sorry to get all Suddenly Morose™ but when people talk about musicians who died young it's hard to conceive of a more catastrophic loss to music than Donny Hathaway. some Schubert-dead-at-31 stuff - ThreadSky

themountaingoats.bsky.social • 73 days ago

sorry to get all Suddenly Morose™ but when people talk about musicians who died young it's hard to conceive of a more catastrophic loss to music than Donny Hathaway. some Schubert-dead-at-31 stuff

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junipermo.bsky.social•73 days ago

Donnie Hathaway had an amazing voice

richardbrown.bsky.social•73 days ago

Listening to ‘Arguing with Peter Laughner…’ is making me pretty morose about Dave Berman.

lenafromtenn.bsky.social•73 days ago

Buddy Holly 😭

mobute.bsky.social•73 days ago

discovered by king curtis, for a real one-two punch of taken too soon

lisagdub.bsky.social•73 days ago

Huge loss…I was deeply upset as a kid when I first heard Otis Redding and that he had died before I was born (still upset!)

anotherleelee.bsky.social•73 days ago

Jeff Buckley 😔

catslovedogs.bsky.social•73 days ago

Jeff Buckley is my number one, too. Wrote and sang such beautiful songs, did such amazing covers of others' songs, and left us right when his creativity was beginning its supernova period.
All the amazing artists mentioned here are sorely missed.

jpe066.bsky.social•72 days ago

His father Tim Buckley died young and was so talented

jazzrat2000.bsky.social•73 days ago

clifford brown

unrealt87.bsky.social•73 days ago

Don't forget the lad from Late of The Pier, one album but what an album

thequietamerican.bsky.social•73 days ago

I couldn’t believe Tim Bergling 28 years.

razor-x.bsky.social•73 days ago

You just trademarked my superpower 😡

disgrosstinggg.bsky.social•73 days ago

every time I hear a Carpenters song, all I can think is "It's a goddamn shame what happened to Karen."

johnt15.bsky.social•73 days ago

The first woman to make me cry, I wrote this about her:

https://open.substack.com/pub/thewaythingsought2b/p/the-beauty-of-karens-sorrow?utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web

piperatdawn.bsky.social•73 days ago

Yeah, but can we go back in time and tell Zappa to change his urologist so that he can run for president.

piperatdawn.bsky.social•73 days ago

So this reply got liked by two bots (?) with "Elon Musk" in their name. Is "president" a trigger word?

atypicallinguist.bsky.social•73 days ago

The bots/automation do seem to be a problem.

joaofrgomes.bsky.social•73 days ago

FWIW, not all likes will be bots. ;) I, for one, love his speech on yuppies taking over the music business from guys who knew nothing about marketing or metrics and gave artists free rein. That man was utterly prescient.

piperatdawn.bsky.social•73 days ago

Yeah, but the "Elon Musks" with seeming fresh accounts and no profile picture are definitely sus as hell.

sheralann.bsky.social•73 days ago

Not a bot and Zappa would have been awesome

driver9.bsky.social•73 days ago

At the top of my musician tragedy list is Stevie Ray Vaughan, arguably the most talented electric blues guitarist in history. He died at age 35 on August 27, 1990, due to the gross incompetence of a helicopter pilot. I never tire of watching and listening to him play.

smalltimebenny.bsky.social•72 days ago

i found out yesterday that hank williams was only 30 when he died and i got big sad

smalltimebenny.bsky.social•72 days ago

same when i found out stan rogers was only 34

toastghost.bsky.social•72 days ago

Gods, barely even older than me... TIL. Northwest Passage will never hit the same now.

smalltimebenny.bsky.social•72 days ago

It definitely makes it more of a treasure.

toastghost.bsky.social•72 days ago

I mean, in a way. It's a tragedy, you know? Should never have happened, but at least his legacy lives on in today's youth and tolerant people. But it's like King Lear or Hamlet, more Hamlet I guess. A good soul falling far too early, perchance to dream. To thine own self be true.

aldurarising.bsky.social•72 days ago

I listen to MacDonnell On The Heights and it makes me weep for him. "So you know what it is to scale the heights and fall just short of fame, and have not one in ten thousand know your name."

themountaingoats.bsky.social•72 days ago

Stan Rogers's death is so senseless and hard.

smalltimebenny.bsky.social•72 days ago

agreed. i feel robbed.

canofsbeans.bsky.social•73 days ago

Also Jim Croce, a huge loss for music

joaofrgomes.bsky.social•73 days ago

I know he wasn’t exactly a young fella, but Tim Smith from Cardiacs having a massive heart attack and a series of strokes at 47 and then spending 12 more years in such a sorry state ranks pretty high on my list of tragedies.

lolafromthed.bsky.social•73 days ago

Angela Bofill, same. Her heart was pure though.

indageaux.bsky.social•73 days ago

Bradley Nowell

siddthers.bsky.social•73 days ago

One of my faves. I love the version of You've Got A Friend that he did with Roberta Flack. Everything is Everything, Song for You. Young, Gifted and Black. The list goes on and on. So much talent lost at such a young age, under such tragic circumstances.

staceygladstone.bsky.social•73 days ago

I couldn’t agree more. A virtuoso. And, among so much beauty and eloquence, the best damn cover of a John Lennon song.

jpe066.bsky.social•72 days ago

Buddy Holly 😞

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jeirvine.bsky.social•73 days ago

Clifford Brown. When you hear the level of stuff he was doing at age 24 - mind blowing.

ronjosenthal.bsky.social•73 days ago

I think often about Schubert casually composing Erlkönig for his friends who were coming to visit for an evening and get mad about it. Fischer-Dieskau video related. https://youtu.be/Jd7ODIGY6Bk?si=SwOobuYSx7wERlVm

lurchgs.bsky.social•73 days ago

Mozart

anotherbob.bsky.social•73 days ago

I always think of Hathaway this time of year when I hear his song, "This Christmas" being played. It's one of the best Christmas songs, IMO.

maxximenez.bsky.social•73 days ago

Every so often I dream and subsequently weep about a world where Chuck Schuldiner lived past 34

benbusb.us•73 days ago

him & sam cooke

j-nametag.bsky.social•73 days ago

And Otis Redding

benbusb.us•73 days ago

marvin gaye!

too many just from that generation

coyoteastronaut.bsky.social•73 days ago

[screams in Karen Carpenter]

rhondapsherman.bsky.social•73 days ago

Agree.

kennydownes.bsky.social•73 days ago

Ian Curtis. 23

r0b3rt726.bsky.social•73 days ago

I felt horrible when I heard that news. Lifelong Joy Division fan.

whatthefuckshauna.bsky.social•73 days ago

I had no idea! Had to look him up. What a tragic loss.

perthchat.bsky.social•73 days ago

Tammi Terrell is up there, 24 and of natural causes.

janethaz.bsky.social•73 days ago

Yes. What a loss

jpe066.bsky.social•72 days ago

Brain Tumour I think she collapsed on stage

perthchat.bsky.social•72 days ago

Yes while dueting with Marvin Gaye. Had numerous operations but eventually went into a coma and passed away. Mum blamed Motown for not protecting her from an abusive relationship.

jpe066.bsky.social•72 days ago

It's such a sad story. I don't think Marvin Gaye ever fully got over her dying

perthchat.bsky.social•72 days ago

He certainly took a lot more drugs after she passed.

kevinocortes.bsky.social•73 days ago

He never got the acclaim he deserved. A Giant who, among other things, inspired Stevie Wonder to change the way he sings.

willowminder.bsky.social•73 days ago

So many musicians wracked with life altering mental illness.

murphysgirl.bsky.social•73 days ago

Agree. A great talent and such a beautiful voice. I feel the same about Phyllis Hyman. Tragic.

seanjbates.bsky.social•73 days ago

I know there are plenty other songs....but that recording of "This Christmas" hitssss

fakeconsultant.bsky.social•73 days ago

My sense of conception reminds me Jimi Hendrix died young and that was a fairly significant event as well.

lee-in-iowa.bsky.social•73 days ago

Losing Nightbirde so young still breaks my heart.

Jane Kristen Marczewski (December 29, 1990 – February 19, 2022), better known by her stage name Nightbirde; you know her from America’s Got Talent.

comingupviolets.bsky.social•47 days ago

Ugh. I used to just listen to that song and WEEP.

nnyo3o.bsky.social•72 days ago

For me it’s Elliott smith. Forever 34. Such a prolific songwriter and performer with an amazing catalogue and the skills to back it up too

whiteraja.bsky.social•73 days ago

Love Donny Hathaway.

hugedays.bsky.social•73 days ago

Mongezi Feza as well. Hurts me when I think about what could have come next

patxi1878.bsky.social•73 days ago

An immense talent never more evident than on his live material.

christmasspirit.bsky.social•73 days ago

Whitney Houston hurt the most. She is still the greatest singer of my lifetime. (There are many greats, but Whitney has always been at the summit,)

rainmaki.bsky.social•73 days ago

Amy Winehouse is another one.

slybattery.bsky.social•73 days ago

I just heard this great song, looked up the artists and found they both died in a car crash at the age of 25. Tragic world sometimes.

bluegma.bsky.social•73 days ago

Eva Cassidy

idahohillbillery.bsky.social•73 days ago

I love her music. Wish she were still here making it. Cancer sucks.

bluegma.bsky.social•73 days ago

Me too - so unfair

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peyosez.bsky.social•73 days ago

Wow. Awesome, thx for sharing her remarks!👍

northstory.bsky.social•73 days ago

Elliott Smith, 21 years ago this year. I don't think a musician's death has ever hit me so hard.

paintmare1998.bsky.social•73 days ago

Harry Chapin

trixiebeldame.bsky.social•73 days ago

Yes.

I'm sure you've heard this, but just in case: The people who put out "Lioness" posthumously included a few comments by Amy Winehouse at the end of "A Song for You." Perhaps have a listen. Best wishes.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i29azEAKxXQ

lolafromthed.bsky.social•73 days ago

Leon Russell singing ASong For You makes me cry