Beck - "Feel Good Time"

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Remember that Pink song from the "Charlie's Angels: Power Glutes Exposition And Exploding Musclecars" movie? Beck wrote that. In fact, it was originally recorded by Beck with William Orbit, and seems like the unreleased Beck track was snuck into his August 16th XFM Superchunk mix. This is the sort of thing I was hoping he'd get back to once the whole "I am a serious folk musician writing serious songs" Sea Change phase was over, and even though it "borrows" from "Fresh Garbage", it's not like a track from Spirit's self-titled '68 album hasn't been ripped off before. Lots of stuff not in the Pink version: Beck vox which are much in the Midnite Vultures vein only more "natural" sounding as pop, make of that what you will; extraneous guitar crunch and squonk noise mess and electronic bleeps (YES); BIG ACID FREAKOUT NOISE CODA.

Goddamn this is great. I know it'll look kind of weird, but I'm gonna try to sneak this in my '03 Top Ten Singles.

― nate detritus (natedetritus), Friday, 14 November 2003 17:43 (twenty-one years ago)

i can sort of hear it in my head but i think i still prefer 'Mixed Bizness'

― stevem (blueski), Friday, 14 November 2003 17:46 (twenty-one years ago)

His album coming out this spring is supposed to contain lots of big-guitars tomfoolery, and has tracks produced by Dan the Automator and Timbaland. Hooyah!

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Friday, 14 November 2003 17:48 (twenty-one years ago)

If Beck is the master of anything in particular, it's that thur BIG ACID FREAKOUT NOISE CODA.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Friday, 14 November 2003 17:49 (twenty-one years ago)

I hope this at least shows up as a "Diamond Bollocks"-style hidden track or something.

― nate detritus (natedetritus), Friday, 14 November 2003 17:54 (twenty-one years ago)

I really miss the old Beck. Pre-Mutations Beck. Odelay was great, but still his first step in the wrong direction. File Beck under that "Fame banished their muse" thread.

― Shaun (shaun), Friday, 14 November 2003 22:15 (twenty-one years ago)

Where can I hear this?

― Mr. Snrub (Mr. Snrub), Friday, 14 November 2003 22:32 (twenty-one years ago)

Hearing Pink sing Beck's words reaffirmed what a damn good lyricist Bob Dylan can be. And how horrible Beck is at it (except when he's rapping, for some odd reason).

― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Friday, 14 November 2003 22:37 (twenty-one years ago)

the usual filesharing suspects; look for "william orbit superchunk" and if something pops up with the date 8-16-03 you'll have it. It starts in at about the 7:45 point and ends just before the next segue into radio static/some other song. The great thing is it was a really abrupt unmixed transition both to and from the song, so I was able to edit it in Goldwave so it sounds perfectly clean.

Miccio, do you like Captain Beefheart?

― nate detritus (natedetritus), Friday, 14 November 2003 23:08 (twenty-one years ago)

(actually, I was trying to draw a lyrical comparison between merrs. Hansen and Vliet, but more importantly, Pink singing Beck lyrics is one thing -- do you like Johnny Cash?)

― nate detritus (natedetritus), Friday, 14 November 2003 23:09 (twenty-one years ago)

Captain Beefheart's got his good stuff, yes I like Johnny Cash (though I'm not as a big a fan of his later alt-rock karoake shtick - his version of Personal Jesus was comically redundant. I'm more of a "Get Rhythm" man myself). And Beck, who can definitely craft a hook, is often hell when it comes to verses. Dylan's a damn fine comparison - they're both earnest shysters.

― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Friday, 14 November 2003 23:13 (twenty-one years ago)

It's more like Beck goes for Dylan when he really should be settling for Bowie (though hell, even Bowie can act better than Beck does).

You are talking to someone who thought Midnite Vultures was one of the best albums of all time back when it came out. But I think I got hit by lightning sometime in late 2000 and suddenly everything was different.

― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Friday, 14 November 2003 23:15 (twenty-one years ago)

actually, that's all wrong. He's got the lyrical skil of a Bowie but lacks the passionate (and clownish) energy. Dylan gets away with it cuz the man's got bonafide personality.

― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Friday, 14 November 2003 23:20 (twenty-one years ago)

IMO

60s: Beatles
70s: Bowie
80s: Prince
90s: Beck

While musically a lot different from each other, these have all been combining genres in a kind of eccentric way, and there are definitely a lot of similarities between them.

― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Friday, 14 November 2003 23:22 (twenty-one years ago)

actually, that's all wrong. He's got the lyrical skil of a Bowie but lacks the passionate (and clownish) energy.

?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!

My version of Geir's lineage replaces the Beatles with Beefheart and Prince with Devo. If that makes any sense.

― nate detritus (natedetritus), Friday, 14 November 2003 23:23 (twenty-one years ago)

(saying Beck lacks "clownish energy" = "Fred Durst really needs to express his anger and frustration more vigorously")

― nate detritus (natedetritus), Friday, 14 November 2003 23:24 (twenty-one years ago)

am i the only one that thot that sea change was moving and lovely and sort of a sublte anthology of pop as beauty (from topicallia to the byrds, from bob dylan singing country to belle and sebastion indieness, but filtered and calmed ?)

― anthony easton (anthony), Friday, 14 November 2003 23:24 (twenty-one years ago)

Well there was a bit of good songwriting on there ("Paper Tiger"; "Little One"), but as a hardcore Mellow Gold dork it sort of felt lacking in creativity somehow. Scatter the songs in a career-spanning live set and they come across more effectively, but all at once over an hour's worth of hit-or-miss lyricism it felt a bit lacking and disconcertingly uncharacteristic. Like if Tarantino made Mystic River.

― nate detritus (natedetritus), Friday, 14 November 2003 23:30 (twenty-one years ago)

It is a good piece of work but inside I am all "OK where is the snappy camerawork and trashy grindhouse hijinx?"

― nate detritus (natedetritus), Friday, 14 November 2003 23:31 (twenty-one years ago)

well the string arrangements achieved that beauty, yeah. Ok, and I dig "Lost Cause."

But Nate, Beck rarely convinces me that he's actually SOLD on what he's doing! Sure, he jumps around but I know he's PLAYING at it, that in reality he's just a nerd like you and I. Bowie and Prince can actually be mistaken for bonafide lunatics.

― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Friday, 14 November 2003 23:32 (twenty-one years ago)

I'd say 138 people who voted Sea Change no. 2 in Pazz & Jop agreed w/you, Anthony, if that helps any

― M Matos (M Matos), Friday, 14 November 2003 23:32 (twenty-one years ago)

the thing I got from Mellow Gold is that he was a lunatic, and that he was pissed off, and everything from Odelay on convinced me otherwise. I think he loves music and what he does but there's something so much more engaged about the '94-released stuff, y'know? (yes I know I am basically saying what Anthony did in diff words)

― M Matos (M Matos), Friday, 14 November 2003 23:34 (twenty-one years ago)

If you can't find it on the P2P networks, Orbit's website has complete copies of the Superchunk in 128 and 192kbit MP3 files (http://www.williamorbit.com/en/orbit192xfm.mp3 is the high-quality version, if you want to avoid the Flash nastiness).

― carson dial, Friday, 14 November 2003 23:37 (twenty-one years ago)

Thanks.

― Mr. Snrub (Mr. Snrub), Saturday, 15 November 2003 02:57 (twenty-one years ago)

"Sea Change" is a beautiful album, only in a completely different way than "Odelay" was great.

― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Saturday, 15 November 2003 03:12 (twenty-one years ago)

More precicely, "Sea Changes" may not be as "interesting" arrangement-wise as "Odelay" (although Nigel Goodrich did some beautiful arrangements, as usual). But it has the strongest songs he has ever written. Some absolutely wonderful tunes in there.

― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Saturday, 15 November 2003 20:03 (twenty-one years ago)

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