Dropping Like Flies

kosmo wrote:

Smackie are referring the Hank Shocklee remix of "Emperor's New Clothes", because that's a bumpin track. https://youtu.be/2aaIF-KDg2Q

No, but they are on the same CD single.. And I agree that the Mandinka single is very reminiscent of 1990, but that's when I was playing parties.

My friend Joe Nelson (who rescued a ton of OC punk music and has been releasing them) summed up most of my thoughts on Sinead:

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When the music biz tried to groom her as a “cute” pop star at the BEGINNING of her career she shaved her head.

When the Grammys tried to give her some award she used the platform to blast them for at the time excluding rap as a legit form of music.

When Saturday Night Live had her on she used the space to protest the Catholic Church, accusing them of child abuse and rape - a full 8 years before that shit was all shown to be true.

When some venue demanded she play the American National Anthem before her set, she refused to go on, pretty much destroying her career in the States as all the righties in our fair land “cancel cultured” her.

A true rebel if ever there was one. R.I.P. legend!
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There's even a story on that thread about her playing Bob Dylans's 50th birthday, getting loudly booed and instead of doing the Dylan song she was scheduled to do, she recited the lyrics to War by Bob Marley.  So good.

This was the 30th Anniversary show for Bob Frickin’ Dylan the great protest singer of his generation and she got booed off the stage for protesting serial institutional child sexual abuse?? Absolutely pathetic and the ultimate OK boomer moment.

The SNL appearance was incredible performance art. She drew you in, cast a spell, hypnotized you so the simple act of tearing a photograph felt like murder. Demonstrated her power, unfortunately it was too effective. And like someone said, you don’t want to be right too soon.

I Do No Want What I Have Not Got was a phenomenon.  Artistically pure yet still super commercial. The first great album of the 90s and she totally set the tone of the 90s. 

Randy Meissner of the Eagles.

Bill Cunningham, original voice of Ken doll, dies at 96

Cue tin foil hat crowd claiming seeing the movie did him in

Neal Langford, original bassist for the Shins

https://consequence.net/2023/07/neal-langford-the-shins-dead/

I’m going to kill myself
Not if I do it first!


Roy McGrath, the disgraced ex-top aide to former Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan, died after he was shot in the head both by himself and an FBI agent, Knoxville prosecutors said.

Beatle Bob

https://www.riverfronttimes.com/music/beatle-bob-st-louis-dancing-legend-has-died-40552868

Space wrote:
Beatle Bob

Bummer, als is a brutal way to go

Mobius wrote:
This was the 30th Anniversary show for Bob Frickin’ Dylan the great protest singer of his generation and she got booed off the stage for protesting serial institutional child sexual abuse?? Absolutely pathetic and the ultimate OK boomer moment.

The SNL appearance was incredible performance art. She drew you in, cast a spell, hypnotized you so the simple act of tearing a photograph felt like murder. Demonstrated her power, unfortunately it was too effective. And like someone said, you don’t want to be right too soon.

I Do No Want What I Have Not Got was a phenomenon.  Artistically pure yet still super commercial. The first great album of the 90s and she totally set the tone of the 90s.

Wow!
just read this birthday letter she wrote to Bob in 2011 as an opp Ed…I’m literally floored.  Amazing.
Few in this planet of billions of people can really be considered unique, but there really only was one Sinead

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/post_b_866068

Pee Wee Herman to the great playhouse in the sky :(

I thought the forum had dropped like flies there for a little bit!

Julian, wrote:
I thought the forum had dropped like flies there for a little bit!

My life flashed before my eyes as I thought Seth had pulled the plug…

based on being bored for 10 minutes it would appear that the company hosting the forum was having a very bad no good day

Hutch wrote:

Julian, wrote:
I thought the forum had dropped like flies there for a little bit!

My life flashed before my eyes as I thought Seth had pulled the plug…

I’m not sure if some of you would be alright out there in the real world.

Definitely not

Julian, wrote:
I thought the forum had dropped like flies there for a little bit!

I'm sure they took it offline for a major version upgrade. I can't wait for the polls!!!

Stealing my thoughts from elsewhere, but it's pretty impossible to overstate the impact Paul Reubens had on Young Andy. Pee Wee's Big Adventure is permanently burned into my brain, and I still probably quote that (and lines from Prince Gerhardt Hapsburg) once a week.

I can still remember a friend and I flipping the fuck out in my basement, watching the premier of Pee Wee's Playhouse.  Like, running around the room and screaming.  It blew my mind, man!

It was truly surprising to me when Pee Wee's Big Holiday came out, like how did we get lucky enough to see him one more time.  And even though I didn't expect to ever see that character again, there was always kind of a "what if" hanging out there. Bummed I won't have that ever again

No joke, but this is probably closest I've ever come to crying over a celebrity death. Assuming I still don't!

Bagley wrote:
Pee Wee Herman to the great playhouse in the sky :(

nkotb wrote:It was truly surprising to me when Pee Wee's Big Holiday came out, like how did we get lucky enough to see him one more time.

I cannot believe this sentence exists.

It’s also impossible to overstate how perfect Pee Wee’s delivery of ‘Heard any good jokes lately?’ was at the 91 MTV Movie Awards. 

the actor who plays the drug dealer on Euphoria, apparently