(my favorite) elliott smith songs

Submitted by sassysian on Sun, 02/04/2007 - 02:20
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  1. Pitseleh - it has the power to move me the way few songs can. i adore every second of it.
  2. Angeles - the most beautiful hate song ever written.
  3. Let's Get Lost - i think this is the second elliott song i ever heard. it's simply lovely. "find some beautiful place to get lost". love the guitar, it makes me think of sun streaming down through cracks in the ceiling.
  4. Between The Bars - "the people you've been before that you don't want around anymore/they push and shove and won't bend to your will/i'll keep them still." one of his best.
  5. Waltz #2 - a close to perfect song.
  6. Needle In The Hay - the first elliott song i heard, via the royal tenenbaums. it captivated me. it still does.
  7. Say Yes - "i'm in love with the world through the eyes of the world through the eyes of a girl who's still around the morning after". a rarely seen optimistic side of elliott.
  8. Baby Britain - one of catchiest, hardest-rocking songs. almost impossible for me to get sick of.
  9. Alameda - something about this song. every single time i hear it i hear something different, some new note or complexity that i didn't before. it's a great song.
  10. I Didn't Understand - a capella. which is awesome.
  11. St. Ides Heaven - i love the imagery. it's kind of fucked-up but in a good way. it's amazing how beautiful a song could be about being drunk and high on amphetamines in a parking lot.
  12. King's Crossing - one of his darkest. kind of grungy. very dark, but in an oddly infectious way.
  13. Everything Reminds Me Of Her - the kind of song you wish somebody would write about you.
  14. Don't Go Down - kind of catchy, kind of sexy.
  15. Condor Ave - my favorite song on roman candle. incredible imagery.
  16. Waltz #1 - "every time the day darkens down and goes away/pictures open in my head of me and you/silent and cliche all the things we did and didn't say/covered up by what we did and didn't do."
  17. Twilight - absolutely hearbreaking.
  18. Thirteen - one of my favorite covers, period.
  19. A Fond Farewell - a good depresso sing-along.
  20. No Name #2 - my favorite no name, i think. five is a pretty close second though.
  21. Happiness - "what i used to be will pass away and then you'll see that all i want now is happiness for you and me". the lifesavas did a really rad rap cover of this for "to elliott/from portland"
  22. Good To Go - soothing, like a lulluby. lush.
  23. 2:45 A.M. - the only elliott song i can play on guitar. contains a lot of very well-written rhymes, except for the one where he ryhmes "baby" with "baby."
  24. High Times - this song should've made an album. period.
  25. No Name No. 5 - second favorite no name.
  26. Coming Up Roses - another great drug song off the self-titled album, with a really cool music video.
  27. Pictures Of Me - like a catchy beatles song, only more cynical. "for someone half as smart/you'd be a work of art" "everybody's dying just to get the disease"
  28. Miss Misery - it gets overplayed, but for a good reason.
  29. Somebody That I Used To Know - a really great break-up song
  30. Punch And Judy - "can't you ever treat anyone nice?/ think i'm gonna make the same mistake twice"
  31. Alphabet Town - haunting. great harmonica.
  32. The Biggest Lie - "oh we're so very precious you and i/and everything that you do makes me wanna die/oh i just told the biggest lie"
  33. I Better Be Quiet Now - not the best song you're listening to id you're feeling sad/lonely. it's a heartbreaker. "i've got a long way to go/i'm getting furthur away"
  34. Coast To Coast - you can hear the influence of the beatles in this. and the influence of hard drugs.
  35. A Distorted Reality Is Now A Necessity To Be Free - the last song on his last album.
  36. Roman Candle - intense, rageful, slightly shocking. "i wanna hurt him/i wanna give him pain/i'm a roman candle/my head is full of flames"
  37. In The Lost And Found (Honky Bach) - different souding. kind of happy and kind of sad. makes you wonder who "angelina" is.
  38. Christian Brothers - "fake concerns is what's the matter, man/and you think i oughta shake your motherfucking hand"
  39. Bottle Up And Explode! - like a burst of fresh air.
  40. Everybody Cares, Everybody Understands - i think he wrote this about being in rehab or a mental hospita, one of the two. i'm pretty sure the title is cynical.
  41. Bled White - "i may not seem quite right/but i'm not fucked/not quite"
  42. No Name #1 - perfectly describes the experience feeling awkward and out of place at a social gathering.
  43. Last Call - dark, almost biblical. "but i'll go to the service/and i'll go to pray/and i'll sing the praises in my maker's name/like i was as good as she made me/and i wanted her to tell me that she would never wake me"
  44. Memory Lane - simple. great guitar.
  45. Can't Make A Sound - clever comparision of his depression to a silent movie.
  46. Southern Belle - angry, escalating. "i don't wanna walk around/i don't even wanna breathe/i live in a southern town/where all you can do is grit your teeth"
Author Comments: 

this was pretty hard for me to do, i might change it around some.

(i am pretty elliott-centric. obviously.)

i messed-up in the bolding, too, but i'll fix it later when i'm less tired.