Mark E. Smith

the_jaffa · January 2018

Just heard that the Fall singer has passed away at 60

cruxiform · January 2018

Memories of listening to The Fall on the John Peel show while hiding under the duvet so my dad couldn’t hear. Great, if eccentric frontman.

Sleep well Mark.

https://youtu.be/Cl34oJEoO7s

richardhomer · January 2018

Just seen this also - a Manchester legend. 60 - how depressing.... RIP

lasermonkey · January 2018

I'm a bit gutted, to be honest. I'd always imagined him to be indestructible. While The Fall were never consistent, when they were good, they were great.
RIP.

lustycourtier · January 2018

I always thought I’d get a go in the fall. Alas, not to be. Rest In Peace Mark.

thermionic · January 2018

It was my cassette copy of This Nation’s Saving Grace that broke my cassette deck a couple of weeks ago. Listened to them a lot in the 80s, thanks to John Peel. Glad I got the chance to see them once. Poor old Mark looked in a bad way in the live clips from the end of 2017.

axisus · January 2018

I never like the Fall at all, but he just seemed like an iconic guy, always all over NME (I was more of a SOUNDS guy), RIP

TheMarlin · January 2018

Worst gig I ever saw was The Fall. Mark E Smith lay on the stage gurgling into the microphone for most of the set.

Not a fan. But, RIP.

MagicPigDetective · January 2018

Rest in peace-uh

DarnWeight · January 2018

Big fan. The Fall could be both willfully alienating and ugly, and utterly pulverisingly great, in the space of a single live set. Like their music or not, Smith's lyrics are absolute genius. The man had a brutal work ethic, and never stopped...32 studio albums in a 40 year career is quite something. Don't think we'll see his like again.

RIP

usedtobe · January 2018

Saw them once, up at the Edinburgh festival, or fringe, or whatever. Must be about 28 years back. Brix on guitar, and ballet dancers with their arses hanging out. It was bizarre, and it was absolutely brilliant!

Sad news..

scrumhalf · January 2018

Sad news. I used to love The Fall back in the early days.

ellangus · January 2018

Lasting memories of Mark E Smith wandering around the Hacienda in a zipped up snorkel parka in the 80's! also pissed up in Mother Macs in Back Piccadilly, Mcr. Saw the Fall a couple of times, once mesmerising and once, shambolic, patchy at best. Quite a horrible get by all accounts but I thought he was genius when on form. UK's answer to the likes of Captain Beefheart.

An ever changing line up of The Fall, he once said "If it's me and your grannie on bongos, it's The Fall" Brilliant!!

R.I.P. Mark E Smith, You will be missed.

DesVegas · January 2018

Damn shame. Rest on. A hero to many

Fretwired · January 2018

Very sad, but not unexpected. His health has been poor for sometime. RIP.

Neill · January 2018

There's a story that he only agreed to appear on Later with Jools Holland on condition that Holland didn't play any of his godawful boogie woogie piano... that makes him a hero in my book.

Does anyone remember this - from "the Tube"? (1980's?) the definitive version of White Lightning"...

jonnyburgo · January 2018

Gutted, a hero of mine. A true eccentric, the man didn't give a fuck. Always against the grain. RIP

Freebird · January 2018

notanon · January 2018

cruxiform said:

Memories of listening to The Fall on the John Peel show while hiding under the duvet so my dad couldn’t hear. Great, if eccentric frontman.

Sleep well Mark.

https://youtu.be/Cl34oJEoO7s

Snap! Had my radio on 0.0025 volume my parents would still hear it!

RIP!

fields5069 · January 2018

Completely shit and utterly brilliant, usually on the same album.

His comments on the refugee crisis were utterly ridiculous, but I think he probably knew that.

I've bought various Fall records over the years, and I suspect in the next few months I'll gorge on whatever Deezer has in its sweaty paws.

Now this is definitely an example of someone dying too soon - still relevant and still performing.

starwarsnosebleed · January 2018

Completely off his rocker alcoholic genius poet.

Did everything his own way, and was probably , as somebody else mentioned, the most Beefheart-a-like artist in the UK.

scrumhalf · January 2018

From today's Times obituary:

The post-punk singer Mark E Smith, who died on Wednesday, used to irritate fellow musicians by fiddling with the settings on their amplifiers mid-set, I am told by a TMS reader, Lenny Law. The roadies came up with a solution by fitting what they called a DFA (Dynamic Field Adjustment) box to Smith’s amplifiers, which they told him he could use to alter all the others. This kept Smith happy for some time, until the end of a tour when they admitted that the box wasn’t connected to anything and that DFA actually stood for “does f*** all”.

Sassafras · January 2018

Noisy and anarchic.
The fundamental basis of good rock.
Saw them in Brighton, a great, loud energetic show.

vasselmeyer · January 2018

I found almost everything The Fall released to be unlistenable but you can't deny the individuality of the man.

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