New Elliott Smith rarities surface, available for download
February 17th, 2009 by Stephen Hammill in News
Another year, another posthumous release from Elliott Smith. An album’s worth of unfinished recordings and outtakes from From A Basement On The Hill has leaked.
Among the 17 songs is a Beatles cover for the song I’ll Be Back.
Considering how much material has been uncovered, we’d expect to be hearing really rough and diluted material at this point, but these recordings are anything but.
Download Smith’s cover of the Beatles’ I’ll Be Back.
To download all 17 tracks, follow the link below the jump:
Download a ZIP file of all 17 tracks here.
February 17th, 2009 at 2:32 pm
dear stephen,
EPIC. THANKS!
love, Lily
February 17th, 2009 at 4:30 pm
i recently came across this myself. the word is that these are tracks and mixes that his family didn’t want released. the tracks here that are also on “from a basement” are far superior mixes, more true to what smith was working on before he was killed. from what i’ve heard and read, his family wasn’t involved in his life at all, so it’s unnerving that they would hold back on releasing this material. these 17 tracks are an amazing reminder of what was taken from the music world. thankfully, someone has leaked these for all to hear. the instrumental tracks are haunting and the last track, a cover of cat stevens “trouble”, is pure gold.
as far as my statement about smith being killed, read the official coroner’s report for yrself and make up yr own mind. i think he was murdered.
http://www.thesmokinggun.com/archive/esmithaut1.html
February 17th, 2009 at 5:24 pm
Agreed that these tracks sound more like something Smith might have mixed himself than what we get on “from a basement.”
February 17th, 2009 at 8:54 pm
Agreed. This sounds like his finished product more. Wish we knew more about his passing and that more was revealed about his life story, so people would finally learn he wasn’t the mope he’s so often pegged to be. Smith was an upstanding, no-nonsense, hard-working musician.
May 11th, 2009 at 3:30 am
Thank you! Thank you! Thank you!! I just about cried of joy..
January 21st, 2010 at 4:14 am
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January 21st, 2010 at 4:14 am
Thanks for posting this, lifted my day.