3:23 caught me so off guard lmao. Oh man…I never knew you could miss someone so badly that you never met. [I’m never gonna know you now, but I’m gonna love you any how]
He may not be the sad sack some think him by, but he definitely puts out some REALLY beautiful SAD ( which over course it what he's known by) songs. Like the Biggest Lie, and Rose parade.
Any other performer would have snapped and humiliated that weirdo, given her a look, or told her to shut up, but Elliott was just too nice of a person to do that.
Hard to imagine the music he would have put out in these past couple decades. It's the closest thing I have to stepping into a time machine when listening to his stuff.
i feel like listening to a lot of his later stuff it’s just absurd to label him as some sort of depressed loner artist, like he wrote about sad stuff because every songwriter does, but the stuff on xo and figure 8 just drips with passion and love for his craft that’s impossible to ignore. you can’t miss the joy in creation.
The beer tipping over and him realizing it…. priceless. When watching interviews of Elliott or filmed live performances I wonder what other musicians could get away with straight up stopping mid song because of any reason. I think I’d give a pass to John Moreland but can’t think of another.
Love seeing Elliott smith not playing. I have a lot of the same inflections when talking. Always been nervous and not really thought much about myself. I love hearing people hype up Elliott. He definitely deserved more. Rip!
what a nice description. I learned so much more about him after I got a copy of Autumn de Wilde's book, Elliott's inner circles see him much more differently than the average fan.
this brought tears to my eyes. thank you so much for such amazing video and everything that you said in the description, it's a bliss to see there's still people who sees him as the beautiful person he was. it pisses me off whenever i see someone linking him or his music with nothing but sadness and depression like he was nothing else and even worse when they associate it with his death. i think it's so disrespectful... we still don't know the truth and he was so much more than this label that people have put on him throughout the years. this video shows how much of a funny, sweet and caring person he was. thank you again for making this! i hope this reaches more people <3
thank you so much for this❤️ the angeles part brought me to tears. how loved and missed he is. of course, he wasn't perfect. he contained multitudes, just like you and me. but to know him seemed to be a gift. what a beautiful person. we're so much worse off without him. btw there were so many clips in this that i haven't seen before, which was a very welcome surprise! where did you find the one of him tripping whilst being filmed (looked like music video behind the scenes footage), the "xo" tour behind the scenes footage and the clip at the end of him signing the guitar?
and it was so fun to do. i have another compilation in storage but there’s no way of saving it without this giant watermark so i’m kinda screwed there. but there is endless amounts of hidden concert footage/audio that is just so amazing. thank you for watching!
This is amazing. I fell in love with Elliott in June of 2000 after this guy introduced me to him. I’ll never forget it - the very first song I heard was Pitselah, and that was it. It was immediate. It’s so difficult to describe what he means to my psyche and how profoundly his genius, his music and his beauty has affected me. Such a deeply deeply talented human being. I don’t know what I would have done during the past few years if not for his music. Thank you so much for this beautiful tribute; it’s so wonderful to see him smile and interact with the audience. He seemed like a super witty guy, and in no way a sad sack. And I gotta say it again: just that knockout smile. ❤️ Thank you again!
thank you for that sweet story. pitseleh was one of the first songs i heard from him too and it was like colliding into genius and knowing you’d never be the same
i hate when people consider him “depressing”. he does the opposite for me actually, his music and videos of him help me cope with my depression. lovely collection of videos you have here :,)
I love him too but he is usually kinda downcast and coming from a recovering addict with depression and suicide attempts, most of his lyrics are incredibly dark. Then he killed himself in a ghastly manner. Don’t wanna hear any murder bs, can’t even count how many suicide references he made in his later career, basement era, and even a “gimme one good reason not to do it”. The man is imo the greatest single figure in music in the past 40 years or so.
It’s an instrumental acoustic version of baby Britain. It was used at the beginning of lucky three which you should definitely watch if you haven’t yet.
