New Elliott Smith Song

2011-11-22 by Rudy K. EMERITUS | 41 Comments
A live radio performance transferred to MiniDisc and lost for over a decade has finally resurfaced on Elliott
Smith fan website http://www.sweetadeline.net/. The song, entitled "Misery Let Me Down," was
originally performed by Smith for University of Maryland College Park's student-run radio station WMUC-FM
back in 1997, just prior to Smith's commercial "breakout" with Either/Or. As student-run stations are
wont to do, the recording eventually disappeared until WMUC staff found it last month and played it on a Oct.
29 radio show.
Check out the story below and listen to the song on http://www.sweetadeline.net/

[A]http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/click-track/post/elliott-smith-new-song-from-1997-wmuc-
session-unearthed/2011/11/18/gIQA84UDiN_blog.html[/A]

Tagged: Elliott Smith

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El_Goodo
November 22nd 2011
1016 Comments


God damn! In class right now so I can't listen to this, but this is the best news I've seen on sputnik in a long while!

klap
Emeritus
November 22nd 2011
12410 Comments


news editor always fucks up my formatting when i edit something

therayder
November 22nd 2011
490 Comments


I'm a DJ at that very same radio station; we were all psyched when we found out about this

Spec
November 22nd 2011
41467 Comments


News is huge.

psykonaut
November 22nd 2011
3913 Comments


whooooaaaaa cool

psykonaut
November 22nd 2011
3913 Comments


stream on washington post isn't working for me though

cvlts
November 22nd 2011
9957 Comments


whaat

MaskAtTheMasquerade
November 22nd 2011
2924 Comments


i cant get it to work either

klap
Emeritus
November 22nd 2011
12410 Comments


download the song off sweet adeline

toolpeth182
November 22nd 2011
320 Comments


This is so awesome.

foxblood
November 22nd 2011
11592 Comments


it's not working, i really want to hear this

Aids
November 22nd 2011
25030 Comments


"news editor always fucks up my formatting when i edit something "

are you using Chrome? that problem goes away I think if you use a different browser.

but holy shit I am stoked on this. will listen as soon as I get a chance.

klap
Emeritus
November 22nd 2011
12410 Comments


no safari

Aids
November 22nd 2011
25030 Comments


damn, the download link isn't working right now. i wanna hear this shit god damnit

Aids
November 22nd 2011
25030 Comments


"no safari"

oh of course. I should have known you were one of them

but yeah idk what the deal is then.

klap
Emeritus
November 22nd 2011
12410 Comments


working stream here

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/11/22/elliott-smith-misery-let-me-down_n_1108321.html

PorkchopExpress
November 22nd 2011
405 Comments


Oh, I wish he was still alive...

profoundword
November 22nd 2011
239 Comments


"I'm still waiting on justice. no way he killed himself."

Agreed, why get through all his paranoia and depression, get most of the way through writing basement and suddenly stab himself in the chest? Damn GFs

Song is huge news

klap
Emeritus
November 22nd 2011
12410 Comments


plus his girlfriend was asian i mean have you seen Audition?

Deviant.
Staff Reviewer
November 22nd 2011
32308 Comments


Bitches ain't shit but hoes and tricks

Aids
November 22nd 2011
25030 Comments


thanks for the working stream klap

ugghasklgh song rules, why am I not surprised?

"plus his girlfriend was asian i mean have you seen Audition?"

lol

Ayon
November 23rd 2011
160 Comments


Best Thanksgiving OF ALL TIME!!!!!!

eternium
November 23rd 2011
16358 Comments


Song is so great.

Scoot
November 23rd 2011
24290 Comments


he's so good he composes music when he's dead

song rules

ShadowRemains
November 23rd 2011
28791 Comments


whoa that was good

Romulus
November 23rd 2011
9117 Comments


awesome. always lovely to have some elliott news

the "he didn't kill himself" thing is pretty tired though guys

mallen-
November 23rd 2011
1245 Comments


so good as expected

Spare
November 23rd 2011
5567 Comments


song's pretty good. not as good as a bunch of other unreleased smith songs, still p fucking awesome compared to anyone else though

Iamthe Nightstars
November 23rd 2011
3001 Comments


Awesome.

foxblood
November 23rd 2011
11592 Comments


as good as i anticipated

RagingStorm
November 23rd 2011
509 Comments


yeah this is great

iFghtffyrdmns
November 23rd 2011
7044 Comments


oooo pretty good.

LasNoches
November 23rd 2011
35 Comments


It's a lie! Smith and Tupac hang out together at the local Fat Burger.

patrickfannon
November 23rd 2011
892 Comments


I miss you, Elliott. Thanks for the wonderful tune. I think Elliott Smith is the most underated artist on this website. He was as good as, if not better, than Paul McCartney.

SleepyJack
November 24th 2011
207 Comments


lol at the above

patrickfannon
November 24th 2011
892 Comments


Why is that funny?

SleepyJack
November 25th 2011
207 Comments


Because he's really highly rated on this site, he's one of the most obviously beatles influenced artists I can think of and I just find it amusing when people talk to dead people in the second person via the internet.

patrickfannon
November 25th 2011
892 Comments


Fair enough. You're just kind of a dick.

SleepyJack
November 25th 2011
207 Comments


I know

beastman168
November 26th 2011
14 Comments


More Elliott Smith is always a good thing

painthethane
November 26th 2011
87 Comments


"I just find it amusing when people talk to dead people in the second person via the internet."

LOL



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