I noticed the biggest change after the Oscar stuff, which seems to be when things started falling apart. We crossed paths once or twice in various contexts he was super shy. "Either/Or" was the album that really clicked with me, and I got to see lots of him live, solo and with bands (typically backed/with Quasi). 1995? It's a great song, but not really representative, especially in its primitiveness. I want to say the first time I heard him was maybe the "Needle in the Hay" 7" back in.
But obviously Smith's deep melancholy and modesty sets him apart he could have gone smarty-pants power-pop but obviously didn't dig that scene. There are a handful of sorta peers that have a lot in common with him, musically: Jon Brion, Jason Falkner, Brendan Benson, all Beatles-obsessed guys who are highly adept at arrangements and also playing every instrument. The clarity and continuity of thought is amazing-he can take a metaphor like that and sing about it for three minutes and never leave. It's about love, at first, or it seems to be you could look at it literally, being about going out for a night out at the bars the imagery could easily be about prison and, of course, it's potentially about addiction.
LUKE WOOD : The most available example of Elliott's skill as a writer, and his way with metaphor, is probably "Between the Bars".
I don’t always try to operate on the intellectual level I like to keep it in the land of feelings and then think about it afterwards if I need to. It’s that one pedal tone, and it really felt like… something. We took that one organ note, which he had previously recorded, and looped it. It sounds so natural, and so simple-then you try to play it. I mean, it’s not like he’s strumming G, C, D. It was ridiculous that he was able to just nail a vocal and guitar performance live, and he was able to double it live again. He would record one live take of vocal and guitar together, and then he would just double to it once we got it. ROB SCHNAPF: We recorded “Between the Bars”, “Angeles”, and “Say Yes” at the Shop.
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