The more I listen to ES, the more I am convinced he is as good as Lennon and McCartney. These songs just don't age, and his chords and melodies are beyond incredible. Crazy good.
The very first album i heard was Figure 8 The first track on that cd? Son of Sam- To this day- I swear that song is a shining example of the comparisons you make here- He didn't want the that anyways- But his fans know this to be true.
I have so many questions. Why have I not heard this until today? Why does this only have 145K views in 12 years? Is this from the Figure 8 sessions and was left off that album? Who even has the rights to this how is it on TH-cam and nowhere else? How does he have so many ridiculously good songs that I'm still discovering new ones years after I thought I'd heard everything. It looks like there's a cache of unreleased material on TH-cam so I guess I know what I'm listening to for the next few days. Thanks Elliott you were amazing!
Look for the "Grand Mal" collection online. It is unpublished 5 or 6 cd set with a wealth of beautiful songs not on any album and some alternate renditions of his best songs. I envy that you still have so much to discover from Elliott Smith!!!
Look for the "Grand Mal" collection online. It is unpublished 5 or 6 cd set with a wealth of beautiful songs not on any album and some alternate renditions of his best songs. I envy that you still have so much to discover from Elliott Smith!!!
Me too. I feel like he understands exactly how I feel in a way. He just happens to sing my feelings. This sweet soul deserved so much more than what life gave him, and I wish I could tell him how much he means to me.
I wish he didn’t die. Such a beautiful soul..I feel such a joy when listening to his music..there’s such an intense amount of genuine feeling in what he made. Amazing, RIP Elliott..
@Branland I think this all the time, too. I feel genuine pangs in my gut for "what we have missed." It makes me appreciate Damon Albarn, Johnny Marr, and Radiohead even more for when they create something new.
@@kuroranj I gotta check out those two..I know Radiohead obviously but yea Elliott is the closest connection to an artist I’ve felt other than probably the beatles music..however Elliotts words are very very good..they tie me in on a different level..the Beatles are still my favorite band of all time..Elliott is my favorite solo artist without a doubt. More than Lennon solo
Yeah but all the suicidal lyrics wouldn’t be as potent if we didn’t know how serious he was. Nobody can say he didn’t mean it. Plus it termed him into a Cobain-Esque legend, so it may have been good for his career. That said, I wish he never did that of course, and I wish we had at least ten more years of music because the dude could’ve write a bad song if he tried. Early on maybe, but everything from ‘94 til his death was pretty great. I don’t really like Cupid’s Trick, but it’s not bad.
Great taste in music with the Radiohead. Thom Yorke has that nakedly emotional sound that I love that’s so rare. Elliott had it, Kurt Cobain had it, Mark Linkous had it, Layne Staley sorta had it, and John Lennon had it. Sam Beam from Iron and Wine almost has it. Especially on the first album, “The Creek Drank the Cradle”, great album.
I think of the greatest songwriters in human history: George Harrison, Harry Nillson, Bob Dylan, Ray Davies, Jeff Lynne, Andy Sturmer & Roger Joseph Manning Jr., Freddie Mercury, Neil Young, Tom Waits, Jackson Browne, Jeff Buckley, Alex Chilton, Billy Joel, Nick Drake, Brian Willson, Lennon and McCartney... He really exceeded all of them.
Elliott Smith is mentioned in Love Simon, fantastic book by the way. When it comes to the movie, you can see "hour to hour note to note" written on Simons bedroom wall, but that's about it.
No life No life Everything you need To keep it together To keep you off the street No life Once I used to see A beautiful stranger Walking next to me Sometimes it's a long time coming No life No life Still a part alive For offering nothing You get it in return No life Pushed away the hand For they might've found you Found some other man
I would always listen to ES when I was still using, feeling like he was the only one who ever understood the monotonous pain of dependency and addiction. He was clearly a sensitive individual, and perhaps selfishly, I'm just so glad that he did have an outlet where he could hope to communicate with the world. It's painful listening to his interviews because his disillusionment with the world is so clear. Breaks my heart that he never learned to love himself. Even so, now that I have been clean for 20 months, his music still touches me like no other, say for Nick Drake...thanks Elliott. Rest easy
A beautiful and thoughtful comment...congratulations on your sobriety and I hope 5 months later finds you feeling even better then at the time you dropped your line here.
In some ways the weights heavier, when some parts of your life are successful but they don't ease the trauma from your past. We are lucky to hear the creativity and strength in his music and his insights, it was his gift to us. Shining light on the dark. I just wish he could have felt content and peaceful, I hope he is peace now.
I've been playing guitar for almost a decade now, and this guy's guitar work never ceases to amaze me. He truly had a style that was totally unique to him. Thanks for all the inspiration Elliott. People say you were a downer and a junkie, but anyone that really listens in deep to your music will know why you were just that. (I don't blame you either)
Yondoodle nice guitar playing,reminds me of a kind of Harrison/Neil Young hybrid,but obviously wedded to his own unique sound.What a songwriter too.Love this guy.Sorely missed.
I've got no hope of ever learning these songs, is what you're saying? Keep in mind I don't play guitar, am left handed, have tried over and over to learn to read tab notation, but it's like everytime I turn around it is something different from site to site. I can't afford lessons, have no friends. Everyone always says im too old to start and they wouldn't know where to start, then start rambling about advanced music theory and how it's some sort of block from me ever learning because music is just too big to break it down to teach me guitar. I just want to play the songs that make me feel not so alone when I'm this miserable. And I'm always this miserable. But its hopeless, isnt it?
This song is so beautiful. It's my second favorite next to Can't Make a Sound, in terms of songs that build. I wish this was on streaming so I could add it to my Elliott playlist.
he took what they did and plowed the medium way beyond. He was one man who encompassed everything. He played every instrument as a master and wrote lyrics with double and sometimes triple entendre. Beyond. He and Arthur Lee of Love were the real deals.
Life is consciousness, which is quite literally the universe experiencing itself, the only thing that separates me and you are different experiences, parenting, and social program. We are all ultimately share the same consciousness, but we are separted by a different vessel, atleast that is what makes most sense to me.
okay i'm just hearing this but part of the riff reminds me of Across the Universe in a vague way...either way, imagine an Elliot Cover of that song oh ma lord
What the hell? I am so confused. I'm going through another hardcore ES phase and have just now come across all these amazing unreleased tracks. Why aren't any of these released?! I don't understand.
He probably never got around to releasing them. There can only be so many songs on an album and sometimes it's just best to wait, even if it's some of your best material. For example, he performed the last hour live in 1996 but didn't release it until 2003.
This is one of those songs that’s completely and totally associated with an extremely painful time in life for me. My girlfriend was buying guns when I tried to leave our toxic relationship and kept saying she was gonna kill herself. She kept talking to older men behind my back and even tried inviting them into my apartment. She had her parents almost fight me. I was in love with her since high school and we had a place together. When she finally left our apartment, I had to spend the last remaining month of our lease alone in our empty bedroom where we had been building our lives up. My other roommate and I had to move that holiday season and I could barely stand to do anything after all the toxicity and traumatic breakup. Just in a tailspin of having to get U-Hauls and cleaning up and saying goodbye to the life I no longer had. This was playing the entire time. It just matches that bittersweet feeling so perfectly. Pain.
@@freeecountryy John's written some pap. Not saying they're in the same category as songwriters. But if you look up some of his live performances, he's actually a brilliant guitar player!
No life No life Everything you need To keep it together To keep you off the street No life Once I used to see A beautiful stranger Walking next to me Sometimes it's a long time coming No life No life Still a part alive For offering nothing You get it in return No life Pushed away the hand For they might've found you Found some other man
No life No life Everything you need To keep it together To keep you off the street No life Once I used to see A beautiful stranger Walking next to me Sometimes it's a long time coming No life No life Still a part alive For offering nothing You get it in return No life Pushed away the hand For they might've found you Found some other man
![Elliott Smith - Live at WMUC [COMPLETE]](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/MZcd1lFTic8/mqdefault.jpg)
The more I listen to ES, the more I am convinced he is as good as Lennon and McCartney. These songs just don't age, and his chords and melodies are beyond incredible. Crazy good.
(personal opinion, eh, but c'mon, he is that good)
The very first album i heard was Figure 8
The first track on that cd?
Son of Sam-
To this day- I swear that song is a shining example of the comparisons you make here-
He didn't want the that anyways-
But his fans know this to be true.
I think he's 100% on that level.
nigga he better
Any one else hear the beatles "all across the universe" on this song?
I have so many questions. Why have I not heard this until today? Why does this only have 145K views in 12 years? Is this from the Figure 8 sessions and was left off that album? Who even has the rights to this how is it on TH-cam and nowhere else? How does he have so many ridiculously good songs that I'm still discovering new ones years after I thought I'd heard everything. It looks like there's a cache of unreleased material on TH-cam so I guess I know what I'm listening to for the next few days. Thanks Elliott you were amazing!
Look for the "Grand Mal" collection online. It is unpublished 5 or 6 cd set with a wealth of beautiful songs not on any album and some alternate renditions of his best songs.
I envy that you still have so much to discover from Elliott Smith!!!
Look for the "Grand Mal" collection online. It is unpublished 5 or 6 cd set with a wealth of beautiful songs not on any album and some alternate renditions of his best songs.
I envy that you still have so much to discover from Elliott Smith!!!
Im thinking the same thing
This may sound a little obsessive, but i swear i thank Elliott every day for what he's done for me.
Thank you, sweet angel 💜
Same
Same
Me too
We all thank him every day we listen
Me too. I feel like he understands exactly how I feel in a way. He just happens to sing my feelings. This sweet soul deserved so much more than what life gave him, and I wish I could tell him how much he means to me.
I wish he didn’t die. Such a beautiful soul..I feel such a joy when listening to his music..there’s such an intense amount of genuine feeling in what he made. Amazing, RIP Elliott..
@Branland I think this all the time, too. I feel genuine pangs in my gut for "what we have missed." It makes me appreciate Damon Albarn, Johnny Marr, and Radiohead even more for when they create something new.
@@kuroranj I gotta check out those two..I know Radiohead obviously but yea Elliott is the closest connection to an artist I’ve felt other than probably the beatles music..however Elliotts words are very very good..they tie me in on a different level..the Beatles are still my favorite band of all time..Elliott is my favorite solo artist without a doubt. More than Lennon solo
Yeah but all the suicidal lyrics wouldn’t be as potent if we didn’t know how serious he was. Nobody can say he didn’t mean it. Plus it termed him into a Cobain-Esque legend, so it may have been good for his career. That said, I wish he never did that of course, and I wish we had at least ten more years of music because the dude could’ve write a bad song if he tried. Early on maybe, but everything from ‘94 til his death was pretty great. I don’t really like Cupid’s Trick, but it’s not bad.
Great taste in music with the Radiohead. Thom Yorke has that nakedly emotional sound that I love that’s so rare. Elliott had it, Kurt Cobain had it, Mark Linkous had it, Layne Staley sorta had it, and John Lennon had it. Sam Beam from Iron and Wine almost has it. Especially on the first album, “The Creek Drank the Cradle”, great album.
I think of the greatest songwriters in human history: George Harrison, Harry Nillson, Bob Dylan, Ray Davies, Jeff Lynne, Andy Sturmer & Roger Joseph Manning Jr., Freddie Mercury, Neil Young, Tom Waits, Jackson Browne, Jeff Buckley, Alex Chilton, Billy Joel, Nick Drake, Brian Willson, Lennon and McCartney... He really exceeded all of them.
Not me not knowing half of these musicians youve mentioned.
Lol… only men?
@@invaderzeck6277 Sadly the industry has been male dominated for centuries. I'd genuinely be happy to know some female composers on their caliber.
@@mrdaniel511 don’t blame the “music industry”… you simply need to listen to more music 🙏
I bet that's just another list of recorded deaths
So underrated. I heard Waltz #2 in an airport once, that's about it. haha
Elliott Smith is mentioned in Love Simon, fantastic book by the way. When it comes to the movie, you can see "hour to hour note to note" written on Simons bedroom wall, but that's about it.
portland airport pdx by any chance? theres a guy that covers elliott smith on marimbas there. at least once when i was at that airport...
@@babyduck9217 He made a record of them, in fact
michaelcharlessmith.bandcamp.com/album/between-the-bars-an-elliott-smith-tribute-on-marimba
No life
No life
Everything you need
To keep it together
To keep you off the street
No life
Once I used to see
A beautiful stranger
Walking next to me
Sometimes it's a long time coming
No life
No life
Still a part alive
For offering nothing
You get it in return
No life
Pushed away the hand
For they might've found you
Found some other man
*the fate that might've found you but found some other man
King will always be here
Bloody hell another gem.
Eddie O'Hara. I love it.
My react al$0
I would always listen to ES when I was still using, feeling like he was the only one who ever understood the monotonous pain of dependency and addiction. He was clearly a sensitive individual, and perhaps selfishly, I'm just so glad that he did have an outlet where he could hope to communicate with the world. It's painful listening to his interviews because his disillusionment with the world is so clear. Breaks my heart that he never learned to love himself. Even so, now that I have been clean for 20 months, his music still touches me like no other, say for Nick Drake...thanks Elliott. Rest easy
A beautiful and thoughtful comment...congratulations on your sobriety and I hope 5 months later finds you feeling even better then at the time you dropped your line here.
In some ways the weights heavier, when some parts of your life are successful but they don't ease the trauma from your past. We are lucky to hear the creativity and strength in his music and his insights, it was his gift to us. Shining light on the dark. I just wish he could have felt content and peaceful, I hope he is peace now.
I've been playing guitar for almost a decade now, and this guy's guitar work never ceases to amaze me. He truly had a style that was totally unique to him. Thanks for all the inspiration Elliott. People say you were a downer and a junkie, but anyone that really listens in deep to your music will know why you were just that. (I don't blame you either)
Yondoodle nice guitar playing,reminds me of a kind of Harrison/Neil Young hybrid,but obviously wedded to his own unique sound.What a songwriter too.Love this guy.Sorely missed.
I hope he took a towel with, wherever he went :D
Yondoodle Totally!
Yondoodle Same thing here,very inspiring guitar work.
I've got no hope of ever learning these songs, is what you're saying? Keep in mind I don't play guitar, am left handed, have tried over and over to learn to read tab notation, but it's like everytime I turn around it is something different from site to site. I can't afford lessons, have no friends. Everyone always says im too old to start and they wouldn't know where to start, then start rambling about advanced music theory and how it's some sort of block from me ever learning because music is just too big to break it down to teach me guitar.
I just want to play the songs that make me feel not so alone when I'm this miserable. And I'm always this miserable. But its hopeless, isnt it?
One of the best rhythm players of all time…It’s amazing what he can do with a guitar
omg that guitar solo OMFG!, that piano BEAUTIFUL!!! Definition of cool I swear...
This is my favorite song to blow out my eardrums to. Max volume for sure this song rocks.
This song is so beautiful. It's my second favorite next to Can't Make a Sound, in terms of songs that build. I wish this was on streaming so I could add it to my Elliott playlist.
"the fate that might've found you, but found some other man."
My man is a great drummer. On this track for sure.
Best songwriter of my generation…Nuffield said.
Te amo, Elliott Smith!
what a beauty! i identify w every word.....got no life as well
Great !!! Unforgettable voice and songs... I don't like comparison, I love him and his music. Missing him...
he took what they did and plowed the medium way beyond. He was one man who encompassed everything. He played every instrument as a master and wrote lyrics with double and sometimes triple entendre. Beyond. He and Arthur Lee of Love were the real deals.
This gets better every time I hear it. You are missed, Elliott.
I love this man
Wow - I almost forgot about this song. Such a gem.
he was such a genius
Transfixing. I love you Elliott.
When he sings "Everything you need" it reminds me of "Woke up in a daze" from When We Was Fab by George Harrison.
good observation
legend
Absolutely awesomeness 😊😊😊🎶🎶🎶❤️❤️❤️
beautiful
I love this man!
what's life.... but a long wound
Life is consciousness, which is quite literally the universe experiencing itself, the only thing that separates me and you are different experiences, parenting, and social program. We are all ultimately share the same consciousness, but we are separted by a different vessel, atleast that is what makes most sense to me.
@@Ginglover9000 great thoughts!
Wow never heard this song before, Thanks for the upload!
I love this. thank you.
Best of the best.
Man that ending, gave me goosebumps
You, you who put this on here. Your awesome. I don't care what you say
Love ya teacher of things
thanks elliott
Magic!
Definitely on that level
Need this to be available offline :/ can’t see it happening, my new favourite Elliott song
It's on Grand Mal dude
Jesse Groves true that! Thanks !
You could just use some yt to mp3 converter
140k views in 11yrs!!.....SO happy I ran across this by sheer accident...geeezzz
I miss him
Musical genius
i love him
if somebody touches the Beatles (!), bob dylan, donovan and the beach Boys (in a sad mood), then him.
+grimgolf79 not to be forgotten... Tom petty
okay i'm just hearing this but part of the riff reminds me of Across the Universe in a vague way...either way, imagine an Elliot Cover of that song oh ma lord
I hear it!
@@wrongangle4881 yay!
te amo tantp
Eu também amo
What the hell? I am so confused. I'm going through another hardcore ES phase and have just now come across all these amazing unreleased tracks. Why aren't any of these released?! I don't understand.
He probably never got around to releasing them. There can only be so many songs on an album and sometimes it's just best to wait, even if it's some of your best material. For example, he performed the last hour live in 1996 but didn't release it until 2003.
Probably didn't meet his own incredible standards it's a musicians curse to aim for the best but everything he does is perfection in my book.
Damn that part on 2:17 - 2:22 sounds really good but he dipped to early on it and left me blue balled
Made up for it around 2:43 tho
This is one of those songs that’s completely and totally associated with an extremely painful time in life for me.
My girlfriend was buying guns when I tried to leave our toxic relationship and kept saying she was gonna kill herself. She kept talking to older men behind my back and even tried inviting them into my apartment. She had her parents almost fight me.
I was in love with her since high school and we had a place together. When she finally left our apartment, I had to spend the last remaining month of our lease alone in our empty bedroom where we had been building our lives up.
My other roommate and I had to move that holiday season and I could barely stand to do anything after all the toxicity and traumatic breakup. Just in a tailspin of having to get U-Hauls and cleaning up and saying goodbye to the life I no longer had.
This was playing the entire time. It just matches that bittersweet feeling so perfectly.
Pain.
I can hear George Harrison
Elliott Han lennon too honestly
The string slides and bends.
The drums💟
I'll always love Elliott Smith even though I have friends who don't. Why do I have friends who don't? Maybe they are just playing a dumb character. 🎭
Damn right nobody dislikes this.
It's impossible
Allee Hochmuth Some mofo is going to dislike it now lmao
Someone did. The shmuck.
once anyone says anything like that someone will dislike it, so guess what Allee thats on you darling
7 motherfuckers, worse than nazis, worse than satan himself, 7 assholes disliked this.
Wish I coulda met u brotha
Three now
And that's too many
aw
No life
💔💔💔
We named our son elliott actually..
What year is this, sounds xoish
PEPONE WAS HERE
Wouldn't be surprised if Elliott Smith and Rodger Waters shared linage , both look so alike and so talented.
Dear Prudence anybody?
it is in D
One of my absolute favorite ES songs.
Does anyone else get a bit of an early John Mayer feel from this song?
No. The guy who wrote "Your Body Is A Wonderland" shouldn't be mentioned in the same sentence as Elliott.
@@freeecountryy John's written some pap. Not saying they're in the same category as songwriters. But if you look up some of his live performances, he's actually a brilliant guitar player!
No life
No life
Everything you need
To keep it together
To keep you off the street
No life
Once I used to see
A beautiful stranger
Walking next to me
Sometimes it's a long time coming
No life
No life
Still a part alive
For offering nothing
You get it in return
No life
Pushed away the hand
For they might've found you
Found some other man
Pushed Away The Hand
The Fate That Might've Found You
It Found Some Other Man
No life
No life
Everything you need
To keep it together
To keep you off the street
No life
Once I used to see
A beautiful stranger
Walking next to me
Sometimes it's a long time coming
No life
No life
Still a part alive
For offering nothing
You get it in return
No life
Pushed away the hand
For they might've found you
Found some other man