Sincere Enough to be Great but not Whiny Enough to be Emo. Thank GOD!

So this shit is too much fun to quit. It's 4 a.m. and I'm downloading some Elliott Smith b-sides. Which I thought you should all have or check out. It's unreleased stuff so no one's gonna come knocking on your door wanting the money for it. Plus Elliott's dead. Suicide's taken a lot of our great from us. But Elliott Smith is probably our generation's (actually the generation right before us) greatest songwriter. He was also a very fucked up individual, especially towards the end of his life. He thought people were following him so he would get dropped off a mile from the studio and trek it hoping they wouldn't see him. Who know who he though it was, probably the record label. So all these songs were supposed to go on his post-mortem release From a Basement on the Hill but were taken off after his suicide because they deal with dark issues like drugs, and Elliott's abuse at the hands of his stepfather as a child. But the man committed suicide so he was obviously depressed. What are they trying to hide? Things we already knew? The great are usually to frail to survive long with us mere mortals. Long live bootlegs and their power to let is in on some of the great music we are supposed to never hear.