Jay Reatard (RIP 2010)

shit... this sucks, right when I was just starting to get into his stuff. RIP

Fucking fuck. A friend e-mailed me about this around 2 this afternoon, and I've been bumming ever since. Listening to Lost Sounds and not drinking beer. RIP, Jay.

this is probably the only celebrity/musician death i've ever really cared about, and it fucking SUUUCKS. like yeah michael jackson wrote some good songs a few decades ago, but this guy was on a shit-hot winning streak.

Wow. Damn. Stupid. RIP.

Blood Visions & Singles '06-'07 are my favorites, the perfect synthesis of anger/frustration & catchiness.

Damn, R.I.P. I only have Matador Singles 08 I think (the one with him in the bathtub on the cover, covered in his records) but I really like it and it is a shame for this dude to die. I thought he had bags of potential.

I really enjoyed "Watch Me Fall", and would have liked to have seen him do a show. RIP.

I always wanted to get into him, but the sound clips that I heard never quite squared with what I had expected to hear, based on reviews and shit. Last night though, I watched the clip above with the pitcher throwing and fistfights and thought the band sounded pretty good. R.I.P.

Also, was his last name just pronounced "retard" like normal? Or was it more like Ree-ah-tard?

Jay Ray Tard?

Saw him just before Christmas, playing a staggeringly sparsely attended show in London, part of what was apparently a disastrous UK tour. He was great. Couldn't tell whether it was schtick, or he really did have the personality of an angry teenager. Was hoping I'd get to see him play again

Yeah so, I just compared the link that Morbs posted above with a clip of that song from his album. Once again, the album version sounds so listless to me. I think I'll make my own Jay Reatard album by ripping audio from youtube clips.

not a bad idea. may i suggest pretty much all of the Goner Store - 5/11/2007 clips:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=klv9JLjJ4DI

like yeah michael jackson wrote some good songs a few decades ago, but this guy was on a shit-hot winning streak.

Nothing against either MJ or Jay, but this is backwards.

Saw him just before Christmas, playing a staggeringly sparsely attended show in London, part of what was apparently a disastrous UK tour.

Same here although the show I went to was quite busy. He played about 5 times in London in the space of a week or 2 though, the one I went to was at the Lexington.

RIP, but fuck, you mess with drugs what do you expect?

I played Mainliner on my tribute show last night and considered adding Nanjo's viewpoint that "if you do drugs you better be prepared to die" but since I'm not 100 percent sure that Jay's death was the result of drug use I decided not to.
Here's the playlist (some stuff didn't make it onto the playlist, like another song from Teenage Hate. Really wanted to play "you fucked my dreams" but decided that it wasn't worth the wrath of the station heads for dropping the F-bomb)
1 Reatards Memphis Blues Teenage Hate
2 Lost Sounds 1 + 1 + Nothing 1 + 1 = Nothing
3 Jay Reatard It's So Easy Blood Visions
4 The Lollipop Shoppe You Must Be A Witch Nuggets
5 Jay Reatard Hammer I Miss You Singles 06-07
6 Wire the 15th 154
7 Pink Reason Throw It Away Throw It Away
8 Elastik Band Spazz Nuggets
9 The Dead Boys Not Anymore Young, Loud And Snotty
10 The Lost Sounds Frozen In Time Rats Brains & Microchips
11 Germs Manimal Germs (MIA) - The Complete Anthology
12 The Lost Sounds plastic skin Black Wave
13 Mainliner Last Day Mainliner Sonic
14 Jay Reatard an ugly death Matador Singles '08
15 David Bowie Black Country Rock The Man Who Sold The World
16 Lost Sounds Ship Of Monsters Memphis Is Dead
17 Q65 Cry In The Night Revolution
18 Jay Reatard Fading All Away Blood Visions
19 Devo smart patrol/mr. dna Duty Now for the Future
20 Jay Reatard Searchin/Haunting You/Let It All Go Singles 06-07
21 Pere Ubu Final Solution Terminal Tower
22 Wire From The Nursery Chairs Missing
23 Lost Sounds living in the ice age No One Killer
24 Wipers taking too long Youth of America
25 The Stooges I wanna be your dog The Stooges
26 Memphis Goons sweet love Teenage BBQ
27 Rolling Stones torn and frayed Exile On Main Street
28 Thin Lizzy Fight Or Fall Jailbreak
29 Buddy Holly Rave On From the Original Master Tapes
30 The Nerves hanging on the telephone One Way Ticket
31 Jonathan Richman & The Modern Lovers gov't center The Modern Lovers
32 The Dovers what am I gonna do Nuggets
33 Jay Reatard oh it's such a shame Blood Visions

Didn't even play anything from Watch Me Fall but it's really not my fave.

RIP, but fuck, you mess with drugs what do you expect?

To get high, of course.

Maybe too high.

plz take stuff that takes decades to kill you, friends.

what do you mean backwards, ilxor?

That stuff gives me gas, though. xp

"Artists React to Jay Reatard's Death"

http://pitchfork.com/news/37582-artists-react-to-jay-reatards-death/

what do you mean backwards, ilxor?

While I'm not a big fan of either, saying that MJ made a few good songs while Jay was on some sort of unstoppable hot streak seems like the roles have been reversed a bit. I'd say the opposite about each!

ah ok. well in any case i don't think it's even possible to argue mj was on a shit-hot winning streak in 2009.

Sisario in the Times: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/15/arts/music/15reatard.html

“I’m just trying to get the idea out before the inspiration is gone,” he told The Times last year. “Everything I do is motivated by the fear of running out of time.”

Talk about a money quote.

yeah thank God the writer jotted that quote down so when Jay Reatard died you could point out the irony of it

color me clueless but up until this point i had thought that jay reatard was some pitchfork approved john mayer type, not a garage rocker from memphis

xp Exactly.

gbx check out blood visions--it will give you blood visions

you thought a dude named "reatard" was a john mayer type?

i never said it was rational!

ok que

maybe not john mayer, maybe like jason mraz or something, a guy with a funny name playing cute songs

I'm having trouble squaring "Pitchfork-approved" with Mayer OR Mraz.

a guy with a funny name playing cute songs who is approved by Pitchfork

i guess now we know who the real "reatard" is

a guy with a funny name playing cute songs who is approved by Pitchfork

Jens Lekman?

"Jay" MC Reatard

Kid Millions of Oneida shares his thoughts:
http://enemyhogs.com/site/index.php?s=kid

\(O_o)/

man, leave it to kid millions. that guy rules hard.

from my favorite band-dude c.2003-2005 to my late favorite band-dude c.2007-08.

Despite the fact that his records esp his last one were really dark the guy always seemed so vital and driven I did not really see this coming at all. A big shock. He leads off the Chris Knox Stroke album that might just be the last thing he did/ recorded before this happened? Last record felt like a transition record and while it kind of lacked the coherence of Blood Visions still contained some hellish good songs. I'm going to mow the lawns. Very Sadly.

Will miss you Jay Reatard.

J "Reatard" Dilla.

i knew i had a coupla of his songs in shit i dl'ed, i just didnt know what they were. so i went into the library and played them-- oh yeah, i remember an ugly death and my shadow. theyre good, i meant to get more of him.

rip.

being investigated as a homicide

http://pitchfork.com/news/37592-jay-reatards-death-investigated-as-homicide-by-memphis-police/

wha? No drugs but murder????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????

WTF??!?!??!?!?!??!