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Old 09-11-2008, 06:10 PM   #38 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by sleepy jack View Post
Are you saying he was less diverse than Zeppelin, Wu-Tang and Joy Division?
No. My opinion has never been about diversity. My opinion has been about quality of the music. That is what I always meant by "transcendent." How good the music is.

To boil this down into words that require less interpretation: Elliott Smith's music wasn't good enough, in my opinion, to warrant Hall of Fame induction with a relatively short career.

Had he maintained the quality and rate of production he did for another ten years or perhaps even five years, for example, I likely would have voted for him.
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