![]() ![]() It reimagines Elliott's last album by including basically any track that was once in consideration for it. That's why this mix is called From a White Basement on the Hill. ![]() Also, Elliott apparently didn't intend for the song "Pretty (Ugly Before)" to be on the album either.Įlliott had wanted From a Basement on the Hill to be a double album, and was inspired by The Beatles White Album. This lead to things like the song "Ostriches and Chirping" being included in the final product, which wasn't anything that Elliott had ever touched, but a little experiment that McConnell had created himself. He supposedly has 3 years worth of handwritten notes by Elliott about the direction he wanted to take the album. The bit of controversy that surrounds the posthumous album's creation is that the main producer that Elliott was working with to record the album, David McConnell, wasn't consulted. The album wasn't the vision that Elliott had for it, and it couldn't be, because a lot of the recording was left unfinished. What was released in 2004 was an album that had been mixed by Rob Schnapf and supervised by Joanna Bolme. ![]() Elliott Smith's last album, From a Basement on the Hill, wasn't finished before he died in 2003. ![]()
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