[ZEROpumpkins]

Whatever floats your boat really. But for what I'd consider "classic" Beck, his first two albums are where it's at.

[atsonicpark]

they have two turntables and a microphone.

[Danny Himself]

Originally Posted by ZEROpumpkins

Sea change blew too
Same with Mutations.

Mutations is fantastic! What is there to dislike about it?

Originally Posted by therealglenstyler

honestly i'm surprised this inspired a seven page thread, everything i've heard off this (and indeed anything of becks for the last however long it is since sea change) is a big shrug, both from beck and the listener.

I'm so very disappointed that I have to shrug at it. You could dance to Guero, you could sing along to the choruses in The Information, but this is something else. I think I do need to spend more time with it, but it's nothing like when I first played Stereopathetic Soulmanure on a walkman in the back of a car on some dusty Wyoming highway, or when I rapped along to Odelay in my bedroom when I was 14 or something. It's sad that Beck has gone from being one of my biggest heroes (thats him in my avatar) to just a huge scientologist let-down.

[mil_pl]

but, what you care about that he is a scientologist? it's nothing compared with his records, so fuck it, and we dont have to talk about it. faith is faith, i hate catholic church, so? 90% of people are catholics. and i dont talk/think about it.

[EyeballGrowth]

I don't know if I'll like it. Haven't been impressed with what I've heard so far, and 2 of the songs have Cat Power. I fucking haaaate cat power.

Plus ____________________________________He's a scientologist

[EyeballGrowth]

Originally Posted by ZEROpumpkins

Whatever floats your boat really. But for what I'd consider "classic" Beck, his first two albums are where it's at.

FUCK yes. Mellow Gold, Stereopathetic Soul Manure, and the Loser single are my faves. Odelay isn't bad either

[Danny Himself]

Originally Posted by mil_pl

but, what you care about that he is a scientologist? it's nothing compared with his records, so fuck it, and we dont have to talk about it. faith is faith, i hate catholic church, so? 90% of people are catholics. and i dont talk/think about it.

90% of people are Catholics? What?!

Anyway, I'm bringing his scientology into this because since the press started hounding him about his involvement in the cult (around 2002), his records have gotten considerably worse. When people didn't know about it and just left him alone, his records were fantastic.

[EyeballGrowth]

THANK you. I'm not the only one who thinks his music HAS gotten worse since his Scientology.

[mil_pl]

no his music is not worse since this. people just think about that he is a scientolgist, and are sayin his music is shit. i didnt know that he is s. about 2 years ago i found out this, and i thought 'whatever' im not his body, im not his mother, i just enjoy his music.

 

[EyeballGrowth]

Guero was a pile of garbage

[Danny Himself]

Originally Posted by EyeballGrowth

Guero was a pile of garbage

Nah!

Sea Change has been his worst album to date. Fair enough, he'd just broken up with his girlfriend of many years, but there was no need to force an album on us that was essentially the forerunner of James Blunt. 'Lost Cause' was a great song, but the rest is still too hard to sit through without screaming 'FOR FUCK'S SAKE!'. Maybe it's Godrich's fault, I don't know.

Guero has some great moments. 'E-Pro' is Beck at the top of his rock and roll game. 'Que Onda, Guero?' has a really great rhythm to it, the lyrics to 'Missing' are some of his best of all time, the rolling beats and bass of 'Black Tambourine' are dance-tastic, and when the tremelo'd guitar comes in, fuck! Too good.

[nicfit]

Sea Change has amazing strings arrangments and great sounds.

[EyeballGrowth]

E PRO??? good god. You are correct about Sea Change though. It's like Beck did lead vocals for a James Blunt album

[Danny Himself]

Originally Posted by nicfit

Sea Change has amazing strings arrangments and great sounds.

I don't like strings that sound that clear. I want them to be screeching and whining idiosyncratically, like on a Bright Eyes album. Maybe if Nigel Godrich hadn't produced that album it would have been more listenable.

Originally Posted by mil_pl

 

Nah, this is the Beck I like;

 

[acousticrock87]

I don't think I can say I like a certain Beck CD more than another. It fluctuates. Every CD has it's good spots, and I can stomach them all at one time or another. Even though some CDs have bad qualities (like Sea Change's lyrics, or the Information's lack of variety), I can enjoy them all if I'm in the right mood.

[SpectralJulianIsNotDead]

Originally Posted by acousticrock87

I'm kind of the opposite. I've always liked him, but I have no idea why. He doesn't strike me as very smart, his music isn't great, and he's not a very interesting person. But I do like him.

Yeah, he's just fun bubblegum indie rock

[EyeballGrowth]

To give him some more recent credit. The Information was good. That one impressed me. Heh I didn't even put any stickers on my cover, I stuck them all over bathroom wall in my apartment.

Nothing beats beck's early music though. I love it so so so much. Bust out the biscuits! Ah yeah, gettin all uptight! My goodness

[acousticrock87]

Originally Posted by EyeballGrowth

My goodness

He's the only person I can hear saying that without wanting to punch them in the face. And maybe Natalie Portman. Maybe.

[Tickerwelly]

I find this to be a statement album. Besides Sea Change Beck was never direct in his lyrics and to hear him accept the apocalypse like he does on Modern Guilt is amazing. Profanity Prayers is the ultimate summer song and the line in "Volcano" about warming his bones on the womb of the world gives me goosebumps.

[ZEROpumpkins]

Originally Posted by EyeballGrowth

THANK you. I'm not the only one who thinks his music HAS gotten worse since his Scientology.

He was raised as a Scientologist.