penningtron wrote: Sun Dec 17, 2023 12:24 pm Sounds like sleepy Donovan.

Ha, he does sound a lot like Donovan there. I like it.

That tune is sleepy, but there's a cool tension in the chords too. Hard to create that tranquil with tension thing. Wilco had some b-sides around y2k that did it so well.

I'm not gonna judge him on Scientology, but I have no desire to revisit Mellow Gold. I did like Loser and Pay No Mind as a pre-teen. His later stuff annoyed me.

rsmurphy wrote: Sun Dec 17, 2023 10:17 am I unknowingly heard a song from this release the other day and was struck by how beautiful it sounded. Kinda shocked to realize it was Beck. I think I'd like Sea Change if I ever gave it a good sit-down.

Sea Change has weirdly become one of the favorite hi-res audio demo discs of cork-sniffing piezoelectric-quartz-crystal tweak type audiophiles. Of all the possible outcomes for Beck, I would not have predicted this particular fanbase..

CRAP.

The guy's a fuckin' clown and the source material for his samples is the most interesting thing about anything he's done that's remotely listenable.

WF: Fun mushroom experience listening to Odelay.

I saw him play at Yo-Yo a Go-Go in Olympia, Washington, in . . . 1994? 95? He played at the end of the morning/afternoon set. We’d expected him to suck, but he didn’t. He completely won over a skeptical crowd, in fact.

Between the morning and evening shows, we went to a grocery store to get food, and we bumped into him. The confident, funny guy on stage was shy and very nice off of it.

Another person he’d won over was Ian MacKaye, who was also at the grocery store. The two of them stood behind us in line at the checkout counter, talking enthusiastically about country blues.

He’s still not my thing, but I’m abstaining from voting.

The Loser single has Fume on it, which is my all-time favorite Beck song of all time, hands down. One Foot In The Grave still gets a spin now and again. I more or less lost interest after Sea Change, which is one of the better break-up albums of its era.

I only own and enjoy his albums that start with the letter M. Morning Phase is the only one in the axiom that I think falls flat.

Modern Guilt gets a lot of plays over here. I like it a ton. Short songs, no pastiche, no fat.

kicker_of_elves wrote: Mon Dec 18, 2023 10:33 am The Loser single has Fume on it, which is my all-time favorite Beck song of all time, hands down.

This is my favorite Beck song of all time as well.

Wood Goblin wrote: Mon Dec 18, 2023 8:19 am I saw him play at Yo-Yo a Go-Go in Olympia, Washington, in . . . 1994? 95? He played at the end of the morning/afternoon set. We’d expected him to suck, but he didn’t. He completely won over a skeptical crowd, in fact.

I saw him at The Middle East in Cambridge in 1994 and he was fantastic. It was a few days after my Grandfather had died and I was at their house with a bunch of family and really needed to get out of the house. I saw that he was playing and went. I probably would not enjoy his show now but for that show alone he gets a not crap from me.

I might be one of a few dozen fans who really loves Midnite Vultures. I'm definitely way more into his upbeat "fun" material as opposed to his somber leanings.