What Are You Listening To Right This Very Second?

[Steve of Bloomington]

I know the history, but I'm basing my official "embracing" point on the release of Sea Change, where, although he had always been around scientology, he finally dumped his non-scientologist girlfriend via scientologist intervention, made a crappy, over-produced soft-rock album, and jumped the shark whilst inadvertently(?) sending album-cover-designer Jeremy Blake into a paranoid downward spiral that resulted in a crazy-ass double-suicide, then went on tour with the Flaming Lips and got totally upstaged by them.

The Theresa Duncan/Jeremy Blake double suicide thing is why I just can't listen to Beck anymore.  Inadvertent or not, when I'm hearing 'Beercan', I'm envisioning somebody discovering Jeremy Blake's remains.

I don't know if you intended this post to be funny, but now I'm thinking of a dead body washing up on the shore and those weird voices at the end of "Beercan": "Awwww Yeah.  My goodness!" Am I sick for thinking that's funny?

I laughed at yr comment, maybe we are both sick.

[dave from knoxville]

Joan as Policewoman

[Andy]

my toe throbbing.

[Shaggy 2 Grote]

I saw that cutlery/glassware percussion thing live and it was pretty impressive.  I also liked that it was a funny bit of stagecraft, with the backing band "taking a dinner break" on stage. 

I'm fairly ambivalent about Beck.  It's hard to get excited about him anymore, but that might just be because of the high degree of output.  I liked that album "Guero" a lot, but wasn't crazy about "Sea Change" or "The Information."  And while I like the idea of him working with Danger Mouse, I feel like he's biting on the whole garage/psychedelia revival thing that Terre T (among others) has been championing.

And, in the time it's taken me to write this: Lil' Wayne, "You Cant (Remix)" -> The Tokeleys, "Jonathan Tokeley Parry" -> Lou Reed, "I'm So Free."

[Beth]

I saw that cutlery/glassware percussion thing live and it was pretty impressive.  I also liked that it was a funny bit of stagecraft, with the backing band "taking a dinner break" on stage. 

I'm fairly ambivalent about Beck.  It's hard to get excited about him anymore, but that might just be because of the high degree of output.  I liked that album "Guero" a lot, but wasn't crazy about "Sea Change" or "The Information." 

I agree with you about the high degree of output, but that's kinda why I prefer albums like Sea Change and Mutations.  They (for the most part) hold back from the usual "garbage-can-face-chewin-on-a-lightbulb" type lyrics, which are at first cool, but after 5 or 6 albums of that, anything which take on a slower, more melodic feeling is in my mind a refreshing break. Granted, he blatantly ripped off Serge Gainsbourg's "Melody" for the song "Paper Tiger" but I'd still rather listen to Sea Change than most other Beck albums these days.

[Matt]

I like Guero and the first half of Midnite Vultures. The rest can go jump in a lake.

[Chris L]

I like Guero and the first half of Midnite Vultures. The rest can go jump in a lake.

Time to settle this shit, pollstyle.

[Martin]

Isaac Hayes covers/samples (coming soon to a podcast near you).

[cutout]

English Beat - Save it for Later

[masterofsparks]

God Bless the Drunkard's Dog by PW Long. Found it in a Louisville store. Love it.

[yesno]

I want a poll. Sea Change is in the top three of Beck albums, I think. I'm not a big fan of his wacky music.

[Gibby]

Racebannon, Acid or Blood?

Hmm. Not entirely sure about this. I suppose a band has the right to slow down and groove it up a bit but I want the hairburning terror of Satan's Kickin Yr Dick In or In The Grips Of The Light.

[iAmBaronVonTito]

crunchy pear bites

[AllisonLeGnome]

Fugazi - Arpeggiator

[Andy]

laughter