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I think of our tastes like a Venn Diagram. They overlap, but are stretched in opposite directions.
I may have come across harsher than need be. So let me say this: Out of 5 stars, I'd still give Odelay a 4. But, yes I totally think that the 3 albums I mentioned are better. Or rather than "better" maybe I should say "preferred by me." I reach for those 3 (and Mutations) way more often than Odelay.
I didn't forget Golden Feelings or Western Harvest. I just don't put those 2 on the same level as the 3 I mentioned. I still own the CD copy of Golden Feelings that Sonic Enemy pressed on CD in 1999 and Beck immediately put a C&D on. It's actually one of my most prized CD's. Western Harvest sadly never got a CD release of any kind. But "Totally Confused" was later released on the B-Sides EP. And "Lampshade" found its way to a few other release, and those are the clear winners on Western Harvest. But I would totally buy a remastered CD if it were ever released. Maybe expanded w/ extra "Piece Of Shit" tracks? Haha.
I don't know why I said "Derelict" was #2? Weird. Typing faster than I could think or vise versa. Either way... I still don't like that song.
Now here's a bit of food for thought: when the deluxe edition of Odelay was released, I realized that I preferred the new bonus disk to the original album. (Although that's not fully accurate as they put bonus tracks on disc 1 too. "Deadweight" for instance). But there's so much great material from this era that made it to b-sides... "Electric Music," "SA5," "Lemonade," "Brother," "Erase The Sun," "Feather In Your Cap" (the Suburbia version), and so on.
At any rate, I'm just glad I was greeted w/ a response otehr than "who cares? Beck sucks."
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