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Band: Beck
Posted: Thu Nov 13, 2003 8:04 am
by akosinski
Beck
Band: Beck
Posted: Thu Nov 13, 2003 9:16 am
by Dylan_Archive
Why does no one see this charlatan for what he is? The guy rips off every thing he does and claims it as new. He has a few good tunes, but for the most part, it's a pastiche.
Band: Beck
Posted: Mon Nov 17, 2003 7:02 pm
by stephensolo_Archive
beck sucks
Band: Beck
Posted: Mon Nov 17, 2003 9:10 pm
by Lobster Magnet_Archive
Not crap.
Band: Beck
Posted: Mon Nov 17, 2003 10:51 pm
by cal_Archive
Beck = Dreck
Band: Beck
Posted: Tue Nov 18, 2003 1:08 am
by Mayfair_Archive
See, I don't think his is honest music. It has always been self-referential, overly self-aware, sarcastic and ironic. I think this new 'stripped down' thing he is doing is a put-on. He seems like an actor playing a part. He makes me itch... in the bad way, I mean.
Band: Beck
Posted: Tue Nov 18, 2003 9:59 am
by spoot_Archive
Beck is a bummer because when I hear his music in a public setting I usually like what I hear - sometimes I'm even excited by it. But when I've brought it home with me (only Odelay so far, so not much depth here) I've listened to it once and had no interest at all in listening to it again. To me this means that the music has no more than a veneer of substance, and is crap.
I should bring home his new one though, maybe it'll stick.
Band: Beck
Posted: Tue May 04, 2004 4:45 pm
by nc_Archive
NOT CRAP.
Seriously, he is an amazing fingerstyle guitar player, and if you actually knew anything about him - he's constantly doing new weird shit. Did anyone see him on Austin City Limits?
Sea Change is also an amazing SOUNDING record. "Nobody's Fault But My Own" off Mutations (and please do not say anything about the title being almost exactly like the Led Zeppelin song) could cement his place in NOT CRAP forever.
I'll say it again NOT CRAP
-n
Band: Beck
Posted: Tue May 04, 2004 7:07 pm
by fargokamikaze_Archive
I would think that it would be OBVIOUS that Beck borrows music from other people, it's not like he's trying to cover up the fact that he uses other people's tunes. and to whoever said that he claims otherwise should learn a little about Beck. If you ever read or see an interview with him, he is, without fail, asked the same question "how does it feel to be criticized for ripping off other music?" and he NEVER claims anything to be his own that is not.
Furthermore, what is so wrong with Beck using other people's music. How about the 50,000,000,000,000,000 hip-hop, 50-cent, thug wannabes who do nothing but use other people's music? And poorly, too. Fuck that shit. Beck is a genius. He does it infinitely better than anyone else that I've ever heard. How anyone could see otherwise is a mystery to me.
Band: Beck
Posted: Tue May 04, 2004 8:06 pm
by Bradley R Weissenberger_Archive
fargokamikaze wrote:Beck is a genius. He does it infinitely better than anyone else that I've ever heard. How anyone could see otherwise is a mystery to me.
Then please allow me the honor of providing a neverending source of mystery to you.