I have just heard four (4) tracks from the upcoming Beck record

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This is the anti-Sea Change. Odd if understandable fixation on Latin culture -- "Brazilica", which is effortlessly beautiful in a way his '02 stuff failed at, and "Guero", which might be considered ethnic pandering by some but seems to come from self-aware-whiteboy experience instead of stereotypes, plus he can actually pronounce Spanish without sounding like an imbecile. There's also a great cut called "Chain Reaction" with lots of Atari-type beepery and distorted fuzzy guitar, kind of like "Novacane" but with less noisy, and this super-minimalist but bouncy TV-on-the-Radio-with-an-actual-rhythm-section track called "Black Tambourine".

Basically so far it's '94-'96 vintage Beck but with less of an "OMG LOOKIT ME" vibe. I am fucking stoked.

― What's this place, Biblevania? (natepatrin), Monday, 17 January 2005 04:59 (twenty-one years ago)

Are these available for listening anywhere?

― Hurting (Hurting), Monday, 17 January 2005 05:04 (twenty-one years ago)

i will still rep for sea change, great record. the thought of the return of maximalist beck doesn't do much for me though.

― mark p (Mark P), Monday, 17 January 2005 05:05 (twenty-one years ago)

Ganked it off slsk. Search for "Beck Guero" and you'll probably find it. Not sure if the user's still on though.

― What's this place, Biblevania? (natepatrin), Monday, 17 January 2005 05:08 (twenty-one years ago)

(or "Beck 2005")

― What's this place, Biblevania? (natepatrin), Monday, 17 January 2005 05:14 (twenty-one years ago)

The whole album is available on this dude's site: http://www.thenappycat.com/reviews/

― Mike O. (Mike Ouderkirk), Monday, 17 January 2005 05:16 (twenty-one years ago)

jesus.

― mark p (Mark P), Monday, 17 January 2005 05:19 (twenty-one years ago)

fwiw, these sound like premasters. still, its crazy that dude has them already. not enough hours in the day.

― mark p (Mark P), Monday, 17 January 2005 05:20 (twenty-one years ago)

i got this. shit's pretty cool. trying to be every version of beck, it looks like. 'earthquake weather' is my shit.

― Rollie Pemberton (Rollie Pemberton), Monday, 17 January 2005 05:33 (twenty-one years ago)

"Chain Reaction" sounds a little like "Diskobox"

― Mike O. (Mike Ouderkirk), Monday, 17 January 2005 05:35 (twenty-one years ago)

I like. Oh, and I'm one of the few who liked 'Sea Change', too, but I knew this wouldn't be another 'Sea Change'.

― k3rry, Monday, 17 January 2005 05:42 (twenty-one years ago)

I am listening to this while trying to finish a review of Arular and I am suddenly feeling remarkably manic.

― What's this place, Biblevania? (natepatrin), Monday, 17 January 2005 06:02 (twenty-one years ago)

Some hot beats here, but I'm not digging the vocals. They sound sort of tacked on. I'm also not too thrilled with his increasingly AAA radio-friendly sound.

Earthquake Weather is neat though.

― Hurting (Hurting), Monday, 17 January 2005 06:18 (twenty-one years ago)

OK, I'm trying to ID the "unknown" tracks right now with the help of this site. #11 is apparently called "Stone Junkie", and #12 is possibly "Outer Space" (and also possibly has Jack White on disco guitar).

― What's this place, Biblevania? (natepatrin), Monday, 17 January 2005 07:10 (twenty-one years ago)

Jesus, that guy is asking for trouble. He's got the entire new M. Ward and Decemberists discs up there, too.

― Chuckling at the Tomkat's Marquee (Ben Boyer), Monday, 17 January 2005 08:32 (twenty-one years ago)

plus that josh rouse review is lol horrible!

― j blount (papa la bas), Monday, 17 January 2005 08:43 (twenty-one years ago)

I'll echo the props for "Earthquake Weather" in particular. The whole thing still sounds very KCRW, though.

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 17 January 2005 09:24 (twenty-one years ago)

plus that josh rouse review is lol horrible!

"(We whupped dem Iragi towelheads, we just ain't whupped dose Irani towelheads yet.)"

haha so THAT'S how country music listeners talk!

― Lingbertt, Monday, 17 January 2005 10:00 (twenty-one years ago)

hell yes for "hell yeah", this is the sweetest beck track in years. Plus props for turning more folx onto black tambourine, the band, altho the song sounds nuthin like em. Overall, erm, this is the easily the most enjoyable beck lp since odelay - no doubt bout it. Being single kicks ass, creatively speakin.

― Dr. Annabel Lies (Michael Kelly), Monday, 17 January 2005 10:31 (twenty-one years ago)

LOL forgot my celebrity gossip Variety nooz headlines - this is the official Scientology Ribisi update right!?! Pretty tuneage nonetheless, I'm loving at least 50% now, especially the last track. And Brazilica is gorgeous despite its glacial pacing.

― Dr. Annabel Lies (Michael Kelly), Monday, 17 January 2005 10:40 (twenty-one years ago)

anythings gotta be better than sea change. i hope that guy hosting the tracks doesnt get fucked over by geffen though.

best beck album since midnite vultures probably. im not looking forward to hearing him rap again though, although if its like that track on MV where he did it, it should be cool.

― titchyschneider (titchyschneider), Monday, 17 January 2005 10:45 (twenty-one years ago)

wasnt dizzee meant to feature on one of the tracks?

― m. obile, Monday, 17 January 2005 11:49 (twenty-one years ago)

Chemicals. Not Dust.

― mark grout (mark grout), Monday, 17 January 2005 11:53 (twenty-one years ago)

dizzee's done a remix of one song, hell yeah i think.

― titchyschneider (titchyschneider), Monday, 17 January 2005 12:16 (twenty-one years ago)

gotta say, this seems like a bit of a retreat to odelay times, i.e. when beck was more famous and universally loved. it all sounds good though. not so much beck in 'im being so clever here!' mode.

― titchyschneider (titchyschneider), Monday, 17 January 2005 12:27 (twenty-one years ago)

after hearing some of this, i am left wondering where the purported rock direction beck said he was going to go in for this album has vanished to. which is a shame because beck did a really brilliant cover of the white stripes' black math in brixton last year.

― brian jones (thesplooge), Monday, 17 January 2005 12:41 (twenty-one years ago)

that was my impression of a token brian jones reply by the way, for anyone who cares.

― splooge (thesplooge), Monday, 17 January 2005 12:57 (twenty-one years ago)

well i never claimed to be a good reviewer

― xil ze, Monday, 17 January 2005 19:09 (twenty-one years ago)

First impression of "Brazilica": Beck sounds weirdly like Adrian Belew, or maybe a cross between Kurt Cobain and Adrian Belew?

― RS £aRue (rockist_scientist), Monday, 17 January 2005 19:09 (twenty-one years ago)

Has a very 80s prog. feel to me.

― RS £aRue (rockist_scientist), Monday, 17 January 2005 19:11 (twenty-one years ago)

this doesnt have quite as large a 'wow factor' as some of midnite vultures. it seems like beck's 'best of everything ive done so far' record.

― ppp, Monday, 17 January 2005 19:13 (twenty-one years ago)

Kind of reminds me of Peter Gabriel sometimes, too.

― RS £aRue (rockist_scientist), Monday, 17 January 2005 19:13 (twenty-one years ago)

I don't think I like the vocals much, but I prefer him to Adrian Belew.

― RS £aRue (rockist_scientist), Monday, 17 January 2005 19:19 (twenty-one years ago)

I have just heard four (4) tracks from the upcoming Beck record

Were you able to stay awake for all four?

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Monday, 17 January 2005 19:19 (twenty-one years ago)

It is kind of boring, but I've never been a big Beck fan. But I was hoping to like it.

― RS £aRue (rockist_scientist), Monday, 17 January 2005 19:32 (twenty-one years ago)

this is just okay. there are about 3 or 4 great songs here; the rest sounded sort of... irrelevant? like the eels or something.

― mark p (Mark P), Monday, 17 January 2005 19:41 (twenty-one years ago)

also, while it's pretty obvious these haven't been mastered yet, this morning i started to wonder if they've even been fully mixed. if not, then this is a pretty terrible thing to happen, i feel bad for the little guy.

― mark p (Mark P), Monday, 17 January 2005 19:44 (twenty-one years ago)

bah - the MP3s on that site are down already.

― Shakey Mo Collier, Monday, 17 January 2005 20:02 (twenty-one years ago)

can anyone please send me any track from this?

k plz thx

― hot damn, Monday, 17 January 2005 20:12 (twenty-one years ago)

[email protected]

duh

― hot damn, Monday, 17 January 2005 20:13 (twenty-one years ago)

does anyone know the release date for this puppy?

― 57 7th (calstars), Monday, 17 January 2005 20:36 (twenty-one years ago)

arf! arf!

― 57-7th, Monday, 17 January 2005 21:57 (twenty-one years ago)

So far I really love "Brazilia" and "Hell Yes" and like "Guero," "Summer Girl," "Black Tambourine" and "E-Pro" well enough. The rest is growing on me. I'm very pleased with the record, though. I don't want to say "return to form," but he's at least making the kind of Beck music that I prefer without seeming like a total retread.

― Matthew "Flux" Perpetua, Monday, 17 January 2005 22:05 (twenty-one years ago)

does anyone know the release date for this puppy?

Last thing I saw was 27/8 March.

― JoB (JoB), Monday, 17 January 2005 23:05 (twenty-one years ago)

where are the mp3s on that site??

― Roger Fidelity (Roger Fidelity), Monday, 17 January 2005 23:20 (twenty-one years ago)

Get out of my thread please, Alex.

Anyways, couple interesting reference points I've noticed: "Earthquake Weather" has some really Isleys-esque moments (thinking mostly 3+3-era, with the space-guitar a'la "Who's That Lady"), and Track 12 ("Stone Junkie"?) is kind of like "The New Pollution"'s engine on the chassis of Nirvana's "On A Plain". Also, if this is the final track sequence then this will be the first Beck record ever that actually ends on a real whiz-bang-rock-out note. (And if you don't recognize this album as a "return to rock" then you must've been expecting the Darkness or something; I don't

Impression after a couple good run-throughs: blasphemy or no, this is Clear Spot to Mellow Gold's Safe As Milk. (Which makes "Loser" "Electricity". And Sea Change a chronologically-inaccurate Bluejeans and Moonbeams. There is, however, no Beefheart parallel for Odelay or Midnite Vultures. Dammit.)

― What's this place, Biblevania? (natepatrin), Monday, 17 January 2005 23:21 (twenty-one years ago)

unfinished parenthetical! Anyways, I don't hear much in this that can't be tied into rock-qua-rock some way or another, save "Brazilica".

― What's this place, Biblevania? (natepatrin), Monday, 17 January 2005 23:22 (twenty-one years ago)

There is, however, no Beefheart parallel for Odelay or Midnite Vultures.

Er, that can be read two ways, can't it?

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 17 January 2005 23:26 (twenty-one years ago)

No.

― What's this place, Biblevania? (natepatrin), Monday, 17 January 2005 23:30 (twenty-one years ago)

hahahahah great Patton Oswalt reference Nate!

― Roger Fidelity (Roger Fidelity), Tuesday, 18 January 2005 00:09 (twenty-one years ago)

Downloading now from slsk, but is that "stone junkie" track any relation to the curtis mayfield track?

― nick ring (nick ring), Tuesday, 18 January 2005 04:26 (twenty-one years ago)

can't find it anywhere -where on slsk?

― Roger Fidelity (Roger Fidelity), Tuesday, 18 January 2005 04:32 (twenty-one years ago)

No relation to the Mayfield track, which is kind of a relief because I don't think he can pull off the falsetto.

― What's this place, Biblevania? (natepatrin), Tuesday, 18 January 2005 04:37 (twenty-one years ago)

"debra," dude

― miccio (miccio), Tuesday, 18 January 2005 04:50 (twenty-one years ago)

Like I said.

― What's this place, Biblevania? (natepatrin), Tuesday, 18 January 2005 04:58 (twenty-one years ago)

(Well, OK, he can't pull it off in non-goofy-ass songs)

― What's this place, Biblevania? (natepatrin), Tuesday, 18 January 2005 04:59 (twenty-one years ago)

wouldn't mind hearing this if anyone feels generous.
addy follows.

― Forksclovetofu (Forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 18 January 2005 05:03 (twenty-one years ago)

two tracks available here

― Forksclovetofu (Forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 18 January 2005 06:02 (twenty-one years ago)

i like this!

― chaki in charge (chaki), Tuesday, 18 January 2005 06:18 (twenty-one years ago)

If you use Limewire, I'll share with you. Only got 56k but I'm online for loooong sessions, like it's left up while I go to work and all. Can't believe the hits I get for Boredoms' Super Roots 3.

― Dr. Annabel Lies (Michael Kelly), Tuesday, 18 January 2005 06:25 (twenty-one years ago)

more available here

― Forksclovetofu (Forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 18 January 2005 06:27 (twenty-one years ago)

just about done d/ling. My slsk username is bagelche.

3 seconds per song hasn't excited me yet, but I'll listen to it in full later.

― nick ring (nick ring), Tuesday, 18 January 2005 06:32 (twenty-one years ago)

"Brazilica" - ugh, this is dull. dull dull dull.

...a few minutes later

"Chain Reaction" is really really trying to be Odelay. really. really. not cutting it.
"Earthquake" oh god this hurts. I'm skipping to...
"Hell Yeah" wow this would make a really good Britney Spears song. vocoders are the shit, i know, but this...?
"Track 11" chorus really bugs me, i'm skipping..
"Summer Girl" ugh

I don't know. I was one of the biggest Beck fans until "Sea Change" and I could get into that even, but this stuff is wretched, it sounds like ultra-poppy versions of 1998 throwaways.

― Adam Bruneau (oliver8bit), Tuesday, 18 January 2005 06:45 (twenty-one years ago)

i have one up on my blog and if you catch me online, cop the whole thing from me on Soulseek, name's Razorblade Runner. SAY HELLO WE'LL BE FRIENDS

― Rollie Pemberton (Rollie Pemberton), Tuesday, 18 January 2005 08:01 (twenty-one years ago)

i kinda liked e-pro, but for the most part this sounds like it came from someone not deriving much pleasure from the process of recording music...like an artist snookered into scientology by a washed up ex-actress who got knocked up to lure him into her "religion". wait, oh, yeah...

― john'n'chicago, Tuesday, 18 January 2005 18:46 (twenty-one years ago)

i think this might be becks most melodically satisfying record.

― ppp, Tuesday, 18 January 2005 18:49 (twenty-one years ago)

will Beck ever break out of this loud rock hip-hop album vs. quiet folk-y album pattern? He does one, then invariably swings back the other way for the next one. I'm surprised no one ever points it out, but he's done it from day one. Guess what, I bet the album after this one is a quiet, morbid, melancholy record, probably released on some relatively small indie label...

― Shakey Mo Collier, Tuesday, 18 January 2005 18:57 (twenty-one years ago)

The only difference now is that he does the sad record for the major label.

― Matthew "Flux" Perpetua, Tuesday, 18 January 2005 18:58 (twenty-one years ago)

I couldn't remember who released Sea Change (never heard it) - but wasn't Mutations on some smaller label...? Doesn't really matter, just a side point anyway.

― Shakey Mo Collier, Tuesday, 18 January 2005 19:01 (twenty-one years ago)

The problem is he seems to really think "ok this is a folk album" and all that, as opposed to "Stereopathetic Soul Manure" or something where it's all thrown into one bag. Which is far more interesting and fun to listen to.

― Adam Bruneau (oliver8bit), Tuesday, 18 January 2005 19:02 (twenty-one years ago)

shakey, ive been saying that too. this is like his greatest-albums album, so its got bits of everything hes done all on one album. the thing is that its not all that amazing as such, id have liked him to do more of the electronic synth-pop/electro-ish sound he has on one song on this new album for a whole CD, that might have been a bit more radical. becks far more interesting and listenable when making hybrid music as opposed to sticking commitedly to one style. hes actually like prince in that respect. his more 'purist' attempts arent that memorable.

― ppp, Tuesday, 18 January 2005 19:04 (twenty-one years ago)

except Mutations wasn't particularly morbid or melancholic

xpost

― Josh Love (screamapillar), Tuesday, 18 January 2005 19:07 (twenty-one years ago)

it kinda was though. it got really boring half way through though, despite great songs like nobodys fault but my own and those on that bonus 7" and the one that was used in that jennifer love hewitty/sigourney weaver movie.

― ppp, Tuesday, 18 January 2005 19:10 (twenty-one years ago)

"Mutations" and "Sea Change" were both on Geffen.

― Chuckling at the Tomkat's Marquee (Ben Boyer), Tuesday, 18 January 2005 19:49 (twenty-one years ago)

The proposed Cornelius collabs aren't here, are they?

― Captain GRRRios' Giggletits (Barima), Tuesday, 18 January 2005 19:55 (twenty-one years ago)

is it me or does he sound totally vedder-esque on brazilica ?

ack, so very, very drab.

― Brad Laner (Brad Laner), Tuesday, 18 January 2005 20:59 (twenty-one years ago)

Nothing has grabbed me by the throat, but there's some growth potential for sheezy.

― Captain GRRRios' Giggletits (Barima), Tuesday, 18 January 2005 21:04 (twenty-one years ago)

i predict this will be beck's 'last chance' record for a lot of people. like 'how did we ever expect so much from him'.

― ppp, Tuesday, 18 January 2005 21:04 (twenty-one years ago)

Track 11 - the la-la-la-la-las were also used by the Dust Brothers on Fight Club ('Space Monkeys'/Pick a fight - AND LOSE scene).

― Captain GRRRios' Giggletits (Barima), Tuesday, 18 January 2005 21:08 (twenty-one years ago)

i was hoping this album would sound more like the fight club OST than odelay.

― ppp, Tuesday, 18 January 2005 21:15 (twenty-one years ago)

like an artist snookered into scientology by a washed up ex-actress who got knocked up to lure him into her "religion". wait, oh, yeah...

dude, beck was BORN into $cientology.

― chaki in charge (chaki), Tuesday, 18 January 2005 21:26 (twenty-one years ago)

"Mutations" and "Sea Change" were both on Geffen.

The way I remember it, Beck was scheduled to do an official follow-up to Odelay but then got sidetracked by the songs that would eventually end up on Mutations. Not thinking of them as worthy of "official follow-up" status, he decided to release them on a smaller label, not promoted as heavily, etc. -- but then when Geffen heard it, they were like, "Uh, dude? This is pretty good, can we just put this out anyway?"

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 18 January 2005 21:34 (twenty-one years ago)

I'm not a huge Beck fan, but I like this very much. It'll be nice driving around music.

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Tuesday, 18 January 2005 21:36 (twenty-one years ago)

ia anyone on slsk now willing to share? i only need the last 21 songs!!

― chaki in charge (chaki), Tuesday, 18 January 2005 21:41 (twenty-one years ago)

Barima, dude, the Cornelius colabs were chucked. The Dan the Automator colabs were chucked. The Timbaland colabs were chucked. WTF Beck?

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Tuesday, 18 January 2005 21:46 (twenty-one years ago)

Mutations has some really great songs on it.

This new Beck album : Beck :: New Adventures In Hi-Fi : R.E.M.

― Matthew "Flux" Perpetua, Tuesday, 18 January 2005 22:12 (twenty-one years ago)

There's that Timbaland collab on the Moulin Rouge OST.

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Tuesday, 18 January 2005 22:14 (twenty-one years ago)

I.E., after two consecutive albums where he pushed his sound to opposite extremes, he comes back with a relatively subtle record which sounds like bits of his entire major label catalog jumbled up.

This Beck album is doomed to being underrated by critics and loved by hardcore fans.

― Matthew "Flux" Perpetua, Tuesday, 18 January 2005 22:15 (twenty-one years ago)

Mutations is a really good album and I like it a lot, but anyone who doesn't think it isn't morbid or melanocholy is not readin the lyric sheet. Every single song is jampacked to the gills with references to death, decay, and destruction. And then there's the whole "wrapped in gauze" sound of the album, it's pretty much nothin but sad country songs!

― Shakey Mo Collier, Tuesday, 18 January 2005 22:20 (twenty-one years ago)

Also I'm glad the Automator isn't on this album. His schtick is very tired, and it wasn't even that funny the first time. (But then I'm one of those people who think Dr. Octagon is great more because of Keith than the Automator)

― Shakey Mo Collier, Tuesday, 18 January 2005 22:22 (twenty-one years ago)

Instructive poll: raise your hand if you have the same opinion on _Vultures_ as you do on this album. *raises hand*

― Eppy, Tuesday, 18 January 2005 22:22 (twenty-one years ago)

I'm with Shakey - "Nobody's Fault But My Own" and other songs on Mutations are pretty downbeat and melancholy, and Sea Change is music for depressives.

― Matthew "Flux" Perpetua, Tuesday, 18 January 2005 22:24 (twenty-one years ago)

But I'm a critic and a hardcore fan! WTF now?

― What's this place, Biblevania? (natepatrin), Tuesday, 18 January 2005 22:25 (twenty-one years ago)

I can't raise my hand for that, Eppy. I think that Midnite Vultures is a LOT better than Beck's other albums. I'm not saying that Beck's other records aren't good, just not nearly as awesome.

― Matthew "Flux" Perpetua, Tuesday, 18 January 2005 22:25 (twenty-one years ago)

Well, but you like both, yes? That's more what I'm asking.

― Eppy (Eppy), Tuesday, 18 January 2005 22:30 (twenty-one years ago)

beck should have done a full album with timbaland, as diamond dogs was genius.

― ppp, Tuesday, 18 January 2005 22:37 (twenty-one years ago)

there's an in-between album Pink collab that has a "i'm shopping for turtlenecks at banana republic, and i don't care" vibe. william orbit's halfly responsible.

― deanster, Tuesday, 18 January 2005 22:38 (twenty-one years ago)

It was Orbit's track--Beck had worked on it like years and dropped it before but then Pink heard it and liked it and just did it with her.

"Diamond Dogs" doesn't really do anything better than the best on this new one.

― Eppy (Eppy), Tuesday, 18 January 2005 22:39 (twenty-one years ago)

Ah, years ago, of course.

― Eppy (Eppy), Tuesday, 18 January 2005 22:40 (twenty-one years ago)

For me it would be like so:

Midnite Vultures >>>>>>>> Odelay > this new one > Mutations > Mellow Gold > Sea Change > Stereopathic > One Foot In The Grave

― Matthew "Flux" Perpetua, Tuesday, 18 January 2005 22:41 (twenty-one years ago)

But what about Western Harvest Field By Moonlight, or Golden Feelings, or...

...ah, sorry, I went through kind of a Beck phase. I guess I just placed myself on one side of the fan/critic divide there, huh?

― Eppy (Eppy), Tuesday, 18 January 2005 22:44 (twenty-one years ago)

1. mutations
2. midnight vultures
3. one foot in the grave
4. odelay
5. sea change
7. stereopathic
8. mellow gold

new one has not yet been assesed

― chaki in charge (chaki), Tuesday, 18 January 2005 22:46 (twenty-one years ago)

I'm more trying to get a sense of its concordance with MV, which generally doesn't seem to be too well-regarded. I guess the term around these parts is C or D? Or something?

Anyway, never mind.

― Eppy (Eppy), Tuesday, 18 January 2005 22:49 (twenty-one years ago)

i think these songs are guna smoke live if he gets himself a decent band this time around! get the drizz, smokey, lyle and roger manning back!!! (jmj is busy with imarobot :( :( )

― chaki in charge (chaki), Tuesday, 18 January 2005 23:00 (twenty-one years ago)

In my experience, the people who love Midnite Vultures really REALLY love it, and the people who favor depresso earnest folk Beck hate it.

― Matthew "Flux" Perpetua, Tuesday, 18 January 2005 23:02 (twenty-one years ago)

I'm one of those Beck fans who's favorite album is (predictably) the earliest and rawest, "One Foot in the Grave". Actually, if there's one thing I miss from Beck's albums post-"Odelay" it's that he either learned to play proper guitar or now just hires session guys, cuz his early truly bizarre-o acoustic playing style is nowhere to be found on his stuff since. And while there's still the occasional bout of lo-fi noise/avant-garde headfuckery, that's been largely jettisoned as well. He's traded up in terms of slickness, which has both pros and cons, but I do miss things like, say, the crashing vomit-overload sound at the end of "Steve Threw Up", or the truly left-field acoustic playing on "Sleeping Bag". Ah well, people gotta change I guess...

(I also really like Midnight Vultures - totally screwing up Matthew's theory there. Sorry!)

― Shakey Mo Collier, Tuesday, 18 January 2005 23:06 (twenty-one years ago)

you can tell he's playing alot of the electric guitar on this new one. his style is still mad sloppy.

― chaki in charge (chaki), Tuesday, 18 January 2005 23:08 (twenty-one years ago)

That'd be cool. Cuz I miss the mad sloppy.

― Shakey Mo Collier, Tuesday, 18 January 2005 23:13 (twenty-one years ago)

It wasn't so much a theory as anecdotal observation.

― Matthew "Flux" Perpetua, Tuesday, 18 January 2005 23:13 (twenty-one years ago)

Yah, there's a good bit of Matt Friedberger-esque crappy guitar playing here.

― Eppy (Eppy), Tuesday, 18 January 2005 23:15 (twenty-one years ago)

>new one has not yet been assesed

I'm not even sure it's been mixed yet, from the sound of these mp3's

― (Jon L), Tuesday, 18 January 2005 23:23 (twenty-one years ago)

New Adventures in Hi-Fi analogy OTM

Shakey, re: the slickness factor, listen to how his voice has changed dramatically on each record. He used to have no range at all and slurred all his words together and now he sings beautifully (not that I don't like the old records, his voice is just more traditonally pretty on later records). Have you ever heard the Banjo Story tracks, which I think was just a self-released cassette from the early '90s? He sounds like a kid gargling mouthwash trying to sing along to Captain Beefheart!

― Mike O. (Mike Ouderkirk), Tuesday, 18 January 2005 23:23 (twenty-one years ago)

Is the nappycat working for anyone else?

― milozauckerman (miloaukerman), Wednesday, 19 January 2005 00:21 (twenty-one years ago)

Surprised to see so much love for Midnite Vultures. The best tunes - Cigarettes and Gravy, Sexx Laws, Debra - are terrific, but it's really quite patchy, nice production making up for the lack of tunes. Odelay and Mutations are my faves by far. Both have a sophistication without losing the ramshackle, throwing ideas at the wall quality that is so charming and inspiring. I was sorely disappointed with Sea Change when it came out, but suffering from a broken heart has changed my perspective (it's okay guys, I'm over it). Some of it is irrideemably (sp?) miserable, but Golden Age and Lost Cause are beautiful.

― stew, Wednesday, 19 January 2005 01:04 (twenty-one years ago)

"Earthquake Anthem" is gonna get people dancing for sure.

― Broken Hipster (Broken Hipster), Wednesday, 19 January 2005 02:36 (twenty-one years ago)

I meant "Earthquake Weather"... but the former name sounds kinda cool for a dance song.

― Broken Hipster (Broken Hipster), Wednesday, 19 January 2005 02:37 (twenty-one years ago)

Well whaddaya know. 2005's been underway only two-and-a-half weeks and we ALREADY have the album of the year. Dear Lord this album is awesome!!

― Mr. Snrub (Mr. Snrub), Wednesday, 19 January 2005 03:30 (twenty-one years ago)

I said that very thing about Arular (uh... sorry) but this is probably going to be runner-up once I get accustomed to it. This will sound great when the thaw comes; I always have this Beck = spring/summer association going.

― What's this place, Biblevania? (natepatrin), Wednesday, 19 January 2005 03:37 (twenty-one years ago)

Ha, I love Midnite Vultures because it's so much more tunes-packed than the other Beck albums. It's pretty consistently catchy and fun. The only songs I'd ditch on MV are "Beautiful Way" and "Broken Train" which lag the middle a bit.

― Matthew "Flux" Perpetua, Wednesday, 19 January 2005 03:37 (twenty-one years ago)

Lots of this album reminds me of "Broken Train"

― Mike O. (Mike Ouderkirk), Wednesday, 19 January 2005 03:38 (twenty-one years ago)

I'm not even sure it's been mixed yet, from the sound of these mp3's

From Beck.com: "[A]s some of you may have seen, the new Beck album, tentatively due out March 28th, has unceremoniously been leaked onto the masses. This is NOT the final album. It is an early unmixed, unmastered version that is neither the final sequence or all the tracks that will appear, so please be aware this is not what Beck intended to happen or bestow onto his fans."

― Vic Funk, Wednesday, 19 January 2005 04:02 (twenty-one years ago)

I figured as much. The flow on the leaked record is weird, the mix is muddy, and there's a couple songs that sound like outtakes. So it's good thing that it's true.

― Matthew "Flux" Perpetua, Wednesday, 19 January 2005 05:49 (twenty-one years ago)

"...has unceremoniously been leaked onto the masses"

Excatly what type of ceremony were they hoping for?

Biggest journalistic dud since "sophomore album"

― Roger Fidelity (Roger Fidelity), Wednesday, 19 January 2005 06:00 (twenty-one years ago)

mmm sonic bukkake

― anx, Wednesday, 19 January 2005 06:06 (twenty-one years ago)

From what I've read on some mailing lists, Beck's people were going to do something involving goat's blood and a sacred amulet at a listening party in Silverlake.

― Matthew "Flux" Perpetua, Wednesday, 19 January 2005 06:07 (twenty-one years ago)

ah you scientology scamps

― Riot Gear! (Gear!), Wednesday, 19 January 2005 06:25 (twenty-one years ago)

"Sonic Boo Cake" now there's an album name...

― mark grout (mark grout), Wednesday, 19 January 2005 08:48 (twenty-one years ago)

radiohead said something similar when their last album got leaked on the net. but was there that much difference between the final hail to the thief and the leaked one?

anyway, i hope the proper beck album sounds a lot different.

― ppp, Wednesday, 19 January 2005 09:44 (twenty-one years ago)

Oh yeah, and that Oasis "Heathen Chem" leak (you know, the whole album as one track) that sounded as if it had been recorded from a wall outside the studio according to Noel. Not on my speakers it didn't...

― mark grout (mark grout), Wednesday, 19 January 2005 10:02 (twenty-one years ago)

There were definitely some very noticeable differences in the mixing of the leaked Hail To The Thief and what was officially released. The official mix is significantly better.

― Matthew "Flux" Perpetua, Wednesday, 19 January 2005 13:44 (twenty-one years ago)

My wife likes Beck, so I dled this album and made her a cd...

Me: Hey, I made you a cd.
Her: Oh, good, what is it?
Me: Let's listen to it. You'll know in a minute.
Her: Okay.... (first song plays for about a minute) Is this the new Sting album???
Me: No, it's Beck.
Her:(after listening to a few more songs) I like this, but I would be much more impressed if it was Sting.

― Mike Dixn (Mike Dixon), Wednesday, 19 January 2005 17:16 (twenty-one years ago)

What, as in "Sting makes a halfway decent album" impressed? Yeah.

That guy had his whole website pulled, not just the mp3 section...

― mark grout (mark grout), Thursday, 20 January 2005 11:47 (twenty-one years ago)

OK, It's called "GUERO"

So, get your Mp3 album name updated...

― mark grout (mark grout), Thursday, 20 January 2005 16:38 (twenty-one years ago)

who the fuck needs Beck

― Rizz (Rizz), Thursday, 20 January 2005 17:06 (twenty-one years ago)

what, the album name is "Guero"?

― caspar (caspar), Thursday, 20 January 2005 17:12 (twenty-one years ago)

Official tracklist:

E-Pro
Que Onda Guero
Girl
Missing
Black Tambourine
Earthquake Weather
Hell Yes
Broken Drum
Scarecrow
Go It Alone
Farewell Ride
Rental Car
Emergency Exit

Seems obvs to me that "Missing" = "Brazilica" and "Girl" = "Summer Girl."

― Matthew "Flux" Perpetua, Thursday, 20 January 2005 17:28 (twenty-one years ago)

And "Stone Junkie" is "Rental Car"

― caspar (caspar), Thursday, 20 January 2005 17:49 (twenty-one years ago)

And if "emergency exit" is the last song, it must be "Nazarene" if the info that whiskeyclone guy has is correct.

― caspar (caspar), Thursday, 20 January 2005 17:52 (twenty-one years ago)

And probably (stretching here) Track 12 / "Outer Space" is "Broken Drum." That leaves "Chain Reaction" to be "Farewell Ride," which is probably wrong and there's some tracks that weren't on the leak.

― caspar (caspar), Thursday, 20 January 2005 17:55 (twenty-one years ago)

http://www.armcircles.com/wells/beck.htm

― ken taylrr (ken taylrr), Thursday, 20 January 2005 17:56 (twenty-one years ago)

I vote "Unceremonious Leak" as the title for the album!

― alex in montreal, Thursday, 20 January 2005 18:12 (twenty-one years ago)

Listened to this on the car ride home from work and I can truly say it is the suck. Wrote a feature length article praising Sea Change about a year ago, so I'm no hater, but "Earthquake Weather" sounds like Faithless with Sting on vocals.

― Roger Fidelity (Roger Fidelity), Thursday, 20 January 2005 22:27 (twenty-one years ago)

What, as in "Sting makes a halfway decent album" impressed? Yeah.
-- mark grout (mark.grou...), January 20th, 2005.

Yes.
Just the first song (Brasilica), with it's jive-ass tropical vibe and Sting-like vocals.

― Mike Dixn (Mike Dixon), Thursday, 20 January 2005 23:35 (twenty-one years ago)

"Chain Reaction" is "Chain Reaction". It will be a b-side.

― What's this place, Biblevania? (natepatrin), Friday, 21 January 2005 02:23 (twenty-one years ago)

4 song "Hell Yes" ep now available on iTunes:

http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewAlbum?playlistId=41815576

― Dr. Z Indahouse (AaronHz), Tuesday, 1 February 2005 09:17 (twenty-one years ago)

has anyone seen the e-pro video? i thought the one mumbleboy did for hell yes was pretty rad (tho id rather see a hi-fi quicktime or flash version...)

― Adam Bruneau (oliver8bit), Thursday, 3 February 2005 17:15 (twenty-one years ago)

i can't get over how tired?lifeless?quiet? the vocals are. but maybe that's what comes with unceremonious leaks.

― lolita corpus (lolitacorpus), Saturday, 5 February 2005 02:14 (twenty-one years ago)

Is it just me or does "GHETTOCHIP MALFUNCTION (Hell Yes)" sound like just like Maniac Mansion music?

― Dr. Z Indahouse (AaronHz), Saturday, 5 February 2005 02:34 (twenty-one years ago)

(Maniac Mansion had my favorite 8-bit music ever FWIW)

― Dr. Z Indahouse (AaronHz), Saturday, 5 February 2005 02:35 (twenty-one years ago)

maniac mansion had the greatest videogame soundtrack ever!

― Aerodynamic (Aerodynamic), Saturday, 5 February 2005 04:08 (twenty-one years ago)

yeah, this dude knows what I'm talkin' 'bout!

― Dr. Z Indahouse (AaronHz), Saturday, 5 February 2005 06:49 (twenty-one years ago)

All those 8-bit sounds on those mixes are from SIDtunes. (C64)

― caspar (caspar), Saturday, 5 February 2005 14:30 (twenty-one years ago)

Beck's new album, Guero, will come out in three versions on March 29 — a regular edition, a two-disc version in stereo 5.1 containing videos for "E-Pro" and "Black Tambourine," and a third version with four bonus remixes by Boards of Canada, Dizzee Rascal, Röyksopp and Octet. (MTV.com)

― JoB (JoB), Sunday, 6 February 2005 01:29 (twenty-one years ago)

http://warprecords.com/media/img/beck.jpg

from warprecords.com:

Boards of Canada have contributed a remix of the track "Blank Space" to Beck's forthcoming album "Guero", due for release on March 29th.

The remix will appear on the special edition version bonus disc alongside other mixes by Dizzee Rascal, Octet and Royksopp, plus videos and 5.1 versions.

― firstworldman (firstworldman), Thursday, 10 February 2005 20:36 (twenty-one years ago)

I can't even begin to imagine Beck remixed by Dizzee.

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 10 February 2005 20:39 (twenty-one years ago)

i'm a retard... i totally didn't even see that post right above mine. sorry. as you were.

― firstworldman (firstworldman), Thursday, 10 February 2005 20:48 (twenty-one years ago)

'E-Pro' is all over MTV2, Q and co. i'm liking it - video's cool too

― Alienus Quam Reproba (blueski), Wednesday, 16 February 2005 15:34 (twenty-one years ago)

Is it me, or does E-Pro sound uncomfortably close to Kasabian, with its na na na chorus and swaggering guitar riff.
Really not feeling this new Beck stuff at all. Lifeless retreads of Odelay, with none of the imagination or playful chaos.
Brazilica is nice, but it's hardly Caetano Veloso.

― stew, Wednesday, 16 February 2005 15:45 (twenty-one years ago)

if Kasabian had any tracks that sounded half as good as 'E-Pro' that'd be good - not that 'E-Pro' is even that special (quite good tho)

― Alienus Quam Reproba (blueski), Wednesday, 16 February 2005 15:47 (twenty-one years ago)

Special hardback edition of Guero = Beck continuing his mission to turn into Cornelius.

There are some dope songs on this record. 'Brazilica' and 'Earthquake Weather' are particularly loveable, but 'Summer Girl' is ample proof that Beck can't sell twee.

― Deerninja B4rim4, Plus-Tech Whizz Kid (Barima), Wednesday, 16 February 2005 17:09 (twenty-one years ago)

d00ds.
if yr not feelin the new bek, that's all on you, not he.
i'm finding it's at least as good as Mutations, sans the decay feel.
i think it's pretty good, nothing to break the planet apart, but, for some alright tunes, it's what i want.
i think the days of bek redifining himself might be gone, but, that's fine. the man's done enough.
i'm sure some people thought that long ago and in an entirely different way...

― eedd, Wednesday, 16 February 2005 19:13 (twenty-one years ago)

IT'S A CHAIN REACTION!

― Deerninja B4rim4, Plus-Tech Whizz Kid (Barima), Saturday, 19 February 2005 11:55 (twenty-one years ago)

YEAH

― Stupornaut (natepatrin), Saturday, 19 February 2005 18:59 (twenty-one years ago)

two weeks pass...

There is an extremely poorly written article about Beck in the Times magazine this week. Extremely.

― Je4nne ƒury (Jeanne Fury), Sunday, 6 March 2005 15:25 (twenty-one years ago)

I wouldn't call it badly written as much as probably a little off-putting for anyone but really big Beck fans.

― JoB (JoB), Sunday, 6 March 2005 16:25 (twenty-one years ago)

Yeah perhaps. I just think it's a really dry piece.

― Je4nne ƒury (Jeanne Fury), Sunday, 6 March 2005 16:30 (twenty-one years ago)

The writer seems surprised that songs can be built up from the beat instead of the melody.

― joseph cotten (joseph cotten), Sunday, 6 March 2005 16:44 (twenty-one years ago)

I kept waiting for the Beck article to really begin, and then it ended.

The GNR piece is a lot better.

― Josh in Chicago (Josh in Chicago), Sunday, 6 March 2005 16:50 (twenty-one years ago)

Pressing "next" on a nytimes music article is probably one of the least thrilling experiences of my life.

I am glad to find out Beck's kid is named Cosimo. Is that one of those "sc!ent0l0gically correct" names, like John Travolta's kid Jett?

― miccio (miccio), Sunday, 6 March 2005 17:17 (twenty-one years ago)

''I'm a musician. I'm not, like, a personality.'

WORD.

― miccio (miccio), Sunday, 6 March 2005 17:20 (twenty-one years ago)

two weeks pass...

I put a YouSendIt link up on this thread with the Japanese bonus track from "Guero," if interested... it's called "Crap Hands":

The thread for requesting and offering mp3s to be gmailed, yousendited etc. (previously: 'The thread for gmail offers and requests')

― Bent Over at the Arclight (Bent Over at the Arclight), Tuesday, 22 March 2005 00:28 (twenty-one years ago)

(revived as part of an elaborate bumping plan to score my request on that thread... the song's pretty good, though)

― Bent Over at the Arclight (Bent Over at the Arclight), Tuesday, 22 March 2005 00:32 (twenty-one years ago)

"Crap Hands"? Is that an attmepted English-to-Japanese-to-English transliteration?

― Stupornaut (natepatrin), Tuesday, 22 March 2005 02:46 (twenty-one years ago)

Yeah, it's really called "Clap Hands"

― The Brainwasher (Twilight), Thursday, 24 March 2005 01:10 (twenty-one years ago)

So it's not a downtrodden blues song about Celebrity Poker, then

― Stupornaut (natepatrin), Thursday, 24 March 2005 02:54 (twenty-one years ago)

one year passes...

hi i was looking around and saw this. can i bump?

― joe momma, Thursday, 25 May 2006 20:25 (twenty years ago)

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