http://www.matadorrecords.com/matablog/2010/01/13/jay-reatard/
― James Mitchell, Wednesday, 13 January 2010 21:56 (fourteen years ago) link
v.sad
RIP
― ralph pls go (cozwn), Wednesday, 13 January 2010 22:09 (fourteen years ago) link
RIP to a good Tennessee boy.
― Kelsey Glamour (Nijoli), Wednesday, 13 January 2010 22:25 (fourteen years ago) link
Holy fuck! Just heard about this from P4k. Jesus.
― kshighway (ksh), Wednesday, 13 January 2010 22:28 (fourteen years ago) link
Holy fuck. Wow. I'm shocked. Jesus fucking christ, this is a blow.
― you gone float up with it (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Wednesday, 13 January 2010 22:29 (fourteen years ago) link
what... no.
― nutrition na'vi (s1ocki), Wednesday, 13 January 2010 22:30 (fourteen years ago) link
he seemed unstoppable. really stunned by this. RIP
― zappi, Wednesday, 13 January 2010 22:40 (fourteen years ago) link
Awwwww..........
:( x 1,000,000
― jennaversicolor, Wednesday, 13 January 2010 22:48 (fourteen years ago) link
I didn't even know he had a drug problem. :(
― musicfanatic, Wednesday, 13 January 2010 22:51 (fourteen years ago) link
it wasnt his defining characteristic, but yeah.
― 69, Wednesday, 13 January 2010 23:01 (fourteen years ago) link
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.
― Trip Maker, Wednesday, 13 January 2010 23:01 (fourteen years ago) link
yeah, all the band breakup stuff and the crazy tweets and termbo posts raised some red flags
― 69, Wednesday, 13 January 2010 23:04 (fourteen years ago) link
Never heard his music but sad when anyone this young dies.
― brain thoughts (Scik Mouthy), Wednesday, 13 January 2010 23:06 (fourteen years ago) link
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?
― figgy pudding (La Lechera), Wednesday, 13 January 2010 23:12 (fourteen years ago) link
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'.
― zeus, Wednesday, 13 January 2010 23:16 (fourteen years ago) link
La Lechera: caner - A person who indulges in excessive bouts of drug or alcohol use.
To cane something is to go overboard with it.
― krakow, Wednesday, 13 January 2010 23:17 (fourteen years ago) link
oh ok. pls excuse me, i just can't believe that he's just *poof* dead.
― figgy pudding (La Lechera), Wednesday, 13 January 2010 23:18 (fourteen years ago) link
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.
― you gone float up with it (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Wednesday, 13 January 2010 23:18 (fourteen years ago) link
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
― i swear on my life i feel so powerfull (musically) (DJ Mencap), Wednesday, 13 January 2010 23:19 (fourteen years ago) link
at first i thought the thread title had always been this bah
― mdskltr (blueski), Wednesday, 13 January 2010 23:20 (fourteen years ago) link
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.
― Fastnbulbous, Wednesday, 13 January 2010 23:20 (fourteen years ago) link
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)
― otm in new york (G00blar), Friday, April 10, 2009 1:46 PM (9 months ago)
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 13 January 2010 23:22 (fourteen years ago) link
He was pretty much power pop at heart!
― you gone float up with it (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Wednesday, 13 January 2010 23:23 (fourteen years ago) link
omg. i thought this was a (bad) joke when i saw the thread title. rip.
― Daniel, Esq., Wednesday, 13 January 2010 23:24 (fourteen years ago) link
"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
― zeus, Wednesday, 13 January 2010 23:25 (fourteen years ago) link
Yeah, I was just ignoring that line.
― you gone float up with it (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Wednesday, 13 January 2010 23:25 (fourteen years ago) link
I never got around listened to his music, but always meant to. I guess Blood Visions is the place to start.
― Daniel, Esq., Wednesday, 13 January 2010 23:26 (fourteen years ago) link
xp dude's name is REATARDS UNITE it shouldnt surprise people that he'll staunchly defend the early material
― 69, Wednesday, 13 January 2010 23:27 (fourteen years ago) link
Wow, I'd been not clicking on this thinking it was some hilarious internet fake rumour. RIP
― canna kirk (a passing spacecadet), Wednesday, 13 January 2010 23:30 (fourteen years ago) link
xp I don't think it should have to be a faceoff but I hear ya
― i swear on my life i feel so powerfull (musically) (DJ Mencap), Wednesday, 13 January 2010 23:30 (fourteen years ago) link
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.
― shart in a bag, light it on fire (stevie), Wednesday, 13 January 2010 23:31 (fourteen years ago) link
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.comJesus, 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.
― Trip Maker, Wednesday, 13 January 2010 23:38 (fourteen years ago) link
:(
Good luck with your show Sean.
― We should have called Suzie and Bobby (NickB), Wednesday, 13 January 2010 23:44 (fourteen years ago) link
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. :(
― Kevin John Bozelka, Wednesday, 13 January 2010 23:54 (fourteen years ago) link
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.
― autotuna fish (Tape Store), Thursday, 14 January 2010 00:18 (fourteen years ago) link
Listening to Teenage Hate right now and it is twisting me up.
― Trip Maker, Thursday, 14 January 2010 00:43 (fourteen years ago) link
RIP. He was real good.
― kornrulez6969, Thursday, 14 January 2010 00:52 (fourteen years ago) link
As of 7:53 PM eastern time, the #2 google search in America is Jay Reatard
http://www.google.com/trends/hottrends
― kornrulez6969, Thursday, 14 January 2010 00:54 (fourteen years ago) link
"Goner Records" is #3!
― you gone float up with it (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Thursday, 14 January 2010 00:59 (fourteen years ago) link
man, what? damn, RIP
― k3vin k., Thursday, 14 January 2010 01:07 (fourteen years ago) link
the #2 google search in America is Jay Reatard
that's not how googletrends works fwiw: hot trends are uncommon search strings that are outliers from the normal search string patterns.
― ┌∩┐(◕_◕)┌∩┐ (Steve Shasta), Thursday, 14 January 2010 01:09 (fourteen years ago) link
12. "shart"
― Prospective Liberal Troll (will), Thursday, 14 January 2010 01:19 (fourteen years ago) link
anyway. this is really sad. dude was always perfectly pleasant to me (he did make fun of one of my friend's dancing tho, justifiably). and he was damn talented. I was really looking forward to watching him mature as a writer/ performer.
― Prospective Liberal Troll (will), Thursday, 14 January 2010 01:25 (fourteen years ago) link
good riddance to bad rubbish (idk who this is)
― yakko warner (cankles), Thursday, 14 January 2010 02:39 (fourteen years ago) link
oh yay, cankles
― you gone float up with it (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Thursday, 14 January 2010 02:51 (fourteen years ago) link
― 69, Wednesday, January 13, 2010 5:04 PM (4 hours ago) Bookmark
yeah just by reading the internet it really seemed like his life was spiraling out of control - very weird and sobering news anyhow
― total eclipse of the shart (J0rdan S.), Thursday, 14 January 2010 03:19 (fourteen years ago) link
went to this show last summer in the middle of Stuyvesant Town, with some confused elderly tenants on the fringes. Fun performer.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mVUZ9ROkoL8&feature=related
― Rage, Resentment, Spleen (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 14 January 2010 03:26 (fourteen years ago) link
A bunch of friends of mine were hosting Liquor Store at a house show and last night they were all complaining about how jay was sending members death threats and I kept saying "oh shit lo-fi drama!" and then today he's dead.
― filthy dylan, Thursday, 14 January 2010 03:41 (fourteen years ago) link
Apparently could be flu-related
― Reatards Unite, Thursday, 14 January 2010 03:50 (fourteen years ago) link
in re power pop, i think watch me fall is the first album of his that's really power pop, but you could see him headed there from early on.
― hellzapoppa (tipsy mothra), Thursday, 14 January 2010 03:58 (fourteen years ago) link