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Every time the day darkens down and goes away
Pictures open in my head of me and you
Silent and cliché
All the things we did and didn't say
Covered up by what we did and didn't do
Going through every out I used to cop
To make the repetition stop
What was I supposed to say?
Now I never leave my zone
We're both alone
I'm going home
I wish I'd never seen your face
| britoboy (Sao Paulo, Brazil) | Posted: May 16, 2013 - 12:52 overplayed |
| eac509 | Posted: May 08, 2013 - 12:41 ive started to find his voice boring |
| window (Richmond, VA) | Posted: Apr 26, 2013 - 08:16 aspicer wrote: This song really grabs me - it's one of those magical songs where it ALL just comes together - the voice, music, words...powerful! Agree completely. I haven't heard anything else by him that reaches this peak, but I'm still hoping that it happens. |
| aspicer (Chicago, IL) | Posted: Apr 26, 2013 - 08:13 This song really grabs me - it's one of those magical songs where it ALL just comes together - the voice, music, words...powerful! An excellent album overall. |
| Carl (The Summit City) | Posted: Apr 18, 2013 - 18:40 Deadwing wrote: Such a beautiful song. I'm sad beyond words that I never really heard him until after he was already dead.  Ditto. (Well, maybe not "beyond words," but certainly sad when I reflect on Elliott's life and potential, given what he did already.) |
| tiare (St. Remy, Paris, Los Angeles, Hilo, Wailuku Manoa, are my main hangs) | Posted: Apr 18, 2013 - 18:39 Elliot Smith was a musical god, if troubled, and so it was. Sad that he is gone, still his music lives on and perhaps so, we are blessed to have known his essence at all. |
| jared_w (Greensboro, NC) | Posted: Apr 07, 2013 - 08:43 very pretty song. popular for jazz arrangements, too: brad mehldau, chris o'riley (if you call him jazz), jeff d'antona, . . . |
| mojcamojca77 (Idrija) | Posted: Apr 05, 2013 - 23:00 Ah, what a lovely Waltz:-) |
| Dav3thedog | Posted: Apr 05, 2013 - 22:56 A big favourite! |
| Dav3thedog | Posted: Apr 05, 2013 - 22:56 A big favourite! |
| robinvankuijk | Posted: Apr 04, 2013 - 02:56 Shesdifferent wrote: I feel like I hear this song every time I turn on RP Lucky you |
| mkinnan (Kansas City) | Posted: Feb 22, 2013 - 09:40 Shesdifferent wrote: I feel like I hear this song every time I turn on RP Agree |
| Deadwing (Cincinnati OH) | Posted: Jan 31, 2013 - 08:08 Such a beautiful song. I'm sad beyond words that I never really heard him until after he was already dead. |
| Johnny-smooth (On my bicycle) | Posted: Jan 14, 2013 - 14:46 Geez how I love this guy's music. Breaks my heart to know that what we have today is all that he'll ever produced. |
| jimmpypowder | Posted: Jan 14, 2013 - 14:43 One of the most underrated musicians over the last 20 years or so RIP. |
| gigikent | Posted: Dec 14, 2012 - 05:44 Now we know where that teethy Gotye guy got inspired from |
| NeuroGeek (Just Way Out There) | Posted: Dec 14, 2012 - 05:42 Shesdifferent wrote: I feel like I hear this song every time I turn on RP I wish I heard this song every time I turned on RP |
| bitbanger (Upper West Side) | Posted: Nov 29, 2012 - 14:40 The great ones steal. ;) rdo wrote: One of America's great national treasures, Jacques Barzun, passed away last week. Barzun was America's greatest commentator on culture and a fierce critic. In the 1950s he was on the cover of Time for this reason (those were the days). He theorized on music among many other things. In his magnum opus From Dawn to Decadence, I learned from Barzun that theory always comes after the creation of great art. In other words, and here is my own personal take on this, a great musician does not learn a music theory and then go out and create based on what they have learned from other musicians. That kind of thing is for second-rate talents. The great ones change the rules of the game entirely and do what has never been done before, then the new theories will follow after. |
| vivyruest (San Rafael) | Posted: Nov 22, 2012 - 19:17 9 —> 10 |
| Shesdifferent (Just visiting this planet) | Posted: Nov 20, 2012 - 08:49 I feel like I hear this song every time I turn on RP |
| rdo (DC) | Posted: Oct 29, 2012 - 06:34 One of America's great national treasures, Jacques Barzun, passed away last week. Barzun was America's greatest commentator on culture and a fierce critic. In the 1950s he was on the cover of Time for this reason (those were the days). He theorized on music among many other things. In his magnum opus From Dawn to Decadence, I learned from Barzun that theory always comes after the creation of great art. In other words, and here is my own personal take on this, a great musician does not learn a music theory and then go out and create based on what they have learned from other musicians. That kind of thing is for second-rate talents. The great ones change the rules of the game entirely and do what has never been done before, then the new theories will follow after. |
| casey1024 (Here and Now) | Posted: Oct 24, 2012 - 08:36 love this song. well done. |
| RoelantSiekman (Rotterdam, The Netherlands) | Posted: Oct 08, 2012 - 23:14 These kind of songs are one the main reasons I listen to this wonderful station.. :) Thanks Bill&Rebecca! (as I said at the previous song (Radiohead - The Daily Mail)) |
| floydoftherocks (Frisco) | Posted: Sep 29, 2012 - 15:11 Perfection. RIP, Elliott... Hopefully you're not dating any more psychopaths wherever you are now... ;) |
| midreaming | Posted: Sep 27, 2012 - 19:06 LongGoneDaddy wrote: post grunge 90's version of an American Morrissey. "and though he keeps his eye fixed upon Noah's great rainbow, he spends his time peeking into Desolation Row"...  very nice |
| Misterfixit (Nashville) | Posted: Sep 18, 2012 - 11:43 Wonder what Jennifer Chiba is doing these days? |
| HearsayDave (a mysterious seaside village with Number Six) | Posted: Sep 18, 2012 - 11:41 ShockwaveRider wrote: You know, every comment on Elliott Smith seems to be about his untimely death. I think it's been long enough now that we should just think about him with gratitude, more like the way we think about Jimi Hendrix, Elvis, Janis Joplin, or Stevie Ray Vaughan (or many many others). Enough dwelling on the negative.
I agree. Thank you Elliott, you passed too early ... |
| ShockwaveRider (PDX) | Posted: Aug 30, 2012 - 13:25 You know, every comment on Elliott Smith seems to be about his untimely death. I think it's been long enough now that we should just think about him with gratitude, more like the way we think about Jimi Hendrix, Elvis, Janis Joplin, or Stevie Ray Vaughan (or many many others). Enough dwelling on the negative. |
| Johnny-smooth (On my bicycle) | Posted: Aug 30, 2012 - 13:22 RoelantSiekman wrote: Great singer-songwriter. Too bad we won't be hearing anything more of him.. (8/10) Ditto, Rest in Peace Elliott |
| Catecaneverall (Germany, Leipzig) | Posted: Aug 22, 2012 - 08:09 ziakut wrote: He is missed by me.  |
| casey1024 (Here and Now) | Posted: Aug 22, 2012 - 08:07 Love this song. And Elliot's work, in general. Such a loss. |
| ziakut (Right Here) | Posted: Aug 10, 2012 - 11:08 He is missed by me. |
| TJS (Bradley, Il) | Posted: Aug 10, 2012 - 11:06 8>9 |
| oldsaxon (Wales via Vancouver, BC.) | Posted: Jul 28, 2012 - 16:20 Xstar wrote: From Wiki: "Smith suffered from depression, alcoholism, and drug addiction, and these topics often appear in his lyrics. At age 34, he died in Los Angeles, California from two stab wounds to the chest.<2> The autopsy evidence was inconclusive as to whether the wounds were self-inflicted.<3> At the time of his death, Smith was working on his sixth studio album, From a Basement on the Hill, which was posthumously released."  Stabbing yourself, twice, in the chest (or anywhere) seems an unlikely method of suicide. Just my opinion, it's the twice thing that makes me wonder. Regardless, it's a darned fine tune and I wish he wasn't dead. |
| RoelantSiekman (Rotterdam, The Netherlands) | Posted: Jul 10, 2012 - 00:37 Great singer-songwriter. Too bad we won't be hearing anything more of him.. (8/10) |
| jules44 (Sunny North Carolina) | Posted: Jul 06, 2012 - 11:45 This is the best day on RP...EVER!!!  Thanks Bill! |
| thyceomx | Posted: Jul 01, 2012 - 09:04 take it out of my head! take it out!  |
| zillah (Fall in Philadelphia) | Posted: Jun 27, 2012 - 05:46 I'm a sucker for a waltz - I'll second the thanks for playing this!! |
| LongGoneDaddy | Posted: Jun 27, 2012 - 05:45 post grunge 90's version of an American Morrissey. "and though he keeps his eye fixed upon Noah's great rainbow, he spends his time peeking into Desolation Row"... |
| jasonnewmexico | Posted: May 26, 2012 - 09:07 The Shins sound very Smith-like at times - Smith was making songs as Heatmeiser for a decade before the Shins got together in ABQ. gemtag wrote: He sounds very Shins-like at times. Very nice sound. |
| lily34 (lexvegas) | Posted: May 19, 2012 - 15:37 mcullers wrote: This is the song that first turned me onto ES. Heard it on the local college radio station and bought the album the same day. Loved it so much that I bought the rest of his albums as well. This is one of the few songs that make me happy and sad at the same time. Thank you RP for playing it. i'm with you. |
| mcullers (Country-Dominated TX) | Posted: May 07, 2012 - 13:11 This is the song that first turned me onto ES. Heard it on the local college radio station and bought the album the same day. Loved it so much that I bought the rest of his albums as well. This is one of the few songs that make me happy and sad at the same time. Thank you RP for playing it. |
| Xstar (Florence, Kentucky) | Posted: Apr 26, 2012 - 01:56 From Wiki: "Smith suffered from depression, alcoholism, and drug addiction, and these topics often appear in his lyrics. At age 34, he died in Los Angeles, California from two stab wounds to the chest.<2> The autopsy evidence was inconclusive as to whether the wounds were self-inflicted.<3> At the time of his death, Smith was working on his sixth studio album, From a Basement on the Hill, which was posthumously released." |
| Byronape ("post-capitalist wreckageville") | Posted: Apr 15, 2012 - 23:28 sirdroseph wrote: Good lord, I don't think that is normal for any suicide!   |
| rdo (DC) | Posted: Mar 25, 2012 - 08:30 sirdroseph wrote: Good lord, I don't think that is normal for any suicide! I interpret Byronape's comment to mean that he does not agree with the conclusion that Smith's death was a suicide, but instead a murder. |
| sirdroseph (Yes) | Posted: Feb 14, 2012 - 11:08 Byronape wrote: Oh, didn't you see the reports? He was a drugie and killed himself by stabbing himself twice in the chest. That's normal for a druggie suicide... Good lord, I don't think that is normal for any suicide! |
| Egrey (WASH, DC) | Posted: Feb 12, 2012 - 13:10 I hope Elliot is somewhere out there clean, at peace, and making music. |
| gjeeg (Syracuse, New York) | Posted: Feb 12, 2012 - 13:09 "In the place where I have what it takes...." |
| Byronape ("post-capitalist wreckageville") | Posted: Jan 11, 2012 - 18:48 terrapin52 wrote: I love this song. Too bad he was stabbed to death. Oh, didn't you see the reports? He was a drugie and killed himself by stabbing himself twice in the chest. That's normal for a druggie suicide... |
| TerryS (Another SW) | Posted: Jan 11, 2012 - 18:38 That was egregious. |