Beck Album Poll/Free Stress Test

[Chris L]

Hurry up and vote before Anonymous shows up and protests. 

[gravy boat]

I like Sea Change. Moody. Stripped down.

I have read some of Dianetics.  When I moved into a house recently, there was about 4 boxes of old books in the attic, including a first-edition Dianetics.  Yeah, I'm bragging.

[John Junk 2.0]

Oh Man, it's a lo-fi vs. Maximalist clash in my mind of One Foot in the Grave vs. Midnite Vultures, but I pick One Foot.

Stereopathetic is great too.

[Pat K]

Odelay, with One Foot In The Grave and Mutations close behind. And I mean CLOSE.

And I have read Dianetics cover to cover, along with many other of Mr. Hubbard's opuses. My personal favorite is "Have You Lived Before This Life?", which is a collection of supposedly true - but obviously fictional - reminiscences of past lives that scientologists supposedly were able to tap into during scientology auditing sessions. Each chapter is supposedly the case study of a different scientologist's past lives, kept anonymous for privacy reasons, but all of the stories and plot points are obviously Hubbard-ian. (i.e. "I was a pizza delivery man on the planet Zeeb 4,494 trillion years ago.") If you ever see it on eBay, I highly recommend it.

[Gilly]

Mutations.

[John Junk 2.0]

I"m pretty psyched at the love "Vultures" is getting.  I consider this the Real Beck's swan song.  Milk & Honey is fucking sick.

[Shaggy 2 Grote]

Vultures would probably be my #2, after Mellow Gold. 

I love the subject heading, Chris L.  I went into the NYC Scientology center and took one of those because I wanted to know what my IQ was, and had to sit through a number of interminable videos and conversations about what an asshole I was.  I was like, "I know, I know, when do we get to the IQ test?"

[iAmBaronVonTito]

it depends, as an adult it is Sea Change.  it fit my lifestyle and my emotions at the time. 

but if im in reminiscent mood, i always shuffle between Odelay, Mellow Gold, and Midnight Vultures.  although, i like Mutations...this is hard. 

i can't do this!

[jbissell]

I haven't listened to Midnite Vultures in a while so I might be getting my songs confused, but for some reason that sound of the sword being unsheathed at the beginning of "Pressure Zone" kills me every time.

[Gilly]

Mutations is top ten, maybe top 5 of all-time for me. That album came out at exactly the right time and kind of shaped my taste in music. Odelay isn't that far behind it though. But, in truth there are only two Beck albums I don't like- Guero and The Information. If Guero never saw the light of day and we only ever were able to hear Guerolito there would be only one Beck album I don't like.

[ericluxury]

I am no fan of all-melancholy Beck albums. He does it okay, but I've already got 2,000 Will Oldham albums to listen to occasionally.

[Chris L]

I'm glad The Information has received at least one vote so far as I liked it.   Midnite Vultures is definitely my favorite.  It's still better, weirder and funnier than anything I've heard from Prince in the last ten years or so (although I'd be happy if someone proved me wrong)

[Pat K]

I was never a huge Vultures fan, but I've always loved the crazy-ass b-sides from that record, especially "This Is My Crew" and the song that's just a crank call to a plastic surgeon about getting a tail removed. If that entire album had been as crazy and over-the-top as those 2 songs it would probably be my favorite record ever.

[senorcorazon]

I'm starting to get the more recent ones confused. I feel like it was easy when the schedule was clearly FUNKY, EMO, FUNKY, EMO. Maybe I just don't have enough time to really listen to the albums now or they're starting to bleed together.

I voted Odelay. I know, it's like saying Nevermind was Nirvana's best album. But it really is a solid collection and the point where his music upped the game. And then had a string of three great albums after it and two solid ones before it.

(E) All of the Above.

[Martin]

Mellow Gold is the only one I've ever really listened to.