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Elliott Smith cross-song reference guide

Shytown/No Confidence Man split single (1994)

No Confidence Man

-"Charlie got a band in his hand" Charlie also referenced in Some Song from the Needle in the Hay single

Roman Candle (1994)

Roman Candle

-"He played himself, didn't need me to give him hell" giving hell also referenced in Southern Belle from Elliott Smith

Condor Ave

-"unless a light bulb really loved him very much" lightbulb also referenced in Coming Up Roses and St. Ide's Heaven from Elliott Smith -"you're in your Oldsmobile driving by the moon" moon also referenced in Coming Up Roses, Satellite and St. Ide's Heaven from Elliott Smith, A Living Will from the Son of Sam single, Little One from From a Basement on the Hill, Pretty Mary K (Other Version) from New Moon, True Love from the Heaven Adores You soundtrack and Everything's Okay (no official release)

No Name #1

No Name #2

No Name #3

-"home to oblivion" oblivion also referenced in Miss Misery (Early Version) from New Moon

Drive All Over Town

No Name #4

Last Call

-"you're an icicle" icicle also referenced in All Cleaned Out from New Moon

-"church bells and I'm awake" also featured in Shiva Opens Her Arms, the pre-Roman Candle demo that would later become Son of Sam from Figure 8.

Needle in the Hay single (1995)

Some Song

-"Charlie beat you up week after week" Charlie also referenced in No Confidence Man from the Shytown/No Confidence Man split single

Elliott Smith (1995)

Needle in the Hay

-"but you idiot kid" also features in Single File

Christian Brothers

Clementine

-"an angel in the snow" Angel in the Snow from New Moon, both of these songs were recorded in the same session.

Southern Belle

-"Give other people hell" give hell also referenced in Roman Candle from Roman Candle

Single File

-"shooting stars" stars also referenced in St. Ide's Heaven, Sweet Adeline and Bottle Up and Explode! from XO and Shooting Star from From a Basement on the Hill

-"you idiot kid" also features in Needle in the Hay

Coming Up Roses

-"under this bare light bulb" lightbulbs also referenced in Condor Ave from Elliott Smith and St. Ide's Heaven from Elliott Smith -"the moon is a sickle cell" moon also referenced in Condor Ave from Roman Candle, Satellite and St. Ide's Heaven from Elliott Smith, A Living Will from the Son of Sam single, Little One from From a Basement on the Hill, Pretty Mary K (Other Version) from New Moon, True Love from the Heaven Adores You soundtrack and Everything's Okay (no official release)

Satellite

-"You're a question mark coming after people you watched collide" question mark also referenced in A Question Mark from XO

-"they call it a lover's moon" moon also referenced in Condor Ave from Roman Candle, Coming Up Roses and St. Ide's Heaven from Elliott Smith, A Living Will from the Son of Sam single, Little One from From a Basement on the Hill, Pretty Mary K (Other Version) from New Moon, True Love from the Heaven Adores You soundtrack and Everything's Okay (no official release)Alphabet Town

St. Ide's Heaven

-"head full of stars" stars also referenced in Single File, Sweet Adeline and Bottle Up and Explode! from XO and Shooting Star from From a Basement on the Hill.

-"the moon is a lightbulb breaking" moon also referenced in Condor Ave from Roman Candle, Coming Up Roses and Satellite from Elliott Smith, A Living Will from the Son of Sam single, Little One from From a Basement on the Hill, Pretty Mary K (Other Version) from New Moon, True Love from the Heaven Adores You soundtrack and Everything's Okay (no official release)

-"lightbult breaking" lightbulb also referenced in Condor Ave from Roman Candle and Coming Up Roses

Good to Go

"good to go" also referenced in Amity from XO

The White Lady Loves You More

-"white lady" also also features in King's Crossing from From a Basement on the Hill

The Biggest Lie

Either/Or (1997)

Speed Trials

Alameda

Ballad of Big Nothing

Between the Bars

Pictures of Me

No Name No.5

Rose Parade

-"choke chain" also referenced in See You Later from New Moon

Punch and Judy

Angeles

Cupid's Trick

2:45 AM

-"it's 2:45 in the morning" also referenced in Looking Over My Shoulder from New Moon, both of which were recorded in the same session.

Say Yes

Waltz 2 (XO) single (1998)

How to Take a Fall

XO (1998)

Sweet Adeline

-"(You're the Flower of My Heart,) Sweet Adeline" is a barbershop ballad by Richard H. Gerard and Harry Armstrong.

-"Told me not to worry, you were just a shooting star" star also referenced in Single File and St. Ide's Heaven from Elliott Smith, Bottle Up and Explode!, and Shooting Star from From a Basement on the Hill

-"my Clementine" Clementine from Elliott Smith, and Oh My Darling, Clementine "usually credited to Percy Montrose (1884), although it is sometimes credited to Barker Bradford"

-"It's a picture-perfect evening and I'm staring down the sun" looking at the sun is an image also used in Everybody Cares, Everybody Understands

-"Fully loaded, deaf and dumb and done" is an image also used in the the next track from XO, Tomorrow Tomorrow.

Tomorrow Tomorrow

-"Heard the hammer at the lock, say you're deaf and dumb and done" is an image repeated from the previous song, Sweet Adeline.

Waltz #02 (XO)

-"singing Cathy's clown" Cathy's Clown is a song by The Everly Brothers, clown also referenced in Can't Make a Sound from Figure 8, The Last Hour from From a Basement on the Hill and All Cleaned Out from New Moon

-"Here it is the revenge to the tune, You're no good, You're no good you're no good you're no good, Can't you tell that it's well understood" You're No Good is a song by Linda Ronstadt

Baby Britain

-"the radio is playing Crimson and Clover" Crimson and Clover is a song by Tommy James and the Shondells

Pitseleh

-Pitseleh is Hebrew for "little one" which is a track from From a Basement on the Hill

Independence Day

Bled White

-"I'm a color reporter, Rose City on the 409" rose city also referenced in The Enemy Is You from the Baby Britain single

Waltz #1

Amity

"Amity good to go" also referenced in Good to Go from Elliott Smith

Oh Well, Okay

-"Here's the silhouette, the face always turned away" silhouette also referenced in Oh Well, Okay and Everything Reminds Me of Her from XO, and Almost Over from New Moon

-"The bleeding color gone to black, dying like a day" dying day also referenced in Somebody That I Used to Knoow

Bottle Up and Explode!

-"seeing stars surrounding you" stars also referenced in Single File and St. Ide's Heaven from Elliott Smith, Sweet Adeline, and Shooting Star from From a Basement on the Hill

A Question Mark

-"question mark" also referenced in Satellite from Elliott Smith

Everybody Cares, Everybody Understands

-"So here I lay dreaming, looking at the brilliant sun" staring at the sun also referenced in Sweet Adeline

I Didn't Understand

Baby Britain single (1999)

The Enemy Is You

-"when you go walking out in the rose city" rose city also referenced in Bled White from XO

Son of Sam single (2000)

A Living Will

-"gave it to the man in the moon" moon also referenced in Condor Ave from Roman Candle, Coming Up Roses, Satellite and St. Ide's Heaven from Elliott Smith, Little One from From a Basement on the Hill, Pretty Mary K (Other Version) from New Moon, True Love from the Heaven Adores You soundtrack and Everything's Okay (no official release)

Figure 8

*Bob Dorough/Schoolhouse Rock! cover*

Figure 8 (2000)

Son of Sam

-"I'm not uncomfortable, feeling weird. Lonely leered, options disappeared" Feeling weird. Lonely leered also referenced in In the Lost and Found (Honky Bach)/The Roost

Somebody That I Used to Know

-"I watched you deal in a dying day" dying day also referenced in Oh Well, Okay

Junk Body Trader

Everything Reminds Me of Her

-"the spin of the earth impaled the silhouette of the sun on the steeple" silhouette also referenced in Oh Well, Okay, and Almost Over from New Moon

Everything Mean Nothing to Me

L.A.

In the Lost and Found (Honky Bach)/The Roost

-"In the Lost and Found" referenced in Everything's Okay (no official release)

-"He kissed you quick, feeling weird. Lonely leered, and disappeared" Feeling weird. Lonely leered also referenced in Son of Sam

Stupidity Tries

Easy Way Out

Wouldn't Mama Be Proud

-"blowing coast to coast" coast to coast also referenced in Coast to Coast from From a Basement on the Hill

Color Bars

-"everyone wants me to ride into the sun" also referenced in Pretty Mary K

Happiness/The Gondola Man

Pretty Mary K

-"rode into the sun" also referenced in Color Bars

I Better Be Quiet Now

Can't Make a Sound

-"the hero killed the clown" clown also referenced in Waltz 02 (XO) from XO, The Last Hour from From a Basement on the Hill and All Cleaned Out from New Moon From a Basement on the Hill (2004)

Coast to Coast

-"coast to coast" also referenced in Wouldn't Mama Be Proud? from Figure 8

Let's Get Lost

-Let's Get Lost is the title of a 1988 Oscar award winning film documentary about jazz trumpeter Chet Baker. The film is named after the song covered by Chet Baker and written by Jimmy McHugh and Frank Loesser.

Pretty (Ugly Before)

Don't Go Down

Strung Out Again

A Fond Farewell

King's Crossing

-"white lady" also features in The White Lady Loves You More from Elliott Smith

Twilight

-Twilight is a song by ELO

A Passing Feeling

The Last Hour

-"I wasn't good at being a thief, more like a clown" clown also referenced in Waltz 02 (XO) from XO, Can't Make a Sound from Figure 8 and All Cleaned Out from New Moon

Shooting Star

-"shooting star" star also referenced in Single File and St. Ide's Heaven from Elliott Smith and Sweet Adeline and Bottle Up and Explode! from XO

Memory Lane

-"they kick you in the head" is also featured in the early version of Everybody Cares Everybody Understands from XO

Little One

-title referenced in Pitseleh from XO

-"under the moon as well as the sun" moon also referenced in Condor Ave from Roman Candle, Coming Up Roses, Satellite and St. Ide's Heaven from Elliott Smith, A Living Will from the Son of Sam single, Pretty Mary K (Other Version) from New Moon, True Love from the Heaven Adores You soundtrack and Everything's Okay (no official release)

A Distorted Reality Is Now a Necessity to Be Free

New Moon (2007)

Angel in the Snow

-title referenced in Clementine from Elliott Smith

Talking to Mary

-"more money down your sock" is an image also repeated in Pretty Mary K (Other version)/Everything's Okay originally recorded for From a Basement on the Hill

High Times

New Monkey

Looking Over My Shoulder

-"It's forty-five past two–I almost forgot to show" is a reference to 2:45am from Either/Or, both of which were recorded in the same session.

Going Nowhere

Riot Coming

All Cleaned Out

-"an icicle inside" icicle also referenced in Last Call from Roman Candle

-"about 5 o'clock here comes your clown" clown also referenced in Waltz 02 (XO) from XO, Can't Make a Sound from Figure 8 and The Last Hour from From a Basement on the Hill

First Timer

Go By

-"go by" references also in Mr. Good Morning

Miss Misery (Early Version)

-"He vanished into oblivion" oblivion also referenced in No Name #3 from Elliott Smith

Thirteen

Georgia, Georgia

-Georgia, Georgia is a 1972 Swedish-American drama film written by Maya Angelous and directed by Stig Björkman

Whatever (Folk Song in C)

Big Decision

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New Disaster

Seen How Things Are Hard

Fear City

"new game" also referenced in Brand New Game

Either/Or

Pretty Mary K(Other Version)

-"my arm around the moon" moon also referenced in Condor Ave from Roman Candle, Coming Up Roses, Satellite and St. Ide's Heaven from Elliott Smith, A Living Will from the Son of Sam single, Little One from From a Basement on the Hill,True Love from the Heaven Adores You soundtrack and Everything's Okay (no official release)

-"silhouette" also referenced in Oh Well, Okay and Everything Reminds Me of Her from XO

See You Later

-"choke chain" also referenced in Rose Parade from Either/Or

Half Right

Heaven Adores You soundtrack (2014)

Don't Call Me Billy

Plainclothes Man

-"little boy in blue" referenced in Everything's Okay and Pretty Mary K (Other Version from New Moon

True Love

-"each night I look up at a bright honey moon" moon also referenced in Condor Ave from Roman Candle, Coming Up Roses, Satellite and St. Ide's Heaven from Elliott Smith, A Living Will from the Son of Sam single, Little One from From a Basement on the Hill, Pretty Mary K (Other Version) from New Moon, True Love from the Heaven Adores You soundtrack and Everything's Okay (no official release)

I Love My Room

Unofficailly released

Eveything's Okay

-"little boy in blue" referenced in Pretty Mary K (Other Version) from New Moon and Plainclothes Man from the Heaven Adores You soundtrack

-"I'm in the lost and found" lost and found referenced in In the Lost and Found (Honky Bach)/The Roost from Figure 8

-"I wonder if that clown knows just what to do"

-"the reflection of the moon" "my arms around the moon" moon also referenced in Condor Ave from Roman Candle, Coming Up Roses, Satellite and St. Ide's Heaven from Elliott Smith, A Living Will from the Son of Sam single, Little One from From a Basement on the Hill, Pretty Mary K (Other Version) from New Moon and True Love from the Heaven Adores You soundtrack

Place Pigalle

-"foreign son on holiday" foreign _ on holiday referenced in Dancing on the Highway

Dancing in the Highway

-"like a foreigner on holiday" foreign _ on holiday referenced in Place Pigalle

Contributors

A big thank you to Julie Skye, Tom Eastwood, Jay Wilson, Rebecca Deane, Esajoli D. Jones, and everyone else at the Justice for Elliott Smith Facebook page for their help. And of course to Elliott himself for everything.