Beck sort of invented lol 90s
― AdamVania (Adam Bruneau), Friday, 5 August 2016 10:53 (seven years ago) link
Stereopathetic will probably always be my favorite, if only for the juxtaposition of the absolutely chaotic swirling conclusion of "Pink Noise (Rock Me Amadeus)" into the smooth classic Nashville sounds of "Rowboat", one of the best songs he ever wrote
― AdamVania (Adam Bruneau), Friday, 5 August 2016 10:55 (seven years ago) link
Johnny Cash thought so, too.
― Mark G, Friday, 5 August 2016 10:58 (seven years ago) link
odelay dates a bit better if you delete all the songs with rapping.
― StillAdvance, Friday, 5 August 2016 11:07 (seven years ago) link
Modesto is pretty nice as well. love that pedal steel.
Beck had an awesome ear for sounds
― AdamVania (Adam Bruneau), Friday, 5 August 2016 11:17 (seven years ago) link
Anyone ever heard this Lonnie Smith album Boogaloo to Beck?
https://open.spotify.com/album/5kyJQJqRYP2TlCtvwprAkf
― calstars, Thursday, 1 September 2016 01:31 (seven years ago) link
what the hell leave lonnie smith out of the beck thread
― until the next, delayed, glaciation (map), Thursday, 1 September 2016 01:33 (seven years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pyCkhPTU13w
...
o_o
― Ludo, Friday, 16 September 2016 18:37 (seven years ago) link
cool video. too bad about the song tho
― Οὖτις, Friday, 16 September 2016 18:48 (seven years ago) link
was trying to think of what the beat reminded me of - "Drop It Like It's Hot"?
― Οὖτις, Friday, 16 September 2016 18:49 (seven years ago) link
disappointing
― licorice oratorio (baaderonixx), Friday, 16 September 2016 19:43 (seven years ago) link
yeah it's the Neptunes-fill. very generic, at this point.
i feel like Beck channeling Madonna's Don't Tell Me with his lasso moves.
― Ludo, Friday, 16 September 2016 20:21 (seven years ago) link
He was briefly a lot of fun, wasn't he?.
― the Rain Man of nationalism. (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 6 March 2017 16:30 (seven years ago) link
Good write-up and fine choices if Mutations hadn't been made ;)
― an uptempo Pop/Hip Hop mentality (imago), Monday, 6 March 2017 16:41 (seven years ago) link
I saw him at lollopalooza in 95 and he was awesome, a whirling dervish dust cloud spinning across the stage, leaping up into the air getting juiced up behind belief
― calstars, Monday, 6 March 2017 19:09 (seven years ago) link
“My natural bent can go to an acoustic thing, melodic, much more introspective.” But for his new record, in the works for four years and scheduled to come out this spring, Beck has finally realized that “really happy” set of songs. He says these are the hardest to write.
“It’s much easier to go out and get really down. There’s a multitude of things that will oblige you in misery in the culture and there’s only so many that will produce true happiness. It’s like comedy. Comedy is harder in that only certain things are going to make you laugh. I think it’s closer to the child nature in us, which the culture, for a lot of reasons, will discourage or crush. Or you mature out of it in other ways. I see it with kids. There’s that age where if you let that personal joyous side of yourself out, it’s almost more vulnerable than being emotionally vulnerable, like if you’re going through something difficult. It’s not the most clever, sophisticated part of you, but it is the most joyous.”
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/01/t-magazine/beck-tom-waits-kendrick-lamar.html
Hmmm, wait and see
― curmudgeon, Monday, 6 March 2017 19:46 (seven years ago) link
No "Jack-Ass" or "Mutations"?? :-/
― Carlotta's Portrait (Ross), Monday, 6 March 2017 22:16 (seven years ago) link
i've revisited "Morning Phase" and it's way less interesting now that the novelty (the novelty of it being insanely boring) has worn off.
― AdamVania (Adam Bruneau), Monday, 6 March 2017 22:51 (seven years ago) link
It was never interesting imho. Dude got married and became a scientologist and forgot what fuck fun is
― calstars, Monday, 6 March 2017 23:33 (seven years ago) link
I think being a scientologist almost qualifies anyone for instant dud status
― Carlotta's Portrait (Ross), Monday, 6 March 2017 23:38 (seven years ago) link
Morning phase seemed like a dull attempt at Pink Moon part deux
― calstars, Monday, 6 March 2017 23:41 (seven years ago) link
How does it compare to Sea Change?
― Carlotta's Portrait (Ross), Monday, 6 March 2017 23:42 (seven years ago) link
Stick with Midnite Vultures
― calstars, Monday, 6 March 2017 23:47 (seven years ago) link
Spoken like someone who has never actually heard neither Morning Phase nor Pink Moon.
― Austin, Tuesday, 7 March 2017 01:53 (seven years ago) link
― Carlotta's Portrait (Ross)
I've got a few Mutations tunes on there
― the Rain Man of nationalism. (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 7 March 2017 01:54 (seven years ago) link
is 'diamond dogs' supposed to be 'diamond bollocks' in which case yes, yes i fully concur
― an uptempo Pop/Hip Hop mentality (imago), Tuesday, 7 March 2017 01:59 (seven years ago) link
"Minus" and "Diamond Bollocks" are top 5 for sure.
"Outcome" toohttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AwG52KzCOa4
― billstevejim, Tuesday, 7 March 2017 05:25 (seven years ago) link
Ah shit, sorry Alfred - being a dolt. I love "We Live Again" and "Diamond Bollocks" blew me away as a teenager hearing that rip through the end of the album
― Carlotta's Portrait (Ross), Tuesday, 7 March 2017 05:34 (seven years ago) link
Sea Change is a lot better, it has more depth, in the string arrangments, in the vocals even. Morning Phase is just a lazy sunday morning record. So I guess at least the title was apt.
― Ludo, Tuesday, 7 March 2017 09:04 (seven years ago) link
Morning Phase is just a lazy sunday morning record.
Not a bad thing. Pairs well with coffee and the morning paper.
― dinnerboat, Tuesday, 7 March 2017 18:49 (seven years ago) link
Dude got married and became a scientologist and forgot what fuck fun is
Wasn't he always a scientologist?
― MarkoP, Tuesday, 7 March 2017 18:51 (seven years ago) link
yes he's born into the church.
― kurt schwitterz, Tuesday, 7 March 2017 19:32 (seven years ago) link
I probably would not rate "Black Tambourine" if not for INLAND EMPIRE.
― Chris L, Tuesday, 7 March 2017 20:10 (seven years ago) link
i think it's possible i saw him doing his antifolk thing in NYC in '89-91? When i was at the Sidewalk Cafe to do 5 mins of standup comedy?
otherwise i saw him at M axwell's circa Odelay and he was groovy.
also laffed my ass off first seeing this
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zdzY49xlvdY
― Supercreditor (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 7 March 2017 20:31 (seven years ago) link
i love that old interview. i loved his Space Ghost appearance too.
why so serious now? Beck was hilarious as fuck.
― AdamVania (Adam Bruneau), Wednesday, 8 March 2017 22:35 (seven years ago) link
xenu doesn't like joeks
― Οὖτις, Wednesday, 8 March 2017 22:36 (seven years ago) link
it's like "That Mellon feeling" has become his MO
― AdamVania (Adam Bruneau), Wednesday, 8 March 2017 22:37 (seven years ago) link
Hesitant to put it all on a sciento. People grow boring when they age after all and have kids and mortgages. But I guess more than anything he doesn't see much of anything or anyone outside his sciento world so pretty hard to get inspiration when you are so secluded mentally
― licorice oratorio (baaderonixx), Wednesday, 8 March 2017 23:23 (seven years ago) link
iirc he was born into the Church, spent his young adult years kind of avoiding it, ended up coming back around to it and embracing it fully when he married Marisa Ribisi. There was a story Paleface used to tell about Beck in NYC in the early 90s couchsurfing and playing on street corners, but still having wads of crisp hundreds in his wallet, that I think implies that someone in the Church was funding his excursions all along. I dunno, I've read some weird shit on Operation Clambake etc.
― Guy Pidgeotto (Tom Violence), Wednesday, 8 March 2017 23:49 (seven years ago) link
People grow boring when they age after all and have kids and mortgages
actually this is backwards, as you get older you realize how boring 20yos are
― Οὖτις, Wednesday, 8 March 2017 23:51 (seven years ago) link
he was def into it during odelay
― kurt schwitterz, Wednesday, 8 March 2017 23:51 (seven years ago) link
and VERY into it during midnight vultures
― kurt schwitterz, Wednesday, 8 March 2017 23:52 (seven years ago) link
where can i buy all of his mellow gold-era clothes
― billstevejim, Thursday, 9 March 2017 21:10 (seven years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aNwOJvot5Cc
strong Scientology vibes here w the whole "I feel confident about my career" motivational lyrics. like he's really making fun of the whole thing.
― AdamVania (Adam Bruneau), Friday, 24 March 2017 02:58 (seven years ago) link
Has he had a plu sign
― Οὖτις, Friday, 24 March 2017 03:46 (seven years ago) link
Plus sign today
Stupid phone
― Οὖτις, Friday, 24 March 2017 03:47 (seven years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QNkOIti-zto
industrial folk! i have a folder called 0000 Beck (Early Beck) that has a dozen or so early tapes and they are all amazing. i have listened to Fresh Meat and Golden Feelings the most but everything is pretty much on those levels. there are some re-recorded songs that appear in different versions. lots of cool sound collage stuff in between the tracks. mixtape style a la Stereopathetic Soul Manure. some minimalist electonic acapella noisey Prince tributes, some really transcendental post-folk as well.
i really love the lofi quality of this stuff. Beck records his voice at different speeds at times, and sometimes it sounds as if the entire track is wobbly. i really love the asthetic. he is a country yokel who found a synthesizer, the kind of misfit stoner troubled white trash kid cartoon character that would be friends with Beavis and Butthead. he sounds so out of it, howling like a drunk train hopper, his voice crackling in a strangled beast yodel. Pee Wee Herman X Tom Waits?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bKvmnC7sEok
― AdamVania (Adam Bruneau), Friday, 24 March 2017 22:25 (seven years ago) link
i like how he really trashes his voice. is it a fluxus technique? it makes me think of Yoko Ono. his folks were all about the art scene back then, i'm sure he had heard those records. i believe he samples his father David Campbell's orchestral compositions at times.
― AdamVania (Adam Bruneau), Friday, 24 March 2017 22:29 (seven years ago) link
Fresh Meat is still my favorite, mostly cos "Steve Threw Up" is so brilliant and funny and crass. what a great idea for a song.
― AdamVania (Adam Bruneau), Friday, 24 March 2017 22:30 (seven years ago) link
Yes that early shit is very nice. I like to think of B as broke with his fear and depression fighting it out on tape
― calstars, Friday, 24 March 2017 23:45 (seven years ago) link