Elliott Smith - Ballad of Big Nothing (Early Version)

[CodexRedBlueGreen]

Classic. I dig the quality of this one as well as the lyrics. Thanks for the upload, man. I recently stumbled into his B-side "Where i get it From," and if you aren't familiar i highly suggest listening to it. Also: True Love, Stickman, I Can't Answer You Anymore, Going Nowhere, The Enemy is You, No Confidence Man. Probably preaching to the choir, i dunno; Cheers, mate.

[DjangosBurntFingers]

Thanks yet again uh Billy if Im not mistaken. Where did you find all of those amazing photographs? I mean really. Youve got some absolutely astonishing gems. Id truely be interested to know how you found such a collection. I love Benjamin Nugents book. But it is a bit lacking in great photos. Maybe there will be re issue one day. At this point I believe it is THE DEFINITIVE BIO of Elliotts life and Mainly. THANKFULLY. his work. Thats whats important to me. The Music. I think you get that.

[StelliosHolmes]

@DjangosBurntFingers Ah no problem man I just have some rare stuff that deserves to be more widly heard, I found the pictures through good old google, I really delved deep I thought the rarity of the tracks deserved something a little different, I have Nugents book and it's definately the definitive one to date but a little birdy has told me about a new book written studying his music from a psychological standpoint which is currently in development

[StelliosHolmes]

@DjangosBurntFingers I definately get that it's all about the music, someone sent me over 1GB of Elliott remix's, basically seperating every era of his life into the rare mixes and early verisions of the released stuff, the unreleased stuff and the early mixes of those and any live tracks that were never recorded frome ach era basically every B side and release to date I am working through uploading it all......and yes it is Billy

[Oxidized181]

2:00 hahaha!!! i love that

[schwarzblatt]

Very cool to hear these early versions. I will say I almost always prefer the final version though. You can just hear how much smoother the lyrical cadences always are in the final product.

[StelliosHolmes]

@schwarzblatt I have a tonne of these from most of the albums I just thought i'd upload them cause they were a bit different I love hearing hte slightly different lyrics on when a guitar is slightly different I listen to so much elliott when I sing along in my head I can even follow the breathing patterns it's awesome when I listen to one of these and it throws me off like a new song :P

[DjangosBurntFingers]

That was really a very nice tribute to Elliott. I just do not know where someone finds the photos. Without a doubt they are THERE. Wow. I'v read Benjamin Nugent's book, but I have never seen any of those photos except maybe, sorta, the last one. I'v seen a photo of the place. Very good. "Ballad of Big Nothing". I'm just sort of all about the music but the photos are really good like that. Thank you for doing that for Elliott.

[StelliosHolmes]

@DjangosBurntFingers Hey man no problem Elliott has done enough for the rest of us I found these just doing a snoop online I have a bit collection same way I found all these rough cuts and stuff I have Benjamin's nugents book too I loved it I couldn't put it down his is such a unassuming story he touched so many people he didn't even know how beautiful he actually was

[evelyn112101]

The mullet pic & the short, shorts knobby-knees ones made me laugh, ahahahahaha!! :) ahhh, Elliott, you're missed..

[StelliosHolmes]

@evelyn112101 I love how pretty much everyone is just commenting on the mullett :P

[evelyn112101]

@StelliosHolmes cuz its cute to see him in a mullet when hes known for being all broody ;) haha it just makes me smile

[galaxygirllove]

OH GOD THAT MULLET.

WHY, ELLIOTT, WHY?

[flatrounds]

It's interesting that his demos and live renditions stay pretty close to the finished, "studio" cuts.

Elliott was a perfectionist obsessed by composition and arrangement. </3

[StelliosHolmes]

@flatrounds Yeah defiantely I can invision him working over and over changing the slightest detail a word here and chord there apparantly he had a piano in his home in LA and his neighbours hated it cause he'd play the same thing for hours and hours while working on a song until he felt it was right

[stainedglasseyes1]

0:49 is the cutest picture ever(:

[IARE1031]

1:31 hahhahahaha

[StelliosHolmes]

@IARE1031 Dude it was the 80's everyone had a mullett :P