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1. sexx laws
2. devil's haircut
3. cold brains
4. loser
5. lazy flies
6. deadweight
7. lost cause
8. novacane
9. jackass
10. hotwax

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

Shock City Shockers

― I CAN LEAD YOU THROUGH THE ZONE (ex machina), Wednesday, 21 July 2004 16:11 (twenty-one years ago)

Call me a hater, but i couldn't even pick only one i'd want to hear again.

― paulhw (paulhw), Wednesday, 21 July 2004 16:25 (twenty-one years ago)

1. ramshackle
2. mexico
3. nobody's fault but my own
4. electric music and the summer people (og version)
5. novocaine
6. diamond bullocks (hidden track on Mutations)
7. beercan
8. milk and honey
9. he's a mighty good leader
10. fume

This was ridiculously hard. Expect revisions.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Wednesday, 21 July 2004 16:29 (twenty-one years ago)

diamond bollocks is good, its true.

― peter smith (plsmith), Wednesday, 21 July 2004 16:31 (twenty-one years ago)

"Beer Can"

Try walking off that Burrito to that one--it rolls like a river:

I quit my job blowing leaves
telephone bills up my sleeves
choking like a one man dustbowl
freedom rock slimeball
talking in code
we went down
lit up the shack
grab me a beer out of the sack

― avery schreiber, Wednesday, 21 July 2004 16:37 (twenty-one years ago)

That's such a great summer bbq jam.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Wednesday, 21 July 2004 16:47 (twenty-one years ago)

omg the first lines,
Alcohol on my hands
I got plans
to ditch myself and get outside

it's a great song to play early on any nice night you know you'll be a-drinkin'

― common_person (common_person), Wednesday, 21 July 2004 17:05 (twenty-one years ago)

I have to take Sea Change out of the mix -- it's too much it's own depressing thing. Otherwise, in no particular order:

Fuckin' With My Head (Mountain Dew Rock)
Diamond Dogs (Bowie cover from Moulin Rouge soundtrack)
Deadweight (from the A Life Less Ordinary soundtrack -- great video, too)
Devil's Haircut
Broken Train
Derelict
Loser (why not?)
Debra
Whiskeyclone, Hotel City 1997
Bottle of Blues

And many others. I still have a very soft spot for the whole Mellow GOld album.

― Kenan Hebert (kenan), Wednesday, 21 July 2004 17:33 (twenty-one years ago)

Loser
Beercan
Lord Only Knows
Hollywood Freekz
Milk And Honey
Debra
Arabian Nights
Nobody's Fault But My Own
Diamond Bollocks
Lost Cause

― CeCe Peniston (Anthony Miccio), Wednesday, 21 July 2004 18:41 (twenty-one years ago)

four months pass...

"Hotwax" is deeply, deeply, deeply underrated.

― The Ghost of Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Wednesday, 1 December 2004 18:28 (twenty-one years ago)

ditto on hotwax
salt in the wounds
whiskey can-can
one of these days
get real paid
diamond in the sleaze
deadweight
got no mind
alcohol
leave me on the moon
diskobox
lampshade

― naturemorte, Wednesday, 1 December 2004 18:42 (twenty-one years ago)

To me, Beck is a very typical albums act, and I kind of have problems having the tracks work individually. Anyway, here is an attempt at my take:

1. Guess I'm Doing Fine
2. Little One
3. Sissyneck
4. Nobody's Fault But My Own
5. We Live Again
6. Lord Only Knows
7. Jack-Ass
8. The Golden Age
9. Hotwax
10.Get Real Paid

― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Thursday, 2 December 2004 01:15 (twenty-one years ago)

GEIR LIKES "GET REAL PAID"

why this makes me laugh hysterically, I do not know

― MC Transmaniacon (natepatrin), Thursday, 2 December 2004 02:24 (twenty-one years ago)

It combines 2 of his fave subjects - the importance of elctronica and camp.

naturemorte, are you me? Half my reserve picks are on your list.

1. Jack-Ass
2. Diamond In The Sleaze
3. Hollywood Freaks
4. Mixed Bizness
5. Lloyd Price Express
6. Electric Music and the Summer People '98
7. One Of These Days
8. Readymade
9. Boys
10. The New Pollution

― B.A.R.M.S. (Barima), Thursday, 2 December 2004 11:39 (twenty-one years ago)

"Get Real Paid" sounds a lot like the early 80s synthpop stuff I grew up with. Of course that is a nice one. :-)

― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Thursday, 2 December 2004 12:56 (twenty-one years ago)

everyone loved him in the nineties. now everyone hates him and talks about all his masks and stuff. why? he's still the same.

― Jay-Kid (Jay-Kid), Thursday, 2 December 2004 12:58 (twenty-one years ago)

Beck are kind of two different acts musically. One is an ironic postmodernist guy who mixes all sorts of genres together in one really camp splash of blues, electronica, hip-hop and pop. The other one is a toned down singer-songwriter who sings sad songs about love lost.

I love both, but I know that particularly fans of the former find it hard to accept the latter.

― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Thursday, 2 December 2004 13:02 (twenty-one years ago)

Still B.E.C.K. (feat. 1000 Clowns and Wayne Coyne)

― B.A.R.M.S. (Barima), Thursday, 2 December 2004 13:02 (twenty-one years ago)

I love both, but I know that particularly fans of the former find it hard to accept the latter.

Right (dare I say) OTM, Geir, but my personal experience is that rockists have quite a hard time accepting the former while embracing the latter because they find him more 'real'.

― Jay-Kid (Jay-Kid), Thursday, 2 December 2004 13:10 (twenty-one years ago)

I am a classist not a rockist. I don't base my arguments on that "real" or "authentic" bullshit. I want to judge rock by the same criteria as classical music. :-)

Anyway, I certainly love both. But I wouldn't have hadn't it been for those great Beatlesque melodies that are clearly evident on "Odelay" in particular. That is the reason why I love "Sissyneck".

― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Thursday, 2 December 2004 13:12 (twenty-one years ago)

I am a classist not a rockist.

I know, I know, I just wanted to make a point about the fact that it is not everybody who finds his eclectic self the more valuable of the two (or more).

― Jay-Kid (Jay-Kid), Thursday, 2 December 2004 13:16 (twenty-one years ago)

I have seen very little criticism of his post modernist work, other than from purists that don't like him at all, no matter what he puts out.

― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Thursday, 2 December 2004 15:26 (twenty-one years ago)

everyone loved him in the nineties. now everyone hates him and talks about all his masks and stuff. why? he's still the same.

If by "the nineties" you do not include Midnite Vultures, then you have your answer. That album has aged poorly to the point of self-parody -- with the odd exception of "Get Real Paid", which pretty much beat the electroclash curve.

On a side note, did that person who compared him to Tommy Tutone in the LA Times (?) in '94 still have a job?

― MC Transmaniacon (natepatrin), Thursday, 2 December 2004 15:38 (twenty-one years ago)

How could an album that sounded kind of old fashioned (and thus timeless) already at its release age badly?

― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Thursday, 2 December 2004 15:47 (twenty-one years ago)

yeah that was not his best album. but it was quite groovy, esp. 'mixed bizness'.

― Jay-Kid (Jay-Kid), Thursday, 2 December 2004 15:49 (twenty-one years ago)

1. Sunday Sun
2. Jackass
3. Thunder Peel
4. Derelict
5. High 5 (Rock the Catskills)
6. Mixed Bizness
7. Milk & Honey
8. Lord Only Knows
9. End of the Day
10. All In Your Mind

― christopher (WHO), Thursday, 2 December 2004 21:59 (twenty-one years ago)

Oooh, "High 5"!

― The Ghost of Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Thursday, 2 December 2004 22:02 (twenty-one years ago)

i'm having a dumb day, i feel like starting a thread called PEX: bock

― m. (mitchlnw), Thursday, 2 December 2004 22:03 (twenty-one years ago)

(leapin up into the air gettin juiced up beyond BELIEF)

― 57 7th (calstars), Thursday, 2 December 2004 22:14 (twenty-one years ago)

satan gave me a taco
special people
pay no mind
its all in your mind (original acoustic version)
puttin' it down
totally confused
asshole
loser
where its at
debra
mtx makes me wanna smoke crack
whiskey can can
devil got my woman [skip james cover]

― chris andrews (fraew), Thursday, 2 December 2004 22:22 (twenty-one years ago)

though i hardly listen to beck these days, i could probably spout the lyrics to most of those off the top of my head.. in fact, i've even improv-performed 'puttin it down' before..

― chris andrews (fraew), Thursday, 2 December 2004 22:27 (twenty-one years ago)

Anyways:

The New Pollution
Loser
Mutherfucker
Fuckin' With My Head (Mountain Dew Rock)
Outcome
Rowboat
American Wasteland*
Tough Fuckin' Shit**
Electric Music and the Summer People (1998 version)
Hollywood Freaks

*"Devil's Haircut" remixed to sound like Bad Brains
**a demo tape GG Allin cover from 1992

― MC Transmaniacon (natepatrin), Friday, 3 December 2004 01:59 (twenty-one years ago)

"BARNEY MILLER WAS A COP! BARNEYMILLERWASACOP!" (nuhnuhnuhnuhnuh) "HE'S DEAD!"

― MC Transmaniacon (natepatrin), Friday, 3 December 2004 02:00 (twenty-one years ago)

everyone loved him in the nineties. now everyone hates him and talks about all his masks and stuff. why? he's still the same.

personally, his stuff appealed more to me when I had worse taste in lyrics, appreciated pop and rap as superficial absurdity and hadn't heard a lot of the bands he aspires to be like. He's a "doorway" artist, like Bowie.

― miccio (miccio), Friday, 3 December 2004 02:04 (twenty-one years ago)

Diamond Bollocks Roolz.

― jed_ (jed), Friday, 3 December 2004 02:04 (twenty-one years ago)

I actually like Midnite Vultures now more than any album of his except possibly Odelay, though I don't like it nearly as much as I did at 20.

― miccio (miccio), Friday, 3 December 2004 02:04 (twenty-one years ago)

I wrote a reappraisal of Beck and specifically Midnite Vultures a year ago on my site. I over-used the all-caps but it basically sums up my logic for the backlash (at least my own).

― miccio (miccio), Friday, 3 December 2004 02:09 (twenty-one years ago)

let's not get too crazy with backlash talk - dude did nearly win p&j a couple years back with his worst album yet. midnite vultures is still my fave, at the time i heard it at parties like crazy, everyone i knew liked it pretty much, it's "failure" seemed to be a result of the radio moment passing more than anything with the record. i haven't listened to it in at least four years though so i could be wrong, nate defintely has me wondering. still hearing 'sexx lawws' at indie rock karaoke two days after the election it sounded great to me (and i always thought that was by far the weakest cut on the album) and the hook "i-i-i want to defy-y the logic of all sex laws" seemed especially fucking relevant.

― cinniblount (James Blount), Friday, 3 December 2004 02:19 (twenty-one years ago)

"Hollywood Freakz" sounds incredible in my head right now

my sales go triplllle...

― miccio (miccio), Friday, 3 December 2004 02:29 (twenty-one years ago)

Well, actually I don't know if it's a problem with "aging poorly" as much as it is me missing the late '90s yet realizing we can't really get them back. Then again, I did put together a bastardized version replacing some of the more boring/clumsy tracks with a few b-sides and other stuff he did around '99/'00 that coheres a lot better:

1) Sexx Laws
2) Nicotine & Gravy
3) This Is My Crew*
4) Mixed Bizness
5) Get Real Paid
6) Hollywood Freaks
7) Arabian Nights*
8) Dirty Dirty*
9) Salt in the Wound*
10) Pressure Zone
11) Beautiful Way
12) Midnite Vultures*
13) Debra

*denotes b-side that is 100x better than "Peaches & Cream"

― MC Transmaniacon (natepatrin), Friday, 3 December 2004 03:17 (twenty-one years ago)

"This Is My Crew" is Spike Jones as Mantronix; "Arabian Nights" has him rapping like the thalidomide baby of Kool Keith and Jim Henson; "Dirty Dirty" is Timbalike slow-jam pop-lock that y'all'd worship if Xtina sang over it; "Salt in the Wound" is "Devil's Haircut" finally perfected; "Midnite Vultures" is spoken-word beatnik stuff which mentions Botox before it became a household comedy punchline and also -- this is the important part -- sounds like Steely Dan.

― MC Transmaniacon (natepatrin), Friday, 3 December 2004 03:27 (twenty-one years ago)

May I only POII for now, out of laziness? OK, two "minor" songs, off a "minor" album, but durn purty: "Cyanide Breath Mint" and "Painted Eyelids".

― Collardio Gelatinous (collardio), Friday, 3 December 2004 03:58 (twenty-one years ago)

three years pass...

rowboat
loser
outcome
puttin it down
modesto
forcefield
beercan
atmospheric conditions
sweet sunshine
totally confused

(all 1994)

― nicky lo-fi, Monday, 7 July 2008 01:25 (seventeen years ago)

1. Loser
2. Debra
3. Where It's At
4. Devil's Haircut
5. Nobody's Fault But My Own
6. Hell Yes
7. jack Ass
8. Novacane
9. Motherfucker
10. Get Real Paid

― undeadsinatra, Monday, 7 July 2008 02:22 (seventeen years ago)

Beercan
Loser
Where It's At
Devil's Haircut
Rental Car
Brazilica
Deadweight
Girl
Feel Good Time
Qué Onda Guero

― Mr. Snrub, Monday, 7 July 2008 02:30 (seventeen years ago)

1. Loser
2. Mutherfuker
3. Novacaine
4. Where It's At
5. Lost Cause
6. Sweet Sunshine
7. High 5 (Rock The Catskills)
8. Guess I'm Doing Fine
9. Think I'm In Love
10. Satan Gave Me A Taco

― Whiney G. Weingarten, Monday, 7 July 2008 02:53 (seventeen years ago)

seven months pass...

At this particular moment, I can't honestly go with anything other than "Diamond Bollucks" x 10.

― billstevejim, Tuesday, 10 February 2009 02:27 (seventeen years ago)

bollocks.. sorry

― billstevejim, Tuesday, 10 February 2009 02:27 (seventeen years ago)

how does no one have Truckdrivin' Neighbors Downstairs?

― autosocratic asphyxiation (Hurting 2), Tuesday, 10 February 2009 03:20 (seventeen years ago)

i'd throw together 5 tracks from mutations and 5 from sea change. i don't listen to the others so much anymore.

― Charlie Howard, Tuesday, 10 February 2009 04:37 (seventeen years ago)

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