Cause when our POLL did meet, Girl you know I was packin' heat! - ILM Artist Poll #97 - BECK (Voting is open until Saturday, June 1, 2019)

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

oh, it's called "Diamond Bollocks"

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

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.

"Diamond Bollocks" might be my favorite Beck song tbh

B-side etc. "Search" recommendations:

Clocks
Corvette Bummer
Mexico
Got No Mind
Halo Of Gold
Devil Got My Woman
Dirty, Dirty
Midnite Vultures
Salt In The Wound
Diamond Bollocks/Runners Dial Zero
.000.000
the amazing Cornelius remix of "Mixed Bizness"

I sleep in slime iirc

What about Arabian Nights? B at his best lyrically and the beat is aight too.

https://youtu.be/K5irVZljrFY

Bazookas and fisticuffs medicating in Porches
98-karat stick shift, Chinatown late-night meals
Alfonso giving me a backrub, 2 pm laser vizzaginal rejuvenation
Triple album project, detonatin' tracks like these
Magnums and barrettes, part-time hostages in pottery classes
Blind date at the wax museum
Norwegian hockey players passed out in government limos
Prime ministers with cryogenic faces
Louis Vuitton suitcases
Autographs and paid vacations
Divorce papers and synthetic lubrications
Playin' you like top-40 stations, ah you know the deal

Arabian nights
White satellites
Voodoo is tight
Like a sleek diamond ice

Airbrushed memories strewn like pamphlets into fifth Mississippis
Time-lapse footage of duct-taped lies
Animal frequencies pinching deodorized nerves
Cosmetic procedures on the cartilage of apocalypse
Mannequin tycoons with airport piano bar mystiques
Remodeling conjugal amaracus, flexing like suburban Spartacus
Getting smacked up by unemployed hand models
Running out into the middle of traffic with Beaujolais bottles

Shout Out to "Fume"!

xp Diamond Bollocks is one of the GOAT

xp I never realized "Devil's Haircut" video is a Midnight Cowboy homage til now.

I take it the Noel Gallagher remix of "Devils Haircut" will not figure.

driveby body POLL

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.

and "Spanking Room"!

anyway the b-side i would like to rep for is "thunder peel," both in stereopathic and odelay forms

wait there's an Odelay version ?!?!?

that song rules, definitely making my ballot

check out the deluxe version of odelay!

just looked it up, whoa man I have gotta get that!

never heard either "Inferno" or "Gold Chains", this makes my day

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?

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.

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.

Apparently he released a new single with Pharrell last month?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NXrlWw3yhW4

love that odelay is one of those cd-era albums that informs you when the first side ends and the second side starts

stuck together like a readymade!

"inferno" is absolutely amazing but i can barely evaluate it as a "song" to "vote" "for"

"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

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

But you knew what a dork was, right?

yeah it was me

Have we as a board discussed how Beck would be beyond cancelled if he released Mixed Bizness today?

have we as a board decided we're not going to debate National Review headlines?

Midnite Vultures I mean

it sucked then and it still sucks

lol I respectfully disagree

The second half (except "Debra") >>> first half

just gonna leave this here

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EksGJTUaTuc

midnite vultures rules so much, i have no idea how he made some of the ridiculous ideas on it work

huh one foot in the grave is a really good album

yes, it really is, I think "Hollow Log" placed in the recent "Best Songs Under 120 Seconds" poll?

thirded

"forcefield" is prob gonna be high on my ballot but it's early

“Beautiful way” is nice
The backing track of “Hollywood freaks” is nice
The chorus of “milk and honey” is pretty slammin

Re:Midnite Vultures, I think about that sometimes. I was young so I could be wrong, but I feel like I remember a vibe of some corners of white altrock people reading it, approvingly, as a joke/parody. Like "LOL Beck the wacky loser guy doing an R&B album, that guy'll do anything, what a laff!" (Or maybe thats just me remembering the reactions of my dumbass white suburban friends.) Where today obviously the criticism would come from the opposite angle, like "how dare he not treat these musics reverentially".

Beautiful Way will be on my ballot for sure

I remember a 30 second snippet of "Beautiful Way" being included as part of Windows 2000, playing it in Windows Media Player and the cover art coming up, and being like "wow i am truly living in the future"

"nicotine & gravy" will be in my top 5 for sure

I've been listening to Beck in the car the past few days...well, Mellow Gold. A Beck poll is not the best place for misgivings, but:

1) I think half of Mellow Gold is good to great to borderline genius ("Loser").
2) I tried Odelay!, too. Two songs I still love ("Devil's Haircut," "Jackass"), another good, lengthy, low-key closer, and past that a whole lot of nothing. Which I think is what I thought at the time. It won Pazz & Jop (I think it did, anyway) on sheer momentum from Mellow Gold.
3) I voted for a couple of later songs in Pazz & Jop that I keep on my hard drive, "Chemtrails" and "Don't Let It Go." Listening to them right now, especially next to Mellow Gold's best songs, they seem quite marginal.

He'll make it into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame (next year?), which he should.

yeah that's maybe my favorite Beck deep cut when I DJ out