― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Saturday, 21 September 2002 21:06 (twenty-one years ago) link
Nardwaur: Beck why should people care about you and not your haircut?Beck: Fuck off (hangs up)One of the reasons I heart E more then Beck.
― Mr Noodles (Mr Noodles), Sunday, 22 September 2002 02:14 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Daniel_Rf, Sunday, 22 September 2002 12:50 (twenty-one years ago) link
Funny you should say that...
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Sunday, 22 September 2002 14:12 (twenty-one years ago) link
Well, you lost me right there.
― Nate Patrin, Sunday, 22 September 2002 14:17 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Sunday, 22 September 2002 14:19 (twenty-one years ago) link
Actually, Beck has expressed an interest in scientology lately.<<
Actually, no he hasn't. And he's been more honest about his relationship to Scientology than any one of the 95,000 asinine gossip threads I've read about this.
― philo t. vance, Friday, 18 October 2002 02:50 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Applepie Baseball, Friday, 19 December 2003 07:47 (twenty years ago) link
Wasn't that bit on Odelay?
I don't believe a thing that comes out of his mouth. His music seems to originate in his pinky finger and his big toe. Then he has the nerve to make an ernest, dark album. And we're supposed to dig it?
Cotton candy with hipster flavoring. Irony to the point of nothingness.
― Debito (Debito), Friday, 19 December 2003 08:05 (twenty years ago) link
Sorry, wrong. That is Beck. You can say the same thing about the first three Beatles albums, although the comparison ends there.
Who has Beck influenced?
Well, me for one. And Radiohead and everyone who has heard his stuff and realizes that there are no boundries to music and that adding a good melody to the sound of breaking glass is a good thing.
― Speedy Gonzalas (Speedy Gonzalas), Friday, 19 December 2003 08:29 (twenty years ago) link
― stevem (blueski), Friday, 19 December 2003 11:06 (twenty years ago) link
― latebloomer (latebloomer), Friday, 19 December 2003 11:29 (twenty years ago) link
― zappi (joni), Friday, 19 December 2003 11:52 (twenty years ago) link
― Barima (Barima), Friday, 19 December 2003 21:31 (twenty years ago) link
― Mr. Snrub (Mr. Snrub), Friday, 19 December 2003 21:39 (twenty years ago) link
His appearance on MTV's 120 Minutes. The one where he and Thurston Moore smash up a phone. So there.
― Michael Daddino (epicharmus), Friday, 19 December 2003 21:41 (twenty years ago) link
Also, Beck is so classic it hurts.
― Kenan Hebert (kenan), Friday, 19 December 2003 21:45 (twenty years ago) link
― Barima (Barima), Friday, 19 December 2003 21:50 (twenty years ago) link
― MerkinMuffley (MerkinMuffley), Friday, 19 December 2003 22:45 (twenty years ago) link
― nate detritus (natedetritus), Friday, 19 December 2003 23:02 (twenty years ago) link
― The Lex (The Lex), Friday, 19 December 2003 23:33 (twenty years ago) link
― MerkinMuffley (MerkinMuffley), Saturday, 20 December 2003 01:38 (twenty years ago) link
I think it's kinda cheeky to sample two songs from the same album, and it sucks that Them Again hasn't gotten the recognition it deserves (it's my second-favorite album of '66, behind that one with the goats and the Cooper Black typeface and Brian Wilson on the cover), but hearing "I Can Only Give You Everything" and "It's All Over Now, Baby Blue" in conjunction with "Devil's Haircut" and "Jack-Ass" makes both the Them songs and the Beck songs sound a bit stronger in a complementary way.
― nate detritus (natedetritus), Saturday, 20 December 2003 04:35 (twenty years ago) link
― Broheems (diamond), Saturday, 20 December 2003 04:37 (twenty years ago) link
― adam michel (adam michel), Saturday, 20 December 2003 17:52 (twenty years ago) link
― p.j. (Henry), Saturday, 20 December 2003 18:00 (twenty years ago) link
I'm there, dude.
― Omar (Omar), Saturday, 20 December 2003 18:15 (twenty years ago) link
― dyson (dyson), Saturday, 20 December 2003 18:39 (twenty years ago) link
― MerkinMuffley (MerkinMuffley), Saturday, 20 December 2003 19:01 (twenty years ago) link
If you want to hear a weird stylistic evolution, listen to the way he attempts to sing folk on some of his 1991-92 demos (thinking Don't Get Bent Out of Shape and/or Fresh Meat and Old Slabs here) -- he does just fine as a screaming anti-folk Fluxus psycho ("Fume") but some of the songs which seem to be geared more towards a straight-faced folk/blues/roots sound are almost unbearable; stuff like "Why Can't I Believe In You" are halfway competent but just croaky and nasal enough to make it somewhat grating. It's a voice more suited for singing weird songs about getting cut in half than it is for Woody Guthrie-style folk. Fortunately he got his shit together around '93 or so, when he recorded parts of Stereopathetic Soulmanure and One Foot in the Grave and sung those sorts of songs with a more subdued and controlled voice. (All you have to do is compare his '92 recording of "Hollow Log" from Fresh Meat with the one from One Foot -- though maybe it's part in the recording technique.) Now compare that '93/'94 stuff -- and songs like "Whiskeyclone, Hotel City 1997" and "Ramshackle" (recorded in '94, tacked onto the end of Odelay) -- to "Jack-Ass"... and then compare "Jack-Ass" to anything from Sea Change.
― nate detritus (natedetritus), Saturday, 20 December 2003 19:11 (twenty years ago) link
― Stupid (Stupid), Saturday, 20 December 2003 19:30 (twenty years ago) link
― 47% stupid, Monday, 6 September 2004 16:03 (nineteen years ago) link
― Jim Reckling (Jim Reckling), Monday, 6 September 2004 21:56 (nineteen years ago) link
anyone dare argue?
...well founded criticism more than welcome..
― peter pumpkins pie, Wednesday, 27 October 2004 12:54 (nineteen years ago) link
So did he, apparently.
― B.A.R.M.S. (Barima), Wednesday, 27 October 2004 13:08 (nineteen years ago) link
purist.i say 'odelay', of course. 'sea change' is a great record, too, despite the fact that some critics couldn't manage that he was being serious all of a sudden. it didn't fit in with their preconceptions of him so they slagged it with the usual "he's just wearing another mask" type of bla bla.
looking forward to the next one. i hear it's a really upbeat, messed-up record. great!
― Jay Kid (Jay K), Wednesday, 27 October 2004 13:13 (nineteen years ago) link
― sometimes i like to pretend i am very small and warm (ex machina), Wednesday, 27 October 2004 13:20 (nineteen years ago) link
― Jay Kid (Jay K), Wednesday, 27 October 2004 13:26 (nineteen years ago) link
― B.A.R.M.S. (Barima), Wednesday, 27 October 2004 13:29 (nineteen years ago) link
― sometimes i like to pretend i am very small and warm (ex machina), Wednesday, 27 October 2004 14:02 (nineteen years ago) link
― cutty (mcutt), Wednesday, 27 October 2004 14:15 (nineteen years ago) link
1.) I'm trying to figure out what song I recently saw Beck perform on an old SNL. It was with a backing band of about 5 or 6 people (with female vocalist(s)) and was really funky-like. My guess is that it was definitely post-Odelay but pre-Sea Change. It was very good.
2.) Does anyone remember that NY Times Magazine article a few years back that had a graphic of what songs were on Beck's iPod? By chance does anyone know if it is posted somewhere online?
I thank you.
― PB, Thursday, 28 July 2005 16:39 (eighteen years ago) link
Beck's 198-Track MindPublished: March 17, 2002, Sunday
― Rob Upt1ght., Thursday, 28 July 2005 17:21 (eighteen years ago) link
His appearance on MTV's 120 Minutes. The one where he and Thurston Moore smash up a phone.
No, that's not being ironic. That's being retarded.
― Mr. Snrub (Mr. Snrub), Thursday, 28 July 2005 19:19 (eighteen years ago) link
― YouBETTERKnow, Friday, 18 November 2005 03:09 (eighteen years ago) link
― Rockist_Scientist (RSLaRue), Friday, 18 November 2005 03:21 (eighteen years ago) link
― bart vandever, Wednesday, 10 May 2006 04:49 (seventeen years ago) link
― jäxøñ (jaxon), Wednesday, 10 May 2006 04:58 (seventeen years ago) link
― bart garfunkel, Wednesday, 10 May 2006 05:11 (seventeen years ago) link
― NoTimeBeforeTime (Barry Bruner), Wednesday, 10 May 2006 05:30 (seventeen years ago) link
I owned five guayaberas because of Beck.
― braaam.flac (flamboyant goon tie included), Monday, March 11, 2024 12:14 PM (three days ago) bookmarkflaglink
How come there isn't a thread where ilxors disclose the most embarrassing shit their fandom of an artist or band has compelled them to purchase?
― A street taco cart named Des'ree (Deflatormouse), Thursday, 14 March 2024 19:31 (two weeks ago) link
i purchased one foot in the grave (a great album!) on vinyl
― reggie (qualmsley), Thursday, 14 March 2024 20:13 (two weeks ago) link
Don’t go carvin’ no happy face on my tombstone
― calstars, Thursday, 14 March 2024 20:24 (two weeks ago) link
I looked good in those guayaberas. I lived in a small town it was the 90s all my friends were wearing Gap
― braaam.flac (flamboyant goon tie included), Friday, 15 March 2024 00:20 (two weeks ago) link
because they loved the Swing Kings?
― Deflatormouse, Friday, 15 March 2024 17:00 (two weeks ago) link
owning guayaberas because of Beck = not particularly embarrassing, of course. rather i was thinking i have done 100x worse
― Deflatormouse, Friday, 15 March 2024 17:02 (two weeks ago) link
I mean, those swing commercials delighted us all at the time, khakis for every teen
― braaam.flac (flamboyant goon tie included), Friday, 15 March 2024 17:02 (two weeks ago) link
nothing wrong with a guayaberas IMO
― I? not I! He! He! HIM! (akm), Friday, 15 March 2024 23:18 (two weeks ago) link
please mentally remove the plural that was a copypaste mistake
re: beck, I also liked his cover of Skip Spence's Oar.
― I? not I! He! He! HIM! (akm), Friday, 15 March 2024 23:20 (two weeks ago) link