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 (seven 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 (seven years ago) link
totally going to listen to A Camp tonight now, had forgotten that even existed!
― sktsh, Thursday, 29 June 2017 20:34 (seven years ago) link
sktsh, hope u like it :)
― Unchanging Window (Ross), Friday, 30 June 2017 20:28 (seven 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 (six 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 (one year 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 (one year 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 (one year ago) link