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Elliott Smith - THE MOON IS A SICKLE CELL [2021]
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The Moon is a Sickle Cell has been updated for 2021, with the goal of collecting and preserving every rarity track currently out there in circulation in the best quality possible, to make them available to the public into the future.
The original collection from 2016 had 180 tracks in it. This archive for 2021 has more than 650.
Every download that can be found by searching anywhere online is in this archive. This includes Grand Mal, Confusion, Either/Or Sessions, Jackpot/XO Sessions, Place Pigalle Demos, Basement Tapes Unfinished/Suppressed, From A Basement On The Hill II, The Moon is a Light Bulb Breaking, etc. And there’s even more songs that aren’t in any other collection from recent leaks.
A lot of the tracks are now in a lossless format (FLAC or WAV), as they come from new sources, but there are still files in a lossy format (MP3 or M4A), because no other file exists.
This archive project began in 2015 because a lot of the downloads that were out there at the time had been transcoded or edited and didn’t have much precise order or organization to them. They were missing the information about when Elliott recorded them and also what the difference was between the various versions of the same songs. So, the archive was posted online in 2016 to try to preserve the initial leaks in the best quality possible and to attach recording and version information to them.
It was surprising to see how much The Moon is a Sickle Cell got traded on the internet, and it still circulates today. Unfortunately, any version of The Moon is a Sickle Cell from 2016 that can be found online now has been transcoded somewhere along it’s downloading journey. The 2016 version should be deleted and hopefully this new archive can replace the old one.
A note about transcoding: anytime a lossy format (like MP3) is converted, it loses a little bit of information and quality - so transcoding this archive should always be avoided.
In terms of the information for each track, each one was researched using the documentation from the Alphabet Town session history and the knowledge base of the fan community to provide as many details about them as possible. All of the files are now listed chronologically by year and broken up into folders for the recording sessions that surrounded each studio album. There is also a documentation folder, where all of the recording session and discography information can be found.
The original title, The Moon is a Sickle Cell, was a joke based on the title of the official 2007 release of rarities, New Moon, but it seems to still fit. The phrase comes from the song “Coming Up Roses” from the self-titled album Elliott Smith. The line is, “The moon is a sickle cell, it’ll kill you in time. Your cold white brother riding your blood like spun glass in sore eyes.”
The image that was initially used for the “album cover” of The Moon is a Sickle Cell was from the cover of Autumn de Wilde’s photography book, titled Elliott Smith. For anyone looking for a biography of Elliott Smith, I always recommend this book as the best one out there. It’s full of interviews with people who knew him well and it paints a portrait of Elliott Smith that feels real and captures the many different sides of him. In this way, I feel that it corrects a lot of the misconceptions that are tied to his music.
If you do want to support Elliott’s work and his family, donate to the Elliott Smith memorial fund at sweetadeline.net or Free Arts for Abused Children or you can buy one of his records.
A HUGE thanks to MaRaBalos, to Lyn / PrettyMaryKProject, Elliott Smith Discography, EddieBrock, cosmobubbles, and everyone in the fan community.
INCLUDES BONUS COMPILATIONS
As a bonus, the archive also includes additional compilations created to pull different highlights from the archive, to make some different listening experiences.
The Moon is a Sickle Cell - Archive Compilation (Master Versions of Solo Rarities)
This is a collection of ONLY one version of each rarity track. The track is either the best quality version or the most well known version of the track. There are 80 songs in total, so it’s like an 80 track rarities album.
Elliott Smith - A Shot of White Noise + Violent Girl (Curated Rarities Comps)
These are two curated rarities compilations mixing favorite tracks into two mixes that can be listened to as if they are “new” albums .
Elliott Smith - Fritz Moon (Fritz Michaud's New Moon - Comp of All Fritz Mixes)
Elliott asked Fritz Michaud to master a lot of his rarities and they were in consideration for the New Moon album, but Larry Crane was chosen to mix instead. A lot of fans consider the Fritz mixes to be better and more in line with Elliott’s style. This compilation collects all of the mixes by Fritz Michaud that are available.
Elliott Smith - Misery Club (Fan Voted Favorites Rarities Comps)
This is a mix of the rarities from the archive organized by fan votes from an online survey and the daily discussions on reddit. Track 1 was voted the most times and the last track the least amount of times.
Elliott Smith - Smile at Confusion (Live Rarities Comp)
One of the earliest collections of any Elliott Smith material was called Confusion and it was a bunch of live versions of unreleased and off album songs. This compilation reimagines that collection by incorporating songs from all of the new live sources that have been collected over the years. The title Smile at Confusion comes from the song “Dancing on the Highway.”
Elliott Smith - Thirteen (Best Live Covers Comps)
This is a more condensed version of Part 9 of the archive. Part 1 is a collection of all of the highest quality live versions of cover songs that are available and part 2 are all the lower quality cover songs, but the best quality tracks available. There is at least one track of each cover song Elliott played live that was recorded.
00 Archive/P1 - 1980-1993/P1.1 - Rarities Unreleased/1986_1993X - Leaked Demos/1986_1993X - Where I Get It From.mp3
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00 Archive/P1 - 1980-1993/P1.2 - Early & Heatmiser/1985 - Stranger Than Fiction - Any Kind of Mudhen/1985 - The Machine - Stranger Than Fiction - Any Kind of Mudhen.mp3
5.8 MB
00 Archive/P1 - 1980-1993/P1.2 - Early & Heatmiser/1985 - Stranger Than Fiction - Any Kind of Mudhen/Art - Cover - Stranger Than Fiction - Any Kind of Mudhen.png
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00 Archive/P1 - 1980-1993/P1.2 - Early & Heatmiser/1985_86 - Stranger Than Fiction - Still Waters More or Less/1985_86 - Jump Across The Mountain - Stranger than Fiction - SWMOL.mp3
7.9 MB
00 Archive/P1 - 1980-1993/P1.2 - Early & Heatmiser/1985_86 - Stranger Than Fiction - Still Waters More or Less/1985_86 - The Crystal Ball - Stranger than Fiction - SWMOL [Facebook Clip].m4a
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00 Archive/P1 - 1980-1993/P1.2 - Early & Heatmiser/1985_86 - Stranger Than Fiction - Still Waters More or Less/1985_86 - The Crystal Ball - Stranger than Fiction - SWMOL [TS Facebook Clip].flac
6.7 MB
00 Archive/P1 - 1980-1993/P1.2 - Early & Heatmiser/1985_86 - Stranger Than Fiction - Still Waters More or Less/1985_86 - The Crystal Ball - Stranger than Fiction - SWMOL.mp3
7.3 MB
00 Archive/P1 - 1980-1993/P1.2 - Early & Heatmiser/1985_86 - Stranger Than Fiction - Still Waters More or Less/1985_86 - Wandering - Stranger than Fiction - SWMOL.mp3
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00 Archive/P1 - 1980-1993/P1.2 - Early & Heatmiser/1985_86 - Stranger Than Fiction - Still Waters More or Less/Art - Cover - Stranger Than Fiction - SWMOL.png
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00 Archive/P1 - 1980-1993/P1.2 - Early & Heatmiser/1987 - Stranger Than Fiction - Menagerie/1987 - Asleep - Stranger than Fiction - Menagerie.mp3
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00 Archive/P1 - 1980-1993/P1.2 - Early & Heatmiser/1987 - Stranger Than Fiction - Menagerie/1987 - The Real Estate - Stranger than Fiction - Menagerie.mp3
6.5 MB
00 Archive/P1 - 1980-1993/P1.2 - Early & Heatmiser/1987 - Stranger Than Fiction - Menagerie/Art - Cover - Stranger Than Fiction - Menagerie.jpg
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00 Archive/P1 - 1980-1993/P1.2 - Early & Heatmiser/1988 - A Murder of Crows - The Greenhouse/1988 - 01 Mrs. Kennedy - A Murder of Crows - The Greenhouse.flac
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00 Archive/P1 - 1980-1993/P1.2 - Early & Heatmiser/1988 - A Murder of Crows - The Greenhouse/1988 - 02 Shotgun - A Murder of Crows - The Greenhouse.flac
14.5 MB
00 Archive/P1 - 1980-1993/P1.2 - Early & Heatmiser/1988 - A Murder of Crows - The Greenhouse/1988 - 03 Dear Eunice - A Murder of Crows - The Greenhouse.flac
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00 Archive/P1 - 1980-1993/P1.2 - Early & Heatmiser/1988 - A Murder of Crows - The Greenhouse/1988 - 04 Back Seat John - A Murder of Crows - The Greenhouse.flac
24.7 MB
00 Archive/P1 - 1980-1993/P1.2 - Early & Heatmiser/1988 - A Murder of Crows - The Greenhouse/1988 - 05 Condor Avenue - A Murder of Crows - The Greenhouse.flac
19.3 MB
00 Archive/P1 - 1980-1993/P1.2 - Early & Heatmiser/1988 - A Murder of Crows - The Greenhouse/1988 - 06 Take a Fall - A Murder of Crows - The Greenhouse.flac
24.4 MB
00 Archive/P1 - 1980-1993/P1.2 - Early & Heatmiser/1988 - A Murder of Crows - The Greenhouse/1988 - 07 Chinatown - A Murder of Crows - The Greenhouse.flac
29 MB
00 Archive/P1 - 1980-1993/P1.2 - Early & Heatmiser/1988 - A Murder of Crows - The Greenhouse/1988 - 08 Coraliza - A Murder of Crows - The Greenhouse.flac
16 MB
00 Archive/P1 - 1980-1993/P1.2 - Early & Heatmiser/1988 - A Murder of Crows - The Greenhouse/1988 - 09 Maritime Blue - A Murder of Crows - The Greenhouse.flac
37.8 MB
00 Archive/P1 - 1980-1993/P1.2 - Early & Heatmiser/1988 - A Murder of Crows - The Greenhouse/1988 - 10 Three (King's Crossing) - A Murder of Crows - The Greenhouse.flac
25.9 MB
00 Archive/P1 - 1980-1993/P1.2 - Early & Heatmiser/1988 - A Murder of Crows - The Greenhouse/Art - Back - 1988 A Murder of Crows - The Greenhouse.jpg
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00 Archive/P1 - 1980-1993/P1.2 - Early & Heatmiser/1988 - A Murder of Crows - The Greenhouse/Art - Cover - 1988 A Murder of Crows - The Greenhouse.jpg
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00 Archive/P1 - 1980-1993/P1.2 - Early & Heatmiser/1989 - Harum Scarum - Trick of Paris Season/1989 - Bald Faced Lie - Harum Scarum - TOPS.flac
5.4 MB
00 Archive/P1 - 1980-1993/P1.2 - Early & Heatmiser/1989 - Harum Scarum - Trick of Paris Season/1989 - Catholic (Everybody Cares, Everybody Understands) - Harum Scarum - TOPS.m4a
7.6 MB
00 Archive/P1 - 1980-1993/P1.2 - Early & Heatmiser/1989 - Harum Scarum - Trick of Paris Season/1989 - Key Biscayne (Mr. Goodmorning) - Harum Scarum - TOPS [Facebook Clip].flac
8.2 MB
00 Archive/P1 - 1980-1993/P1.2 - Early & Heatmiser/1989 - Harum Scarum - Trick of Paris Season/1989 - This Bed (Early Blue Mood) - Harum Scarum - TOPS.flac
19.1 MB
00 Archive/P1 - 1980-1993/P1.2 - Early & Heatmiser/1989 - Harum Scarum - Trick of Paris Season/Art - Cassette - Fold - Harum Scarum - Trick of Paris Season.jpg
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00 Archive/P1 - 1980-1993/P1.2 - Early & Heatmiser/1989 - Stranger Than Fiction - Still Waters More or Less/1989 - Fast Food (Junk Bond Trader) - Stranger Than Fiction - SWMOL [Facebook Clip].flac
2.9 MB
00 Archive/P1 - 1980-1993/P1.2 - Early & Heatmiser/1992 - Heatmiser - The Music of Heatmiser/1992 - 04 Just a Little Prick - Heatmiser - The Music of Heatmiser.flac
14.5 MB
00 Archive/P1 - 1980-1993/P1.2 - Early & Heatmiser/1992 - Heatmiser - The Music of Heatmiser/1992 - 06 Mightier Than You - Heatmiser - The Music of Heatmiser.flac
12.5 MB
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00 Archive/P1 - 1980-1993/P1.2 - Early & Heatmiser/1992 - Heatmiser - The Music of Heatmiser/Art - Tape - Heatmiser - The Music of Heatmiser.jpg
00 Archive/P1 - 1980-1993/P1.3 - Live Alternates/1994-01 - Antonio Carlos Jobim (Live) (Acoustic - First Performance) 1994-12-01 - Club Congo - Scottsdale, AZ (AUD M, LL, A-, A).flac
20.1 MB
00 Archive/P1 - 1980-1993/P1.3 - Live Alternates/1994-09 - Half Right (Live) 1994-09-17 - Umbra Penubra - Portland, OR [Elliott Smith 25th Anniversary].flac
104.7 MB
00 Archive/P1 - 1980-1993/P1.3 - Live Alternates/1996-09 - Antonio Carlos Jobim (Live) (Acoustic) 1996-09-25 - Sam Bond's Garage - Eugene, OR (SBD, LL, A-, A).flac
23.5 MB
00 Archive/P1 - 1980-1993/P1.3 - Live Alternates/1996-09 - See You Later (Live) (Acoustic) 1996-09-25 - Sam Bond's Garage - Eugene, OR (SBD, LL, A-, A).flac
21.6 MB
00 Archive/P1 - 1980-1993/P1.3 - Live Alternates/1997-02 - Get Lucky (Live) (Acoustic - Only Recorded Performance)1997-02-14 - Unknown Venue (AUD, MP3, B-, A).mp3
4.1 MB
00 Archive/P1 - 1980-1993/P1.3 - Live Alternates/1999-02 - Half Right (Live) 1999-02-26 - Satyricon - Portland, OR (AUD, LS, A-, A).flac
28.8 MB
00 Archive/P1 - 1980-1993/P1.3 - Live Alternates/1999-07 - See You Later (Live) (Acoustic) 1999-07-17 - Yo Yo a Go Go - Olympia WA (SBD, LL, A+, A).flac
13.6 MB
00 Archive/P1 - 1980-1993/P1.3 - Live Alternates/2000-04 - See You Later (Live) (Bonus Track From The Jon Brion Show Pilot).flac
47.9 MB
00 Archive/P1 - 1980-1993/P1.3 - Live Alternates/2002-10 - Something to Lose (Live) (Acoustic) 2002-10-01 - The Echo, LA (AUD, MP3, B+, A).mp3
4 MB
00 Archive/P1 - 1980-1993/P1.3 - Live Alternates/2003-01 - Plainclothes Man (Live) (Acoustic) 2003-01-31 - Henry Fonda Theater - Los Angeles, CA (SBD, LL, A+, A).flac
22.7 MB
00 Archive/P1 - 1980-1993/P1.3 - Live Alternates/2003-02 - Antonio Carlos Jobim (Live) (Acoustic) 2003-02-01 - Henry Fonda Theater - Los Angeles, CA (AUD, LS, A, A).flac
21.6 MB
00 Archive/P1 - 1980-1993/P1.3 - Live Alternates/2003-05 - Plainclothes Man (Live) (Acoustic) 2003-05-03 - The Steamboat - Austin, TX (SBD, LL, A+, A).flac
00 Archive/P1 - 1980-1993/P1.3 - Live Alternates/2003-09 - Something to Lose (Live) (Acoustic) 2003-09-19 - Redfest - Salt Lake City, UT (AUD, LL, B, A).flac
19.4 MB
00 Archive/P2 - 1993-1995/P2.1 - Rarities Official/1993 - Untitled Melancholy Song [Heaven Adores You OST 2016].flac
21 MB
00 Archive/P2 - 1993-1995/P2.1 - Rarities Official/1993 - Untitled Soft Song in F [Heaven Adores You OST 2016].flac
28.6 MB
00 Archive/P2 - 1993-1995/P2.1 - Rarities Official/1993_94 - No Confidence Man (Live) (Possibly First Solo Show Video Rip) Unknown Date - A Living Room in Portland, OR.flac
7.1 MB
00 Archive/P2 - 1993-1995/P2.1 - Rarities Official/1994-05 - Unknown Song (Instrumental) [Heaven Adores You OST 2016].flac
20.8 MB
00 Archive/P2 - 1993-1995/P2.1 - Rarities Official/1994-08 - No Confidence Man (1994 Mix) [Split with Pete Krebs 1994].flac
32 MB
00 Archive/P2 - 1993-1995/P2.1 - Rarities Official/1994-08 - No Confidence Man (2014 Larry Crane Remix) [Split with Pete Krebs - 20th Anniversary 2016].flac
00 Archive/P2 - 1993-1995/P2.2 - Unreleased & Live/1994-10 - I'm Over it Now (Early Have You Seen Her) (Live) (With Heatmiser) 1994-10-25 - Live on KBOO - Portland, OR.ogg
3.6 MB
00 Archive/P2 - 1993-1995/P2.2 - Unreleased & Live/1995 - We're All Friends Now (Live) Unkown Show.flac
5.1 MB
00 Archive/P2 - 1993-1995/P2.3 - Album Alternates/1993 - Last Call (2009 Larry Crane Mix) [An Introduction to Elliott Smith 2009].flac
29.6 MB
00 Archive/P2 - 1993-1995/P2.3 - Album Alternates/1993 - Roman Candle (Early Mix - 'So What Do You Do' Lyrics) [From Cassette Compilation].mp3
8.1 MB
00 Archive/P2 - 1993-1995/P2.3 - Album Alternates/1993-09 - Don't Call Me Billy (Fear City Alt Lyrics) [Heaven Adores You OST 2016].flac
27.5 MB
00 Archive/P2 - 1993-1995/P2.3 - Album Alternates/1994 - Satellite (Alt Version) [Elliott Smith Alternate Versions 2020].flac
48.7 MB
00 Archive/P2 - 1993-1995/P2.3 - Album Alternates/1994-09 - Alphabet Town ('Edit' Version - Longer Intro) [Needle in the Hay Single 1995].flac
28.8 MB
00 Archive/P2 - 1993-1995/P2.3 - Album Alternates/1994-09 - Needle In The Hay (Trumpet) (Ft Eric Matthews) [Elliott Smith Alternate Versions 2020].flac
83.6 MB
00 Archive/P2 - 1993-1995/P2.3 - Album Alternates/1994-09 - Needle In The Hay (Trumpet) (Ft Eric Matthews) [KRS Crazed MP3 Fans].flac
49.6 MB
00 Archive/P2 - 1993-1995/P2.3 - Album Alternates/1994-09 - Whatever (Some Folk Song In C) (Fritz Michaud Mix).wav
26.3 MB
00 Archive/P2 - 1993-1995/P2.3 - Album Alternates/1994_95 - Big Decision (Alt Version) [Elliott Smith Alternate Versions 2020].flac
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