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?
― Cow_Art, Saturday, 30 November 2019 15:09 (four years ago) link
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
― licorice oratorio (baaderonixx), Monday, 2 December 2019 20:18 (four years ago) link
― 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.
― War Crimes Tribunal of the Network Stars (Old Lunch), Monday, 2 December 2019 20:25 (four years ago) link
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
― “Hakuna Matata,” a nihilist philosophy (One Eye Open), Monday, 2 December 2019 20:25 (four years ago) link
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.
― War Crimes Tribunal of the Network Stars (Old Lunch), Monday, 2 December 2019 20:26 (four years ago) link
the last thing I enjoyed was his cover of Skip Spence's "Oar", which is funny cuz I have no use for the original
― Οὖτις, Monday, 2 December 2019 20:40 (four years ago) link
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.
― War Crimes Tribunal of the Network Stars (Old Lunch), Monday, 2 December 2019 20:48 (four years ago) link
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
― “Hakuna Matata,” a nihilist philosophy (One Eye Open), Monday, 2 December 2019 20:50 (four years ago) link
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
― Οὖτις, Monday, 2 December 2019 21:00 (four years ago) link
The Oar tribute record brings me back to the halcyon days of HEAR Music.
― ... (Eazy), Monday, 2 December 2019 22:48 (four years ago) link