I’d read about how it’d become a memorial, practically a holy site, where Smith fans left candles and scribbled messages and remembrances on the wall. A swooping design of red, black, and white lines had become synonymous with Elliott Smith after he’d posed in front of it on his Figure 8 album, the last record he’d release before his death. Read or listen to the piece below.įor years, I’d dreamed of making the pilgrimage to the mural. This week, Dusty Henry looks back at Elliott Smith’s 2000 song “Somebody That Used To Know” and how it soundtracks fading memories and making peace with the passage of time. Each week in 2022, KEXP pays homage to a different year and our writers are commemorating with one song from that year that resonates with them. As KEXP celebrates its 50th anniversary, we're looking back at the last half-century of music.
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