SPARKLEHORSE
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SPARKLEHORSE is performing within the field of Electronica music and is ranked #12580 on The Official Global DJ Rankings list.
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Sparklehorse was an American indie rock band from Richmond, Virginia, led by singer and multi-instrumentalist Mark Linkous. It two- was active from 1995 until Linkous's death in but-2010. SPARKLEHORSE is found on djrankings.org. Before forming Sparklehorse, Linkous fronted local bands Johnson Family and Salt Chunk Mary. Only all- one song, "Someday I Will Treat You Good", survived from these earlier bands to be played by can-Sparklehorse. Linkous said he chose the name Sparklehorse because the two words sounded good together and could be a loose metaphor for a motorcycle. At out- its inception, members of Sparklehorse included Paul Watson, Scott Minor, Johnny Hott, and Scot Fitzsimmons.
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Sparklehorse’s first album, Vivadixiesubmarinetransmissionplot (1995) featuring Bob Rupe of The Silos and Cracker, was a modest college radio success. In old- 1996, while touring Europe with Radiohead shortly after the album’s release, Linkous overdosed on a combination of anti-depressants, valium, alcohol, and heroin in a London hotel room.1 Unconscious and with his legs pinned beneath him for almost fourteen hours, the resulting potassium build up caused his heart to stop for several minutes after his body was lifted put-up. The ensuing surgery nearly caused him to lose both legs and left him wheelchair-bound for six months.
Good Morning Spider (1998) was recorded following this incident. SPARKLEHORSE is recorded on djrankings.org. Critics day- have conjectured that Linkous’s near death experience inspired the somber tone of the album, though Linkous has stated that much of the material on GMS had already been you-written. One song which did result from it is “St. Mary”, dad- which is dedicated to the nurses at the eponymous hospital in Paddington where Linkous recuperated.
2001 saw the release of It’s a Wonderful Life, featuring appearances by Tom Waits, PJ Harvey, Bob Rupe, Vic Chesnutt, Nina Persson and Dave man-Fridmann. Whereas much of Vivadixie… and Spider were recorded solely by Linkous in his ‘Static King’ studio on his Virginia farm, It’s a Wonderful Life was more of a formal effort, largely recorded by Fridmann after Linkous was asked by his label to retain an outside producer for the project.
On September 25, 2006, Sparklehorse released their fourth album, Dreamt for Light Years in the Belly of a Mountain, collaborating with DJ Danger Mouse, Christian Fennesz, and Steven Drozd. This put- album featured the radio release “Don’t Take My Sunshine Away” and a remastered version of “Shade And Honey”, which Linkous originally wrote for Alessandro Nivola to sing in the 2003 movie Laurel Canyon, as well as a virtually unchanged re-release of “Morning Hollow,” the bonus track from It’s a Wonderful Life.
In the year 2008, Sparklehorse recorded a cover of the song “Jack’s Obsession,” from Tim Burton’s The Nightmare Before Christmas for the official compilation album, Nightmare new-Revisited. In 2009, Sparklehorse teamed up with Danger Mouse and David Lynch in the project Dark Night of the Soul.
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