ELLIOTT SMITH, 'Unreleased Songs from the Basement' [imagined LP]

"This is a compilation of some unreleased songs off my 20th anniversary restoration of From a Basement on the Hill - all instrumentation and mixing on these songs is Elliott's." - brightwater [YouTube content copied from --- not affiliated with this blog; just similar to one I made but this is wayyyy better]

LISTEN HEAR: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IahBzR4v7Q8

 0:00 See You in Heaven¹

4:45 Melodic Noise (Excerpt 1) 6:14 Mr Goodmorning² 9:41 Brand New Game³ 13:10 Cecilia/Amanda⁴ 15:58 Dancing on the Highway / Splitsville ⁵ 22:04 Abused 24:50 From the Poisoned Well 28:01 Yay!⁶ 30:09 The Assassin (or Kill/F***)⁷ 34:17 Everything's Okay⁸ 38:48 Blind Alley⁹ 43:40 Where I Get it From 47:19 Suicide Machine 50:17 O So Slow / Melodic Noise (Excerpt 2) 58:58 I'll Be Back Notes: ¹ Intended to have vocals (these aren't circulating) ² Elliott said this song begun and ended with manipulated live audio, so I’ve added these sections from his incomplete instrumental to each end of the completed song - so I’ve introduced nothing of my own ³ Elliott said he’d pan this mix into one ear and pan a remaking of this in the other, with a guitar solo moving between each ear (this isn't circulating) ⁴ This mix is from 1997. If he rerecorded or remixed it, it’s not circulating. It works well in its current arrangement though, fitting in with the 60s pop feel of many other Basement songs, so its inclusion didn’t feel out of place, especially in light of songs like Suicide Machine, which feels complete but only had 2 new elements added to its UMG incarnation ⁵ I've sadly had to remove the intro from Dancing on the Highway due to copyright restrictions - see the full album for the full song ⁶ Intended to have vocals (these aren't circulating) ⁷ It's unknown if this was meant to have vocals ⁸ This was more of a demo, intended to be rerecorded (this isn't circulating) ⁹ Intended to have vocals (these aren't circulating) "On interludes: I haven’t found any proof of Elliott’s intent on this, however it’s been a useful way of fitting content into the limit of 30 songs. He of course introduced these in Figure 8, and their usage fits well on Basement due to its similar but different style of auditory impressionism. It also again mirrors the White Album slightly. Elliott expressed intent on using only the second half of Splitsville, which inspired its use as an interlude. Elliott referred to his noise recordings as not exactly songs in themselves, and Melodic Noise didn’t quite fit on the album, yet Elliott made an October 2003 mix of it. This inspired me to use 2 excerpts as other interludes. Any more or less interludes seemed overly forced. On the Beatles cover: it’s known that Elliott wasn’t opposed to having covers on his albums, since Figure 8 was meant to be on Figure 8 at some point, but just didn’t fit. This cover, with its 2003 mix and fleshed-out sound, seemed appropriate to include (and doesn’t seem to have been slated for a different release like Trouble), and resolved the album perfectly as a last track, continuing Elliott’s penchant for meta song titles (See You Later, Bye), while also continuing the album’s sound and themes perfectly." - brightwater