I was shocked to hear he died yesterday.
His mcg 2011 grand final performance was so bad it was actually great.
Louie Anderson, longtime comic and game show host who won an Emmy for his supporting role as Christine Baskets in the series Baskets, has died at age 68.
If you don’t know who he is:
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i am pretty sure i have the LP. Some of the songs I believe were written by Strummer/Jones of the Clash as she was the boyfriend of Mick Jones. That is from memory which is rapidly disappearing
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Look the anti mask/ vax stance is not a great epitaph. Matter of fact there is a certain Darwinian inevitably that makes it both infuriating, pathetic and sad all at the same time.
BUT
I’m a little peeved at some taking cheap pot shots at the big guy. So here’s my rebuttal.
Bat out if Hell was THE soundtrack to most of the parties of my suburban youth. He and Steinman created one of the most iconic rock albums of all time. It Spoke to a bunch of young suburban kids with a voice echoing the rites of passage a lot of us experienced- or dreamt of. It was grandiose, overblown and bombastic- but we were teenagers, and that pushed through and made sense. It was a homage to Spector’s wall of sound, and every overblown 60s teen romance/car song ever made. It was clichéd- but it’s geeky earnestness and absolute commitment to excess made it genius.
As a concept, it shouldn’t have worked in the late-disco, post punk early new wave Era it was presented to. But it did.
If I could get you all to be sitting in the back seat of my best mates Mum’s 76 GTS Monaro, as we headed in to the cinemas in Melbourne to see Star Wars-yes the original- and my mates Sister put this on the tapedeck for the very first time, you’d understand.
The opening stanza to Bat out of Hell was like something from another planet.
A flawed human, maybe. But he sung the songs I grew up to.
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The truth is, many of the soundtracks of our lives were from badly flawed people. Often self destructive , even worse often destructive of others. It doesn’t alter that those songs remain vitally important to who you are and how you recall things. On the scale of flawed, he seems pretty minor in relative terms.
I never liked his music, or that album. But for those that did, I totally understand the sadness of this moment. He was certainly a massive figure and source of happiness for many many people. Enjoy the memories.
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Nutshell.
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If you could do that, I’d probably ask to buy it and stick it in the garage for 30 years…
I still regret ditching the old VH with the 5 speed gearbox, that’d be worth a lot these days.
But we digress…
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l still have a copy of her second album, ‘We Belong to the Night,’ somewhere in storage. She also ended up appearing in the sitcom Night Court and a couple of movies. Tiny of stature, but with a great, big voice.
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Not sure there is a lot of that going on. There is a lot of humour about his songs, but that is standard Blitz at any given moment.
There’s a bit of talk about the MCG gig as if that defines him.
Let’s give the man the respect he deserves.
Biggest. Selling. Album. In. Australia. Of. All. Time.
And when he relaunched his career with BOOH2, where did he do it?
And he cared about it so much that he said, fark you live television, I’m gonna start again because it’s that important to me.
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Was his name Robert Paulson, poor old Mr Meat.
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From memory, he appeared on HHIS a helluva lot.
Love how Daryl used to call him Mr Loaf.
I recall vividly my first full time job in the CBD.
We went out to lunch at a nearby pub and someone from our group selected ‘Two out of Three Ain’t Bad’ on the Jukebox.
I was only a young fella and taken aback by just how much the ladies loved that song.
The conviction with which they were singing along.
The emotion was real.
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I still have the album and give it a regular play.
Re Mick Jones…that was her 2nd album “The Spirit of St Louis”
He changed her style from the rock of Night Out to a more jazz influenced style (from memory)…I bought the album when it came out on the basis of having enjoyed Night Out…it sucked 
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not i am not sure which album Strummer/Jones wrote the songs for, it might have been the second album. It was unusual as they did not write songs for other artists. Now I have go though my record collection to find the album I have. BTW Ellen Foley, to my knowledge is still going strong as is Mick Jones. Joe Strummer however went far to early.
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Love Baskets and all its understated greatness. Louie is so good in that that you really suspend your disbelief at the fact it’s clearly a guy in drag.
Isn’t it weird how often two celebrities pass on the same day?
Yes, far too early.
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Summer of 1991, I was 21 my cousin was visiting from Germany, we were in the city and saw posters stuck up that Meatloaf was playing at the Palais Theatre. We thought Fark it let’s go see The Loaf. Played all his classics but I do remember him saying this is new music which in 1993 would be be BOOH II
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In death, yes.
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When you say “RIP big fella” you mean Meatloaf, right?
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Gives “jaws of life” a whole new meaning
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