Amongst many other amazing tracks/albums, I was just listening to Chemtrails at work, and found I was close to tears through nothing other than the sublime aural treat I was being subjected to.
Any others in agreeance? (just ignore the scientology bit!)
I think I'll shove Elevator Music on now. Just to check 😀
Thought Mutations and Sea Change were very good. Not too happy with his production on the new Sephen Malkmus album. Generally, I think he's major talent.
Genius is a strong word, but he's certainly very very good. Right from Stereopatherticsoulmanure up to the present time great noise and interesting tunes - i love him. I do know people who find him too "clever" though; but that's their loss 😀
His first album was amazing. I remember listening to it when it first came out and I still listen to it today.
Like the Black Crows though his music has lost its way over the years.
Reluctant - I think Hora must be one of the ones you are talking about 😉
Dismissing his later albums is certaily a loss - there are some magic moments in pretty much all of them.
I dont use the word genius very often, but I think he is close. He is certainly a great artist.
"Beck has been involved in Scientology for most of his life"
loon 🙂
Too clever or disappeared up their own ass?
They then draw in the punters who aspire to 'like' that sort of thing so they can wear it on their sleeve and play it to people who visit their home at every opportunity.
A sort of 'lifestyle' music.
Sorry he lost me past Odelay.
I'm afraid Bjork did this for a while too. Prince attempted it but it just didn't work so he tried being 'black' for a while then just stuck to replaying his successful back catalogue.
Every artist of note goes through this lifecycle.
Good point Hora. You're clearly an authority on these things.
I went right off Steps after their 'Difficult Second Album', when they went for the freeform jazz exploration. I found that to me it'd transcended its core appeal
!Read all about it read all about it Songbird is genius!
What next? Songster tells us we should care about their political beliefs?
He wowbles, sings songs. 🙄
Stop getting all AppleMac/Guardian/Graphicdesign and new art show'y about a bloody singer.
Hmm, yes I do like to play Beck to friends at any given opportunity.
However, Its because his music goes into my head, and my brain processes the sounds, and stimulates pleasure sensors. And this stimulation is more frequent than when listening to a majority of other artists.
I just like to try and share that experience, didnt realise I was being a trendy whore but hey ho.
I kind of feel for artists though, expected to produce album after album that sounds 'just like what you did before, but different'.
Im all for experimentation. Just not Radiohead style perhaps. I think we are missing out on tons of genius (accessable) music, just because Thom is a wee bit mental.
But then, the mentalists tend to produce the best.
He's only winding you up slimjim. He's only pretending to be the consomethinge anti-intellectual - someone so culturally dense they reject Snow Patrol as being too challenging. Its all just a front
In reality he spends his evenings watching endless re-runs of Newsnight Review, though even then there's this nagging feeling that its slightly, well.... lo-brow
Though he occasionally succumbs and knocks one out over Germaine Greer 😆
Beck is a great talent.. I haven't listened to his music in a long while.. 🙁
At this present time it is very likely indeed that my second sons middle name will be Beck..
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(she was fit bitd)
my son's middle name is Beck, nowt to do with the singer though.
the beer?
he pisses himself a lot.
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yeah.. I'm not sure if our choice is really anything to do with the singer..
Hmm, yes I do like to play Beck to friends at any given opportunity.
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I wanted to call our kid Beck but the missus pointed out people would say 'Becks you say? After that Beck'am?'
So I could see her point.
[i]His first album was amazing. I remember listening to it when it first came out and I still listen to it today.[/i]
[i]his music has lost its way over the years.[/i]
[i]Sorry he lost me past Odelay[/i]
Methinks you know not as much about Beck as you like to think...
(Odelay was his 4th album)
Probably my favourite artist, he can do no wrong!
Oi Dez fire up the tune association thingamybob will you mate.
Will do 🙂
How many of you wear Howies as well? 😉
What's a Howie?
Hora in Not Knowing as Much as He Thinks He Does About (insert any given subject here) Shocka!
I was right about Germaine Greer wasn't I? 🙂
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Great tunes, and it gets in my head, but does anyone else ever get the impression that his lyric writing seems as though it involves printing random words out onto bits of paper, throwing them all up in the air and the order they land in is the order he sings them in?
Obviously I'm not intellectual enough to understand the deep philosophical meaning behind, for example:
With the plastic eyeballs, spray paint the vegetables
Dog food stalls with the beefcake pantyhose
It's poetry, man
Stealing kisses from the leperous faces
Heads are hanging from the garbage man trees
Mouthwash jukebox gasoline
Pistols are pointing at a poor man's pockets
Smiling eyes ripping out of his sockets
I often listen to One Foot In The Grave, its one of my desert island disks I think.
Fabulouso
dont forget to download Timebomb!
so catchy it hurts.
edlong - Member
Great tunes, and it gets in my head, but does anyone else ever get the impression that his lyric writing seems as though it involves printing random words out onto bits of paper, throwing them all up in the air and the order they land in is the order he sings them in?
Worked for Eno and Bowie.
YMMV depending on how far up their arses you think those two are too.
slainte 😆 rob
great link DezB