Elliott Smith Lives: The Definitive Guide

1.31.2006

Elliott Smith Lives: The Definitive Guide

So if you’ve been following along, I’ve been posting/linking my favorite Elliott shows, going in chronological order. Smith may not have the bootleg-following allure that the Grateful Dead do, but even beyond the quality of so many of his live performances, they’re a source of insight into his songwriting process, his unreleased material, his influences, and even the rare window into the personality of the man himself.

This page will compile what I consider the definitive Elliott Smith shows, along with the posts I made about them. Some of the shows are available for http download at Archive.org and Trash Treasury, and hopefully the ones that are not will be up soon. Otherwise, they’re all in circulation, so keep looking!

If you’re only going to get one, please, please do yourself a favor and get 6.02.98. Without further ado…

Elliott Smith – 9.17.94 Umbra Penumbra – Portland, OR
Download / Read post

Elliott Smith – 11.14.97 La Luna – Portland, OR
Download (currently unavailable) / Read post

Elliott Smith – 4.17.98 The Black Cat – Washington, D.C.
Download / Read post

Elliott Smith – 6.02.98 Studion – Stockholm, Sweden
Download / Read post

Elliott Smith – 10.02.00 The Southgate House – Newport, KY (full band!)
Download (currently unavailable) / Read post

Elliott Smith – 3.05.03 The Steamboat – Austin, TX
Download / Read post

Other recommendations:

Elliott Smith – 10.14.99 The Satyricon – Portland, OR
Elliott Smith – 2.06.01 Silverlake Lounge – Los Angeles, CA
(downloads currently unavailable)

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Never downloaded a live show or a show in lossless audio before? Check out the Archive.org FAQ.

Further Elliott Smith resources:
Sweetadeline.net
A fan site named the official site by Elliott himself. Webmaster Charlie Ramirez is the sweetest guy in the world, and this site has just about everything you need.

Elliott Smith B-Sides
Somesongs.net (bit torrent downloads)
Trash Treasury
Great downloading resources for live and unreleased material.

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july

http://www.gold4maple.com/maplestory-mesos
Alan

The music of Elliott Smith meant a lot to me growing up. Its been very difficult to listen to him since his passing. These links have helped bring his music back into my life. I really appreciate it. Thank You!
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jorge

the Stockholm, Sweden show is the best live show i've downloaded of Elliott Smith. listen to it all the time.
Trash Treasury

Thanks again for the links to my site!
july

http://www.gold4maple.com/maplestory-mesos

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Can’t argue with that. Strong finish, dudes.
09/03/10
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Bummed that on a list of a lot of only semi-obvious picks from artists with bigger, even better songs, Elliott Smith got stuck with “Needle in the Hay,” the song that most plays into the Elliott Smith Was Sad And Took Drugs And Sang About Himself Narrative, when, like Joni Mitchell or Neil Young or his heroes in Big Star and the Beatles, his “confessionalism” was as much storytelling and character study as it ever was diary-page.

Despite “Miss Misery,” it is admittedly the song I think he’s best known for; it is a great and powerful song, but he was and remains so much more than that.

Also, this: “Posthumously parsing Elliott Smith songs— for foreshadowing, for anything— feels like something of a fool’s errand in 2010.”

I don’t know, Amanda, does that mean David Foster Wallace’s books have no meaning now? Or the poems of, like, Samuel Coleridge? What an awfully slippery slope to look for an angle on.

Also really glad “1979” charted so high, song rules, the Pumpkins rule(d), suck it, cred.
09/03/10
The guitars on the No Age album
They sound like volcanoes erupting or meteors killing dinosaurs

It’s amazing that there are songs here at all
09/03/10

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