Heyyyyy 😘

This is from a year ago but enjoy!

I think you guys will like the vibe

I just got into Father John Misty thanks to a recommended song (Nancy from Now On). I was listening to more stuff today when I heard something straight out of an Elliott Smith song. Either a coincidence or maybe he listens to Elliott?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=53d1WC2mW0M

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XkJJPM4qGzE

Obviously the songs are different but the chords and guitar part are almost the same!

Hey all, I had a terrific conversation with author Jamie Fisher about her biography of Elliott Smith, and I wanted to share the talk with a gift link. Here, she shared a story that a friend of Elliott's told her.

"...they’d be at a bar and people who were just fans would want to come up to talk to him and people would just want to touch him, like they wanted to feel like he was real. There was something about him that invited closeness and invited care."

trust me bro. start with “songs about leaving” and i’d reccomened starting with “the piano song”, “september come please take this heart away” and “ignorant piece of shit”

This album is amazing from start to finish. Its really comforting when going through heartbreak, I've been listening to it like crazyy

well. I am feeling like a bit of a dullard. I've been a fan since I was a teenager (I'm in my early 40s), and for some reason..... I have always wondered why (in the song Angeles)he says the word 'cure' so weird in the line "trailing some new cure".

well it's because he is saying the word "kill". not cure. for whatever reason I have never looked at those lyrics specifically while listening to that song, and my memory retention is crap.

anyway, some levity for today, and now my brain accepts he is not saying cure really weird 🤣

Il est temps que je découvre la personne qui a filmé Elliott Smith chantant ''everything reminds me of her'' chez le disquaire.

idk, i think, as with a bunch of other fandoms, that there is a certain atmosphere that you cant really explain unless your in it. i like it here, even if it gets sad sometimes. i was on a brake from his music for a while because of some mental issues but now i'm back to just being exited by hearing all these happiness inducing sounds. makes my day. what a guy

side note : learned how to play happiness and roman candle recently, my goal till the end of the year is to learn (or at least start to learn) tomorrow tomorrow. i saw a cover by "Ethans Guitar Lessons And Music" and holy shit are you kidding me? maybe its mind blowing to me coz i'm still somewhat a beginner but damn, i wanna be able to play that song like that lol . anyways, hope you all have a good one. i know a lot of us are struggling and its really hard to find peace and safety in our own minds sometimes, but lets try to make today a good day, you've go it :) love -Rose

i know elliott said he didn't like the lyrics at all and that it was all kinda nonsense, but it seems to have some sort of meaning or story, and i haven't been able to find anything about it. also is it 'sugar lick me up' or 'sugar lip me up'?

...Stephen Malkmus??

He talked about Joanna with what seemed like resentment. She had started playing with Stephen Malkmus and the Jicks. "II'll never forget the tone he used when saying 'She gets to see him almost every day,'" Béatrice says. "He was resentful, or at least not happy about something...like she no longer needed him?" (Nobody Broke Your Heart, 366)

It's complicated, the story of Elliott and Joanna on that tour. He seemed to want to be close with her, to stay friends, but he was also unsubtly exercising his resentments. He played "Mr. Goodmorning" every other night while the Minders were with him, a song about his jealousy toward Stephen and his bitterness toward Joanna; an early version takes a jab at Mr. Goodmorning's band. (371)

Does anyone else find this bizarre? What were some other surprising minor revelations you had reading the bio?

From stranger than fiction
It’s been stuck in my head all day and I kinda want to learn it on guitar, but it’s not popular enough for me to find anything for it online

I was listening to this and I can't help but notice this amazing solo version of the intro to Wouldn't Mama Be Proud? but I can't find any tabs and I'm too lazy to learn by ear. Does anyone know how to play this?

Yeah, I know, you do, too. Tell me about it?

That Figure 8 CD came in (I'd even forgotten I'd ordered it) and I just got through "Somebody that I used to know" and his sense of melody and all of his musicality just CUTS ME so much! Love it!

(I've posted about this before but figured it'd be worth revisiting.)

So, I was thinking about how Phoebe Bridgers is currently doing a huge arena tour, and that got me thinking about one of my pet pop-music theories: I think that Elliott Smith's influence is a foundational element of the contemporary pop landscape. I feel like a lot of contemporary pop music (using the word "pop" broadly - like, stuff that's popular) has a mood of emotional intimacy and even a sort of melancholy that can be traced right back to ES.

Other than Bridgers, some big names that I'm pretty sure have cited him as a major influence: Lana Del Rey, Billie Eilish, Olivia Rodrigo, SZA, Gracie Abrams, beabadoobee, Clairo, Adrianne Lenker, etc. This list is mainly female artists with folk-y leanings because, um, I like that kind of thing, but I know that his influence extends elsewhere (Frank Ocean, for example). 

But I'm also not close to being any kind of music expert, and maybe I'm totally wrong. So, what do you think? 

(edit: grammar)

This is the second time my girlfriend found an Elliot smith album that I missed. It was 16$ but I really love his music and have been trying to find all the cds I can in person so I bought it along with a few Faye Webster cds cus she’s tuff too

#1. 👑 Twilight

#2. Between the bars

#3. No Name #1

#4. No Name #2

#5. Kiwi Maddog 20/20

#6. Everything Means Nothing to Me

#7. Alameda

#8.Christian Brothers

#9. Waltz #2 (XO)

#10. Happiness/the gondola man