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Birds in Hell wrote:I like his self-titled one, Either/Or and From a Basement on a Hill quite a lot.

I've never much cared for his two major label records (XO and Figure 8).

New Moon has some great stuff on it, I really like this one in particular:

The paranoia on that one is perhaps at an all-time high as far as Elliott Smith songs go.

My new favourite Youtube video:

Second song, Independence Day with Elliott on vocals plus Jon Brion and Brad Mehldau on organ. Crazy.

I love this guy so much. In my opinion he is one of the most underrated songwriters ever. What I love about his music is the combination of sweet almost simple vocal melodies on the surface and the sometimes weird and never 08/15 harmonies lying underneath.

This is really painful to watch. Although he is so wasted I love this version to death.

https://soundcloud.com/tony-lash/heatmi ... n-brothers

Tony Lash posted Heatmisers version of Christian Brothers. I wonder how many other Heatmiser versions of Elliott solo songs exist.

Ten years today since Elliott's unfortunate demise.

RIP

http://pitchfork.com/features/articles/ ... ott-smith/

A sad story.

zeb wrote:http://pitchfork.com/features/articles/9246-elliott-smith/

A sad story.

Thanks zeb - this was quite affecting (albeit a total formatting nightmare to read via iPhone).

It looks great on a desktop but I can imagine on-the-fly mobile reformatting would fuck with it big time.

I remember the day it happened, then the autopsy report being leaked some months later. I haven't really listened to him since. Feeling depressed as fuck isn't really something I actively seek out.

Great read:

http://www.spin.com/articles/elliott-sm ... ary-death/

The Jeff Buckley thread made me think of Elliott. Anyone listened to him lately? Doc and I listened to some of XO and From a Basement a couple weeks ago.

Chloe wrote:The Jeff Buckley thread made me think of Elliott. Anyone listened to him lately? Doc and I listened to some of XO and From a Basement a couple weeks ago.

Yes...actually. A couple of weeks ago I was listening to quite a bit of him. I downloaded higher quality versions of his records. I'm hoping to get him to being an artist whose work I know, instead of know of.

Gods' Die wrote:

Chloe wrote:The Jeff Buckley thread made me think of Elliott. Anyone listened to him lately? Doc and I listened to some of XO and From a Basement a couple weeks ago.

Yes...actually. A couple of weeks ago I was listening to quite a bit of him. I downloaded higher quality versions of his records. I'm hoping to get him to being an artist whose work I know, instead of know of.

Do you have any favorites yet?

It's a shame he didn't get the opportunity to finish From a Basement. There are some really great songs on that album, would have been nice to hear them finished from his perspective.

Chloe wrote:

Gods' Die wrote:

Chloe wrote:The Jeff Buckley thread made me think of Elliott. Anyone listened to him lately? Doc and I listened to some of XO and From a Basement a couple weeks ago.

Yes...actually. A couple of weeks ago I was listening to quite a bit of him. I downloaded higher quality versions of his records. I'm hoping to get him to being an artist whose work I know, instead of know of.

Do you have any favorites yet?

The more ornate stuff for sure...XO is my favorite thus far, and I'm a fan of him taking full advantage of the studio as opposed to the earlier sparser stuff.

Chloe wrote:The Jeff Buckley thread made me think of Elliott. Anyone listened to him lately? Doc and I listened to some of XO and From a Basement a couple weeks ago.

I still listen to his stuff quite a bit.

I just listened to Angeles on repeat for a good 30 minutes. Can't get enough of this one.
Roman Candle is a gem, too. Loving it today!

I could probably do Alameda on repeat for that long.