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stop wetting yourself. this is the real thing.
there's a whole album worth of unreleased elliott smith songs being spread on the net under the name of "Basement II." you can find the torrent here:
http://isohunt.com/torrents.php?ihq=elliott smith&op=and&sourceid=Mozilla-search
(scroll down a little)
most of it is demos and acoustic, lo-fi stuff, maybe what elliott had in mind for basement before he died. a lot of these i think were considered for basement, but didnt make it on because of his family's decision. it was supposed to be a 2 disk album, so that would explain it.
if you haven't heard elliott smith before, i'd recommend you don't judge his music on this. while it's not bad, it's not the best he can do. do a search, he's been mentioned in a lot of music recommendation threads before.
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mrmin123
Korea (South)2971 Posts
I consider Basement II to be more of an album for those avid fans that need to have every single one of his demos and bootlegs... that said, it's pretty good. The only reason I didn't keep it was because I originally got them in m4a format, which meant that it was a listen-once-and-toss deal for me ;d
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Who the fuck is Elliot Smith?
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mrmin123
Korea (South)2971 Posts
On October 21 2005 00:14 SweeTLemonS[TPR] wrote:
Who the fuck is Elliot Smith?
a deceased singer/songwriter (lol vague)
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a pretty well known one, and one that i know quiet a few TLiquidians listen to.
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Canada9720 Posts
cool, i'll dl this when i get home. thanks camoot 
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i love you for posting this (however old it is) but you forgot confusion. HOW COULD YOU FORGET CONFUSION? 22 live songs by him, just released about when BOAH 2 was. fucking GREAT, let me tell you.
by fucking great i mean i like it (and i'd send it to you), but of course check out XO or Either/Or or something else first.
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On October 21 2005 00:14 SweeTLemonS[TPR] wrote:
Who the fuck is Elliot Smith?
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elliot smith = depressed mellow acoustic type music
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and, off the top of my head, the best songwriter in the last decade
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Canada9720 Posts
it's hard to verify that kind of claim, but yeah he's pretty great
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there are a lot of songwriters that are better than elliott smith
lyrically he's not bad, though I do find his songs tend to sound very similar (not that that's a bad thing!)
leaving on that note, another good songwriter is ben gibbard
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Red Hot Chili Peppers- Best lyrics ever.
lol^^
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Canada9720 Posts
On October 30 2005 23:01 ml1710 wrote:
there are a lot of songwriters that are better than elliott smith
lyrically he's not bad, though I do find his songs tend to sound very similar (not that that's a bad thing!)
leaving on that note, another good songwriter is ben gibbard
are you saying ben gibbard's a better songwriter then elliott smith, or are you just making a vague cop out and saying 'there exists better songwriters'
geek
anyway i listened to some of these unrealeased tracks, and there's some pretty good stuff. elliott's early material all sounds the same, but after he got signed to a bigger label, he was able to use a lot of different sounds in his material that some people liken to beatles production.
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On October 30 2005 21:59 OppositeDay wrote:
THRICE > ellito whatever
not even a thrice fan should agree with that statement. the saviors of screamo- congratufuckalations.
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On October 30 2005 23:01 ml1710 wrote:
there are a lot of songwriters that are better than elliott smith
lyrically he's not bad, though I do find his songs tend to sound very similar (not that that's a bad thing!)
leaving on that note, another good songwriter is ben gibbard
lyrically he's great. musically he recorded almost all of the stuff on his own and did great work. bled white doesn't sound like a distorted reality which doesn't sound like pretty (ugly). of course similar, but he does an excellent job of having a well-flowing album. he has great songs (much more than most) but elliott smith's cd's as a whole are where he really shines.
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i know about confusion, but i never bothered to get it because the quality tends to be kinda bad in live recordings. i have a few songs from it, including flowers for charlie and a few others.
his songs don't sound similar the way some bands sound similar (interpol jumps to mind...). if you compare his earliest work (roman candle) to his last album (from a basement on the hill), they're so different it's funny. but yes. i wish he wrote some songs that weren't all so bleeding mellow and emo. he has great lyrics though (i'm never gonna know you now, but i'm gonna love you anyhow).
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steven wilson > elliot smith
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