Biography

Elliott Smith started out as the leader of Portland-based alt-rock band Heatmiser, who made three mid-1990s albums achieving good reviews but disappointing sales. Eventually Smith reinvented himself as a solo singer-songwriter, and his first couple of albums were spare, acoustic, Nick Drake-like affairs full of exquisitely sad, melodic songs. The soundtrack to the 1997 film GOOD WILL HUNTING rocketed Smith to stardom in a dizzying flash, as the formerly unknown indie-rocker quickly found himself performing at the Oscars. With a bigger budget, Smith indulged his '60s jones, churning out Beatlesque albums of Baroque pop. His musical flame was sadly extinguished when the reportedly heroin-addicted songwriter committed suicide in 2003.

Top Tracks

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• A Passing Feeling

• All Cleaned Out

• Angel In The Snow

• Angeles

• Ballad Of Big Nothing

• Between The Bars

• Coming Up Roses

• Condor Ave.

• Half Right

• Independence Day

• Let's Get Lost

• Miss Misery

• Needle In The Hay

• No Name #1

• Placeholder

• Pretty Mary K

• Riot Coming

• Shooting Star

• Somebody That I Used To Know

• Son Of Sam

• Speed Trials

• St. Ides Heaven

• Sweet Adeline

• Waltz #2 (xo)

• Wouldn't Mama Be Proud?

Discography

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• From a Basement on the Hill

  Anti

  2004

• Figure 8

  Dreamworks SKG

  2000

• XO

  Dreamworks SKG

  1998

• Either/Or

  Kill Rock Stars

  1997

• Elliott Smith

  Kill Rock Stars

  1995

• Roman Candle

  Cavity Search

  1994