{"product_id":"sparklehorse-its-a-wonderful-life-cd-used","title":"Sparklehorse \/ It's a Wonderful Life - CD (Used)","description":"\u003cp\u003e \u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Sparklehorse\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Limited Edition\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003cb\u003eRelease Date:\u003c\/b\u003e 08-28-2001\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003cb\u003eDetails:\u003c\/b\u003e Product Description\n\n \nThe 3rd album from the late Mark Linkous' Sparklehorse, It's A Wonderful Life, was the first to be recorded in a commercial studio with a full band. Recorded and released in 2001, after Linkous' near-fatal overdose in a London hotel room, the album is a beautiful and fragile exploration of somber themes. Featuring guest appearances from PJ Harvey, Tom Waits, and Vic Chesnutt, It's A Wonderful Life is a singer-songwriter classic.\n\n\n Amazon.ca\n\n\n Like Neil Young on the finer moments of\n Tonight's the Night, Sparklehorse leader Mark Linkous nails the lonesome-man directs to the wall on this third long-player. Along with his kindred contemporaries (and guest musicians) Mercury Rev and Grandaddy, Linkous makes little secret of his worship for the Neil Young vibe, and he takes it in a direction that Young has never fully realized. \nIt's a Wonderful Life's sweet melodies sound as if they were recorded on corroded tape, with inherent fragility both lyrically and musically; yet this is the least psychotic, and most cohesive Sparklehorse album to date. Linkous and his mates also benefit from appearances by Tom Waits, Cardigans crooner Nina Persson, and the most effectively used guest of all, PJ Harvey, who bites hard on one of the CD's few static rockers, \"Piano Fire.\" Other highlights include the almost-fit-for-radio \"King of Nails,\" the piano ballad \"Sea of ​​Teeth,\" and the hidden bonus track (eight minutes into track 13), \"Morning Hollow.\" Linkous moans on the title track, \"I'm a bog of poison frogs \/ It's a wonderful life \/ It's a wonderful life.\" Get the feeling that this might not be for everybody? Thank God for that.\n --Chris Paul Carter\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003cb\u003eUPC:\u003c\/b\u003e 724353470920\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003cb\u003eEAN:\u003c\/b\u003e 0724353470920\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003cb\u003eLanguages:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003cb\u003eBinding:\u003c\/b\u003e Audio CD\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003cb\u003eItem Condition:\u003c\/b\u003e New\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"IDshop","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44845745012995,"sku":"BU-940O-HBYJ","price":30.0,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0030\/9765\/7390\/files\/51s2JT1nieL_a0c2101a-e8af-415e-8f85-414c7602892a.jpg?v=1710470024","url":"https:\/\/idshop.ca\/en\/products\/sparklehorse-its-a-wonderful-life-cd-used","provider":"ID Shop.ca","version":"1.0","type":"link"}