RIP Mark E. Smith

Not much I can say, I'm in a weird space. Just checking in. But all that work survives and will, and Neil S "the best thing this terrible country has produced in the last 60 years" otm, otm otm for fucking ever.

Is it important for you to remain angry?
Yeah. People still cross the road from me; I’ve still got that. I can clear a pub when I want to. It’s a talent.

scrolled through his discography wondering what to play. eventually got to 'frightened'. it has to be this

LOLz. MES was so hilarious.

xxp "hate's not your enemy, love's your enemy"

Why didn't you take better care of yourself, Mark?? I knew this was coming. My favorite band ever. Even love the crappy Fall records. No more Fall records! No more concerts! No more interviews! I will miss you horribly. I feel like it's the end of my youth. :(

I come and stand at every door
But no-one hears my silent plea
I knock and yet remain unseen
For I am dead for I am dead
I need no fruit nor even rice
I need no meat nor even bread
And I need nothing for myself
When children die they do not grow
I woke one day to ash in light
My eyes grew dim my eyes grew bright
Death came and turned my bones to dust
And scattered swirling in the wind
I need no fruit nor even spice
I need no sweet or even bread
And I need nothing for myself

https://img.discogs.com/1RBrttjKInfUguZxH7kn1RD8I1M=/fit-in/300x300/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(40)/discogs-images/A-9457-1220655566.jpeg.jpg

xxp murder all bush monkeys

Why didn't you take better care of yourself, Mark?? I knew this was coming. My favorite band ever. Even love the crappy Fall records. No more Fall records! No more concerts! No more interviews! I will miss you horribly. I feel like it's the end of my youth. :(

xxp murder all bush monkeys

An Easy Rider coot
Grabbed the edge of my coat
Said: 'You're too smart for here'
I said: 'I'll see the manager'

The young black kids get screwed up the worst
They go over to the Hampstead houses
In the English system they implicitly trust
See the A&R civil servants
They get a sex thrill out of a sixteenth of Moroccan

An Easy Rider coot
Grabbed the edge of my coat
Said: 'You're too smart for here'
I said: 'I'll see the manager'

Comic timing is perfect.

that thread about best musical experiences of 2017, btw. i gave some answer about a busker but this is the real answer

Listening to The Fall's 'Dedication Not Medication' I stumble across the Freemasons' Central Lodge and gaze up at it in horror

— Louis Jagger (@louisjagger) June 13, 2017

just listened to it again. it is lore

from Killdozer via FB

"Mark E. Smith once told Killdozer that our live set was too long, and advised the following formula: "there are three of you, so you should play nine songs."

R.I.P., Wise One."

His downfall was a blonde girl
But that's none of your business

Sometimes life is like a new bar,
Plastic seats, beer below par,
Food with no taste, music grates,
I'm living too late.
I'm living too late.

Once talking was my favourite while,
But now I know a conversation's end before it's done.
Maybe I'm living too long.

Thanks, Mark.

A great anecdote from Roy Montgomery

True story:
(fanboy nobody me somehow gets himself invited to RAK studios early 1982 while The Cure are recording Pornography and this conversation takes place)
Robert Smith: If you aren't doing anything next weekend come to a party. Siouxsie will be there. I think you should meet her.
Me: I can't. I'm going to see The Fall play in Bristol.
RS: Fair enough.

http://thefall.org/news/980222.html

He saw The Verve and concluded: "God help us if there's a war." At the Phoenix Festival the other year, he looked on as his band were introduced to Lou Reed, and he just thought: sad. What Mark E Smith does is move on, away from the past. You should just get over it. Recently, he went to an exclusive do at the Kensington Roof Gardens, and while the rest of his party mingled, Mark went over to the fountain and began bowing and paying homage. Someone asked what he was doing, and so he told them: this was the very spot, in 1972, where Lou Reed kicked the shit out of David Bowie.

how old are the stars really?

"I come and stand at every door"

nice but he didn't actually write any of that, that's a poem by a Turkish poet that Pete Seeger worked on.

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