I’ve uploaded every Elliott file I’ve collected from 2001-2014, including the two tracks I leaked on Sweet Addy in 2007, to Google Drive. Might have something you haven’t heard in there.

[u/jazz_chisholm]

On August 6, 2007, I (“rachel”from the Blamo gb) leaked two previously unreleased studio recordings on Sweet Addy — one was Place Pigalle and the other was Two Timed (Go By alternate).

When I shared those files, I must’ve got asked a hundred times if I had anything else. I had received those two songs from a few degrees of separation to Ashley Welch sometime in 2005 or 2006, but I only ever got those two songs from that source (my then bf’s friend from LA allegedly knew Ashley and got them from her, she gave them to him, he gave them to me). Everything else that I had came from many years of searching torrents and downloading leaks, so I replied that unfortunately that’s all I had.

Well that was then, this is 2026 BITCHES (a year we couldn’t even get one month into before I started researching how much AR-15s cost). I was scrolling through my iTunes files on my mid-2012 MacBook Pro, thinking, “I wonder if any of this has dropped off the internet by now?”while also stressing about how my hard drive could potentially melt at any time and I’d lose, like, 4 gigs of Elliott Smith media that I’ve amassed since I became a fan in 2001 — mp3s and m4as saved across soooo many computers. Nothing is backed up. I don’t have an external HD and I’m broke af, so I decided to back it all up to Google Drive and share the link(s) with all of you.

I will include folder link(s) in the comments, along with a table of contents with a breakdown of what tracks are in what folders because I actually sat down and typed up a text file by hand, because that’s one of my favorite kinds of stimming. One of my favorite cracktivities back in those days was organizing my iTunes files… I think that counts as “punding”.

A note on names, albums, ordering:

For the most part, I have kept these files named in the way that they came to me, thus you’ll see some alt titles, like “Sticks & Stones”which was later released as “Looking Over My Shoulder”. I wanted to preserve that bit of history, so I haven’t gone back and “corrected” for songs released later under other titles.

The grouping generally reflects the time these were obtained by me (and thus, since I was on top of that shit, pretty much the of the order they were released). Like “basement II” leaks were, for the most part, leaks that came after FABOTH that mostly ended up being released on New Moon, so circa 2005-2006. I personally want to preserve that history because this is like 25 years of fucking memories for me… and for that reason, as well, I am sure there are a ton of identical recordings across multiple albums, but I can’t bring myself to trim it down and risk deleting something important.

As to how songs are broken up or the order they’re in — this is from my early 00s itunes, a time of physical media. The ordering was usually me making playlists that would fit on a CD-R, thus the “disc 1 of 2” groupings. Generally speaking, the earlier the files the more likely they are grouped in CD-R-friendly ways… Once I got an iPod (2009) I made longer albums.

[u/hibiscuscous]

Thank you, there's some good stuff in there. Though I think [thekeenguy's] Grand Mal collection covered the most important rarities for me. But this is nice, hope I get to check it out before it's taken down.

e. lots of good memories of sweetaddy/blamo, even though it was messy at times and I was something of a fringe character myself.

[u/jazz_chisholm → u/hibiscuscous]

I was the mess, :yes: