It is hard to imagine that - with just a guitar and his voice - that a person can evoke such feeling with songs like " Between the Bars" and " Angeles", which is my favorite song on the album. Stripped down to mostly just an acoustic guitar, Smith whispers his intelligent lyrics with a soft voice. That very day, I decided to download it.Ĭoming out of the post-grunge era, this album is considered by many to be the quintessential Elliott Smith album. (I think I scored around 40.) Elliott Smith's third album, released in 1997 - " Either/ Or" - was included on that list. In my boredom, I was cataloging how many I owned or had owned. Being laid up in bed after leg surgery this summer, I was reviewing EW's July issue of " 100 Greatest Albums of All Time".
I always had the intention of exploring his music further, but I always had other music that I wanted to get. And of course, " Needle in the Hay" from " The Royal Tenenbaums", which was set ironically to an attempted suicide scene. Previous to this, the only music I had from Elliott Smith was the soundtrack to "Good Will Hunting".
Elliott Smith is an admittedly huge influence on one of my favorite bands, Silversun Pickups. All of them were a huge influence on artists that followed.
None of them received the appreciation they deserved until they were gone. His tale is one that is all too common - the tortured artist haunted by drugs and depression, capable of making exquisite music, and then taken from us when they are too young. At that point, I went and checked out his music, which I found haunting and achingly beautiful. I had never even heard about Elliott Smith until his untimely death in 2003.
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