Jay Reatard (RIP 2010)

Such a shame.

shit fucking fuck shit.
My best friend was in the lost sounds, he's probably taking this pretty badly.
Should give memphis a call.

RIP so hard

^^^

oh no!

fucking hell

Still hoping it's some dumb He Who Cannot Be Named-style stunt

jeeze. RIP.

Still hoping it's some dumb He Who Cannot Be Named-style stunt

Was thinking this, but neither faking it or actually dying fit with my impression of the guy.

what the fuck

RIP

jesus like the current musician most emblematic of my past three years, i remember being so stoked for all those singles and everything. i was fucking arguing with him on terminal boredom last week for his shattered record club being a ripoff. i know he had drug problems, and i assume that was involved here, but like jesus. this is stunning and really sad.

http://www.matadorrecords.com/matablog/2010/01/13/jay-reatard/

v.sad

RIP

RIP to a good Tennessee boy.

Holy fuck! Just heard about this from P4k. Jesus.

RIP

Holy fuck. Wow. I'm shocked. Jesus fucking christ, this is a blow.

what... no.

he seemed unstoppable. really stunned by this.
RIP

Awwwww..........

:( x 1,000,000

I didn't even know he had a drug problem. :(

it wasnt his defining characteristic, but yeah.

When I last saw him he was on the wagon and doing well. He flipped out sometime in the middle of last year and all I heard coming out of Memphis were Jay-is-on-the-warpath stories.

yeah, all the band breakup stuff and the crazy tweets and termbo posts raised some red flags

Never heard his music but sad when anyone this young dies.

wait sorry for my ignorance, but i didn't know what a caner was, so i looked it up and apparently it doesn't mean what i figured it meant (cocaine-r)
what is a caner? how on earth did this guy die?

I really loved his recent LP, and heard nothing from his old bands. He was truly talented, and it's a real shame, he could have conquered the world with another good record like 'Watch Me Fall'.

La Lechera: caner - A person who indulges in excessive bouts of drug or alcohol use.

To cane something is to go overboard with it.

oh ok. pls excuse me, i just can't believe that he's just *poof* dead.

I don't know if another Watch Me Fall would have been the ticket, but given all the talent he displayed through all his other projects, it did certainly feel like he had a world-conquering record in him. He had a grasp on pop that very few people have.

I'm reminded of how devastated I was after the Exploding Hearts tragedy.

Sorry for lol Britisher slang - just general purpose term for someone who ingests a lot of drugs

Playing 'Singles 08' now tbh and in the interests of fair and balanced reportage I would like to put forward that His music has truly sucked since the amazing Blood Visions (from up there) is some straight rongness that you will be the better for ignoring

at first i thought the thread title had always been this bah

There's no evidence of it being drug-related so far. It's easy to assume when it's someone so young, but, for example, a friend of mine died in her sleep of an aneurysm. She was only 26.

I'm reminded of how devastated I was after the Exploding Hearts tragedy.

Yeesh, freaky -- prompted by the mention I go to the Exploding Hearts thread and read this:

pretty soon people are gonna realize that jay reatard is power pop

― otm in new york (G00blar), Friday, April 10, 2009 1:46 PM (9 months ago)

He was pretty much power pop at heart!

omg. i thought this was a (bad) joke when i saw the thread title. rip.

"I would like to put forward that His music has truly sucked since the amazing Blood Visions (from up there) is some straight rongness that you will be the better for ignoring"

DJ Mencap OTM

Yeah, I was just ignoring that line.

I never got around listened to his music, but always meant to. I guess Blood Visions is the place to start.

xp dude's name is REATARDS UNITE it shouldnt surprise people that he'll staunchly defend the early material

Wow, I'd been not clicking on this thinking it was some hilarious internet fake rumour. RIP

xp I don't think it should have to be a faceoff but I hear ya

he was definitely power-pop, in fact he reminded me of if jack white did power-pop. he did power-pop the way the buzzcocks did power-pop.

I will be paying tribute to Jay and all his bands and some of his influences on Holy Victrola tonight.
KOPN.org from ten pm to midnight central. It will be archived (eventually) at holyvictrola.blogspot.com
Jesus, been doing too many tribute shows lately.
TBH I'm all tore up about this, too. I had some really good times with Jay but was always a little bit wary of his manic side.
Just sucks.

:(

Good luck with your show Sean.

Now my favorite Jay song, "Death Is Forming," will never sound so joyous and cut-through-all-the-bullshit ID-like again. Or maybe it'll sound even more so. Can't listen right now. RIP, buddy. :(

FUCK.

A year and a half ago I wrote an article about him for the local paper. I had read that he was kind of crazy and an asshole with little patience, so I expected the interview to be a terrible mess, but, and I've said this multiple times ever since, he was by far the nicest, most genuine and most interesting musician I ever interviewed, and later on at the show he was super sweet (oh, and the set was incredible).

This is terrible. Sorry Tripmaker and everyone who knew him. RIP Jay.

Listening to Teenage Hate right now and it is twisting me up.

RIP. He was real good.

As of 7:53 PM eastern time, the #2 google search in America is Jay Reatard

http://www.google.com/trends/hottrends

"Goner Records" is #3!