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Emeritus
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Last Active 01-01-70 12:00 am
Joined 01-01-70
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| top 20 elliott smith
real quarantine hours out there boys, thank fuck for music | | 1 |  | Elliott Smith
Figure 8
can't make a sound - "why should you want any other when you're a world within a world?" | | 2 |  | Elliott Smith
From a Basement on the Hill
king's crossing - "this is the place where time reverses, dead men talk to all the pretty nurses." | | 3 | | Elliott Smith
Figure 8
wouldn't mama be proud? - "pointed out of the window, at a sky gone black. kid, you're on the right track." | | 4 |  | Elliott Smith
Roman Candle
condor ave - "they never get uptight when a moth get crushed, unless a lightbulb really loved him very much." | | 5 | | Elliott Smith
From a Basement on the Hill
stickman - "loading my blanks to make a silent sound, some make me smile, to make the cruel clown who drew me this way frown." | | 6 | | Elliott Smith
Figure 8
i better be quiet now - "had a dream as an army man, with an order just to march in my place, while a dead enemy screams in my face." | | 7 |  | Elliott Smith
Either/Or
between the bars - "people you've been before, that you don't want around anymore, that push and shove and won't bend to your will, i'll keep them still." | | 8 | | Elliott Smith
From a Basement on the Hill
true love - "now i'm the king of the ward, cos i'm good and i swallow my sword. puke it up for the doctor to write me a new prescription." | | 9 | | Elliott Smith
Roman Candle
last call - "i'll go to church, and i'll go to pray, and i'll sing the praises of my maker's name like i was as good as she made me." | | 10 |  | Elliott Smith
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st. ides heaven - "high on amphetamines. the moon is a lightbulb breaking." | | 11 |  | Elliott Smith
New Moon
high times - "i'm so sick and tired of tryin' to change your mind when it's so easy to disconnect mine." | | 12 | | Elliott Smith
From a Basement on the Hill
a fond farewell - "veins full of disappearing ink, vomiting in your kitchen sink." | | 13 | | Elliott Smith
Figure 8
son of sam - "shiva opens her arms now, to make sure i don't get too far." | | 14 | | Elliott Smith
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clementine - "drink yourself into slo-mo, made an angel in the snow. anything to pass the time, and keep that song out of your mind." | | 15 | | Elliott Smith
From a Basement on the Hill
memory lane - "the mayor's name is fear, his force patrols the pier, from a mountain of cliche that advances every day." | | 16 | | Elliott Smith
Either/Or
ballad of big nothing - "all spit and spite you're up all night and down every day. a tired man with only hours to go just waiting to be taken away." | | 17 |  | Elliott Smith
XO
pitseleh - "they say god makes problems just to see what you can stand, before you do as the devil pleases." | | 18 | | Elliott Smith
Either/Or
rose parade - "the trumpet has obviously been drinking, cos he's fucking up even the simplest lines." | | 19 | | Elliott Smith
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the biggest lie - "oh we're so very special you and i, and everything that you do makes me wanna die, i just told the biggest lie." | | 20 | | Elliott Smith
XO
i didn't understand - "i can guarantee you this is a cloud of smoke, trying to occupy space, what a fucking joke." | |
Rowan5215
04.04.20 | ftr there's like a dozen versions of stickman but i'm talkin about this one https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L4Sqr4sTPFY | JustJoe.
04.04.20 | what’s your favorite record of his? | SmashIsTheWay94
04.04.20 | it appears that we'd rank his albums very differently, but our favorite songs on each album are similar. about half of these would at least have a shot at my top 20 | Rowan5215
04.04.20 | @Joe Figure 8 if you couldn't tell from the ranking lmao. they're all excellent though, tightest discog I know
@Smash what's your fave lad? | JustJoe.
04.04.20 | only heard “figure 8” & it was excellent so i meant to check the rest | JustJoe.
04.04.20 | some day soon rowbro | Rowan5215
04.04.20 | if you prefer the Son of Sam, Happiness, Junk Bond Trader stuff I'd recommend XO and From a Basement, if you're about the Everything Reminds Me of Her, Easy Way Out type stuff go back to Either/Or and before | JustJoe.
04.04.20 | i dig “happiness”, so “xo” it is
🥳 | SmashIsTheWay94
04.04.20 | @Rowan Either/Or. all Elliott is great but my ranking would be super generic | joshuahuntkc
04.04.20 | nice list. favorite artist for me. i think XO and Self titled are probably his strongest bodies of work. i think id have to include twilight and lets get lost. that line from fond farewarell makes the whole song for me, so poignant. Whatever and crazy fucker are both pretty great hidden gems that id probably throw in as well. | Rowan5215
04.04.20 | Let's Get Lost strikes me as underrated, it's a really lovely tune. I think it's just in the wrong place on the tracklisting - then again so's most of that album lol | furpa
04.04.20 | Big props for including I Didn't Understand. Song is amazing. | klap
04.04.20 | appropriate amount of figure 8 here | Pheromone
04.04.20 | agreed at tightest discography I know and with the amount of albums released, man is he the best. good list | Sinternet
04.04.20 | cliche but these days kings crossing gets my nod too | Pheromone
04.04.20 | cliche for a reason - it's one of his best for sure | Rowan5215
04.05.20 | I Didn't Understand is like the darkest timeline version of his Because cover, I love it | EoinCofa
04.05.20 | Angel in the Snow | conesmoke
04.05.20 | Where the fuck is junk bond trader? | conesmoke
04.05.20 | Or Angeles?!?? Or independence day!?;?!
Wtf | Rowan5215
04.05.20 | junk bond trader is the only one of those i'd consider for a top 20 tbh, it lost to son of sam tho |
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