A Covers Mp3 Trilogy: Elliott Smith, Blastoids, Phosphorescent

An album’s worth of Elliott Smith outtakes and unfinished recordings from From A Basement On The Hill seems to be making its way around the series of tubes. I haven’t exactly dived into it yet because so many noteworthy albums dropped this week, but I have listened to the following Beatles cover and it is very nice. I have been a huge Elliott Smith fan for a long time, but I never realized how many cover songs he had done until doing a little investigation after hearing this.

Elliott Smith : I’ll Be Back (Beatles cover)




One of the southeast’s hottest bands right now, Murfreesboro Tennessee’s Blastoids!, hit up WonderRoot last Friday night. Unfortunately I couldn’t make it, but our new badass photographer got some sweet images we’ll post later this week. Of the many, many students of the school of Animal Collective coming out of the wood work right now, there is something special about these guys that set them apart from the rest. They just posted a very faithful cover of one of my all-time favourite AnCo tunes, giving ode to the masters. It is sure as hell better than the bajiliion terrible “My Girls” remixes floating around right now. Check it out:

Blastoids : Kids On Holiday (Animal Collective cover)

Blastoids myspace





Phosphorescent @ SXSW 2008

Phosphorescent’s latest release, an album comprised of nothing but Willie Nelson covers, is a difficult album for me to assess. I think Willie Nelson is cool and all, but I would rarely listen to him, and I am extremely unfamiliar with his vast catalog. So I just have to take the record on face value, and while it sounds nice, I’m having what I call “The Cat Power Dilemma”. I love original Phosphorescent songs much more than I enjoy who he is covering, so it is very hard for me to get into this. But I seriously doubt he will abandon his original material like Chan Marshall has, so I’ll just defer to his artistic vision for now. Either way, To Willie is certainly worth checking out.

Phosphorescent : Can I Sleep In Your Arms (Willie Nelson cover)

Buy To Willie

Phosphorescent myspace

Torrent Of The Day: Elliot Smith (7-31-1997)



Elliott Smith 1997-07-31 Knitting Factory New York, NY (16-bit) (FLAC)

Elliott Smith
7.31.97
knitting factory
new york, ny

pictures of me*
alameda*
ballad of big nothing*
speed trials*
cupid’s trick*
rose parade*
miss misery*
something*
waltz #2 (xo)
division day
between the bars
christian brothers
unknown
say yes
i didn’t understand
southern belle
st. ides heaven
clementine
angeles
punch and judy
no name #4
coming up roses
biggest lie
needle in the hay

bootleg: yes
bootleg info: average sounding show. elliott is in a very good mood and plays forever! you can tell by the setlist huh?
approximate running time: 90 minutes (last song is incomplete) all songs with and asterik ( * ) are backed by quasi.
something is a beatles song written by george harrison. it can be found on the beatles abbey road lp.
the unknown song contains the lyrics “…you can go but i’ll say what i should..i’m doing okay pretty good…

AUD > CDR > EAC > FLAC Frontend > FLAC

Video of the Day II: Elliott Smith

Here’s a short film circa ‘93 entitled Lucky 3 featuring three classics from Mr. Smith

Videos Of The Day: Elliott Smith

Just listened to XO the other day and I think I’m on an Elliott Smith kick again. Here’s some vids:

Torrent Of The Day: Elliott Smith (DVD)

ElliottSmith/ 09/02/2000 / Bumbershoot / DVD

Elliott Smith
Boombox Stage
Bumbershoot Festival
Seattle, WA
September 02, 2000

Lineage: 3/4″ Master > VHS > DVD author (by Chrisedge)

Pro-Shot or Audience shot : Pro-shot
Stand Alone or PC : PC
NTSC or Pal : NTSC
Menus : Menu with song selection
Aspect Ratio: 4:3

intro 00:00:00:00
needle in the hay 00:00:52:10
bled white 00:05:06:19
stupidity tries 00:08:15:21
coming up roses 00:11:40:21
waltz #2 (xo) 00:14:43:12
everything means nothing to me 00:19:12:00
clementine 00:21:55:24
son of sam 00:24:57:11
la 00:28:05:15
amity 00:31:38:12
ballad of big nothing 00:34:13:07
cupid’s trick 00:36:51:20
st. ides heaven 00:40:21:00
junk bond trader 00:43:10:07
division day 00:46:57:00
christian brothers 00:49:56:14
angeles 00:55:14:21
fond farewell 00:58:28:16
alameda 01:02:06:05
say yes 01:06:05:15

Here’s a low quality youtube clip of the DVD: