I didn't think there was anything "fake" about his best four records (imo) Mellow Gold + Stereopathetic + One Foot + Odelay, they were freewheeling and unserious and fun in a Ween/Cibo Matto/Harry Nilsson kind of way.
― pretty krulls make glaives (flamboyant goon tie included), Saturday, 18 January 2014 06:23 (ten years ago) link
*farts*
― just (Matt P), Saturday, 18 January 2014 07:05 (ten years ago) link
eww
― davey, Saturday, 18 January 2014 13:05 (ten years ago) link
doorknob
*start punching matt p*
― davey, Saturday, 18 January 2014 13:06 (ten years ago) link
*starts punching matt p*
― davey, Saturday, 18 January 2014 13:07 (ten years ago) link
haha
Flamboyant goon OTM
all of his albums have SOMETHING to recommend them but that run is crazy solid
The Information is sweet
― Beatrix Kiddo (Raymond Cummings), Saturday, 18 January 2014 13:18 (ten years ago) link
morning wood phase
― nostormo, Saturday, 18 January 2014 13:26 (ten years ago) link
this is OTM but like I can get, in a personal sense I feel like I can get, how Beck would eventually want to say "there's another Beck who's more focused than that and I relate more to him than the the guy who I'll be known as forever if I keep that up"
― second set all dead boys covers (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Saturday, 18 January 2014 15:35 (ten years ago) link
I just wish "a more focused Beck" didn't sound like Air
― pretty krulls make glaives (flamboyant goon tie included), Saturday, 18 January 2014 19:41 (ten years ago) link
That's kind of unfair. Realistically I don't think anybody can put Calvin Johnson on bgvs, or put a BBQ recording of "Ozzy", do cotton-ball-mouth first take raps, write songs like "Mutherfucka" etc., nobody can do those things a second time, or past the age of 26, or after having any sort of success, or pressure on you to move units for Geffen.
― pretty krulls make glaives (flamboyant goon tie included), Saturday, 18 January 2014 19:48 (ten years ago) link
Pressure to move units for Capitol, as of this record.
― tbd (Eazy), Sunday, 19 January 2014 02:38 (ten years ago) link
"I just wish "a more focused Beck" didn't sound like Air" or air for that matter
i think that his move to major labels just made him a worse artist, i don't care if he does the old stuff he did again, just wish his newer stuff was better.
― nostormo, Sunday, 19 January 2014 13:49 (ten years ago) link
(he aint no SY or Nirvana for that matter)
― nostormo, Sunday, 19 January 2014 13:51 (ten years ago) link
New Moon is streaming everywhere. and it's meh
― nostormo, Tuesday, 21 January 2014 12:09 (ten years ago) link
strange song - might be a grower, but I'm a bit tired with that vocal style & FX he seems to be have been using for the last 10 years.
― licorice oratorio (baaderonixx), Tuesday, 21 January 2014 13:29 (ten years ago) link
i am amused at how "Morning" is practically a carbon copy of "Golden Age"
― ciderpress, Friday, 31 January 2014 22:04 (ten years ago) link
I love his early stuff so much but he hasn't made an interesting record since Midnite Vultures
And he never will again, it's not like he's going to give up all his world comforts and marriage and get lost and weird again
― calstars, Saturday, 1 February 2014 02:24 (ten years ago) link
Love this track.
― timellison, Saturday, 1 February 2014 05:49 (ten years ago) link
this seems like it could be good. but i feel like it's already obvious it will be considered beck's comeback album. like, it will resemble "sea change" and also be beck's highest p&j charter since that album. most people who don't know that he released "song reader" -- an album that's not actually something you can put on and listen to! -- last year are thinking "what happened to beck?" totally the right time for him to be like "yo, here i am." and also capitol's probably willing to spend a lot on him since he's new to their stable. ba da bing ba da ba it's like "beck we hardly knew ye!" lots of middle-aged rock critics out there who have a lot invested in believing that "odelay" wasn't a fluke.
― jaymc, Saturday, 1 February 2014 06:32 (ten years ago) link
this album is embarrassing.
― nostormo, Saturday, 1 February 2014 15:18 (ten years ago) link
(Harmonica solo)
― calstars, Saturday, 1 February 2014 18:13 (ten years ago) link
I miss his sense of humor
More like Boring Phase
― Emperor Cos Dashit (Adam Bruneau), Saturday, 1 February 2014 18:22 (ten years ago) link
Is he trying to capitalize on post-Mumford and Sons shtick or something
― Emperor Cos Dashit (Adam Bruneau), Saturday, 1 February 2014 18:24 (ten years ago) link
more like trying to capitalize by recycling himself, doing generic indie folk
― nostormo, Saturday, 1 February 2014 18:31 (ten years ago) link
I forgot Beck invented generic indie folk
― Emperor Cos Dashit (Adam Bruneau), Saturday, 1 February 2014 18:35 (ten years ago) link
It's mainly the production and arrangements that don't appeal to me wrt post-00s Beck. Like if he forced himself to make this album on a 4-track it would somehow be WAYYYY better.
― Emperor Cos Dashit (Adam Bruneau), Saturday, 1 February 2014 18:38 (ten years ago) link
Like if "Today Has Been a Fucked Up Day" was recorded now it would have 64 layers of vocals and tambourines and people stomping and stuff.
― Emperor Cos Dashit (Adam Bruneau), Saturday, 1 February 2014 18:39 (ten years ago) link
he is the godfather of it, in a way...
but now it seems Bon Iver took his place
xpost
― nostormo, Saturday, 1 February 2014 18:40 (ten years ago) link
yeah, trying too hard to be "pretty"..
― nostormo, Saturday, 1 February 2014 18:41 (ten years ago) link
Wish he would record Ozzy Pt. 2
― calstars, Saturday, 1 February 2014 18:56 (ten years ago) link
The flipside of calling this generic would be to say that it's archetypal. I like its subtleties, like the contrasting melodic contour in the second verse and the way the chorus is segmented. Also think his voice sounds great.
― timellison, Saturday, 1 February 2014 23:43 (ten years ago) link
http://timeentertainment.files.wordpress.com/2014/01/20140119_beck_morning_phase_91.jpgthat is the cover not the hideous thing upthread.
"new moon" sounds promising, i quite like the banjo playing.
― it's the distortion, stupid! (alex in mainhattan), Sunday, 2 February 2014 11:52 (ten years ago) link
Start at track 3
― calstars, Sunday, 2 February 2014 18:16 (ten years ago) link
i've lsitened to this record twice now and i might even listen to it again at some point
― ciderpress, Monday, 3 February 2014 20:18 (ten years ago) link
wow, really expected this to be better
― sean gramophone, Monday, 3 February 2014 20:54 (ten years ago) link
I can think of few big artists I have lower expectations for than Beck...
― skip, Monday, 3 February 2014 20:57 (ten years ago) link
It's a bummer this does seem rather tepid on first listen, considering all the amazing stuff he's been doing very under the radar the last few years. The Record Club 'Oar' full-album cover remains one of my favorite albums of the 2010s (http://www.beck.com/recordclub/index.php/category/skip-spence-oar). And this is one of the very best pieces of music I've heard in the last couple years, from any time:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iaKrnjY8LiY
― Soundslike, Tuesday, 4 February 2014 02:31 (ten years ago) link
^ this. Beck and Yoshinori Sunahara, Cornelius or Shugo Tokumaru collab would be ace
― MaresNest, Friday, January 17, 2014 11:52 PM (2 weeks ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
nah, not cornelius, it'd be humiliating. fantasma >>>>>>>>>> beck
― Battles, "Atlas" 29 Carly Rae Jepsen, "Call Me Maybe" 14 (imago), Tuesday, 4 February 2014 02:34 (ten years ago) link
I mean, damn:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LJonU9233Do
― Soundslike, Tuesday, 4 February 2014 02:39 (ten years ago) link
um ok wow that^ is incredible
― Battles, "Atlas" 29 Carly Rae Jepsen, "Call Me Maybe" 14 (imago), Tuesday, 4 February 2014 02:44 (ten years ago) link
eugene gallagher 3 years ago i love this song. i sang it w beck at the 94 lalapalooza. very random. ck out my alt country cover of it
― Hungry4Ass, Sunday, 9 February 2014 02:12 (ten years ago) link
After listening to “Morning Phase” almost fifty times, I can’t find a single thing wrong with it. Even if you listen to popular music all day, every day, you don’t get many albums like this in your lifetime.
sasha frere jones done lost his damn mind http://www.newyorker.com/arts/critics/musical/2014/02/17/140217crmu_music_frerejones
― adam, Thursday, 13 February 2014 04:09 (ten years ago) link
lolllll
― Mordy , Thursday, 13 February 2014 04:11 (ten years ago) link
Do we like this? I'm hearing great things.
― kornrulez6969, Thursday, 13 February 2014 04:13 (ten years ago) link
i don't think it's as good as sea change. it's very pleasant tho. maybe it'll grow on me.
― Mordy , Thursday, 13 February 2014 04:14 (ten years ago) link
i like this just fine, it is very much just Sea Change 2 in sound though so if that doesn't qualify as 'more of a good thing' for you then you won't like it
― ciderpress, Thursday, 13 February 2014 07:34 (ten years ago) link
holy @ grey/afro. want a album of THAT SONG.
― CANONICAL artists, etc., etc. (contenderizer), Thursday, 13 February 2014 08:27 (ten years ago) link
havent heard it yet but disappointed this turns out to be just Sea Change 2, as the recent standalone singles had a distinctive and novel sound.
― licorice oratorio (baaderonixx), Thursday, 13 February 2014 09:07 (ten years ago) link
See also: Aphex. I mean Syro's alright, but lol at getting a Grammy for it considering the rest of his entire career to this date.― oi listen mate, shut up (dog latin), Monday, February 9, 2015 10:14 AM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― oi listen mate, shut up (dog latin), Monday, February 9, 2015 10:14 AM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
To be fair, the best electronic album category has only existed since 2005.
― Tove Lo Tove You Baby (jaymc), Wednesday, 11 February 2015 04:14 (nine years ago) link
apparently some indie women i know think that Beck is gorgeous? WTF?
― touch of a love-starved cobra (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 11 February 2015 04:49 (nine years ago) link
he used to be when he was young. now he just looks scrawny & bug-eyed
― difficult-difficult lemon-difficult (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 11 February 2015 04:51 (nine years ago) link
Yeah he was dreamy 20 yrs ago
― Tove Lo Tove You Baby (jaymc), Wednesday, 11 February 2015 05:31 (nine years ago) link
Still dreamy gawd what do you want a 45 year old to look like
― turn dog for up (fgti), Wednesday, 11 February 2015 05:48 (nine years ago) link
less gaunt
― difficult-difficult lemon-difficult (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 11 February 2015 06:05 (nine years ago) link
Beck hasn't gotten crazy enough with the Cheese Whiz in his dotage for some, apparently.
― Don A Henley And Get Over It (C. Grisso/McCain), Wednesday, 11 February 2015 07:07 (nine years ago) link
http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/music/posts/la-et-ms-beck-annie-lennox-grammy-awards-album-sales-bump-20150218-story.html
Answering the Twitter hashtag mystery "#whoisbeck," the veteran indie rocker not only came away from the 2015 Grammy Awards ceremony with the coveted album of the year trophy, but his exposure on the show (and additional media fallout from Kanye West’s photobombing of his moment) helped fuel a whopping 483% increase in sales of his winning album “Morning Phase.”
The album shot from No. 39 a week ago on sales of 12,200 copies to No. 8 as about 71,000 copies were snapped up following the Grammy telecast.Historically, artists featured in the show’s high-visibility performance slots often fare better than many who actually win awards, but in this case, Beck benefited from taking one of the big four category awards (record, album, song and new artist) and got additional camera time in his joint appearance with Coldplay’s Chris Martin...
― Bee OK, Thursday, 19 February 2015 03:07 (nine years ago) link
Wow that doesn't sound like too many extra sales.
― ©Oz Quiz© (Adam Bruneau), Thursday, 19 February 2015 04:47 (nine years ago) link
It's 2015, less folks are buying albums and cds
― curmudgeon, Thursday, 19 February 2015 06:35 (nine years ago) link
i'm more surprised that 12k ppl bought it the week before to be honest
― bae sremmurd (monotony), Thursday, 19 February 2015 06:45 (nine years ago) link
An increase of 50,000 tho, I wonder how many people watched the Grammys and how much money was spent on it and LOL
― ©Oz Quiz© (Adam Bruneau), Thursday, 19 February 2015 16:43 (nine years ago) link
This is very heartwarming:
http://www.etonline.com/music/160033_kanye_west_finally_listens_to_beck/
― clemenza, Sunday, 22 February 2015 06:02 (nine years ago) link
@justinbieberThis @beck album is incredible
― polyphonic, Tuesday, 10 March 2015 18:00 (nine years ago) link
well I just received this as a present
why is Beck so sad
― Οὖτις, Wednesday, 23 December 2015 16:57 (eight years ago) link
the gentrification of silverlake?
― tylerw, Wednesday, 23 December 2015 17:12 (eight years ago) link
forced back into Scientology, had to dump his old GF, hasn't cheered up since Sea Change
― sleeve, Wednesday, 23 December 2015 17:13 (eight years ago) link
the happy party vibes of guero always seemed forced to me (still some jams on it)
― Mordy, Wednesday, 23 December 2015 17:14 (eight years ago) link
Why is his voice auto tuned on this audiophile album?
― niels, Wednesday, 23 December 2015 17:19 (eight years ago) link
I liked the Oar cover album a lot, and I have plenty of love for earlier sad Beck but this just sounds so flaccid and mopey, the pace of everything is near glacial, like its goal is to help me take a nap
― Οὖτις, Wednesday, 23 December 2015 17:20 (eight years ago) link
i remember i used to fall asleep listening to sea change when it came out - i felt that was one of its great attributes!
― Mordy, Wednesday, 23 December 2015 17:23 (eight years ago) link
hey I like naps too
not really what I want/expected from Beck, there's better nap-inducing music out there for me. the industry love for this album is based more on industry politics than anything else bu it's still weird to think that anyone would rate this sleepy fairly generic and hook-free album ALBUM OF THE YEAR I mean waht
― Οὖτις, Wednesday, 23 December 2015 17:33 (eight years ago) link
was pretty sure the endgame of the whole beck / kanye kerfuffle this year was going to be kanye embracing scientology
― tylerw, Wednesday, 23 December 2015 17:36 (eight years ago) link