Beck: Classic Or Dud

Modern Guilt might actually be my favourite Beck record: it's a compact ten songs, and sits directly in the middle of his depressive-acoustic to whimsical-rhythmic spectrum.

― Halfway there but for you

i actually love modern guilt a lot myself, i was big into my indie landfill phase in '08-'09 listening to shit like rubik, i still love that stuff but it's a million miles away from where i am now

he does have a shit-ton of weird shit, most of the albums focus on, like, songs and stuff, but he'll do these weird one-offs, like he had that record club project where he's doing a full cover of yanni's "life at the acropolis" with some sonic youth folks... i've never heard the original, i should probably listen to it sometimes. because beck's cover is this weird prog-noise thing. or, like... he made a 10 minute tribute to harry partch in response to an obscure twitter beef fiery furnaces had with radiohead. or "nyc 73-78", this 20 minute philip glass remix that's fucking excellent. or whatever the fuck "gimme (extended version)" is.

Yeah the harry partch thing is the one off that I like the most

YESS I was trying to remember if I imagined that Harry Partch thing, it was so good

I owned five guayaberas because of Beck.

― braaam.flac (flamboyant goon tie included), Monday, March 11, 2024 12:14 PM (three days ago) bookmarkflaglink

How come there isn't a thread where ilxors disclose the most embarrassing shit their fandom of an artist or band has compelled them to purchase?

i purchased one foot in the grave (a great album!) on vinyl

Don’t go carvin’ no happy face on my tombstone

I looked good in those guayaberas. I lived in a small town it was the 90s all my friends were wearing Gap

because they loved the Swing Kings?

owning guayaberas because of Beck = not particularly embarrassing, of course. rather i was thinking i have done 100x worse

I mean, those swing commercials delighted us all at the time, khakis for every teen

nothing wrong with a guayaberas IMO

please mentally remove the plural that was a copypaste mistake

re: beck, I also liked his cover of Skip Spence's Oar.