i love the first three albums and the fourth one was good. read somewhere that the new album was almost done, damn. i even had a chance to see Sparklehorse in San Francisco once, very sad news.
RIP Mark
― Bee OK, Monday, 8 March 2010 03:50 (fourteen years ago) link
OK, I posted that show over here: http://doomandgloomfromthetomb.tumblr.com/Not for the faint of heart, though ... made me cry anyway!
― tylerw, Monday, 8 March 2010 04:01 (fourteen years ago) link
dude seemed like a good guy with an interesting worldview
a worldview filtered through morphine pills and adultery-induced cognitive dissonance does sound pretty interesting
― T-R-A-P-S-T-R (Curt1s Stephens), Monday, 8 March 2010 04:04 (fourteen years ago) link
Holy shit. :( This is awful news.
― Turangalila, Monday, 8 March 2010 04:33 (fourteen years ago) link
That is unbelievably sad. Another favourite songwriter of mine has killed himself. At least now he can jam with Nick Drake, Ian Curtis, Kurt Cobain, Elliott Smith, Vic Chesnutt...
― alex in mainhattan, Monday, 8 March 2010 10:50 (fourteen years ago) link
Totally this for me except with vivadixie + Good Morning Spider. The perfect music for being sad in a beautiful landscape.
I actually meant Good Morning Spider. It's A Wonderful Life was the first one that didn't really engage me.
― Matt DC, Monday, 8 March 2010 11:06 (fourteen years ago) link
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.
^^^^
― Tim F, Monday, 8 March 2010 11:24 (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, 8 March 2010 13:21 (fourteen years ago) link
Colin Greenwood with a tribute.
― Freedom, Monday, 8 March 2010 13:27 (fourteen years ago) link
:(
― Il suffit de ne pas l'envier (Michael White), Monday, 8 March 2010 16:51 (fourteen years ago) link
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?
― Nathalie (stevienixed), Monday, 8 March 2010 16:58 (fourteen years ago) link
Uh...
― Maraca Son Sistema (Matt DC), Monday, 8 March 2010 16:59 (fourteen years ago) link
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.
― Maraca Son Sistema (Matt DC), Monday, 8 March 2010 17:01 (fourteen years ago) link
^
― I just wish he hadn't adopted the "ilxor" moniker (ilxor), Monday, 8 March 2010 17:24 (fourteen years ago) link
I know. Sorry. :-( Really.
― Nathalie (stevienixed), Monday, 8 March 2010 17:46 (fourteen years ago) link
I was just following the link posted. But I know I am not being consistent. So again sorry.
― Nathalie (stevienixed), Monday, 8 March 2010 17:49 (fourteen years ago) link
Patti Smith with another tribute
― StanM, Monday, 8 March 2010 18:11 (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
― 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 (eleven 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