this is truly horrible news! christ, i was hoping against hope that this would turn out to be yet another tasteless joke thread, but no such luck. i didn't know the guy myself but really wish i had gotten the chance to now; he was my main man on the Whatcha Listening to thread.
condolences to friends and family.
this is the last exchange we had on ilm (man, what i wouldn't give to take the past two weeks back...):
Unknown Session, Duke Ellington
The Raincoats
Thanks for repping, Hurting and Kenan!
― If Timi Yuro would be still alive, most other singers could shut up, Monday, February 2, 2009 11:28 AM (2 weeks ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
I sort of forgot I had a copy of On the Rise here, then idly looked at a big stack of LPs in the living room, so:
"Just Be Good to Me," The SOS Band
― If Timi Yuro would be still alive, most other singers could shut up, Friday, February 6, 2009 12:02 PM (2 weeks ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
Just as I was starting to think "Greatest record ever?" about that nine-minute track, I found this 12-inch:
"Hit Me With Your Rhythm Stick"/"There Ain't Half Been Some Clever Bastards"
― If Timi Yuro would be still alive, most other singers could shut up, Friday, February 6, 2009 12:10 PM (2 weeks ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
Then (I was discouraged by you!):
"Wheel Me Out"/"Hello Operator . . . I Mean Dad . . . I Mean Police . . . I Can't Even Remember Who I Am"
― If Timi Yuro would be still alive, most other singers could shut up, Friday, February 6, 2009 12:18 PM (2 weeks ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
This makes me wanna take a drive, but the car I "have access to" isn't equipped with a record player:
Little Feat
"I haven't made sense in so long, I almost quit tryin'."
― If Timi Yuro would be still alive, most other singers could shut up, Friday, February 6, 2009 12:34 PM (2 weeks ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
I sure don't owe that record anything; I've gotta so much pleasure out of it and I think I paid a buck for it in Philly one time.
― If Timi Yuro would be still alive, most other singers could shut up, Friday, February 6, 2009 12:37 PM (2 weeks ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
*gotten
― If Timi Yuro would be still alive, most other singers could shut up, Friday, February 6, 2009 12:37 PM (2 weeks ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
I also listened to "Red Guitar" by Loudon Wainwright III, a song no one ever talks about, before this.
― If Timi Yuro would be still alive, most other singers could shut up, Friday, February 6, 2009 12:41 PM (2 weeks ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
OK, just Side One of the Little Feat. If that's punk rock of one sort, this is it of another:
Of Human Feelings
― If Timi Yuro would be still alive, most other singers could shut up, Friday, February 6, 2009 12:51 PM (2 weeks ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
lol, ur durnk?
― (a mess0 (Ioannis), Friday, February 6, 2009 12:55 PM (2 weeks ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
Yes! How'd you know?
― If Timi Yuro would be still alive, most other singers could shut up, Friday, February 6, 2009 12:58 PM (2 weeks ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
Chuck Berry, Johnny B. Goode: His Complete '50s Chess Recordings (Chuck's da man! bought cheap!)
xp
lucky guess.
― (a mess0 (Ioannis), Friday, February 6, 2009 12:59 PM (2 weeks ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
Wow, I've got so much Chuck, but not that box. That's sweet, would fit well in my condition.
― If Timi Yuro would be still alive, most other singers could shut up, Friday, February 6, 2009 1:01 PM (2 weeks ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
Heh, Ronald Shannon Jackson ends one track on the Ornette with about a bar of "Funk #49."
― If Timi Yuro would be still alive, most other singers could shut up, Friday, February 6, 2009 1:04 PM (2 weeks ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
Side Two of Another Green World. If I stay awake long enough, then there'll be a Blood & Fire sampler CD called Dubwise & Otherwise 2. Otherwise, 'night.
― If Timi Yuro would be still alive, most other singers could shut up, Friday, February 6, 2009 1:11 PM (2 weeks ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
R.I.P Rickey
― Ioannis, Friday, 20 February 2009 10:41 (fifteen years ago) link