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You know how die hard Nirvana or Kurt Cobain fans will often quote that “it’s better to burn out than fade away” quote he said? I feel like that about the last thing Tim wrote in his diaries “The shedding of the soul is the last attachment, before it restarts”

I just cannot seem to get my mind off of these words. I think about them constantly. Think that maybe it could be true, maybe he did end his pain and he restarted. The implication that he somehow was able to discover that death is not the final end but instead a way to discard and end your pain but also restart has deeply shaken me. It was like reading an epiphany when I first read those words.

I’m working on an Avicii birthday episode for 8 September about Tim, his approach to making music, and what his work still means to people.

I’d love to include a few perspectives from fans here.

If you’re up for it, answer any of these:

• What does Avicii or his music mean to you personally?
• Is there a song that takes you straight back to a particular memory, place or period of your life?
• Why do you think “Levels” hit and still hits the way it does?

Short answers are completely fine. If I use anything in the episode, I can credit your Reddit username or keep it anonymous if you prefer.

The show is FAFO: The Art of Going All In, part of a ongoing series about people who commit completely to their craft because the work matters.

I think there was a large package of these Stems with Simon Aldred and Chris Martins Vocals and the Stems. Would be really nice to have a link cause I'm so interested in the production and how it was made and how they recorded it!

Thanks guys!

Can anyone help me find this levels version in this video? I've never heard it before. In the original version, at 3:34, instead of the arpeggiated lead, you hear the main melody until the drop.

In the video you can hear this part in the minute 6:54 played by Swedish House Mafia in 2011.

Does anyone have this Levels version?

i’m an aspiring musician and I’d be ready to kill just to have the spot he had. I know the singer from Linkin Park and Dalida did it because they lost people they loved, Saveafox did it because she got cyberbullied, but Avicii and Kurt Cobain didn’t lose any loved ones and weren’t being cuberbullied so how is it possible to have it all and still do this ? could you imagine Zendaya doing this ? no way

Whats yall favorite Avicii remix he has so many great ones so it’s hard to choose but my favorites at the moment is his remix of we are by dirty south and Rudy, I have also been stuck on I feel love Avicii forgotten mix. His remix of Set me free by phonat is also awesome. In other words I’ve been listening to his really old stuff. What is your favorites ?

I still can't believe I ever made it out for this show from Los Angeles.

He came on 45 minutes late.

Crowd was getting restless.

Then stayed over an hour and a half later to drop one of the greatest sets ever.

Legend.

I very much wonder what Tim would have thought about AI and the way music is being made today.
When Tim started producing, one of the coolest things was that technology allowed him to basically draw out all these different instruments and sounds. And back then, not every musician was as hyped about that as I was. Some dismissed producers like him with the whole “he can’t even play an instrument” argument.

Which, by the way, turned out to be completely untrue in Tim’s case. He was a great pianist and guitarist. But it makes me wonder about the shift we’re going through now.

AI is starting to change how music is made. The same is happening with video, and even songwriting. In some ways, it feels like another massive change in what it means to “make” something. I genuinely wonder what Tim’s take would have been.

I never experienced AVICII live

Please share your AVICII show experience, the crowd and the set

Please be honest