Mary.” When he inexplicably headlined over Mercury Rev in Detroit in 1999 in support of the album, the crowd left en masse following the Rev’s set, as Sparklehorse just didn’t hold the same cache with a US audience then. Mary’s hospital in the UK nursed him back to health, albeit in a wheelchair for months, as chronicled on Good Morning Spider’s scarred, opiated ballad “St. His US tour supporting Radiohead was derailed by an accidental Valium/anti-depressant overdose when he was clinically dead for minutes, but miraculously survived. Therefore a now recognized as brilliant album was ignored by most upon release, and Linkous and co. Fans of Palace and Smog would’ve obsessed over the album in droves if Drag City had released it. Serrated folk-rock that, in the words of a friend at the time, “sounded like an indie album released on a major label.” This was back when that distinction meant something. But aside from the limited run the album’s single “Someday I Will Treat You Good” had on the Billboard modern rock tracks chart, the album barely registered a blip on the radar of the then “indie” community that should’ve embraced it. The UK loved the album, and it charted highly on nearly all its publication’s year end lists. It’s easy to forget that Sparklehorse, born from the ruins of Mark Linkous’ failed “alt-rock” act Dancing Hoods, who, described by Peter Buck, a longtime supporter of Linkous as “a great live band that didn’t capture that sound on record,” were initially greeted with a shrug upon their Capitol major label debut, 1996’s Vivadixiesubmarinetransmissionplot. Good Morning Spider, Capitol Records 1998
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