RIP Steven Wells

Glice · 06.25.2009, 05:56 AM

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.

radarmaker · 06.25.2009, 06:22 AM

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.

Glice · 06.25.2009, 06:30 AM

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.

radarmaker · 06.25.2009, 07:14 AM

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 :/

RIP, ya mardy fucker.

PAULYBEE2656 · 06.25.2009, 07:22 AM

terribly sad new..he will be missed for certain!

just read a lot on everett trues facebook and blog about him....

the ikara cult · 06.25.2009, 08:41 AM

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.

radarmaker · 06.25.2009, 09:52 AM

"I met Sonic Youth once. Thurston Moore turned out to be a smug prick. Being a smug prick myself, we got on well."

MellySingsDoom · 06.25.2009, 12:57 PM

Goodnight Swells, you cantankerous, contrary sod

Florya · 06.25.2009, 01:34 PM

That's a crying shame. I remember him as 'Seething Wells'. Pure gold.
He'll be missed.

jon boy · 06.25.2009, 02:08 PM

i remember that nme article he did. he was very much into kasabian and all that stuff.

06.25.2009, 02:50 PM

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Originally Posted by radarmaker

Woah, shit. Can't say I 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.

My feelings about him too. I didn't agree with a a lot of his opinions, and much of his taste, but I've always found him really entertaining.

Yeah, that interview was good, and SY seemed to really enjoy his banter and piss-taking.

Toilet & Bowels · 06.25.2009, 06:01 PM

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Originally Posted by radarmaker

IIRC, he gave the album a 0/10 review too.

no, he did that to stereolab and squarepusher.

the ikara cult · 06.25.2009, 06:08 PM

an insane amount of famous deaths today, and this is the one i am saddest to hear about.

Toilet & Bowels · 06.25.2009, 06:32 PM

from reading his stuff it seemed to me like he was unable to distinguish agression and antagonism from wit.

06.25.2009, 07:06 PM

He was a lesser Glice, basically.

joe11121 · 06.25.2009, 07:41 PM

the ikara cult · 06.25.2009, 08:31 PM

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Originally Posted by Toilet & Bowels

no, he did that to stereolab and squarepusher.

Cant believe he didnt like Stereolab. Maybe it was a general anti-French thing.

HaydenAsche · 06.26.2009, 07:56 AM

I feel this thread is far more important than Michael Jackson's.

Glice · 06.26.2009, 11:11 AM

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Originally Posted by sarramkrop

He was a lesser Glice, basically.

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.

demonrail666 · 06.26.2009, 11:35 AM

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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radarmaker the end of the ugly Join Date: Nov 2007 Posts: 1,122	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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radarmaker the end of the ugly Join Date: Nov 2007 Posts: 1,122	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 :/ RIP, ya mardy fucker.
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PAULYBEE2656 invito al cielo Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: wexford, rep of ireland Posts: 6,930	terribly sad new..he will be missed for certain! just read a lot on everett trues facebook and blog about him.... __________________ myspace facebook *twitter*
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the ikara cult invito al cielo Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: London sink Posts: 4,576	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. __________________ "It is absolutely ridiculous, they are behaving like a cult" - The Vatican
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radarmaker the end of the ugly Join Date: Nov 2007 Posts: 1,122	"I met Sonic Youth once. Thurston Moore turned out to be a smug prick. Being a smug prick myself, we got on well."
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the ikara cult invito al cielo Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: London sink Posts: 4,576	an insane amount of famous deaths today, and this is the one i am saddest to hear about. __________________ "It is absolutely ridiculous, they are behaving like a cult" - The Vatican
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Toilet & Bowels invito al cielo Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: Northern Europe Posts: 12,268	from reading his stuff it seemed to me like he was unable to distinguish agression and antagonism from wit.
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sarramkrop Posts: n/a	He was a lesser Glice, basically.
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joe11121 expwy. to yr skull Join Date: Jun 2008 Location: Brantford, Canada Posts: 1,843	RIP.
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HaydenAsche invito al cielo Join Date: Mar 2006 Posts: 10,755	I feel this thread is far more important than Michael Jackson's. __________________ rip
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demonrail666 invito al cielo Join Date: Feb 2007 Posts: 18,510	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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