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RIP Avicii (Mod warning in op)

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    #62
    JupiterKid
    Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 12,571 Mod ✭✭✭✭JupiterKid


    That's very sad. I'd only be familiar with one or 2 of his tunes but at 28 he was practically just a baby. No age to go at. :(


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    #63
    Taylor365
    Registered Users Posts: 2,994 ✭✭✭Taylor365


    Deleted User wrote: »
    I also see David Carey has passed away. He was a psychologist who did a parenting slot on Moncrieff.
    Loved listening to that guy. :(


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    #64
    Coffee Fulled Runner
    Registered Users Posts: 435 ✭✭Coffee Fulled Runner


    So sad, incredible talent. I'm shocked by this news. 28 is too young. RIP


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    #65
    Hogzy
    Registered Users Posts: 7,544 ✭✭✭Hogzy


    Jez I was flat out playing all his good songs today while driving around west cork with the windows down. He is some loss to music! RIP!


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    #66
    Duff
    Registered Users Posts: 5,538 ✭✭✭Duff


    Genuinely shocked and saddened by this. Not the biggest edm fan but he had some catchy tunes, and seemed like a sound man in general. RIP.


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    #67
    Wibbs
    Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 60,073 Mod ✭✭✭✭Wibbs


    Duff wrote: »
    Genuinely shocked and saddened by this. Not the biggest edm fan but he had some catchy tunes, and seemed like a sound man in general. RIP.
    +1. Even an oul lad like me knew who he was. Sad to hear. Seemed like a nice talented guy.

    Rejoice in the awareness of feeling stupid, for that’s how you end up learning new things. If you’re not aware you’re stupid, you probably are.



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    #68
    Ken.
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,898 ✭✭✭✭Ken.


    Mod-All the off topic posts and replies to them removed. If I missed any let me know by reporting the post.


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    #69
    BowSideChamp
    Registered Users Posts: 272 ✭✭BowSideChamp


    He took a pill in Ibiza Oman.

    Mod-Banned


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    #70
    no.8
    Registered Users Posts: 778 ✭✭✭no.8


    RocketRaccoon wrote:
    What kick do people get out of pretending they don't know who he is? You blatantly know at least one of his songs.


    RIP to the young man. Far too young. I liked his tunes myself.

    I don't get them either, really quite sad/pathetic that they waste their own time posting here


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    #71
    GarIT
    Registered Users Posts: 8,671 ✭✭✭GarIT


    BowSideChamp wrote: »
    He took a pill in Ibiza Oman.

    More deflamatory speculation, great. Completely wrong artist too.


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    #72
    Mental Mickey
    Registered Users Posts: 10,635 ✭✭✭✭Mental Mickey


    My 14 year old Niece heard it tonight and she was like "What the ****"??


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    #73
    jr86
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,930 ✭✭✭jr86


    As a previous post said Levels was surely one of the most defining songs of the decade, it was a phenomenon when it was released

    Really liked his music, always put me in a good mood.

    RIP


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    #74
    Heckler
    Registered Users Posts: 3,322 ✭✭✭Heckler


    I knew the name Avicii but didn't know what he'd done so I just youtubed him there. Of course straightaway I recognised loads of the songs from having the radio on at work. Not my cup of tea but was obviously popular so fair play to him. Just a young fella.

    I'm more shocked to hear about David Carey as mentioned earlier. I don't have kids but always enjoyed his parenting slot on Moncrieff. Just seen his picture on the independant.ie website. Would never have put it with his voice. He sounded a lot older than he looked !

    RIP to both.


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    #75
    dmc17
    Registered Users Posts: 3,726 ✭✭✭dmc17


    If you have a good sound system (and no neighbours), turn this one up



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    #76
    pleas advice
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 2,492 ✭✭✭pleas advice


    martyos121 wrote: »
    He wasn’t involved with that tune, if it’s the one I assume you’re referring to. His name was just quoted in it.
    that tune was by Mike Posner:
    “It was sort of a mystery pill. I was already under the influence of alcohol at the time. I had written a song with Avicii that week in Sweden called ‘Stay With You’ and he was playing in Ibiza so I said, ‘I will just go there with you,’ because I was already in Europe. I don’t have like a regular 9-5 job… so might as well go to Ibiza, right? I had never been there before. So I went.”
    “I would go back and forth between the backstage and the VIP area and then where the actual kids were. And most people didn’t know who the **** I was in Ibiza except for this one guy who recognised me. He was like, ‘Are you Mike Posner?’ and he was all excited. He holds up this little bag of pills and is like, ‘You want one?’ And drunk Mike Posner was like, ‘**** it, yeah.’ So I took one and I had never done that before, and I felt amazing. Then when I came down I felt ten years older…”

    as you do


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    #77
    jr86
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,930 ✭✭✭jr86


    dmc17 wrote: »
    If you have a good sound system (and no neighbours), turn this one up


    I remember in summer 2011 when it was released. And it was HUGE. It's hard to quantify, but nothing released nowadays would come close. It put him on the map so to speak

    Clubs would literally play it 3 or 4 times a night, and each time the crowd would absolutely lap it up.


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    #78
    JP Liz V1
    Registered Users Posts: 85,021 ✭✭✭✭JP Liz V1


    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PmVjsE-XnEA


    RIP
    https://forumofgames.com/




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    #79
    [Deleted User]
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    dmc17 wrote: »
    If you have a good sound system (and no neighbours), turn this one up


    Was in Ayia Napa in 2011 when this was released and it was played literally everywhere. Came home and it was played everywhere. Good memories to this song. Only one of his tunes I actually liked.

    RIP young man. Not too much younger than myself which is scary.


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    #80
    [Deleted User]
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    Not a big fan of Avicii but I'm a fan of EDM.
    Dude is the same age as me and he's dead. Very strange feeling


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    #81
    jeffk
    Registered Users Posts: 5,830 ✭✭✭jeffk


    RIP, very sad for such a young person to pass away and then the musical talent he had will be a big loss.

    Some of the replies dont surprise me, usual snobbery towards dance music :mad:

    Only watched the film/doc made about him and it makes it so much more sad



    I now changed my music for the car for the weekend to some of his best songs and remixes and as others have said it will be up high and window down with a smile on my face!


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    #82
    tedpan
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators Posts: 4,627 Mod ✭✭✭✭tedpan


    Poor kid, another awesome talent lost


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    #83
    DoozerT6
    Registered Users Posts: 2,589 ✭✭✭DoozerT6


    Gone far far too soon, I liked most of his songs. This one is an absolute stonker.



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    #84
    [Deleted User]
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    God I feel old and out of touch, never heard of this lad but always terrible to hear of someone so young pass. Age 28 has taken many a great artist.


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    #85
    hatrickpatrick
    Registered Users Posts: 17,797 ✭✭✭✭hatrickpatrick


    This guy's music has meant more to me over the years than almost any other artist. This is heartbreaking. :(


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    #86
    _Dara_
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,971 ✭✭✭_Dara_


    That's awful. Feel as sad as when Heath Ledger and Stephen Gately died. So much life ahead of him, like them.


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    #87
    dd972
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,563 ✭✭✭dd972


    If it's what I suspect it is, then it's pretty sad that someone with millions in the bank wasn't able to think about taking serious time out for rest and to review their situation, that said the human mind being what it is can be distorted by depression to the extent that no amount of money or acclaim can pull it back from 'the brink' or what feels like 'the brink' to some people, never heard of him until today but a shame, RIP.


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    #88
    hatrickpatrick
    Registered Users Posts: 17,797 ✭✭✭✭hatrickpatrick


    dd972 wrote: »
    If it's what I suspect it is, then it's pretty sad that someone with millions in the bank wasn't able to think about taking serious time out for rest and to review their situation, that said the human mind being what it is can be distorted by depression to the extent that no amount of money or acclaim can pull it back from 'the brink' or what feels like 'the brink' to some people, never heard of him until today but a shame, RIP.

    I doubt this was a suicide if that's what you're thinking, he had some serious health scares over the last few years due to extreme alcoholism and it sounds to me like either (a) he relapsed into binge drinking despite needing to let his body recover, or (b) he damaged his body so much in the past that even after ostensibly giving up on the sesh altogether last year, it was already too late and his organs were unable to sufficiently recover.

    In that context, the millions in the bank may have actually contributed somewhat. I mean, many people with serious, imminently health-damaging substance abuse issues are limited only by inability to fund their ongoing binges. If someone has developed an alcohol dependency a la say Shane MacGowan, being as incredibly wealthy as Avicii probably means that you just keep buying booze and drugs, without anything to actually stop you doing more.

    Speculation obviously, but that's been my theory all evening anyway. He had acute pancreatitis at some stage last year which is why he gave up the live performance scene, and it was reported at the time that this was directly related to extensive drug and alcohol use over a long period of time. Seems more likely to have been related to this than anything else.


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    #89
    Noveight
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,813 ✭✭✭Noveight


    This remix of a cover of ones of his songs is lovely.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bImq_Pn6H0Y


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    #90
    ceadaoin.
    Registered Users Posts: 8,094 ✭✭✭ceadaoin.


    hatrickpatrick wrote: »
    I doubt this was a suicide if that's what you're thinking, he had some serious health scares over the last few years due to extreme alcoholism and it sounds to me like either (a) he relapsed into binge drinking despite needing to let his body recover, or (b) he damaged his body so much in the past that even after ostensibly giving up on the sesh altogether last year, it was already too late and his organs were unable to sufficiently recover.

    In that context, the millions in the bank may have actually contributed somewhat. I mean, many people with serious, imminently health-damaging substance abuse issues are limited only by inability to fund their ongoing binges. If someone has developed an alcohol dependency a la say Shane MacGowan, being as incredibly wealthy as Avicii probably means that you just keep buying booze and drugs, without anything to actually stop you doing more.

    Speculation obviously, but that's been my theory all evening anyway. He had acute pancreatitis at some stage last year which is why he gave up the live performance scene, and it was reported at the time that this was directly related to extensive drug and alcohol use over a long period of time. Seems more likely to have been related to this than anything else.

    Even amongst hardcore alcoholics, it's still pretty uncommon to die from it at 28. If other recent celebrity deaths are anything to go by, I'd say pills were involved. Such a waste


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    dasdog
    Registered Users Posts: 3,497 ✭✭✭dasdog


    jeffk wrote: »
    RIP, very sad for such a young person to pass away and then the musical talent he had will be a big loss.

    Some of the replies dont surprise me, usual snobbery towards dance music :mad:

    It's commercial warm the sports crowd up, heavy software compression time to enjoy yourself it's almost forced upon with simple predictability music. Millions love it, millions don't. A talented fella obviously and a stupidly young age to stop living. $28 million for one years work through advertising and such.


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