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It might have been more interesting had he sung "Angeles. soared after he took his bow at the Oscars with Celine Dion and Trisha Yearwood. Either/Or crept out twenty years ago today on a relatively tiny, Portland-based indie record label, with no fanfare beyond a couple of good write-ups in. Between The Bars is the centerpiece of the album and perhaps Smiths career. Ironically, "Angeles" was included on the Good Will Hunting soundtrack, which won Smith the acclaim of Hollywood's biggest, brightest, and best connected voting body, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences. Elliott Smith holds a special place in my heart for many reasons. Simply put, the songs on Either/Or are Elliott Smith’s best, from the poppy and seething Ballad of Big Nothing to the beautifully haunting Angeles, which features Smith gently fingerpicking his guitar while a single keyboard note sounds in the distance. The lyrics are a darkly biting rejection of the hypercapitalist dream machinery of Los Angeles (it would make a great theme song for Smith's label, Kill Rock Stars). Elliott Smith - Either Or Album Cover Classic T-Shirt Designed and sold by HobbysHacienda 25. Elliott Smith’s self-titled album is often referred to as the blueprint for its critically acclaimed follow-up, Either/Or.
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"Angeles" is equally ethereal - Smith's acoustic fingerpicking spins out notes which briskly move around a single atmospheric keyboard chord, like aural minnows swimming toward a solitary light at the surface of the water. When Kill Rock Stars started working on the 25th anniversary reissue of Elliotts self titled album, we were thinking about how it. He sings, in his endearingly limited whisper, of late-night drinking and introspection, and his subdued strumming creates a minor-key mood befitting the mysteries of self. "Between the Bars," for example, plays Smith's strengths perfectly. The humbler arrangements are better suited to the sparse equipment. While the full-band songs are catchy and smart, Smith's recording equipment isn't quite up to the standards set by the Beatles and the Beach Boys. The most alluring numbers, however, are still his quietly melancholy acoustic ones. Several of the songs mimic the melody mastery of pop bands from 1960s. While he still plays all the instruments himself, he plays more of them. Elliott Smith's third album sees his one-man show getting a little more ambitious.