Let’s talk Elliott Smith - Stabbed through the heart, and she’s to blame

[Internet War Criminal]

I stumbled unto this video and it just reminded me how Elliott Smith was a once in a generation talent and we’re unlikely to see anyone so raw, so real, and so talented today.

The juxtaposition between them being a goofy 90s breakfast morning show and how quickly they just shut the fuck up and they’re absolutely enraptured the second he starts playing is the kind of shit you only see in movies. It’s fucking art.

 

[dramamine]

i hadn't seen this video before, thank you for sharing. its fucking great.
in the current year, someone like elliott would have never picked up enough traction to be heard by anyone. he's so soft spoken and almost entrancing in all of his music, and we live in an age of 'who can self-immolate on social media the loudest and most gregariously', whatever it takes to please the algorithm. i agree we're never getting someone that can even come close to him ever again

 

[Axiom.]

You can do it if you want to be like me.
I wouldn't need a hero if I wasn't such a zero, if I wasn't such a zero.
Good to go....

 

[Mikoyan]

Back in the mid 2000s a place near me put on a movie night where they played the documentaries about Smith and Nick Drake. Both were ridiculous fucking talents and huge losses.

The reaction is really a thing with Smith. He had such a voice and a playing style. (And pulling those both off at once was another thing.)

 

[SofondaCox]

He looks so out of place and almost mortified by the end.
Host is a pure twat.
Smith was such a unique talent, a great American poet.

We will never know how he died.

From a Basement on a Hill should have been released without modifications from well intended 'friends'. It was his suicide note.
How dare they edit his fucking suicide note. The entitlement of these hipsters is breathtaking.

He sang his death song and went home a hero.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LmoPKlWDKRE&list=RDLmoPKlWDKRE&start_radio=1

 

[Internet War Criminal]

We will never know how he died.

From a Basement on a Hill should have been released without modifications from well intended 'friends'. It was his suicide note.
How dare they edit his fucking suicide note.

Elliott Smith Didn’t Kill Himself

 

[hesaback]

Not listened to his stuff for years but I did see him live a couple of times. I think the last time was in 1998