This is easy... wrote:
1. Mozart - losing this dude at 33 was way to early
2. Lennon - losing this dude at 40 was way to early
Done.
Lennon's productive years were far behind him when he died.
This is easy... wrote:
1. Mozart - losing this dude at 33 was way to early
2. Lennon - losing this dude at 40 was way to early
Done.
Lennon's productive years were far behind him when he died.
B.B. King.
Amy Winehouse.
So many troubles, but a total force of nature.
oke wrote:
Amy Winehouse.
So many troubles, but a total force of nature.
Sorry, being a druggo covered in ugly tats who is able to knock out a bit of a pleasant tune doesn't make you "a force of nature".
If nature was like her we'd all be doomed. wrote:
oke wrote:
Amy Winehouse.
So many troubles, but a total force of nature.
Sorry, being a druggo covered in ugly tats who is able to knock out a bit of a pleasant tune doesn't make you "a force of nature".
To each his own, many critics (music not typical letsrum posters) considered her a force of nature.
Puff Daddy and John Denver
Frank Zappa
note this wrote:
This is easy... wrote:
1. Mozart - losing this dude at 33 was way to early
2. Lennon - losing this dude at 40 was way to early
Done.
Lennon's productive years were far behind him when he died.
Ralph Stanley of the Clinch Mountain Boys.
Passed at 89 but was just getting started. Got a Grammy at 80-plus.
coach wrote:
If nature was like her we'd all be doomed. wrote:
Sorry, being a druggo covered in ugly tats who is able to knock out a bit of a pleasant tune doesn't make you "a force of nature".
To each his own, many critics (music not typical letsrum posters) considered her a force of nature.
Sure they did. Go ahead and list the "many critics". I'll go get my butt shaved in the meantime.
60 minutes wrote:
coach wrote:
To each his own, many critics (music not typical letsrum posters) considered her a force of nature.
Sure they did. Go ahead and list the "many critics". I'll go get my butt shaved in the meantime.
Here are a few.
Maura Johnson, Village Voice:
"When she was on, Winehouse had few peers."
Jess Harwell, Pitchfork:
"It was the attitude and self-possession she exuded on tape that remain startling whatever her extra- musical activities of the last few years."
Sasha Frere-Jones, The New Yorker:
"Nobody can match Winehouse's unique transitions or her utterly weird phrasi vs. She sounded like an original sixties soul star."
sjdhakjsdhkj wrote:
Wow, no one mentioned Andrew Wood?
If he hadn't died, there would never have been Pearl Jam and it's arguable that Mother Love Bone rather than Nirvana would have been the band to put Seattle on the map in the 90s.
I forgot about Andrew Wood, but you're right. He could have bridged the divide between hair metal and grunge and been the biggest rock god of the 90s.
coach wrote:
60 minutes wrote:
Sure they did. Go ahead and list the "many critics". I'll go get my butt shaved in the meantime.
Here are a few.
Maura Johnson, Village Voice:
"When she was on, Winehouse had few peers."
Jess Harwell, Pitchfork:
"It was the attitude and self-possession she exuded on tape that remain startling whatever her extra- musical activities of the last few years."
Sasha Frere-Jones, The New Yorker:
"Nobody can match Winehouse's unique transitions or her utterly weird phrasi vs. She sounded like an original sixties soul star."
The big trouble is that she sang in a phoney American accent and that disqualifies her from being taken seriously.
Jaco Pastorius. There is a really good netflix documentary about him. He was just beginning to emerge as a band leader and composer when his bipolar disorder lead him to drugs and alcohol. His bipolar episode would cause him pick fights in bars with people twice his size and let them beat him up. Eventually, he picked one fight too many and was beaten into a coma and later died from a brain hemorrhage. Pastorius was a musical genius on the level of Mozart or Coltrane. Without the mental illness, he probably would have written volumes of great jazz works and collaborated with anyone who could keep up with him. But his bipolar disorder made him impossible to work with the last few years of his life at a time when his brilliance was maturing into something very special.
This is easy... wrote:
1. Mozart - losing this dude at 33 was way to early
2. Lennon - losing this dude at 40 was way to early
Done.
The Beatles were not all that special without each other. That was the magic. Lennon was done.
oke wrote:
Amy Winehouse.
So many troubles, but a total force of nature.
I don't think so. She went out on top. Her style was a passing retro-revival thing. Not really original and not built to last. That's just my opinion. Not to say that she didn't have talent. She did for sure.
Precious Roy wrote:
Jaco Pastorius. There is a really good netflix documentary about him. He was just beginning to emerge as a band leader and composer when his bipolar disorder lead him to drugs and alcohol. His bipolar episode would cause him pick fights in bars with people twice his size and let them beat him up. Eventually, he picked one fight too many and was beaten into a coma and later died from a brain hemorrhage. Pastorius was a musical genius on the level of Mozart or Coltrane. Without the mental illness, he probably would have written volumes of great jazz works and collaborated with anyone who could keep up with him. But his bipolar disorder made him impossible to work with the last few years of his life at a time when his brilliance was maturing into something very special.
Is that the documentary that Robert Trujillo (Metallica) put together? I've heard good things about it.
coach wrote:
60 minutes wrote:
Sure they did. Go ahead and list the "many critics". I'll go get my butt shaved in the meantime.
Here are a few.
Maura Johnson, Village Voice:
"When she was on, Winehouse had few peers."
Jess Harwell, Pitchfork:
"It was the attitude and self-possession she exuded on tape that remain startling whatever her extra- musical activities of the last few years."
Sasha Frere-Jones, The New Yorker:
"Nobody can match Winehouse's unique transitions or her utterly weird phrasi vs. She sounded like an original sixties soul star."
You win. I bow to you as you've soundly proven me wrong. Fare well to thee Track Coach.
Jeff Buckley
Shinji Sato
Maybe if Ian Curtis hadn't died so young pseudo hipsters would have another shirt or two to wear
60 minutes wrote:
coach wrote:
Here are a few.
Maura Johnson, Village Voice:
"When she was on, Winehouse had few peers."
Jess Harwell, Pitchfork:
"It was the attitude and self-possession she exuded on tape that remain startling whatever her extra- musical activities of the last few years."
Sasha Frere-Jones, The New Yorker:
"Nobody can match Winehouse's unique transitions or her utterly weird phrasi vs. She sounded like an original sixties soul star."
You win. I bow to you as you've soundly proven me wrong. Fare well to thee Track Coach.
Im not a fan of hers, but she was well respected by many. You don't have to bow.
Maddona, she is walking dead now.