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Which famous musician's legacy was helped most by an early death?
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Date: April 23rd, 2018 4:08 PM Author: sticky sanctuary selfie Intuitively I feel like Cobain is the right answer here, but what about people like Buddy Holly, Jim Morrison, Janis Joplin, Notorious B.I.G., etc? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3957604&forum_id=2#35902653) |
Date: April 23rd, 2018 4:11 PM Author: Mahogany shrine Cobain for sure
I don't know enough about Jim Morrison, but the Doors had like 9 studio albums plus multiple live albums. If he lived, he would just be another boomer musician who gets fat and dies at like 70
Notorious B.I.G. was helped, but if he were still alive I think he would still be somewhat relevant today, in the way that Jay Z and Snoop Dogg are today (not a ton of big hits anymore, but still around)
I don't know shit about Janis Joplin |
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Date: April 23rd, 2018 4:12 PM Author: Mind-boggling Erotic Center i think it's either Joplin or Morrison. both were already in steady decline at time of death and got revived with publicity from death.
jim croce is probably another option. he was planning to quit music and become a screenwriter when his plane crashed |
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Date: April 23rd, 2018 4:27 PM Author: pea-brained unhinged step-uncle's house sweet tailpipe Jim Croce is still alive as a guitar teacher in Fairborn, Ohio (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3957604&forum_id=2#35902839) |
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Date: April 23rd, 2018 4:13 PM Author: Naked Supple Jap Parlor Elvis (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3957604&forum_id=2#35902706) |
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Date: April 23rd, 2018 4:14 PM Author: Magical trust fund theater Jimi easily. Had he stayed alive, he would've gone the Miles free jazz route into obscurity rather than remain a perennial rock god. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3957604&forum_id=2#35902720) |
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Date: April 23rd, 2018 4:14 PM Author: sticky sanctuary selfie Hendrix is a possibility, but his play was so unique and soulful that he would have continued to be revered as a guitar icon (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3957604&forum_id=2#35902727) |
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Date: April 23rd, 2018 4:14 PM Author: High-end fat ankles space No way. It's not like Miles Davis's popular music is considered obscure now. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3957604&forum_id=2#35902729) |
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Date: April 23rd, 2018 4:16 PM Author: Magical trust fund theater it's obscure to most non-musicians, particularly his albums after bitches brew.
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Date: April 23rd, 2018 4:18 PM Author: Mahogany shrine I don't know about that. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3957604&forum_id=2#35902762) |
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Date: April 23rd, 2018 9:45 PM Author: Mind-boggling Erotic Center not having a Jimi/Santana Grammys "mashup" in 2003 was probably the saving grace of our (((culture))) (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3957604&forum_id=2#35904974) |
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Date: April 23rd, 2018 10:18 PM Author: filthy public bath rigor like prince (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3957604&forum_id=2#35905199) |
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Date: April 23rd, 2018 4:15 PM Author: Adventurous effete den clown hank williams has to be up there. he was popular during his lifetime, but his style of "country-western" was actually getting overtaken by pop country near the end of his run. his death turned him into a cultural icon. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3957604&forum_id=2#35902737) |
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Date: April 23rd, 2018 4:17 PM Author: Haunting Piazza (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3957604&forum_id=2#35902760) |
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Date: April 23rd, 2018 9:45 PM Author: adulterous thriller love of her life ape Wrong. Johnny Cash wasn't pop-country and remained relevant right up to his death. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3957604&forum_id=2#35904977) |
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Date: April 23rd, 2018 9:52 PM Author: Adventurous effete den clown lol, don't be silly. songs like "walk the line" and "ring of fire" (his biggest early hits) were much more pop-country than anything hank williams did aside from maybe "hey good lookin'". HW was doing weird, jittery songs like "kaw-liga" or singing plaintively about how he wasn't going to make it out of the world alive. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3957604&forum_id=2#35905020) |
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Date: April 23rd, 2018 10:06 PM Author: self-centered soul-stirring menage Johnny Cash's career was at a point of very high irrelevancy before he linked up with Rick Rubin to do the American albums (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3957604&forum_id=2#35905094) |
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Date: April 23rd, 2018 4:16 PM Author: frozen exciting cuck Joplin or cobain (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3957604&forum_id=2#35902741) |
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Date: April 23rd, 2018 4:16 PM Author: brilliant home Cr (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3957604&forum_id=2#35902747) |
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Date: April 23rd, 2018 4:17 PM Author: Magical trust fund theater how was joplin's career helped by her death? she sucked before she died and didn't really get any more popular or revered posthumously (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3957604&forum_id=2#35902758) |
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Date: April 23rd, 2018 9:45 PM Author: Mind-boggling Erotic Center lol no, she's idolized by ugly fat boomers who love ugly fat singers (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3957604&forum_id=2#35904978) |
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Date: April 23rd, 2018 4:21 PM Author: sticky sanctuary selfie btw, the musicians i listed are just some suggestions. certainly not meant to be exhaustive.
Buddy Holly certainly gets a lot of cache from dying in that plane crash. who knows if he'd have ever made it really big |
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Date: April 23rd, 2018 4:23 PM Author: frozen exciting cuck I always forget buddy holly even existed (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3957604&forum_id=2#35902807) |
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Date: April 23rd, 2018 9:52 PM Author: Underhanded big-titted roommate the Big Bopper was supposed to be on that plane. You're probably thinking "who the fuck is the Big Bopper". Exactly. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3957604&forum_id=2#35905021) |
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Date: April 23rd, 2018 9:54 PM Author: Adventurous effete den clown holly was wildly-popular when he was alive and had a massive #1 hit in 1957 with "That'll Be the Day." richie valens is probably a better example of someone who became a lot more popular as a result of that crash, and then again after that 80's biopic came out. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3957604&forum_id=2#35905035) |
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Date: April 23rd, 2018 10:06 PM Author: slap-happy cracking queen of the night Buddy Holly was cr and on his way to being huge (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3957604&forum_id=2#35905096) |
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Date: April 24th, 2018 6:11 AM Author: mustard wild locus Buddy Holly is an interesting choice - he released a stunning number of classic songs in an extraordinarily short period of time - like 18 months. There's no way he could've kept up anything like that pace. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3957604&forum_id=2#35906923) |
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Date: April 23rd, 2018 4:18 PM Author: gold house Morrison. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3957604&forum_id=2#35902763) |
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Date: April 23rd, 2018 4:20 PM Author: Opaque Coffee Pot Brethren Joplin wouldn't be anywhere close to as famous if not for her death. Her most well-known album, with pretty much the only songs people know from her, was released posthumously (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3957604&forum_id=2#35902783) |
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Date: April 23rd, 2018 4:23 PM Author: frozen exciting cuck (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3957604&forum_id=2#35902803) |
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Date: April 23rd, 2018 10:04 PM Author: bright razzmatazz library gunner (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3957604&forum_id=2#35905080) |
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Date: April 23rd, 2018 4:24 PM Author: frozen exciting cuck Sublime is another example of an early death drastically increasing their popularity. Not on the same level as some others, but certainly worth mentioning (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3957604&forum_id=2#35902816) |
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Date: April 23rd, 2018 4:26 PM Author: sticky sanctuary selfie that's probably true (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3957604&forum_id=2#35902828) |
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Date: April 23rd, 2018 4:28 PM Author: Mahogany shrine I heard an obscure sublime song last weekend that I had never heard before (not one of the usual ones you hear on the radio). it was awesome. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3957604&forum_id=2#35902844) |
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Date: April 23rd, 2018 9:46 PM Author: adulterous thriller love of her life ape Sublime are HUGE among the appropriate age group. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3957604&forum_id=2#35904987) |
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Date: April 23rd, 2018 4:31 PM Author: Trip private investor Morrison. He was on his way to becoming a has-been fat boomer when he died. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3957604&forum_id=2#35902875) |
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Date: April 23rd, 2018 9:42 PM Author: submissive skinny woman Jim Morrison, easily. He was already in a steep decline.
Could maybe argue Ian Curtis. |
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Date: April 23rd, 2018 9:44 PM Author: adulterous thriller love of her life ape Buddy Holly had a lot of future potential. Richie Valens and the Big Bopper OTOH are only remembered for dying. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3957604&forum_id=2#35904958) |
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Date: April 23rd, 2018 9:46 PM Author: electric crimson sneaky criminal janis joplin (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3957604&forum_id=2#35904983) |
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Date: April 23rd, 2018 9:47 PM Author: walnut roast beef nowag Sid Vicious, because he was a shitty "musician" and an utter retard who wouldn't have been able to go onto anything else and basically did nothing else but die. Instead he became an icon, on t-shirts, had movies made about him (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3957604&forum_id=2#35904991) |
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Date: April 23rd, 2018 9:56 PM Author: adulterous thriller love of her life ape I don't think he has a musical legacy though. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3957604&forum_id=2#35905041) |
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Date: April 23rd, 2018 9:57 PM Author: walnut roast beef nowag well, OP said "musician's legacy", not musical legacy in particular (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3957604&forum_id=2#35905049) |
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Date: April 23rd, 2018 10:01 PM Author: electric crimson sneaky criminal this is pretty cr. look what became of johnny rotten post sex pistols. just a bloated rat faced brit with nothing interesting to say. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3957604&forum_id=2#35905070) |
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Date: April 23rd, 2018 10:02 PM Author: walnut roast beef nowag Actually Public Image Ltd was a great band who made some really good albums in the 80s. And Rotten was a clever guy. But Sid Vicious was a literal retard. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3957604&forum_id=2#35905073) |
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Date: April 23rd, 2018 10:03 PM Author: self-centered soul-stirring menage Cr (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3957604&forum_id=2#35905078) |
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Date: April 23rd, 2018 10:02 PM Author: Underhanded big-titted roommate Rotten had Public Image Ltd which was far superior to the Sex Pistols (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3957604&forum_id=2#35905074) |
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Date: April 23rd, 2018 10:02 PM Author: adulterous thriller love of her life ape Public Image Ltd is pretty cr, faggit. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3957604&forum_id=2#35905075) |
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Date: April 23rd, 2018 10:07 PM Author: electric crimson sneaky criminal listen guys i never heard this public image or whatever band so i stand by my post. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3957604&forum_id=2#35905098) |
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Date: April 23rd, 2018 10:27 PM Author: self-centered soul-stirring menage I'd say that he didn't have nearly as much fame with PiL as he did with the Sex Pistols
But they still put out some good music |
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Date: April 24th, 2018 12:14 AM Author: jet knife son of senegal (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3957604&forum_id=2#35906078) |
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Date: April 23rd, 2018 10:04 PM Author: Mauve parlour Cobain easily, give nirvana two more albums and he's not the "voice of a generation" they're just another grunge band Morrison was basically done already when he died and Hendrix would have done at least a couple more cool things |
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Date: April 23rd, 2018 10:05 PM Author: adulterous thriller love of her life ape Cobain had future potential. He was actually talking about moving on from grunge before he offed himself. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3957604&forum_id=2#35905088) |
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Date: April 23rd, 2018 10:06 PM Author: walnut roast beef nowag (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3957604&forum_id=2#35905091) |
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Date: April 23rd, 2018 10:09 PM Author: Mauve parlour Sure, sure. It would have sucked (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3957604&forum_id=2#35905111) |
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Date: April 23rd, 2018 10:19 PM Author: electric crimson sneaky criminal lol (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3957604&forum_id=2#35905206) |
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Date: April 23rd, 2018 10:07 PM Author: walnut roast beef nowag What about Bob Marley? He's revered as almost a religious, mystical figure thanks to his early death. Would he have turned into a boring old GC faggot later in life? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3957604&forum_id=2#35905102) |
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Date: April 23rd, 2018 10:14 PM Author: adulterous thriller love of her life ape Naw. He died at 36 from natural causes. I think his popularity is based on a solid catalog of hits. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3957604&forum_id=2#35905151) |
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Date: April 23rd, 2018 10:21 PM Author: Adventurous effete den clown speaking of him, that's kind of what happened to robert johnson. going from a regional celebrity to some kind of "blues saint," in large part because he died young. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3957604&forum_id=2#35905224) |
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Date: April 23rd, 2018 11:34 PM Author: Impressive people who are hurt Nah, reefer Bob was legit (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3957604&forum_id=2#35905840) |
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Date: April 23rd, 2018 10:19 PM Author: filthy public bath rigor Scott Weiland (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3957604&forum_id=2#35905202) |
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Date: April 23rd, 2018 10:29 PM Author: self-centered soul-stirring menage The Scott Weiland story is what would have happened to Kurt Cobain had he lived that long (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3957604&forum_id=2#35905295) |
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Date: April 24th, 2018 12:13 AM Author: Mind-boggling Erotic Center cr. scott weiland would be held in far higher esteem had he not turned into an insufferable junkie twink (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3957604&forum_id=2#35906073) |
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Date: April 24th, 2018 12:08 AM Author: Copper toaster The guy who sang la bamba (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3957604&forum_id=2#35906044) |
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Date: April 24th, 2018 12:10 AM Author: adulterous thriller love of her life ape Richie Valens, already mentioned. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3957604&forum_id=2#35906053) |
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Date: April 24th, 2018 12:15 AM Author: jet knife son of senegal Isaac Brock (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3957604&forum_id=2#35906079) |
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Date: April 24th, 2018 3:03 AM Author: titillating transparent stead mad cow disease morrison is prolly most cr but Elliott Smith is pretty close |
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Date: April 24th, 2018 3:20 AM Author: self-centered soul-stirring menage My moniker is partly an homage to E. Smith but I don't really agree with him being a candidate for this thread. He hit a certain level of popularity in the early 2000s and just kinda maintained it. Didn't really increase it much posthumously IMO (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3957604&forum_id=2#35906736) |