Album of the day (#3076): Either/Or by Elliott Smith

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Today's album of the day

Either/Or by Elliott Smith (View album | Buy this album)

Year: 1997.
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Overall rank: 148
Average rating: 84/100 (from 882 votes).



Tracks:
1. Speed Trials
2. Alameda
3. Ballad Of Big Nothing
4. Between The Bars
5. Pictures Of Me
6. No Name No. 5
7. Rose Parade
8. Punch And Judy
9. Angeles
10. Cupids Trick
11. 2:45 AM
12. Say Yes

About album of the day: The BestEverAlbums.com album of the day is the album appearing most prominently in member charts in the previous 24 hours. If an album, or artist, has previously been selected within a x day period, the next highest album is picked instead (and so on) to ensure a bit of variety. A full history of album of the day can be viewed here.
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Words doesn't really exists, nor convey things that this LP has done for my feelings. Absolutely one of the greatest albums ever, quintessential lo-fi music, with the ultimative form of integrity. First time I heard it, I started crying and: 1. Music rarely makes me wipe out a tear, let alone makes me cry - 2. I didn't even get the lyrics yet, it was just the stunning music. And when I read the lyrics, it only went uphill from there.

It made it to my top 20 favorite albums, deservedly so!! Charlie Lima Alfa Sierra Sierra India Charlie..

R.I.P. to my man Elliott. But you are surely one of the few artists whose music is so moving, that it can periodically convince that you're still with us Embarassed Crying or Very sad
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The whispery, fragile, enchanting singer/songwriter album people have been trying to re-write ever since, and failing to do so

Track picks
1. Speed Trials
4. Between The Bars
7. Rose Parade
11. 2:45 AM
12. Say Yes
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Brilliant record, and in my opinion, Elliott's greatest work... Every song in here is great, Elliott was such an amazing songrwiter and a hell of an underated guitarist, love the guy.

My pick tracks would be: Speed Trials, Alameda, Angeles and Say Yes
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Some ideas cannot be expressed in a finite number of words, but only through the immediacy of music, or so says Kierkegaard. In Either/Or, he wrote of his obsession with Mozart’s opera, Don Giovanni, repeatedly attending performances from the wings of the theater so that the visual elements didn’t interfere with the experience. This was the most extreme expression of the sensual that he could imagine. And he wasn’t the only philosopher to give music a special place among the arts — Schopenhauer and Nietzsche also believed it possessed unique sensual qualities.

Any artist who can master the division between the sensual and the logical has the world by the throat.
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