Sparklehorse - classic or dud(e) - RIP Mark Linkous 2010

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.

Colin Greenwood with a tribute.

:(

He shot himself in the heart in an alley outside a friend's home, said his manager, Shelby Meade. Lt. Greg Hoskins of the Knoxville Police Department confirmed that the police responded to a call at 1:20 p.m., and that Mr. Linkous was pronounced dead at the scene.

I don't really care what exactly happened - he's dead and that's what's sad - but heart or head, what is it?

Uh...

For someone who's making a show of being disinterested or outraged by the gory details you're doing a good job of bringing them onto this thread.

^

I know. Sorry. :-( Really.

I was just following the link posted. But I know I am not being consistent. So again sorry.

Patti Smith with another tribute

Beautiful session for Spin in 2007: http://www.spin.com/articles/watch-sparklehorses-intimate-set-spin

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.

oh dear

Horrible, how your poor innocent friend was apparently unaware of his wife and totally taken advantage of by this evil man.

No. I thought she was pretty fucked up for participating.

oy, i know nothing about the guy's personal life, but apparently I want to keep it that way.

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

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.

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

iirc they really haven't found much in their investigation if they're still using the term "friend"

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.

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 re: being 17---Good Morning Spider was totally engrossing to me around then

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

fuck this news is ruining me

agree with spirit ditch tho

and then fuckin tears on fresh fruit rips it open

cow is making me cry

Oh shit, just heard this news. Fuck me. Fucking hell. Seriously, Good Morning Spider is such a massive album for me. Fuck this...

miss this dude

^^
listening to the last one
i hope we hear some more of his songs, sometime/somehow
so ... frustrating?, that a guy i saw play these great shows & stuff isn't around any more doing his thing

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

reissue?

apparently it was reissued on vinyl this year

Oh, vinyl. Right on., I was getting all psyched for one of those 'deluxe' jobs with bonus tracks.

My advice would be to avoid the reissues. Poor quality noisy digitally sources pressings. Annoying.

can't really listen to this guy since he died. way too much of a bummer.

Only four days left for this crowd funded documentary - $ 4,000 to go

http://www.indiegogo.com/projects/the-sad-beautiful-world-of-sparklehorse

Miss this guy

me too

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.

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/

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.

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)

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

oh yeah that is a great song, I forgot about that. that's a very good album actually.

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"

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.

totally going to listen to A Camp tonight now, had forgotten that even existed!

sktsh, hope u like it :)