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

From wiki:

The album's cover is a photo of a Komondor, a rare Hungarian breed of dog with a heavy, corded coat. The original photo was shot by canine photographer Joan Ludwig (1914–2004) for the July 1977 issue of the American Kennel Club’s Gazette.

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/ClQhGZrWMAAoamt.jpg

https://thefutureheart.com/2016/06/18/odelay-dog-akc-kennel-ludwig-komondor-beck-cover/amp/

That is a crazy story thanks for sharing.

Albums:

1. Odelay 862 19 7
2. Mellow Gold 817 18 8
3. Mutations 689 16 2
4. Midnite Vultures 600 14 2
5. One Foot in the Grave 580 14 2
6. Sea Change 370 9
7. Stereopathetic Soulmanure 246 6
8. Guero 231 6
9. Modern Guilt 219 6 (Acoustic)
10. Colors 149 4
11. Morning Phase 113 3
12. Golden Feelings 40
13. A western harvest by Moonlight 36
14. Record Club: Oar (2010) 36

plastic donut
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there's no kindness
in this land

Googling that Odelay cover led me to this interesting Twitter thread, hope I don't mess up the link:

The photo used on Beck's 1996 album Odelay was one of several that Joan Ludwig shot for the July 1977 issue of the American Kennel Club’s Gazette, one of which is shown below. The dog breed is Komondor. pic.twitter.com/AbQeA0Ebzu

— Vintage Wullie (@YoorWullie) August 11, 2018

You didn't

phew

ILM, you have no idea how excited I am about One Eye Open pictures. it's next level stuff like pplains contribution. we are in for such a treat.

I will see everyone tomorrow

Beck's 2019 album is going to be called Hyperspace.

i guess these results aren't too surprising considering the general preferences expressed in the voting thread but i still don't really 'get' pre-Odelay Beck much at all, like Mellow Gold has its moments but everyone else is clearly hearing something in it and One Foot In The Grave that i don't

OH YEAH IT'S TIME

Released: June 27, 1994
580 Points, 14 Votes, 2 Number Ones

I was one of these #1s btw

Pootations more like

Did not expect Odelay to beat Mellow Gold!

I'm enjoying this poll, didn't vote but if I did I would have voted for Mellow Gold over Odelay

Some clean up, where this all came from:

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 slightly prefer Mellow Gold to Odelay, only because it feels a touch more singular to me, an island unto itself. They're both great albums.

Just heard Where It’s At in the grocery store

I Got Two Turntables On Aisle Six!

Even though I know the real lyrics are “two turntables and a microphone” my addled brain always translates it to “two cheeseburgers and a microphone”

two cheeseburgers, both with provolone

My addled brain always sings "I come from the land of the ice and snow / With the jigsaw jazz and the get-fresh flow"

how'd you pass up "Stereopathic POLL Manure" for the thread title?

xpost and my brain follows on with "but we did nuthin, absolutely budkiss that day.."

Was the Information left off the album list in error?

Didn't vote cuz I didn't feel like diving back into Beck right now. Interested to see song results!

Vultures > Mellow >> Odelay >> other things

i still don't really 'get' pre-Odelay Beck much at all, like Mellow Gold has its moments but everyone else is clearly hearing something in it and One Foot In The Grave that i don't

― ufo, Wednesday, 5 June 2019 00:42 (eleven hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Same here - definitely some good songs but I've never been able to get into either of those albums properly.

the Ktel quote above puts the appeal of the early material pretty well,I think. That was great, hadn't heard that. Also maybe you "had to be there" to some degree, throwing chicken in a bucket

I find Odelay pretty tough to get through now. it's dated in a way most of his other work isn't, somehow. It's still fun but, I dunno very much of its time. The sound of being the coolest thing going in 1996? It's not exactly the Dust Brothers sound I'm talking about (have never gotten tired of Paul's Boutique)

I rate Odelay less these days because the songs work if your patience extends to an album length of obscurantic readymades infused by hip-hop whereas Mellow Gold has recognizable love songs and skewed narratives in a folk tradition. That's partly why I like Guero's "Scarecrow": it melds the hip-hop and folk sensibilities.

and besides, Cibo Matto were cooler

the songs work if your patience extends to an album length of obscurantic readymades infused by hip-hop

You say that like it's a bad thing!

I get what you mean though. I rate Odelay higher but thats a good point about the difference between it & Mellow Gold, for all the clutter & sonic craziness most of the songs still have some identifiable narrative or lyrical point of view.

I should've mentioned that I bought MG in 2002, years after Odelay, so I was more struck by their differences.

And, no, I didn't mean my criticism as dismissal -- I don't mind obscurantism.

Midnite Vultures, then (ahem), is the perfect synthesis of Cool Beck and Don't Care Beck. Resulting in our one proper artifact of Party Down Beck.

It should've gotten better reviews. People bashed it for not caring enough, for being silly while being funky. think what we could have had. You monsters. All of us.

Also maybe you "had to be there" to some degree, throwing chicken in a bucket

eh i didn't listen to mellow gold until 2002. can't say i immediately loved everything on it but the weird coherently-incoherent sensibility behind it + the tunes kept me coming back

mellow gold turns to the insanity rather than the homeliness of rural america and renders it in space-age technicolour. it's backwards folk-art by a sophisticate who understands his subject and it's so good that its inauthenticity isn't even a concern

i quit my job blowing leaves

y'all on the same wave in 2002

maffew12 otm re:vultures. There was a good interview with beck in pfork a few years ago where vultures comes up and beck is kind of apologizing for it, almost sounds a little embarrassed, like "yeah we were trying to do something and experimenting, maybe it didnt work but it was a certain time & place, etc". And the interviewer says that vultures is a favorite of his (not even THE favorite, but just A favorite) and beck reacts with surprise and says that he's never heard anyone say that. And it's just like, really? You've never heard anyone say that this record is one of their faves? Is it possible that he really doesn't have an idea of how good that record is, and considers it a failed experiment? He seems to have such a strange perspective on his own work.

What. It's worse than I thought. Damn it!

Beck is a Scientologist -- he hears what he wants to hear.

The one time I saw him live was around Guero. Fun little show. That album actually sounds like him trying to have as much fun as he can within the parameters we've allowed.

I weep!

i think the sound of Mellow Gold is really cool but i don't really care for the tunes that much so it's just a fascinating mostly impenetrable mess of sound to me

I like MG’s shotgun scattershot sonics over Odelay, which sounds pretty uniform in its production approach

xp That's kind of how I feel about the other pre-Odelay material. Have you heard that stuff?

I've been a bit hard on Old Beck. Colors is pretty damn good at this point.

never really given One Foot In The Grave a fair go btw so that's what I'll do now

this album has some cool chords!

I made a music video for “Sweet Sunshine” in eighth grade for some kind of project

i originally was going to do a Top 40 but i liked the 41 - 50 so much i asked One Eye Open if he could put together 10 more images. he agreed and now we have a Top 50 countdown.