10 Great Musicians That Are Slowly Being Forgotten

2. Sparklehorse

Sparklehorse were technically a band, but really it was Mark Linkous. Despite never having the biggest following or ever selling the most records, it always seems as if Sparklehorse are every musician€™s favourite musician. A theory emphasised by the people willing to contribute to Linkous€™ work, a list that includes: Tom Waits, PJ Harvey, James Mercer, Iggy Pop, Danger Mouse and Black Francis to name just a few. Sparklehorse were a fuzzy dream, one that you don€™t want to wake up from because it€™s better spending time with them than having to deal with the real world of death and taxes. Across their entire body of work, they have a collection of songs that flicker between being furious and fragile; its music to play when it€™s raining heavily outside until your remember that he€™s dead. And that you miss him. Linkous lived a life full of struggle and misfortune that permeated into every chord he ever wrote. Whilst touring with Radiohead in the nineties he passed out after taking a combination of alcohol, heroin and Valium and lay unconscious with his legs trapped beneath his body. This caused his heart to stop and required Linkous to have surgery, dialysis and almost made him to lose both his legs. Linkous€™ pain unfortunately wouldn€™t end there and in 2010 he committed suicide by shooting himself in the heart. In a way that seems fitting because that€™s what he sang with. Not his brain or his vocal chords but his beating heart. Linkous€™ music had that shadowy quality that you can€™t explain, that resonance that lingers long after a song has finished. Unfortunately it seems that these lingering qualities are waning, as Sparklehorse seem to be slowly fading ever so gently from people€™s memories.