Elliott smith biography and discography blogspot

Clicka qua per la versione Italiana Elliott Smith, Heatmiser 's Dallas-born singer and songwriter, emerged in the s as one of the most authentic voices of his generation from the moment he started his solo career with the subdued Roman Candle Cavity Search, Smith's characters are misfits consumed with a passion, that can be literal alcohol and drug excesses or metaphorical.

Elliott Smith Kill Rock Stars, focused on heroin addiction. Suddenly, the bouncing music-hall rhythms that had always propelled his ballads come to the forefront Pictures of Me , Alameda. This transitional work lacks the firm hand of the earlier albums, despite Angeles and Between the Bars. Low-key arrangements of violins, reeds and keyboards in the tradition of the Beach Boys and Big Star enhance the overall delivery of Xo Dreamworks, Bled White and Baby Britain may invest too much in the melodic hooks rather than the story and the magnetism, but elsewhere Smith finds again his top form, albeit in a less depressed tone: the delicate, intimate, almost whispered, almost hypnotic, barely strummed lullaby of Sweet Adeline that soars in an electrifying refrain , the psychedelic melisma and classical piano figure of Waltz 1 , the a cappella vocal harmonies of I Didn't Understand.

The melodies are uniformly elegant and catchy, whether played with Nick Drake's abysmal apathy the gentle country ballad Tomorrow Tomorrow , and especially the rustic, domestic pathos of Waltz 2 or accompanied by a more commercial arrangement Bottle Up And Explode , Independence Day. In the meantime, Smith had relocated to Los Angeles and released the single Happiness All that is left is a bunch of imitations of the Beatles and the Beach Boys bands that are not exactly Beethoven , with not even the avant-retro look and feel of Jellyfish or the Posies.

Released on Portland-based Cavity Search, the

Elliot Smith committed suicide in october at age The album is an exercise in necrophilia that hardly sheds light on the artist's ultimate decision or on his creative status before dying. It is divided more or less equally between the over-produced Smith of the late period Coast To Coast and the spartan Smith of the early days Let's Get Lost. Few of the songs sound essential, although King's Crossing and A Fond Farewell may have enduring power because of their lyrics, while Twilight and Pretty repeat popular Elliott Smith rites.

It is impossible to tell if Smith would have approved the sequencing: Shooting Star has been moved to a position to which most critics don't even get in fact, most reviews did not mention it , despite being Smith's favorite. An Introduction to Elliott Smith is a career retrospective. Either Or.