Any Elliot Smith fans?

[YOhio]

Originally Posted by Coach McGuirk

I used to make emo CD's for the kids in my ward when they would tell me they were emo. I would call it "Finding Emo".....boy were they shocked to learn the bands that were emo compared to what they were listening too.

That would be another good playlist to post. Who were they listening to as opposed to who was on the CD?

[YOhio]

Originally Posted by MikeWaters

I remember when he played at the Oscars (?). It was weird to see one lone guy with his guitar, playing an earnest nice song, in the midst of all that Babylon.

I just checked that out on youtube. Definitely out of place in that environment.

[YOhio]

Originally Posted by marsupial

Danimal and I were just talking about Elliot Smith the other day and how much we enjoyed seeing him many years ago at DV8 in SLC. We were first turned on to his music from Good Will Hunting. Yeah, I'd love to see him again. Too bad he's gone.

The sequence in Royal Tenenbaums with his song Needle in the Hay is very creepy in retrospect.

[Frank Ryan]

His music is too broody and sad for me

[danimal]

Originally Posted by Frank Ryan

His music is too broody and sad for me

That's what I love about his music -- his melancholy. He was clearly a deeply troubled dude.

Apparently, his death was not decidedly a suicide. Some evidence pointed toward homicide by his girlfriend. http://www.thesmokinggun.com/archive/esmithaut1.html

For you Dallas area folks -- he grew up in Lancaster.