― Stevie going through the Dog Door, Wednesday, 13 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― Tim, Wednesday, 13 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― Dr. C, Wednesday, 13 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― gareth, Wednesday, 13 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― exegesis, Wednesday, 13 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
Then I realised that Mark Radcliffe's tastes weren't necessarily that great :).
― Robin Carmody, Wednesday, 13 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― JC, Tuesday, 10 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― doompatrol23@hotmail.com, Wednesday, 11 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― Roger Sanchez, Sunday, 15 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
Just imagine what they'd be like if Linkous acted like Jim Morrison on stage! Actually, don't. No do! Don't! Well, only if you want to.
― Roger Fascist, Monday, 29 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link
RIP Mark Linkous.
Shit!
― Evan, Sunday, 7 March 2010 05:18 (fourteen years ago) link
Though I haven't listened to them in some time, I still have a soft spot for his second and third albums. Guess I'll dig out Wonderful Life tonight...
RIP
― ColinO, Sunday, 7 March 2010 05:35 (fourteen years ago) link
Oh no! Really? How? Link?
― figgy pudding (La Lechera), Sunday, 7 March 2010 05:35 (fourteen years ago) link
fuck
― "I get through more mojitos.." (bear, bear, bear), Sunday, 7 March 2010 05:38 (fourteen years ago) link
http://www.rollingstone.com/rockdaily/index.php/2010/03/06/sparklehorses-mark-linkous-takes-own-life/
oh shit :(
never heard the last couple of albums the first 2 are great. this is really sad
― jabba hands, Sunday, 7 March 2010 05:58 (fourteen years ago) link
this is terribly sad
― First and Last and Safeways (jjjusten), Sunday, 7 March 2010 06:16 (fourteen years ago) link
my favorite song was 'chaos of the galaxy/happy man' and this makes it even sadder
― figgy pudding (La Lechera), Sunday, 7 March 2010 06:22 (fourteen years ago) link
Dammn. RIP, Mark.
― StanM, Sunday, 7 March 2010 06:24 (fourteen years ago) link
oh man..
― rahni, Sunday, 7 March 2010 06:25 (fourteen years ago) link
listening to Sea Of Teeth right now, very sad. dont know why, but this news is really making me hurt, full of heartache. poor sad dude, i wish you the best and turn down my atheist covers to hope there is something better out there for you.
― First and Last and Safeways (jjjusten), Sunday, 7 March 2010 06:28 (fourteen years ago) link
la lechera, totally..
― jabba hands, Sunday, 7 March 2010 06:29 (fourteen years ago) link
It's a hard world for little things. RIP.
― Most important performer of our generation: (Euler), Sunday, 7 March 2010 06:30 (fourteen years ago) link
RIP. Loved the first three albums.
("Sea of Teeth" is one of my favorites, btw.)
― Michael F Gill, Sunday, 7 March 2010 06:51 (fourteen years ago) link
weird radiohead/sparklehorse cover of wish you were here just popped up on my sparklehorse playlist and its bumming me out.
― First and Last and Safeways (jjjusten), Sunday, 7 March 2010 07:02 (fourteen years ago) link
Oh nuts :(
― We should have called Suzie and Bobby (NickB), Sunday, 7 March 2010 08:19 (fourteen years ago) link
I feel damn silly for crying. But I fucking. So there. Mark, RIP. Wish you are finally in a happy place.
― Nathalie (stevienixed), Sunday, 7 March 2010 08:41 (fourteen years ago) link
Holy shit, what the fuck is going on? RIP. It's a Wonderful Life is a tremendous record.
― Simon H., Sunday, 7 March 2010 09:19 (fourteen years ago) link
Aw, fuck no. I thought he was one of those guys was indestructible. The album he did last year with Danger Mouse was really good which makes this seem even worse.
― The Man With the Magic Eardrums (Billy Dods), Sunday, 7 March 2010 09:24 (fourteen years ago) link
'who was indestructible'
― The Man With the Magic Eardrums (Billy Dods), Sunday, 7 March 2010 09:25 (fourteen years ago) link
FUCK this is sad :(
― some dude, Sunday, 7 March 2010 09:40 (fourteen years ago) link
i have an enormous enormous attachment to the first 2 albums, especially Good Morning Spider
I really need to stop dropping tears on the table. This is god damn sad.
― Nathalie (stevienixed), Sunday, 7 March 2010 09:59 (fourteen years ago) link
I never spent a great deal of time w/ Sparklehorse's records tbh but (a) they were one of about two non-dreadful things I saw at a, well, dreadful V Festival several years ago; (b) I had that line "I want my records back / and the motorcycle gas tank I painted black" in my head for no real reason the other day (what song is that? It's a great line imo); (c) dude seemed like a good guy with an interesting worldview so yeah RIP
― sometimes I feel like throwing my glands up in the air (DJ Mencap), Sunday, 7 March 2010 10:10 (fourteen years ago) link
Man. Sparklehorse.com still opens with a link to Kristin Hersh's fund raising page for Vic Chesnutt's family.
― StanM, Sunday, 7 March 2010 11:10 (fourteen years ago) link
xpost: that's a line from Spirit Ditch, btw.
Thanks, yeah I knew it was one of the early ones
― sometimes I feel like throwing my glands up in the air (DJ Mencap), Sunday, 7 March 2010 11:13 (fourteen years ago) link
terrible terrible news. good morning spider is a true classic as is most of his wonderful work.
― Jamie_ATP, Sunday, 7 March 2010 11:28 (fourteen years ago) link
it's funny, I'm not sure when the last time I put a Sparklehorse album on, but I know that lines from "Hundreds of Sparrows" or "Ghost of His Smile" or some other song would pop into my head at least once a week anyway. His stuff really got in my bones and stayed there.
― some dude, Sunday, 7 March 2010 11:47 (fourteen years ago) link
Yep, so many classic couplets that stick long after listening"I wanna be a stupid and shallow motherfucker nowI wanna be a tough skinned bitch but I don't know how"
― "I get through more mojitos.." (bear, bear, bear), Sunday, 7 March 2010 12:10 (fourteen years ago) link
Aw man, this is sad. Both Vivadixiesubmarinetransmissionplot and It's A Wonderful Life are just totally synonymous with my late teens. Partly with being a big emo mess but also really fun times in the countryside looking at beautiful scenery - those first two albums still really remind me of both.
As time went by I think I lost the need for that sort of music in my life but I'll definitely be playing them both again today. At the age of 17 the first album felt like the most fragile and beautiful music I'd ever heard.
― Matt DC, Sunday, 7 March 2010 12:10 (fourteen years ago) link
I just discovered how the man killed himself. Apparently he lived for anotehr three hours after a gunshot wound which left extensive facial and cranial damage. FUCK. I am now even sadder knowing how much he must have suffered even in those last hours. He suffered from not only depression but also migraine attacks. Although I haven't contemplated suicide, I know how horrible it is to have migraine attacks. You literally do want to crawl under the ground only have blackness around you. RIP, dude, we'll miss you.
― Nathalie (stevienixed), Sunday, 7 March 2010 12:59 (fourteen years ago) link
Matt, you were 17? Christ, now I feel like an old woman here. lol
― Nathalie (stevienixed), Sunday, 7 March 2010 13:00 (fourteen years ago) link
I just discovered how the man killed himself.
I wish the sites where you read that (De Morgen & HLN, right?) still had moral standards, but they don't anymore, so fuck them for thinking the public needs to know the gruesome details. I certainly didn't need to know.
― StanM, Sunday, 7 March 2010 13:09 (fourteen years ago) link
I was surprised that HLN even mentioned his death but after reading the ghastly article, I wish they hadn't.
― Nathalie (stevienixed), Sunday, 7 March 2010 13:11 (fourteen years ago) link
HLN & De Morgen are part of the same group now, so they share some of their articles. (= RIP De Morgen)
― StanM, Sunday, 7 March 2010 13:14 (fourteen years ago) link
Yeah I really didn't need to read that.
― Matt DC, Sunday, 7 March 2010 13:15 (fourteen years ago) link
Really, Stan? DM and HLN are of the same group? Almost as sad to hear.
― Nathalie (stevienixed), Sunday, 7 March 2010 13:17 (fourteen years ago) link
Sorry for getting quite a long way off topic now, but yep! http://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/De_Persgroep
― StanM, Sunday, 7 March 2010 13:20 (fourteen years ago) link
those first two albulms blew my mind. the song about loneliness catching up with you in a service station bathroom, those surreal catchy tunes like rainmaker and happyman, damn he was great.
theres a heaven and theres a star for you, RIP
― Kiwi, Sunday, 7 March 2010 13:22 (fourteen years ago) link
Given what I've known about his life beforehand, it's not the most surprising news in the world. He was like Elliott Smith with a bit of slightly redeeming black humour lyric-wise. Anyway, Vivadixie and Good Morning Spider were major rekkids for me way back when and still stand up. RIP.
― Freedom, Sunday, 7 March 2010 13:30 (fourteen years ago) link
Beautiful session for Spin in 2007: http://www.spin.com/articles/watch-sparklehorses-intimate-set-spin
― StanM, Monday, 8 March 2010 18:32 (fourteen years ago) link
man this happened in knoxville. and he was supposedly building a studio here. makes it kind of twice as sad for me, it would have been great to have him in town.
― hellzapoppa (tipsy mothra), Monday, March 8, 2010 1:21 PM (7 hours ago)
He had been here forever. He had a year-long or more gf (friend of mine) that he was constantly scaring with overdoses and he was often at backroom - a bar in my neighborhood. i thought he was a heartless jerk to be cheating on his wife and dragging his gf through drug problems.
― MC Short Shorts (Nijoli), Monday, 8 March 2010 21:22 (fourteen years ago) link
oh dear
― figgy pudding (La Lechera), Monday, 8 March 2010 21:39 (fourteen years ago) link
Horrible, how your poor innocent friend was apparently unaware of his wife and totally taken advantage of by this evil man.
― StanM, Monday, 8 March 2010 21:41 (fourteen years ago) link
No. I thought she was pretty fucked up for participating.
― MC Short Shorts (Nijoli), Monday, 8 March 2010 21:43 (fourteen years ago) link
oy, i know nothing about the guy's personal life, but apparently I want to keep it that way.
― tylerw, Monday, 8 March 2010 21:46 (fourteen years ago) link
this is very sad news, I was just listening to the second album last week (after some dude was eulogising it on another thread and having not listened to it for about 10 years) and it is still remarkably beautiful music
― cozen, Monday, 8 March 2010 21:53 (fourteen years ago) link
Hadn't heard of him in years. His music was a perfect companion on my highschool years when I was a proto emo struggling with pubescent depression. I'm hearing 'eyepennies' right now and my chest feels very cold.
― Moka, Monday, 8 March 2010 22:18 (fourteen years ago) link
What is it with this investigative journalism? Oooh, now he did it after receiving a disturbing text message.
http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5iT6ceh9L_ixUa2SuS8ntI-k0QZbQD9EAM66G0
― StanM, Wednesday, 10 March 2010 10:46 (fourteen years ago) link
iirc they really haven't found much in their investigation if they're still using the term "friend"
― we call him gabb Neb coz he's gabb & his names Nebille (Curt1s Stephens), Wednesday, 10 March 2010 13:47 (fourteen years ago) link
He was at Scott's house - the other Sparkledude who lived in Knoxville. According to Scott's ex-wife he had just said he was going for a walk and would be back in two minutes.
― MC Short Shorts (Nijoli), Wednesday, 10 March 2010 14:17 (fourteen years ago) link
I started a thread about the first Sparklehorse album if anyone would rather discuss his music than dredge up the dirty details of his death: Sparklehorse - Vivadixiesubmarinetransmissionplot poll
― some dude, Wednesday, 10 March 2010 14:24 (fourteen years ago) link
some dude re: being 17---Good Morning Spider was totally engrossing to me around then
― nitzer ebbebe (gbx), Wednesday, 10 March 2010 17:42 (fourteen years ago) link
oh geez and i didn't even realize i have it in iTunes---probably haven't listened to it since freshman year of college! ten years!
RIP u_u
― nitzer ebbebe (gbx), Wednesday, 10 March 2010 17:45 (fourteen years ago) link
fuck this news is ruining me
― Anton Levain (jdchurchill), Wednesday, 10 March 2010 23:48 (fourteen years ago) link
agree with spirit ditch tho
― Anton Levain (jdchurchill), Wednesday, 10 March 2010 23:56 (fourteen years ago) link
and then fuckin tears on fresh fruit rips it open
― Anton Levain (jdchurchill), Wednesday, 10 March 2010 23:57 (fourteen years ago) link
cow is making me cry
― Anton Levain (jdchurchill), Thursday, 11 March 2010 00:03 (fourteen years ago) link
Oh shit, just heard this news. Fuck me. Fucking hell. Seriously, Good Morning Spider is such a massive album for me. Fuck this...
― DavidM, Thursday, 11 March 2010 00:03 (fourteen years ago) link
miss this dude
― del griffith, Sunday, 11 July 2010 03:27 (thirteen years ago) link
^^listening to the last onei hope we hear some more of his songs, sometime/somehowso ... frustrating?, that a guy i saw play these great shows & stuff isn't around any more doing his thing
― mid-song laughing elvis (schlump), Monday, 24 October 2011 12:03 (twelve years ago) link
i picked up the 'good morning spider' reissue this past week and it's like, i know the dude was depressed and all and his lyrics were sad already, but songs like painbirds, chaos of the galaxy/happy man, sick of goodbyes almost bring me to tears in the wake of his tragic end
― ∞th-wave ska (diamonddave85), Monday, 24 October 2011 14:37 (twelve years ago) link
reissue?
― If Assholes Could Fly This Place Would Be An Airport, Tuesday, 25 October 2011 01:43 (twelve years ago) link
apparently it was reissued on vinyl this year
― junior dude (some dude), Tuesday, 25 October 2011 01:57 (twelve years ago) link
Oh, vinyl. Right on., I was getting all psyched for one of those 'deluxe' jobs with bonus tracks.
― If Assholes Could Fly This Place Would Be An Airport, Tuesday, 25 October 2011 12:47 (twelve years ago) link
My advice would be to avoid the reissues. Poor quality noisy digitally sources pressings. Annoying.
― AnotherDeadHero, Tuesday, 25 October 2011 17:27 (twelve years ago) link
can't really listen to this guy since he died. way too much of a bummer.
― tylerw, Tuesday, 25 October 2011 17:29 (twelve years ago) link
Only four days left for this crowd funded documentary - $ 4,000 to go
http://www.indiegogo.com/projects/the-sad-beautiful-world-of-sparklehorse
― StanM, Tuesday, 11 June 2013 18:02 (ten years ago) link
Miss this guy
― sktsh, Wednesday, 23 April 2014 11:16 (nine years ago) link
me too
― some dude, Wednesday, 23 April 2014 12:26 (nine years ago) link
Periodically, a song of his crops up on a mix cd I'm playing. I get a quick thrill wondering when new music is coming from him, then remember.
― the body of a spider... (scampering alpaca), Wednesday, 23 April 2014 16:00 (nine years ago) link
Never listened to Sparklehorse before, but I plan on it after reading this fantastic story... http://pitchfork.com/features/articles/9745-the-sad-and-beautiful-world-of-sparklehorses-mark-linkous/
― flappy bird, Thursday, 5 November 2015 03:01 (eight years ago) link
his albums are all wonderful, have a hard time ranking one over any of the others.
prurient I know but I hate that everything says "well he got a text" and no one has ever said what it was. I assume it's from his wife but what could it have possibly said.
― akm, Thursday, 5 November 2015 05:20 (eight years ago) link
beautiful and sad story.
for some reason i had never really made the connection between Chessnutt's suicide and Linkous'
as for the text, i think it's not thát imported, a lot of things could and would have triggered him someday. :( I think. (as severely depressed as he was)
― Ludo, Thursday, 5 November 2015 20:52 (eight years ago) link
No mention on this thread of the song he co-wrote with Susanna Hoffs for her 1996 s/t, "Enormous Wings." Great tune.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1BvuhkVVwJA
― Resting Bushface (Phil D.), Thursday, 5 November 2015 22:46 (eight years ago) link
oh yeah that is a great song, I forgot about that. that's a very good album actually.
― akm, Sunday, 8 November 2015 23:34 (eight years ago) link
kinda bums me out that Linkous is dead, because I imagine he would've played a part in Lynch's new Twin Peaks series. Hearing that waiting room song in EP. 8 made me think of "It's a Wonderful Life"
― Unchanging Window (Ross), Thursday, 29 June 2017 00:31 (six years ago) link
Anyways, he's utterly classic.
faves: distorted ghost EP, it's a wonderful life, good morning spider, dark night of the soul w/Lynch and his production work for the first A Camp (Nina Persson) album.
― Unchanging Window (Ross), Thursday, 29 June 2017 00:36 (six years ago) link
totally going to listen to A Camp tonight now, had forgotten that even existed!
― sktsh, Thursday, 29 June 2017 20:34 (six years ago) link
sktsh, hope u like it :)
― Unchanging Window (Ross), Friday, 30 June 2017 20:28 (six years ago) link
Just found dark night of the soul. Just the regular edition, which doesn’t have the nice photo book by Lynch but a condensed inlay instead. Great record
― Ross, Monday, 23 July 2018 16:33 (five years ago) link
Anyone want to suggest a Top 10/CD-R?
I have a kind of fixed idea of the Sparklehorse/Linkous tracks that mean something to me ... and wonder if I'm missing anything?
― djh, Friday, 22 March 2019 20:57 (five years ago) link
In the realm of b-sides/non album stuff, I always thought his covers of “Galveston” and “Dark As A Dungeon” were up there with his best album tracks.
― One Eye Open, Friday, 22 March 2019 22:25 (five years ago) link
― djh, Friday, March 22, 2019 3:57 PM (three years ago) bookmarkflaglink
i was kind of casually putting together an artist playlist because i've had sparklehorse fever for the last few weeks. i will probably do more like a top 20 or 30 because jfc i love so many of his songs, i've realized.
― Karl Malone, Monday, 24 October 2022 19:49 (one year ago) link
a video for the sparklehorseheads
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dI5Z38CoOsc
― Karl Malone, Thursday, 2 February 2023 00:14 (one year ago) link
has anyone watched the recent doc This Is Sparklehorse?
https://vimeo.com/ondemand/thisissparklehorse
reluctant to spend six bucks to watch it on vimeo until i hear a positive endorsement or two.
― some dude, Thursday, 2 February 2023 00:26 (one year ago) link
i haven't, but i would also like a review. from the trailers, it seems to be a kind of cookie cutter interview with people who knew him talking about how he was a genius kind of doc, which is not my favorite kind of thing to watch. but i'd watch it anyway, i suppose, if it's about sparklehorse
― Karl Malone, Thursday, 2 February 2023 00:31 (one year ago) link
posthumous album on the way, compiled by his brother matthttps://pitchfork.com/news/new-posthumous-sparklehorse-album-announced/
― ludicrously capacious bag (voodoo chili), Tuesday, 13 June 2023 14:56 (nine months ago) link
This album is very good but doesn’t Every Star supercharger sound exactly like Lights Are Changing by Mary Lou Lord?
― I? not I! He! He! HIM! (akm), Wednesday, 13 September 2023 01:48 (six months ago) link
I just discovered that was a Bevis Frond cover (lights are changing)
― I? not I! He! He! HIM! (akm), Wednesday, 13 September 2023 02:03 (six months ago) link