beck to work with dust brothers again for new album

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i wonder what happened to the timbaland/automator stuff.

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BECK RETURNS

BECK is planning to release his new album in the autumn, produced by THE DUST BROTHERS and TONY HOFFER.

the record, the follow-up to 2002’s ’Sea Change’ has been recorded in LA and is currently being mixed.

working titles for songs on the album include ‘Guero’, ‘E-Pro’, ‘Scarecrow’ and ‘Chain Reaction’.

An exact release date and live shows are to be confirmed.

― thesplooge (thesplooge), Wednesday, 21 July 2004 08:20 (twenty-one years ago)

ummmm...yay? I'm gonna say yay, I never jumped on the Beck Backlash Bandwagon.

― AaronHz (AaronHz), Wednesday, 21 July 2004 08:23 (twenty-one years ago)

anyones better than nigel godrich anyway.

― thesplooge (thesplooge), Wednesday, 21 July 2004 08:27 (twenty-one years ago)

plus, the fight club soundtrack the dust brothers did was great.

― thesplooge (thesplooge), Wednesday, 21 July 2004 08:28 (twenty-one years ago)

Beck is better when he's funky than when he's weepy. I'm pretty happy about this news. Maybe the Dust Bros will round up Hanson, and they can do the super-blond crushboy supergroup! Hurrah!

― Ma$onic Boom (kate), Wednesday, 21 July 2004 08:31 (twenty-one years ago)

sometimes i think mmmbop is a better pop song than anything beck will ever write.

― thesplooge (thesplooge), Wednesday, 21 July 2004 08:39 (twenty-one years ago)

sometimes i think mmmbop is a better pop song than anything beck will ever write.
-- thesplooge (sploogeyo...), July 21st, 2004.

Oh do shut up.

― BarbarityItself, Wednesday, 21 July 2004 09:52 (twenty-one years ago)

no. beck doesnt really do addictively catchy pop. so you shut up.

― thesplooge (thesplooge), Wednesday, 21 July 2004 12:15 (twenty-one years ago)

Yes he does so you shuttup.

― mark grout (mark grout), Wednesday, 21 July 2004 12:36 (twenty-one years ago)

who asked you anyway? YOU shuddup. not only could those three hanson kids take beck hansen anyday but i bet their dad's bigger than beck's dad.

― thesplooge (thesplooge), Wednesday, 21 July 2004 12:38 (twenty-one years ago)

hey guys,

beck's last NAME is hansen. thats like hanson. can we at LEAST agree on that?

― peter smith (plsmith), Wednesday, 21 July 2004 12:38 (twenty-one years ago)

Beck's dad has (or had) an orchestra. So he's bigger than Hanson's dad. And he's got a dog.

― mark grout (mark grout), Wednesday, 21 July 2004 12:44 (twenty-one years ago)

beck is skinny as anything so i bet his dad doesnt fare much better in the girth department. the hanson brothers dad might not have a dog (then again, he might have a dozen kennels) but he could always set one of his sons on to mr hansen while the other two are handling beck.

― thesplooge (thesplooge), Wednesday, 21 July 2004 12:54 (twenty-one years ago)

WTF BECK WHERE IS TIMBALAND/AUTOMATOR SHITE!?! Asshole.

Anyway, I'm pretty super excited to hear this. Odelay is probably my favorite of his albums. It contains the number 2 greatest weepy-ish thing he's ever done, btw (album closer "Ramshackle" [#1 best weepy-ish thing being "Nobody's Fault But My Own"]).

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Wednesday, 21 July 2004 13:08 (twenty-one years ago)

'Jackass' is 10 times the song 'Ramshackle' is. I'm happy this rumour is now confirmed reality, the DBs are easily one of my top 3 production outfits and have been MIA for too long.

― R.I.M.A. (Barima), Wednesday, 21 July 2004 15:48 (twenty-one years ago)

I do probably like "Jackass" better, but it's not quite exactly what I'd call 'weepy'. It's more like, erm, weary.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Wednesday, 21 July 2004 16:06 (twenty-one years ago)

I'm still waiting for Eno and Lanois to join forces on an overblown, reverb-laden Beck album.

― Gear! (Gear!), Wednesday, 21 July 2004 16:14 (twenty-one years ago)

!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Holy shit I would make some trowser salad if that was for real.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Wednesday, 21 July 2004 16:30 (twenty-one years ago)

never posted here before, but beck brought it out on me. see, i don't really even listen to beck much anymore. but not so long ago i read somewhere about beck having converted to scientology. and while i know he denied it, there /was/ a bunch of stuff that seemed to point in that direction. and it made me deeply sad for him. sad because he seems intelligent, and all concerns about narrow-mindedness aside, scientology is a cult and is generally horrifying as an idea to me, and confusing as to how someone seemingly intelligent would be prone to falling into it. anyway. if the timbaland shit ever came out-- it would probably blow up the pop charts and change EVERYTHING. but alas. i wonder what degree he is? sub thread: musician masons or scientologists (cults in general)?

― firstworldman, Wednesday, 21 July 2004 17:02 (twenty-one years ago)

what?

― rentboy (rentboy), Wednesday, 21 July 2004 17:06 (twenty-one years ago)

He's not just a Scientologist, he married one too!

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Wednesday, 21 July 2004 17:08 (twenty-one years ago)

I think that's the Scientologist-hata-confused-whiteguy version of "talking to Kanye".

― R.I.M.A. (Barima), Wednesday, 21 July 2004 17:09 (twenty-one years ago)

I like what the Dust Bros. have done (especially with Beck) but they just seem so fucking old

― Sonny A. (Keiko), Wednesday, 21 July 2004 17:13 (twenty-one years ago)

(And yes, more Jackasses please)

― Sonny A. (Keiko), Wednesday, 21 July 2004 17:14 (twenty-one years ago)

Damo Suzuki from Can, Prince, Michael Jackson, David Thomas from Pere Ubu=all Jehovah's Winesses. I don't think this detracts from the good records they've made. Someone please point out the Scientology references in Sea Change for me, because I don't think I know enough about it to have spotted them. I love that record btw, fuck teh hataz.

― AaronHz (AaronHz), Wednesday, 21 July 2004 17:16 (twenty-one years ago)

Witnesses haha

― AaronHz (AaronHz), Wednesday, 21 July 2004 17:16 (twenty-one years ago)

the dust brothers : albums :: tom robbins : novels

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Wednesday, 21 July 2004 17:17 (twenty-one years ago)

(By that I mean, it's usually years between releases, but when they do come out they are exploding with ideas.)

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Wednesday, 21 July 2004 17:18 (twenty-one years ago)

i'd rather see Beck working with the Wighnomy Bros

― rentboy (rentboy), Wednesday, 21 July 2004 17:19 (twenty-one years ago)

The Wright Bros, surely?

― R.I.M.A. (Barima), Wednesday, 21 July 2004 17:21 (twenty-one years ago)

I wouldn't mind hearing another Stereopathetic Soul Manure-style noise record with Albini at the boards, but I might be in the minority there.

― AaronHz (AaronHz), Wednesday, 21 July 2004 17:21 (twenty-one years ago)

The Wright Bros, surely?

-- R.I.M.A. (barima_...), July 21st, 2004.

now there's an idea that might fly

― rentboy (rentboy), Wednesday, 21 July 2004 17:22 (twenty-one years ago)

No way Aaron, I'm with ya there. NO MONEY NO HONEY.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Wednesday, 21 July 2004 17:40 (twenty-one years ago)

i don't think there's any scientology references on 'sea change'... but i haven't listened to it much, so i don't know. maybe he'll do a concept album based on dianetics with guest stars like tom cruise and john travolta. songs about being happy to pay counselors to exorcise your body from the millions of dead, angry alien souls that inhabit it. i mean. scientology almost makes sense for beck except that i doubt he takes acid anymore. i could imagine one of the leafblower songs being about alien subterfuge and exorcism scams and elevating levels and hollywood actors and office building churches and stuff... i don't know.

― firstworldman, Wednesday, 21 July 2004 17:45 (twenty-one years ago)

i don't think there's any scientology references on 'sea change'

OK, some twat somewhere said that the Sea Change record was obviously heavily influenced by Scientology, and I'm still waiting for examples.

― AaronHz (AaronHz), Wednesday, 21 July 2004 17:50 (twenty-one years ago)

three months pass...

HOLY EVERLOVING FUCK

Yes yes I know everyone is going to carp on about the usage of such uh-oh terms as "credible" and "a real artist" but BECK IS GOING TO BE SINGING OR POSSIBLY RHYMING OVER DIZZEE RASCAL BEATS FOR FUCK'S SAKE.

― MC Transmaniacon (natepatrin), Saturday, 20 November 2004 03:33 (twenty-one years ago)

Other tracks have been described as in the vein of Mellow Gold and/or reminiscent of Santana's first few albums (?!?!). There is also a song called "Guero" about how apparently he grew up as the only white kid in a neighborhood in East L.A.

Prediction: this is going to make Sea Change devotees very upset. Hooray!

― MC Transmaniacon (natepatrin), Saturday, 20 November 2004 03:37 (twenty-one years ago)

this should be good. of course, i thought sea change should have been good and thought it was, then realized it was just boring

― kyle (akmonday), Saturday, 20 November 2004 03:43 (twenty-one years ago)

same here kyle.

― jed_ (jed), Saturday, 20 November 2004 05:37 (twenty-one years ago)

not to rain on yr moment of wtfness nate, but i mentioned this on another dizzee thread a while back - except without the specifics (the song title, namely), so thanks for that.

― m. (mitchlnw), Saturday, 20 November 2004 09:05 (twenty-one years ago)

I'm hoping agains hope that this will be good, but I'm secretly afraid that it's just too late for Beck. I was one of the early Sea Change haterz, as a look through the archives of this board will attest. My opinion hasn't changed in the slightest. Thus, I fear this record.

― J (Jay), Saturday, 20 November 2004 12:28 (twenty-one years ago)

one month passes...

Looks like the album has leaked. I have to say that I find it quite disappointing. Beck is over, over, over.

warning: the server's running slow.

― don weiner, Monday, 17 January 2005 19:04 (twenty-one years ago)

seven months pass...

i sold my 'odelay' and now i want it back.

― N_RQ, Monday, 12 September 2005 09:11 (twenty years ago)

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