RIP Mark E. Smith

Oh shit huge loss RIP

RIP Mark

heaven can now have killer sessions again, they are back together

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PtIPlWzM84c

A bit gobsmacked by this, although I knew he'd been unwell. RIP MES. Thanks for the legacy.

His death was previously wrongly announced by the BBC in March last year, on his 60th birthday.

Nice way to end your obit, Graun, real classy

i always felt like the fall had so much vitriol, so unrelenting, that when he did have the rare moment of tenderness it was so much more affecting

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AbMG1v7qDqs

yeah know what you mean, gutted

xp Marc Riley is playing this right now on 6Music <3

Shit news but not unexpected after recent events.

RIP

i always felt like the fall had so much vitriol, so unrelenting, that when he did have the rare moment of tenderness it was so much more affecting

absolutely

(thanks for the tip on 6music Neil)

This song was my Fall gateway. Intro'd here by Tony Wilson.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wygQmJ59E4Q

Thinking of Fizzles the Chimp, sorry for your loss.

ah bollocks. :c RIP.

Up here in the North there are no wage packet jobs for us
Thank Christ
While young married couples discuss the poverties
Of their self-built traps
And the junior clergy demand more cash
We spit in their plate and wait for the ice to melt

man, shit.

I can never tell if “Bill is Dead” is genuinely tender or totally vicious satire. Maybe both, who knows.

not

Thinking of Fizzles the Chimp, sorry for your loss.

They obviously had their differences but Marc Riley seems properly rattled and emotional right now

text a v good friend and fall fan (we used to get stoned as teenagers and listen to their records):

“I know you said when you saw the Fall last he looked like he was ill. And that it was one of their best ever performances you'd seen”

I was playing 'Fortress/deer park' in the car on the way home today (thanks to an Uncut freebie - worth the money for once but anyway) and wondered how long he had left.

Having said that, I'm never more than a month away from having played some Fall, and I made a point of playing that Singles (a's and b's) before he goes..

So, bring on the tribs. Including the News at ten..

he may have ended with his most challenging record to date (New Facts Emerge) which is really fucking saying something

"Couples vs. Jobless Mid 30s" is such an insane piece of work

"Couples vs. Jobless Mid 30s"

speaking of which, greatest song/album title-r in rock history??

yep :) to both your posts

Man City team must surely wear black armbands on SUnday as he was the only famous person who admitted to supporting them for about 30 years or so.

even his crap albums were called things like Are You Are Missing Winner, making them actually not-crap. and then you listen and realise they were never crap

there's them gallaghers but totally agree that they should xp

Just chuckling away at "Cary Grant's Wedding" right now.

Literally chuckling.

someone on facebook said he wrote a note to be read to the crowd at the last cancelled show? is there a link to it?

I can never tell if “Bill is Dead” is genuinely tender or totally vicious satire. Maybe both, who knows.

Is the Fall's 'Bill is dead' the most romantic song ever written?

Going to go with genuinely tender.

Just chuckling away at "Cary Grant's Wedding" right now.

Np YFOC really fuckin loud

xxpost Scott, here

A Message to All, to All. From Mark E. Smith/The Fall group. As I, like Pr Rupert leave Bristol with my tail between my legs, I wish to give my great apologies to everybody. This idiotic idea to do both shows was purely my idea, against the advice of Pamela and The Fall group, agent & promoter. Hope to replace shows within 4 - 6 weeks. In the interim we have eight new songs ready to go and will try and let you hear a few before Christmas. From head patient to you, the patients. I love you all but cannot embrace you all, Mark E. Smith

just said to a friend:

i'm not interested in sentimentality about this. they always reached beyond, into and around death, mocking and laughing and vicious. idk. memorialise, feel sad, but stand up.

O
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Hard to be sad listening to them, he was so fucking funny.

YFOC such a classic album xp

yes to Fizzles, proper response here is "LOL fuk u death" IMO

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EBUiPs1PxKo

this will never not cheer me up

Completely gutted and fucked right now. Someone queue up a the live vers of "NWRA" from the Part of America Therein at brain bleeding volumes and I'll take a Laphroaig and Peroni while yr up.

Hard to be sad listening to them, he was so fucking funny.

The great palimpsest

yes to Fizzles, proper response here is "LOL fuk u death" IMO

Yarbles. To. Even.

ilx0r: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/24/arts/music/mark-e-smith-the-fall-best-songs.html

We need an interview with MES talking abt the recently passed MES and how he, MES, never really was much of a fan of MES, though he was certainly aware of him and was a proper frontman, not dancing about

Gotta blast “Garden” when I get home, that song contains so much.

He’s the young generation dancing troupe, trying to perform country and western
(Do a dance here)

He knew the evil of the phone
He knew the evil of the phone
The bells stopped on Sunday when he rose
The bells, stopped, on Sunday, when HE rose!

"feel sad, but stand up."

in smoking and drinking years he had to be about 400, no? which is why i'm not shocked i guess. though i don't know what his final illness was.

xp to LBI Gideon Coe playing lots of Fall on 6Music now, public service broadcasting...

A magnificent rebus, like Dylan on the wrong meds.
(and a brief nod to Von Südenfed, one of my great faves)

yes that Von Südenfed album is fantastic

There is a 'tribute' column in Private Eye this week, a sort-of message from the afterlife. It's touching that they did it, it's not something they've done often if at all before. Obviously it's terrible, but hey.

"Re-Mit", which I probably haven't listened to since it was released really sounding good this AM.

This person’s posthumous top 20 is really well chosen and really really well written.

http://hippriestess.tumblr.com

La Lechera if u want another fall playlist...

As a mark of respect for the great Mark E Smith we’ve displayed Grayson Perry’s ‘My Heroes’ with MES’s portrait to the fore. In Studio Ceramics, Room 142, The Lydia and Manfred Gorvy Gallery, V&A. #markesmith #markesmithrip #TheFall #GraysonPerry #ceramics @V_and_A @Alan_Measles pic.twitter.com/jhRNuxhfZc

— Alun Graves (@alun_graves) February 14, 2018

Barry Sheen is on the other side iirc. (April Ashley and Aubrey Beardsley also, according to Wikipedia)

There's one of Johnny Vegas' teapots in the same room.

it actually looks a bit more like Mick than Mark IMO

Indeed. Lips too sumptuous

listing Grotesque on Ebay...

https://scontent.fbed1-2.fna.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/32089895_10156857634282137_5340684110501249024_n.jpg?_nc_cat=0&oh=05d24c05f3899b8cdff18f56635f8a49&oe=5B89CB0E

nice

ha ha yes

golden

p sure The Real New Fall LP covers the rest

Expanded and slightly rejiggered version of "50,000 Fall Fans Can't be Wrong":

https://www.cherryred.co.uk/product/the-fall-58-golden-greats-58-original-tracks-including-all-the-hits-3cd-boxset/

Huh, track list drops "Green Eyed Loco-Man" - which seems like a real loss!