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

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The song is fine but Perry’s version is a limp turd

― calstars, Thursday, June 6, 2019 4:59 PM

Well, you're a -- well, no.

My Beck chronology was
1) Loser on mtv/radio seemed like a novelty/joke for kids younger than me but the Allman Bros sample is dope.
2) a friend played me the rest of mellow gold & it blew my mind!
3) checked out ssm & ofitg and thought he was the gonna be the new Dylan watershed.
4) odelay was everywhere all the time until I got sick of it - I actually interviewed for a staff writing job at amg when their office was a house in central Michigan and they were playing it during the interview and asked me what I thought the album of the year should be and I said car button cloth by the Lemonheads to be contrary and didn't get the job.
5) mutations blew my mind again, he's genius!
6) I got married, got a real job
7) Debra - unbelievable! - he's changing again and nailing a funny falsetto torch song! The rest of MV was fun, but again it felt like novelty for someone younger than me.
8) I moved on, had kids
9) sea change - see my post above, it tore us up, like he was one of us at the time.
10) the information - had stickers for the kids to play with on the cover, but I guess the his genius has run dry.
11) guerro, why bother? Modern guilt - didn't even buy.
12) morning phase - yawn. I'm old and boring and so is he.
13) colors - my teenaged kids don't walk out of the room when I play it, I guess it's cool for dad rock.

and I said car button cloth by the Lemonheads to be contrary and didn't get the job

harsh imo :)

Great post though.

I got married, got a real job

haha, life!

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24. Ramshackle
From: Odelay
Released: June 18, 1996
260 Points, 8 Votes, 1 Number One

6) I got married, got a real job

blowing leaves?

Ramshackle is a perfect closer after all the wizardry of Odelay

blackhole: slight return

that's a bit harsh tbf

Petty’s version of Asshole never sat well with me, hearing those lyrics come from an old guy kind of changes the song in a way I don’t love

well, he'd have experience with being an asshole.

I Ramshackle was top ten for me, one of those closers that’s so good it puts a whole different cast on what came before it

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23. Lazy Flies
From: Mutations
Released: November 3, 1998
262 Points, 8 Votes

I didn't vote for it but hell yeah

i think the voting thread really propelled this song to this placement. no number ones but still enough to get past a few number one votes.

and these pictures have been genius

my #4! it's so good. one of his best melodies

Karaoke weekend at the suicide shack
Community service and I'm still the mack

― Uptown VONC (Le Bateau Ivre), Thursday, June 6, 2019 1:29 PM (one hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

probably my favorite couplet of his in this style

btw I rechecked my ballot and I did vote for The Golden Age after all, right down at the bottom. sorry everyone :D

Lazy flies was my mutations vote, serious Syd Barrett energy

Always liked Waronker’s drums in this one, great feel.

Gotta be some of his weirdest lyrics and that’s saying something, for him. All those mangroves and magistrates and disreputable trawlers and none of it makes a shred of sense and I love it.

proper psychedelia, proper lyrics

def one of my favorite Mutations tracks and yeah it's weird one

'Lazy Flies' definitely a highlight of Mutations for me, such a nicely offbeat pop song. Have been trying to remember what the chord progression reminds me of and it's 'Amazing Journey' by the Who.

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22. Rowboat
From: Stereopathetic Soulmanure
Released: 22 February 1994
272 Points, 8 Votes, 1 Number One

nice surprise!

now this I voted for! love the pedal steel guitar

Aww a number one vote! That's great, lovely song.

My number one vote, glad it placed. Some of my ballot-ordering was strategic, but not this, my #1 fave Beck song. It's one of those songs that feels like he's covering a timeless old country classic, it's weird to think that he just wrote it.

Also the craziest story - supposedly he just wrote it superfast on his way to the studio, to give the pedal steel player something to play at the session.

Pallette cleanser cover for Tom Petty's asshole: https://youtu.be/yY6pMTPkUL8

Johnny Cash talks about Beck: https://youtu.be/Nf5mJTuR04c

Johnny Cash "I especally liked "Rowboat" it sounded like something I might have written or done in the 60s."

Pretty amazing he was covered by a Highwayman AND a Willoughby.

last one for the day, thanks everyone for hanging out today. hope it was fun?

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21. Mixed Bizness
From: Midnite Vultures
Released: 7 March 2000 (US), 27 March 2000 (UK)
One vote for the Cornelius remix
276 Points, 10 Votes

what a way to end the day, this was right around the same spot for me.

These days his falsetto irks the fuck outta me

never heard the Cornelius remix before...

oh wait i have, own the US CD single. lol

oh right I did vote for 3 MV songs! (I voted for the remix)

Do you want to ride on the Baltic Sea
I'll be your mistress C.O.D.
I'll comb your hair
Re-write your diary
Pour champagne on a honey bee

The Baltic Sea line is maybe my fave from MV, it pops into my head a lot. With “Lazy Flies” I was just thinking about that line “the skin of a robot vibrates with pleasure” ... like how is that NOT a midnite vultures line?

Fun rollout today Bee, thanks!

Who are you
I'm the enchanting wizard of rhythm
Why did you come here?
I came here to tell you about the rhythms of the universe

You know this is a sample right

yeah but I don't think the gorgeous hypno-vibe music under it is from the same sample, right?

I mean yes there are critiques that can be made about Odelay's sampledelic approach, but in that particular case it works for me

Yr right those are different samples. The vocal sample is from Mandrill

Props to Bee dog

xp whoa I would not have guessed that, thought it came from a kid's record or TV show. do you know what the instrumental bed is?

xp "Asshole" is my #1 Beck song. Voted it #1 and no I'm not "taking the piss" lmao