Jay Reatard (RIP 2010)

I got into him with Blood Visions but I'm really kicking myself for not seeing him live when I had the chance.

o hi, are u me? because that is exactly how i feel too.

ilxor has a heart after all, huh?

― ilxor, Friday, 14 January 2011 17:41 (2 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

when is the brain due to arrive?

Yesterday I listened to my playlist of Jay Reatard youtube rips that I made last year. It was really great and there were a bunch of glitches and stuff and reminded me of how I used to feel listening to some tape I borrowed from a friend as a kid and then dubbed over my little sister's copy of the Grease soundtrack on hi-speed dubbing. I couldn't really get into Watch Me Fall, but maybe I'll have to look around for some of his older stuff.

when is the brain due to arrive?

see, it is subtle zings like this i can appreciate

much better than whiney/deej/some dude trash that usually comes after my posts

why don't we turn this thread into something productive - what other jay stuff is worth checking out besides blood visions and watch me fall? my friend gave me the 'in the dark' ep which is really good, has this stripped down version of 'searching for you' that is just so heartbreaking.

the EP yr talking about is collected (along with a bunch of other stuff) on in the red's singles 06-07 comp, and along with blood visions, watch me fall, and matador's singles 08, that's about all the solo jay there is, sadly.

i loved the reatards, the lost sounds, the angry angles and nervous patterns. maybe not as consistently full-on pop as jay's solo stuff, but all pretty damn great.

nervous patterns:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P304mBh4woQ

angry angles (inc a wire cover):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qfhEkCXGFH8&feature=related
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4h7bMrERUpU

lost sounds:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zzZ1H5XTuTs&feature=related

I was surprised to see that Rhapsody had the S/T Lost Sounds album. I like Clones Don't Love a lot, and will probably check out more...

this guy was sort of a genius

“for me to poop on”

Man someone STOLE* my completely rad Rats Brains & Microchips tshirt and I've been pissed ever since.

*i could've lost it or something

i stole it. no regrets.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pN4ylDu_Vh0

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cduC2DZ7Iyw

that's the song that's gripped me most recently

yeah I always thought "My Shadow" was a highlight

My Shadow was always my favourite of his songs

It's what Jack White covering The Motors' Airport would have sounded like

My Shadow was the one that got me into the rest. Amazing song.

listening to the "Blood Visions" single as we speak. Reatard was Memphis's greatest musical product since Three Six Mafia. RIP

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kGv3sVOAUE8

wouldn't mind sitting down to a nice hot plate of scott's mom's spanish delight

Good looks of slight bafflement in this.

This spring, Goner will release a still-untitled 17-track compilation focusing on Lindsey's work with Angry Angles, his band with onetime girlfriend Alix Brown. The combo, which ran between 2005 and 2006, was an important marker in Lindsey's creative evolution as it immediately preceded the breakthrough of "Blood Visions."

http://www.commercialappeal.com/entertainment/music/memphis-music-beat/memphis-music-beat-angry-angles-comp-captures-crucial-link-in-the-late-jay-reatards-evolution-291411-365175531.html

Alix was also in a Atlanta punk band called The Lids with the late BJ Womack around that time period. This was my favorite Lids song:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RD9C7Kc3M7Y

Didn't know that! I have a Lids album but never made the connection.

Still think Blood Visions is the best punk album of the 21st Century (honourable mention to Fuck Off by Good Throb)

not to dismiss his Reatards/ Lost Sounds/ Angry Angles stuff but man he was really on an unbelievable run there towards the end. can’t believe it’s been 12 years.

It's better than many of the 70s punk records it draws from! I'd easily take it over Crossing the Red Sea. Sorta the way a lot of 80s Nuggets-style garage rock is more solid than the real thing.

^^Take that over to the Controversial Opinions thread!

my go-to JR is a homemade CDR with the "Singles" 2LP plus the Matador singles, what a run

It's better than many of the 70s punk records it draws from! I'd easily take it over Crossing the Red Sea. Sorta the way a lot of 80s Nuggets-style garage rock is more solid than the real thing.

miss this guy

I'm Watching You is the greatest.

ILM poll for him someday would be good.

yep. lots of great songs. I made an amazing homemade CDr that has all of the "Singles 06-08" record followed by the Matador singles (minus the Deerhunter track), all killer no filler

i realize jay reatard put out some great music, sure, but in the case of most musicians passing away in their earlier years, esp. if related to drug OD, i find in retrospect their work gets blown a bit out of proportion. hendrix, kurt cobain, gram parsons, johnny thunders, sid vicious, the guy from sublime-- a lot of them made great music, but most are overrated as well,

Yeah if anything it feels like he’s been largely forgotten :(

Great constructor of rock songs, but especially at the mixing board/DAW. He can makes songs sound simultaneously fuzz-overloaded, overcompressed and crudely mic'd, yet still sharp and dynamic.

he really chose that name at the last possible time it could have been acceptable, may have something to do with it. no disrespect tho

Was gonna say, that surely plays a bit of a part in him not getting reevaluated yet. I wonder how much coverage he would have gotten from say, a Pitchfork, had he come out with that name just five years later (I mean, I'm doubting he even would have picked it by then, but still). I also wonder how much Ty Segall becoming a (well deserved, imho) poster boy for garage rock kept him from a higher profile as well.

Yeah I mean as someone with particular sensitivity to that word (for family reasons), I always recognized his name as a bit of an obstacle to wider acceptance... but, y'know, he chose it when he was a punk kid, stuck with it for whatever reason, and I was willing to give it a pass (largely due to his excellence, I guess).

I also feel like he maybe operated in this space where he became a little too "arty" for the punk crowd, but was still too "punk" for the mainstream indie crowd(?) But I'm sure there are other artists in this vein whom I just don't/didn't vibe with, and so I don't think of in the same light.

xxp in no way undeserved, but I’d bet good money a lot of post-Jay stories about Ty were because he filled that void.