Mark E Smith dies aged 60

[Ugly Nora]

I sincerely believe that history will judge The Fall to be the greatest rock and roll band of all time when all is said and done.

http://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-42811968

[Olin]

Oh, this is an awful thing to wake up to

In remembrance, the best recording of him outside of music:

[reckon luck]

Oh geez now I need to go on a The Fall spree.

[the raytownian]

This thread is the first I've heard about it. One of those genuinely gasp-out-loud shock moments. Sad.

[moid]

My wife told me a little while ago - what a dreadful loss! He kind of looked like he could never die, or already had and was refusing to stop moving... he was a sort of anti establishment figure that the UK will be a lot more bland without. We need more weird, not less

The Hip Priest is still appreciated.

[oscillateur]

Yeah, that sucks very much .
He seemed somehow immortal, and at least his music is.

Here's the first thing I listened to from The Fall, my friends played that one a lot at parties/etc. when I was a teenager.
Still one of my favourites...

[Olin]

or already had and was refusing to stop moving...

Absolutely this, he looked about 65 when he was 45 and it seemed like he was just going to be around forever.

[coupleonapkins]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lDTHa9Lc5RE

[D.o.S.]

This sucks. There'd been a few fall gigs cancelled because of his health recently but I didn't realize he was in such a bad way.

Tremendous band, tremendous loss.

[Eivind August]

Yeah, this sucks.

[dubkitty]

oh fuck, i'm really sorry to see this.

[BitchPudding]

Sucks bad. My boss is an old punk dude, toured a ton back in the day, met Mark and kept the cig they smoked together. He got me into the fall once I started working there.

He was a huge fan. Can't imagine how he must feel right now.

Regardless, smoke em if you got em boys. Lifes a bitch then you die.

[Ugly Nora]

He was so self-aware in this song:

"I don't sing I just shout
All on one note"

[casecandy]

i went two days without hearing about this? smh

the fall have always been one of my favourite bands and what's more, directly influenced other bands i love even more, like pavement

greatest rock band of all time? no idea, but greatest british rock band of the 1980s seems like a given

[imJonWain]

such a bummer, also reminds me of the first Girls Against Boy's album