Album Rating: 4.5
thanks for the nice words guys. it's consoling to see firsthand how profoundly this dude affected so many people. particularly stokes2; thanks for sharing your story, and i hope that even in death Scott can help you stay the path.
i would strongly urge anyone suffering from depression, or anyone who is close to someone suffering from depression, to read Matt Haig's Reasons to Stay Alive. it's short, beautiful, sad and insightful. as an outsider, it really helped me to better understand this fucker of an illness. i also recommend Johan Harii's Lost Connections, which explains how modern culture often kickstarts and kindles depression, as well as ideas for how to become well again without the use of antidepressants.
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Album Rating: 5.0
"But look: Scott was alive for ten years after The Midnight Organ Fight, and he’d been struggling with depression long before that. If we listen to the comments just on these boards, we can see he was able to use that time, tortured as so much of it must have been, to drag a number of people back from the brink. He may have saved more people from an early death than the vast majority of people will in a full life, and he did that in the vice-like grip of a mental illness."
ive been struggling to see any sort of light in this situation, but at least there's this. the guy genuinely cared about others struggling with the same types of demons and those that came to him with them.
RIP Scott hard, i regret that i never got to meet him.
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Album Rating: 4.0
RIP Scott.
Great review.
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Album Rating: 5.0
thanks for writing this.
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Album Rating: 4.0
What a wonderful write-up. Thank you for doing that!
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I truly regret not listening to this band until i found out about Scott's death, gonna make sure that doesn't stay that way for too long.
RIP Scott.
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Band reminds me of strikey/Adam Knott. Wonder how that guy is doing and how he took the news of this.
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Album Rating: 5.0
Beautiful piece. I cannot bring myself to listen to this right now. It was constantly there during my darkest time and his death has hit me too hard
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One of the best write-ups I've seen on this site. Beautifully done, man. The bit about your sister hits home too.
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Album Rating: 5.0
It took me far too long to start listening to this album. Great review!
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Album Rating: 5.0
Man, what a great piece of writing. I missed this when Scott died.
One of my all time favorite musical moments was seeing FR in Minneapolis right after Prince died. It was like the same week. Scott did an acoustic solo cover of Purple Rain, and it absolutely fucking devastated and floored everyone in the room, for Prince's sake. Looking back on that memory, it stabs me, for Scott's sake.
Fucking RIP hard.
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Album Rating: 5.0
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Album Rating: 5.0
Adolf you were at that show too if I'm not mistaken.
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Album Rating: 5.0
Yeah i was man, what a fucking show.
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Album Rating: 4.5
Bump for being the best review on this entire website. and for a real heartbreaking masterpiece.
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Album Rating: 5.0
+1 to matt haig, that book saves lives
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