Elliott Smith - New Moon - Alternate Version (1996)

Normally, I'm against posting officially released albums. We'll get less good music released if record companies aren't making money. However, I'm making an exception in this case because Elliott Smith's double album "New Moon" works better if it's broken up into chunks.

I'm more interested in gathering songs that fit together due to chronology or musical theme or the like. "New Moon" is kind of too much of a good thing. It gathers up all the unreleased songs covering the time Smith was signed to a particular record company, from 1995 to 1997. Smith's music evolved during that time, so it makes more sense to be to sort the music by year. I've already posted the 1995 stuff, together with some other songs he did from then, here:

https://albumsthatshouldexist.blogspot.com/2018/10/elliott-smith-angel-in-snow-various.html

This album covers all the "New Moon" songs just from 1996. But Smith was so prolific that year that I made an entire album of other stray tracks from 1996, here:

https://albumsthatshouldexist.blogspot.com/2018/10/elliott-smith-i-figured-you-out-various.html

Then I'm putting the rest of the "New Moon" songs on a stray tracks album cover 1997. You can find that here:

https://albumsthatshouldexist.blogspot.com/2018/11/elliott-smith-miss-misery-various-songs.html

So that's the reasoning. As for the content, the songs that remained unreleased until after his death are generally as good as the ones that were released when he was alive. That's the case here. But Smith is pretty emotionally powerful music, so I think it's better appreciated in limited doses of a normal album length, which is roughly 45 minutes. Remarkably, this album is 44 minutes and 59 seconds long1 ;)

01 New Monkey (Elliott Smith)
02 Looking Over My Shoulder (Elliott Smith)
03 Going Nowhere (Elliott Smith)
04 Go By (Elliott Smith)
05 Thirteen (Elliott Smith)
06 Placeholder (Elliott Smith)
07 New Disaster (Elliott Smith)
08 Seen How Things Are Hard (Elliott Smith)
09 Fear City (Elliott Smith)
10 Either-Or (Elliott Smith)
11 Pretty Mary K [Other Version] [Early Version of Everything's OK] (Elliott Smith)
12 Almost Over (Elliott Smith)
13 See You Later (Elliott Smith)
14 Half Right (Elliott Smith)

https://www.upload.ee/files/16375924/ELLITTSMTH1996NwMonAltrnte_atse.zip.html

The album cover is just the same as the official one.