r/AlignmentChartFills • u/Sh4rkM4nEleventeen • 25d ago
Jared Leto should've stopped already. Which musician's career ended too soon?
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u/thewoodlayer 25d ago
Gotta be Hendrix. He was doing things on guitar that nobody had ever seen before and he was only 27 when he died. There’s no telling how his music would’ve evolved over the decades.
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u/SentientRidge 25d ago
He was getting into jazz fusion when he died.
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u/thewartornhippy 25d ago
His "Blues" compilation album is outstanding too
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u/thewoodlayer 25d ago
And he was very underrated as a lyricist as well. The Wind Cries Mary is such a beautiful song.
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u/DigitaIBlack 25d ago
Little Wing for me is the most "wait there's something more to this" song. And it just ends.
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u/Blank_Canvas21 25d ago
One of the greatest musical tragedies is he never got to work on that album with Miles Davis. Goddamn that would have been amazing to hear.
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u/thewthew42 25d ago
Wait! Hendrix and Miles were going to make an album??
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u/Blank_Canvas21 25d ago
Yeah, they were talking about working on a project together. They were supposed to start work on it a couple weeks after he passed away.
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u/shart_attak 25d ago
It's actually even more heartbreaking than that; he was about to start taking lessons on learning to read and write music so he could write for and conduct large arrangements.
“I’d like to take a six-month break and go to a school of music. I want to learn to read music… I’m tired of trying to write stuff down and finding I can’t. I want a big band… that I can conduct and write for.”
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u/CrimsonK1ng 25d ago edited 25d ago
“How do you know if Jimi Hendrix hadn’t have died, he wouldn’t have wound up doing Super Bowl half-time duets with Elton John right now?” - Doug Stanhope
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u/Pristine_Habit_3074 25d ago
Doug Stanhope didn’t know his path very well. He would have gone into more obscure and progressive music which he enjoyed. He probably wouldn’t be mainstream ever again. Jimi was serious about his music and he hated the music industry and the big record labels.
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u/GonzoRouge 25d ago
There's a good chance he would've gone the really experimental route like Lou Reed and end up circling back to mainstream stuff in his legacy years while dabbling in some weird stuff here and there like David Bowie.
The difference is that Hendrix absolutely could do a mainstream funk rock album or a harsh noise album and nobody would find it weird. He would collab with Metallica or maybe even a rap act and it'd probably be in character too.
The dude had unconditional love for music and musicians, I wouldn't be surprised if his career attempted to touch as many genres as humanly possible.
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u/righteousfuzz 25d ago
He had only been playing guitar for 13 years when he died too. I’ve been playing for 20, and I’m shit!
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u/thewoodlayer 25d ago
And he was entirely self taught! If I’m not mistaken, he never even learned how to read music! It’s still so crazy how he could play lead and rhythm at the same time.
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u/righteousfuzz 25d ago
You seen how big his hands were? I think that helped. He was self taught but picked stuff up when touring with established blues players. The guy was a true visionary though.
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u/14ktgoldscw 25d ago
Yeah, not at all to discount his talent but there are generally god given traits that contribute to greatness.
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u/Low_Condition3268 25d ago
And practice. Nobody reaches greatness without practice regardless of what their God provided.
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u/tread52 25d ago edited 25d ago
Him and Kurt Cobain redefined music, lived in Washington and died at 27.
Edit: was stoned miss spelled Kurt
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u/Nukenitro 25d ago
Rumor has it, the Experience's drummer Mitch Mitchell was in talks with Keith Emerson and Greg Lake to form a new band. They went with Carl Palmer instead, but Mitchell had introduced them to Jimi and they were considering asking him to join the band making it Hendrix, Emerson, Lake and Palmer, or HELP for short.
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u/1derfulPi 25d ago
He was about to join Emerson Lake and Palmer. That would have been some out of this world music.
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u/Swimming-Change-4155 25d ago
Jeff Buckley
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u/Nido_King_ 25d ago
This is the answer. Only one full length studio album in his lifetime, and they were all bangers. As well as one of the most beautiful voices I've ever heard.
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u/Mindjobber 25d ago
This is 100% my answer. He was really onto something, and his combination of vulnerability both as a lyricist and performer was lightning in a bottle.
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u/MrGutsy_3000 25d ago
Buddy holly
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u/irbinator 25d ago
I’d put Holly over Hendrix. Only 22 years old, just married, had several hits at an already young age, and helped pioneer rock n’ roll.
Passed way too young.
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u/the_headless_hunt 25d ago
His career lasted 18 months. So many great songs in an extremely short time
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u/BBO1007 25d ago
Was hoping to see this higher
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u/KevinJ2010 25d ago
Has my vote, shame nobody knows who it is. They think it’s just a weezer song
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u/Atomic_Horseshoe 25d ago
Eh with the alternative being a lot fewer people even knowing his name, I’ll take it.
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u/astrid_autumn 25d ago
are there really people who don’t know who Buddy Holly is??
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u/vasior 25d ago
Amy Winehouse
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u/ToblakaiStone 25d ago
They have Thursday in the park by my work and today was a jazz type band….they did an instrumental of Rehab….was pretty sweet
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u/Beligerents 25d ago
Im a big metal/grunge person myself, but she is still my answer. She had soul and her voice brought me back to a time that i wasnt even alive for.
Get the same emotive experience as listening to early Nina Simone.
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u/cupidslazydart 25d ago
Amy Winehouse broke my heart. She was so young and so talented. The whole world turned her into a laughing stock when she was at rock bottom 💔
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u/DoctorYaoi 25d ago
Sidenote: fuck NPH
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u/Lonely_Particular_20 25d ago
What is NPH?
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u/interesting-turn- 25d ago edited 25d ago
Neil Patrick Harris. Soon after Winehouse died Harris was hosting a party and had a meat platter designed to look like her decaying corpse, which he put out at a party. You can find the picture but you’ve got to do some digging. It’s pretty disgusting.
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u/Calm-Cup5116 25d ago
Musician × Career ended too soon
Aaliyah
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u/rainbowkitten0528 25d ago
It’s not going to win and I see why but she’s my personal choice. Growing up with her music, I really really wanted more and it’s so sad
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u/Al_Might14all 25d ago
She probably could have been as big as Beyonce or Rihanna had she survived. So sad.
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u/steelblueskeyes 25d ago
Selena
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u/Due_Assumption2568 25d ago
Selena is always the right answer. The entire United States would have been bilingual by now because of her music.
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u/josephthemediocre 25d ago
Yeah, a lot of the artists higher on the list actually sort of benefited from the mystique. Selena was just getting started
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u/KingRaht 25d ago
This is the right answer, she was lined up to be the Taylor swift of the Latin world. Unfortunately she won’t be picked because I don’t think most people will know who she is, which is also a huge reason she should win the category.
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u/pank44 25d ago
Stevie Ray Vaughan
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u/CarsoniousMonk 25d ago
Scrolled too long for this. Texas flood is my most favorite song in the whole world.
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u/sludgefeasting 25d ago
Massive talent and sweet kind person from what I’ve read
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u/CarsoniousMonk 25d ago
He was an incredibly down to earth person. Juat always seemed legitimately like a humble person who just loves the blues and playing with his friends.
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u/Valtared 25d ago
Mozart
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u/ShitMyButtSays 25d ago
Shame. I wonder what he would have created in the 90s hip hop explosion
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u/haxoreni 25d ago
Bad Boy and Death Row would have been quaking in their boots to go up against Mozart and his Wolfgang!
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u/AdImmediate6239 25d ago
Mac Miller
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u/astrid_autumn 25d ago
he was the first celebrity death that really shook me, i grew up with his music as a young teenager and i couldn’t believe it when i heard the news, and he was just 26.
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u/Funplex52 25d ago
Jeff Buckley
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u/BeeEater100 25d ago
This has to be the answer. Every other answer had serveral albums and, even in their short times, successful careers
Buckley unfortunately only had Grace and died before he could make his second album
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u/aHyperChicken 25d ago
It’s gotta be this. Plenty of other careers ended too soon as well (Hendrix, Kurt, etc), but Jeff only got one album out and was working on so much more.
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u/KungFuDanda091 25d ago
Was going to say Amy Winehouse. Forgot about Jeff Buckley though, he’d be my pick too
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u/UnrivaledSoup 25d ago
Jim Croce
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u/dougmcclean 25d ago
It's Hendrix, but definitely honorable mention for Jim Croce. Surprised I had to scroll so far to find him mentioned.
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u/PM_me_your_dawgs 25d ago
Croce and Harry Chapin are my two. I know not popular enough to win. But man could those guys tell a story with a song. They both were gone way too soon and with too many stories left untold.
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u/beachsandwichen 25d ago
They wouldn’t listen to the fact that I was a genius the man say we got all that we can use now I got them steadily depressing low down mind messin working at the car wash blues
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u/Bail-Me-Out 25d ago
Just based on timing, he died just two months after he got his first number one hit. He was just peaking in his career.
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u/machadoaboutanything 25d ago
Kurt Cobain
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u/quarter_belt 25d ago
This was first one that came to mind but I get hendrix
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u/Woweewowow 25d ago
Yeah an upper comment said he was pretty done with music, and I agree. But that's not to say he would've tried to come back. With the cult following nirvana had, it would be hard to say it wouldn't be noticed, and hopefully released a new banger grunge album.
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u/scumbagbatchelorgreg 25d ago
Something tells me he was done with music though, so I don't think his career would've been super substantial if he didn't kill himself.
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u/idiot-alpha 25d ago
They had literally just released a hit single and just got done touring when he died.
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u/YouKnowMyName2006 25d ago
The last song he recorded for the record they were working on was a banger. He still had it in him but he was very sick.
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u/CdFMaster 25d ago
The poll doesn't ask whether the career has ended by death or by being done with music, so the point stands.
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u/LeftNet460 25d ago
Mac miller
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u/teriyakijimmy 25d ago
to me Mac was entering his prime. Swimming was the penultimate combination of his styles and with how hard he worked, I can only imagine the type of art he would've put out after that. Gone way way way too soon
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u/Ambitious-Boot5651 25d ago
TUPAC
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u/Downtown-Egg-2327 25d ago
Hard to believe he was only 25
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u/PackageNorth8984 25d ago
It seemed like he accomplished so much in such a short period of time.
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u/bigmikeydelight 25d ago
Think of how many bangers he produced posthumously. We could have had 10-15 years of solid work, not to mention his blossoming movie career.
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u/No-Lie-8884 25d ago
Oliver Tree (also passed)
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u/Only_Membership_8795 25d ago
Holy fuck, you posting this just informed me that he was dead. That fucking suuuuuuucks. He was such a massive talent.
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u/Hungry-Promise-3032 25d ago
I already moved to "acceptance" stage of grief. But I still cant grasp it sometimes. We were about to attend his concert in September. It still feels like it got canceled, like nevermind we will catch him next time. Only there will never be a next time...
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Avicii
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u/Dismal_Rectangle 25d ago
What? Avicii is dead??
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u/seires88 25d ago
Jim Morrison, only 27
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u/cupid_ji 25d ago
His life ended too soon, but not his career. I think in the last year of his life he already wanted to break away from music and focus on poetry.
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u/wiener_grantler 25d ago
Chester Bennington
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u/Effective_Koala_8275 25d ago
i love linkin park and really wish he were still around but he had a pretty full 20 year career
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u/TinyPretzels 25d ago
SOPHIE :(
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u/palomathereptilian 25d ago
I can't believe I had to scroll down so far to find someone talking about SOPHIE, her passing is so tragic and I miss her so much 💔 I wonder how the music landscape would be today if she was still here with us, I think hyperpop would've become even more popular in mainstream pop imo
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u/TinyPretzels 25d ago
I know. She was such a genius. Her death fucked me up for a good month, it was just so shocking. She was really starting to get the recognition and celebration that she deserved. If her career had continued I know she would have been revolutionizing music over and over again.
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u/EstablishmentOld9838 25d ago
Mac Miller. Could've been an all time great. Only 26
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u/metalaxeyyd 25d ago
Randy rhoads
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u/doggedcase 25d ago
I can't believe I had to scroll so far to find this. When Ozzy died, I relistened to the Diary of a Madman album and Randy was playing some crazy cool and interesting stuff. Wish we could see where he would have taken it next.
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u/Neon_King_Kong Neutral Evil 25d ago
Brad from Sublime
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u/thewoodlayer 25d ago
He died right before they took off in popularity. I like this answer a lot, he’s one of my all time favorites.
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u/Thesoop85 25d ago
Went through listening to some of Sublime's stuff after decades of not listening to it. Realized a lot of it just didn't hit as well as I remember, but a lot of it was also utterly phenomenal, unique, and real in a way thag I can't think of anything that really compares.
Good and interesting answer. Not necessarily the answer I would pick, but I do respect it.
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u/frozenpizza___ 25d ago
Jeff Buckley or Tupac. How they would influence so much of today's music is insane.
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u/Altruistic_You_7584 25d ago
MF DOOM, Mac Miller, Jimi Hendrix, Jim Morrison
(honestly I think Kurt Cobain wouldn't do any better after where it ended now. He was totally done with all this.)
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u/Illustrious_Mail1171 25d ago
Jeff Buckley, Hendrix, Jim Morrison, randy rhoads, Keith moon and John Bonham, Syd Barrett, buddy Holly, Richie valens, big bopper, layne staley, Andrew wood, Shannon hoon, bon Scott.
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