What modern music personality's death would you find most tragic?

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I'd say Bjork, with Stuart Murdoch in a respectable second. The former has done so much already, and she always--but especially right now-- seems on the verge of something monumental*. The latter is just so damn precious (although it might be a good career move to die now before he makes his inevitable unabashed gospel record). Still, it would be genuinely difficult for me to listen to either one if something happened.

* - Medulla without the annoying crap.

― poortheatre (poortheatre), Wednesday, 7 September 2005 03:33 (twenty years ago)

what is the point of starting such a thread?

― hstencil (hstencil), Wednesday, 7 September 2005 03:35 (twenty years ago)

YEAH DON'T JINX IT

― Mickey (modestmickey), Wednesday, 7 September 2005 03:41 (twenty years ago)

i just started thinking about it on the subway today and got sad, i guess.

― poortheatre (poortheatre), Wednesday, 7 September 2005 03:45 (twenty years ago)

great.

― hstencil (hstencil), Wednesday, 7 September 2005 03:46 (twenty years ago)

― poortheatre (poortheatre), Wednesday, 7 September 2005 04:13 (twenty years ago)

you own a copy of catcher in the rye by chance?

― j blount (papa la bas), Wednesday, 7 September 2005 04:16 (twenty years ago)

Sufjan Stevens, because then he'd have died without achieving his life's goal ...

― Hurting (Hurting), Wednesday, 7 September 2005 04:16 (twenty years ago)

changing his first name to Surfin'?

― hstencil (hstencil), Wednesday, 7 September 2005 04:22 (twenty years ago)

changing his last name to defjam

― j blount (papa la bas), Wednesday, 7 September 2005 04:24 (twenty years ago)

I think I'm going to call him Surfin' Defjam from now on.

― Joseph McCombs (Joseph McCombs), Wednesday, 7 September 2005 04:25 (twenty years ago)

am i the only one who thinks that an unabashed gospel record by murdoch would be genius?

― anthony easton (anthony), Wednesday, 7 September 2005 04:47 (twenty years ago)

Most likely.

― joseph cotten (joseph cotten), Wednesday, 7 September 2005 05:32 (twenty years ago)

Pete Doherty, as then we would be force-fed his half-arsed records forever, instead of them being forgotten in about, ooh, 18 months?

― I Ain't No Addict, Whoever Heard of a Junkie as Old as Me? (noodle vague), Wednesday, 7 September 2005 07:53 (twenty years ago)

I was watching the Libertines DVD that came with the last album.

Blimey they were good.

Blimey Babyshambles are halfarsed and half "arsed".

Anyway, my guess that as soon as someone starts the 'least' tragic version of this thread, there'll be 1000 answers by lunchtime.

― mark grout (mark grout), Wednesday, 7 September 2005 07:59 (twenty years ago)

I'd be pretty sad if Brooklyn Beckham's novelty rap career stalled before it even started.

― Masked Gazza, Wednesday, 7 September 2005 08:05 (twenty years ago)

This kind of already happened with Aaliyah.

― The Lex (The Lex), Wednesday, 7 September 2005 09:35 (twenty years ago)

Pete Doherty, as then we would be force-fed his half-arsed records forever, instead of them being forgotten in about, ooh, 18 months?
-- I Ain't No Addict, Whoever Heard of a Junkie as Old as Me? (noodle_vagu...), September 7th, 2005. (later)

Ding ding ding ding!

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Wednesday, 7 September 2005 09:37 (twenty years ago)

Crazy frog?

― mark grout (mark grout), Wednesday, 7 September 2005 09:40 (twenty years ago)

I'd say Bjork, with Stuart Murdoch in a respectable second.

I think it's safe to say that we are not in agreement here

― Raymond Douglas Dadaismus (Dada), Wednesday, 7 September 2005 09:40 (twenty years ago)

http://www.kjw-handel-dienstleistung.de/schnappi.jpg

― Raymond Douglas Dadaismus (Dada), Wednesday, 7 September 2005 09:41 (twenty years ago)

This kind of already happened with Aaliyah.

Yes, then Left-Eye :(

― I Ain't No Addict, Whoever Heard of a Junkie as Old as Me? (noodle vague), Wednesday, 7 September 2005 11:54 (twenty years ago)

I thought about this when Jeff Buckley died. At the time I thought Neil Tennant, not really because I feel he has a lot of good music left in him but because he'll make such a great old man.

― Tom (Groke), Wednesday, 7 September 2005 11:57 (twenty years ago)

He was an old man at the time Buckley died (i.e much the same age as me).

― Billy Dods (Billy Dods), Wednesday, 7 September 2005 12:08 (twenty years ago)

But, yes he'd make a great old curmudgeon.

― Billy Dods (Billy Dods), Wednesday, 7 September 2005 12:08 (twenty years ago)

Jamie Xiu Xiu, because then it would mean I'd never have a chance to fulfill my own fantasy of strangling the last breath from his throat

― rentboy (rentboy), Wednesday, 7 September 2005 12:12 (twenty years ago)

OK, I get the horrible feeling Mr Van Vliet is not long for this earth, and that will make me depressed.

― Masked Gazza, Wednesday, 7 September 2005 12:51 (twenty years ago)

paul mcartney because [insert painfully unfunny custos-esque joke about macca being rubbish whilst spitting furiously at the monitor]

― dave davis, Wednesday, 7 September 2005 13:01 (twenty years ago)

if thom yorke died, the teenagers of the world would never recover.

― cutty (mcutt), Wednesday, 7 September 2005 13:01 (twenty years ago)

Jamie Xiu Xiu, because then it would mean I'd never have a chance to fulfill my own fantasy of strangling the last breath from his throat

haha

― Zack Richardson (teenagequiet), Wednesday, 7 September 2005 13:19 (twenty years ago)

if thom yorke died, the teenagers of the world would never recover.
-- cutty (holle...), September 7th, 1997.

― N_RQ, Wednesday, 7 September 2005 13:21 (twenty years ago)

well, quite.

― mark grout (mark grout), Wednesday, 7 September 2005 13:25 (twenty years ago)

insofar as i freaked out completely when i thought it might be true, andrew wk. but also, stencil OTM. lets talk about something funner.

― petesmith (plsmith), Wednesday, 7 September 2005 13:28 (twenty years ago)

Either Kanye West or Dizzee Rascal.

― roxymuzak (roxymuzak), Wednesday, 7 September 2005 13:58 (twenty years ago)

Dylan.

― Old School (sexyDancer), Wednesday, 7 September 2005 13:59 (twenty years ago)

Pharrell or 50 (if both, the notion of "hits" would disappear with them !).

― AleXTC (AleXTC), Wednesday, 7 September 2005 14:32 (twenty years ago)

I understand (well, I read about it once and it probably has a name) the psychological impulse to think about these things, akin to how morbid thoughts about your friends/family help re-affirm, and remind you of your actual love for them. So, I'm not having a pop at you posting this topic.

But, seeing as some racist loner nearly killed Bjork once already....

Not something I like to dwell on at all.

― fandango (fandango), Wednesday, 7 September 2005 14:47 (twenty years ago)

50 Cent's death would be "tragic"?

― N_RQ (Enrique), Wednesday, 7 September 2005 14:56 (twenty years ago)

well he would have been dying trying to get rich : fate ! greek tragedy !

― AleXTC (AleXTC), Wednesday, 7 September 2005 15:11 (twenty years ago)

*strums guitar*
Mine.

― OleM (OleM), Wednesday, 7 September 2005 15:20 (twenty years ago)

I've often thought about this, and determined I'd be totally distraught if Kevin Shields ever died. Then maybe Brian Eno and Neil Young.
I also find it kind of, I don't know what but wierd when I read that quote about Jason Pierce's recent dabble in clinical illness "from going from almost dying twice in a week" And I think that was a quote from hs wife too, I also think she also spoke poor English, but I don't really think about how much these people I don't know and likely will ever meet mean to me, well their work and contributions at least.

― Tokyo Ghost Stories (Tokyo Ghost Stories), Thursday, 8 September 2005 00:23 (twenty years ago)

Being totally honest, I'd have to say Michael Stipe.

― mrjosh (mrjosh), Friday, 9 September 2005 00:39 (twenty years ago)

vini reilly

― jimmy glass (electricsound), Friday, 9 September 2005 00:42 (twenty years ago)

B.B. King?

(Why does hstencil remind me of my father-in-law?)

― M. V. (M.V.), Friday, 9 September 2005 00:57 (twenty years ago)

inspired by the other thread, but if Frances Bean Cobain either shot herself or OD'ed, id be pretty sad from all the horrible predictibility. (i know shes not a musician, but she is a personality, i guess)

― JD from CDepot, Friday, 9 September 2005 02:18 (twenty years ago)

how old is she now ?

― AleXTC (AleXTC), Friday, 9 September 2005 12:18 (twenty years ago)

― JD from CDepot, Friday, 9 September 2005 13:17 (twenty years ago)

vini reilly
Terribly OTM.

Question: What musician's death were you most affected by? Personally, I was very upset when Lizzy Mercier Descloux died. I had considered e-mailing her after learning she had cancer to tell her how much I loved the reissues of Press Color and Mambo Nassau and to assure her that her music was being reassessed, but I never got to before hearing about her death. It really bothers me that someone who recorded something like Mambo Nassau (which is virtually the epitome of jouissance in my mind) is still only mortal.

― Ian Riese-Moraine: Let this bastard out, and you'll get whiplash! (Eastern Mantr, Friday, 9 September 2005 14:03 (twenty years ago)

At the risk of taking this thread seriously, I'd have to say Joanna Newsom.

― edward iii, Friday, 9 September 2005 14:04 (twenty years ago)

I like how it says "modern music personality" which could be interpretted to include both A) characters [oh no MF Doom died! oh wait but Dumile has a new album coming out], and B) people who aren't actually musicians [what a horrible day for music, the Carson Daily has DIED].

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Friday, 9 September 2005 14:06 (twenty years ago)

i just said it to encompass producers, DJs, writers, etc..

― poortheatre (poortheatre), Friday, 9 September 2005 15:38 (twenty years ago)

Hum, she's getting in the rough age...
i wonder who between her and MJ's kid are to pity the most...

― AleXTC (AleXTC), Friday, 9 September 2005 15:47 (twenty years ago)

oh, MJs have it much worse. i mean, if something happens to Jacko, they would probably be given to other jacksons.......

if something happened to courtney, im not sure where Frances goes, but i remember reading that a stipulation kurt and courtney made was that she was never to be in the custody of either of their families.

― JD from CDepot, Friday, 9 September 2005 15:58 (twenty years ago)

Alexis Strum

― daavid (daavid), Friday, 9 September 2005 17:53 (twenty years ago)

sixteen years pass...

I like how it says "modern music personality" which could be interpretted to include both A) characters [oh no MF Doom died! oh wait but Dumile has a new album coming out]

Oh shiiiiiiiiit

― A Pile of Ants (Boring, Maryland), Tuesday, 9 November 2021 21:35 (four years ago)

Interesting that someone upthread used Captain Beefheart as an example of a "modern music personality" 23 years after his last record (and that he lived five more years after the thread died).

― Halfway there but for you, Tuesday, 9 November 2021 23:15 (four years ago)

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