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RIP Steven Wells
Some of you might know him as the only living journalist that wasn't shit. He's now one of the dead ones.
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Woah, shit. Can't say I often (ever?) agreed with him musically, but that's still quite a shock.
Anyone remember his goading A Thousand Leaves-era SY interview in the NME? Funny shit. |
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If I remember rightly, he was taking the piss out of SY for being record collecting trainspotters and SY declared him the 'greatest journalist in Britain' in Melody Maker a week or so later.
If anyone has that article, I'd totally love it if you uploaded it.
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Yeah, more or less, along with a whole "you're nearly 50 - not exactly "Youth", is it?" spiel. IIRC, he gave the album a 0/10 review too. Google turns up plenty of references to the interview, but no text of it :/
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terribly sad new..he will be missed for certain!
just read a lot on everett trues facebook and blog about him.... |
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Damn, thats a shame. He was great fun to read, you could smell the years of accumulated spilt beer and piss on his words.
Im sure he'd have had a chuckle if he knew he'd get an RIP thread on the sonic youth messageboard.
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Goodnight Swells, you cantankerous, contrary sod
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That's a crying shame. I remember him as 'Seething Wells'. Pure gold.
He'll be missed.
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i remember that nme article he did. he was very much into kasabian and all that stuff.
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an insane amount of famous deaths today, and this is the one i am saddest to hear about.
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from reading his stuff it seemed to me like he was unable to distinguish agression and antagonism from wit.
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He was a lesser Glice, basically.
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RIP.
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Cant believe he didnt like Stereolab. Maybe it was a general anti-French thing.
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I feel this thread is far more important than Michael Jackson's.
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I've had a massively quiet day at work, and it's quite worrying precisely how much shpiel I've half-inched off him. No shame in that. But thanks. I think a lot of people saw him as "unable to distinguish agression and antagonism from wit." but I always saw the hyper-rhetoric* as falling into absurdism. I think the thing for me is that all hacks are worthless scum, but some hacks at least take it upon themselves to take pride in their scummery. *'hyper-rhetoric' is precisely the sort of joke that no-one ever gets, largely because even if you get it it's not funny.
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There was a spine behind what he wrote. He was far more an agitator than an antagonist I think. He had a belief in something that I didn't always believe in but which i always admired his commitment to.
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