Beck
One of the most inventive and eclectic figures to emerge from the '90s alternative revolution, Beck was the epitome of postmodern chic in an era obsessed with junk culture. Drawing upon a kaleidoscope of influences -- pop, folk, psychedelia, hip-hop, country, blues, R&B, funk, indie rock, noise rock, experimental rock, jazz, lounge, and Brazilian music -- Beck created a body of work that was wildly unpredictable, vibrantly messy, and bursting with ideas. He was unquestionably a product of the media age, a synthesist whose concoctions w...[more]
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Three years in the making, The Information is the album Beck began working on in 2003 with producer Nigel Godrich (Radiohead's OK Computer, Kid A, Beck's Sea Change, Mutations) and finally completed this year once Guero's massive success and encore touring engagements, as well as Nigel's other commitments, were fulfilled. The Information is comprised of 15 songs and a DVD featuring homemade videos for each of the 15 songs shot in-studio during the actual sess [ read more ]
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Beck has always been known for his ever-changing moods ? particularly since they often arrived one after another on one album, sometimes within one song ? yet the shift between the neon-glitz of "Midnite Vultures" and the lush, somber "Sea Change" is startling, and not just because it finds him in full-on singer/songwriter mode, abandoning all of the postmodern pranksterism of its predecessor. What's startling about "Sea Change" is how it brings everything that's run beneath the surface of Beck's music to t [ read more ]
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#88 Seller of 2005! After Beck's critically acclaimed and heart-wrenching opus Sea Change, three-time Grammy winner returns with his most diverse, accomplished and compelling work to date. This release marks the return of former collaborators, The Dust Brothers, and Beck's return to his signature 'junkyard-funk' sound of releases past. This release is sure to make you move! "The rhythmic jolts make the malaise more compelling and complex, with enough playful musical wit to hint at a next step. Beck isn't tr [ read more ]
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Genre hopping wunderkind, Beck is back with a new album,Modern Guilt, produced by Brian "Danger Mouse" Burton. The new album contains 10 new songs, and with the exception of last year's Grammy-nominated, digital-only single "Timebomb", Modern Guilt is the first new material Beck has written since the prolific stretch that produced 2005's platinum Guero and 2006's universally acclaimed The Information. Modern Guilt is a tightly assembled group of songs that range in lyrical tone fro [ read more ]
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Unlike Stereopathetic Soul Manure and One Foot in the Grave, the indie albums that followed his debut Mellow Gold by a mere matter of months, Odelay was a full-fledged, full-bodied album, released on a major label in the summer of 1996 and bearing an intricate, meticulous production by the Dust Brothers in their first gig since the Beastie Boys' Paul's Boutique. Odelay shared a similar collage structure to that 1989 masterpiece, relying on a blend of found sounds and samples, but ins [ read more ]
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Beck presents Guerolito a fully reworked version of his latest album, featuring remixes by the Beastie Boys' Ad-Rock, the Dust Brothers' John King and Scottish electronic duo Boards of Canada, amongst others. Beck had this to say about about Guerolito, "I just wanted a reason to type ?Guerolito?. Although I like Guero, I prefer many of the remixed songs to the originals." TRACKLIST: 'E-Pro' (remixed by Homelife) / 'Que Onda Guero' (remixed by Islands) / 'Girl' (remixed by O [ read more ]
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Odelay is the sound of an artist laying down the foundation of his future greatness by creating the vibes that you hear on the airwaves today. Beck always had one foot in past and the other one in sounds of manana. Disc Two of the Deluxe Edition showcases the remixes, outtakes and B-sides of Beck's unconventional nature. Everything from U.N.K.L.E's 12 minute remix of "Where It's At" to the mariachi flavored version of "Jack Ass" that cleverly closes this two disc set. -treblezine.com
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DELUXE EDITION. Includes all the songs from the Information, including 3 songs only available internationally, plus 6 remixes. All of the studio videos plus 2 of the bonus studio videos and the "Nausea" and "Cellphone's Dead" videos. This version also comes with blank graph paper and 4 sticker sheets. Three years in the making, The Information is the album Beck began working on in 2003 with producer Nigel Godrich (Radiohead's OK Computer, Kid A, Beck's Sea Change< [ read more ]
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For the fifteenth anniversary of the original release of One Foot In The Grave, this new edition contains sixteen bonus cuts, thirteen of which have never been released anywhere before! "Recorded before Mellow Gold, One Foot In The Grave showcases Beck as a postmodern folkie, and the results are revelatory. Stripped of the intoxicating production that dominated Mellow Gold, Beck's songs prove to be wonderful, vibrant tunes, teeming with emotion, haunting wordplay, an [ read more ]
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According to party line, neither Beck nor Geffen ever intended Mutations to be considered as the official follow-up to Odelay, his Grammy-winning breakthrough. It was more like One Foot in the Grave, designed to be an off-kilter, subdued collection of acoustic-based songs pitched halfway between psychedelic country blues and lo-fi folk. The presence of producer Nigel Godrich, the man who helmed Radiohead's acclaimed OK Computer, makes such claims dubious. Godrich is not a [ read more ]
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From its kaleidoscopic array of junk-culture musical styles to its assured, surrealistic wordplay, Beck's debut album, Mellow Gold, is a stunner. Throughout the record, Beck plays as if there are no divisions between musical genres, freely blending rock, rap, folk, psychedelia, and country. Although his inspired sense of humor occasionally plays like he's a smirking, irony-addled hipster, his music is never kitschy, and his wordplay is constantly inspired. Since Mellow Gold was pi [ read more ]
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With a visual style as messy and maddening as the musical foundation, Midnite Vultures is hardly for the faint-hearted or, indeed, anyone seeking consistency within individual songs, never mind an entire album. Beck Hansen snatches up threads from all kinds of directions, with the result that the record tends not to make consistent sense from one minute to the next - "Mixed Bizness" (the subject of a remix contest that left dozens of different versions floating around the Internet) begins with a ho [ read more ]
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