1) The three Beck songs baaderonixx posted are great.
2) Morning Phase sounds nothing like them.
― MV, Wednesday, 19 February 2014 23:37 (ten years ago) link
**shrug**
I like it. It's not super exciting, but it sure is lovely.
― Austin, Friday, 21 February 2014 04:13 (ten years ago) link
^^ pretty much my reaction
― Taking Devil's Tower (by mashed potatoes) (WilliamC), Friday, 21 February 2014 04:15 (ten years ago) link
blackbird chain slays
― reggie (qualmsley), Friday, 21 February 2014 14:48 (ten years ago) link
This is a really good album for mornings when you aren't fully awake yet. I still think it's boring but it gets better after repeated listens.
― Emperor Cos Dashit (Adam Bruneau), Friday, 21 February 2014 15:03 (ten years ago) link
'Blackbird Chain' is probably my favorite song.
― Austin, Friday, 21 February 2014 15:41 (ten years ago) link
This is a really good album for mornings when you aren't fully awake yet
Hah just like Sea Change this sounds very much like hangover music
― licorice oratorio (baaderonixx), Friday, 21 February 2014 16:24 (ten years ago) link
Sea Change : Morning Phase :: heartache : backache
― MV, Friday, 21 February 2014 19:54 (ten years ago) link
Nothing to do with the musical content, so forgive the side-step from such discussions with this post, but this situation makes me quite frustrated as a music retailer...
Vinyl for this was horribly under-pressed, at least in the UK.
On the day of release (yesterday) there was just one single (speculative) copy on Amazon, via the marketplace, at £10,000. http://www.amazon.co.uk/Morning-Phase-VINYL-Beck/dp/B00HHYEOV8/ I just cite that as evidence of the general scarcity on the first day of release, as no legitimate sellers (shops using Amazon marketplace, Amazon themselves, as examples) had enough copies to offer for sale beyond what had gone to curtailed/limited pre-orders.
Hard to fathom any decent reason why the record company et al would deliberately stick to a mere ~1000 copies on an album like this, when shops and online retailers and by extension the record-buying public were quite clearly clamouring for more. Well, I can think of reasons, but they're quite dispiriting.
― NWOFHM! Overlord (krakow), Tuesday, 25 February 2014 12:11 (ten years ago) link
St Vincent album is also in the same situation, from the same record company... http://www.amazon.co.uk/St-Vincent-VINYL/dp/B00H783104/
― NWOFHM! Overlord (krakow), Tuesday, 25 February 2014 12:14 (ten years ago) link
this is kind of a slog and the songs aren't great
but man this sounds like a million bucks! so well produced.
― sXe & the banshees (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 25 February 2014 17:48 (ten years ago) link
It does. I listened to it again this morning and it sounds so good. The arrangements are really nice. And the songs are great. And his singing is so good!
I listened to Stereopathetic Soul Manure again too. His voice is so nervous and wavy, and it's been a huge leap for him to get to this spot. I'm sure he doesn't want to hear/play some of those songs because the performances are super rough (though that is part of the charm). In a way it's sort of like Cornelius's artistic trajectory: more and more clinical recording techniques, and super-close attention to detail. Beck's earlier works are defiantly ramshackle and I think even if he makes a "party" album it will be the coolest, cleanest machine he can invent.
― Emperor Cos Dashit (Adam Bruneau), Tuesday, 25 February 2014 22:56 (ten years ago) link
The problem with this album is that John Grant's Pale Green Ghosts exists.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JvM3D4XE9qM&feature=kp
― Bryan Fairy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 26 February 2014 11:58 (ten years ago) link
somebody should ask him if some of that Morning Phase money will go to fund scientology's department of attack and general harassment . didn't listen, too bad for me.
― Sébastien, Wednesday, 26 February 2014 13:11 (ten years ago) link
the strings on "wave" sort of sound like homogenic-era björk imo
― °ㅇo ๐ْ ° (gr8080), Wednesday, 26 February 2014 13:45 (ten years ago) link
I heard a review of this album on NPR but thought it was a look back at 'Dark Side of the Moon'.
― Spencer Chow, Wednesday, 26 February 2014 21:08 (ten years ago) link
I like this more now that I can listen to the whole thing. Phase->Turn Away does it for me.
― 4. Nels Cline and My Uncle Eat Soup at Panera Bread (3:37) (Sufjan Grafton), Wednesday, 26 February 2014 21:15 (ten years ago) link
not heard sea change since it came out really but i like this more than i remember being into that album. the melodies seem less 'monotone'. or maybe its just that theres a lushness to how hes produced his vocals on this that does it for me (beck seems to sing 'better' these days). was expecting it to be really lame and transparently trying to court a specific audience but its a bit better than that.
― StillAdvance, Wednesday, 26 February 2014 22:13 (ten years ago) link
its odd, even those other non album tracks like i wont be long, they all have a similar sheen to them. its the sound of nice, lush digital production, but not that expensive, its low-ish budget lushness. i wont be long is great though - chorus reminds me of i wanna be adored/stone roses, surprisingly.
― StillAdvance, Wednesday, 26 February 2014 22:47 (ten years ago) link
none of these non album songs is all that novel or radical etc (at least not in the way his old stuff was) though, only defriended sounds like becks been listening to clams casino or some cloud rap stuff.
― StillAdvance, Wednesday, 26 February 2014 22:52 (ten years ago) link
actually, i take that back - the extended version of gimme is pretty special. reminds me a little of mid-80s/parade-era prince.
― StillAdvance, Wednesday, 26 February 2014 23:20 (ten years ago) link
I'm not really feeling this but then again "Midnite Vultures" was the last Beck album I was into.
― everyday sheeple (Michael B), Thursday, 27 February 2014 00:40 (ten years ago) link
actually, i take that back - the extended version of gimme is pretty special. reminds me a little of mid-80s/parade-era prince.― StillAdvance, Wednesday, February 26, 2014 11:20 PM (Yesterday)
― StillAdvance, Wednesday, February 26, 2014 11:20 PM (Yesterday)
The extended versions of all of them are pretty great, IMO, but yeah, "Gimme" went from being not much of anything in its normal release, to something really special and unexpected in the 24-minute version.
What did you think of "NYC 73-78"?
― Soundslike, Thursday, 27 February 2014 01:41 (ten years ago) link
woah "gimme" is great- where is this extended version?
― °ㅇ๐ْ ° (gr8080), Thursday, 27 February 2014 02:25 (ten years ago) link
This album seems to be what is known as 'polarising'.
― Hinklepicker, Thursday, 27 February 2014 06:42 (ten years ago) link
This album is what some call "boring."
― Bryan Fairy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 27 February 2014 11:53 (ten years ago) link
Luxuriously boring though. This is high-end, hand-woven, artisan tedium.
― What is wrong with songs? Absolutely nothing. Songs are great. (DL), Thursday, 27 February 2014 12:34 (ten years ago) link
Gimme Extended version here maybe
http://plixid.com/2013/09/25/beck-gimme-single-2013-mp3/
― calstars, Thursday, 27 February 2014 12:57 (ten years ago) link
the beck that I wish would return:
http://www.spin.com/sites/all/files/styles/style620_413/public/130730-Best-Lollapalooza-Beck.jpg
― calstars, Friday, 28 February 2014 13:01 (ten years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I357vCLnHTM#t=46
Thanks, SNL, for not trying to appear funny in the slightest. Is that lady on the right in the show now?
― Emperor Cos Dashit (Adam Bruneau), Friday, 28 February 2014 14:28 (ten years ago) link
yes.
― °ㅇ๐ْ ° (gr8080), Friday, 28 February 2014 15:04 (ten years ago) link
She isn't funny.
― Emperor Cos Dashit (Adam Bruneau), Friday, 28 February 2014 15:05 (ten years ago) link
She's pretty funny.
― an enormous bolus of flatulence (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Friday, 28 February 2014 16:37 (ten years ago) link
bazinga.
― °ㅇ๐ْ ° (gr8080), Friday, 28 February 2014 16:40 (ten years ago) link
Well, not in that promo. But in general she's pretty funny. Her 'Girl You Wish You Hadn't Started Talking to at a Party' character was great.
― an enormous bolus of flatulence (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Friday, 28 February 2014 16:41 (ten years ago) link
Sounds like a riot.
― Emperor Cos Dashit (Adam Bruneau), Friday, 28 February 2014 16:42 (ten years ago) link
Ha, I realized as I typed it out that the name of the character was going to make it look much less funny than it actually was. But I also realized I'm defending an SNL cast member on a Beck thread and, why?
― an enormous bolus of flatulence (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Friday, 28 February 2014 16:45 (ten years ago) link
By the look of this, Beck is turning into Capt Beefheart in his demeanor
― licorice oratorio (baaderonixx), Friday, 28 February 2014 16:50 (ten years ago) link
beck is looking plastic and inanimate as ever... look at that perfectly sculpted hairdo. ever since the Mutations cover, his projected image has been well dubious to me.
― braunld (Lowell N. Behold'n), Friday, 28 February 2014 17:36 (ten years ago) link
By the look of this, Beck is turning into Capt Beefheart Crunch in his demeanor
― Bryan Fairy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 28 February 2014 17:37 (ten years ago) link
Fwiw, that hair doesn't look so much perfectly sculpted as it does a combover.
― an enormous bolus of flatulence (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Friday, 28 February 2014 18:10 (ten years ago) link
Oh shit. That's what's with those fucking hats. Beck is bald!
― calstars, Friday, 28 February 2014 19:04 (ten years ago) link
man, tough crowd
― nerve_pylon, Friday, 28 February 2014 19:22 (ten years ago) link
like this as much as sea change now. Heart is a Drum and Turn Away are great. I know it's boring, but I am kind of boring. Write a Simon and Garfunkel song. Put some reverb on some overdubs. Add some reverse tape effects. I will listen to it.
― 4. Nels Cline and My Uncle Eat Soup at Panera Bread (3:37) (Sufjan Grafton), Monday, 3 March 2014 17:17 (ten years ago) link
"Write a Simon and Garfunkel song" is no easy task. Especially not to the extent that he pulls it off.
― timellison, Tuesday, 4 March 2014 05:40 (ten years ago) link
Yes, he definitely pulls it off. Turn Away is stunning.
― 4. Nels Cline and My Uncle Eat Soup at Panera Bread (3:37) (Sufjan Grafton), Tuesday, 4 March 2014 05:44 (ten years ago) link
still have yet to listen to this but did DVR Saturday Night Live to hear two songs, they were OK.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1YFuu512Fjo
― Bee OK, Thursday, 6 March 2014 03:58 (ten years ago) link
it isn't "thrilling," but i like this song. i like singer-songwriter, gloomy beck.
― Daniel, Esq 2, Thursday, 6 March 2014 04:04 (ten years ago) link
Beautiful album. I like it more than Sea Change.
Will see how it fares as the year progresses.
― ∞, Tuesday, 11 March 2014 05:45 (ten years ago) link
yeah, I've grown to like it more than sea change as well.
― POO: the blossom or full flower of the evening (Sufjan Grafton), Tuesday, 11 March 2014 05:48 (ten years ago) link