Elliott Smith - Pictures of Me

[betterthansuperman12]

Elliot Smith was definitely one of the most influential musicians ever. He saved me. Too bad he couldn't save himself.

[IMNOTAPOLICEOFFICER]

@PostmodernBeatnik

makes perfect sense..

[irishsassenach]

It wouldn't make a difference to most people. This being the web, all the haters jump out of the closet whenever the word 'gay' is mentioned. Err, and he wasn't gay.

[aaronmyers1982]

Even if he WAS gay. Who cares? What difference would that make?

[bombaymatt]

A great record!!!

[Mswasabi22]

I can tell definitely my friend he was not gay. I miss him and you should not have commented at all.

[joebstarsurfer]

Eliot Smith wasnt a muthfukin gay fish lol

[10Degreesify]

He has been an amazing guy. Just rest in peace, you deserve the whole world. <3

[QuistTV]

love this song soooo much. I've just uploaded a song inspired by ES.

[GSarovich]

Elliott, I really wonder what you thought. All these songs, they gave us an idea. But i really want nothing more than to come face to face with you. Ask you a few questions that were never answered.. RIP everyone misses you

[OverlordGnarly]

The 20 second pause in the beginning is slightly annoying, but this in an amazing song.

[MickyL006]

Ive heard this song a million times and just noticed the cough at 3.37. Had to check my i pod just to make sure. It is a cough right?

[MickyL006]

N/m. its the strings

[Vamphaery]

@MickyL006 It's the sound of guitar strings being slid against by fingers.

[EdenTheoryRocks]

a great song, off of a great album, which i heard for the first time this year (2009). smith was the second greatest songwriter of the modern era, next to only the king himself, lennon (honorable mentions to mccartney, mercury, and yorke, who, at their best, are perfect). in a sense, perhaps smith is the greatest of all time, as he never released a song anywhere close to mediocre (a few posthumous releases notwithstanding)

to echo the sentiment of a previous comment, he was a true hero

[atticusallstars]

Without McCartney there's no Lennon & vice versa. Without the two of them there's no Elliott Smith......there's no anything without the Beatles.

[Johnsoniscoolandya]

You forgot Kurt Cobain.

[EdenTheoryRocks]

i respect your comment, but in my opinion cobain was more of a "performance artist", if u will, than pure songwriter...he wrote some great pop rock songs, no doubt, and is one of the best, and his band made a huge, huge, impact, but i personally would not put him in the same category as a *songwriter* as those individuals as i mentioned...there r many forgettable nirvana songs, in terms of actual structure (cobains soul elevates the work)

[IMNOTAPOLICEOFFICER]

@EdenTheoryRocks

kurt cobain is definitely one of the best songwriters ever, and i'm not even a huge nirvana fan.

[TheTvrulesthenation]

IMNOTAPOLICEOFFICER

I've got to completely disagree, Cobain sure did know the art of writing lyrics well. But to call him the best songwriter ever i think is ridiculous, I wouldn't even say Elliott was the best. He however was like R.Frost the poet in that his works were straightforward but subtle at the same time & appeals to everybody.

Some photos here that i wouldn't even recognise was Elliott

[IMNOTAPOLICEOFFICER]

@TheTvrulesthenation kurt cobain the best songwriter ever? hell no. who said that?

[IAmTheWoodenDoors]

Um, Bob Dylan was around before the Beatles, and he takes the cake when it comes to lyrics...

[HeleneRT]

Totally agree :) me too :)

[cjgirl5]

he is one of the few that I can say without any dout that he is a true musical hero

[marisareneebayless]

i love the picture of him at 3:22

he looks so happy.

[inthelifeanyway]

@marisareneebayless wow.. i've never seen a full smile on him. he looks so handsome.

[chairsarecool]

everybody's dying just to get the disease. hmm...maybe i won't try to be famous after all. Screw it i'm trying anyway.

[80sRockerKid]

my favorite

[sweetbriar3]

3:14 ♥

[Lithium40]

Ukechi - Great insight

I always thought it was about celebrity culture!

[siganoff1]

2:14

[siganoff1]

@2:16

[benmeltzer]

I saw him play this at Spaceland in '98. The guy next to me, who had been snapping photos incessantly all night, kept right on taking them throughout this entire song. Completely wrong. Totally wrong.

[Davidvilla017]

Elliott was the greatest ever.

So simply is that dude!

[needleinthehay331]

That picture at 2:14 kinda gives me chills, when he was so obviously strung out.

[thtsritesun1212]

do you know if that was photo was taken right before he left?

[needleinthehay331]

Eh...I don't know exactly when that was taken, but definitely while he was recording From a Basement on a Hill

[Trumpour93]

Thanks for the clarification "ukechi".

[mrfleety]

Oh yeah. Thanks!

[mrfleety]

Nick Drake too.

[mrfleety]

Sad, beautiful, nicely done. For some of us the suffering is unendurable.

[gulagger]

EXCELLENT FKIN SONG

[Trumpour93]

Isn't it ironic how in this particular song, he's stating that he's fed up with pictures of himself. Yet, in his memory, we put up a slideshow of him to commemorate him, as an artist and a person. I understand completely though... we can't help ourselves - an absolutely extroardinary musician.

Excellent work, excellent choice of song.

[ukechi]

trumpour-Actually he stated in an interview this song was about humans being similiar, and when you see someone do something fucked or violent you recognize that potential in yourself. "It's just that the flipside of everybody being equally human is, that everyone can be equally inhuman, too." So really...there's just no irony here at all.

[charleysaysrawr]

@Trumpour93 he's not fed up with litteral pictures of him, like a slidshow, he's fed up of how people perceive him. just my thoughts though.

[Trumpour93]

@charleysaysrawr, I know it's not meant to be as figurative as I'm making it out to be, but it's ironic nonetheless. Anyways, I just think Elliott Smith was incredible, and his music is infinite. I hope people continue to discover and support his brief life and career.

[toastylettuce45]

@charleysaysrawr no ur right but almost nobody actually looks deep enough into his lyrics and actually interprets them correctly like the two of us...

[Theing9e]

@Trumpour93

Captain Obvious is in da house

[pr0dd2k9]

@Trumpour93 I believe what Elliott meant by "Pictures of Me" was a thought of a person, not literally pictures of him, I'm sure he had no problems with photos of himself, I mean theres one on the album cover.

[LrdAsmodeous]

@pr0dd2k9 Pretty much, it's about how people project what they want a person to be on a person, as compared to what they are.

[Trumpour93]

@pr0dd2k9 I agree it's not intended to be taken as literally as tangible photographs - I think those "Pictures" of Elliott represent his insecurity and vulnerability to others perceptions. And that symbolism is the very same that anyone feels, really. It's just human nature, I guess. Anyways, I just couldn't help note the irony and commend who has become one of my favourite musicians and poets of all time.

[annieeeedotcom]

@Trumpour93 Just about to say that. Ah Elliott Smith, the world needs him alive.

[hectorleon87]

anybody know in what slideshow is a picture of elliott as a child holding a kiss album?

[needleinthehay331]

I don't know what slideshow it's in, but I'm pretty sure it's in the biography. My memory could be slipping, but I KNOW I've seen that somewhere...

[openorclosed]

come back

[MikeAdozen]

Love his music and the peaceful state of mind it puts me in.

[NathanPathan]

rip saint elliot

[misssally]

can anyone tell me who drew that fantastic picture of him at the end of the video? It's wonderful!

[atwagrl]

i think it's just a computer effect on a picture unfortunatly..x

[misssally]

really? sheesh. It is pretty, though.

[atwagrl]

yeah, i think so..it might be a painting i could be wrong!

it is damn pretty though!

x

[SaveMeJeebuss]

smex

[Stillillgal]

great

tnx