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Posted by steve_swift (U2177659) on Monday, 28th December 2009
... at 45 on Christmas Day.
'About To Choke' is a stunning record and one of the best things Michael Stipe ever did was champion this low-key, very literary singer/songwriter.
The opening song - 'Coward' - on his 2009 album 'At The Cut' now seems awfully prescient.
Very sad.
At The Cut is a beautiful album, and if anything suggests he was not in this frame of mind at all when he wrote the songs.
Notably "I've flirted with you all my life"
He'll be missed by friends and family, and those who knew him by his songs.
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Posted by peppermintpatti (U1472081) on Wednesday, 30th December 2009
Kristen Hersh's site has this tribute:
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Posted by steve_swift (U2177659) on Wednesday, 30th December 2009
Nice appreciation here as well.
Thats terrible news.
I remember when Vic came on the nightime show. He was brilliant. A great guy too.
A tragedy.
Yes - very sad. I've written about my memories of seeing Vic with Lambchop and Howe Gelb on my blog:
Weird coincidence. Today I learnt that lots of the old Mark & Lard 1FM shows are all available to listen to via the online Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ programme catalogue so I typed in 23 March 1994 - a Wednesday - hoping to hear one of Mark Kermode's Cult Film Classics. Kermode was ill, but the session guest that night? Vic Chesnutt. Utterly charming.
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>Today I learnt that lots of the old Mark & Lard 1FM shows are all available to listen to via the online Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ programme catalogue<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<
Nigel, is this online catalogue you speak of open to Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ staff only or can peasants like myself access it? If so, the thought of hearing those old M&L shows again may be enough to trigger the first tremors of an errection.
@brownsauce - I'm afraid it's only accessible within the Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ. There's a fair amount of talk here at the moment about "opening up the archive" and I think M&L's spoekn word bits would be ideal mataerial to make available. In fact, I keep meaning to bung an email in the direction of Radio 7. I reckon there would be a fair audience for half-hour best-ofs, especially if it was also made as a podcast.
This is going to sound a bit of a geeky thing to say but the problem with podcasts and edited versions of radio shows is that Marc and Mark are about the music as well as the comedy stuff so immediately you're losing their passion for music even if there were only 4 records picked by them when they got to the afternoon show. The radio shows were also about comic timimg, the stuff around the jokes leading up to them and then referring back to previous shows and running jokes and if you edit down a programme it might lose all of that it was about the whole programme not edited clips.
A best of would be all the shows played back as they went out, I've listened to clips on youtube but I haven't for a while as out of context they lose something that made them special.
I think it's best to let it go and enjoy what there is going on now with Marc and Mark.
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Posted by Nonentity_Goat (U14201345) on Wednesday, 6th January 2010
And why has this touching tribute thread turned into yet another M&L discussion?
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