No, because you just put your love + support for someone who is wrong(assblaster).





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WRONG ABOUT WHAT?

Beck DID NOT blatantly rip-off Pure Guava and that is a fact. You have terrible opinions.








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You need to listen to Ween's "PURE GUAVA" album before you say anything. You look stupid, boy.



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Yeah. I own Pure Guava. I've heard it before.

Cunt.

Pure Guava was recorded in 1882.(hahaha)

Mellow gold was not recorded in 92. Don't try to lie, i also lived in southern cal during that time(sd) and frequented LA many times. Just accept the fact that Pure Guava inspired and gave Beck alot of ideas for Mellow Gold. Lying only makes you look dumb.

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DENIAL.





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Yeah, Ween was never remotely about being basically a clever pastiche of influences, were they? Totally original! Uh huh.

The question wasn't about ween, it was about beck.
gotta hold onto that map!!! you keep getting lost...



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I was just saying you could apply the same logic to Ween.
Both of these artists basically found their sound/niche by being a cleverly self-aware and well-executed amalgamation of obvious influences. They are both rip-off artists in a sense, and they are both perfectly good at it, not to mention successful.
Writing in 780 point type doesn't make you any less hilariously pompous.

i never said he was ripping anyone off. I said he was a retread, a rehash, the same way the specials were a rehash of 50's and 60's ska, the same way lenny kravitz is a jimi hendrix rehash, the same way the Strokes are a rehash of every early garage rock band, I said Beck put on a good show. do you not read?

his music is derivative in a way I do not find appealing. I do like the specials though!

TOO MUCH FIGHTING ON THE DANCE FLOOR!


fuck beck. thurston moore's not beck.


beck can take his disco inflected folk funk and keep it!

It was probably recorded in mid-late 93, not 92. "Pure Guava" came out in 92, before LOSER was even recorded. Isn't "Mellow Gold" enough evidence of Ween's influence(and ideas"? Maybe not for a 100% Beck die-hard fan who refuses to believe the truth. That's your problem.

Pure Guava came out in November. Loser was recorded before that.

you are seriously comparing bob dylan and BECK? Fucking BECK?

you are deluded.

and here is some of the "crap" I listen to.

Sonic Youth, Dinosaur Jr, Public Enemy, Pavement, Sebadoh, Phish, Big Black, Rapeman, Unsane, Butthole Surfers, Archers of Loaf, Afghan Whigs, Art Blakey, Miles Davis, Dizzy Gillespie, Charlie Parker, Muddy Waters, Thelonious Monk, Koko Taylor, The Beatles, The Misfits, Minor Threat, Dead Kennedys, FEAR, They Might Be Giants, Mudhoney, Tristeza, Electrelane, My Bloody Valentine, Joy Division, Jane's Addiction, Satisfact, Unwound, Polvo, Pixies, Baby Dayliner, Pele, Neil Young, Outkast, The Roots, A Tribe Called Quest, De La Soul, Digable Planets, Janitor, The Smiths, The Cure, Sleater Kinney, Automaton Adventure Series, Pilot to Gunner, Godspeed! You Black Emperor, Sigur Ros, Silver Mt. Zion Orchestra, Ornette Coleman, Urge Overkill, Slint, The Red Scare, Fugazi, Eniac, And You Will Know Us By The Trail of Dead, Modest Mouse, !!! (chik chik chik), Bob Marley and the Wailers, Built to Spill, Codeine, Morphine, Seam, The Sea & Cake, The New Year, Bedhead, Depeche Mode, OutHud, Drive Like Jehu, Interpol, Le Tigre, Tortoise, AtomBombPocketKnife, Bela Bartok, Ludwig Von Beethoven, Schoenberg, John Cage, Gustav Mahler, Pele, Tristeza, A Minor Forest, P.E.E., PJ Harvey, Beautiful Skin, Black Sabbath, Turing Machine, TV on the Radio, Eric's trip, The Skatalites, The Suspects, The Spells, They Might Be Giants, The Dead Milkmen, All, Beastie Boys, Psychedelic Furs, Parts & Labor



NO BECK!

Who did ween rip off then?

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I'm sure NONE of that is rehashed. Eric's Trip? Interpol? You must not know what rehashed means.

I did not say it was not rehashed. You called my music crap with no idea what I listen to.

Well, for one, on their first album they quite blatantly ripped off Prince (to the point of putting "Ween is in big trouble now dudes" in the liner notes). There are numerous nods to any number of musical styles and artists from grindcore to soul to metal to country all over their records. Hell, their latest single sounds EXACTLY like Thin Lizzy!
I am not in any way criticizing them for this either; they are very clever about it and they are great musicians, but clever amalgamators they are.

ever heard of "satire"? who did ween rip off on "pure guava", the album Beck ripped off? and no, using different styles of music(country, hip-hop, etc.) is not "ripping off". Now "Mellow Gold", that's a rip off of "pure guava":)

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I'm done.
If you can't see that I was giving them full credit for brilliant satire, you're even more of a self-absorbed, pompous know-it-all than I previously thought.
Call it "throwing in the towel" if you want; I prefer to think of it as a dead horse with a design fixation and an overinflated sense of worldly wisdom.

you'll be back. you're ego's way too big to be throwing in the towel like that.


btw, who did ween rip off on "pure guava"?