Artist: Elliott Smith
Genre(s):
Indie
Pop
Rock
ROck: Alternative
Discography:
New Moon
Year: 2007
Tracks: 24
Unreleased Studio Recordings CD1
Year: 2006
Tracks: 22
Unreleased Studio Recordings
Year: 2006
Tracks: 19
Live In Paris
Year: 2003
Tracks: 11
Live in Austin
Year: 2003
Tracks: 21
Live Nantes
Year: 2000
Tracks: 21
Live at Bottom of the Hill, San Francisco
Year: 2000
Tracks: 20
Figure 8
Year: 2000
Tracks: 16
Either-Or
Year: 1997
Tracks: 12
Roman Candle
Year: 1995
Tracks: 9
Elliott Smith
Year: 1995
Tracks: 12
XO
Year:
Tracks: 14
Tribute to Elliott Smith
Year:
Tracks: 28
Singles and B-Sides CD2
Year:
Tracks: 14
Singles and B-Sides CD1
Year:
Tracks: 19
From A Basement On The Hill
Year:
Tracks: 15
Folk-punk singer/songwriter Elliott Smith rose from indie obscurity to mainstream success in 1997 on the strong point of "Miss Misery," his Academy Award-nominated song from the film Good Will Hunting. A native of Portland, OR, Smith began writing and recording his first songs at age 14, later decorous a fixture of the city's flourishing music aspect; as a member of the isthmus Heatmiser, he debuted in 1993 with the LP Dead Air, issue his first solo effort Roman Candle on the bantam Cavity Search label a year later on. For his 1995 self-titled album, Smith signed with the noted Kill Rock Stars label; Either/Or followed in 1997, around the same fourth dimension that filmmaker and longtime fan Gus Van Sant requested permission to usance the singer's music in his coming Good Will Hunting. Smith as well composed a fistful of modern songs for the soundtrack, among them "Overlook Misery," and when the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announced its Oscar nominations the following February, the track was a surprise entry in the Best Original Song category. Although he did not win, Smith performed the song live at the televised Oscar circularize, appearing onstage aboard superstars Trisha Yearwood and eventual award-winner Celine Dion in one of the to the highest degree notably dreamlike musical moments in recent memory. Smith's DreamWorks label debut, XO, followed later on in 1998. Two days later he delivered Figure 8, which indulged in lavish arrangements and orchestrations more than so than whatever of his previous solo efforts. For the future two age, Smith heavy over what was to be his next album, From a Basement on a Hill. He would not live to check its completion, however -- to the shock of friends and fans alike, Smith's body was set up on October 21, 2003. To date, the medical examiner has been unable to determine the cause of death, and the Los Angeles Police Department's investigation corpse open. From a Basement on a Hill was released deuce years shy of the number one day of remembrance of his last to critical herald. In 2007, Kill Rock Stars issued a two-disc set of some of the recent singer's unreleased put to work, all of which had been recorded between 1994 and 1997. Entitled Young Moon, the 24-track ingathering contained three songs that had been antecedently released on hard-to-find compilations or soundtracks, an early version of "Miss Misery," and a live favorite of his, a cover of Big Star's "Baker's dozen."
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