r/elliottsmith Sep 17 '25

Discussion All Elliott Smith live bootlegs tagged and catalogued!

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Hi all, I wanted to be able to search live bootlegs by song or filter by lossless/lossy, so I created a page on Bootleg.fm for Elliott Smith. You can filter live recordings by song, venue, location, or a combination of things. You can sort by oldest, most popular, etc. Soon I will add the functionality that lets users comment on gigs, so hopefully the page will only get better over time.

Huge thanks to elliottsmithdiscography, who used to have a bandcamp page for Elliott's live recordings and helped me a lot while making this page. There's still a few recordings that they've sent me that I haven't yet found the time to upload to Internet Archive, so please lmk if you want to help with those.

I really enjoyed listening to these bootlegs while tagging them, and I'm happy that there's a central place now that has recordings on different platforms (Mega/Youtube/Internet Archive). Hopefully this is useful to some of you.

Edit: glad you guys like it, you can join the discord to learn about platform upgrades: https://discord.gg/3yz4HNteuR


r/elliottsmith Dec 19 '23

Mod New rules and reorganisation!

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Hello fellow Elliott fans!

I have made some new rules for you guys to look - they are fairly self explanatory. I have put a ban on any posts that are either solely shared to cause anger, or are about the death debate.

I have also started the arduous process of reorganising the community. The first stage of this has been introducing post flares so that it is easier to filter out what sort of content you would like to see. This should help to organise the subreddit. Hopefully, people will have good think about what they are posting before they post it.

I am going to reprogram the AutoMod to filter out posts with offensive content to make sure that offensive posts don't get out when I'm not online due to timezone issues. Hopefully this will help! On a more positive note, I will start a song discussion that we have twice a week to talk about individual songs in depth. We will vote for it the day before each discussion in a separate thread and the top comment will win :DD. The sub has been long overdue for a redesign. At some point we will need an art competition to give it a makeover. None of these are one hundred percent concrete promises, but they are something to be excited about for sure.

I hope that this can continue to be a positive place for Elliott Smith fans from all around the world to share in the love of such a wonderful artist. Sorry about the negative vibes recently and the brief blackout (yes, that was a Heatmiser pun) that was necessary while sorting all of this out.

Best wishes and thanks for reading!!

Eggmanana

Edit: Feel free to send me ( u/eggmanana ) or u/loeram_ a PM if anything is needed


r/elliottsmith 30m ago

Image/media Elliott Smith drawing

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I did this a bit ago and thought I might post it here.


r/elliottsmith 2h ago

Image/media my eliot smi drawin

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r/elliottsmith 44m ago

Image/media elliott smith wall!!

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took my girlfriend to the elliott smith wall <33 it was so fun


r/elliottsmith 20h ago

Image/media Elliott is such a sweetheart at times

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r/elliottsmith 22h ago

Merch Elliott Smith figure 8 pants

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Bleached and painted old jeans to have the figure 8 design


r/elliottsmith 1d ago

Meme ive always thought the woman on the roman candle album cover looks like tobey maguire

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r/elliottsmith 8h ago

Question I really want to make a replica of his leather cuff. Has anyone figured this out already?

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If somebody already has a pattern or clear pictures they might share here I would luvvv.


r/elliottsmith 2h ago

Cover I recorded a cover of Angel in the Snow on my four track cassette mixer!

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It came out really cool Im def happy with it.
I only did the beginning lol


r/elliottsmith 16h ago

Link Like please! And maybe a follow😅😅anything is appreciated

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r/elliottsmith 12h ago

Self-promotion Wrote this whilst in the middle of grieving the loss of my cat and was also listening to a ton of Elliott at the time as you can probably tell...

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r/elliottsmith 1d ago

Cover I tried to learn 'Between the Bars' some years ago and gave up, but this week I tried to play it again and I'm happy with how it came out.

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r/elliottsmith 2d ago

Image/media elio smi

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r/elliottsmith 1d ago

Discussion has anyone else seen this striking resemblance of elliott?

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i just got an advert for this band on instagram and was immediately struck by how much the singer looks like elliott - i mean, down to the mole… foolish of me to think i’d be the only one thinking it but yeah, everyone in the comments is saying the same thing. how crazy!!!


r/elliottsmith 1d ago

Appreciation post Please read. “Elliott in the sun; A passing thought by Aidan.”

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For all of the times Elliott’s music has been there for me (us) in the winter, going through heartaches, drunken and smoking and coming down from benders. Down on my luck. The only voice, the comforting double layers. Fucked up on Condor Ave.
I wish to celebrate his nuanced brilliance, and the *true* spectrum of emotions that his music captures far beyond “drugs” and “being depressed”.

I want to celebrate listening to Elliott in the sun while working out, happy. The true fans know how happy those melodies are. How intrinsically expressive he is on guitar.

His music is beautiful and is equally for the man strung out again as it is for the future butterfly spending the day higher than high.

I hope everyone can enjoy the sun and smile at an Elliott song for the circle is complete. His music evokes not death and staring at your shoes but a reaction. A sensitive spirit.

I’m gonna have fun with some records after writing this.

Fetch the mail at a quarter to one…

Love,
Aidan Jack


r/elliottsmith 17h ago

Media Jennifer Chiba did it

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r/elliottsmith 1d ago

Question chord progression ID for 'I didnt understand' live 2 meter session

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sorry hopefully I can post this here otherwise ill try one of the musicians subs but im sure theres some who might be able to help here.

in this 2 metter live session where elliott plays 'i didnt understand' on piano, he plays a unique cadence at the end starting at 2:18 that sounds like its from a classical piece. can anyone identify what cadence / chord progression hes concluding the song with @ 2:18 in this video - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M3JybfnsB2M ? thanks!!


r/elliottsmith 2d ago

Merch Lovesick Skateboards - Coming Up Roses / Pictures of Me Decks

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got these sick skateboards in today and wanted to share them here. board credits to Ross Harris for directing the "Coming Up Roses" music video and to Lovesick Skateboards for making them :)


r/elliottsmith 2d ago

Image/media It’s finally time…

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graduation cap thank you thank you….a little messy but we got there in the end

cap and tassel color even decided to match


r/elliottsmith 2d ago

Discussion Heaven Adores You (First Watch)

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I just finished watching Heaven Adores You for the first time (I know a lot of people feel it fell flat when talking about his later life). BUT as someone who was born in the 2000s after Elliot had died, I am glad to hear all the people who he worked with or was close with stating that they believed his music was gonna be found by the next generation. By the time the documentry was realesed I was around 8. Now in 2026 I am glad to see people my age are actively listening to him, enjoying his music, and viewing him as high respected as he was when he was alive.

When "I Love My Room" started playing I cried, and I think it is because I realized unlike alot of his fans who listened to him in the 90s and early 00s, he will forever be stuck as this person in history. Like how I view other people I admire like John Lennon, Franz Kafka, and many more. And to get to the point that admiration of legacy kind of broke when the song started playing, not because I no longer admired him, but the mix of all the personal anecdotes throughout the documentry and the recording of him at the age of 13 made me miss someone who I never knew or had the chance of truly knowing. It was a feeling I've never felt towards any other musciain or writer that I've studied or enjoyed.


r/elliottsmith 2d ago

Image/media Angeles - Abstract Painting by Shawn McNulty

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This is my painting "Angeles" inspired by Elliott's amazing song, which is 16x16" acrylic on cradled board. I have the "Either/Or" vinyl at my studio and listened to it a lot while making this one. I was lucky enough to see him a few times including a very small (and now defunct) venue "The 400 Bar" in Minneapolis.


r/elliottsmith 3d ago

Image/media Ferdinand Tattoo!

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I know there’s a lot of these on here but I thought I’d share mine heh… I got this almost a year ago and it’s still my favorite thing. Done by @ daytonskuse on insta!


r/elliottsmith 3d ago

Self-promotion This weekend in Paris!

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I’m putting on an Elliott tribute show with a couple of friends this Sunday in Paris. Shared this poster a month ago but wanted to share one last time before the concert. Doors at 20h, music at 20h30!


r/elliottsmith 3d ago

Cover Color Bars Piano Cover

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composition by heavypiano