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the sparklehorse album from 1996...

― weasel diesel (K1l14n), Thursday, 12 August 2004 22:24 (twenty-two years ago)

"Rainmaker" and "Someday I Will Treat You Good" are awesome. The only Sparklehorse album I love as a whole is Good Morning Spider.

― CeCe Peniston (Anthony Miccio), Thursday, 12 August 2004 22:31 (twenty-two years ago)

god i used to love this album soooooooo much first and second year of college

― JaXoN (JasonD), Thursday, 12 August 2004 22:46 (twenty-two years ago)

'Heart of Darkness' is a fine Lost Neil Young Song. (See also: Sonic Youth - 'Diamond Sea')

― retort pouch (retort pouch), Thursday, 12 August 2004 23:20 (twenty-two years ago)

yeah I liked Good Morning Spider more, but Viva... had its moments as well. I love "Cow".

― Al (sitcom), Friday, 13 August 2004 00:42 (twenty-two years ago)

Really lovely guitar textures on "Hammering The Champs" that he perhaps should have used more gratuitously. There are a fair few great songs on this album.

― naked as sin (naked as sin), Friday, 13 August 2004 00:49 (twenty-two years ago)

i love Sparklehorse (where the hell have they been?) but I recently listened to this album for the first time in years and it doesn't hold up very well.

― roger adultery (roger adultery), Friday, 13 August 2004 01:03 (twenty-two years ago)

"Cow" and "Saturday" are the best songs I think, real stunners. Good Morning Spider is a better album though. I never felt any desire to check them out after that album despite loving it at the time.

― Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Friday, 13 August 2004 01:05 (twenty-two years ago)

no way tim, It's A Wonderul Life is beautiful

― roger adultery (roger adultery), Friday, 13 August 2004 01:08 (twenty-two years ago)

I agree that Good Morning Spider is his best album (not only because the boy with the beautiful name said it). By the way, my favorite song of that era is the b-side "London."

― Salvador Saca (Mr. Xolotl), Friday, 13 August 2004 01:28 (twenty-two years ago)

I've never heard IAWL but first two CDs = classic

― AaronHz (AaronHz), Friday, 13 August 2004 01:34 (twenty-two years ago)

Saw him play a show after Good Morning Spider and it was one of the better shows I've been to. I think Mercury Rev opened. I've seen Sparkelhorse a couple times since but the band was never as good as that show. Just a three piece and they blew the roof off the place.

― danh (danh), Friday, 13 August 2004 13:31 (twenty-two years ago)

IAWL should have been named after the track "More Yellow Birds." I like the song "Comfort Me" on that and nothing else really stuck.

― CeCe Peniston (Anthony Miccio), Friday, 13 August 2004 13:33 (twenty-two years ago)

Good but not classic.

― Stewart Osborne (Stewart Osborne), Friday, 13 August 2004 13:34 (twenty-two years ago)

I think It's a Wonderful Life is his best album, but I like all of them. It's bizarre to me that he's still on Capitol; he can't be making them any money at all. Remember that vivadixie had a HUGE promotional push behind it, "someday" was played on mainstream radio, there were stickers for it littering my university.

― kyle (akmonday), Friday, 13 August 2004 15:59 (twenty-two years ago)

yeah "Comfort Me" was by far the best song on IAWL, all in all their least compelling album.

― Al (sitcom), Friday, 13 August 2004 16:10 (twenty-two years ago)

Mark Linkous has expressed his desire to work with DNTEL and Fennesz for his upcoming record. And he's said he's not afraid of composing "straight-out pop stuff" anymore.

― Salvador Saca (Mr. Xolotl), Friday, 13 August 2004 16:40 (twenty-two years ago)

the a camp record with the girl from the cardigans is pretty pop, so, not surprising

― kyle (akmonday), Friday, 13 August 2004 16:43 (twenty-two years ago)

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