RIP Mark E. Smith

that’s true. his austere delivery is beautiful tho.

that entire violent album (levitate) is extraordinary.

I loved that song he did w/ Mouse on Mars as Von Sudenfed with the lyric about Sven Vath pissing his bed. Flooded it was called.

sending the best to ilxors who will be much more upset than me and i am fucking gutted so...

what a fucking hero.

I loved that song he did w/ Mouse on Mars as Von Sudenfed with the lyric about Sven Vath pissing his bed. Flooded it was called.

Tom D made me read all of ...Stop Mithering. Jesus Christ, what a mind he had.

Mark, not Tom lol

that entire violent album (levitate) is extraordinary.

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it is one of my favourite albums of all time and i've only ever heard it off youtube, low-quality and fragmented (like the album itself tbf). i think he got closer to representing the madness and magic of existence than any other musician i can think of

wish they'd reissue it mind

watching perverted by language bis. what a beautiful and fucking funny correct man.

Didn't he once have a violent altercation with some pretentious twat from a Creation indie band. And he called them a bunch of "crusty cunts". This is from deep memory, but I remember thinking thank fuck he exists.

Didn't he once have a violent altercation with some pretentious twat from a Creation indie band. And he called them a bunch of "crusty cunts". This is from deep memory, but I remember thinking thank fuck he exists.

what’s a computer.

only saw the Fall twice ('85 and '92), but I'm sure I bought all the records '83-94 or so. RIP you wacko.

it was important to me that they were contemptuous of gender as a notion. who cares? smith seemed to say. and not in a good way.

It has just come to me, it was that guy from The House of Love, but not the one that looked like a paedophile supply teacher, the one looked a typical goth.

*sigh*

He was an absolute fucking titan in my musical world. i dont want to go to be for work tomorrow, i just wanna listen to The Fall all night

Terry Bickers, and his band was Levitation.

current playlist:

c'n'c-s mithering
winter
winter 2
Shift-Work
Bill Is Dead
Various Times
Dr. Buck's Letter
Paint Work

o god, winter

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HnwgjoTq1PM

You're history
You've quit existation
You're green grub

xp that's a good list sleeve

RIP. so many people have already said anything i would try to say, but far better than i would have. I was just listening to This Nation's Saving Grace this morning. Can't even be coherent about this right now. Fuck.

Checklist:

I never leave home without: (5)
1. Sunglasses - I wear them all year around, and seem to need them more often, it’s a habit
Music - cassettes, CDs
3. Palm Pilot - it’s my lifeline. I think it’s my P.A.’s computer, (6)
She rules my diary and I download it
4. Mobile phone
5. Amex card - they made such a fuss about giving it to me but I spend more time getting it turned down!

I was in the realm of the essence of Tong.

you don't deserve rock and roll

hey mark

livin' too late

https://youtu.be/6m2lfk4Bm34

It hasn't hit yet, but it's starting

This is a good listen even if you're quite familiar imo

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b052r0l5

hey mark

Barbara Manning did a great cover of that

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pxv1w-x21pY

An academic kneaded his chin
Sat in the dust of some cheap magazines
His academic rust could not burn them up

A small alteration of the past can turn time into space
Small changes can alter more than a mere decade

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wpWVk3h2SA8&feature=share

he looks so wonderful there

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

that's my number one LBI

maybe... of course

Oh goes without saying!

I can stumble through yt till the sun comes up. Probably asleep before that. But damn.

just listened to Garden, now cranking "Two-Face!"

All the English groups
Act like peasants with free milk
On a route
On a route to the loot
To candy mountain
Five wacky English proletariat idiots
Californians always think of sex
Or think of death
Five hundred girl deaths
A Mexico revenge, it's stolen land
They really get it off on
"Don't hurt me please"
Rapist fill the TVs
And the secret of their lives
Is S.E.X..

50,000 fall fans cant be wrong.

fuck, i'm just seeing this news.

i started reading the fall just the other night; weird timing (not sure if that's what the band are named after anyway). and i've been listening to the big singles compilation a lot lately, listening to a lot of the fall era that i'd always neglected ('86 - '02). so he has been on my mind quite a bit recently. RIP Mark E Smith.

<3

Trying not to be too sentimental because MES would have hated that. Thanks for the music, fuckface.

Mark would want us all on the Sting should retire thread instead

My favorite band... somehow the thought of whatever posthumous new Fall product emerges fills me with sadness, because I'll buy it knowing that's it (except for whatever live shows/old tapes Cherry Red or whoever decides to dredge(r) up), where with all the other albums that could be the last one you didn't know.

I loved the directness with which he ground a path through the preciousness and anxiety of indie music making in the UK. Like he was the only one who actually knew what he wanted, while everyone else nervously looked at each other for some kind of reaction or validation.

excellent point MK.

it's true that he made the world a better place when he called Mumford & Sons a "mongoloid Irish folk band."

Karl it's always been my understanding that he did in fact take the band name from the Camus book, but I don't have a primary source for that at hand

we need a thread with just MES stories imo

It was clear in the window eye
The brick outlined the blue sky
And I had to go round the gay graduates in the toilets
And Good King Harry was there
Fucking Jimmy Savile