Originally Posted by Machine

Day 23

Elliott Smith - Either/Or

So I was going to choose a song from this today to share with everyone, but listening to it multiple times made me realize, there is not a bad song on this album. No really at first glance there are clear highlights, but digging down a little deeper revealed that every song has a certain magic to it that Elliott brings into nearly all of his songs on every album, this is just my personal favorite. Songs like The Ballad Of Big Nothing with that very uplifting chorus of "You can do what you want to, whenever you want to" always get me singing and the album is filled with these very uplifting moments, even when the song itself might be depressing or sad, which happens often on this album. Either/Or do sent really have the lush orchestrations of his later albums like Figure 8, but it encapsulated him Mr. Smith in all of his beautiful fractured songwriting that didn't need the strings and extra instrumentation to get across what it needed.