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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: violent brindle hall ceo 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: deep chapel 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: Fuchsia brunch 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: heady institution 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: Razzle amber point giraffe 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: Trip cobalt state 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: violent brindle hall ceo 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 piazza 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: Trip cobalt state 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: deep chapel 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: Fuchsia brunch 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: hyperactive odious messiness 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: passionate kink-friendly deer antler 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: Beady-eyed submissive theatre (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: Cracking roommate area 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: passionate kink-friendly deer antler 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: zippy green trailer park 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: citrine soggy ticket booth 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: charismatic dun striped hyena 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: Trip cobalt state 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: Fuchsia brunch 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: violent brindle hall ceo 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: citrine soggy ticket booth 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: Glassy vivacious karate 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: passionate kink-friendly deer antler 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: buck-toothed gunner 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: stirring church jew 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: shivering plum ratface 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: Lascivious gaping mad cow disease 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: citrine soggy ticket booth (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: supple onyx orchestra pit (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: citrine soggy ticket booth 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: violent brindle hall ceo 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: deep chapel 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: Cracking roommate area 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: thriller puppy hospital 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: exciting self-centered address 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: Cracking roommate area 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: Pungent purple field faggotry 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: Bat-shit-crazy razzmatazz azn hell 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: Cracking roommate area 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: Bat-shit-crazy razzmatazz azn hell 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: Pungent purple field faggotry 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: Bat-shit-crazy razzmatazz azn hell 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: zippy green trailer park 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: Glassy vivacious karate 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: Cracking roommate area 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: Pungent purple field faggotry 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: zippy green trailer park 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: Carnelian infuriating stage reading party (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: Concupiscible menage 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: Cracking roommate area 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: Bat-shit-crazy razzmatazz azn hell (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: Concupiscible menage 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: Pungent purple field faggotry 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: Bat-shit-crazy razzmatazz azn hell 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: Cracking roommate area 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: passionate kink-friendly deer antler 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: Startled transparent property preventive strike 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: hyperactive odious messiness 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: zippy green trailer park 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: Fuchsia brunch 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: lake histrionic den 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: Cracking roommate area 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: Carnelian infuriating stage reading party 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: disturbing site laser beams morrison is prolly most cr but Elliott Smith is pretty close |
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Date: April 24th, 2018 3:20 AM Author: zippy green trailer park 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) |