Mutations is way better than Sea Change
Yup, somehow conjures a melancholic atmosphere much more affectingly and convincingly than Sea Change does even though the lyrics are more of the same stream-of-consciousness gibberish as all the other early albums
― a serious and fascinating fartist (Simon H.), Thursday, 19 October 2017 13:48 (six years ago) link
Yep. When Sea Change was released and was a crashing bore I had to remind myself that Beck had already done "slow" without sacrificing wit or rhythm.
― morning wood truancy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 19 October 2017 13:51 (six years ago) link
about half of sea change is very good and the other half is beck playing four chords as slowly as possible hoping hat a song emerges
“little one” is one of my fav beck songs ever still
― ToddBonzalez (BradNelson), Thursday, 19 October 2017 14:00 (six years ago) link
The sea change tour was weird too. Flaming lips opened and were their joyous selves, almost as if to make becks set even more of a bummer. The lips as his backing band didn't save the sea change material from feeling like a slog, beck seemed to not want to play to the crowd in his usual way; instead braying like a wounded soldier.
― Week of Wonders (Ross), Thursday, 19 October 2017 14:35 (six years ago) link
Sea Change is where I gave up, I find it unlistenable
I do like some stuff on Guero, that's about it for the last 15+ years
― sleeve, Thursday, 19 October 2017 14:36 (six years ago) link
Really nice boards of canada remix of broken drum on guero lito
― Week of Wonders (Ross), Thursday, 19 October 2017 14:39 (six years ago) link
I'm not a massive Beck fan but I've always had time to check him out. As far as post-MV stuff goes, I like boring Beck - Sea Change and Morning Phase are both great. I liked Guero a lot too. I was a little meh on Information and Modern Guilt, but at least I could still see "Beck" in those albums. This new one... literally anyone could be doing these songs. Feels like mere coincidence that it's Beck on vocals.
― sctttnnnt (pgwp), Thursday, 19 October 2017 14:42 (six years ago) link
Lips backing band seemed like a great idea that failed. suppose outside of Steven they aren't good enough musicians to play that material. they were trying to do his funky and Odelay stuff and it was pretty bad imo. you look at his Midnight Vulture tours and he had this awesome band of pros playing funk jams every night, now it was these stoner junkies who were used to playing along to their own backing tracks.
Sea Change is alright but i never go back to listen to it. and from time to time he still does interesting stuff (Modern Guilt is a later record i am sort of warming to).
the new stuff though, nah.
― AdamVania (Adam Bruneau), Thursday, 19 October 2017 14:45 (six years ago) link
Sea Changes has some nice James Gadson drumming.
― change display name (Jordan), Thursday, 19 October 2017 14:47 (six years ago) link
Yeah Adam that sums up the sea change tour well. Midnite Vultures show was amazing
― Week of Wonders (Ross), Thursday, 19 October 2017 14:53 (six years ago) link
feel like i may as well listen to Maroon Five as this new stuff
― AdamVania (Adam Bruneau), Thursday, October 19, 2017 8:00 AM (two hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
its like shitty earbud selling music
― AdamVania (Adam Bruneau), Thursday, October 19, 2017 8:01 AM (two hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
actually listened to this once and suddenly it occurred to me that Beck might have been doing the Paul Westerberg thing all along and writing songs for pop/indie acts under another publishing company, he's pro enough to do it at this point
― Universal LULU Nation (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Thursday, 19 October 2017 15:49 (six years ago) link
I think the most recent thing of his I really enjoyed was the Oar cover record (helps that I don't even like the original probably lol)
after that it's snoozeville
― Οὖτις, Thursday, 19 October 2017 15:53 (six years ago) link
MG v MV v MG v MP would be fun except it's really just MG v MV
MG v M v MV
\o/
― Currently (Karl Malone), Thursday, 19 October 2017 16:00 (six years ago) link
and we all know which MG drops out and which one stays
obviously Mutations is better than Sea Change because it's his best album
― imago, Thursday, 19 October 2017 16:03 (six years ago) link
MV b sides are even killer it could have been an amazing double album
― AdamVania (Adam Bruneau), Thursday, 19 October 2017 17:03 (six years ago) link
2 PM LAZER BIZAGINAL REJUVINATION
― calstars, Thursday, 19 October 2017 20:14 (six years ago) link
"best since Guero" caught my attention so I decided to try this after being super, super underwhelmed by Modern Guilt
I've only heard "Colors" so far but that song is great
― Marcus Hiles Remains Steadfast About Planting Trees.jpg (DJP), Thursday, 19 October 2017 20:22 (six years ago) link
I'm on track 2 and so far this is like a super happy Gotye album.
― Marcus Hiles Remains Steadfast About Planting Trees.jpg (DJP), Thursday, 19 October 2017 20:26 (six years ago) link
Actually I guess it's Gotye filtered through Weezer.
― Marcus Hiles Remains Steadfast About Planting Trees.jpg (DJP), Thursday, 19 October 2017 20:31 (six years ago) link
Officially not interested in this whatsoever anymore.
― he doesn't need to be racist about it though. (Austin), Thursday, 19 October 2017 21:56 (six years ago) link
I loved his pre-Morning Phase stand-alone singles so I’m curious to hear whether he’s going back to that sound
― licorice oratorio (baaderonixx), Saturday, 21 October 2017 09:27 (six years ago) link
B should be the next colonel sanders
― calstars, Sunday, 22 April 2018 01:28 (five years ago) link
Giving Colors another spinBetter this time around “Square one” is pretty good Even if it sounds nothing like old fun beck
― calstars, Thursday, 16 August 2018 21:17 (five years ago) link
https://i2.wp.com/liveforlivemusic.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/beck-hyperspace-fbcover.jpg?resize=740%2C390&ssl=1
Hyperspace is the upcoming fourteenth studio album by Beck. It is scheduled to be released through Capitol Records on November 22, 2019. The album was co-produced by Beck with Pharrell Williams.
― Bee OK, Wednesday, 30 October 2019 00:09 (four years ago) link
i was going to do a new thread but was not impressed with Colors. so just bumped a thread instead. glad we got the Beck poll done this year.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6AF_CJhpTzQ
― Bee OK, Wednesday, 30 October 2019 00:11 (four years ago) link
I guess if he did a funky synthwave outrun style album like the cover suggests that would be one thing but I’m not expecting anything remotely interesting
― June Pointer’s Valentine’s Day Secret Admirer Note Author (calstars), Wednesday, 30 October 2019 18:05 (four years ago) link
“Slacking off is nil”
― calstars, Friday, 26 June 2020 21:07 (three years ago) link
"Loser," even now, is such a glory. I can't imagine not wanting to hear it. It stands outside time.
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Saturday, 10 October 2020 01:26 (three years ago) link
“Midnite vultures” the song came on shuffle today, just a perfect b side. Miss his dada isms. His last good album imho
― calstars, Saturday, 10 October 2020 03:12 (three years ago) link
Last month, I was reminiscing about pre-COVID life with a few people (basically stuff we did that's the furthest from life right now), and Riot Fest from two years back came up. Beck was a headliner, and what a great set - "Loser" in particular was a highlight.
Another great thing about that set - I learned to appreciate Colors, at least within the context of a show. I didn't like the album, but somehow those numbers were much more enjoyable within the context of older work. What sounded like blatant and uninspired lifts from current artists now sounded like a logical and perfectly acceptable progression from the sampling and musical explorations he had done throughout his career.
― birdistheword, Saturday, 10 October 2020 04:10 (three years ago) link
Baby’s in Rio with the vitamin D
― calstars, Sunday, 17 October 2021 19:00 (two years ago) link
Reno?
― calstars, Sunday, 17 October 2021 19:01 (two years ago) link
yeah I think it's "Reno"
― Communist Hockey Goblin (sleeve), Sunday, 17 October 2021 19:12 (two years ago) link
Dud
― papal hotwife (milo z), Sunday, 17 October 2021 20:38 (two years ago) link
Beck's playing Irving Plaza on November 9 - last time he played Irving Plaza was in 1994. (It's about 1,200 capacity - I know he played La Poisson Rouge several years ago but he rarely plays venues this size.)
Pre-sale on Live Nation is tomorrow with the code LYRIC
― birdistheword, Wednesday, 27 October 2021 18:19 (two years ago) link
And dud my ass, CLASSIC
― birdistheword, Wednesday, 27 October 2021 18:20 (two years ago) link
Hyperspace feels equivalent to a $100 million movie that tests poorly in advance and barely gets released. Surprised "Beck + Pharrell" wasn't promoted everywhere, even if the album itself is forgettable.
― ... (Eazy), Wednesday, 27 October 2021 20:37 (two years ago) link
I only gave it a few listens but it seemed to amplify everything that I found hollow and commercially calculated about Colors. I did enjoy Morning Phase though - wasn't anything new, but it felt like a solid, low-key work. (Weird how it won him an AOTY Grammy but whatever.)
― birdistheword, Wednesday, 27 October 2021 20:57 (two years ago) link
I’d go see a stereopathetic album tour
― calstars, Wednesday, 27 October 2021 21:05 (two years ago) link
Morning Phase is his one recent home run
But my favorite Beck is 1994 Beck
― Legalize Suburban Benches (Raymond Cummings), Wednesday, 27 October 2021 21:07 (two years ago) link
I suspect that the man has recorded 10-20 albums that we’ll never hear.
Beck and Bjork are two acts I once enjoyed that for no particular reason I just can't listen to anymore. It's not you, Beck/Bjork, it's me.
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 27 October 2021 21:10 (two years ago) link
I don’t fuck with anything past Mellow
― calstars, Wednesday, 27 October 2021 21:11 (two years ago) link
Yeah, I love Mellow Gold and I like One Foot in the Grave quite a bit. Odelay and Sea Change are still my favorites. The only later ones I never got into are his last two (mentioned above) and Modern Guilt.
If The Information had been less than 40 minutes (i.e. had he cut out the chaff weighing down the back end), it would have been his last truly great album IMHO.
I used to dislike Björk's music but grew to like it quite a bit. Go figure.
― birdistheword, Wednesday, 27 October 2021 21:29 (two years ago) link
Don’t go carvin no happy face on my tombstone
― calstars, Wednesday, 27 October 2021 21:31 (two years ago) link
The most charming thing about early Beck - when he was bad, he was hilariously bad:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I-XuMvxi-vc
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hFe1t5oy984
― birdistheword, Wednesday, 27 October 2021 21:38 (two years ago) link
I’m going to bet he improvised the song on Larry Sanders
― Legalize Suburban Benches (Raymond Cummings), Wednesday, 27 October 2021 21:42 (two years ago) link
“My name’s Ken”
that larry sanders clip is hysterical, never saw that episode that i can remember
― Lavator Shemmelpennick, Wednesday, 27 October 2021 21:59 (two years ago) link