Elliott Smith - Trouble - Non-Album Tracks (2002-2003)

Finally! This is the sixth and last of the stray tracks albums I've put together for Elliott Smith. He has seven official studio albums (if you include "New Moon"), so six of these albums means he has nearly as many songs that didn't come out on album as those that did. And that's not including whatever stuff that still remains in the vaults and has never been bootlegged.

This album covers the last two years of his life, 2002 and 2003. I'm not sure if Smith died by murder or suicide (the official verdict remains unresolved), but he clearly had some particularly troubled final years, especially 2001 and 2002. However, he reported quit all drugs altogether for most of 2003, and was more musically active, which makes his death that much more tragic.

As I've mentioned elsewhere, Smith's career has been split between two record companies. The company with the rights to his music through 1997 has released a lot of previously unreleased material, but the one that has the rights to the rest of his music has not. So nearly all of the songs here remain officially unreleased.

Three of the songs are covers: "I'll Be Back," "Trouble," and "Concrete Jungle."

Although this is the end of my series of Smith stray tracks albums, I have a bunch of other albums by him that I plan to post here. Some of them are all-acoustic versions of his songs, and others are cover versions that he only did in concert.

01 Mr. Goodmorning (Elliott Smith)
02 Kill-Fuck [Instrumental] (Elliott Smith)
03 Everything's OK (Elliott Smith)
04 Something to Lose (Elliott Smith)
05 Stickman [Acoustic Version] (Elliott Smith)
06 See You in Heaven [Instrumental] (Elliott Smith)
07 I'll Be Back (Elliott Smith)
08 A Distorted Reality Is Now a Necessity to Be Free [Single Version] (Elliott Smith)
09 Trouble (Elliott Smith)
10 Suicide Machine (Elliott Smith)
11 Concrete Jungle (Elliott Smith)

https://www.imagenetz.de/dUj28

For the cover art, I used part of a concert poster from 2000. I resized Smith's name vertically to make it fit, and added in "Trouble" to the angle and devil robot talk bubbles.