CHRISTOPHER T. SHARPE
It’s been ten years to the day since Mr Elliott Smith tragically left this mortal coil. Back in April I put together an Elliott Smith based Arbiter of Taste show on Radio Warwick. Unfortunately, the audio has been lost, but I did manage to track down the script I used that night. This is repeated below with YouTube videos to fill the audio gaps. Hopefully it’ll do as a shout-out to a man whose music has meant and continues to mean an enormous amount to me. RIP Sir.
“My Arbiter of the Week is Elliott Smith. There is a story behind this. We had the rather magical international celebration of all good music shops ‘Record Store Day’ on Saturday, and along with the Nicolas Jaar remixes of Grizzly Bear and Brian Eno that I picked up (which is amaaaaaazing) I got my mitts on an adorable lil yellow 7” of Alternate Takes from my favourite Elliott Smith album Either/Or. The consequence is that I fell madly in love with Elliott Smith all over again on Saturday afternoon – and I wanted to spread some of that love to you lovely people how does that sound?
Let’s kick things off with a cut from that 7” – this is an alternative version of ‘Angeles’:
ARBITER OF TASTE 