requisite new elliott smith album post
this weekend was not spent moving afterall. i guess my new apartment wasn't ready quite yet so....
...instead, i spent most of it in my studio listening to the new elliott smith album "from a basement on the hill" over and over again. a very badass and beautiful friend of mine in LA was able to send me an advance copy of it.
it's really great to hear a bunch of new elliott songs again. i think the album is really good...maybe a bit scattered and slightly uneven in some spots, but it's good (it's unfinished afterall). the second song, 'let's get lost', is just super beautiful.
this is a photo that my friend alese took at the last show of his that i saw on 6/9/03 at Northsix in williamsburg. actually it was his last new york city show and third-to-last show ever. he was looking pretty rough by this time, but still sounded good save for some aborted songs (which he did all the time anyways). click HERE to download the show that he played there on 6/6/03 if you want.
the first concert i ever saw in new york was elliott smith at the Beacon Theater. it was during the 'figure 8' tour in 2000 with a full band in a huge, beautiful concert hall. it was really great. after that, he sort of disappeared for a few years. when he resurfaced in 2003, he was opening for the jon spencer blues explosion at the Bowery Ballroom. i was really excited to see him again even though it meant going to see the blues explosion. for these shows, it was just him sitting on a chair with an acoustic guitar. in the following months he played here quite a bit and always in really small venues. one of the shows was this "secret" show in the dungeon-like basement of this bar Lit. that was fun, weird one.
anyways...he played most of the songs on this new album at these shows so it's great to finally get a chance to hear the album versions...some of which are totally different sounding.
favorites so far:
let's get lost
king's crossing
fond farewell
memory lane
aww crap, nevermind. they are all really good.
maybe you should get it.
this weekend was not spent moving afterall. i guess my new apartment wasn't ready quite yet so....
...instead, i spent most of it in my studio listening to the new elliott smith album "from a basement on the hill" over and over again. a very badass and beautiful friend of mine in LA was able to send me an advance copy of it.
it's really great to hear a bunch of new elliott songs again. i think the album is really good...maybe a bit scattered and slightly uneven in some spots, but it's good (it's unfinished afterall). the second song, 'let's get lost', is just super beautiful.
this is a photo that my friend alese took at the last show of his that i saw on 6/9/03 at Northsix in williamsburg. actually it was his last new york city show and third-to-last show ever. he was looking pretty rough by this time, but still sounded good save for some aborted songs (which he did all the time anyways). click HERE to download the show that he played there on 6/6/03 if you want.
the first concert i ever saw in new york was elliott smith at the Beacon Theater. it was during the 'figure 8' tour in 2000 with a full band in a huge, beautiful concert hall. it was really great. after that, he sort of disappeared for a few years. when he resurfaced in 2003, he was opening for the jon spencer blues explosion at the Bowery Ballroom. i was really excited to see him again even though it meant going to see the blues explosion. for these shows, it was just him sitting on a chair with an acoustic guitar. in the following months he played here quite a bit and always in really small venues. one of the shows was this "secret" show in the dungeon-like basement of this bar Lit. that was fun, weird one.
anyways...he played most of the songs on this new album at these shows so it's great to finally get a chance to hear the album versions...some of which are totally different sounding.
favorites so far:
let's get lost
king's crossing
fond farewell
memory lane
aww crap, nevermind. they are all really good.
maybe you should get it.
posted by anthony at 10:29 AM
1 Comments:
Yes, the new Elliott Smith album is...enchanting? I think I can safely say that(besides, I'm sure every critic will call it hauntingly bebautiful and say things like ...giving us a glimpse into a troubled soul and ...a stark reminder of what this mans pain. Or smoething like that).
Unfinished or not, it's still a good album and a stark reminder of what this musician could have accomplished in the years to come had he lived.
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