Beck: Married.

Ok dude 🤙

Interesting. Not married and not a scientologist

his ¢lam-arranged marriage ended a couple of years ago, it was reasonable to assume that he would no longer be a member again p much immediately

obv having spent all his life apart from the years he made interesting records either under or very very adjacent to their auspices, he is still a giant weirdo

pretty amazing, tho, how there has been *no* talk about his new album on ILM. i went looking and found nothing.

it's not bad. not amazing, but not bad.

idk, seems like a relatively small weirdo

New album is very samey. Beck wallpaper. I had it playing just now and thought Spotify was somehow repeating the same song. Sonically it's uninteresting and safe. Some horrible autotune.

played the new album once. Was not weird enough.

yeah the record doesnt really offer much to talk about. i remember looking for some beck thing on youtube when the beck poll was running and discovering that beck had released a new single with pharell that week, and thinking 'wow ten years ago this would have been extremely exciting news'

Not enough greasy biker sex funk.

midnite vultures 20 years old this week btw

I dunno, I like it. I love the vintage synth palette and think it's a nice twist on the same lyrical ground as he covered on Sea Change. It's definitely better than either of the two most recent widely-acclaimed records.

Keep seeing this and thinking his new album is called “Married”

he doesn't do the interesting stuff on his albums anymore, does he? they're all these weird side projects and the albums are all, here are some more tasteful and pleasant songs to listen to

This week's New Yorker profile felt like liner notes, not in a good way. With Pharrell's involvement (co-producing/co-writing half the songs), I'm listening to this and end up comparing it to Blond, again, not in a good way.

New record is b o r i n g as they’ve all been for me since Midnite Vs.
Maybe the life change will bring out some interesting stuff. I’ll always listen to what he does next

New one is pleasant but not great

Beck in that long Amanda P profile in the New Yorker

There was a point where I was, like, ‘Is this over?’ ” he said. “But I wake up with songs going. Melodies, harmonies, a bass line. It’s like there’s a radio station playing in my head all the time.” Maybe, I said, the only point of art is to make the thing that you most want to exist in the world. He thought about it for a moment. “I don’t know if I’ve done that yet,” he said.

thought this line in the nyer profile was accurate w/r/t the sound of his last couple LPs: the sorts of hulking anthems that are discernible over the din of the beer tent at giant outdoor festivals

For all the premium that Beck seems to place on keeping up with the sounds of the times, I'm more amazed than ever that he still hasnt released a capital-c Country album - seems like that would be a license to print money.

there's a story on Pitchfork that he thinks he lost a double album of Hank Williams covers in the UMG fire... among other things, maybe.

https://pitchfork.com/news/beck-says-full-unreleased-albums-were-probably-destroyed-in-universal-warehouse-fire/?

Update: In an Instagram post, Beck said that “Since the time of that interview we have found out that my losses in the fire were minimal”

haha lots to look forward to then

Beck's Bootleg Series!

Went driving around in the woods with my family on a camping trip for Thanksgiving. I've been off Beck for a while, but I put on One Foot In The Grave. Man, that's a great album. Force Field is the track that I never gave enough attention to until now. Would love more music from his glory days.

Are the expanded editions of the good albums worth picking up?

Just wanted to echo everybody’s take on the last album: pleasantly generic and inessential. There’s much worse out there but I’d never thought back in 93 we’d describe him that way

Are the expanded editions of the good albums worth picking up?

― Cow_Art, Saturday, November 30, 2019 9:09 AM (two days ago) bookmarkflaglink

Absogoddamnlutely. I honestly prefer some of the supplemental songs to the original material on the expanded Odelay.

Cow_Art, did you listen to the expanded edition of One Foot in the Grave? If not, I'd say that's essential since it includes basically a whole other album's worth of outtakes from those sessions

I haven't listened to a Beck album in its entirety since Sea Change (and then only once, I think), and nothing that anyone has said about his subsequent material has given me cause to regret that decision. I'm cool with pretending he hung it up at the turn of the century.

the last thing I enjoyed was his cover of Skip Spence's "Oar", which is funny cuz I have no use for the original

I mean afaic his unimpeachable '90s material earned him the right to drift into a career of musical somnambulism if he so chose. It's just been disappointing to see. A waste, if you will.

xp ha - i remember getting that Oar tribute comp and loving a lot of the tracks, then tracking down Oar and being pretty let down

I'd heard Oar before but outside of a few clever lines (the weighted down/waited down couplets, for example) I found it actively irritating. Skip seemed like mostly a creep/sad figure as well, which also contributed to my not finding it a pleasant listen.

But Beck's version morphs it into a totally different thing

The Oar tribute record brings me back to the halcyon days of HEAR Music.