Jay Reatard (RIP 2010)

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??!?!??!?!?!??!

Hmmm. The Memphis FOX story that P-fork linked to now seems to be completely gone.

So weird. There are still internal links on that FOX site to the "Murder Investigation" story, but all the links are now dead.

To be fair, plenty of deaths are temporarily investigated as homicides; it's a routine thing, just going down the checklist to make sure the authorities don't overlook anything. I'd be surprised if it's actually a homicide.

same here, but still...

i mean, the guy did have some enemies!

"Homicide" as a manner of death doesn't mean the same thing as in other contexts, and is definitely not the same as "murder." It could mean lots of things.

I already wrote about this elsewhere, but it's pretty sad to see someone who'd dedicated that much of his life to music, and seemed to be in a really transitional period (in terms of his music, his audience, probably a whole lot of his life), not get the chance to finish that trip.

Ah, wait, sorry, we're talking about police investigation more than cause/manner of death -- I don't know exactly how the two things trigger one another, but yeah, it doesn't necessarily mean a ton.

I'm listening to the version of 'searching for you' off of the in the dark ep and it's so affecting and poignant right now.

^^says the poster with 'I can't turn my face into a shart' as his handle

prime suspect in the murder of mr. jimmy lee lindsey a.k.a jay reatard

http://www.magnetmagazine.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/02/wavve366b.jpg

er,

http://www.magnetmagazine.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/02/wavve366b.jpg

?

who is that?

just saw this being investigated as homicide. just . . . wow.

dude from wavves, bad joke xp

that's the dude from wavves

I don't get it

battle for the biggest lo-fi musician covered by P4k

I thought No Age already had the crown...

just listened to watch me fall today, for the first time in months. i don't get why people don't love that record, but i guess if you like him as a noisy punk then maybe him as a smart loud-fast-pop guy is too much of a shift? anyway, it sounded great and "there is no sun" seemed like a sadly otm closer.