this post was submitted on 03 Sep 2023
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[–] [email protected] 103 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I guess the years do stop coming

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago
[–] [email protected] 66 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

Would've been better with "Aw"

[–] [email protected] 61 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Damn. They were big in my childhood even before shrek

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It was cool how they frequently used 60s songs, and had a general "through the years" vibe going. People picked up on that for sure, it's easy to forget they're not just the Shrek band.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Honestly i feel like Astro Lounge was an album ahead of it's time in that they were really the first to bring that retro 60s/70s sound an incorporate it in to modern mainstream pop. Like if that album came out today it would still be a hit.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I like the angry sound of their first album a lot, but yes Astro Lounge is great.

[–] [email protected] 54 points 1 year ago (3 children)

It's sad but I think most people saw this coming after his public behavior at his concerts.

[–] [email protected] 28 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I was there in the trenches in 2015 throwing bread while he rained down insults and threats. It wasn’t a good show but its one ill remember forever.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago
[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

Yeah I read the headline, remembered that concert where he kept drunkenly telling the audience to go fuck itself, and went "yup not surprised"

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 year ago (1 children)

He had a history of battling addiction and had to be carried off stage a couple of years ago and retired (?) in 2021 because of health reasons.. You can Google the for the rest of it, but that is the summary.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

So that was him I thought I remembered seeing on HermanCainAward.

[–] [email protected] 28 points 1 year ago (2 children)

This man gave me my favorite phrase to sing when getting slammed at work.

"Well they all start coming and they don't stop coming and they don't stop coming and they don't stop coming..."

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago

Are we not doing "phrasing" anymore?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago
[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

This is a tragedy. The guy is dying and his greatest contribution to mankind is the song "All Star." More than most of us will do, I guess.

[–] [email protected] 28 points 1 year ago (1 children)

He also ruined a lot of goodwill by being an anti-vaxxer and doing a Nazi salute on stage. I'm sorry for anyone who dies this way, but I can't say I'm sorry beyond that.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

"Walking on the Sun" is a much better song.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

He is a man of respect and he prefers to be addressed as Padrino

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

I doubt most of our livers would survive losing a kid to leukemia. He made it 22 years.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago
[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

What a shame. Guess he'll be walking on the sun soon....

[–] [email protected] -2 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] -5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Sounds like he got smashed with his mouth a few too many times

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Needs a transplant. No way.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago

Hey now, he went far. Till booze got in the way.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Why the downvotes? This was funny.