New Moon

Elliott Smith - New Moon

New Moon
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Artist: Elliott Smith
Edition: Music CD
Audio: English (Unknown)
CD Release Date: 2007-05-08
Music Label: Kill Rock Stars
Soundtracks:
Music CD 1
  1. Angel in the Snow
  2. Talking to Mary
  3. High Times
  4. New Monkey
  5. Looking Over My Shoulder
  6. Going Nowhere
  7. Riot Coming
  8. All Cleaned Out
  9. First Timer
  10. Go By
  11. Miss Misery
  12. Thirteen
Music CD 2
  1. Georgia, Georgia
  2. Whatever (Folk Song in C)
  3. Big Decision
  4. Placeholder
  5. New Disaster
  6. Seen How Things Are Hard
  7. Fear City
  8. Either/Or
  9. Pretty Mary K (other version)
  10. Almost Over
  11. See You Later
  12. Half Right

Free Music Notes for New Moon

Free Music Review: It's just a fond farewell to a friend...
Hit: 5 Stars

I stumbled upon Elliott Smith a couple of years back and my musical world has not been the same sense. To say that the majority of his songs are hauntingly exceptional is such an understatement. I listen to a lot of music, always have, always will. I try to do the research, I read up, I investigate, I look around, I keep my ears and mind open for new stuff. And yet throughout the deserted island side of my musical library, that includes:
The BAND, Hendrix, SPOON, White Stripes, Arctic Monkeys, Pantera, Soundgarden, Jim Croce, My Morning Jacket, Cream, Nick Drake, The Beatles, Metallica, Otis Redding, etc.--- Elliott is set apart as something special. I can't necessarily pin point what it is: maybe it is his soft, wispy voice, that in all recordings, especially live shows, is enveloped by such a stark vulnerability and reality of emotions, anger-- despair--etc. Maybe it is the realism in his songs-- I don't know. But I believe that he is the most distinct and valuable melody maker/songwriter of the last twenty years.

This latest release demands five stars and more because of the fact that the songs that didn't make the cut for his earlier albums are sufficient to eclipse the work of anybody going today. His 'throwaways', his discarded tracks that just didn't make the final structure of an album are far better than everything else out there.

Highlights:

High Times-- if this doesn't move you-- nothing will.

Talking to Mary-- great track, I have had this recording for awhile from the Trash Treasury-- but it demands an honorable mention.

Miss Misery- this is certainly the earliest version I have heard, with yet unchanged lyrics, not complete or polished but still breathtaking. There is a version on just piano out there somewhere that everyone should have as well.

Thirteen-- this Big Star cover is always worthwhile-- there is an exceptional live version of this at the 'internet live music archive'-- which has several worthwhile Elliott Shows on there-- download the 'Black Cat' show from 98'-- all Elliott- all acoustic-- all incredible.

Everything else on this release is just another addition to those songs that a true fan of Elliott now cannot live without.
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New Moon Poster

New Moon is a 2-CD/2-LP posthumous compilation album by Elliott Smith, released on May 8, 2007 by Kill Rock Stars. It contains 24 previously unreleased songs recorded between 1994 and 1997, when Smith recorded his albums Elliott Smith and Either/Or, both also released by Kill Rock Stars.
When Elliott Smith died late in 2003, he took with him one of the unique songwriting gifts of his generation: part folk grandeur, part punk fury, and virtually bottomless in eight short years of solo recordings. Thankfully for that generation, and many to come, he left behind two dozen songs that his Portland, Oregon, producer and pal Larry Crane has crafted into a retrospective celebration of Smith's contribution to music. Mostly house-recorded demos plucked from the fertile three years that followed his 1994 debut Roman Candle (including an early take of "Miss Misery"), there's an eminent clarity to these songs that makes them sound like they were recorded yesterday. A lone acoustic guitar is the general accompaniment to Smith's lamenting wail, his self-deprecating lyrics forever a contrast to the sheer beauty of the melodies. "What are you doing hanging out with me?" he asks in "Whatever (Folk Song in C)," his double-tracked harmonies mocking both Simon and Garfunkel. Along with fragile versions of "Angel in the Snow," "Looking over My Shoulder," and a cover of Big Star's "Thirteen," it's as eternal as anything Smith offered when he was with us, and, as one of several shining moments, makes you forget he ever left. --Scott Holter

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