Posts Tagged ‘Elliot Smith’

ELLIOT SMITH – ” Everything Reminds Me Of Her “

Posted: December 18, 2016 in MUSIC
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I can get a bit upset listening to Elliott Smith because I wish he had known a better time of life. I think he was amazingly talented, very clever, and understandably disappointed with much of what life had to offer him. Often, he sings with bitterness in every word, like he needed his songs to act as witness, judge and jury to one of the many injustices and pressures he perceived himself to be facing. But this one isn’t about alcohol, his parents, or the hollow soul of the record industry. Instead it’s a personal, honest song about missing a girl. I think he was a really vulnerable guy and I’ve got so much respect for the way he puts himself out there in this one.

From the awesome album Figure 8.
Lyrics:

I never really had a problem because of leaving
But everything reminds me of her this evening

So if I seem a little out of it, sorry
But why should I lie?
Everything reminds me of her

The spin of the earth impaled a silhouette of the sun on the steeple
And I got to hear the same sermon all the time now from you people
Why are you staring into outer space, crying?
Just because you came across it, and lost it

Everything reminds me of her
Everything reminds me of her
Everything reminds me of her

JULIEN BAKER – ” Ballad of Big Nothing ” (Elliott Smith Cover)

Posted: April 4, 2016 in MUSIC
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Later this year, the Elliott Smith tribute album Say Yes! will be released. It’ll feature covers from Waxahatchee, Jesu/Sun Kil Moon, J. Mascis, Lou Barlow, Yuck, Amanda Palmer, Belly/the Breeders’ Tanya Donnelly, Swervedriver’s Adam Franklin, and Juliana Hatfield. Another contributor is best new band and creator of one of the best albums of last year Julien Baker. She took on Smith’s Either/Or track “Ballad Of Big Nothing,

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SETH AVETT and JESSICA LEA MAYFIELD – ” Sings Elliot Smith “

Posted: March 17, 2015 in MUSIC
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Elliott Smith’s all-too-brief career inspired a generation of artists taken by his piercing lyrics and delicate melodies. On this loving, hit-or-miss tribute, Seth Avett and Jessica Lea Mayfield draw largely from Smith’s 1997 breakthrough, Either/Or, and his posthumous work. Mayfield provides the highlights with her grunge rendition of “Roman Candle” and her elegant take on “Twilight.” But the real revelation is how well such deeply personal material lends itself to interpretation. You’re left marveling less at these adequate covers and more at Smith’s foolproof songbook.

Seth Avett & Jessica Lea Mayfield
Elliot Smith released five albums in his lifetime and died in 2003 from two stab wounds to the chest; he’d left a suicide note. His songs, which often dealt with depression and desperation, were beautiful and frequently quiet.

This album, by Jessica Lea Mayfield and The Avett Brothers‘ Seth Avett, was made over a four-year period with great love for the man and his songs. The production is lean, the harmonies are beautiful, and the words and melodies are kept at the center of all 12 songs. Hear “Somebody That I Used To Know”