Rolling Obituary Thread 2024

RIP

Love those records.

really great Scars cover worth revisiting https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lXNABzNVlu8

12 year-old me loved The Human Menagerie and The Psychomodo, and having revisited both of them this year, they still hold up well.

As an American, I expected a band with a name like Cockney Rebel to sound like GBH or Discharge, so hearing Harley's actual music was a little baffling.

Posted about him on facebook with the comment "english people of a certain generation" and have gotten two responses from members of Happy Refugees both saying "I was really into him when I was 12".

never heard the album but 'come up and see me...' is probably my mum and dad's most played song* along with 'baker street' and 'maggie may'

*entire works of dire straits excepted

The Golden Age of Cockney Rebel is twelve.

As an American, I expected a band with a name like Cockney Rebel to sound like GBH or Discharge, so hearing Harley's actual music was a little baffling.

Getting them mixed up with Cockney Rejects perhaps?

Probably

Seems like the album covers would tip you off about the style

https://wtop.com/national/2024/03/astronaut-thomas-stafford-commander-of-apollo-10-has-died-at-age-93/

Astronaut Thomas Stafford, 93

As an American, I expected a band with a name like Cockney Rebel to sound like GBH or Discharge

Lol, same here.. the name sounds more menacing than the band

considering the band has no electric guitar but has a violin, and the lead singer wears a red velvet frock coat and bowler hat, I'd say pretty much anything is more menacing than Cockney Rebel.

I had the opposite feeling about Blue Oyster Cult, where I saw the art and the band's name and I thought they much be the most evil sounding band in the world.. then I heard Burnin' for You and they were weren't as vile and satanic as I'd hoped

(I'm not sure I thought Cockney Rebel was gonna sound like GBH, but I assumed it'd be more like Dr. Feelgood or Eddie & The Hot Rods, some kinda hard-edged pub rock.. alas it was not to be)

Ha, great comparison, AtG.

The great M. Emmet Walsh

https://www.etonline.com/m-emmet-walsh-blade-runner-and-knives-out-actor-dead-at-88-222071

noooo

No! RIP to a true hero

Oh bollocks, RIP MEW.

https://marsingemini.files.wordpress.com/2016/12/walsh_blood_simple_blue_blu-ray_2x-600w.jpg

RIP to the Stanton-Walsh Rule

Had no idea he was still alive. Does that make Bruce McGill the last great American character actor standing? (I feel like Ed Harris is just one rung higher on the ladder, having had actual lead roles — Walker, Pollock.)

More people should see Straight Time.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5RzaZC6DchU

RIP

I always thought Straight Time is one of Hoffman's best, if not THE best

at the baggage claim in the burlington vermont airport I found myself standing next to m. emmet walsh and said to him, “I love your movies.” he looked at me, slightly annoyed, and without missing a beat, replied “you should try reading books.” https://t.co/zCzilBZpWH

— alex blagg (@alexblagg) September 23, 2023

No version of BLADE RUNNER would work without him. As written, a key character for noir stakes-setting and exposition. As performed, Walsh delivers the rancid affability of a mid grade authority impressed with himself for deciding who's human. Acting that creates the world. RIP pic.twitter.com/f1Fp57jMQI

— Candygram for Mongo (@spencer_parsons) March 20, 2024

Does that make Bruce McGill the last great American character actor standing?

james hong is still with us at 95

In that vein I was gonna mention Charles Dierkop - missed the fact that he died last month at 87. RIP

As great a character actor as probably anybody from the studio system. Glad Straight Time has been noted; Blood Simple will lead his obituaries (and Blade Runner, evidently--have to admit, I don't remember him in that like I remember him in Blood Simple), but I'd put Straight Time at the top. He's positively evil in that.

Blade Runner was considered confusing upon release, and as mentioned in the tweet above, his character was the only one that made any attempt to let the viewer know just what the hell was going on

(xpost) I’d almost go so far as to say he steals the film.

“Straight Time”, that is.

Normally I'd agree for a performance that good, but I also think it's Hoffman's greatest performance--and Stanton, Russell, and Busey are great too.

Emmet came to set with 2 things: a copy of his credits, which was a small-type single spaced double column list of modern classics that filled a whole page, & two-dollar bills which he passed out to the entire crew. “Don’t spend it and you’ll never be broke.” Absolute legend. ♥️ pic.twitter.com/hP8Ml1fBGi

— Rian Johnson (@rianjohnson) March 20, 2024

He's the guy who hated those cans!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tcwz8-EfFYE

Lol! RIP 🪦

As performed, Walsh delivers the rancid affability of a mid grade authority impressed with himself for deciding who's human.

He'd have played a MAGA state senator with aplomb.

I forgot about The Music of Chance (Joel Grey was also great in it):

“There was something so deeply imperturbable about the man, so fundamentally oblique and humorless, that Nashe could never decide if he was inwardly laughing at them or just plain dumb.”

M. Emmet Walsh embodied this character in “The Music of Chance”/1993. What an all-timer.

— Janet Maslin (@JanetMaslin) March 21, 2024

I'm seeing reports of Jimmy Hastings, of Caravan, Hatfield and the North, etc, has passed at 85.

https://www.organissimo.org/forum/topic/91209-jimmy-hastings/

SF writer Vernor Vinge, 79

https://file770.com/vernor-vinge-1944-2024/

xxp I was going to mention The Music of Chance, it's one of those films I saw late night on Channel 4 here in the UK as a teenager and it has stayed with me ever since, Walsh was incredibly creepy in that

I'm seeing reports of Jimmy Hastings, of Caravan, Hatfield and the North, etc, has passed at 85.

https://www.organissimo.org/forum/topic/91209-jimmy-hastings🕸/🕸

Cola boyy, only 34 :(

Darren Ellis aka Splash RIP

all time classic

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y99JZugos9w

Maurizio Pollini, piano titan, 82

Still for my money the meanest rendition of this monster, especially the last handful of bars which he renders with total precision and clarity:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5rfle8wSwJM