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Originally Posted by loveissucide
Love love love Either/Or and growing to adore Roman Candle nearly as much.
Figure 8 is excellent too.What's MB members' opinion on the songs that've come out after his death?
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Well my favourite era of Smith ouput was 94-97, so the s/t and Either/Or. So seeing as New Moon is a collection of songs made during this period that didnt make it onto the albums, i love it. It's strangely uplifting considering the tragedy of it's context, the musicianship is amazing as usual with Smith and the songs have an imagination to them. I would go as far to say as Pretty Mary K [other version] is in my top 5 Smith songs.
As for FABOAH, it's up there with my favourite Smith albums. I'd probably put it third in my ranking, although i cant really decide between it and X/O. I was really impressed with how those involved constructed it - it all flows beautifully and leaves this very haunting haze.
The b-sides/rarities collection is hit and miss, there's some really good stuff there, but some tripe too, just the record label trying to squeeze every last drop out of him i suppose.