Lost track of Beck after Guero but my daughter is a big fan; last summer she went with a pal to see him at Brixton, her first proper rock gig. Maybe I should ask her for her ratings on all the LPs.
― Michael Jones, Tuesday, 21 February 2023 19:07 (one year ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qWeln4AYzTQ
Trigger warning, contains Jack Conte
― MaresNest, Tuesday, 21 February 2023 19:08 (one year ago) link
Jesus Christ what a credits list for Justin Meldal-Johnsen; he'd never been anything other than "a name I'd read sometimes"
Reading that list had me googling some things
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OWahO6rIW6s
This is the result
Please enjoy it haha I've never heard it before and it's great
― pee change (flamboyant goon tie included), Tuesday, 21 February 2023 19:19 (one year ago) link
I mentioned that song earlier!!!! it's great yes
― imago, Tuesday, 21 February 2023 19:20 (one year ago) link
Ok, the 18yo has given me her ratings, be nice. mellow gold 4Odelay 5Mutations 4.5Midnite vultures 5Sea change 3Guero 4.5The Information 2Modern guilt 4Morning Phase 3.5Colors 3Hyperspace 3.5 “Stereopathetic soulmanure and one foot in the grave I haven’t heard enough of”I managed to avoid saying I Don’t Belieeeeve It like I do every time she mentions that last one, hope you’re proud of me.
― Michael Jones, Tuesday, 21 February 2023 19:21 (one year ago) link
daughter otm
― obsidian crocogolem (sleeve), Tuesday, 21 February 2023 19:31 (one year ago) link
how have I never heard "The Little Drum Machine Boy" before?!?!?!
― obsidian crocogolem (sleeve), Tuesday, 21 February 2023 19:34 (one year ago) link
Here are two cuts from the Odelay promo:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ts3kkEdpz0A
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ffnDxUoHcuQ
― birdistheword, Tuesday, 21 February 2023 20:31 (one year ago) link
holy moly @ that Novacane version, love it
― obsidian crocogolem (sleeve), Tuesday, 21 February 2023 20:34 (one year ago) link
Yes, daughter otm, though I enjoy The Information more than a 2 and Midnite Vultures less than a 5
― pee change (flamboyant goon tie included), Tuesday, 21 February 2023 20:41 (one year ago) link
I can't discern any difference between Novocane (promo version) and Novocane (album version) but man what a perfect song
The jam at 3:45 onward is so great. iirc doesn't it reprise on "Hi-5" and somebody yells "turn that shit off, man!" hahahaha
― pee change (flamboyant goon tie included), Tuesday, 21 February 2023 20:49 (one year ago) link
there's this high pitched melody/sound thing riding over the main riff? idk
― obsidian crocogolem (sleeve), Tuesday, 21 February 2023 21:30 (one year ago) link
JMJ is a lifelong scientologist and his parents are very high level scinos.
― kurt schwitterz, Tuesday, 21 February 2023 23:41 (one year ago) link
and it's weird in like every interview he has a different story about how him and beck met instead of just saying "we grew up in scientology together" theres shady shit goin on there
― kurt schwitterz, Tuesday, 21 February 2023 23:43 (one year ago) link
i saw the performance of the new single and yeah, what a snoozer
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gA3WkCpABYo
also he looks older for maybe the first time here. he's not TOOM yet but he did get get dylan's oh mercy era leather jacketalso, i don't know the band Phoenix well enough to recognize them, and kimmel's intro was ambiguous - is phoenix his backing band or are they opening for him on tour?
― z_tbd, Wednesday, 22 February 2023 00:34 (one year ago) link
he's doing a co-headlining tour with phoenix
― ufo, Wednesday, 22 February 2023 00:38 (one year ago) link
XP They're co-headling, no?
That should be a thing: Beck taking on a different well-known band as his backing for each tour. Imagine: Beck & The Heartbreakers...Beck & The Dap Kings...Beck & The Drummer from Gay Dad.
― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Wednesday, 22 February 2023 00:41 (one year ago) link
returning to sea change/morning phase singer-songwriter mode is an improvement over the last two albums but hardly anything to be excited about
― ufo, Wednesday, 22 February 2023 00:41 (one year ago) link
Yeah he’s starting to look like Phil Spector or someonePersistent Mercedes logo in that clip is… something(That new album cover suxx too)
― unknown blues singer (morrisp), Wednesday, 22 February 2023 00:42 (one year ago) link
his hair's just way curlier than normal there which makes him look pretty different
― ufo, Wednesday, 22 February 2023 00:49 (one year ago) link
Beck + Flaming Lips
― z_tbd, Wednesday, 22 February 2023 00:50 (one year ago) link
just occurred to me that beck with straightened mullet in a leather jacket would look like joe dirt
― z_tbd, Wednesday, 22 February 2023 00:51 (one year ago) link
xp somewhere my Beckon the Paining Exists? tour shirt is stashed away.
― Western® with Bacon Flavor, Wednesday, 22 February 2023 01:07 (one year ago) link
JMJ is a lifelong scientologist and his parents are very high level scinos.― kurt schwitterz, Tuesday, February 21, 2023 3:41 PM (one hour ago) bookmarkflaglinkand it's weird in like every interview he has a different story about how him and beck met instead of just saying "we grew up in scientology together" theres shady shit goin on there― kurt schwitterz, Tuesday, February 21, 2023 3:43 PM
― kurt schwitterz, Tuesday, February 21, 2023 3:41 PM (one hour ago) bookmarkflaglink
― kurt schwitterz, Tuesday, February 21, 2023 3:43 PM
wonder about this a lot myself.
― up and down. SO FAST! stay together.💙 (Austin), Wednesday, 22 February 2023 01:09 (one year ago) link
I had the radio going and they were talking about beck leaving Scientology and then getting “dragged back in” - but I had no clue what specifically they were talking about
― FRAUDULENT STEAKS (The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall), Wednesday, 22 February 2023 03:07 (one year ago) link
I saw Beck at the Irving Plaza last year
( and the video someone took of it is still up! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F8XRl8OJLDQ )
GREAT show, but I was struck by how much older he looked. I actually got to meet him in late 2002, and I thought back to that moment when he was already in his 30's but looking not much older than the college or high school-age fans surrounding him - the change really made that seem like a looooong time ago.
― birdistheword, Wednesday, 22 February 2023 03:14 (one year ago) link
no idea about him "getting dragged back in" but a few years ago he claimed he'd never been a scientologist in an interview but that was largely seen as a way to distance himself from it without attracting too much hostility from the church
― ufo, Wednesday, 22 February 2023 03:16 (one year ago) link
https://www.thedailybeast.com/beck-claims-he-was-never-a-scientologist-leah-remini-and-others-are-calling-bs
― obsidian crocogolem (sleeve), Wednesday, 22 February 2023 03:21 (one year ago) link
Ya well James Jamerson was a Baptist so what
― pee change (flamboyant goon tie included), Wednesday, 22 February 2023 07:00 (one year ago) link
yah it doesnt take away from his greatness and its whatever but its ok to ask why all the lies, secrecy and diversion tactics? his family is famously scientologist, he famously grew up in it, surrounds himself with other scientologists, is married to a famous scientologist with a famous scientologist family. if he was just like "yah my dad got into it in the 60s and its always been a part of my life" no one would care.
anyway im stoked and hopeful about a new slow sad album
― kurt schwitterz, Wednesday, 22 February 2023 09:07 (one year ago) link
“Lies, secrecy and diversion tactics” seem to constitute him just saying over and over that his dad is a Scientologist and he grew up around it but he’s not personally into it
“But his wife is a Scientologist” and “but his bassist is a Scientologist (and Trent Reznor is ok with it)” aren’t particularly convincing gotchas, Kate Briquelet!
― pee change (flamboyant goon tie included), Wednesday, 22 February 2023 13:24 (one year ago) link
tbf to schwitterz, he's iirc known a lot of people deeply affected by this stuff, lives in the eye of the storm so to speak
― imago, Wednesday, 22 February 2023 13:30 (one year ago) link
I managed to avoid saying I Don’t Belieeeeve It like I do every time she mentions that last one, hope you’re proud of me.
I'm unable to even think of the Beck album without Victor coming to mind
― you can see me from westbury white horse, Wednesday, 22 February 2023 13:55 (one year ago) link
The Information is my favourite of the not 90s albums, though I find it nearly identical to Guero.
― you can see me from westbury white horse, Wednesday, 22 February 2023 13:57 (one year ago) link
I heard a new Beck song today and it was so fucking boring that I changed the channel and "Comfortably Numb" on the classic rock station sounded like hearing it for the first time. And then they played "Eye of the Tiger," and I was like that Vince McMahon meme.
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 9 March 2023 18:18 (one year ago) link
just listened to colors for the first time and it's very hit and miss. some really faceless unironic pastiche (this is the majority of it tbh) and some genuinely good second tier beck. i had forgotten about "dreams" - that's a good one! and "no distraction" is great too. not a total waste of time, but yeah, probably my least favorite thing he's done.
a few songs into hyperspace right now (first ever listen) and i really like it. sure, nothing is jumping out or hitting me in a "SUPER WOW!" kind of way, but it sounds good. a bit goofy and maybe too self-aware, but it certainly has that spirit of, "hey here's a mishmash of cool genreless pop sounds" that made his 90s records so appealing. if i didn't know pharrell had anything to do with it going in, i'm not sure i would've made the connection otherwise. *shrug* i kinda like it. will check back in after i get through it.
― W E F L Y T O G E T H E R (Austin), Sunday, 30 April 2023 19:33 (one year ago) link
Vegas residency when
― calstars, Sunday, 30 April 2023 20:04 (one year ago) link
colors def has that vibe, yeah.
but idk, after getting through hyperspace i think it's absolutely second tier but still very good. like i said, it has an overall sound that i dig. cool synths doing cool harmonies and whatever. some of the hooks are quite good and the title track is some weird, polite kraut revival space pop.
neither album would get rated over anything that came before it.
― W E F L Y T O G E T H E R (Austin), Sunday, 30 April 2023 20:12 (one year ago) link
Tried to rock out to Odelay today, and the magic is gone. Mellow Gold 4-evah
― Cow_Art, Sunday, 30 April 2023 20:18 (one year ago) link
MG>O
― calstars, Sunday, 30 April 2023 20:19 (one year ago) link
I enjoy Odelay more now
― brimstead, Sunday, 30 April 2023 21:47 (one year ago) link
Alcohol on my hands I got plans to ditch myself and get outside
― calstars, Sunday, 30 April 2023 21:57 (one year ago) link
should i not give beck a try??
― Swen, Sunday, 10 March 2024 20:33 (one month ago) link
oh no i just put on an album!
which one??
― I painted my teeth (sleeve), Sunday, 10 March 2024 20:34 (one month ago) link
Modern Guilt. i'm feeling it so far!
― Swen, Sunday, 10 March 2024 20:38 (one month ago) link
don't know that one at all!
― I painted my teeth (sleeve), Sunday, 10 March 2024 20:39 (one month ago) link
i'm weird i like diving in late in a catalog sometimes
― Swen, Sunday, 10 March 2024 20:42 (one month ago) link
(although i guess not that late, i see there was an album last year)