Jay Reatard (RIP 2010)

What else is worth tracking down?

the angry angles singles, the bad times lp, and everything by the final solutions.

New album is "out"...
At first I wasn't sold, now I'm on it's dick hardcore. I am under it's spell. Sounds like the Rezillos or some shit. Sounds like Trent Reznor wrote the lyrics. AHAHAHA. A ton of "life sucks whadda am I gonna do" sentiments. Don't know. Good stuff. Massive doobage.

What are the thoughts heeeerrree?

Aint Gonna Save Me is awesome. An explosion of poptastic goodness. Be warned though: it is devilishly catchy.

The popness is still less obvious live. Posted on an Adverts thread about seeing Jay and his band back up TV Smith on some Adverts covers recently. Fun stuff.

there's a rumor circulating that he died?! unsubstantiated.

jayreatard

1. I will give anyone a hundred bucks per tire that they pop on the band liquor stores van ! Yes I'm serious 12:42 PM Jan 11th from TwitterBerry

Alive as least of 48 hours ago?

Um I'll just pretend that was a real sentence.

I just heard the same thing, from a reliable source... apparent drug overdose.

There's a banner up on the Goner Records site saying Jay Reatard RIP...

Oh shit. RIP

http://www.commercialappeal.com/news/2010/jan/13/memphis-musician-jay-reatard-found-dead-midtown-ho/

Well, fuck.

crazy. i really like watch me fall. RIP.

This is awful.

oh man. sad to hear it. that was really one of my favorite records last year. and somehow he seemed too smart to end up dead young, for all his badboy guff. but i guess there are different kinds of smart. r.i.p. :(

I saw and loved Lost Sounds more than once.

Talent + drugs = tragedy :(

His music has truly sucked since the amazing Blood Visions but I'm still shocked to see this. I always thought he seemed like a pretty cool guy despite his "asshole" reputation. Was hoping he'd return to his former Reatards/early solo heights, but I guess not anymore. Didn't know he was big into drugs either...interviews suggested he's done a little coke but not really into much of anything.

ugh yeah, shit sucks. i loved the reatards, haven't even heard his solo stuff, but...RIP.

rip... Blood Visions was a great record.

jesus

Was under the impression that he'd been a pretty big caner for years and then knocked it on the head, but only from, er, interviews

RIP for real, here's to 2010 finishing off what last year started and dispatching every single fucking exciting rock musician on the planet

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.

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.