― Dave Depper (Dave Depper), Saturday, 23 September 2006 23:00 (seventeen years ago) link
!I'm gonna have to hear that. Here is Information thread:
is the new Beck album "The Information" going under the radar?
― Marmot (marmotwolof), Saturday, 23 September 2006 23:16 (seventeen years ago) link
― Dave Depper (Dave Depper), Saturday, 23 September 2006 23:20 (seventeen years ago) link
― JB Young (JB Young), Sunday, 24 September 2006 15:07 (seventeen years ago) link
― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Sunday, 24 September 2006 17:56 (seventeen years ago) link
Liking the new album a lot.
― Bob Six, Sunday, 6 July 2008 23:48 (sixteen years ago) link
there is a whole thread for that album:
Beck - Modern Guilt
― Bee OK, Monday, 7 July 2008 00:26 (sixteen years ago) link
his remake of diamond dogs with timbo is one of the best things either have ever done. shame they didnt do more together.
― titchyschneiderMk2, Sunday, 23 November 2008 19:07 (fifteen years ago) link
Never saw the pants-wetting deal about this schmuck. Ween is far better and funnier. Mixing genres of music is nothing new and it's NOT an indication of genius.
― ilxor, Thursday, 26 March 2009 03:22 (fifteen years ago) link
Two Beck questions:1.) I'm trying to figure out what song I recently saw Beck perform on an old SNL. It was with a backing band of about 5 or 6 people (with female vocalist(s)) and was really funky-like. My guess is that it was definitely post-Odelay but pre-Sea Change. It was very good.
2.) Does anyone remember that NY Times Magazine article a few years back that had a graphic of what songs were on Beck's iPod? By chance does anyone know if it is posted somewhere online?
I thank you.
Belatedly, here is the answer to question 2 (a graphic in PDF):
Out of the 8,000 songs Beck has downloaded onto his hard drive, he's got a rotating mix of hundreds on his iPod that he updates daily. This is what Beck was listening to on Feb. 27, 2002
― Bob Six, Sunday, 7 February 2010 13:59 (fourteen years ago) link
this thread is sad.
― max buzzword (Shakey Mo Collier), Monday, 13 February 2012 22:46 (twelve years ago) link
Standing in your office trying to talk to anacondasEking solace from the sawdust while your doppelganger stands topless
― calstars, Sunday, 3 June 2012 14:56 (twelve years ago) link
The Charlotte Gainsbourg album is really good
― poxen, Sunday, 3 June 2012 16:33 (twelve years ago) link
I was obsessed w everything he did right up until Sea Change. B-sides, mixtapes, all that stuff. Everything I've heard since then is just so dull and boring. The b-sides of Midnight Vultures are probably the apex of his studio career.
Also, OTM on the greatness of "Beercan".
― Emperor Cos Dashit (Adam Bruneau), Sunday, 3 June 2012 16:36 (twelve years ago) link
man One Foot in teh Grave and Mellow Gold are still super-duper classic to my ears. i liked Odelay, Mutations and Midnight Vutlures to varying degrees.
― it's smdh time in America (will), Sunday, 3 June 2012 17:46 (twelve years ago) link
Could be a complete coincidence, but it seems like the wind went right out of his sails when he went public as a you-know-what.
― Josh in Chicago, Sunday, 3 June 2012 18:03 (twelve years ago) link
yup
― it's smdh time in America (will), Sunday, 3 June 2012 18:04 (twelve years ago) link
Mutations was the first record I ever reviewed (school paper), they didn't ask me back when I panned it
― poxen, Sunday, 3 June 2012 19:07 (twelve years ago) link
Mutations is probably my favorite of his, love the Bayou/Speakeasy kind of vibe than runs throughout.
― global tetrahedron, Sunday, 3 June 2012 19:10 (twelve years ago) link
One Foot in the Grave is the only Beck album worth listening to anymore.
― Poliopolice, Monday, 4 June 2012 00:13 (twelve years ago) link
there's a fumein this truckand I don't know if we're dead or whatthe fuckis go-ing onnnnnnnnnnnn
― how's life, Monday, 4 June 2012 00:57 (twelve years ago) link
Steve Threw Up is great too. Plus
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Co4iSYZAJXE
― Emperor Cos Dashit (Adam Bruneau), Monday, 4 June 2012 02:19 (twelve years ago) link
His 2 verses on the Childish Gambino track are really good!?!? Wish the old Beck would come back and kill new Beck
― calstars, Monday, 4 June 2012 02:45 (twelve years ago) link
with a taser gun
stuff salad down his throat and infect his entrails with aphids
― calstars, Monday, 4 June 2012 02:46 (twelve years ago) link
Wish the old Beck would come back and kill new Beck
New Beck is Old Beck, who killed Young Beck.
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 4 June 2012 12:45 (twelve years ago) link
Running through the minimall in my underwear
― how's life, Monday, 4 June 2012 12:50 (twelve years ago) link
lol I am the only person on this board who likes Guero
― that is a weird thing to bring up over lean cuisine (DJP), Monday, 4 June 2012 14:12 (twelve years ago) link
duh
― kel ler/pharmacists (some dude), Monday, 4 June 2012 14:13 (twelve years ago) link
I like all of his post-Midnite albums to varying degrees, but there was a definite dropoff in quality.
― Johnny Fever, Monday, 4 June 2012 14:21 (twelve years ago) link
Beck is probably the only musician i thought really highly of at 15 that i have no particular affection for, nostalgic or otherwise, now (those records still sound fine, but not as good as they used to)
― kel ler/pharmacists (some dude), Monday, 4 June 2012 14:25 (twelve years ago) link
Same.
― poxen, Monday, 4 June 2012 14:30 (twelve years ago) link
Just realized 'Debra' is basically Bowie's 'Win'
― calstars, Wednesday, 27 June 2012 20:40 (twelve years ago) link
Quite a few of his songs from Midnite Vultures on are very derivative of other tunes, e.g.:
Dark Star: Stevie Wonder - Have A Talk With GodRound The Bend: Nick Drake - River ManCellphone's Dead: Herbie Hancock - ChameleonPaper Tiger: Serge Gainsbourg - MelodyChemtrails: Aphrodite's Child - The Four Horsemen
There are probably more that I don't recognise.
TS: sampling songs vs. using them as jumping off points for originals
― B-Boy Bualadh Bos (ecuador_with_a_c), Thursday, 28 June 2012 01:04 (twelve years ago) link
lifting the 'win' riff for debra = classic
― buh, Thursday, 28 June 2012 01:27 (twelve years ago) link
thx to finefinemusic for the tip on this: http://soundcloud.com/jaylaporte/beck-i-just-started-hating
Beck recently collaborated with Jack White to release a new single on Third Man. The 7″ features the new tracks “I Just Started Hating Some People Today” and “Blue Randy.” White produced both songs, playing drums on the latter and adding “punk vocals” to the former. “I Just Started Hating Some People Today” begins as an old-school country jaunt that suddenly switches up into hardcore punk, and becomes a funky porno groove at the end.
― Johnny Fever, Monday, 9 July 2012 14:43 (twelve years ago) link
Sounds like crap.
― Emperor Cos Dashit (Adam Bruneau), Monday, 9 July 2012 15:57 (twelve years ago) link
OTM on whoever said Beck became a victim of Scientology, right after Midnight Vulture.
he never wasn't
― Mark G, Monday, 9 July 2012 16:06 (twelve years ago) link
yeah I don't think that has much to do with it
― the alternate vision continues his vision quest! (Shakey Mo Collier), Monday, 9 July 2012 16:07 (twelve years ago) link
Maybe he just started sucking.
― Emperor Cos Dashit (Adam Bruneau), Monday, 9 July 2012 16:07 (twelve years ago) link
np JF! If that came on the radio, only a word or two could even come close to cluing me into the fact that that was Beck. Doesn't sound like him at all. Actually sounds like an earnest 70s to 80s(? my knowledge of this genre lacks) country song but I will enjoy it ironically anyway, first thing he's done that interested me at all *since* Mutations.
― she started dancing to that (Finefinemusic), Monday, 9 July 2012 16:10 (twelve years ago) link
I like the main part of the song, before it goes all bonkers punk/funk on the way out.
― Johnny Fever, Monday, 9 July 2012 17:19 (twelve years ago) link
(Those parts are nice too, but I wish the proper part of the song was left unfuckedwith).
― Johnny Fever, Monday, 9 July 2012 17:20 (twelve years ago) link
this is brilliant.
― Porto for Pyros (The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall), Friday, 10 August 2012 17:18 (twelve years ago) link
it is pretty ingenious
however what if the songs suck
― hologram sticker of Ken Griffey Jr. at Denny's (Shakey Mo Collier), Friday, 10 August 2012 17:27 (twelve years ago) link
Beck makes a big assumption that most people can still read sheet music?
― Chewton Mendip (White Chocolate Cheesecake), Friday, 10 August 2012 17:29 (twelve years ago) link
End-around On The Pirating Business.Here’s the most brilliant part of the idea, and the part that appeals to the marketer in me. You can’t just download this album, you have to buy it. It’s not digital, it’s paper. Beck has successfully found a loophole in our digital addictions. A loophole that will find musicians and non-musicians alike wanting to purchase such a novelty, either to play the music privately, publicly, or simply to follow along while listening to the world bring the music to life. Sure, someone will probably scan the sheet music into pdfs and send them around, but my gut tells me that, since Beck isn’t recording this music himself, the only way for Beck fans to truly experience Beck within this medium is to buy the full-color, beautifully designed package in a store
Here’s the most brilliant part of the idea, and the part that appeals to the marketer in me. You can’t just download this album, you have to buy it. It’s not digital, it’s paper. Beck has successfully found a loophole in our digital addictions. A loophole that will find musicians and non-musicians alike wanting to purchase such a novelty, either to play the music privately, publicly, or simply to follow along while listening to the world bring the music to life. Sure, someone will probably scan the sheet music into pdfs and send them around, but my gut tells me that, since Beck isn’t recording this music himself, the only way for Beck fans to truly experience Beck within this medium is to buy the full-color, beautifully designed package in a store
I'm moderately ashamed to say that I download bootleg pdf sheetmusic all the time.
― spanky hotel frogstrot (how's life), Friday, 10 August 2012 17:32 (twelve years ago) link
Second part of that thought being that this will be up on mediafire in short order.
well I dunno if he assumes "most people" - he's obviously making an assumption about his fanbase and this does limit it. fwiw I can read chord charts but sheet music eh not really (a skill I have forgotten due to lack of use)
― hologram sticker of Ken Griffey Jr. at Denny's (Shakey Mo Collier), Friday, 10 August 2012 17:37 (twelve years ago) link