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[–] [email protected] 104 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I guess the years do stop coming

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

Would've been better with "Aw"

[–] [email protected] 61 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Damn. They were big in my childhood even before shrek

[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 years 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 2 years 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 2 years ago

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

[–] [email protected] 54 points 2 years 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 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years 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.

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 years 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 2 years ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 19 points 2 years 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 2 years ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

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

[–] [email protected] 28 points 2 years 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 2 years ago

Are we not doing "phrasing" anymore?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 25 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years 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 2 years 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 2 years ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 19 points 2 years ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

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

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 years ago

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

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago

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

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago
[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago

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

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

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

[–] [email protected] 20 points 2 years ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 years ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Needs a transplant. No way.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 years ago

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

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago

Why the downvotes? This was funny.