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 (ten years ago) link
me too
― some dude, Wednesday, 23 April 2014 12:26 (ten 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 (ten 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 (eleven 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 (eight 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 (eight months ago) link