OT: Music Death That Depressed You Most
Death, Drugs, Music August 15th. 2008, 1:30pm
This list could stretch for days, but since our audience is primarily composed of the 18-34 demo, we’ll attempt to keep the focus on the last 30 years. Apologies to fans of: Karen Carpenter, Selena, Brian Jones (of the Stones), Bradley Nowell (Sublime), Buddy Holly and Richie Valens. [Ed. And Hendrix, of course.]
No. 7 Steph Curry's Rookie Year vs. No. 2 Chip Caray's use of "fisted"
- No. 7 Steph Curry's Rookie Year (50%, 513 Votes)
- No. 2 Chip Caray's use of "fisted" (50%, 507 Votes)
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August 15th, 2008 at 1:33 PM
Biggie’s on the list but no Bonn Scott? Michael Hutchence?
August 15th, 2008 at 1:33 PM
Fuck Curt Cobain! I’ll never forgive him for single handedly killing hair metal. I also hope Eddie Vetter falls down and chips a tooth today.
August 15th, 2008 at 1:34 PM
Jeff Buckley – Nobody else is even close. All the others had peaked. Buckley wasn’t even close to his prime. Saddens me to this day, and I am a cold heartless bastard. So that is really saying something.
August 15th, 2008 at 1:34 PM
my top three prediction:
Cobain
Tupac
Biggie
August 15th, 2008 at 1:34 PM
Pulled were you intentionally spelling their names wrong?
August 15th, 2008 at 1:35 PM
Sorry, man
August 15th, 2008 at 1:35 PM
Aalyiah is a dark horse!
August 15th, 2008 at 1:36 PM
my top ones…you know, real musicians, not a bunch of bullshit assholes making money and putting out garbage.
-hendrix
-john coltrane
-miles davis
-charlie parker
-stevie ray vaughan
-wes montgomery
artists, all of them.
August 15th, 2008 at 1:36 PM
AZ _ Hearing that name reminds me of a line from Vanilla Sky (yup, i went there):
Penelope Cruz: “Jeff Buckley or Vikki Carr.”
Tom Cruise: “Both. Simultaneously.”
August 15th, 2008 at 1:36 PM
They look like such nice young men.
August 15th, 2008 at 1:37 PM
YOU FUCKIGN PUT AALIYAH ON THERE OVER JIMI FUCKING HENDIXR?!?!?!!?!?!?!?1?1?!
/seizure
August 15th, 2008 at 1:37 PM
Where the hell is John Bonham from Led Zeppelin and what about Cliff Burton from Metallica?
August 15th, 2008 at 1:37 PM
+1 to AZHawk for mentioning Jeff Buckley
+1 to Spencer for mentioning SRV
I voted for Lennon and wondered why neither one of those guys was on the list.
August 15th, 2008 at 1:38 PM
Rob from Mili Vanilli fucked me up.
August 15th, 2008 at 1:38 PM
# John Lennon (murdered) (22%, 16 Votes)
# Tupac (murdered) (14%, 10 Votes)
# Biggie (murdered) (14%, 10 Votes)
I always thought John Lennon was gangsta.
August 15th, 2008 at 1:38 PM
Yeah, totally I was. Why, did you think I was that dumb?
/needs to do more research before posting
August 15th, 2008 at 1:38 PM
SRV was fucked up
August 15th, 2008 at 1:39 PM
what about duane allman from the allman brother? what about marvin gaye? what about the guys from lynard skynard?
dear lord.
August 15th, 2008 at 1:39 PM
TBL, next Friday can you do a list of pro wrestlers who died that made you sad? You could continue this series every Friday for about 2 years.
August 15th, 2008 at 1:39 PM
2Pac isn’t dead. True story.
August 15th, 2008 at 1:39 PM
Keith Moon
August 15th, 2008 at 1:39 PM
“You mean Stevie Ray Vaughan is dead, and we can’t get John Bon Jovi into a helicopter??!!”
August 15th, 2008 at 1:40 PM
Elliot Smith.
August 15th, 2008 at 1:40 PM
Hendrix not being on the poll is the greatest injustice of them all.
August 15th, 2008 at 1:40 PM
no john bonham, keith moon, stevie ray vaughn???
i’d have to say stevie ray vaughn. i had tickets to see him two nights after he died. he was to share a headlining act with eric clapton. i still got to see clapton.
August 15th, 2008 at 1:40 PM
Isaac Hayes.
August 15th, 2008 at 1:41 PM
SRV > all these suckas
August 15th, 2008 at 1:41 PM
Where the fuck is Keith Richards!?!?!??!
Oh, he just looks dead.
August 15th, 2008 at 1:41 PM
that’s imig’s territory.
August 15th, 2008 at 1:42 PM
there are hundreds of musician’s deaths who i’d put before fucking aaliyah’s…the fact she’s even considered a musician is a joke.
/yea, it sucks she died so young, but come on…
August 15th, 2008 at 1:42 PM
No mention of the lead singer from Drowning Pool?
August 15th, 2008 at 1:42 PM
where’s Luther? Big Luther though, not little Luther.
August 15th, 2008 at 1:42 PM
SAM COOKE
HENDRIX
TUPAC
MILES DAVIS
August 15th, 2008 at 1:43 PM
how many guys want in the poll? 20?
August 15th, 2008 at 1:43 PM
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dead_(musician)This guy should be added to the list.
August 15th, 2008 at 1:43 PM
August 15th, 2008 at 1:44 PM
The fuck is Dewey Cox?
August 15th, 2008 at 1:44 PM
Shannon Hoon?
/actually I don’t give a shit, but I know a lot of ya’ll ride Blind Melon
August 15th, 2008 at 1:44 PM
I meant this guy
August 15th, 2008 at 1:44 PM
Ian Curtis from Joy Division. Awesome band, and my wife hates them. Suck it wife! No seriously, suck it wife!
August 15th, 2008 at 1:44 PM
i hear you TBL, but hendrix deserved to be up there. he changed the entire musical landscape…every genre, every style, changed guitar playing completely…the fact aaliyah is on there…it’s just a little shocking, that’s all.
August 15th, 2008 at 1:45 PM
Isaac Hayes
But remember, Isaac Hayes didn’t die, merely the body that hosts his thetan died. After a little time being brainwashed on Venus he’ll be reborn into the human race just as funky as ever!
/wish I was making that up, but L. Ron beat me to it… praise Xenu
August 15th, 2008 at 1:45 PM
How about Pimp C?
August 15th, 2008 at 1:45 PM
it’s just a little shocking, that’s all.
He worked at US Weekly, Aalyiah being on the list is expected.
August 15th, 2008 at 1:45 PM
Mikey Houser (Widespread Panic). Mark Vann (Leftover Salmon). Dimebag Darrel (Pantera). Eazy E. LL Cool J.’s post 1993 career. Mark Sandman (Morphine).
August 15th, 2008 at 1:46 PM
Clearly nobody misses Jerry Garcia.
August 15th, 2008 at 1:46 PM
My own personal one: a tie between Jerry Garcia and Johnny Cash
August 15th, 2008 at 1:46 PM
@ BENJI I miss Big Luther and Gerald Levert as well.
August 15th, 2008 at 1:46 PM
Rick Allen’s left arm.
August 15th, 2008 at 1:46 PM
i got ya dave b!
August 15th, 2008 at 1:46 PM
Correct.
August 15th, 2008 at 1:47 PM
Romeo Must Die > Eraser
/TBL
August 15th, 2008 at 1:47 PM
Cobain is winning of course.
Nirvana is so overrated, please don’t waste your time arguing with me on that.
August 15th, 2008 at 1:47 PM
I would add Layne Staley, but his death wasn’t as much depressing as it was totally predictable.
August 15th, 2008 at 1:47 PM
I can’t put Johnny Cash on that list. He had a very good musical career, and a long one. SRV and Hendrix went too early.
August 15th, 2008 at 1:47 PM
Umm, Jerry Garcia?
August 15th, 2008 at 1:48 PM
44 comments before Dimebad Darrel was mentioned… we should all be ashamed.
KC, excellent pick on Mark Vann. He was one of the most original banjo players ever, and Leftover was never the same after he passed.
August 15th, 2008 at 1:48 PM
Layne Staley
August 15th, 2008 at 1:48 PM
Freddie Mercury….
Who was the front man for INXS?
August 15th, 2008 at 1:48 PM
syd barrett?
August 15th, 2008 at 1:48 PM
You called him Dimebad, go shame yourself.
August 15th, 2008 at 1:49 PM
i concede hendrix should have been on the list, but he died in 1971, which is way before i was born. what does us weekly have to do with aalyiah?
August 15th, 2008 at 1:49 PM
Brad Nowell is probably the most fucked up ever…to me at least.
August 15th, 2008 at 1:49 PM
“My own personal one: a tie between Jerry Garcia and Johnny Cash” August
Yes. Good catch.
Also, probably no one has heard of this guy, but Kirk Rundstrom of Split Lip Rayfield was a doozey. Bonus points… Split Lip Rayfield tonight in KC at the Crossroads.
August 15th, 2008 at 1:49 PM
John Denver, you cold-hearted bastard!!!11!!
August 15th, 2008 at 1:49 PM
Dimebag Darrell – Come TX represent Pantera.
August 15th, 2008 at 1:49 PM
+1
August 15th, 2008 at 1:49 PM
if we’re going lesser known guys gotta include:
jaco pastorius – best bass player of all time, the hendrix of bass
danny gatton – one of the best guitarists ever
roy buchannon – great country artist
joe henderson – dies right as he’s getting credit for his career achievements
there’s thousands of sad stories.
August 15th, 2008 at 1:50 PM
You called him Dimebad, go shame yourself.
Done… I can’t fuckin type today.
August 15th, 2008 at 1:50 PM
Hutchence would have been my pick. Loved INXS. Without that available, Lennon is the pick.
Seriously, he was a Beatle. And, the very real potential of a reunion album and tour of the best band of all time was ruined in a heartbeat… I actually still remember Howard Cosell breaking that news on Monday Night Football. It was very surreal.
/I was little and had no idea what it meant at the time.
//Replays tell me it was surreal.
August 15th, 2008 at 1:50 PM
Leave it up to Ohio to kill Dimebag Darell
August 15th, 2008 at 1:50 PM
what does us weekly have to do with aalyiah?
Both pop.
August 15th, 2008 at 1:50 PM
Syd Barrett just died 2 years ago.
August 15th, 2008 at 1:51 PM
the way Dimebag died was maybe the most depressing
August 15th, 2008 at 1:51 PM
Okay, while I agree Jimi is king, title is “Music Death That Depressed You Most”, come guys how many of you were alive when Jimi died
While I agree with you for the most part, you can’t understate her death among the pop and rap community, while in terms of quality music she might not deserve to be on the list, she was one of the more significant deaths for “younger generations”
August 15th, 2008 at 1:51 PM
Being a Beatle fan I would include George Harrison also
August 15th, 2008 at 1:51 PM
Brad Delp
August 15th, 2008 at 1:51 PM
Sonny Bono
August 15th, 2008 at 1:52 PM
thank you, cbh. I turn the radio to something else every time nirvana comes on. no joke.
August 15th, 2008 at 1:52 PM
Cliff Burton!
August 15th, 2008 at 1:52 PM
TBL…regardless of when hendrix died, he had a 4 year career. just think of the brilliance that was packed in that short of a time period, and what the music community lost when he passed? his impact was unfathomable in that short, 4 years and there were no limits to what he could’ve done to the musical landscape…his death was a tragedy that’s still mourned today as evidenced by the articles still written about him in music journals.
August 15th, 2008 at 1:52 PM
I think Hendrix is the biggest omission, but I feel sad about John Lennon’s death and I wasn’t even alive.
August 15th, 2008 at 1:53 PM
Elvis died due to drugs? who says?
August 15th, 2008 at 1:53 PM
Cliff Burton!
Wow. Newsted can suck it.
August 15th, 2008 at 1:53 PM
+1 Romo. Anyone who’s memorial concert fills old Wembley needs to be on that list!!
August 15th, 2008 at 1:53 PM
Gram Parsons, the Grievous Angel himself. Fuck! How could I forget? Oh yeah he died before I was born. But still awesome cosmic American music.
August 15th, 2008 at 1:53 PM
“KC, excellent pick on Mark Vann. He was one of the most original banjo players ever, and Leftover was never the same after he passed.”
Agreed. I’ve seen them play a thousand times and the energy was sapped out of the band after his death. They took it pretty hard. Drew Emmitt still shreds and always worth seeing if one gets the chance. I’m heading to Mulberry Mountain Festival in September in Arkansas. LOS, SLR, Avett’s, & Hacksensaw Boys. http://www.mulberrymountainmusic.com
August 15th, 2008 at 1:54 PM
yea, good point, but seeing as he went brain dead back in the early 70’s, that’s kinda what i was thinking about.
good catch
August 15th, 2008 at 1:54 PM
The Spice Girls filled Wembley 5 nights in a row. Not exactly an accomplishment.
August 15th, 2008 at 1:54 PM
yes. he died from an overdose of fried food.
August 15th, 2008 at 1:55 PM
I have a coworker that saw Hendrix open for …wait for it …the Monkees. She’s old, but that mind blowing shit.
August 15th, 2008 at 1:55 PM
Gram Parsons
KC, are you me!? I’m so confused now.
August 15th, 2008 at 1:56 PM
can we add randy rhoads to the list?
August 15th, 2008 at 1:56 PM
he lives as a sports columnist for the tampa tribune.
August 15th, 2008 at 1:56 PM
good call on elliot smith
stabbed himself in the chest with a fucking kitchen knife, terrible way to go
anyone say bradley nowell?
August 15th, 2008 at 1:56 PM
damnit that was AZ… you have to change up the gravatars…
so are yo me?!
August 15th, 2008 at 1:56 PM
ah…good edit TBL.
/i get way too riled up about music
August 15th, 2008 at 1:56 PM
Voted for Kurt Cobain, but easily could have voted for Brad Nowell. Cobain happened when I was in college, so that was memorable to me.
August 15th, 2008 at 1:57 PM
Syd Barrett and Brian Wilson are in a different category of premature deaths.
August 15th, 2008 at 1:57 PM
googling around this morning, it seems like a combination of things that got him.
you know something i dont?
August 15th, 2008 at 1:57 PM
What about Randy California?
August 15th, 2008 at 1:58 PM
KC: I like seeing our comments together so folks can see the nice friendly 1946 Jayhawk next to the 1941 “I will rape your grandmother” Jayhawk(not the official name by the way).
August 15th, 2008 at 1:58 PM
Can we all agree that artists who died of old age (Johnny Cash) shouldn’t be on this list?
August 15th, 2008 at 1:58 PM
got into sublime freshman year of college and was really into them … 40 oz to freedom is a great album
August 15th, 2008 at 1:58 PM
@Jimmy- I know Joe Henderson
August 15th, 2008 at 1:58 PM
Elvis is alive and kicking.
/Mizerle
August 15th, 2008 at 1:58 PM
No Isaac Hayes on the list? Racist.
August 15th, 2008 at 1:58 PM
eh…nobody really knows what Elvis died of. kinda mysterious, but drugs is probably a safe bet.
August 15th, 2008 at 1:58 PM
Elvis isn’t dead.
August 15th, 2008 at 1:59 PM
@TBL- I have all the sublime shit except for the box set. Fueled my pot use in high school.
August 15th, 2008 at 1:59 PM
neither is hitler.
/sincere
August 15th, 2008 at 2:00 PM
rivers cuomo’s suicide after pinkerton came out hit me pretty hard
or im pretending he died after that and theres been an elaborate weekend at bernie’s farce on the rest of their albums
August 15th, 2008 at 2:00 PM
I may be the only one here old enough to remember when Elvis “died”
August 15th, 2008 at 2:01 PM
Hitler’s body is dead, but his brain lives on!
Elvis, however, is dead and buried in his own backyard.
August 15th, 2008 at 2:01 PM
@mole: That’s good. I feel the same about Matchbox 20.
/sincere
August 15th, 2008 at 2:02 PM
What I would of done to get tickets to that
August 15th, 2008 at 2:02 PM
true story; I saw him in Memphis during Elvis week a few years ago. I had no idea he was Canadian.
August 15th, 2008 at 2:02 PM
Matchbox 20 sux!
August 15th, 2008 at 2:02 PM
even if elvis didnt die then, hed be in his seventies by now and theres no way he was making it that long with that body
August 15th, 2008 at 2:03 PM
How could we have forgotten Lisa “Left Eye” Lopez, the same gal who burned down Andre Rison’s house.
August 15th, 2008 at 2:03 PM
The death of Rob Pilatus (Milli Vanilli) hit me hard. I spent weeks in fake mourning.
August 15th, 2008 at 2:04 PM
Can we all agree that artists who died of old age (Johnny Cash) shouldn’t be on this list?
I’ll give you that, but having him die right on the heals of reviving his career with Rick Rubin, plus turning Hurt into a masterpiece, was brutal…
August 15th, 2008 at 2:04 PM
Go wash your mouth out with soap.
August 15th, 2008 at 2:05 PM
Hurt by Johnny Cash was great. I listened to it to get pumped at the gym.
August 15th, 2008 at 2:05 PM
NiN version is still better
August 15th, 2008 at 2:05 PM
RIP Dimebag Darrel.
August 15th, 2008 at 2:06 PM
Johnny Cash was great and all but he was old as shit…you didnt see that comming.
August 15th, 2008 at 2:06 PM
Dimebag Darrell and I fed the sharks at the Camden Aquarium about 11 years ago.
/Sincere
August 15th, 2008 at 2:06 PM
I think it’s great your grandkids taught you how to use the computer
August 15th, 2008 at 2:06 PM
Brad Nowell.
John Bonham.
Ziggy Stardust.
August 15th, 2008 at 2:07 PM
Dimebag Darrell and I fed the sharks at the Camden Aquarium about 11 years ago.
Did you feed them weed?
August 15th, 2008 at 2:07 PM
all the people at that great white show
August 15th, 2008 at 2:07 PM
I was all of 6 yrs old.
Can’t say it bothered me nearly as much as when Greg Page had to leave The Wiggles.
August 15th, 2008 at 2:08 PM
Frank Zappa anybody?
August 15th, 2008 at 2:08 PM
frank zappa?
August 15th, 2008 at 2:08 PM
damn romo…that’s creepy.
August 15th, 2008 at 2:08 PM
Never forget that day I heard about that, my mother turned right next to me and said, ” see son, that what happens when you cheat on a black women”
August 15th, 2008 at 2:08 PM
bobby brown goes down is one of my favorite songs
August 15th, 2008 at 2:09 PM
412…where you been? long time no read.
August 15th, 2008 at 2:09 PM
@molemann: big time fans of both artists and verisons… Trent Reznor is in the middle of ridiculous hot streak right now.
August 15th, 2008 at 2:09 PM
Frank Zappa anybody?
That shit with Captain Beefhart was hot.
August 15th, 2008 at 2:10 PM
Jam Master J?
August 15th, 2008 at 2:10 PM
Holy Shit – 412 is alive. I was totally about to nominate him as the commenter whose death depressed me the most
August 15th, 2008 at 2:11 PM
Zappa isn’t dead, he just moved to Montana to become a dental floss tycoon.
August 15th, 2008 at 2:11 PM
You left out “Mama” Cass Elliot (ham sandwich)
August 15th, 2008 at 2:11 PM
No weed. But at the time, it was funny to hang out with them. Even though I wasn’t a big fan. I only knew one song. I won a contest.
August 15th, 2008 at 2:11 PM
And on a serious note – has anyone mentioned Layne Staley or Andrew Wood from Mother Love Bone? That’s some shameful shit
August 15th, 2008 at 2:12 PM
R.I.P. Scott LaRock – the second BDP reference of the day.
August 15th, 2008 at 2:12 PM
oh, probably don’t have to add it but don’t want ppl getting the wrong impression, but that was womanly advise from one black woman about another
Also the reason I know why my dad never cheated on my mom
August 15th, 2008 at 2:12 PM
Spence, unlike you, I can’t masturbate to Hendrix, so I gotta go with Aaliyah because she was hot as balls in Romeo Must Die.
August 15th, 2008 at 2:13 PM
Layne got props in comments 54 and 58… best voice of the 90’s, easily.
August 15th, 2008 at 2:13 PM
has anyone mentioned Layne Staley
Yea but his death was long overdue.
August 15th, 2008 at 2:13 PM
Everyone in here is struggling.
Joe Strummer.
August 15th, 2008 at 2:13 PM
boyz II men?
August 15th, 2008 at 2:14 PM
No Waylon Jennings?
August 15th, 2008 at 2:14 PM
Eazy-E
August 15th, 2008 at 2:15 PM
Good choice.
August 15th, 2008 at 2:15 PM
Good call tampa. Eazy mutha fuckin’ E. Dood got aids when he was 10 I bet.
August 15th, 2008 at 2:16 PM
No Waylon Jennings?
Most of these kids aren’t ready for that yet.
August 15th, 2008 at 2:16 PM
Dood got aids when he was 10 I bet.
HAHHAH
August 15th, 2008 at 2:17 PM
I want fucking Beethoven on this list!!!!!!!!!!!!
August 15th, 2008 at 2:18 PM
fucking Beethoven
Not familiar with their catalogue… do they sound like Green Day?
August 15th, 2008 at 2:18 PM
Oh, c’mon… it’s not like he’s the only name musician to ever be killed at the Alrosa, located near tOSU. Wait, maybe he is. But still… fuck Michigan!
August 15th, 2008 at 2:18 PM
+ 1 to Romo for Zappa.
TBL, 40-Oz is legendary. They played in my backyard in Norcal in ‘93. I was drunk. Lou Dog was licking his balls.
August 15th, 2008 at 2:19 PM
Forgot about Joe Strumer!!!
Great call.
I was 7 when Elvis died, Groucho Marx died a couple of days before.
August 15th, 2008 at 2:19 PM
Every drummer from Spinal Tap.
I was 6 when Elvis died so the only Elvis I knew was the sweaty bloated one.
August 15th, 2008 at 2:19 PM
I grew up in the sticks where Waylon Jennings was played at EVERY party out on a country road. I’m young, but the old men that come always brought that stuff, and demanded that we play it. I was underage at the time, so they bought our beer. What were we to do? Good shit though.
August 15th, 2008 at 2:19 PM
I may be the only one here old enough to remember when Elvis “diedâ€
I was all of 6 yrs old.
I was 2 months shy of 6
August 15th, 2008 at 2:19 PM
How is “who gives a shit?” not an option?
August 15th, 2008 at 2:20 PM
You never heard the classic “Wake Me Up Because I Can’t Hear My Alarm”?
August 15th, 2008 at 2:20 PM
@Rex-That fuels the hate even more.
August 15th, 2008 at 2:21 PM
Hef wants Sammy Davis, Jr. added to the list.
August 15th, 2008 at 2:21 PM
has anyone mentioned Old Dirty Bastard? that shit depressed me. i wore my Wu-Wear hoodie for a week straight after that.
August 15th, 2008 at 2:21 PM
Thank God TBL never puts up a post just to illicit comments.
/sincere
August 15th, 2008 at 2:21 PM
Jerry Garcia. No contest.
August 15th, 2008 at 2:21 PM
what about the dude Vince Neil killed in the drunk driving accident?
/forgot his name, but it shook me up
August 15th, 2008 at 2:21 PM
Eazy-E
Here’s a little gangsta short in size.
T-shirt and Levis is his only disguise.
Built like a tank, yet hard to hit.
Ice Cube and Eazy E col’ runnin’ shit.
Fuck Yeah!
August 15th, 2008 at 2:22 PM
has anyone mentioned Old Dirty Bastard? that shit depressed me. i wore my Wu-Wear hoodie for a week straight after that.
Big Baby Jesus
August 15th, 2008 at 2:23 PM
All Klezmer musicians in Hitler’s Germany.
/Hef
August 15th, 2008 at 2:23 PM
I wonder who ODB left his food stamps to in his will?
August 15th, 2008 at 2:23 PM
“Holy Shit – 412 is alive. I was totally about to nominate him as the commenter whose death depressed me the most” CRM
How about Jay the Most Hated? Actually, his demise wasn’t that depressing.
August 15th, 2008 at 2:24 PM
I’ll never forget when ODB took a limo and an MTV camera crew to the welfare office to cash a welfare check.
MAN HAD THE NUMBER ONE ALBUM IN THE COUNTRY AT THAT TIME, and was still on welfare.
He said something like “It’s free money, who wouldn’t want free money?”
August 15th, 2008 at 2:24 PM
Ol’ Dirt McGirt, Ol’ Cyrus, Ol’ Dirty Stinky Mu Fucka, the man had a thousand names
August 15th, 2008 at 2:24 PM
i gotta go with marvin gaye and luther vandross. damn those guys could croon the banana hammock off me in no time at all.
August 15th, 2008 at 2:24 PM
I want to know what happened to the 20 female commenters that were on here on that Paris Hilton/Matt Leinart post
August 15th, 2008 at 2:25 PM
BIG L needs to be in the discussion
August 15th, 2008 at 2:25 PM
No, but I’ve heard the great “Wake Me Up Before You Go-Go”
August 15th, 2008 at 2:26 PM
No, but I’ve heard the great “Wake Me Up Before You Go-Goâ€
RIP Andrew Ridgeley
/what, he’s alive.. who says?
August 15th, 2008 at 2:26 PM
Dammit Clown, now that will be stuck in my head until I listen to Matchbox 20’s “How Far We’ve Come”. It’s so damn catchy!
August 15th, 2008 at 2:30 PM
+1 rainbow sticker to you Clown.
August 15th, 2008 at 2:30 PM
…it proved that we too can’t not die in a freak gasoline fight accident…
August 15th, 2008 at 2:31 PM
/what Onterrio meant.
August 15th, 2008 at 2:31 PM
The Commodore’s ode to Marvin Gaye and Gackie Wilson, “Nightshift”, gets me every time:
And I still can hear him say
Aw talk to me so you can see
What’s going on
August 15th, 2008 at 2:31 PM
Ron, that is the only part of Zoolander I have ever seen, pretty funny.
August 15th, 2008 at 2:32 PM
What about Bob Marley????
August 15th, 2008 at 2:38 PM
damn…can’t believe marley wasnt mentioned yet.
August 15th, 2008 at 2:40 PM
No contest for me… I spent my teen years listening to The Beatles, and John Lennon became my non-sports idol(Bob Gibson was my sports idol). His death affected me in more ways than I can count.
A close second for me would be Stevie Ray Vaughan. The man was a true genius at his craft, and was taken from us far too soon. In fact, we’re coming up on the 18th anniverrsasry of his death here in a couple weeks.
I will also throw Marvin Gaye in there as well. His was another needless death(shot by his father, of all people).
August 15th, 2008 at 2:41 PM
spence.how.could.you.forget.marley.you.pothead.you?
/super-size shanoff’d
August 15th, 2008 at 2:42 PM
Black Michael Jackson deserves to be on the list. Yes really.
August 15th, 2008 at 2:43 PM
I see no problem with what white Michael Jackson has done.
/Fetch
August 15th, 2008 at 2:44 PM
(Bob Gibson was my sports idol). His death
Bob Gibson’s dead, nooooo!!!!
/out of context
August 15th, 2008 at 2:53 PM
LISTENING TO Brother by Alice in Chains (Cameo by Chris Cornell). *weeps*
August 15th, 2008 at 2:57 PM
nOPE, Cornell didnt do a cameo on that song. But it’s still sad.
August 15th, 2008 at 2:59 PM
I’ll give you not including Hendrix since the topic is what depressed you the most and it’s hard to be retrospectively depressed about a death, but defend is as such not with
James Douglas Morrison (8th December, 1943 – 3rd July, 1971)
Since I was born in ‘87, I have to vote, “None of the above” When Aaliyah died, my thoughts were, well that’s too bad…she was pretty cute
August 15th, 2008 at 2:59 PM
Elvis, Really?
August 15th, 2008 at 3:04 PM
Otis Redding.
It’s pretty sad that you record your career defining song, then leave for a short tour and die in a plane crash.
Say, might as well throw Buddy Holly in there. He influenced so many people, I wonder how his career would have turned out if I had let him live.
The Big Bopper, well, that’s no big loss.
August 15th, 2008 at 3:05 PM
@Jesus – I’m not normally one to give advice to the Son, but you probably shouldn’t be commenting on this since you had major influence in these deaths.
August 15th, 2008 at 3:09 PM
We’ve had over 200 comments and I don’t think we mentioned Janis Joplin. She died around the same time as Morrison and Hendrix.
August 15th, 2008 at 3:11 PM
/fixed
August 15th, 2008 at 3:13 PM
Damn, I take a 2 hour lunch and I miss a music post. Happens every time.
August 15th, 2008 at 3:14 PM
scott joplin > janis joplin
August 15th, 2008 at 3:15 PM
Good point. With the Hef Chronicles, we usually know it from the title.
August 15th, 2008 at 3:15 PM
@ Jesus: saw a documentary one time with Dylan’s drummer who said that Bob Dylan gave ‘Just Like a Woman’ to Otis Redding before Bob ever cut it. Otis was pumped about recording it, but died before he made it back into the studio.
Otis Redding would have owned that song…
August 15th, 2008 at 3:16 PM
Agreed
August 15th, 2008 at 3:19 PM
What’s Jimi Hendrix VORP?
/Hef’d
August 15th, 2008 at 3:27 PM
Elvis was a hero to most
But he never meant shit to me
A straight-up racist
The sucker was simple and plain
mutha-fuck him and John Wayne
/R.I.P. Public Enemy
August 15th, 2008 at 3:35 PM
@mizerle06:
That task is handled by another department. I only see the daily status report. I don’t pick and choose, so to speak. I’m the PR, big picture Guy.
August 15th, 2008 at 3:48 PM
John Denver
August 15th, 2008 at 3:52 PM
@Jesus: That’s what Heinrich Himmler said, too.
/Just sayin’
August 15th, 2008 at 3:57 PM
my vote shouldn’t be surprising to, well, anyone…
but here’s how a full list would go:
Kurt Cobain
Layne Staley
Dimebag Darrell
August 15th, 2008 at 4:37 PM
I wanna do a write-in vote for Jimi.
August 15th, 2008 at 6:20 PM
@spencer096 – Great call on Randy Rhoads. He’d definitely be high on my list. The guy was just an absolutely brilliant guitar player. Who knows what he might have done had he not died so young.
Layne Staley would probably get my vote though. AIC is one of my all time favorite bands and his voice was amazing. Even though his death wasn’t the least bit surprising, it still really saddened & angered me at what a waste it was.