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

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 :)

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

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?

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.

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, 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.

a video for the sparklehorseheads

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dI5Z38CoOsc

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.

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

posthumous album on the way, compiled by his brother matt
https://pitchfork.com/news/new-posthumous-sparklehorse-album-announced/

This album is very good but doesn’t Every Star supercharger sound exactly like Lights Are Changing by Mary Lou Lord?

I just discovered that was a Bevis Frond cover (lights are changing)