Late Night Music Club with Beck
By bluegal Saturday Aug 16, 2008 11:00pm
From his new album, Modern Guilt.
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From his new album, Modern Guilt.
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The Rutles
Cheese And Onions
I love Beck's recent Lee Hazlewood cover of the song Forget Marie!
RIP La La La La Lee!
Go Beck!
License to Kill ~ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4EpTBpS5wBU
Iggy And The Stooges
Raw Power
Beck is always great. Excellent choice of music tonight !
Thanks, Andy, for that Rutles tune. You always deliver when it comes to spotlighting neat songs and videos.
New York Dolls
Subway Train
Thanks, calgarylady!
Velvet Underground
Rock & Roll
Try that again!
Rock & Roll
Black Sabbath
Sweet Leaf
could somebody please explain beck's appeal? i have never been able to understand his music's popularity. i find it dissonant and contrived, and at times a rip-off and absurd (devil's haircut?!?! WTF?). maybe it is something lacking in me, but no matter how hard i try i cannot find any redeeming qualities in his music.
Alice Cooper
Under My Wheels
Greg, have you listened to his disc "Sea Change"?
I don't like his other cds, but Sea Change is fantastic.
greg@9
I think it's a hipster douchebag thing...Not that the guy has never done good things, because there are songs I like, but at some point the hipster douchebags annointed Beck as the savior, and now they just won't back off the annointment.
Mott The Hoople
All The Young Dudes
craig @ 11:
i'll give it a try, but i'm inclined to agree with andy K, "t’s a hipster douchebag thing".
cheers
Slade
Gudbuy T'Jane
Golden Earring
Radar Love
David Essex
Rock On
T Rex
Children Of The Revolution
RE: Greg@9 & Andy@12 -- I agree it's a hipster douchebag thing, but perhaps also a Scientology thing. I get the creeps when I hear Beck, wondering how the hell he can believe in that crap, and about the real inspiration for his music. How a Scientologist can be an idol of hipster douchebags is beyond me.
David_H@18
Yeah, I wasn't gonna bring up the S-word. Don't want Amato to get sued or anything. ;D
The Faces
Stay With Me
Beck was born into Scientology, so he didn't really have much say in the matter growing up. And, according to his late friends, the filmmaker couple who committed suicide, Beck was desperately trying to get out. He denies that now.
I don't like Modern Guilt much, or most of his newer stuff.. He released two indy, lo-fi albums earlier in his career that were really great. "Stereopathetic Soulmanure" and "One Foot in the Grave." Johnny Cash and Tom Petty both covered songs from those releases. Highly, highly recommended.
Hi Greg,
I'm no hipster, but I love Beck -- despite some songs of his that I find hard on the ears, and the fact that he's a Scientologist. (Which I find really bizarre.)
One thing I love is his sense of humor. I saw him play at the Santa Monica Civic years ago, and I have never laughed so much during a concert. He was hilarious, break dancing, wearing goofy costumes, etc.
Second is his mastery of many different styles of music. Though he doesn't focus on blues or rock or hip-hop or cocktail lounge music, he could do well at any of them.
Sea Change? Great music, but probably the most depressing album I've ever listened to.
Dissonant, absurd? Yes! An aquired taste? For sure. A rip-off? Not at all. Beck's one of the most creative and original artists I've ever heard.
Andy K,
How pretentiously annoying of you. Hipster douchebag?
Give me a break.
Beck is so Vain that he probably doesn't think Carly Simon should het songwriting credit got this one. Jeez, could you be a little less obvious!!!
I got 2 e-meters and a brainwashed clone
There's only one Beck, and his first name is Jeff.
Hipster douchebag???
FUCK OFF! Beck is the shit!....and who cares if he's a scientologist, thats his business.
All his albums are great and so is Modern Guilt. Beck creates good original music which is sorely lacking in the music world today.
And give some props to DangerMouse for producing this album.
Killdozer
"Hamburger Martyr"
sphinx@24
Hee hee....There was no small amount of intended irony in my statement there. I comment here a lot, too, where the term "hipster douchebag" is tossed around- and worn with glee- like a string of mardi gras beads.
So I'll admit to some pretentiousness, just not in the manner you probably meant! :D
bushsuckcheney@28
Spoken like a true fanboy. While it's true that Beck does hit the refresh button more than most bands/musicians out there today, he doesn't do so enough, IMO. Frankly, every now and then he seems like he's treading water.
Sampled George H.W. Bush ('I'm a fighter. I'm a winner...) on 'Loser'. Always thought it was obvious that Beck (or SOMEBODY - ANYBODY) should do a 'Loser' remake/cover sampling George W. Bush (I'm the decider. Fool me once...). Doesn't that just seem WAY obvious? Anyone out there up for making 'Loser '08'?
Air
Cherry Blossom Girl
Beck has also written a song about chemtrails.
Slayer
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GZSbIwE_BKM&feature=related
Freedom of Speech, Freedom of Religion, Freedom from Religion ;D
Nice tone, and the drummer is ace ...
Greg says: could somebody please explain beck’s appeal? i have never been able to understand his music’s popularity. i find it dissonant and contrived, and at times a rip-off and absurd (devil’s haircut?!?! WTF?). maybe it is something lacking in me, but no matter how hard i try i cannot find any redeeming qualities in his music.
Listen, if someone has to EXPLAIN it to you, you just don't have what it takes. It is definitely something lacking in you.
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