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ELLIOTT SMITH - From A Basement On The Hill
| Guardian | | On Sunday night, Noel Gallagher appeared on Channel 4, commenting on Nirvana's lyrics. It is difficult to recall exactly what he said. The idea that anyone with a working knowledge of either Oasis's back catalogue or the English language would ask Noel Gallagher to discuss lyrics brought on a state of shock, from which the viewer did not easily recover. The gist, though, was that those who thought that Nirvana's final album, In Utero, constituted an extended suicide note were "talking bollocks"....full text |
| | StylusMagazine | | Has any modern songwriter proven to be as gloomily, uncomfortably prescient as Elliott Smith? Biggie and Tupac, maybe, but I can’t name another. Over a ten year solo career in which he battled heroin and self-loathing, he dropped numerous hints of an impending demise, whether by drugs, depression or hara-kiri. He recorded the type of song that one film immortalized in a scene of attempted suicide, a few years before he successfully attempted his own....full text |
| | Playlouder | | 'From A Basement On The Hill' is Smiffy's first (and hopefully last) posthumous release. As a long-standing fan of the craggy-faced gent, the news of his suicide upset me. Despite a long run of cancelled UK gigs and delays to this album, Elliott had seemed to be recovering from a life full of drink and drugs. US shows had gone down well, and a 7" release of 'Pretty (Ugly Before)' and its stunning, stripped-down B-side 'A Distorted Reality Is Now A Necessity To Be Free' had promised so much. ...full text |
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