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 Post subject: Re: Beck!
PostPosted: Fri Aug 27, 2010 6:40 pm 
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Top tracks is too hard for me right now. More thought is required. But I'd rank his albums thusly:

1. Sea Change (A+)
2. Modern Guilt (A)
3. Mutations (A-)
4. Midnite Vultures (B+)
5. Guero (B-)
6. Odelay (C)
7. The Informantion (C-)
8. Mellow Gold (C-)

... haven't heard the other 4.

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 Post subject: Re: Beck!
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Is there any easy place where I can find the Record Club stuff he's been doing --as in downloadable and listenable on my own accord with something like an iPod? :)

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you need to create a free account but i got it all here in the media forum

http://www.stewoo.net/beck/forum


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 Post subject: Re: Beck!
PostPosted: Fri Aug 27, 2010 11:27 pm 
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5. Guero (B-)
6. Odelay (C)
7. The Informantion (C-)


:shake:

Just last night I was thinking about going on a Beck kick. Perhaps I should start by giving second chances to Sea Change, Modern Guilt and Mutations though.

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 Post subject: Re: Beck!
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OH HELL YEAH


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 Post subject: Re: Beck!
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Yeah. Fucking excited to hear this. Beck, Jack, Dean, Fats, and Karen. Just ordered it up from Third Man.

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 Post subject: Re: Beck!
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Saw him last week in Santa Barbara. So nice to see him playing with his all star band (Joey Waronker, Smokey Hormel, JMJ, Roger Manning) Been ten years since they played live together. When i saw him in 09 his band was pretty shit

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Loser, Black Tambourine. Think I'm In Love, The Golden Age, Lost Cause, End of the Day, Sunday Sun, Hotwax, Soul Of A Man, Paper Tiger, Modern Guilt, Soldier Jane, Guess I'm Doing Fine, Jack-Ass, Gamma Ray, MInus, Devils Haircut, Where It's At, The New Pollution, Girl, E-Pro

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That shit is tight!


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 Post subject: Re: Beck!
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 Post subject: Re: Beck!
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So hard to choose. Beck's Catalog is so consistently good. I really love it all, so here goes nothin'.

ALBUMS

1. Odelay
2. Mutations
3. Midnight Vultures


SONGS

1. Nobody's Fault But My Own
2. Jack-Ass
3........ Awe Fuck, Those are my favorite two. It's just too hard to narrow it down after that. Some others would be:

Deadweight, Broken Drum, The Golden Age, Where It's At, Devil's Haircut, We Live Again, E-Pro, Hell Yes, Milk & Honey, Holywood Freaks, Cold Brains, Lost Cause, Truck Drivin' Neighbors Downstairs, Hotwax, Pay No Mind, Fuckin' With My Head, 1000 BPM, I Get Lonesome, Satan Gave Me A Taco, Peaches& Cream, Nicotine & Gravy, Loser, Static, Lazy Flies, LLoyd Price Express, and on and on and on and on and on......


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 Post subject: Re: Beck!
PostPosted: Fri Jun 01, 2012 1:58 pm 
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I know that people seem to think that the second half of Beck's career has been pretty mixed in comparison to the first half, but I don't know. I think he's had an outstanding past ten years.

Sea Change
Guero
The Information
Modern Guilt

I love all those records.


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i like that run of albums, too.

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 Post subject: Re: Beck!
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Modern Guilt is a weird one to me. I enjoy a lot of the songs on it and i think it is a pretty stong album. It just doesn't feel like a Beck album to me.

May be the Danger Mouse production or the lack of the typical Beck studio band that just doesn't sit right with me. It feels kind of sterile


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i like his contribution on this: http://www.iamdonald.com/1

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after owning (and loving) only Odelay and Guero for years, i finally decided to jump head-first into the rest of Beck's discgraphy.

i've been spinning the newly-acquired albums (even Stereopathic Soulmanure and One Foot in the Grave) for the past week.


Mellow Gold: the countrified acid-rock shtick works well for him, but it's not my favorite Beck personality. i give the album points for being so consistent.

One Foot in the Grave: on first listen, i was underwhelmed. i don't necessarily require an all-over-the-map genre mix-up from Beck (see Sea Change below), but there was a monotonous quality to this that i found suffocating. there's a lot of lyrical gems to admire. some interesting arrangements. just need more.

Mutations: instantly a favorite. a balance between the stylistic indulgences of Odelay and the plaintive singer-songwriter vibe of Sea Change. if i wanted to give an album to somebody to convince them what Beck is all about, i'd give them Mutations rather than Odelway. it's just so breezy and virtuosic.

Midnite Vultures: maybe it's my love of R&B and funk talking, but i like this one. a great party record. who knew the guy who recorded OFITG could pull off such a convincing Prince impression.

Sea Change: beautiful. the other, more urgent, varied, and punchy albums kept my focus off of this one for a while, but it really got under my skin. i can't believe i haven't listened to this sooner. there is a lot of interesting musical flourishes (the end of Paper Tiger, the string arrangements in Lonesome Tears, and the discordant crescendoes in Sunday Sun) that i didn't expect from the lone, ostensible "morose" Beck album. for years, i had only heard of this as the "acoustic break-up album." that's selling it far short.

The Information: another favorite. this album doesn't seem to get much love among Beck fans, but i think it's engrossing. i think it's the perfect distillation of his funky, electronic side.

Modern Guilt: solid album, but doesn't have the most captivating instrumentation. i only listened to it once and my attention was divided, so i'll need to listen again to give it a fair shake. i knew this one was produced my Danger Mouse, so i expected something more electronica/hip-hop-oriented.

Stereopathic Soulmanure: uhh, okay.

all told, there's not a single album in the bunch that i'm not going to revisit. i think Soulmanure will do well to keep me awake during long car trips.

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for you list sluts:

Stereopathic Soulmanure: D+
Mellow Gold: B
One Foot in the Grave: C
Odelay: A
Mutations: A
Midnight Vultures: A-
Sea Change: A
Guero: B
The Information: A
Modern Guilt: C+

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Al's post motivated me to put on Mutations. I've only heard it a few times but I remember really enjoying it.

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listen to Sea Change sometime, spurned lover

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Oh i'm very much familiar with it. I listened to it, Odelay, and Guero quite a bit in my Beck listening days. I never really got into The Information.

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i would love to hear your thoughts on Midnight Vultures

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