5, the heavy drop-d tuned song still sparkles dimly in my imagination as an artifact of a life with an errant existence and no place to be. Three years after the new millennium closed the death of Elliot Smith ended the 90's for me. I have a reluctance for change which may be why I liked ES so much. I still love it though I hadn't listened all the way though in probably 15 years. I listened constantly and bought most anything he released without hesitation, my favorite song, No Name No. Kind of like a place of rest, stagnation and complacency.Įither / Or got a huge boost from Good Will Hunting and rightfully so, Elliott Smith's music complemented Will Hunting's loneliness perfectly. For a lot of people, myself included, the music of ES provided a place to go and hide and be enveloped by unobjectionable solitude. Everyone was sad in the 90's early 2000's but just accepted as normal life where depression hid in plain sight and nobody recognized it as something to pay attention to. That stuff is kinda just glossed over, or was. Until receiving "Music to Slit Your Wrists To" I hadn't considered how truly sad Elliot Smith and his music was. Nic Hartcourt came on and said Elliott Smith was found dead in his Silverlake apartment, just on the other side of town a few hours earlier. A couple of months later, on the way to work, driving up Topanga Canyon, KCRW played continuous ES one-after-another and another for most of the drive until there was a break. It wasn't a great show, even sad watching him stand up on stage and forget the lyrics to his own songs. I was fortunate enough to see ES at the Henry Fonda theatre just before he died. Heatmiser's 'Half Right' was on a mix CD a friend made for me titled "Music to Slit Your Wrists To".
In 2020, the album was ranked at 216 on Rolling Stone's 500 Greatest Albums of All Time list. "Miss Misery" was nominated for Best Original Song at the 1998 Academy Awards, and was performed at the televised ceremony in an abridged version by Smith, backed by the house orchestra, briefly propelling him into the international spotlight. Book-ended by its two singles, "Speed Trials" and "Ballad of Big Nothing", Either/Or did not chart in the US, but was acclaimed by critics.ĭirector Gus Van Sant was highly impressed with the album, incorporating three of its songs "Between the Bars", "Angeles" and "Say Yes" along with a new song, "Miss Misery", into the Good Will Hunting soundtrack. Either/Or was released on February 25, 1997, on the Kill Rock Stars record label, following Heatmiser's dissolution. Either/Or was recorded in several locations, mostly in Portland, Oregon – while Smith was still a member of Heatmiser – and was produced by Smith, Tom Rothrock and Rob Schnapf. Either/Or is the third studio album by American singer-songwriter Elliott Smith.
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