I met you...at JC POLLney - ILM Artist Poll #97 - BECK - the Results Thread

hi!

and if it's meant, some accident, some coincidence
crumbs fall out of the sky when you wander by

i mean come on

i agree, such a great song. was number 14 on my ballot.

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43. Blackhole
From: Mellow Gold
Released: March 1, 1994
179 Points, 5 Votes

really wonderful run of songs today

Sing It Again probably would have been top 5 for me if I had voted, i've always loved just the sound of the words in that song ("The misers wind their minds / Like clocks that grind their gears")

Hi 5 is on Mellow
It’s a good companion piece to Mountajn Dew rock

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cals take a look at that tracklist again

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Credibility shot

Gave Blackhole a whole load of points, but if a song was on Mellow Gold it had a high chance of getting points. One of the better tracks though

This one was v close to the top for me. Have a vivid memory of listening to Mellow Gold on headphones for the first time and hearing this song and having one of those moments where I realized I'd been standing completely still holding my breath, just completely absorbed by it. Incredible recording.

really wonderful run of songs today

it really is and speaks volumes of the depth of his catalog. when i finally got the results you can now see why i had to add ten more songs. these extra ten songs had to make this countdown!

On the contrary: it speaks to the shallowness of his catalog. He knows what he knows, and that's fine with me.

I love Blackhole but (again) could not make room for it, I just love the way the thing sounds, all reverbed out and deep and cavernous

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42. Whiskeyclone, Hotel City 1997
From: Mellow Gold
Released: March 1, 1994
230 Points, 8 Votes

My #2. Could have been 1. Unbelievable piece of music

oh shit, messed up the points

180 Points, 6 Votes

That’s the companion to Mountain Dew ^

Like, how can something be so wrong, so fucked, so hopeless, and yet also sound like a giant eternal warm cosmic bath? It enters the heart of America and threatens to live there forever, with the ocean and the bees...

This line in Blackhole guts me every time: Little boy, little boy / Layin in a sleeping bag / Watchin, watchin / through the cracks in his eyelids

Love the droning guitar playing on Whiskeyclone

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41. Mutherfuker
From: Mellow Gold
Released: March 1, 1994
181 Points, 5 Votes

EVERYONE'S OUT TO GET YA MUTHERFUKER

these images

*satan voice* hey mr. asshole what's your dirty hassle

thank you, i will have another

Top 40

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40. Soul Suckin' Jerk
From: Mellow Gold
Released: March 1, 1994
182 Points, 6 Votes

meh

Mutherfucker was top 5 for me, pure anarchy

mellow gold getting a collective TOO LOW right about now, although I'm aware half of it will place higher. didn't actually vote for this one but it's great fun

Agreed with Alfred about soul suckin jerk

He was to improve on it massively on Odelay

(albeit without a carnival breakdown)

I love the sound of Beck's downpitched voice

Motherfucker is the only Mellow Gold track that I don’t love tbh, always felt a bit too much like a genre exercise to me. Soul Suckin Jerk on the other hand - junkyard rap about burning down your shitty fast food job - what’s not to love?

When dat BEERCAN gonna hit doe

hopefully in the top five

I gave it a bunch of points for sure

in need of a left turn

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39. Get Real Paid
From: Midnite Vultures
Released: November 23, 1999
189 Points, 6 Votes

one of my last cuts, just couldn't squeeze it in.

I want to know if I'm worth your time
There's so much to do before you die

Placed sing it again high. Arresting feel.

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38. Truckdrivin Neighbors Downstairs (Yellow Sweat)
From: Mellow Gold
Single Released: March 1, 1994
191 Points, 7 Votes

From Wiki:

The song begins with a sample of a fight that Beck recorded of his two abusive neighbors. Beck recalls,

When I was recording the song in my living room and they were out front screaming at each other and I couldn't...I had to stop recording my song. And it was strange because I was recording the music for the song; I hadn't written words yet. And I couldn't record anymore because they were too loud and I just left. I had to leave 'cause it was too hectic. When I came back I had all this...I had the song and then after they had this argument...it's too bad I lost the tape that has the original argument 'cause the argument went on for 40 minutes. It was unbelievable. I put 2 seconds of it on there. Pretty classic. But somebody out there has it.

Beck also called it "a special tape, filled with horrible things that will destroy your destiny if you know what it is."

He also said: "I was so shook up by the thing that I pulled over on the freeway and I just wrote the lyrics out and then the next day came back and sang the lyrics over the song. It was one of those experiences where life writes the songs. Which is good.

Why don’t you call your mommy?

I wonder if anyone voted for “bad energy.”

downpitched beck and uppitched beck in a duet for the ages here

love the agreeing yeahs in the first chorus

“get real paid” was in my top three. a throwback kraftwerk jam that is also at least two other things

junkyard rap about burning down your shitty fast food job - what’s not to love?

otm

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37. I Won't Be Long
From: I Won't Be Long single
Released: July 8, 2013
One vote for the Extended version
192 Points, 7 Votes