LORD FIGURED IT OUT

“It sounds like the fucking Eagles,” says Elliott Smith in footage of him being asked to play I Figured You Out at a performance in Tempe, Arizona, in 1997. He tries to play the “really stupid song” then gives up laughing. It was, he said, from a time when he “went through a phase of wanting to write really straight”. He gave it to Mary Lou Lord (above), who used it on her 1996 EP Martian Saints.