Elliott Smith's final album, FABOTH, was completed after his death by his family and friends. As brilliant and emotional as it is, it has a lot of problems with the tracklist, with songs Elliott wanted not making the cut and songs he didn't want being in prime spots.
Now that the dust has settled and we have access to plenty of the recordings/demos from the FABOTH sessions, what would a revised tracklist for the album look like?
What about a tracklist for a double album, like he intended?
1. kings crossing
2. kings crossing
3. kings crossing
4. kings crossing
5. fond farewell
6. kings crossing
7. kings crossing
Obviously Ostrich and Chirping has to go, nobody knows why the fuck it even ended up on the album since Elliott didn't make it
Pretty (Ugly Before) is a pretty popular one but he just wanted it to be a single a la Division Day so I think it should be cut, and Shooting Star should be bumped up to its current spot on the tracklist
Place Pigalle and Suicide Machine are both great tracks but I can't think of any place they could go on the album without breaking the flow besides opening and I think Coast to Coast has that locked down
Not sure about placement for Stickman but it's one of his best and if nothing else gets added it should be on there
Switch King's Crossing closer to the end so it leads straight into Memory Lane and Little One and then adjust the the acoustic songs so that they're not all clumped together idgaf where they end up
Close it with See You In Heaven because lyrically Distorted Reality is the perfect note to end on but See You In Heaven keeps the bitter angry emotions as an instrumental and earns a spot as Elliott's best closer
idc what else I haven't heard all of the Basement demos besides those
>>64142546
You forgot Ostrich and Chirping
Replace The Last Hour with Abused, it serves the same purpose only it's ten times better.
bump
Do it for Elliott, /mu/. You like his music, don't you?
Also the unreleased Basement shit is some of the best he ever made.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EAhD0Wm9PfM
I guess you guys aren't in the mood for this tonight. Maybe another time.
Good night, /mu/. I leave you with this.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FuxAjkzD2pw
