r/elliottsmith

I don’t really have reasoning behind these, but for me it would probably be:

‘Is a cloud of smoke trying to occupy space?’
- I Didn’t Understand

‘The slow motion moves me
The monologue means nothing to me’
- Can’t make a sound

‘Why should you want any other
When you’re a world within a world’
- also Can’t make a sound

‘So go to sleep amid the change’
- Independence Day

‘You say you mean well
You don’t know what you mean’
- Everybody Cares, Everybody Understands

‘If you’re alone it must be you
that wants to be apart’
- Alameda

‘Everyone is gone
Home to oblivion’
- No Name #3

I saw this in a recent post and decided to build my own. Let me know what you think, and if you play post your results!

Edit: Added a hard mode with rarities and about 30 other album songs.

Yall ever feel like you are so deeply understood by Elliott that the best thing to do is to stop listening to him? Not because you don’t like his music anymore, not because you move on, but because how deeply it pierces through your sense of self (or something like that lol) that you must stop?

Well that was me 10 months ago, after listening to him on repeat for years.. Just sat still and listened to the entire New Moon album and it felt like finally sitting down after a 12 hour shift. I’m glad I stopped listening to him for a while, but I don’t know what it means to have decided to listen again. I love him so much.

Such an amazing performance overall. Clementine in particular with this setup is so heavy. When I first heard this live set (not in person unfortunately) I couldn’t even call the song until the lyrics started. What I wouldn’t give to have been there.

As much as I love Elliott Smith and would love for people to actually know who he is when I tell them he’s my favourite artist, I genuinely fear his music becoming really popular on tiktok. If he was alive today then obviously I would hope for him to have an ever bigger career but as he is sadly not I feel like his music needs to guarded at all costs from being tiktokifyed, where people just use his music without really knowing anything and take it at surface level. This may sound very much like i’m a gatekeeper which I lowkey am but if I was to see ‘Say Yes’ on a spotify ‘tiktok 2026’ playlist I would freak. Anyway what are yalls thoughts?

For those who don't know, Spotify has been generating playlists of their users' most-played songs of all-time. I should probably ditch Spotify since the people in charge seem pretty awful, but anyway - here are my 10 most-played ES songs on there since 2011:

1. No Confidence Man - live at Umbra Penumbra (also my most-played song ever)

2. High Times

3. Lowlife (Heatmiser)

4. First Timer

5. Talking to Mary

6. Whatever (Folk Song in C)

7. Get Lucky (Heatmiser)

8. Needle in the Hay

9. I Figured You Out

10. Coast to Coast - early version

I think it's a cool assortment, and pretty different from what I would say are my 'favorites.' Curious if anyone else has a similar batch.

There's just so many good songs on it, and I think it has a calmer feel overall which I love. I know that elliot didn't really release it, but I still love it. It's new moon or from a basement on the hill. I loved the direction he was going I'm so sad he's gone man.