― treechewer (Maximillions), Monday, 2 October 2006 03:40 (eighteen years ago) link
and the answer is X3nu, obv.
― Zwan (miccio), Monday, 2 October 2006 03:43 (eighteen years ago) link
― chaki (chaki), Monday, 2 October 2006 03:55 (eighteen years ago) link
― gear (gear), Monday, 2 October 2006 04:14 (eighteen years ago) link
― Marmot (marmotwolof), Monday, 2 October 2006 04:18 (eighteen years ago) link
― Glen Goetze (GlenGoetze), Monday, 2 October 2006 04:30 (eighteen years ago) link
― Marmot (marmotwolof), Monday, 2 October 2006 04:32 (eighteen years ago) link
― anthony easton (anthony), Monday, 2 October 2006 04:34 (eighteen years ago) link
Being a newbie, it seemed necessary to me that I digest Odelay, in the same way that other arrivistes feel like they have to read City of Quartz. It wasn’t that I loved all the kitchen-sink sampling and polyglot cultural poses so much; sometimes, as with the city itself, I wondered what, if anything was at the center of all that shiny stuff. But Odelay was such a part of the landscape, I felt like I needed to understand it if I was going to understand my new home. What’s that reference? Who’s he talking about? Am I supposed to understand this?
Then there was the matter of Beck himself: the young, flaxen-haired waif; the wide-eyed, backpack-kid-turned-improbable-boy-wonder who had pockets full of fairy dust and eyes that pierced your heart. The smart chicks wanted to take him home, and the smart guys all had stories about knowing him, you know, before. Everybody loved what he seemed to represent. He was an icon for the new, golden age of discovery.
*barf*
― real savage-like (Jody Beth Rosen), Monday, 2 October 2006 04:40 (eighteen years ago) link
― gear (gear), Monday, 2 October 2006 04:46 (eighteen years ago) link
― real savage-like (Jody Beth Rosen), Monday, 2 October 2006 04:56 (eighteen years ago) link
Interviewer asks flaxen-haired waif about da old days. f-hw misses dem days. Lots of tedium ensues. Dude says a couple of interesting things about making modern music and "Loser", more tedium ensues. Questions get worse, Beck gets annoyed, I started skimming at that point.
― cosmo vitelli (cosmo vitelli), Monday, 2 October 2006 05:01 (eighteen years ago) link
― real savage-like (Jody Beth Rosen), Monday, 2 October 2006 05:05 (eighteen years ago) link
Well, that’s just a misconception. It’s like saying somebody who is Jewish can’t be a sailor or something. I don’t know. The two have nothing to do with each other.
Seems like people have trouble wrapping their heads around that.
Well, I don’t encounter any of that on a personal level.
You haven’t come across any...
Just journalists, usually.
OH SNAP
― cosmo vitelli (cosmo vitelli), Monday, 2 October 2006 05:05 (eighteen years ago) link
― real savage-like (Jody Beth Rosen), Monday, 2 October 2006 05:07 (eighteen years ago) link
― real savage-like (Jody Beth Rosen), Monday, 2 October 2006 05:10 (eighteen years ago) link
x-post
― Zwan (miccio), Monday, 2 October 2006 05:11 (eighteen years ago) link
Were the Beastie Boys important to you?
Yeah, I remember in the circles I ran in they were more of a college, sort of frat-rock thing on that first record. And when the second one came out, I think I was living in New York and all the kids living on the Lower East Side would have never admitted in a million years that they liked the Beastie Boys. But I remember at one point people saying that they loved that record, that that record’s amazing, their second record [Paul’s Boutique].
Yeah, and Paul's Boutique seems like it couldn’t have happened anywhere except in L.A.
― cosmo vitelli (cosmo vitelli), Monday, 2 October 2006 05:12 (eighteen years ago) link
― gear (gear), Monday, 2 October 2006 05:16 (eighteen years ago) link
― i'll mitya halfway (mitya), Monday, 2 October 2006 05:17 (eighteen years ago) link
Yorke demonstrates that Beck, as a scientologist, has attempted to convert both him and Godrich (an influential and renowned music producer).
― Tiki Theater Xymposium (Bent Over at the Arclight), Monday, 2 October 2006 05:37 (eighteen years ago) link
http://alansands.com/images/hypnotist.jpg
― cosmo vitelli (cosmo vitelli), Monday, 2 October 2006 05:48 (eighteen years ago) link
― Bob Six (bobbysix), Monday, 2 October 2006 06:39 (eighteen years ago) link
yeah, I know. Fill in the rest yersel.
― mark grout (mark grout), Monday, 2 October 2006 06:39 (eighteen years ago) link
am i the only one who's not surprised he's a scientologist? usually i have no idea why people buy into that sort of thing but for beck it kinda makes sense to me. if he wrote a song describing the xenu story, i think it would fit in pretty well with the rest of his lyrics.
― adam j (In Place of Something Clever), Monday, 2 October 2006 08:11 (eighteen years ago) link
― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Monday, 2 October 2006 08:33 (eighteen years ago) link
― eh (fandango), Monday, 2 October 2006 08:51 (eighteen years ago) link
― Baaderonixx in the year of the locusts (baaderonixx), Monday, 2 October 2006 08:57 (eighteen years ago) link
― treechewer (Maximillions), Monday, 2 October 2006 13:17 (eighteen years ago) link
― treechewer (Maximillions), Monday, 2 October 2006 13:20 (eighteen years ago) link
And stop eating records because it's doing things to your digestive system.
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 2 October 2006 13:22 (eighteen years ago) link
and yes, donnelly, that was a profoundly inappropriate metaphor (where no metaphor was required in the first place)
― Charlie Howard (the sphinx), Monday, 2 October 2006 13:26 (eighteen years ago) link
ned speaks truth.
― real savage-like (Jody Beth Rosen), Monday, 2 October 2006 13:35 (eighteen years ago) link
― A-ron Hubbard (Hurting), Monday, 2 October 2006 13:42 (eighteen years ago) link
If anything I see more of a Beefheart thing going on, maybe because of the L.A Times review that called it the Trout Mask Replica of the 90's. I though that was a pretty good comparison but I'll prob be flamed for this.
― Baaderonixx in the year of the locusts (baaderonixx), Monday, 2 October 2006 13:47 (eighteen years ago) link
― tigertiger (tigertiger), Monday, 2 October 2006 13:59 (eighteen years ago) link
― thank you for shopping at wal-mart (section241), Monday, 2 October 2006 14:08 (eighteen years ago) link
― 6335 (6335), Monday, 2 October 2006 14:57 (eighteen years ago) link
― Eppy (Eppy), Monday, 2 October 2006 14:58 (eighteen years ago) link
― held tony (held tony), Monday, 2 October 2006 15:01 (eighteen years ago) link
otm. smokey is a nice guy also.
― sleeve version 2.0 (sleeve testing), Monday, 2 October 2006 15:11 (eighteen years ago) link
― You've Got Scourage On Your Breath (Haberdager), Monday, 2 October 2006 15:21 (eighteen years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 2 October 2006 15:23 (eighteen years ago) link
And by "Dylan-bop" I guess I mean "Dylanesque", but with the hip-hop fringes--a half-assed portmanteau. Also sort of a play on "diddy-bop", though not much relation beyond the aural there.
― treechewer (Maximillions), Monday, 2 October 2006 15:25 (eighteen years ago) link
(you can get down off the ceiling now)
Out of interest, don't you work in a university as well?
― You've Got Scourage On Your Breath (Haberdager), Monday, 2 October 2006 15:31 (eighteen years ago) link
― You've Got Scourage On Your Breath (Haberdager), Monday, 2 October 2006 15:32 (eighteen years ago) link
― sunny successor (katharine), Monday, 2 October 2006 16:44 (eighteen years ago) link
i dunno, it's hard to say beck w/o the Scientology angle coming up.i feel bad for him, like he's talented but been led astray...oh, well, good thing that i'll never have to worry about that stuff.
― edde (edde), Monday, 2 October 2006 17:59 (eighteen years ago) link
― Treblekicker (treblekicker), Monday, 2 October 2006 18:39 (eighteen years ago) link
― Marmot (marmotwolof), Monday, 2 October 2006 21:34 (eighteen years ago) link
Personally, I can't listen to him anymore because of the voice - when he's trying to croon it grates so badly. ('Nausea' good though).
― Huey in Melbourne (Huey in Melbourne), Wednesday, 4 October 2006 03:57 (eighteen years ago) link
Which is far more appropriate.
― gear (gear), Wednesday, 4 October 2006 04:03 (eighteen years ago) link
― gear (gear), Wednesday, 4 October 2006 04:05 (eighteen years ago) link
OTM. Also, he was the "male lesbian" in The L Word, ugh.
― Marmot (marmotwolof), Wednesday, 4 October 2006 05:36 (eighteen years ago) link
truer words have rarely been spoken...religion=the downfall of humanity.
― edde (edde), Wednesday, 4 October 2006 12:56 (eighteen years ago) link
― Brooker Buckingham (Brooker B), Wednesday, 4 October 2006 13:01 (eighteen years ago) link
http://www.indamixworldwide.com/html/images/indamix/housecalls/martin%20Luther%20King%202.jpg http://img.timeinc.net/time/time100/images/main_gandhi.jpg
― Mark (MarkR), Wednesday, 4 October 2006 13:03 (eighteen years ago) link
― edde (edde), Wednesday, 4 October 2006 13:07 (eighteen years ago) link
― A-ron Hubbard (Hurting), Wednesday, 4 October 2006 15:37 (eighteen years ago) link
The Greeks might have thought differently.
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 4 October 2006 15:37 (eighteen years ago) link
"STUDENT HAT" ROFFLE
― you win again, gravity! (tissp), Wednesday, 4 October 2006 15:48 (eighteen years ago) link
― Eppy (Eppy), Wednesday, 4 October 2006 16:01 (eighteen years ago) link
HOW TO HANDLE PROBLEMS Celebrity 220 1988-08-01
― Tiki Theater Xymposium (Bent Over at the Arclight), Wednesday, 4 October 2006 16:03 (eighteen years ago) link
― Eppy (Eppy), Wednesday, 4 October 2006 16:04 (eighteen years ago) link
what have 95% of history's wars been based (at least on top) on?
(other 5%=land, resources, politics)
― edde (edde), Wednesday, 4 October 2006 16:48 (eighteen years ago) link
― deej.. (deej..), Wednesday, 4 October 2006 16:56 (eighteen years ago) link
― A-ron Hubbard (Hurting), Wednesday, 4 October 2006 17:01 (eighteen years ago) link
BECKTHE INFORMATIONRELEASED MONDAY, OCTOBER 2 IN THE UKDENIED ENTRY ON UK CHARTS
Beck's The Information was released Monday, October 2 in the UK (and was released yesterday in the U.S.).
Come next week, no matter how high its first week sales, The Information will not be charting in the UK due to a bizarre ruling by the UK's Official Chart Company.
According to the OCC, The Information's packaging innovations--which have drawn early raves such as "Bonus points for the accompanying DVD and stickers that let CD buyers create their own customized covers" (WIRED)--render the record ineligible to chart in the UK.
Ironically, the DVD of homemade videos for every song on The Information and the four random sticker sets designed by artists handpicked by Beck have been construed by the OCC as an "unfair advantage"--rather than what they actually are: unique and forward-thinking additional facets that expand the album experience beyond the purchase of a plastic disc.
Beck is currently on tour in the U.S. through late October.
― that's so taylrr (ken taylrr), Wednesday, 4 October 2006 17:02 (eighteen years ago) link
― scott seward (scott seward), Wednesday, 4 October 2006 17:11 (eighteen years ago) link
well, these wars are obviously based on athletic and musical prowess, crowd draw, beer sales, and general hooligany.
― edde (edde), Wednesday, 4 October 2006 17:19 (eighteen years ago) link
― ()()()---()()() (internet), Wednesday, 4 October 2006 18:37 (eighteen years ago) link
what you mean like the Peloponesian War or the American Civil War or World Wars I and II or the Napoleonic Wars or all the wars the Romans started or the Mongol invasions of the 13th century or the Russian Civil War or the Vietnam War or or or...? Come on man, be reasonable.
― Shakey Mo Collier (Shakey Mo Collier), Wednesday, 4 October 2006 19:12 (eighteen years ago) link
― Shakey Mo Collier (Shakey Mo Collier), Wednesday, 4 October 2006 19:13 (eighteen years ago) link
― Shakey Mo Collier (Shakey Mo Collier), Wednesday, 4 October 2006 19:17 (eighteen years ago) link
― s1ocki (slutsky), Wednesday, 4 October 2006 20:16 (eighteen years ago) link
― edde (edde), Wednesday, 4 October 2006 20:34 (eighteen years ago) link
― cosmo vitelli (cosmo vitelli), Wednesday, 4 October 2006 20:43 (eighteen years ago) link
― Dr. Alicia D. Titsovich (sexyDancer), Wednesday, 4 October 2006 20:44 (eighteen years ago) link
Stereopathetic SoulmanureOne Foot in the GraveMellow GoldMidnite Vultures
Middle of the road Beck albums:
OdelayMutations
Shitty Beck albums:
Sea ChangeGuero The Information
― Lee is Free (Lee is Free), Wednesday, 4 October 2006 20:49 (eighteen years ago) link
― cosmo vitelli (cosmo vitelli), Wednesday, 4 October 2006 20:56 (eighteen years ago) link
Great Beck AlbumsOdelayMutationsMellow Gold
Good Beck AlbumsMidnite VulturesStereopathetic SoulmanureMellow GoldGueroThe Information
Shitty or Middle of the road Beck Albums:None yet.
― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Wednesday, 4 October 2006 23:45 (eighteen years ago) link
― Eppy (Eppy), Thursday, 5 October 2006 02:15 (eighteen years ago) link
Most of the time it's over abstracts and intangables like "freedom" and "terror" and "God."
But usually those are just code words for money.
― Period period period (Period period period), Thursday, 5 October 2006 06:13 (eighteen years ago) link
― mark grout (mark grout), Thursday, 5 October 2006 09:46 (eighteen years ago) link
no, sir.i am edde.i go on badly informed diatribes.sometimes they maintain a point, usually not.
― edde (edde), Thursday, 5 October 2006 15:27 (eighteen years ago) link
His best since "Mutations", I'd say, which also happens to be my favourite Beck record (along with "Odelay")
― Erock Lazron (Erock Zombie), Thursday, 5 October 2006 23:54 (eighteen years ago) link
Idiot fans.
― Arno Oliver Bedder (noodle vague), Thursday, 5 October 2006 23:55 (eighteen years ago) link
― Erock Lazron (Erock Zombie), Friday, 6 October 2006 16:19 (eighteen years ago) link
― Charlie Howard (the sphinx), Friday, 6 October 2006 16:22 (eighteen years ago) link
-- Arno Oliver Bedder (noodle_vagu...), October 5th, 2006.
nah, man, that's Malkmus's problem!
― edde (edde), Friday, 6 October 2006 19:28 (eighteen years ago) link
― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Friday, 6 October 2006 20:39 (eighteen years ago) link
― LC (Damian), Friday, 6 October 2006 21:19 (eighteen years ago) link
If you don't buy "The Information" new, then you will not have the opportunity to design your own cover. So there! :)
― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Friday, 6 October 2006 23:44 (eighteen years ago) link
― latebloomer (latebloomer), Friday, 6 October 2006 23:54 (eighteen years ago) link
Speaking of music, I still prefer Rob Hubbar to L. Ron Hubbard though. :)
― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Saturday, 7 October 2006 00:04 (eighteen years ago) link
xpost: I think Prince had a brief flirtation with Scientology, but it didn't take (thank god).
― Telephonething (Telephonething), Saturday, 7 October 2006 00:05 (eighteen years ago) link
― Telephonething (Telephonething), Saturday, 7 October 2006 00:08 (eighteen years ago) link
More Scientology stuff:B: If you want to know something about it, I wouldn't go on the Internet. I was raised Jewish, my grandfather was a Presbyterian minister; I've been exposed to a lot of different ideas. I have a lot of good friends in Japan who are Shinto, and I've been to a lot of temples. The idea of tolerance is important. I think that's important, to give people the benefit of the doubt. It's like anything that's kind of new or people don't know about: They'll fill in the void. I think people would be surprised. There's aspects of it that go into areas that are very concrete, community-based grassroots kind of stuff—helping with education, and there's a lot of programs in prisons and stuff, drug rehabilitation, humanitarian kind of stuff that you don't hear about.
― Marmot (marmotwolof), Wednesday, 11 October 2006 04:18 (eighteen years ago) link
A bit more solid than Guero, but lacking a distinct hit like on Guero. Not that the latter is bad.. just an observation.
The third song on The Information is really nice... there are a couple of REALLY bad ones, the freestyle sounding one especially, and the one where the percussion tries to be all weird, which instead sounds like it should have been a 30-second interlude instead.. over all, this sounds like Beck going through the motions. It's another immediately gratifying and subsequently immediately tiring Beck record... except the gratification part doesn't reach as high.
(Sea Change is still the only Beck album I go back to... which isn't too often, but it's better than never going back, like the others.)
― 0xDOX0RNUTX0RX0RSDABITFIELDXOR^0xDEADBEEFDEADBEEF00001 (donut), Wednesday, 11 October 2006 04:26 (eighteen years ago) link