Check out this rare live footage of Elliott's 1999 New Year's Eve performance at The Knitting Factory: th-cam.com/play/PL6KwzgIePF4Dy7347Om6Ijcsr4vh6JJjP.html
"I want to curse guitarists and all music by making finger movement on the frets the loudest thing ever on any instrument" - Steel String Acoustic Guitars since the Dawn of their Inception
If you ever learn the chords to an Elliott Smith song you open up a world of music. Shapes that don't appear in Mel Bay books, chromaticism that turns your ear upside down. Once you get over that hurdle you realize the songcraft involved and witness that he went to great (and often painful) lengths to perform them with equal temperament each and every time. No question that his contribution to songwriting and even his acoustic guitar technique will be around for generations.
Absolutely. It was when I went to play Angeles that I realised this. Then I listened more intently and heard the actual nuance in each song. People often dismiss his guitar skill, but it's because they haven't learned yet how much that man bent his fingers to get the most perfect subtle harmonies with each chords. I find it way way easier to play Elliot songs on the piano, because the chords he used on guitar are very difficult, not only that but his finger picking style for each song isn't easy either! It's really hard to describe, but when you said about the chromatics turning your ear upside down I knew what you meant. It takes a while to notice maybe, but it's that level of detail that makes his sound so colourful and unique and difficult to replicate.
Everything is exactly right When I walk around here drunk every night With an open container from 7-11 In St. Ides heaven I've been out haunting the neighbourhood And everybody can see I'm no good When I'm walking out between parked cars With my head full of stars High on amphetamines The moon is a light bulb breaking It'll go around with anyone But it won't come down for anyone You think you know what brings me down That I want those things you could never allow You see me smiling you think it's a frown Turned upside down ‘Cause everyone is a fucking pro And they all got answers from trouble they've known And they all got to say what you should and shouldn't do Though they don't have a clue High on amphetamines The moon is a light bulb breaking It'll go around with anyone But it won't come down for anyone And I won't come down for anyone
This is my favorite Elliott Smith song. I kept a shrine up in my room for about a year for him. I've lost a lot of people I've loved, but he is the only one I had a shrine to. Don't know why.
My fav for the last 15 years, but that could change at some point i guess lol. Its just so perfect. My neighbors know im no good. Loud girls and whatnot. And the walking out between cars. Madness.
@@Dani92670 I'm not that dude, but my best friend died in July 2016. It was the third anniversary where I really started to get over it. It never goes away, and even though I'm not over it, - and probably never will be - I guess it does get easier. I miss him so much. But nowadays I understand that he would rather I move on and live the best life I can live without being held back by losing him; to live the life he could've/should've lived.
Brilliant composition in the first place, and I do enjoy the live versions, but Rebecca Gates' harmonizing really sends this above and beyond into "indelible chills" territory. Definitely one of his best.
This song is EXACTLY the way I felt at UT in Texas, grad school. I literally walked down to Store 24, and got glares from the old ladies watering their lawns on my way back. The joy in this song is so perfect!
Elliot smiths genius compositions have the ability to make me feel like I’m floating, even though my feet are on the ground. Beautiful man, beautiful mind. R.I.P Elliot
This song has always been 'a favorite' from my favorite Elliott album. But if I'm honest with myself, I think it's my favorite ES song. Can't really choose, but this one has always stood out to me and never gets old.
My favorite is "XO" because for the first time he showed he could incorporate more instruments (played by him) than guitar into his songs. I'm aware that drums started happening on "Either/Or" but no keyboards until "XO".
Been in them st ides clouds before but you can't seem to find the ides on the liquor store shelves much anymore.... love what you brang to humanity Elliott..... much love and always may you rest among the gods!!
@@edhelvey6119 Steel Reserve is gross. I won’t touch any 40 anymore because the last 3rd always tastes like ass. With Steel Reserve, the whole thing tastes like ass.
my favorite part about this song is the backing vocals, when u intentionally try to listen for the higher notes idk shits just fucking BEAUTIFUL. adore the song
@Stinkyfinger lol right? You'd think the poetic bit would be the shit about the moon being a lightbulb breaking that will follow anyone but not coming down for anyone.
@@seanmatthewking A friend told me that was a reference to doing crack. When Elliott moved to New York he told Larry Crane that he was doing crack. My coworker's girlfriend was Larry's sister.
@@edhelvey6119 I guess it could be. I assumed it was a reference to amphetamines since the line right before is about being high on amphetamines. But obviously the song is about drinking too (“open container,” “St. Ides Heaven”), so it could be less about any one particular drug and more about the fact he’s getting f-ed up, and how people think he shouldn’t, but he won’t stop for anyone. I also read that someone said he was doing $1500 worth of heroin and crack a day for a period of time, in addition to a host of other things. Clearly he wasn’t afraid to mix and match.
i had a bad shroom trip a while ago and listening to say yes 50 times in a row (not exaggerating) was the only thing that kept me from freaking out so i could just coast thru the rest of it and come down elliott smith is so important to me and so many other people and his self titled alone is a testament to how much power art, even stripped back, can have on someone sorry if this is incoherent im very high v
‘cause everyone is a fucking pro, and they all got answers from troubles they’ve known and they all got to say what you should or shouldn’t do though they don’t have a clue
Everything is exactly right When I walk around here drunk every night With an open container from 7-11 In st. ides heaven I've been out haunting the neighborhood And everybody can see I'm no good When I'm walking out between parked cars With my head full of stars High on amphetamines The moon is a lightbulb breaking It'll go around with anyone But it won't come down for anyone You think you know what brings me down That I want those things you could never allow You see me smiling you think it's a frown Turned upside down 'Cause everyone is a fucking pro And they all got answers from trouble they've known And they all got to say what you should and shouldn't do Though they don't have a clue High on amphetamines The moon is a lightbulb breaking It'll go around with anyone But it won't come down for anyone And I won't come down for anyone
Ironic that his intervention was held at Rebecca Gates' place in Chicago. She sings backing vocals on this. The intervention inspired "Everybody Cares, Everybody Understands" and "I Didn't Understand".
I can't believe it took me until now to realize there's a woman providing vocals with Elliot! 😅 it's so eerie how seamlessly their faint voices merge together.
It seems excruciatingly apt that I'm listening to this song at a library in Phoenix while finishing my vodka drink - no malt liquor like St. Ides available here (not that I'd choose to drink it. I prefer PBR. It was good enough for Frank Booth in "Blue Velvet").
They serve vodka at your library? Or you were sneaking it? Lol I miss Phoenix...used to live there, now I'm in cold ass Canada. Great film btw... cheers man 🍻
That what I thought for years. The last couple listens, however, I hear a girl singing that whisper track. I could definitely be wrong, but it is really cool that this aspect of the song stood out to both of us. ✊
D Wat I think it’s him doing his high whispery voice but I could definitely be wrong. It’s one of my favorite aspects of the song. A really beautiful harmony
....and everybody can see I am no good(paranoid). When I'm walking out between parked cars(losing normal safe behavior) With my head full of stars(days awake) ......He is paranoid; you start thinking people care about you when they don't. With my head full of stars..... The stars and visuals start after you have not sleep for more then 3 or 4 days. Close your eyes. Stars. Open them; stars. Diiiiilated eyyyyessss. My eyes are dilated because I'm Highhhhhh on Ampetanminessss.............. It wont come down and go to sleep even with bottle after bottle of St Ides malt liqure...... because I'm highhhhh on Ampetaminessss. and I simply want to goooooo to sleeppppppp
Daniel Teer This is NOT A SONG ABOUT GETTING HIGH ON AMPHETAMINES!!!!!!!!!!!! This is after you cannot get high because you have been up and the effect stops. Your miserable and want to get some sleep so you can get up and get HIGH AGAIN, but you stop using and cannot sleep for another day or two. You drink liqueur hoping it will knock you out but it does not. Everyone is irritating because you want to sleep. And your waiting to final get some sleep.
Daniel Teer People listen to this song and say; He is talking about getting high and being happy. NOPE. He is talking about being miserable and wishing for happiness that only comes with sleep. It is a sad song.
Idk I found that on amphetamines, I didn't want to go to sleep. Even when I was miserably exhausted, I wanted to slam coffee or any kind of caffeine to keep me going and writing music. When I went to sleep and then woke up, is when I was miserable. Not from exhaustion or anything physical. But maybe that's just being used to mania and the similarity in how it feels for me. Thank God for being out of that insanity finally.
In the early 1990's we didn'y really smoke our meth. It was biker crank and you shot or snorted it. I think he is painting a picture of a life style and attitude many of us had in those days
I feel ya, but all things considered he managed to put out a ton of music, majority of which are bangers. Had he lived longer, maybe he would’ve gotten sober and started making pop music lol who knows
@@Miguel71jablonski that would be me. it's only been a month and i've stalled because i'm listening to certain ones over quite a bit & have so many more to get to. I wait til I am in the mood again to appreciate it and take it all in. I am dumb struck.
Danielle Marin dumb struck is the right word. When you’re in the mood that relates to these songs Elliott Smith will break your heart. This song is so hauntingly beautiful. Musical genius if I’ve ever heard one.
How's TH-cam going to destroy my post-Elliott Smith coital bliss by making me watch a Quibi commercial.... For future me reading, Quibi was this half-baked turd of an Internet TV streaming service that you paid a monthly subscription fee for almost crappy (sorry Reno911) TV when there's TH-cam and almost any other alternative.
![St. Ides Heaven Breakdown/LESSON! - Elliott Smith Project [Self-TItled]](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/P3DhX0OsD2Y/mqdefault.jpg)
Check out this rare live footage of Elliott's 1999 New Year's Eve performance at The Knitting Factory: th-cam.com/play/PL6KwzgIePF4Dy7347Om6Ijcsr4vh6JJjP.html
No.
@@josharpe5802 Your loss
"i want the loudest part of the mix to be me sliding my fingers across the strings.." - elliott smith
Where did he say that
@@levijessegonzalez3629 its a joke haha
@@scotttbeee2912 that is the only appropriate response tbh. You did the right thing
Mad Banana thank u for ur support.
"I want to curse guitarists and all music by making finger movement on the frets the loudest thing ever on any instrument" - Steel String Acoustic Guitars since the Dawn of their Inception
To this day... the chorus still gives me chills
Hell yeah I like stick man to good song
Of course it does
I used to hear this when the vyvanse peaked
@@Diegochox01
xD vyvanse... Had to look it up if anything cause i knew the name was somewhat familiar like i already encountered it but couldnt recall
@@Diegochox01 ROFLMAO
If you ever learn the chords to an Elliott Smith song you open up a world of music. Shapes that don't appear in Mel Bay books, chromaticism that turns your ear upside down. Once you get over that hurdle you realize the songcraft involved and witness that he went to great (and often painful) lengths to perform them with equal temperament each and every time. No question that his contribution to songwriting and even his acoustic guitar technique will be around for generations.
Absolutely. It was when I went to play Angeles that I realised this. Then I listened more intently and heard the actual nuance in each song. People often dismiss his guitar skill, but it's because they haven't learned yet how much that man bent his fingers to get the most perfect subtle harmonies with each chords.
I find it way way easier to play Elliot songs on the piano, because the chords he used on guitar are very difficult, not only that but his finger picking style for each song isn't easy either!
It's really hard to describe, but when you said about the chromatics turning your ear upside down I knew what you meant. It takes a while to notice maybe, but it's that level of detail that makes his sound so colourful and unique and difficult to replicate.
Yeah i have an Elliott Smith guitar songbook and his stuff is much more complex than it seems.
Everyone is a fucking pro, and they all got answers from trouble they know...
Everything is exactly right
When I walk around here drunk every night
With an open container from 7-11
In St. Ides heaven
I've been out haunting the neighbourhood
And everybody can see I'm no good
When I'm walking out between parked cars
With my head full of stars
High on amphetamines
The moon is a light bulb breaking
It'll go around with anyone
But it won't come down for anyone
You think you know what brings me down
That I want those things you could never allow
You see me smiling you think it's a frown
Turned upside down
‘Cause everyone is a fucking pro
And they all got answers from trouble they've known
And they all got to say what you should and shouldn't do
Though they don't have a clue
High on amphetamines
The moon is a light bulb breaking
It'll go around with anyone
But it won't come down for anyone
And I won't come down for anyone
I hope he found happiness wherever his soul is rn
Dead
he chillin in the tower of song
This is my favorite Elliott Smith song. I kept a shrine up in my room for about a year for him. I've lost a lot of people I've loved, but he is the only one I had a shrine to. Don't know why.
2:44 this ending with the other voice for behind is one of the most emotional and beautiful endings i ever heard.
Please do a cover of it, your eliott covers are the best
I come back to this song every time I'm so fucking done with everything.
My favorite Elliott Smith song right now.
key words, "right now"
Mines placeholder
Heatmiser's Christian Brothers has been my favourite for a long time now. Could never rank his songs though.
i don't think there's a fav. i LOVE THEM ALL
My fav for the last 15 years, but that could change at some point i guess lol. Its just so perfect. My neighbors know im no good. Loud girls and whatnot. And the walking out between cars. Madness.
i shouldn’t be crying at 5am listening to this...gonna havva beer i guess
Dude I do the same thing my friend I grew up with died in June 2017 his birthday was that month he was 29 going on 30 heroin man we were in a band to
@@jahsehonfroy6833 I'm sorry. That just plain sucks. 2 years later - does this get easier?
Me too man. Cheers. Hope it's better now
@@Dani92670 I'm not that dude, but my best friend died in July 2016. It was the third anniversary where I really started to get over it. It never goes away, and even though I'm not over it, - and probably never will be - I guess it does get easier. I miss him so much. But nowadays I understand that he would rather I move on and live the best life I can live without being held back by losing him; to live the life he could've/should've lived.
Whisky work better than beer
Brilliant composition in the first place, and I do enjoy the live versions, but Rebecca Gates' harmonizing really sends this above and beyond into "indelible chills" territory. Definitely one of his best.
The intervention that inspired "Everybody Cares, Everybody Understands" and "I Didn't Understand" was held at Rebecca's loft in Chicago. Nice irony.
This song is EXACTLY the way I felt at UT in Texas, grad school. I literally walked down to Store 24, and got glares from the old ladies watering their lawns on my way back. The joy in this song is so perfect!
Store 24, is that a liquor store?
I dunno if I'd call it "joy"... maybe like a defiant sort of satisfaction.. Anyway I liked your post!
@@j.b.8546 Thanks! A store like 7-11. They did have a beer cooler
The moon is a light bulb breaking
It'll go around with anyone
But it won't come down for anyone
And I won't come down for anyone
...
Sitting out under the stars. Drinking a bottle of St. Ides to this song.
This song alone makes his s/t my fav album
Because we LOVE YOU, Elliott!!
Love you elliott.
Elliot smiths genius compositions have the ability to make me feel like I’m floating, even though my feet are on the ground. Beautiful man, beautiful mind. R.I.P Elliot
song hits way too close to home. so beautiful and poignant. elliott is a musical genius.
This song has always been 'a favorite' from my favorite Elliott album. But if I'm honest with myself, I think it's my favorite ES song. Can't really choose, but this one has always stood out to me and never gets old.
My favorite is "XO" because for the first time he showed he could incorporate more instruments (played by him) than guitar into his songs. I'm aware that drums started happening on "Either/Or" but no keyboards until "XO".
@@edhelvey6119 theres drums on this song
Always and forever the most beautiful song ever written
One of my favorites of his.
elliott smith is honestly the only person whose ever there when nobody else is.
Been in them st ides clouds before but you can't seem to find the ides on the liquor store shelves much anymore.... love what you brang to humanity Elliott..... much love and always may you rest among the gods!!
I'm in Phoenix and there are no 7/11's or St. Ides but there are Circle K's and Steel Reserves (8 % alcohol).
@@edhelvey6119 hellyeah.... Tucson AZ here!!
@@edhelvey6119 Steel Reserve is gross. I won’t touch any 40 anymore because the last 3rd always tastes like ass. With Steel Reserve, the whole thing tastes like ass.
my favorite part about this song is the backing vocals, when u intentionally try to listen for the higher notes idk shits just fucking BEAUTIFUL. adore the song
"High on amphetamines"
This song is absolutely poetic and huanting. Elliott's lyrics and guitar playing are amazing.
@Stinkyfinger lol right?
You'd think the poetic bit would be the shit about the moon being a lightbulb breaking that will follow anyone but not coming down for anyone.
@@seanmatthewking A friend told me that was a reference to doing crack. When Elliott moved to New York he told Larry Crane that he was doing crack. My coworker's girlfriend was Larry's sister.
@@edhelvey6119 I guess it could be. I assumed it was a reference to amphetamines since the line right before is about being high on amphetamines. But obviously the song is about drinking too (“open container,” “St. Ides Heaven”), so it could be less about any one particular drug and more about the fact he’s getting f-ed up, and how people think he shouldn’t, but he won’t stop for anyone.
I also read that someone said he was doing $1500 worth of heroin and crack a day for a period of time, in addition to a host of other things. Clearly he wasn’t afraid to mix and match.
It took me a very long time to notice that line. I see you now
this song is so perfect ❤️❤️❤️
This song gives me intense chills just like any Elliott smith song. I’m so glad I found this treasure a couple years back.
I used to drink St ides with my old crack dealer. he got shot and killed in a drive by. this song is rough.
Kai Chita what's st ides? Are you still using drugs?
St ides is Malt liquor
2pac and dre did a commercial for st ides back in 1996 look it up on TH-cam
Kacee Blake fuck
@@jahsehonfroy6833 That would entail seeing Tupac and Dre. No thanks.
What a revelation it was to know I wasn’t alone
Man i fucking love this song
love you so much elliott, thanks for always being here. hope youre doing okay
One of my favs to play on geetar.
i had a bad shroom trip a while ago and listening to say yes 50 times in a row (not exaggerating) was the only thing that kept me from freaking out so i could just coast thru the rest of it and come down elliott smith is so important to me and so many other people and his self titled alone is a testament to how much power art, even stripped back, can have on someone sorry if this is incoherent im very high
v
try #3 rhubard/stone in focus both great tracks by Aphex Twin
RIP ELLIOTT
@@vico805 I listened to those earlier in the trip, actually! They helped a lot
The perfect song
This is the best song ever written about getting drunk on malt liquor and smoking meth.
Or snorting meth...that's what I used 2 do.
I counter with "Homies" - ICP
I used to have a few beers and listen to this song while an NA meeting was going on behind the bench I was sitting on in the park.
ROFLMAO
2:09- fun harmonies.
I Love to Play and sing along to this honey-pie of the genious Master !!!111337!
‘cause everyone is a fucking pro,
and they all got answers from troubles they’ve known
and they all got to say what you should or shouldn’t do
though they don’t have a clue
Everything is exactly right
When I walk around here drunk every night
With an open container from 7-11
In st. ides heaven
I've been out haunting the neighborhood
And everybody can see I'm no good
When I'm walking out between parked cars
With my head full of stars
High on amphetamines
The moon is a lightbulb breaking
It'll go around with anyone
But it won't come down for anyone
You think you know what brings me down
That I want those things you could never allow
You see me smiling you think it's a frown
Turned upside down
'Cause everyone is a fucking pro
And they all got answers from trouble they've known
And they all got to say what you should and shouldn't do
Though they don't have a clue
High on amphetamines
The moon is a lightbulb breaking
It'll go around with anyone
But it won't come down for anyone
And I won't come down for anyone
How can people dislike it ..
itll go around with anyone
but wont come down for anyone
my best friend told me she thinks of me when she hears this and i cry thinking about it often
she probably watched this video and saw your comment already but nice
Drugs are bad, mmkay.
@@seanmatthewking you're a weirdo. literally every single comment i see from you is some sanctimonious, contrarian bullshit. grow up.
@@seanmatthewking wtf are you talking about
I can say after a little incident today: this song is so good I feel of my bike
This is mixed a little differently than the version I have on CD. I like it. I think the vocals have an extra backing track in this version.
reminds me of the drunk dayz of my youth... respect elliott
You can't have drunk days anymore?
Ed Helvey oh, yes, you can. you can’t have drunk days like you were in your early twenties listening to this album again
@@waldenwonders I was 28 when this album was released.
Yes, as much as I can. Still keeping the dream alive.
Yes, I can. Still keeping the dream alive.
May be my favorite song ever. Describes me
Ironic that his intervention was held at Rebecca Gates' place in Chicago. She sings backing vocals on this. The intervention inspired "Everybody Cares, Everybody Understands" and "I Didn't Understand".
Brilliant
I can't believe it took me until now to realize there's a woman providing vocals with Elliot! 😅 it's so eerie how seamlessly their faint voices merge together.
Rebecca Gates
I miss him.
This song brings make memories of a counselor I used to go to. FUCK is this powerful!!
I love pullin this :)
This song is more addicting than amphetamines.
Radixxs Elliott Smith music is a good drug itself, if good drugs do exist.
Almost....
You haven't tried them then
Hop heads
Yeah, cause when Elliott's playing we're all thinkin bout UPPERS...
❤️
'They all gotta say what you should and shouldn't do; though they don't have a clue.'
too fucking good
So true with my paat and all other
with luck
Allow the love
fuckkkkkk dude. ive been there........
It seems excruciatingly apt that I'm listening to this song at a library in Phoenix while finishing my vodka drink - no malt liquor like St. Ides available here (not that I'd choose to drink it. I prefer PBR. It was good enough for Frank Booth in "Blue Velvet").
They serve vodka at your library? Or you were sneaking it? Lol
I miss Phoenix...used to live there, now I'm in cold ass Canada.
Great film btw... cheers man 🍻
@@j.b.8546 No, I snuck it in. You're the first person I've ever heard say that they either like or miss Phoenix. I miss Portland.
2pac and dre did a commercial for st ides back in 1996 look it up on TH-cam
And I won't come down for anyone
happy birthday buddy, we miss you dearly :'(
Awesome interface.
Oh man, when he hits that low open D chord in the verse
Great harmonies with the female vocalist, not sure who it is, though. Listened to this song a hundred times and just noticed it.
That what I thought for years. The last couple listens, however, I hear a girl singing that whisper track. I could definitely be wrong, but it is really cool that this aspect of the song stood out to both of us. ✊
D Wat I think it’s him doing his high whispery voice but I could definitely be wrong. It’s one of my favorite aspects of the song. A really beautiful harmony
I won't come down for anyone.......
A drunk knows
✨
this song perfectly captures what being high on stimulants feels like lmao
I relate to this song more than I should... but I'm not a kid anymore and luckily don't take amphetamines anymore.
This song is about me. The lustful amphetamine music, walking around the neighborhood knowing that everyone knows what I am.. ive been there
guys I'm the 3000th like. I know no one cares I just thought it was pretty cool
I think this is his most Alex G sounding song
wassam cuddy
....and everybody can see I am no good(paranoid).
When I'm walking out between parked cars(losing normal safe behavior)
With my head full of stars(days awake)
......He is paranoid; you start thinking people care about you when they don't.
With my head full of stars.....
The stars and visuals start after you have not sleep for more then 3 or 4 days.
Close your eyes. Stars. Open them; stars. Diiiiilated eyyyyessss.
My eyes are dilated
because
I'm Highhhhhh on Ampetanminessss..............
It wont come down and go to sleep even with bottle after bottle of St Ides malt liqure......
because I'm highhhhh on Ampetaminessss.
and I simply want to goooooo to sleeppppppp
Daniel Teer This is NOT A SONG ABOUT GETTING HIGH ON AMPHETAMINES!!!!!!!!!!!!
This is after you cannot get high because you have been up and the effect stops. Your miserable and want to get some sleep so you can get up and get HIGH AGAIN, but you stop using and cannot sleep for another day or two.
You drink liqueur hoping it will knock you out but it does not. Everyone is irritating because you want to sleep. And your waiting to final get some sleep.
Daniel Teer People listen to this song and say;
He is talking about getting high and being happy.
NOPE.
He is talking about being miserable and wishing for happiness that only comes with sleep.
It is a sad song.
This song goes both ways. Elliott knew how to do that with his lyrics.
+Hunter Teagarden Yep. Everyone's right!!!
Idk I found that on amphetamines, I didn't want to go to sleep. Even when I was miserably exhausted, I wanted to slam coffee or any kind of caffeine to keep me going and writing music. When I went to sleep and then woke up, is when I was miserable. Not from exhaustion or anything physical. But maybe that's just being used to mania and the similarity in how it feels for me. Thank God for being out of that insanity finally.
Rati over Kali! DONT LET THE FLAME DIE OUT!!!
yes this is BE(a)ST
Fuckin shit, the moon is a lightbulb breaking?
St Ides
I've known those people he sings of.
@Thaspacegoat Æ yeah but for those of us that havent gone down that road, this song can help sympathize with friends who did. I get it
Danny Mullen
danny mullen brought me here
that fuckin scene where danny climed up the scafolding lol. prolly the drunkest ive seen him other than fear and loathing
Who?
I think he's talking about smoking meth out of a lightbulb , in a really beautiful way .
+Victor Diaz yep
In the early 1990's we didn'y really smoke our meth. It was biker crank and you shot or snorted it. I think he is painting a picture of a life style and attitude many of us had in those days
not sure but i know he liked meth
Totally a lifestyle. Everyone can see I'm no good is saying I'm a drug user/alcoholic.
ummmmm not even close
female singer is Rebecca Gates
Holy shit there is a female vocalist.... I've never noticed
2:10
💔 those amphetamines will rob you of the little light that’s left.
It burned brightly for a little while, anyway.
For breaking. IT WON'T COME DOWN.... for … anyone....
He must know my girl Mo
If only Elliott Smith lived longer.....who knows the kind of stuff that he could have done if he lived longer. :( What a shame.
georgeharrison70 So true. Still, he put out quite a bit of music. It's awesome that a new listener can discover lots and lots of his stuff.
I think it is fucvkin amazing he lived as long as he did and that we are blessed with real recordings, not just bootlegs
I feel ya, but all things considered he managed to put out a ton of music, majority of which are bangers. Had he lived longer, maybe he would’ve gotten sober and started making pop music lol who knows
@@Miguel71jablonski that would be me. it's only been a month and i've stalled because i'm listening to certain ones over quite a bit & have so many more to get to. I wait til I am in the mood again to appreciate it and take it all in. I am dumb struck.
Danielle Marin dumb struck is the right word. When you’re in the mood that relates to these songs Elliott Smith will break your heart. This song is so hauntingly beautiful. Musical genius if I’ve ever heard one.
I think kurt. Cobain would have liked this
because of the amphetamines thing?
he had good taste
I think Kurt would have toured with Elliott Smith had he not have died.
@@hans920 No, because it basically sounds like grunge mtv unplugged
Here because of Every Anxious Wave
Evan Kurtz me too! Great book!
I didn’t care for this song until I got back from a deployment to iraq
like
This used to be a Reckful emo song FeelsBadMan
How's TH-cam going to destroy my post-Elliott Smith coital bliss by making me watch a Quibi commercial....
For future me reading, Quibi was this half-baked turd of an Internet TV streaming service that you paid a monthly subscription fee for almost crappy (sorry Reno911) TV when there's TH-cam and almost any other alternative.
I've been on that street with a 40