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Whats Elliot Smith music like?

mattdinglemattdingle Posts: 180
edited December 2010 in Other Music
Hi anybody fill me in on Elliot Smith , whats his music like?
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  • mfc2006mfc2006 HTOWN Posts: 37,484
    In two words: tragically beautiful.

    He was an amazing songwriter & guitarist. Lyrically, it's quite dark...but it's beautiful music.

    One of my all time favorites. RIP

    You can't really go wrong with any of his records....they're all great in my opinion. The first 2 are pretty stripped down, then he has a band for every other LP. His early stuff w/ Heatmiser is pretty fucking good as well.
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  • Jerome230Jerome230 Posts: 903
    Elliott Smith's music is tragically beautiful(edit: someone beat me to it!^), haunting at times. Music that hopes for the best but expects the worst.

    I highly recommend this new compilation that came out called An Introduction To Elliott Smith to get you started.
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  • jshinjshin Posts: 1,759
    Like an angel falling through infinite panes of glass.
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  • small_my_tablesmall_my_table Posts: 90
    Absolutely brilliant.
    Jerome230 made a great suggestion, I might also pick up either Elliott Smith or Either/Or. Both are amazing and would be great starting points.
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  • Tremor ChrisTremor Chris Posts: 231
    Very underrated music as far as I'm concerned. Very brilliant song writer and musician. And whoever mentioned Heatmiser, thanks. Great band and 1 of the 1st bands I ever saw play live!
  • mookeywrenchmookeywrench Posts: 5,948
    It's emo without the cliches.
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  • mattdinglemattdingle Posts: 180
    An Introduction To Elliott Smith it is so. Is it a best of?
  • mfc2006mfc2006 HTOWN Posts: 37,484
    mattdingle wrote:
    An Introduction To Elliott Smith it is so. Is it a best of?

    "On November 2nd Kill Rock Stars will release An Introduction to...Elliott Smith on CD and 180 gram vinyl. The album features fourteen tracks compiled from all seven of Elliott Smith's albums (including his albums on Geffen): Roman Candle, Elliott Smith, Either/Or, XO, Figure 8, From A Basement on the Hill, and New Moon. An Introduction to... is, as the title suggests, intended as an introduction to one of the greatest songwriters of our era. We hope this will enable new generations to learn about Elliott's music by providing a pathway for people to delve more deeply into his immensely satisfying catalog."


    so...you can pay $12.99 for that or score a few of his albums (used) on amazon for the same price. his albums are all available on vinyl as well.....i just need to pick up Figure 8 & New Moon on vinyl to round out my collection.
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  • smarcheesmarchee Windsor, Ontario Posts: 14,539
    tragically beautiful is an apt description

    one of my favourite artists ever, one of the most underrates lyricists

    only listen to though when I'm in the right mood, some of the music has some dark memories attached
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  • pjfan021pjfan021 Posts: 684
    sad...very sad to me but like everyone said, very beautiful. I like figure 8 a lot.
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