friend of the band who is constantly getting used by women for intercourse.
• The album takes many elements from a few of the members' previous bands, Beck & Weinstock's other band Sons of Abraham and Carrero's previous band Stillsuit.

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