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Opener Sweet Adeline was the clincher for me. XO has a bright and shiny polish to it, reflected (gettit?) in the fact that much of it was recorded in California and LA. Coffee house music for misfits whoвЂ™ve fallen on hard times and hard drugs. What Either/Or lacks is clarity and sheen. Celine Dion mightвЂ™ve beat him to the gong, but who in their right mind would want to play that Titanic song 20 years later? Conversely, ElliottвЂ™s music endures.

Even at the Oscars, when a crumpled and bemused Elliott performed after the Good Will Hunting soundtrack received a nomination, he was the outsider. All feature the signature double-tracked vocal (like Lennon), the melody-chasing guitar (like McCartney) and the unassuming resignation of George Harrison always the bridesmaid, never the bride. All are what you might loosely call вЂGreatest HitsвЂ™, had Elliott been fortunate enough to have had such things.

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Either/Or is also packed full of introspective, whispered songs. It was ElliottвЂ™s major label debut and followed hot on the heels of Either/Or, the undisputed ace in his back catalogue up until then. total Beatles! While the Mancunian magpies were belching loudly about their love for The Beatles, here was Elliott Smith very quietly and unassumingly wearing his obvious love for them, not only on his sleeve, but in the grooves inside the sleeve. His arrangements! Double-tracked and beautifully harmonised vocal effects, weird вЂn wonkily off-key pianos, little melodic runs up and down the fretboards and keysвЂ¦. His playing! Beautifully picked arpeggios one moment, brightly ringing fancy chords the next, no solos but lead breaks that aped the vocal melody вЂ“ just like Paul McCartney. His voice! Gossamer-light and as fragile as fuck. I played it three times straight through that afternoon in a fairly empty shop, each subsequent play making my jaw drop a notch closer to the sticky carpet. No, really! IвЂ™ve lived with the CD since the day of release, discovered when I was working on the counter of Our Price where it was a вЂ Recommended ReleaseвЂ that week. My eye was off the ball when initial copies went on sale and I missed out on the very limited (500 copies, I think) marbled vinyl version, so I had to settle for the standard black 180 gram edition instead. After years of being out of print on vinyl, it finally made it back onto wax a couple of weeks ago. Indeed, his 4th album, 1998вЂ™s XO is currently spinning for ther umpteenth time this week.

If youвЂ™ve been visiting Plain Or Pan since the glory days of 2007, youвЂ™ll know heвЂ™s a big favourite round here. YouвЂ™ll have your own favourites.ДЄnd so to Elliott Smith.

There are far better bands whoвЂ™ve dipped deep into the best back catalogue in popular music and pulled out their own skewed version of Fabness. Many of their harmonies are quite clearly direct second cousins of the real deal, but after that, IвЂ™m stumped. Some of their less-ballsy records have the вЂfeelвЂ™ of late-era Beatles вЂ“ All Around The WorldвЂs universal message sounds like the sort of song a lazy advertiser might come up with if tasked with creating a Beatley tune in an afternoon, and Liam is awfully fond of doing his best Lennon sneer atop a grandly played piano. If you listen closely to their music these days, is it even possible to spot The BeatlesвЂ™ references? Is it? Well, aye, it is. The louder the gob, the bigger the knob вЂn all that. Just because they shouted louder and played louder and just were louder in every sense didnвЂ™t mean they were the only ones with a fevered fascination for the Fab Four. With their self-proclaimed monobrowed monopoly on all things Fab you could be forgiven for thinking that Oasis had cornered the market in Beatles-influenced music. Who cares if someoneвЂ™s first exposure to Hey Bulldog is via De Agostini publishing?ДЇast track back to the mid 90s and arguably the first flourish of serious Beatles reappraisal since the demise of the band. ItвЂ™s a great time to be discovering them for the first time. ThereвЂ™s a wee bit of a media-fixated Beatles renaissance going just now, what with Sgt Pepper turning 50 and fortnightly reissues of their back catalogue racked up in the Spar alongside Tank Commander Monthly and Build Your Own Millenium Falcon Weekly.

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