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

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

https://i.imgur.com/1YWgdVx.jpg
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

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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.

https://i.imgur.com/hBIujm3.jpg
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

Up On the Hill by Monk Higgins is most of it

Xp

The synths n sitar stuff is probably overdubbed by Beck and co., dont think those are a sample. None of this is meant as a criticism of the song on my part btw

I've seen the Beck Futurama episode so many times, it's taken over all previous associations I had with this song.

That was a washboard break!

Recap:
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Recap:
21. Mixed Bizness 276 10
22. Rowboat 272 8 1
23. Lazy Flies 262 8
24. Ramshackle 260 8 1
25. Asshole 257 9 1
26. Hotwax 255 9
27. Guess I’m Doing Fine 248 9
28. Fuckin With My Head (Mountain Dew Rock) 230 8
29. Milk & Honey 221 8
30. The Golden Age 218 8
31. Lonesome Tears 215 8
32. We Live Again 214 7
33. Tropicalia 213 9
34. Lost Cause 205 6
35. Sweet Sunshine 202 6 1
36. Paper Tiger 198 6
37. I Won’t Be Long 192 7
38. Truckdrivin' Neighbors Downstairs (Yellow Sweat) 191 7
39. Get Real Paid 189 6
40. Soul Suckin Jerk 182 6
41. Mutherfucker 181 5
42. Whiskeyclone, Hotel City 1997 180 6
43. Blackhole 179 5
44. Sing It Again 163 5
45. Sunday Sun 162 6
46. High 5 (Rock the Catskills) 161 6
47. Little One 146 5
48. Chemtrails 140 6
49. Thunder Peel 136 5
50. Peaches & Cream 133 5

sorry for the triple post, that's weird.

didn't mention this before but for a while Mountain Dew Rock was my most-obsessed-over song on MG, a perfect angry breakup jam, it was in my top ten

i still don't quite get all the Sea Change complaining, i largely agree that the album's too much of a dirge as a whole and his lyrics were much more interesting when they weren't so sincere, but most of the tracks on their own are good to great - well arranged, pretty melodies etc. it doesn't even seem like anything from it is going to make the top 20!

but then again i still don't quite get Mellow Gold either, i can respect the idea of "Sweet Sunshine" but it's not something i'm ever going to want to listen to unfortunately