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* SurrealMusicVideo: The music video for "Someday I Will Treat You Good" involves lots of odd vintage toys, Mark Linkous playing guitar in a chicken mask, and a lip syncing Mark puppet being controlled by a woman.

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* SurrealMusicVideo: The music video for "Someday I Will Treat You Good" involves lots of odd vintage toys, Mark Linkous playing guitar in a sparkly suit and a chicken mask, and a lip syncing Mark puppet being controlled by a woman.
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* SurrealMusicVideo: The music video for "Someday I Will Treat You Good" involves lots of odd vintage toys, Mark Linkous playing guitar in a chicken mask, and a lip syncing Mark puppet being controlled by a woman.
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* SpokenWordInMusic: Vic Chesnutt was also meant to appear on ''Good Morning Spider'' but couldn't make it - so Vic's answering machine message apology was incorporated into "Sunshine".
** Similarly, an answering machine message from Mark Linkous' mother, in which she recounts a dream she had about him, appears in "Spirit Ditch". Mark had left a space in the song for a guitar solo, then decided he didn't want one - he went home, checked his messages, and found it fit perfectly into the song.
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** "Someday I Will Treat You Good" also includes the lyric "She's whispering like [[Franchise/TheAddamsFamily Morticia]] now"

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2001 saw the release of the far more collaborative album, ''It's a Wonderful Life'', reported to be Linkous' first substance-free production (as well as his most "normal" to date, with a notable lack of [[NightmareFuel unsettling songs]] [[MinisculeRocking less than a minute long]]). Following this was a 5-year hiatus, at the end of which ''Dreamt for Light Years in the Belly of a Mountain'' was released (the title track being his longest song, at a whopping [[EpicRocking 10:35 minutes]], though it was a relaxing, melancholy track true to the band's usual style). The band's last album was ''Dark Night of the Soul'' - featuring appearances from many different guest vocalists - originally recorded (and released on the internet) in 2009, but only officially released in 2010 due to legal difficulties. Sadly, 2010 was also the year of Mark Linkous' [[DrivenToSuicide suicide]] - he shot himself in the heart, without leaving a suicide note. As such, ''Dark Night of the Soul'' was dedicated to his memory.

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2001 saw the release of the far more collaborative album, ''It's a Wonderful Life'', reported to be Linkous' first substance-free production (as well as his most "normal" to date, with a notable lack of [[NightmareFuel unsettling songs]] [[MinisculeRocking less than a minute long]]). Following this was a 5-year hiatus, at the end of which ''Dreamt for Light Years in the Belly of a Mountain'' was released (the title track being his longest song, at a whopping [[EpicRocking 10:35 minutes]], though it was a relaxing, melancholy track true to the band's usual style). The band's last album was ''Dark Night of the Soul'' - Soul'', featuring appearances from many different guest vocalists - vocalists, was originally recorded (and released on the internet) in 2009, but only officially released in 2010 due to legal difficulties. Sadly, 2010 was also the year of Mark Linkous' [[DrivenToSuicide suicide]] - he shot himself in the heart, without leaving a suicide note. As such, ''Dark Night of the Soul'' was dedicated to his memory.
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In 2023, ''Bird Machine'', an album Linkous was working on [[DiedDuringProduction before his suicide]], was released, finished by his brother and sister-in-law who were archiving his work.



* ClusterFBomb: "I Fucked It Up" from ''Bird Machine'' has the f-bomb sung three times in each chorus in an [[MinisculeRocking under 2-minute track]].



* MinimalisticCoverArt: A few of their albums, most notably [[http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_yXdZEpPC11k/TT8OgICjyzI/AAAAAAAAAH0/IEPf_PQYivY/s400/sparklehorse-good-morning-spider.jpg Good Morning Spider.]] Also, [[http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/a/a8/Dark_Night_Final.jpg Dark Night of the Soul]].

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* MinimalisticCoverArt: A few of their albums, most notably [[http://3.''[[http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_yXdZEpPC11k/TT8OgICjyzI/AAAAAAAAAH0/IEPf_PQYivY/s400/sparklehorse-good-morning-spider.jpg Good Morning Spider.]] Spider]]''. Also, [[http://upload.''[[http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/a/a8/Dark_Night_Final.jpg Dark Night of the Soul]].Soul]]''.
** The posthumous release ''[[https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/3/37/Sparklehorse_-_Bird_Machine.jpg Bird Machine]]'' takes this even further, with just a scribbling of the album title on the cover.
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* ''Bird Machine'' (2023) (posthumous release)

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