i don't like beck either.

he's too boring, too much trying to be eccentric but detached, too labored, too much of a poser.

Stephen Malkmus, Kathleen Hanna and Ian Mackaye annoy me too. A lot.

Beck's a God-botherer, so he'll never be welcome at Melly Towers.

"Eminem is probably the Dylan of rap, whereas Tupac just sounded like he was whining."

what the fuck?

Not that I disagree, at all, but why?

First of all the use of the english language in his lyrics is risible and at best meaningless at meaningless' worst. Secondly he's some sort of wimpy indie kid who's lanky enough for basketball, but looks like he would be swept off by a simple cold. The general insipidness of the majority of his work and public persona. Kinda like when someone keeps on not making sense, but they are smug and consider themselves to be clever clever, anyway. I hate him, and I will write it 100 times in Japanese, if you want me to.

Yes, Sarramkrop, but would you kiss him?

No, I think you've stated your reasons quite well enough.

Although you did forget to mention his tendency to reduce the innovations of others into some kind of food-court wackiness.

shocker:

people have differing opinions!!!!

though, speaking of sgt peppers, it's obviously overrated. it's like the bible: it was a good thing for the civilization back then but now? not so much. ahead of its time, sure, but besides a day in the life and a few other classics, it just doesn't hold up to classic albums of today.

like, y'know, "pulse demon".

With Beck, it's the ' A bit of this, and a bit of that' attitude to music that never cut it with pretty looking me.

okay i just read this.

anyone that calls trout mask replica "boring" is.. well.. honestly, you can say you don't like it, i can understand that, you can say you love it, of course i understand... but how can you find it BORING?!

shocker:

people have differing opinions!!!!

We're back to the 'wackiness' issue again, when it comes to my disliking of Beck.

Oh, they can say it because they think saying it sounds audacious. It doesn't.

Really? How so?

On "White Riot", The Clash complain that, unlike their admirable brick-throwing black contemporaries, "White people go to school/Where they teach you to be thick." This is a slight not just on the teaching profession in general, who are waging a daily war against the bonehead chic propounded through street culture by the likes of The Clash for whom intellectual aspirations equal ponciness. It's also an implied slur on the staff of Epsom - yes, Epsom Boarding School, where in spite of their best efforts it was evidently as much as they could do to teach the schoolboy Strummer to spell C-A-T, so addled was his mind with fantasy notions of rock rebellion.

ha!

What do you mean, 'Really? How so?' ?

People (myself included) often write things off without any real understanding of what it is they're actually writing off in the first place. They have the right to do that, just as others, who may know a bit more about it than they do have the right to dismiss their views.

Nah, what doYOU mean by saying that they can say it because they think saying it sounds audacious?

haha.

no it doesn't shock me, i just can't understand how anyone could find it BORING. that's like someone saying sex is boring. it just blows my mind. i'd reeeeeeeally like to know what isn't boring to him...