Elliott Smith with an orchestra

An orchestra playing Elliott Smith's music. The quality's not that great but it's a good video for fans of Elliott.

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[kieran514]

Elliott isn't emo, it's more Baroque/Chamber Pop or Folk or Rock, he jumped around a lot.

Emo is just a term that emotionally retarded people lump elliott into because their musical education is very limited.

[T3hL337Sesshy]

I'm sure Elliott Smith would also disapprove of your homophobic bigotry.

[pezza5]

Shame this didn't happen 10 years later when the whole thing would've been recorded and put all over the net. Unlike most I've always preferred Elliott's Figure 8-type songs with bigger production to the earlier acoustic stuff.....I think inevitably he might've toured with an orchestra, and that would have been something dreams are made of. But I guess I'll never know...

[tysondigital]

@EDOM666DEVORE quite a literal interpretation. your comment is hilarious.

[EDOM666DEVORE]

i use to sing between the bars to my pet rat and its ears perked up every time elliot or i sang it it was the sound track to that rats life

[ilcongia]

genius



[rafecolii]

I would buy this record. Is it for sale? and where can I buy it?

[JackieFuckedup]

I hear junk bond trader and if I'm not wrong, color bars at the end?

[tamedturtle85]

IMO Elliott was one of the greatest song writers of our generation. Regardless if you like his studio mixes, voice, or lyrics, the man could write fresh, complex, chord progressions. He wrote mostly on piano (being his first instrument), and usually wrote and recorded ALL of the other instrument parts himself. Amazing how he infused classical music with rock. There are a lot of great singers, and guitar players. However, very few great songwriters and maybe once in a generation great at all 3.

[tamedturtle85]

You are all technically right because 'emo' is an arbitrary term thrown around to describe music today. However, it is not accurate to say he is 'emo' colloquially. That is reserved for high school bands that play two notes, call them chords, with heavy distortion. All their songs have progressions with the same I IV V pattern place into a 4 bar phrase. When they sing I do get depressed. Not the ES soulful sad bliss, but teenage angst and wonder why I was ever lame enough to think that way.

[stainedglasseyes1]

3:19 .. his hands are chubbly :3

That's adorable.

[0xOBIEx0]

Junk Bond Trader :)