![]() With the studio-produced exceptions of 1998's sublime XO and 2000's Figure 8, both funded on Dreamworks' dime, Smith's legacy was largely achieved via a house style that's about as common and as ordinary as it gets: a guy and an acoustic guitar. His real-life meekness, softness, and raw emotion never demanded or required anything as tragically operatic as cavernous reverb, barbed wire guitars, or ominous meditations on his own legacy as a musician. Where those other musicians pushed the dynamics of their chosen genres, Smith achieved his by inverse means. For those who spent years following his considerably quieter trajectory, so did Elliott Smith. named his debut album Ready to Die and Jeff Buckley, to many, seemed fragile and vulnerable throughout his life. Both Kurt Cobain and Tupac Shakur spent much of their waking lives being their own best eulogizers the Notorious B.I.G. Number of seminal musicians emerged in the 1990s and died prematurely, and sadly most of their fates were heavily foreshadowed.
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