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Figure 8 (album)

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Figure 8 is the fifth studio album by American singer-songwriter Elliott Smith, and the final album he completed before his death. [1]

59 relations: Abbey Road Studios, AllMusic, American Beauty (1999 film), ARIA Charts, Audio mastering, Autumn de Wilde, Because (Beatles song), Billboard (magazine), Billboard 200, Boston Herald, Capitol Studios, Chamberlin, Da Capo Press, DreamWorks Records, Either/Or (album), Elliott Smith, Elliott Smith and the Big Nothing, Entertainment Weekly, From a Basement on the Hill, Happiness (Elliott Smith song), Hollywood, Indie pop, Joey Waronker, Jon Brion, London, Los Angeles, Los Angeles Times, Melody Maker, Metacritic, Mike Mills (director), NME, Official Charts Company, Pete Thomas (drummer), Pitchfork (website), Place Pigalle, Power pop, Q (magazine), Record producer, Rob Schnapf, Rolling Stone, Sam Coomes, Schoolhouse Rock!, Singer-songwriter, Son of Sam (song), Spin (magazine), Sunset Boulevard, Sunset Sound Recorders, The A.V. Club, The Beatles, The Guardian, ..., Thumbsucker (film), Thumbsucker (soundtrack), Tiny Mix Tapes, Tom Rothrock, Trouser Press, UK Albums Chart, UK Singles Chart, XO (Elliott Smith album), 1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die. Expand index (9 more) »

Abbey Road Studios

Abbey Road Studios (formerly known as EMI Recording Studios) is a recording studio at 3 Abbey Road, St John's Wood, City of Westminster, London, England.

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AllMusic

AllMusic (previously known as All Music Guide or AMG) is an online music guide.

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American Beauty (1999 film)

American Beauty is a 1999 American drama film directed by Sam Mendes and written by Alan Ball.

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ARIA Charts

The ARIA Charts are the main Australian music sales charts, issued weekly by the Australian Recording Industry Association.

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Audio mastering

Mastering, a form of audio post production, is the process of preparing and transferring recorded audio from a source containing the final mix to a data storage device (the master); the source from which all copies will be produced (via methods such as pressing, duplication or replication).

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Autumn de Wilde

Autumn de Wilde (born 1970) is an American photographer and director best known for her portraiture and commercial work photography of musicians, as well as her music video, commercial and film work.

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Because (Beatles song)

"Because" is a song written by John Lennon (credited to Lennon–McCartney) and recorded by the Beatles in 1969.

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Billboard (magazine)

Billboard (styled as billboard) is an American entertainment media brand owned by the Billboard-Hollywood Reporter Media Group, a division of Eldridge Industries.

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Billboard 200

The Billboard 200 is a record chart ranking the 200 most popular music albums and EPs in the United States.

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Boston Herald

The Boston Herald is an American daily newspaper whose primary market is Boston, Massachusetts and its surrounding area.

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Capitol Studios

Established in 1956, Capitol Studios are located in the landmark Capitol Records Tower in the heart of Hollywood, California.

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Chamberlin

The Chamberlin is an electro-mechanical keyboard instrument that was a precursor to the Mellotron.

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Da Capo Press

Da Capo Press is an American publishing company with headquarters in Boston, Massachusetts.

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DreamWorks Records

DreamWorks Records (often referred in copyright notices as SKG Music, LLC) was an American record label founded in 1996 by David Geffen, Steven Spielberg and Jeffrey Katzenberg as a subsidiary of DreamWorks SKG.

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Either/Or (album)

Either/Or is the third studio album by American singer-songwriter Elliott Smith.

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Elliott Smith

Steven Paul "Elliott" Smith (August 6, 1969 – October 21, 2003) was an American singer, songwriter, and musician.

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Elliott Smith and the Big Nothing

Elliott Smith and the Big Nothing is a biography of musician Elliott Smith by Benjamin Nugent.

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Entertainment Weekly

Entertainment Weekly (sometimes abbreviated as EW) is an American magazine, published by Meredith Corporation, that covers film, television, music, Broadway theatre, books and popular culture.

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From a Basement on the Hill

From a Basement on the Hill is the sixth and final studio album by the American singer-songwriter Elliott Smith.

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Happiness (Elliott Smith song)

"Happiness" is a song by American singer-songwriter Elliott Smith.

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Hollywood

Hollywood is a neighborhood in the central region of Los Angeles, California.

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Indie pop

Indie pop (also typeset as indie-pop or indiepop) is a music genre and subculture that combines guitar pop with DIY ethic in opposition to the style and tone of mainstream pop music.

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Joey Waronker

Jon Joseph "Joey" Waronker (born May 20, 1969) is an American drummer and music producer.

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Jon Brion

Jon Brion (born December 11, 1963) is an American singer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, record producer, and composer.

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London

London is the capital and most populous city of England and the United Kingdom.

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Los Angeles

Los Angeles (Spanish for "The Angels";; officially: the City of Los Angeles; colloquially: by its initials L.A.) is the second-most populous city in the United States, after New York City.

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Los Angeles Times

The Los Angeles Times is a daily newspaper which has been published in Los Angeles, California since 1881.

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Melody Maker

Melody Maker was a British weekly music magazine, one of the world's earliest music weeklies, and—according to its publisher IPC Media—the earliest.

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Metacritic

Metacritic is a website that aggregates reviews of media products: music albums, video games, films, TV shows, and formerly, books.

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Mike Mills (director)

Michael Chadbourne "Mike" Mills (born March 20, 1966) is an American.

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NME

New Musical Express (NME) is a British music journalism website and former magazine that has been published since 1952.

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Official Charts Company

The Official Charts Company, also referred to as Official Charts (previously known as the Chart Information Network (CIN) and The Official UK Charts Company) is a British inter-professional organisation that compiles various "official" record charts in the United Kingdom, including the UK Singles Chart, the UK Albums Chart, the UK Singles Downloads Chart and the UK Album Downloads Chart, as well as genre-specific and music video charts.

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Pete Thomas (drummer)

Peter Michael Thomas (born 9 August 1954) is an English rock drummer best known for his collaboration with singer Elvis Costello, both as a member of his band "The Attractions", and with Costello as a solo artist.

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Pitchfork (website)

Pitchfork is an American online magazine launched in 1995 by Ryan Schreiber, based in Chicago, Illinois and owned by Condé Nast.

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Place Pigalle

The Place Pigalle is a public square located in the 9th arrondissement of Paris, between the Boulevard de Clichy and the Boulevard de Rochechouart, near Sacré-Cœur, at the foot of the Montmartre hill.

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Power pop

Power pop is a rock music subgenre that draws its inspiration from 1960s British and American rock music.

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Q (magazine)

Q is a popular music magazine published monthly in the United Kingdom.

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Record producer

A record producer or track producer or music producer oversees and manages the sound recording and production of a band or performer's music, which may range from recording one song to recording a lengthy concept album.

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Rob Schnapf

Rob Schnapf is an American record producer and musician.

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Rolling Stone

Rolling Stone is an American monthly magazine that focuses on popular culture.

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Sam Coomes

Samuel J. Coomes (born 1964) is an American musician, and one-half of the Portland-area indie band Quasi, along with drummer and ex-wife Janet Weiss.

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Schoolhouse Rock!

Schoolhouse Rock! is an American interstitial programming series of animated musical educational short films (and later, videos) that aired during the Saturday morning children's programming block on the U.S. television network ABC.

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Singer-songwriter

Singer-songwriters are musicians who write, compose, and perform their own musical material, including lyrics and melodies.

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Son of Sam (song)

"Son of Sam" is a song by American singer-songwriter Elliott Smith.

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Spin (magazine)

Spin is an American music magazine founded in 1985 by publisher Bob Guccione, Jr. The magazine stopped running in print in 2012 and currently runs as a webzine.

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Sunset Boulevard

Sunset Boulevard is a boulevard in the central and western part of Los Angeles County, California that stretches from Figueroa Street in Downtown Los Angeles to the Pacific Coast Highway at the Pacific Ocean.

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Sunset Sound Recorders

Sunset Sound Recorders is a recording studio in Hollywood, California, United States located at 6650 Sunset Boulevard.

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The A.V. Club

The A.V. Club is an entertainment website featuring reviews, interviews, and other articles that examine films, music, television, books, games, and other elements of pop culture media.

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The Beatles

The Beatles were an English rock band formed in Liverpool in 1960.

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The Guardian

The Guardian is a British daily newspaper.

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Thumbsucker (film)

Thumbsucker is a 2005 American independent comedy-drama film directed by Mike Mills and adapted from the Walter Kirn novel of the same name.

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Thumbsucker (soundtrack)

Thumbsucker is the soundtrack to the film of the same name, which is based in the novel of the same name by Walter Kirn.

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Tiny Mix Tapes

Tiny Mix Tapes (also TMT or tinymixtapes) is an online music and film webzine that focuses primarily on new music and related news.

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Tom Rothrock

Tom Rothrock is an American musician, composer, record producer and owner of Bong Load Records. Tom Rothrock has worked with James Blunt, Foo Fighters, Moby, Beck, Badly Drawn Boy, R. L. Burnside, Athlete, Sloan, Gwen Stefani, Motörhead, Elbow, Stevie Nicks, Poison, Elliott Smith, Richard Thompson, Yonder Mountain String Band. Rothrock has also composed or contributed to soundtracks for notable motion pictures such as About A Boy, Good Will Hunting, Collateral and The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie. James Blunt's debut, Back to Bedlam, has been noted as the "decades best selling album" (2000's). The album also entered the Guinness Book of World Records, with most albums sold in a year in the UK, when it sold 2,368,000 copies in 2005. Rothrock started Bong Load Custom Records in the early 1990s enlisting former Record Plant Recording Studios co-workers, Bradshaw Lambert and Rob Schnapf. Bong Load Records is notable for developing and releasing Beck's "Loser" single which became the first number one, non-major label single since FM radio became mainstream. Together Rothrock, Schnapf, Beck, and Karl Stephenson recorded Mellow Gold, Beck's major label debut. In film, Rothrock produced the original songs for the About A Boy soundtrack and score with Badly Drawn Boy. He composed music for the film Collateral directed by Michael Mann and is credited on the song "Goofy Goober Rock" on The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie soundtrack. His recording of R. L. Burnside's "It's Bad You Know" was included on The Sopranos original television soundtrack release. During 2013, Rothrock returned to collaborate with James Blunt on the album Moon Landing. Working primarily at Sunset Sound Studios in Hollywood, California the resulting release was generally well received among music critics and considered a comeback for Blunt. In 2016 Rothrock marked Bong Load Records' 25th anniversary by re-launching the label's vinyl record division. He also relocated the Los Angeles company to the arts district of Las Vegas, Nevada.

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Trouser Press

Trouser Press was a rock and roll magazine started in New York in 1974 as a mimeographed fanzine by editor/publisher Ira Robbins, fellow Who fan Dave Schulps and Karen Rose under the name "Trans-Oceanic Trouser Press" (a reference to a song by the Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band and an acronymic play on the British TV show Top of the Pops).

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UK Albums Chart

The Official Albums Chart is a list of albums ranked by physical and digital sales and (from March 2015) audio streaming in the United Kingdom.

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UK Singles Chart

The UK Singles Chart (currently entitled Official Singles Chart) is compiled by the Official Charts Company (OCC), on behalf of the British record industry, listing the top-selling singles in the United Kingdom, based upon physical sales, paid-for downloads and streaming.

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XO (Elliott Smith album)

XO is the fourth studio album by American singer-songwriter Elliott Smith.

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1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die

1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die is a musical reference book first published in 2005 by Universe Publishing.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Figure_8_(album)

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