Songwriter Elliott Smith Dead at 34

[badorties]

damn

Singer Elliott Smith dead of apparent suicide (http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=514&e=7&u=/ap/20031022/ap_on_en_mu/obit_elliott_smith)

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"Life is not a problem to be solved but a reality to be experienced." -- Soren Aaby Kierkegaard

[tenaciousc]

does everyone i like have to kill themselves or die tragically?

damn is right.

[Tall_James]

does everyone i like have to kill themselves or die tragically?

remind me to piss you off.


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[Doctor Manhattan]

"Miss Misery," recorded for Gus Van Sant (news)'s "Good Will Hunting," was nominated for an Oscar in 1998

Oh that guy, I thought that guy sounded real Mellow. You think guys like Metallica would be the ones with the inner rage to kill themselves (they just sue their own fans, Well to be fair, The midget drummer sues his own fans, The singer just drinks and the other guys are cool)

And when did Gus Van Sant add (news) to his name? And has he done anything else beside the only good thing Ben Affleck/Matt Damon ever created and a shot for shot remake of Psycho?

He sustained a single stab wound to the chest that appeared to be self-inflicted, she said.

That's a real man, Killed himself Samuri-Style.

Not trying to make light of this. Shame to see a talent kill himself while people like blink-182 are still around.

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This message was edited by SofaKingWhat on 10-22-03 @ 1:40 PM

[FUNKMAN]

i didn't know him or his music unless i've heard it and didn't know it was him but i'll just say that whenever someone commits suicide i think about the torment and the struggle going on inside their brain or mind, it's got to be a very dark and lonely place...

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[TheMojoPin]

Jesus CHRIST, this is fucking awful.

Guy wrote some great, beautiful music. He had kinda dropped off in recent years in terms of output, and it's too bad that this is the way he had to pop back into the media spotlight.

Seeyuh, Elliot. Thanks for the music. You will be missed in this fan's heart.

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[JohnnyCash]

Damn. Another one.This is crazy.
and what an aweful way to go.Its a shame.

Always remeber the Man In Black.

[ChickenHawk]

Never heard of 'im.

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[TheMojoPin]

You're but a child...

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[monsterone]

what the fuck? ...and fred durst gets to live? god hates us all

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you see, the kids, they listen to the rap music, which gives them the brain damage. with the hippin' and the hoppin' and the bippin' and the boppin'.

[ChickenHawk]

You're but a child...
Dude... the guy was 34. He had 14 years on me. If anything, my generation is the one that knows him best. I just know nothing about music.

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[jstot13]

Why?? I am so depressed now

[The Chairman]

Quote:
You're but a child...

Dude... the guy was 34. He had 14 years on me. If anything, my generation is the one that knows him best. I just know nothing about music

So my generation is.........?

I vividly remember a show at CBGB's circa 1991? (ok I remember shows better than years) where one of my favorite bands ever, Treepeople was the headliner. Some band no one heard of called Everclear opened, followed by this band called Heatmiser. I was with some college friends who really knew music (we were a few years out of college but were tight and on top of the emerging Grunge scene) and I remember Keith, the guy who's half a face is on the back of the Dookie album) and Greeny and I saying we thought Everclear was chill, Heatmiser was good, and of course Treepeople rocked. Alex spoke with us for a while, Elliot looked like he needed Zoloft even then and well what do we have left? Everclear went the way of live bands we loved that sold out to commercial radio the (i.e. The Goo Goo Dolls, Soul Asylum) Heatmiser begat E.S. (speaking of great Portland bands I really liked Hazel and especially Crackerbash in those days) and Treepeople....begat Dug's Built To Spill and Dug solo and they keep it real and I have Ultimate Alternative Wavers on vinyl and cd and it's worth a lot of money and if you aren't a huge BTS fan you should be. And I know skidmark is and that means something.

Oh and like a year ago or so i started a thread that was called "you were right" and it was a game of sorts, based on a BTS song, where I started out with "You were Right when you said" and then i posted a lyric from a song like "we're all just dust in the wind", etc. but that was already used so it was more like, "you were right when you said"...
you can't always get what you want."

Something like that.

OK, I have a working computer now. I can still type fast but no more spell checking and my sigs all messed up but I missed many of you and no i wasn't banned and no I didn't move to Iceland and yes I'm still The Chairman love me or hate me.

so....

RIP Elliot Smith. You sounded like Nick Drake to me.


and you were right when you said:

the one's that love us best, are the one's we lay to rest, and visit their graves at holidays at best. and the one's who love us least, they're the one's we'll die to please, if it's any consolation, i don't begin to understand it.


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[Arienette]

i can't believe this. it's just so sad. elliott smith has been for quite some time, and will remain one of my favorite artists. he was incredibly talented, and his lyrics and music evinced a good heart.

i've seen elliott probably about six or seven times in concert. whenever he would thank the audience for their applause after a song, i really believed that he meant it. he actually seemed geniune.

the experience i'll never forget, though, was the time he played on letterman. i got on the waiting list for tickets and made it into the show. afterwards, i really wanted to try to get an autograph as the guests came out the side door of the theater. everyone else was waiting for bruce willis. when elliott and the band came out, they rushed quickly to their van. in an uncustomarily bold gesture, i ran over and asked elliott if i could have an autograph. his band mates snickered at me, as i guess it's pretty juvenile and/or cliche to run up to musicians for their autographs. elliott didn't make fun of me, though. he already had one foot in the van by the time i reached him, and he just turned around, smiled, and came back out again. he didnt' just scribble his name and leave, either... he took the time to ask me my name, and how to spell it, and then he signed my cd sleeve, "to randi... love elliott." it's one of my prized possessions.

"i waited for a bus to separate the both of us
and take me off far away from you
'cos my feelings never change a bit
i always feel like shit
i don't know why, i guess that i just do
you once talked to me about love
and you painted pictures of a never-neverland
and i could've gone to that place
but i didn't understand"

elliott, you will be sorely missed.


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This message was edited by Arienette on 10-22-03 @ 10:34 PM

[TheMojoPin]

Dude... the guy was 34. He had 14 years on me. If anything, my generation is the one that knows him best.

Well, not really. His biggest exposure and best music was coming out a good five years ago, when I was 19, and you were, what, 13? He was always targeted, whether he liked it or not, at the "college crowd", so my ilk and I were probably at the tail end of his audience.

Eh, whatever. It just sucks that he's dead. I'm not trying to be a prick to you or anything. It just doesn't suprise me that you wouldn't have heard of him.


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