sending the best to ilxors who will be much more upset than me and i am fucking gutted so...
what a fucking hero.
― Heavy Messages (jed_), Thursday, 25 January 2018 01:08 (six years ago) link
I loved that song he did w/ Mouse on Mars as Von Sudenfed with the lyric about Sven Vath pissing his bed. Flooded it was called.
― Fizzles, Thursday, 25 January 2018 01:09 (six years ago) link
Tom D made me read all of ...Stop Mithering. Jesus Christ, what a mind he had.
― Heavy Messages (jed_), Thursday, 25 January 2018 01:09 (six years ago) link
Mark, not Tom lol
― Heavy Messages (jed_), Thursday, 25 January 2018 01:10 (six years ago) link
that entire violent album (levitate) is extraordinary.
― Fizzles, Thursday, 25 January 2018 01:04 (three minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
it is one of my favourite albums of all time and i've only ever heard it off youtube, low-quality and fragmented (like the album itself tbf). i think he got closer to representing the madness and magic of existence than any other musician i can think of
wish they'd reissue it mind
― #TeamHailing (imago), Thursday, 25 January 2018 01:12 (six years ago) link
watching perverted by language bis. what a beautiful and fucking funny correct man.
― Fizzles, Thursday, 25 January 2018 01:21 (six years ago) link
Didn't he once have a violent altercation with some pretentious twat from a Creation indie band. And he called them a bunch of "crusty cunts". This is from deep memory, but I remember thinking thank fuck he exists.
― calzino, Thursday, 25 January 2018 01:25 (six years ago) link
― Fizzles, Thursday, 25 January 2018 01:27 (six years ago) link
what’s a computer.
― Fizzles, Thursday, 25 January 2018 01:28 (six years ago) link
only saw the Fall twice ('85 and '92), but I'm sure I bought all the records '83-94 or so. RIP you wacko.
― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 25 January 2018 01:29 (six years ago) link
it was important to me that they were contemptuous of gender as a notion. who cares? smith seemed to say. and not in a good way.
― Fizzles, Thursday, 25 January 2018 01:30 (six years ago) link
It has just come to me, it was that guy from The House of Love, but not the one that looked like a paedophile supply teacher, the one looked a typical goth.
― calzino, Thursday, 25 January 2018 01:30 (six years ago) link
*sigh*
He was an absolute fucking titan in my musical world. i dont want to go to be for work tomorrow, i just wanna listen to The Fall all night
― Well bissogled trotters (Michael B), Thursday, 25 January 2018 01:31 (six years ago) link
Terry Bickers, and his band was Levitation.
― calzino, Thursday, 25 January 2018 01:31 (six years ago) link
current playlist:
c'n'c-s mitheringwinterwinter 2Shift-WorkBill Is DeadVarious TimesDr. Buck's LetterPaint Work
― sleeve, Thursday, 25 January 2018 01:39 (six years ago) link
o god, winter
― #TeamHailing (imago), Thursday, 25 January 2018 01:41 (six years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HnwgjoTq1PM
You're historyYou've quit existationYou're green grub
― ♫ very clever with maracas.jpg ♫ (Le Bateau Ivre), Thursday, 25 January 2018 01:42 (six years ago) link
xp that's a good list sleeve
RIP. so many people have already said anything i would try to say, but far better than i would have. I was just listening to This Nation's Saving Grace this morning. Can't even be coherent about this right now. Fuck.
― cwkiii, Thursday, 25 January 2018 01:49 (six years ago) link
Checklist:
I never leave home without: (5)1. Sunglasses - I wear them all year around, and seem to need them more often, it’s a habitMusic - cassettes, CDs3. Palm Pilot - it’s my lifeline. I think it’s my P.A.’s computer, (6)She rules my diary and I download it4. Mobile phone5. Amex card - they made such a fuss about giving it to me but I spend more time getting it turned down!
I was in the realm of the essence of Tong.
― Heavy Messages (jed_), Thursday, 25 January 2018 01:50 (six years ago) link
you don't deserve rock and roll
― cwkiii, Thursday, 25 January 2018 01:50 (six years ago) link
hey mark
― mookieproof, Thursday, 25 January 2018 01:56 (six years ago) link
livin' too late
― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 25 January 2018 02:06 (six years ago) link
https://youtu.be/6m2lfk4Bm34
― Fizzles, Thursday, 25 January 2018 02:09 (six years ago) link
It hasn't hit yet, but it's starting
This is a good listen even if you're quite familiar imo
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b052r0l5
― mor frog bs (S-), Thursday, 25 January 2018 02:11 (six years ago) link
― Fizzles, Thursday, 25 January 2018 02:13 (six years ago) link
Barbara Manning did a great cover of that
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pxv1w-x21pY
― sleeve, Thursday, 25 January 2018 02:15 (six years ago) link
An academic kneaded his chinSat in the dust of some cheap magazinesHis academic rust could not burn them up
A small alteration of the past can turn time into spaceSmall changes can alter more than a mere decade
― eatandoph (Neue Jesse Schule), Thursday, 25 January 2018 02:15 (six years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wpWVk3h2SA8&feature=share
― Fizzles, Thursday, 25 January 2018 02:16 (six years ago) link
he looks so wonderful there
― Fizzles, Thursday, 25 January 2018 02:17 (six years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OMJJmdlZoPw
― ♫ very clever with maracas.jpg ♫ (Le Bateau Ivre), Thursday, 25 January 2018 02:22 (six years ago) link
that's my number one LBI
― Heavy Messages (jed_), Thursday, 25 January 2018 02:29 (six years ago) link
maybe... of course
Oh goes without saying!
I can stumble through yt till the sun comes up. Probably asleep before that. But damn.
― ♫ very clever with maracas.jpg ♫ (Le Bateau Ivre), Thursday, 25 January 2018 02:35 (six years ago) link
just listened to Garden, now cranking "Two-Face!"
All the English groupsAct like peasants with free milkOn a routeOn a route to the lootTo candy mountainFive wacky English proletariat idiotsCalifornians always think of sexOr think of deathFive hundred girl deathsA Mexico revenge, it's stolen landThey really get it off on"Don't hurt me please"Rapist fill the TVsAnd the secret of their livesIs S.E.X..
― sleeve, Thursday, 25 January 2018 02:36 (six years ago) link
50,000 fall fans cant be wrong.
― Heavy Messages (jed_), Thursday, 25 January 2018 02:44 (six years ago) link
fuck, i'm just seeing this news.
i started reading the fall just the other night; weird timing (not sure if that's what the band are named after anyway). and i've been listening to the big singles compilation a lot lately, listening to a lot of the fall era that i'd always neglected ('86 - '02). so he has been on my mind quite a bit recently. RIP Mark E Smith.
― Karl Malone, Thursday, 25 January 2018 02:47 (six years ago) link
<3
― Heavy Messages (jed_), Thursday, 25 January 2018 02:51 (six years ago) link
Trying not to be too sentimental because MES would have hated that. Thanks for the music, fuckface.
― lingereffect (Kent Burt), Thursday, 25 January 2018 02:55 (six years ago) link
Mark would want us all on the Sting should retire thread instead
― del griffith, Thursday, 25 January 2018 03:01 (six years ago) link
My favorite band... somehow the thought of whatever posthumous new Fall product emerges fills me with sadness, because I'll buy it knowing that's it (except for whatever live shows/old tapes Cherry Red or whoever decides to dredge(r) up), where with all the other albums that could be the last one you didn't know.
― eatandoph (Neue Jesse Schule), Thursday, 25 January 2018 03:02 (six years ago) link
I loved the directness with which he ground a path through the preciousness and anxiety of indie music making in the UK. Like he was the only one who actually knew what he wanted, while everyone else nervously looked at each other for some kind of reaction or validation.
― attention vampire (MatthewK), Thursday, 25 January 2018 03:24 (six years ago) link
excellent point MK.
― Heavy Messages (jed_), Thursday, 25 January 2018 03:29 (six years ago) link
it's true that he made the world a better place when he called Mumford & Sons a "mongoloid Irish folk band."
― del griffith, Thursday, 25 January 2018 03:30 (six years ago) link
Karl it's always been my understanding that he did in fact take the band name from the Camus book, but I don't have a primary source for that at hand
― sleeve, Thursday, 25 January 2018 03:35 (six years ago) link
we need a thread with just MES stories imo
― mookieproof, Thursday, 25 January 2018 03:38 (six years ago) link
It was clear in the window eyeThe brick outlined the blue skyAnd I had to go round the gay graduates in the toiletsAnd Good King Harry was thereFucking Jimmy Savile
― Van Horn Street, Thursday, 25 January 2018 03:48 (six years ago) link
"that entire violent album (levitate) is extraordinary."
yeah I really loved that album. it felt like they were on some other plane there, and to an extent I don't feel like they ever really got back there musically. it's an abstract, weird album; missing winner kind of sucked, marshall was pretty good, everything since has been good but definitely the same musical template to a degree. Maybe Levitate was fueled by some other weird drugs. I don't know.
― akm, Thursday, 25 January 2018 03:53 (six years ago) link
Mat Osman @matosmanI have a Mark E Smith story actually. Back in the day Suede got asked to support The Fall on a couple of dates. To a man we were massive fans and VERY excited to be asked. Everyone told us he could be rough on support bands but he was great. Lots of time to soundcheck. (1)He was friendly, helpful, told us to come straight to him with any problem. The shows were great, his crowd were great, The Fall were great. On our way home in the van we were listening to Richard Skinner and he had an interview with Mark. We listened in intently. (2)Especially when Skinner asked, "Do you like any of the new bands who are calling you an influence." Mark said "Like who?" Skinner asked "Well, like Suede." There was a perfectly timed beat. "Never heard of them."
I have a Mark E Smith story actually. Back in the day Suede got asked to support The Fall on a couple of dates. To a man we were massive fans and VERY excited to be asked. Everyone told us he could be rough on support bands but he was great. Lots of time to soundcheck. (1)
He was friendly, helpful, told us to come straight to him with any problem. The shows were great, his crowd were great, The Fall were great. On our way home in the van we were listening to Richard Skinner and he had an interview with Mark. We listened in intently. (2)
Especially when Skinner asked, "Do you like any of the new bands who are calling you an influence." Mark said "Like who?" Skinner asked "Well, like Suede." There was a perfectly timed beat. "Never heard of them."
― Empire Burl Ives (Hadrian VIII), Thursday, 25 January 2018 03:55 (six years ago) link
loooool
― sleeve, Thursday, 25 January 2018 04:00 (six years ago) link