#elliotsmith

Hold Music #6

For a certain someone - or a few of them, but that one has been nearly 6 years.

At least he can't stalk me on FB anymore (true story, if someone tells you they have a secret account to spy on old school friends don't assume they're not using it on you, too)

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I was sticking up for my friend
When there's nothing much to defend
It's a lost fight
It's a lost fight
Cause when I talk to you on the phone
Well it's just like being alone
It's not half right

youtube.com/watch?v=tCJsO-vBa_0

#elliotsmith #heatmiser #indie #music

2026-01-27

I just found out that #BradMehldau made a record with songs from #ElliotSmith.

Here's a short "behind the scenes". Song starts at 2:00:

youtube.com/watch?v=9eZfHf27L9c

#DanielRossen #ChrisThile #FelixMoseholm #MattChamberlain #ClipRecs

Dawn Tåke 🌙 :sparkletrans:Tourma@tech.lgbt
2025-01-18

Maaaan, a song reminded me of a different one in a video game today, but I cannot remember what game.

This was the song that reminded me:
m.youtube.com/watch?v=HM5Oo2rY

#music #TourmaListens #ElliotSmith #VideoGames

2024-12-14

Elliott Smith- Trouble (Jon Brion)

youtube.com/watch?v=GPtowuM9c5

Here's the face of trouble
It's the face I wear

#ElliotSmith #Trouble #Folk #Agitation #Despair #Empathy

2024-11-21

On this day 9 years ago. Yes, 2013 looks like the last time there was a #podcast episode on the 21st of November.

edinburghman.com/edinburgh-man

It consisted of all live tracks pulled from the live music archive at archive.org.

Some #Fugazi #KristinHersh #ElliotSmith amongst others.

I also waffle on about some gigs I had been to including #Low 😢 and #EurosChilds. I didn't end up going to see Shellac. Anyway, Euros is playing in a couple of weeks at the Wee Red Bar in Edinburgh. Cool.

Elliot Smith, not well known as a tagger, nevertheless left his mark outside Death Valley Junction, California.

#BelieveInFilm #BlackAndWhite #ElliotSmith

Black and white photograph by Wilson Shook. A desert scene. In the foreground, a clump of low scrub brush emerges from dry earth. A little further out and to the right, an abandoned brick and stone structure, whitewashed and weathered, with two doorways and two large windows all open to the elements. Its shape is abrupt and angular against the organic desert setting, but this seems like the right place for it. Along the longer wall, between a door and a window, in simple capital letters, someone has spray painted the name ELLIOT SMITH. There is no other graffiti on the building. Some low mountains line the horizon, beneath a grey sheet of clouds.
Imbibe Coffee RoastersImbibeCoffeeRoasters@mastodon.ie
2024-01-21

Today I shall mostly be drinking this and listening to #ElliotSmith #musicandcoffee #drinkgoodcoffee

250 gram bag Kenya Karinga AB coffee
2023-09-30

Also tonight is the Harvest Moon, AND it's a #SuperMoon. So here is a super #ElliotSmith cover of #NeilYoung 's #HarvestMoon.

youtu.be/DI8nc62CgPg

2023-03-10

#NeilYoung original previously mentioned, but I HAVE to mention the #ElliotSmith cover of #HarvestMoon. Lucky enough to see him do it live, at St. Andrew’s Hall in Detroit back in ‘98

#SongsOrMoviesAboutTheMoon#HashtagGames

youtu.be/DI8nc62CgPg

#ElliotSmith, #Berlin, #BeeGees, #Wilco, #RufusWainwright, #Portishead, #James, #SoftBoys, #XTC, #Buzzcocks, #RaylandBaxter, #SydBarrett, #SiouxieAndTheBanshees, #AndyShauf and more in this week's 25 Songs for this Week playlist! If you use #Spotify and dig it, maybe consider following it to stay in the loop. It changes weekly. Thanks!

open.spotify.com/playlist/7fyu

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This is Elliott Smith, the loneliest man in our vast and densely populated world.
And this song is about loneliness in the night street and life between bars, from bar to bar and from bar to bar. That's how Elliott Smith lived. He was dragging his guitar here and there, singing in smoky rooms for ten people, getting depressed for a long time and not singing anything to anybody. In this clip, you'll see him on some fledu with curtains completely covering the window. It's better that way, it's more peaceful for his tormented soul - with the window closed, hiding in the warm kitchen of a cheap apartment from the unbearable world.
He worked in a bakery with a bachelor's degree in philosophy. He wrote songs for himself. He was literally dragged to the limelight by the ears of friends and producers. Blessed country America, where the loner Elliot Smith, forever wandering the fringes and margins of life, found himself needed on labels and even in show business. But he was incorrigible, this quiet man with the strained, sickly face that so clearly betrayed his constant, unrelenting, enduring bewilderment of life.
He had, after all, managed to be dragged into the big game and sent on a concert tour. But the stammering quiet loner couldn't stand the crowds, the incessant noise and stress, the concert conveyor belt, the life in plain sight. He recharged his batteries by constantly listening to sixties music and singing harmonic, fun, life-loving Beatles songs to his guitar. But in the end, that didn't help either. No one knows how this quiet man managed to stab himself twice in the chest in a fit of nighttime despair.
(From Russian, with deepl.com)

Elliot Smith on Pirate Radio Franceska:

https://franceska.su/component/k2/item/1953-kogda-odin

#music #ElliotSmith #loneliness #одиночество #музыка

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