Clementa's at peace--carry on.
Hope "Pay No Mind" finishes high. Love the video, love the non sequiturs, and most of all love the harmonica, as plaintive and indelible as Dylan in '64 or Toots Thielemans' Midnight Cowboy theme. (I've often thought that Beck has a Midnight Cowboy undercurrent running through some of his work--"Pay No Mind," the "Devil's Haircut" video [where he makes like Joe Buck walking around New York], the mood of "Jackass," maybe more.) Never tire of it.
― clemenza, Tuesday, 21 May 2019 22:19 (four years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9d5ZAzrZ94Y
never heard this alt version of Jack-Ass before, really lovely and anticipates the sound of Sea Change except much better than he later did it
― ufo, Wednesday, 22 May 2019 00:27 (four years ago) link
https://foxsports-wordpress-www-prsupports-prod.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/PHOTO-Buck-HS-727x727-480x480.jpg
― calstars, Wednesday, 22 May 2019 00:30 (four years ago) link
i always forget how energetic a performer he used to be
I remember really enjoying him on Reverb around that time (back when that was my main frame of reference for live music).
― geoffreyess, Wednesday, 22 May 2019 04:04 (four years ago) link
speaking of alternate versions - I have distinct memories of a drastically different version of "Soul Suckin' Jerk" with different music and the verse order reversed. Anyone know what I'm taking about?
― Simon H., Wednesday, 22 May 2019 04:08 (four years ago) link
Satan gave you a taco?
― geoffreyess, Wednesday, 22 May 2019 04:11 (four years ago) link
Upon re-reading the lyrics this joke doesn't make sense. Sorry.
― geoffreyess, Wednesday, 22 May 2019 04:17 (four years ago) link
a little research has informed me that this is the "Reject" version from the Loser EP. worth a listen.
― Simon H., Wednesday, 22 May 2019 04:23 (four years ago) link
I had that Loser EP at the time and it kind of melded with Mellow Gold in my mind, I probably dubbed them onto the same tape. Always preferred that reject version of Soul Suckin Jerk, hard to go back to the album version when you know there's a version that ends with a 2-minute organ and trombone breakdown out there.
― One Eye Open, Wednesday, 22 May 2019 12:23 (four years ago) link
similarly, "Got No Mind" >>> "Pay No Mind"
― Emperor Tonetta Ketchup (sleeve), Wednesday, 22 May 2019 13:47 (four years ago) link
i decided to grab a CD on my commute to work today, so i pick Mutations. i had totally forgot about the bonus track and it's actually pretty good:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?reload=9&v=HeohGiH6v9g
― Bee OK, Thursday, 23 May 2019 00:16 (four years ago) link
oh, it's called "Diamond Bollocks"
― Bee OK, Thursday, 23 May 2019 00:17 (four years ago) link
yeah it was on a bonus 7" that came with early vinyl pressings, along with the B-side "Runners Dial Zero"
I was totally obsessed with Beck B-sides and ephemera all the way up to Sea Change, AMA
― Emperor Tonetta Ketchup (sleeve), Thursday, 23 May 2019 00:56 (four years ago) link
Runners Dial Zero” will definitely be on my ballot, possibly fairly high. An incredible song, performance, and recording imo. There’s such a wealth of amazing outtakes and bsides from that pre Sea Change period.
― One Eye Open, Thursday, 23 May 2019 01:08 (four years ago) link
"Diamond Bollocks" might be my favorite Beck song tbh
― Simon H., Thursday, 23 May 2019 01:15 (four years ago) link
B-side etc. "Search" recommendations:
ClocksCorvette BummerMexicoGot No MindHalo Of GoldDevil Got My WomanDirty, DirtyMidnite VulturesSalt In The WoundDiamond Bollocks/Runners Dial Zero.000.000the amazing Cornelius remix of "Mixed Bizness"
― Emperor Tonetta Ketchup (sleeve), Thursday, 23 May 2019 01:19 (four years ago) link
I sleep in slime iirc
― recriminations from the nitpicking woke (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 23 May 2019 01:21 (four years ago) link
What about Arabian Nights? B at his best lyrically and the beat is aight too.
https://youtu.be/K5irVZljrFY
Bazookas and fisticuffs medicating in Porches98-karat stick shift, Chinatown late-night mealsAlfonso giving me a backrub, 2 pm laser vizzaginal rejuvenationTriple album project, detonatin' tracks like theseMagnums and barrettes, part-time hostages in pottery classesBlind date at the wax museumNorwegian hockey players passed out in government limosPrime ministers with cryogenic facesLouis Vuitton suitcasesAutographs and paid vacationsDivorce papers and synthetic lubricationsPlayin' you like top-40 stations, ah you know the deal
Arabian nightsWhite satellitesVoodoo is tightLike a sleek diamond ice
Airbrushed memories strewn like pamphlets into fifth MississippisTime-lapse footage of duct-taped liesAnimal frequencies pinching deodorized nervesCosmetic procedures on the cartilage of apocalypseMannequin tycoons with airport piano bar mystiquesRemodeling conjugal amaracus, flexing like suburban SpartacusGetting smacked up by unemployed hand modelsRunning out into the middle of traffic with Beaujolais bottles
― calstars, Thursday, 23 May 2019 01:49 (four years ago) link
Shout Out to "Fume"!
― a large tuna called “Justice” (C. Grisso/McCain), Thursday, 23 May 2019 03:42 (four years ago) link
xp Diamond Bollocks is one of the GOAT
― billstevejim, Thursday, 23 May 2019 06:01 (four years ago) link
xp I never realized "Devil's Haircut" video is a Midnight Cowboy homage til now.
― billstevejim, Thursday, 23 May 2019 06:13 (four years ago) link
I take it the Noel Gallagher remix of "Devils Haircut" will not figure.
― Mark G, Thursday, 23 May 2019 07:37 (four years ago) link
driveby body POLL
― american bradass (BradNelson), Thursday, 23 May 2019 14:36 (four years ago) link
this is probably missing the point but i wish there were an entire album of screaming noise rock beck a la "mutherfucker" "pink noise" back half of "fume" etc.
― american bradass (BradNelson), Thursday, 23 May 2019 17:40 (four years ago) link
and "Spanking Room"!
― Emperor Tonetta Ketchup (sleeve), Thursday, 23 May 2019 17:42 (four years ago) link
anyway the b-side i would like to rep for is "thunder peel," both in stereopathic and odelay forms
― american bradass (BradNelson), Thursday, 23 May 2019 17:45 (four years ago) link
wait there's an Odelay version ?!?!?
that song rules, definitely making my ballot
― Emperor Tonetta Ketchup (sleeve), Thursday, 23 May 2019 17:47 (four years ago) link
check out the deluxe version of odelay!
― american bradass (BradNelson), Thursday, 23 May 2019 17:47 (four years ago) link
just looked it up, whoa man I have gotta get that!
― Emperor Tonetta Ketchup (sleeve), Thursday, 23 May 2019 17:48 (four years ago) link
never heard either "Inferno" or "Gold Chains", this makes my day
― Emperor Tonetta Ketchup (sleeve), Thursday, 23 May 2019 17:49 (four years ago) link
gahh so many tracks I've never heard, all those radio show one-offs
https://www.discogs.com/robot-jazz-vol-1-6/release/11220708
YSI?
― Emperor Tonetta Ketchup (sleeve), Thursday, 23 May 2019 18:04 (four years ago) link
I was v excited to hear "Inferno" and "Gold Chains" when the deluxe odelay came out but ended up finding them a bit disappointing, I guess they each contained samples that were deemed too expensive to clear, and so were reworked/rerecorded to a certain extent supposedly? I feel like I can hear it, they each sound like theyre missing a little something compared to the dense sound of the other odelay party jams. "Inferno" fairly wild but still sounds like a dress rehearsal for "High 5" to me.
― One Eye Open, Thursday, 23 May 2019 19:24 (four years ago) link
reading up on our friend Beck while listening to his catalogue last night and learned he just split with his wife of 15 years (Giovani Ribisi's twin sister), that's a drag.
― Evans on Hammond (evol j), Thursday, 23 May 2019 19:37 (four years ago) link
Apparently he released a new single with Pharrell last month?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NXrlWw3yhW4
― One Eye Open, Thursday, 23 May 2019 19:48 (four years ago) link
love that odelay is one of those cd-era albums that informs you when the first side ends and the second side starts
― american bradass (BradNelson), Thursday, 23 May 2019 20:02 (four years ago) link
stuck together like a readymade!
― recriminations from the nitpicking woke (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 23 May 2019 20:05 (four years ago) link
"inferno" is absolutely amazing but i can barely evaluate it as a "song" to "vote" "for"
― american bradass (BradNelson), Thursday, 23 May 2019 20:48 (four years ago) link
"where it's at" song/video combo weirded me out pretty hard when i was a kid, like i couldn't even figure the song out enough to know if i liked it, but when "the new pollution" video hit mtv it was like nothing i had ever seen or heard before (of course it was actually several things that had been seen or heard before combined) and i looooved dancing along to it in my room
― american bradass (BradNelson), Thursday, 23 May 2019 21:18 (four years ago) link
he also played some sort of mtv show that year (vmas? probably?) and i spent the whole time thinking "this music is great and he's dancing so much but how is this guy considered cool? he looks like a huge dork like me!" tbf i was in elementary school and did not know what cool was
― american bradass (BradNelson), Thursday, 23 May 2019 21:21 (four years ago) link
But you knew what a dork was, right?
― Mark G, Thursday, 23 May 2019 22:36 (four years ago) link
yeah it was me
― american bradass (BradNelson), Thursday, 23 May 2019 22:37 (four years ago) link
Have we as a board discussed how Beck would be beyond cancelled if he released Mixed Bizness today?
― dragged across concrète (Whiney G. Weingarten), Thursday, 23 May 2019 22:41 (four years ago) link
have we as a board decided we're not going to debate National Review headlines?
― recriminations from the nitpicking woke (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 23 May 2019 22:42 (four years ago) link
Midnite Vultures I mean
― dragged across concrète (Whiney G. Weingarten), Thursday, 23 May 2019 22:42 (four years ago) link
it sucked then and it still sucks
― brimstead, Thursday, 23 May 2019 22:46 (four years ago) link
lol I respectfully disagree
― Emperor Tonetta Ketchup (sleeve), Thursday, 23 May 2019 22:49 (four years ago) link
The second half (except "Debra") >>> first half
― recriminations from the nitpicking woke (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 23 May 2019 22:50 (four years ago) link
just gonna leave this here
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EksGJTUaTuc
― Emperor Tonetta Ketchup (sleeve), Thursday, 23 May 2019 22:53 (four years ago) link
midnite vultures rules so much, i have no idea how he made some of the ridiculous ideas on it work
― ufo, Thursday, 23 May 2019 23:11 (four years ago) link
huh one foot in the grave is a really good album
― american bradass (BradNelson), Thursday, 23 May 2019 23:25 (four years ago) link