Elliott Smith "Either/Or"

I think From a Basement on the Hill is the best introduction to his music. It not only contains some of his best acoustic work (Let's Get Lost, Twilight) it contains his best electric work (King's Crossing, Pretty Ugly Before, Coast to Coast) and some of his best songs ever (basically look what I listed and there's others I could add like a Distorted Reality is Now a Necessity to be Free.) It's a very rough album and the people in charge of it messed up but its a very solid collection of songs and its the only album that I think sums up his career because it touches on a bit of everything he's done.
 
No but to go "Well even though I'm not the artist and have no input into his mind Im going to say this is how the sound should be just so I can look cool and uber obscures."
 
I prefer XO to Either/Or, there's just so much more going for it. Either/Or is good if you want classic Elliott Smith, but XO is a better place to start.
 
I never said that that's the way he wanted the song to be. I said that the demo was the way the song was meant to be. I never made any mention of his intentions. I was talking about the way I feel about it, if you have a problem with, fine.
 
Figure 8 seemed over produced to me. I mean, who really was in control (smith or the producer) when Junk Bond Trader was recorded? XO was atmospheric, like his previous efforts. I can feel his sincerity in XO, and not through the production of Figure 8.
 
The majority of his music he did himself.
Have you read Elliott Smith and The Big Nothing?
It can back that statment up.
 
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