Elliott Smith

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fuuuuuck yea

17 years today :frowning:

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RIP

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18 years this week since his death. RIP big man

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is the HGATR still in existence? idk

just went to listen to ‘Satellite’ and saw some bs about the original being buried in tape hiss

then I realise that 25th anniversary version of the s/t is some horrible loud + sanitised remix/remaster that purged the dusky hush of the original

fuck that. that mindset can fuck off.

oh they did the same to ‘Good to Go’. ugh.

I guess the whole thing will be like this.

that’s weird, the original album is a bit lo-fi but hardly ‘buried in tape hiss’ lo-fi

haven’t heard the remaster

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I’d never heard this outtake before, it’s very good

from the FABOTH sessions, on disc 4 of the Grand Mal fan box set you can find on Soulseek. It’s a great set of outtakes, but has an awful name (obviously).

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I mean I just tried A-B’ing

and

and I can barely hear any difference.

Some nice pictures there

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19 years today :frowning:

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Very deliberately haven’t listened to his music in years because it’s just too sad.

I’ve got Either/Or on now though, and it really is a perfect album

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God, just relistened to Figure 8, and it’s a much stronger album than I remember. I have no idea why I had been so down on it previously.

While I’m here, this p4k article on his teenage musical output is genuinely shocking

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It was my introduction to him, so I’ll always be really fond of it even though I can see why the sheen of it probably turned people off it at the time. Such a good mix of styles and despite it’s length doesn’t outstay its welcome at all.

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