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Thursday, August 6, 2009
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years later, i still can't listen to his music without hearing all the sadness that caused him to put a fucking knife through his heart. its too much for me.
4
@2 same, I start listening to old favorites and it just pours out... Seeing him at First Ave in Minneapolis the night after Bob Mould was one of the best weekends of my life.
5
@1, 2, 4: I concur. Brutal. That sadly prescient scene from "Royal Tenenbaums" with Needle in the Hay is just devastating.
6
Oh, sad, I never knew this was Elliott's birthday. I was one of the lucky ones who got to see Elliott at the Velvet Elvis, Crocodile, Redmond fire House, and the Showbox back in the day. His music still stands up as some of the best. I actually heard "Wouldn't Momma be Proud" on the jukebox today, and it sounded better than ever. Jesus, it's so sad, he was such a talent.
9
I feel the same every time I listen to him - sullen, moved, heart-breakingly sad, overcome, at ease and happy.
11
man, fuck.
i've never realized how really, really sad it is i always remember the day he died, but never his birthday.
i've never realized how really, really sad it is i always remember the day he died, but never his birthday.
14
His music is amazing. But I never feel sad that he died, all I could ever hear in his music was his beautiful swan song to death.
16
I, too, stopped listening to his music when he died. One morning, though, in an out-of-the-way place in western Panama, "Rose Parade" came on while I was eating breakfast. I just started to cry right into my scrambled eggs.
18
Saw him three times down in LA and still have a set list. It really is timeless music and the sadness I felt when I first heard he was gone hasn't changed a bit. The ones that can't be replaced are few and far between, but Elliott was one of them.
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