'The ultimate sin of any performer is contempt for the audience.'- Lester Bangs Have you ever LOVED a band on record but had your heartbroken once you saw them live? Thankfully I only have a couple of bands that fall into this category. And for me to put a band in the 'disappointing live act' column, i have to have seen them at least twice. I mean as long as humans are playing rock n roll and n...
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Am I the only one who feels as though this may be the longest week in the history of weeks? I am not even working and I feel this way, my condolences to all of you gainfully employed moggers. The midweek holiday just messed everything up.Hope everyone has a great, safe weekend...I have NO PLANS...anyone going to any good shows this weekend? Hopefully something fun to do will come to me in my sl...
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I HEART everything Sparklehorse has ever recorded...and I can probably count the bands that i can make that statement about on one hand.
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The soundtrack of my life1. Opening Credits: 'Its a wonderful life' - sparklehorse2. Waking Up: 'this is the first day of my life' - bright eyes3. Average Day: ‘oh sweet nuthin' - velvet underground4. First Date: ‘rollerskate skinny' - old 97's5. Falling in Love: 'you are the everything' - rem6. Love Scene: ‘Ive been thinking' - handsome boy modeling school/cat power7. Fight Scene: ‘kung f
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Its a breathtakingly gray day here in Ohio...days like this, I put Sparklehorse records on, open all of the windows and just soak everything in...pass the whiskey please
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Singing along, in the loudest voice I could muster, with Glen Hansard as he put every ounce of his soul into his version of Van Morrison's 'Astral Weeks'...Listening to 70,000 of my newest, closest friends singing along with 'Little Red Corvette' and about 2 1/2 hours worth of Prince's amazing catalog...Laying on my back, looking up at the desert sky and its' stars while 'Wish You Were Here' ec...
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Sparklehorse - "It's a Wonderful Life" directed by Guy Maddin.Maddin specializes in films that draw inspiration from the earliest years of motion picture imagery, with a particular emphasis on the alterations made to those images by time, decay, and neglect."His enthusiasm for obsolescent cinematic techniques — silent-film emoting, iris lenses, shadowy monochrome, collagist editing — is at on
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So the new Sparklehorse arrived the other day. I've been waiting four years for a new album from Mark Linkous (who IS Sparklehorse) and this album is dope. More soon, but when it hits the stores next week you want it. You really do.Cover of Dreamt For Light Years In The Belly Of A Mountain.You can listen to some tracks off the album here:http://www.myspace.com/sparklehorseBut be sure to come ba...
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SparklehorseDreamt For Light Years In The Belly Of A MountainVinyl 12" LP newDreamt For Light Years In The Belly Of A Mountain is rife with a fuzzed-out grace and dark enchantment, featuring musical contributions by Danger Mouse, Tom Waits and Steven Drozd of The Flaming Lips.Continuing to mine his unique brand of haunted rural melancholy with gossamer electronic traces and a skewed pop sensibilit
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There are a lot of good people here at work and more than a few of these good good people have good good music tastes. Introducing me to new music by way of their shared itunes libraries or by dropping off their new music goodies at my desk.I've turned people on to Super Furries and Captain to name a few but this MOG is about them not me.Sparklehorse, Everything But the Girl, Elefant, The Blac...
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Some songs are instant favorites of mine from the very first instant that I hear them. Just now I stumbled upon one in the form of "Shade and Honey," from the new album by Sparklehorse. A bit of twangy guitar over a simple drumbeat and bits of organ bleed into a near-whispered vocal by Mark Linkous and just draws me in to a strange and wonderful place. It's practically Sparklehorse-by-numbers, ...
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I have come across a couple of news items posted on Angry Ape this week that made me absolutely pee myself. Not only do we get a Sparklehorse album featuring Tom Waits, shit-hot producer extraordinaire Danger Mouse, and others...We also get a new live double CD set from My Morning Jacket. I can't wait to hear both of these...Excuse me while I go change my pants now.
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So for whatever reason, maybe because the show was so good, I've been incessently playing Sparklehorse since returning from South X Southwest. Heavy rotation, as they used to say on FM radio.Which leads me to a question: what's the best Sparklehorse song? Or top 5? (Or 10?) For that matter, what's the best Sparklehorse album? I'd probably go with Vivadixiesubmarinetransmissionplot, though Good ...
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i was hoping "today's favorable pitchfork review":http://www.pitchforkmedia.com/article/record_review/38746/Sparklehorse_Dreamt_for_Light_Years_in_the_Belly_of_a_Mountain might shed some lite on why i am so addicted to this record at the moment, but it sounds like a bunch of gobbledygook to me. there's nothing you can say about the beautiful words and sounds pushing out of these speakers that'd...
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