From a Bedroom on the Hill near the Basement on the Hill He Might Have Wrote It

I bought the new Elliott Smith album today. I feel like he deserves the "get-it-the-day-it-comes-out-before-listening-to-it" treatment. I don't dislike anything he's done.

I've only listened to parts of it so far, but my first thought was:

why couldn't it have been John Mayer with a knife instead?