posted on the other thread
as someone who always feels a little bit weird abt public grief over celebrities I have to say I feel fucking devastated and honestly don;t know what to do with myself
an inferno of a human being and a monster poet who shaped my perspective from a young age and more than any other artist hot wired my brain and inspired me to keep moving sideways
I'm so full of gratitude to him for refusing to ever rest in peace. I hope that now he can.
― Empire Burl Ives (Hadrian VIII), Wednesday, 24 January 2018 22:07 (six years ago) link
Fucking Echo + the Bunnymen never put Ted Rogers brains in hell.
― calzino, Wednesday, 24 January 2018 22:09 (six years ago) link
Currently blasting Bend Sinister and marvelling once more at how brilliant it is.
― Full of bile and Blue Nile denial (Turrican), Wednesday, 24 January 2018 22:10 (six years ago) link
a new face in heaven
― J. Sam, Wednesday, 24 January 2018 22:12 (six years ago) link
haha are you sure? he might be having more fun in hell
― sleeve, Wednesday, 24 January 2018 22:13 (six years ago) link
always amused at the anecdote about Mark blasting James Murphy for basing "Losing My Edge" off a Von Sudenfed track (even though the VS track came out a few years later), when in reality it was LCD ripping off Killing Joke who were inspired by The Fall
― frogbs, Wednesday, 24 January 2018 22:13 (six years ago) link
i can't believe there is never going to be another fall record
what the fuck
― Empire Burl Ives (Hadrian VIII), Wednesday, 24 January 2018 22:16 (six years ago) link
― Fizzles, Wednesday, 24 January 2018 22:17 (six years ago) link
― Empire Burl Ives (Hadrian VIII), Wednesday, 24 January 2018 22:16 (fifty-six seconds ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
think they have another record in the can actually
― #TeamHailing (imago), Wednesday, 24 January 2018 22:18 (six years ago) link
also may he live on in an endless run of spuriously sourced live recordings released on labels no one has ever heard of, as above so below
― bhad and bhabie (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, 24 January 2018 22:21 (six years ago) link
This recent interview was bit of the balm I needed
https://www.theguardian.com/music/2018/jan/24/final-interview-with-mark-e-smith-the-fall-people-still-cross-the-road-from-me
― chr1sb3singer, Wednesday, 24 January 2018 22:26 (six years ago) link
hating Elton John until the end, good man
― Thomas NAGL (Neil S), Wednesday, 24 January 2018 22:28 (six years ago) link
I thought he'd live another 20 years in spite of the reports. This blows.
― trife's rich padgett (rip van wanko), Wednesday, 24 January 2018 22:30 (six years ago) link
yeah obv he has looked so awful for the past year and I get it that we should have seen it coming but I just figured he would ride out what ever this illness was and keep doing his thing
― Empire Burl Ives (Hadrian VIII), Wednesday, 24 January 2018 22:36 (six years ago) link
that philip k dick bit hahaha
― #TeamHailing (imago), Wednesday, 24 January 2018 22:38 (six years ago) link
"Arnie gets it"
― JRN, Wednesday, 24 January 2018 22:38 (six years ago) link
Might be time to retire the display name.
― righteousmaelstrom, Wednesday, 24 January 2018 22:39 (six years ago) link
"You wouldn't even know the sun was up unless there was a press release on it"was just getting into this site toohttp://annotatedfall.doomby.com/
― Dr X O'Skeleton, Wednesday, 24 January 2018 22:40 (six years ago) link
"whaddaya mean what's it mean?"
― Dr X O'Skeleton, Wednesday, 24 January 2018 22:43 (six years ago) link
LOLz. MES was so hilarious.
― Whiney Houston (Tom D.), Wednesday, 24 January 2018 22:44 (six years ago) link
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.
― woof, Wednesday, 24 January 2018 22:45 (six years ago) link
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.
― xyzzzz__, Wednesday, 24 January 2018 22:46 (six years ago) link
scrolled through his discography wondering what to play. eventually got to 'frightened'. it has to be this
― #TeamHailing (imago), Wednesday, 24 January 2018 22:47 (six years ago) link
― Fizzles, Wednesday, 24 January 2018 22:48 (six years ago) link
xxp "hate's not your enemy, love's your enemy"
― sleeve, Wednesday, 24 January 2018 22:48 (six years ago) link
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. :(
― Fake Sam's Club (I M Losted), Wednesday, 24 January 2018 22:49 (six years ago) link
I come and stand at every doorBut no-one hears my silent pleaI knock and yet remain unseenFor I am dead for I am deadI need no fruit nor even riceI need no meat nor even breadAnd I need nothing for myselfWhen children die they do not growI woke one day to ash in lightMy eyes grew dim my eyes grew brightDeath came and turned my bones to dustAnd scattered swirling in the windI need no fruit nor even spiceI need no sweet or even breadAnd 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
― Empire Burl Ives (Hadrian VIII), Wednesday, 24 January 2018 22:50 (six years ago) link
xxp murder all bush monkeys
― Thomas NAGL (Neil S), Wednesday, 24 January 2018 22:50 (six years ago) link
― Fizzles, Wednesday, 24 January 2018 22:51 (six years ago) link
An Easy Rider cootGrabbed the edge of my coatSaid: 'You're too smart for here'I said: 'I'll see the manager'
― Whiney Houston (Tom D.), Wednesday, 24 January 2018 22:57 (six years ago) link
The young black kids get screwed up the worstThey go over to the Hampstead housesIn the English system they implicitly trustSee the A&R civil servantsThey get a sex thrill out of a sixteenth of Moroccan
― Fizzles, Wednesday, 24 January 2018 22:57 (six years ago) link
― Fizzles, Wednesday, 24 January 2018 22:58 (six years ago) link
Comic timing is perfect.
― Whiney Houston (Tom D.), Wednesday, 24 January 2018 22:58 (six years ago) link
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
― #TeamHailing (imago), Wednesday, 24 January 2018 22:58 (six years ago) link
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."
― sleeve, Wednesday, 24 January 2018 22:58 (six years ago) link
His downfall was a blonde girlBut that's none of your business
― Whiney Houston (Tom D.), Wednesday, 24 January 2018 23:03 (six years ago) link
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.
― anatol_merklich, Wednesday, 24 January 2018 23:12 (six years ago) link
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.
― Elvis Telecom, Wednesday, 24 January 2018 23:31 (six years ago) link
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.
― Elvis Telecom, Wednesday, 24 January 2018 23:49 (six years ago) link
how old are the stars really?
― reggie (qualmsley), Wednesday, 24 January 2018 23:52 (six years ago) link
"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.
― akm, Thursday, 25 January 2018 00:40 (six years ago) link
that’s true. his austere delivery is beautiful tho.
― Fizzles, Thursday, 25 January 2018 01:04 (six years ago) link
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.
― calzino, Thursday, 25 January 2018 01:05 (six years ago) link
sending the best to ilxors who will be much more upset than me and i am fucking gutted so...
what a fucking hero.
― Heavy Messages (jed_), Thursday, 25 January 2018 01:08 (six years ago) link
― Fizzles, Thursday, 25 January 2018 01:09 (six years ago) link
Tom D made me read all of ...Stop Mithering. Jesus Christ, what a mind he had.
― Heavy Messages (jed_), Thursday, 25 January 2018 01:09 (six years ago) link
Mark, not Tom lol
― Heavy Messages (jed_), Thursday, 25 January 2018 01:10 (six years ago) link
― Fizzles, Thursday, 25 January 2018 01:04 (three minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
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
― #TeamHailing (imago), Thursday, 25 January 2018 01:12 (six years ago) link