also completely ridiculous "send a message to her" wasn't on the record, like cutting "the new pollution" from your album
― american bradass (BradNelson), Tuesday, 28 May 2019 16:54 (five years ago) link
huh I never knew Jack White wrote "Go It Alone"!
― Emperor Tonetta Ketchup (sleeve), Tuesday, 28 May 2019 16:56 (five years ago) link
the black keys rode the sound of "go it alone" straight to the bank
― american bradass (BradNelson), Tuesday, 28 May 2019 16:58 (five years ago) link
i listened to the information a lot when it came out and i remember almost nothing about it beyond the singles. i have very little sense of what this album is trying to do (beck, pretty reductively and to his discredit, described it as a folding together of mutations/sea change with odelay but there's WAY more of that on guero) and the songs are mostly not there beyond some ear-catching detail in the production. but then once in a while the clutter recedes and the space clears around an excellent late beck song, cf. "cellphone's dead" and "new round"
still you can sure tell it took three years of on-again off-again sessions to record, what an overload of... restraint?
― american bradass (BradNelson), Tuesday, 28 May 2019 17:48 (five years ago) link
― Emperor Tonetta Ketchup (sleeve), Tuesday, May 28, 2019
I think he's credited with bass too.
― recriminations from the nitpicking woke (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 28 May 2019 17:51 (five years ago) link
"Exoskeleton" section contains dialogue spoken by Dave Eggers and Spike Jonze.
ugh no none of this
― american bradass (BradNelson), Tuesday, 28 May 2019 18:27 (five years ago) link
post-information non-album single "timebomb" RULES though
― american bradass (BradNelson), Tuesday, 28 May 2019 18:29 (five years ago) link
otm time bomb is the shit
― Accidentally Gets High By Touching LSD Left in Vintage Buchla (voodoo chili), Tuesday, 28 May 2019 18:37 (five years ago) link
I'm surprised how often I've heard "Colors" in the wild. Also, my students' college radio station put it in rotation in 2017.
― recriminations from the nitpicking woke (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 28 May 2019 18:51 (five years ago) link
modern guilt is pretty fantastic tbh
― american bradass (BradNelson), Tuesday, 28 May 2019 18:56 (five years ago) link
misread that as morning phase for a sec and was about to extend you an invitation to join the recording academy
― Accidentally Gets High By Touching LSD Left in Vintage Buchla (voodoo chili), Tuesday, 28 May 2019 19:22 (five years ago) link
I wonder if anyone will join me in voting for Colors and Morning Phase, and a few tracks from each? Maybe it was the result of having skipped all his 00s albums but I'm pretty fond of both. Absence makes, etc.
― geoffreyess, Tuesday, 28 May 2019 22:46 (five years ago) link
My favourite version of It's All In Your Mind is on The Bridge School Concerts, Vol. 1 (1997). Took me a while to appreciate the one he later released on Sea Change with a slightly altered melody and added instrumentation, but I still think that Bridge Benefit performance tops it. The One Foot In The Grave outtake is okay too.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yEN0NIkFHYA
― nth, Tuesday, 28 May 2019 22:55 (five years ago) link
first round of confirmation emails are going out...i will let you know when all have been added to the spreadsheet.
― Bee OK, Tuesday, 28 May 2019 23:26 (five years ago) link
I forgot about that Bridge School version of "Mind", that really is a great recording.
While I've still got zero interest in in Colors - that Greg Kurstin pop production is definitively Not For Me - this thread may have convinced me to give Morning Phase a spin for the first time(even though my ballot's already in). Revisiting the 00's stuff makes me think that even if it doesnt fully satisfy there might be a few tracks that click with me.
― One Eye Open, Tuesday, 28 May 2019 23:55 (five years ago) link
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― Bee OK, Wednesday, 29 May 2019 01:15 (five years ago) link
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Asking for help, I need someone who would be willing to help out with the images for the main poll. If anyone has the time and wants to help with the images for this poll, email the Beck email address above. I would really, really appreciate it as I don't have enough time to also do some good images. Besides, collaboration polls I feel are the best ones on ILM anyways.
― Bee OK, Wednesday, 29 May 2019 01:30 (five years ago) link
Morning Phase is just a fairly pointless album to me - I like Sea Change a lot more than quite a few people here seem to but it certainly wasn't in need of a sequel. "Blue Moon" is a nice enough song but nothing else really stands out from it.
Colors also doesn't do much for me, the pop production doesn't really suit him and ends up making him feel pretty anonymous. it mostly feels like Cut Copy b-sides
― ufo, Wednesday, 29 May 2019 01:43 (five years ago) link
q: are you folding all the votes for "got no mind" into "pay no mind"? same question for all the different versions of "jack-ass"
― american bradass (BradNelson), Wednesday, 29 May 2019 12:54 (five years ago) link
p.s. the odelay b-sides are all so so so great
― american bradass (BradNelson), Wednesday, 29 May 2019 13:10 (five years ago) link
xp my vote is yes to the Jackass versions, but "Got No Mind" is significantly different lyrically and should be separate imo (plus it is better)
― Emperor Tonetta Ketchup (sleeve), Wednesday, 29 May 2019 13:42 (five years ago) link
i'm kinda down for folding them into each other bc then "pay no mind" would prob be top twenty if not higher. i do like that he sings "give the finger to the folk singer" instead of "rock n roll singer" in "got no mind"
― american bradass (BradNelson), Wednesday, 29 May 2019 13:48 (five years ago) link
19 (!) B-sides on Odelay?! I know some are remixes, but that's a lot of listening.
― recriminations from the nitpicking woke (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 29 May 2019 13:51 (five years ago) link
and one foot in the grave has 16 b-sides. and mellow gold has at least five or six that are not imported from golden feelings, and every album after odelay has 3-4 b-sides at least etc.
― american bradass (BradNelson), Wednesday, 29 May 2019 13:55 (five years ago) link
Just realized I forgot to vote for this gorgeous Carter Family cover, oh well
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DVXnShT_bUM
― One Eye Open, Wednesday, 29 May 2019 14:12 (five years ago) link
there's only 3 remixes on the Odelay deluxe edition, and it does leave out "Diskobox" and a few remixes, while including some previously unreleased tracks ("Inferno" is the coolest thing on the deluxe edition by far, a 7 minute freakout) and "Deadweight" (hope people don't forget about this, being a non-album single and all) and its b-sides too
idk if i'll vote for anything else from it except "Deadweight" and maybe "Inferno", though the alt versions of "Jack-Ass" are really great
― ufo, Wednesday, 29 May 2019 14:18 (five years ago) link
weird, there's like half a dozen remixes of "Where It's At" and "Devil's Jukebox" alone!
I have spent zero time with any of the expanded reissues, gonna be doing some listening in the next few days
― Emperor Tonetta Ketchup (sleeve), Wednesday, 29 May 2019 14:26 (five years ago) link
this is a very difficult but very fun ballot to assemble. it's also wild to go through his whole catalog bc it feels like he's five different artists in the '90s and only two thereafter
― american bradass (BradNelson), Wednesday, 29 May 2019 15:29 (five years ago) link
i'd generously put it at three different artists
― ufo, Wednesday, 29 May 2019 15:39 (five years ago) link
Help Wanted
Can someone help me out with images please? Email the box.
― Bee OK, Wednesday, 29 May 2019 18:14 (five years ago) link
Btw, this is going to be such an amazing poll by looking at the ballots. We are in for a treat.
― Bee OK, Wednesday, 29 May 2019 18:16 (five years ago) link
and one foot in the grave has 16 b-sides. ?? there weren’t any singles from One Foot In The Graveit’s probably part of why it’s always felt so singular and distinctive among his first batch of full-on albums, even apart from being the best
― quelle sprocket damage (sic), Wednesday, 29 May 2019 18:27 (five years ago) link
(there was a K / Calvin 7” out later that had the three bonus tracks from the Australian CD, which I resented mildly when I realised the existence of, having bought the LP on import)
― quelle sprocket damage (sic), Wednesday, 29 May 2019 18:38 (five years ago) link
think Brad is referring to the 2CD expanded version, but yeah none of those were actually released at the time except the K Records single
― Emperor Tonetta Ketchup (sleeve), Wednesday, 29 May 2019 18:43 (five years ago) link
these dang millennials & their not knowing what a single was I had to walk ten minutes to the station, wait 29 minutes for a train, ride 50 minutes to the city and spend $30 of paper route money just to HEAR He’s A Mighty Good Leader
― quelle sprocket damage (sic), Wednesday, 29 May 2019 19:04 (five years ago) link
Haha
― Bee OK, Wednesday, 29 May 2019 19:09 (five years ago) link
I have a poll partner, now we will have great images to boot. I will let them reveal who they are.
― Bee OK, Wednesday, 29 May 2019 19:11 (five years ago) link
?? there weren’t any singles from One Foot In The Grave
i was gonna correct myself but i figured it was a matter of time before you did it
― american bradass (BradNelson), Wednesday, 29 May 2019 19:24 (five years ago) link
outtakes*
my god
― american bradass (BradNelson), Wednesday, 29 May 2019 19:25 (five years ago) link
stfu whippersnapper
― quelle sprocket damage (sic), Wednesday, 29 May 2019 19:57 (five years ago) link
― One Eye Open, Wednesday, 29 May 2019 21:33 (five years ago) link
good question that i haven't really put much thought into yet...
i think "Got No Mind" is different enough to place separately.
"Jack-Ass" remixes will be counted as one entry with a side note if other versions are specified.
― Bee OK, Thursday, 30 May 2019 00:09 (five years ago) link
welp i guess i have to out myself as a "got no mind" partisan
― american bradass (BradNelson), Thursday, 30 May 2019 01:05 (five years ago) link
i can throw them together, that really is not a big deal.
― Bee OK, Thursday, 30 May 2019 01:43 (five years ago) link
lol it's also not a big deal for me to pick one but thank you!
― american bradass (BradNelson), Thursday, 30 May 2019 01:45 (five years ago) link
any as a consequence of this poll i'm *really* into modern guilt rn, v introvertedly groovy + sudden bursts of power pop
― american bradass (BradNelson), Thursday, 30 May 2019 01:46 (five years ago) link
"chemtrails" -> "walls" is a run of amazing songs
― american bradass (BradNelson), Thursday, 30 May 2019 01:48 (five years ago) link
"replica" is sort of idm beck and i love it too
― american bradass (BradNelson), Thursday, 30 May 2019 01:50 (five years ago) link
xps as a partisan I'm fine with rolling them together but giving separate vote totals, same for remixes (cuz I am def voting for the Cornelius remix of Mixed Bizness)
― Emperor Tonetta Ketchup (sleeve), Thursday, 30 May 2019 01:54 (five years ago) link
Just listened to Mutations for the first time in 15+ years, turns out I still know every word and note. Time's weird; great album.
― geoffreyess, Thursday, 30 May 2019 04:06 (five years ago) link