Beck: Classic Or Dud

Candycane Shim-sham

by Beck

Candy-cane shimsham
love to make the door jam
up until the sun rise
thinking 'bout fruit pies

planning for the end days
taking in some heat rays
making all the girls cry
waiting til the pearls dry

ETC. WHATEVA

and the remix album? yipes.

making all the girls cry
waiting til the pearls dry

no one's ever heard of a pearl necklace? it does take some time to dry.

A generation of kids embracing a song whose refrain is "I'm a loser" seems pretty ironic to me. And I may be going out on a limb here, but I'm pretty sure Beck is not calling himself a loser in this song, but rather he's being "tongue in cheek," which some people like to refer to as "irony." However I don't think Beck's music has ever strived specifically for irony. But yeah, you asked for one thing, and there it is.

Mutations remains one of the most beautiful and perfect records I've ever heard.

http://img115.imageshack.us/img115/663/threeboobs0xr.jpg

i guess sarcasm doesn't transfer in print gear

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I'm gonna have to hear that. Here is Information thread:

is the new Beck album "The Information" going under the radar?

Liking the new album a lot.

there is a whole thread for that album:

Beck - Modern Guilt

his remake of diamond dogs with timbo is one of the best things either have ever done. shame they didnt do more together.

Never saw the pants-wetting deal about this schmuck. Ween is far better and funnier. Mixing genres of music is nothing new and it's NOT an indication of genius.

Two Beck questions:
1.) I'm trying to figure out what song I recently saw Beck perform on an old SNL. It was with a backing band of about 5 or 6 people (with female vocalist(s)) and was really funky-like. My guess is that it was definitely post-Odelay but pre-Sea Change. It was very good.

2.) Does anyone remember that NY Times Magazine article a few years back that had a graphic of what songs were on Beck's iPod? By chance does anyone know if it is posted somewhere online?

I thank you.

Belatedly, here is the answer to question 2 (a graphic in PDF):

Out of the 8,000 songs Beck has downloaded onto his hard drive, he's got a rotating mix of hundreds on his iPod that he updates daily. This is what Beck was listening to on Feb. 27, 2002

this thread is sad.

Standing in your office trying to talk to anacondas
Eking solace from the sawdust while your doppelganger stands topless

The Charlotte Gainsbourg album is really good

I was obsessed w everything he did right up until Sea Change. B-sides, mixtapes, all that stuff. Everything I've heard since then is just so dull and boring. The b-sides of Midnight Vultures are probably the apex of his studio career.

Also, OTM on the greatness of "Beercan".

man One Foot in teh Grave and Mellow Gold are still super-duper classic to my ears. i liked Odelay, Mutations and Midnight Vutlures to varying degrees.

Could be a complete coincidence, but it seems like the wind went right out of his sails when he went public as a you-know-what.

yup

Mutations was the first record I ever reviewed (school paper), they didn't ask me back when I panned it

Mutations is probably my favorite of his, love the Bayou/Speakeasy kind of vibe than runs throughout.

One Foot in the Grave is the only Beck album worth listening to anymore.

there's a fume
in this truck
and I don't know if we're dead
or what
the fuck
is go-ing onnnnnnnnnnnn

Steve Threw Up is great too. Plus

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Co4iSYZAJXE

His 2 verses on the Childish Gambino track are really good!?!? Wish the old Beck would come back and kill new Beck

with a taser gun

stuff salad down his throat and infect his entrails with aphids

Wish the old Beck would come back and kill new Beck

New Beck is Old Beck, who killed Young Beck.

Running through the minimall in my underwear

lol I am the only person on this board who likes Guero

duh

I like all of his post-Midnite albums to varying degrees, but there was a definite dropoff in quality.

Beck is probably the only musician i thought really highly of at 15 that i have no particular affection for, nostalgic or otherwise, now (those records still sound fine, but not as good as they used to)

Same.

Just realized 'Debra' is basically Bowie's 'Win'

Quite a few of his songs from Midnite Vultures on are very derivative of other tunes, e.g.:

Dark Star: Stevie Wonder - Have A Talk With God
Round The Bend: Nick Drake - River Man
Cellphone's Dead: Herbie Hancock - Chameleon
Paper Tiger: Serge Gainsbourg - Melody
Chemtrails: Aphrodite's Child - The Four Horsemen

There are probably more that I don't recognise.

TS: sampling songs vs. using them as jumping off points for originals

lifting the 'win' riff for debra = classic

thx to finefinemusic for the tip on this: http://soundcloud.com/jaylaporte/beck-i-just-started-hating

Beck recently collaborated with Jack White to release a new single on Third Man. The 7″ features the new tracks “I Just Started Hating Some People Today” and “Blue Randy.” White produced both songs, playing drums on the latter and adding “punk vocals” to the former. “I Just Started Hating Some People Today” begins as an old-school country jaunt that suddenly switches up into hardcore punk, and becomes a funky porno groove at the end.

Sounds like crap.

OTM on whoever said Beck became a victim of Scientology, right after Midnight Vulture.

he never wasn't

yeah I don't think that has much to do with it

Maybe he just started sucking.