I'm watching 'The Wonderful and Frightening World of Mark E Smith'. I've been a Fall fan for 15 or so years (since I was 16) I saw them live around 20 times, including three nights on the run in Liverpool. I'll still be listening to them when I'm 60, God willing.
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Adrian Rivera
WHY DID HE DIE
Colton Perez
Idk why
Nathaniel Flores
fucking tragic.
Henry Edwards
I would just like to say that Mark E Smith is the only self-absorbed egomaniac that I can forgive entirely for his crimes. He thought highly of himself, but he actually had a fucking good reason to.
Jaxon Butler
Mark was a shit dresser.
Cooper Hughes
Not that much of a fan of The Fall but MES seemed like a decent guy, shame about him.
Austin Howard
ive never felt the same way about any band before and now they're gone
fuck
Anthony Thompson
Same here lad, got everything and I'll play it forever, actual magic in some of it.
Just played lay of the land, if the hurr fall are shit mob would just turn that up and let go it would save a lot of time.
Nolan Cook
How many of the old weirdo virtuosos do we have left? The only person on the same level of Mark E Smith I can name off of the top of my head is Stephen Malkmus and Richard David James.
I mean, I know there are thousands of ORIGINAL artists out there, but not all of the original people possess as much RAW creative energy as this fellows.
Thomas Roberts
*#say no more*
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Eli Hughes
Don't jinx it lads
James Clark
>How many of the old weirdo virtuosos do we have left?
Robert Pollard
His music isn't that "weird" but he's twice as prolific as MES, makes amazing music still, is 60 and also sings in an English accent
William Perry
I don't listen to Dylan much now but I like that he's out there somewhere welding metal gates.
Carson Davis
>"The last time we [me and MES] spoke, about six months before his death, he was on as good form as ever. He’d moved onto gin chasers instead of whiskey, and was truly excited about the new music The Fall had made. "I've already started on the next one, I'm fucking bursting," he told me around the time the band's last LP, New Facts Emerge, was released. "The new stuff sounds a bit like [The Fall's 25th album] Reformation Post T.L.C. but even madder and a lot of white fucking fuzz in it, and a bit of corny piano, a bit like Van Der Graaf Generator. Maybe a bit of Joe Meek’s Telstar in there – pretty far out."
>"In the interim we have eight new songs ready to go and will try and let you hear a few before Christmas", MES wrote on the official website on November 30th.
Will we get one more album, lads?
William Gonzalez
Shit! I honestly forgot he's still kicking. I always automatically categorize Dylan as dead in my head, due to how influential he is on all of contemporary history.
I don't know. Is Tom Waits actually as creative as these other fucks we've named, or is he just originally weird? I'd like to add him and Gira to the list, possibly.
Nathan Stewart
And he knows how to be a heavy drinker the safe way
Colton Carter
Shit. Again. Someone I keep forgetting is alive.
Mason Roberts
gira? fuck no, the guy's a hack
Isaac Johnson
Ayden Perry
How is he a hack? I know virtually nothing about Swans, other than having listened to all of their albums. I don't find him that captivating as a person, so I've never been assed to look into the actual details of his artistry.
Parker Collins
Nigga you gotta keep listening to his shit, this came out last year and sounds like it could have easily been a highlight on any of their early 2000s albums
Aaron Russell
> I don't find him that captivating as a person
you just answered your own question, no one actually thinks he's worth anything
Justin Reed
I saw Dylan once, definitely the strongest holy fuck that is really X in front of me feeling I ever had. He was great as well, reminded me of Mark the way he changed everything round and didn't have to do much, transfixed people.
Crowd were good as well, more like old pub rock drunks than smelly hippie.
Thomas Flores
What was the process of The Fall songs be creating?
Did the musicians write a song and then Mark just recited his poetry/vocals over?
Did he have any input melodically, etc.
Jeremiah Reyes
It was a mix. Sometimes it was jams by the band, sometimes it was ideas a bandmember brought in and fleshed out, sometimes it was Mark's ideas that were fleshed out, sometimes just Mark, occasionally just someone else (usually Brix)
Austin Baker
The interesting thing is that over 40 years all the groups were different but sounded like the fall. How he did that I don't know.
Levi King
kinda embarrassing that Rivers Cuomo is more interesting than Gira
Logan Cox
Dear God. This is good. I haven't tracked him under a name other than the original Guided by Voices gig, but, this is good.
Chase Hernandez
Yes, this is fucking good.
Another good oldfag still going is Kristen Hersch, plus Tanya Donnelly who has a beautiful folk voice now.
Ryan Thomas
>Robert Pollard
nah fuck this soy boy
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R Stevie Moor
are the first ones that come to mind... there are lots left!
Easton Cooper
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Robert James
>Pollard
>soy
Dude is a heavy drinkin, blue collar, 6'2" athlete, anti-soy
Robert Jackson
Scott Walker is still out there