People can play alone just because they love playing music.” “When people hear acoustic music,” Smith said in a 1998 Magnet interview, “they say, ‘Oh, he sounds like Paul Simon,’ or ‘Oh, a man with a guitar, he must be playing in order to point out things that are wrong with the world.’ Which isn’t necessarily true. Smith had a good reason to be annoyed the one thing that the two musicians had in common was simply that they played an acoustic guitar-a quality that arguably connects the vast majority of rock musicians. And that’s another way in which Smith was unlike Paul Simon Simon’s done plenty worse that he hasn’t apologized for. He called Simon’s lyrics “corny” in an interview with Australian fanzine Spunk, which he later apologized for. And the fact that his self-titled 1995 Kill Rock Stars debut-a primarily acoustic record of stripped-down lo-fi indie folk-seemed to yield the comparisons only seemed to annoy him. He was never married to Carrie Fisher, and he never made a cameo in a Woody Allen movie. He never recorded with Ladysmith Black Mambazo. Elliott Smith also didn’t particularly like being compared to Paul Simon. Elliott Smith didn’t sound like Paul Simon.
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