{"id":16188,"date":"2022-10-05T14:16:50","date_gmt":"2022-10-05T19:16:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.msabrookhaven.org\/literary\/?p=16188"},"modified":"2022-10-05T14:16:53","modified_gmt":"2022-10-05T19:16:53","slug":"ranking-elliott-smiths-solo-albums-pt-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.msabrookhaven.org\/literary\/2022\/10\/05\/ranking-elliott-smiths-solo-albums-pt-2\/","title":{"rendered":"ranking elliott smith&#8217;s solo albums pt. 2"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>hiii it&#8217;s me again. so, last week i showed you the rankings of 4 of elliott&#8217;s solo abums, ranking from #8 &#8211; #4. today, i&#8217;m going to reveal my top 3!! these albums are so hard to rank above each other, but i&#8217;m pretty confident in my tier list. with that being said, let&#8217;s get into it. right at #3:<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h2><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-16190\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.msabrookhaven.org\/literary\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/new-moon.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"625\" height=\"565\" \/><\/h2>\n<h2>#3: new moon &#8211; 2007<\/h2>\n<p>woaaah this one is also a posthumous album!! but not just any album, a compilation album. the reason why i included this on here is because&#8230; well, there&#8217;s no way i could leave it out. this posthumous compilation album includes 24 tracks, all of which are mostly entirely acoustic. there are some &#8220;other&#8221; versions of his previously released songs, and some unreleased songs. there are some covers, like <strong>big star&#8217;s<\/strong> <em>thirteen<\/em>, and there are some <strong>heatmiser<\/strong> songs that elliott performed solo, like <em>half right<\/em>. out of the 24 tracks, my favorites include <em>high times<\/em>, <em>going nowhere<\/em>, <em>miss misery (early version)<\/em>, <em>georgia georgia<\/em>, <em>big decision<\/em>, <em>new disaster<\/em>, <em>either\/or<\/em> and <em>pretty mary k (other version)<\/em>. i know, it&#8217;s a lot. but that just shows how truly amazing it is. next, an album that needs no introduction. (i&#8217;m still gonna introduce it though)<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-16191\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.msabrookhaven.org\/literary\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/elliottsmith_eitheror-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"628\" height=\"628\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.msabrookhaven.org\/literary\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/elliottsmith_eitheror-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blog.msabrookhaven.org\/literary\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/elliottsmith_eitheror-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blog.msabrookhaven.org\/literary\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/elliottsmith_eitheror-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/blog.msabrookhaven.org\/literary\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/elliottsmith_eitheror-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blog.msabrookhaven.org\/literary\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/elliottsmith_eitheror.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<h2>#2: either\/or &#8211; 1997<\/h2>\n<p>this is objectively elliott&#8217;s best album. i mean, it&#8217;s the album that holds my favorite song ever created. the song i&#8217;ve listened to over 1,000 times this year. (that&#8217;s accurate data too, i track how much i listen to it). putting it at #2 physically hurts me, because i truly believe this is one of the greatest albums in existence. it&#8217;s also my most listened to album out of them all. my favorite songs include <em>angeles<\/em> (my favorite song, ever.), <em>say yes<\/em>, <em>speed trials,<\/em> <em>cupid&#8217;s trick<\/em>, and <em>between the bars<\/em>. well, now that i&#8217;ve hyped this album up, i bet you&#8217;re curious to see my #1 elliott smith solo album. not only that, my favorite album <em>ever<\/em>. well, here it is.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-16193\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.msabrookhaven.org\/literary\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/ellitot-smith-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"622\" height=\"622\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.msabrookhaven.org\/literary\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/ellitot-smith-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blog.msabrookhaven.org\/literary\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/ellitot-smith-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/blog.msabrookhaven.org\/literary\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/ellitot-smith-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blog.msabrookhaven.org\/literary\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/ellitot-smith.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<h2>#1: elliott smith &#8211; 1995<\/h2>\n<p>this is my favorite album of all time. there&#8217;s just something about it. it tells a cohesive story, one that blends so well in-between tracks. i remember the day i listened to it in it&#8217;s entirety. i was in my english class, and i thought to myself, <em>i really love elliott smith. i want to get more into him. so, i&#8217;ll start here.\u00a0<\/em>and i did, and i ended up loving every. single. song. there is not a single bad song on this album, and every single one is a non-skip. despite this, i do have favorites. those include <em>christian brothers<\/em>, <em>clementine<\/em>, <em>southern belle<\/em>, <em>coming up roses<\/em>, <em>good to go<\/em>, <em>the white lady loves you more<\/em>, and finally, <em>the biggest lie<\/em>. this album is the most emotionally damaging for me. some of these songs have significant meaning, both in general and just for me. the white lady loves you more was a song of grievance for me, and i&#8217;ll never listen to it without remembering how it helped me get through a period of my life. this goes for all of elliott&#8217;s music, and elliott himself. i&#8217;m insane probably. anyways.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>thank you for putting up with me and reading this!! i had a lot of fun writing it:) cya next time!!&lt;3<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>hiii it&#8217;s me again. so, last week i showed you the rankings of 4 of elliott&#8217;s solo abums, ranking from #8 &#8211; #4. today, i&#8217;m going to reveal my top 3!! these albums are so hard to rank above each other, but i&#8217;m pretty confident in my tier list. with that being said, let&#8217;s get &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.msabrookhaven.org\/literary\/2022\/10\/05\/ranking-elliott-smiths-solo-albums-pt-2\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;ranking elliott smith&#8217;s solo albums pt. 2&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.msabrookhaven.org\/literary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16188"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.msabrookhaven.org\/literary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.msabrookhaven.org\/literary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.msabrookhaven.org\/literary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/84"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.msabrookhaven.org\/literary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16188"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/blog.msabrookhaven.org\/literary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16188\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16224,"href":"https:\/\/blog.msabrookhaven.org\/literary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16188\/revisions\/16224"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.msabrookhaven.org\/literary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16188"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.msabrookhaven.org\/literary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16188"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.msabrookhaven.org\/literary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16188"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}