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Animals With Bananas

Tuesday, January 16th, 2007

Yes, a second apology for missing comments. A lot of real comments sometimes get lost in a wave of Spam comments.

To make it up, check this out:

http://music.yahoo.com/promo-31904706

Both Dave and I were there and had a blast, and that’s me on the right, as the “uberfan.” I’m in the Q&A as well. Enjoy! If you’d like, you can purchase the set from Yahoo directly.
Also if you haven’t heard, The Information Deluxe version is coming out sometime soon. Has some extras, remixes and lyrics and stickers. The only thing I’d really be interested in was more accurate song credits! Info on Info Deluxe at beck.com.

Otherwise, not sure what’s ahead for 2007. A short tour of Japan is in April, that’s the only real official activity scheduled. I know Beck’s recorded some tracks here and there for whatever… no idea what’ll happen with those. With Beck, who knows?

UPDATE 2007-02-06: Beck got bumped for John Legend on the page linked above. The Beck set can now be found at here.

From The Basement

Wednesday, December 6th, 2006

A new “show” of live music is being made available on iTunes as a podcast (or a vpodcast, I guess).  The music is all produced by Nigel Godrich, and stars many of his friends.  The first episode consists of Thom Yorke and The White Stripes.  Beck filmed his contribution when he was in London earlier this year, and I believe it is the second episode (along with Jamie Liddell).  The first episode launches soon.  More info:

http://fromthebasement.tv/

Beck Week In Southern California

Saturday, December 2nd, 2006

Beck is coming out of hiding this week to play a few gigs, here and there.  Well, mostly just here.  They’re all in southern California, and not all are open to the public.  On Wednesday Dec. 6, Beck is playing a private show for Yahoo, which will be on Yahoo! Music next month so everyone can watch it.  Yours truly will be there, writing a blog post about it for Yahoo.  :)  After that, there could be a fun secret club show but nothing’s set yet so if you’re around LA, keep your ears open.  Then Beck is playing KROQ’s annual Acoustic Christmas festival.  Then he is reportedly going to playing on Jimmy Kimmel’s TV show, so set your Tivos.

I’m going to try to do better updating this blog than I have, and I think Newt agrees to do the same.  I’ve just been really busy and Beck hasn’t been doing much since his tour ended.  But that shouldn’t stop us!

When The Information Comes, We’ll Know What We’re Made From

Sunday, October 1st, 2006

So it’s Information Week around the world.. if Beck’s new album isn’t out where you are already, it should be really soon. Nothing as fun as when a new album gets released. There’s 15 tracks on it, and depending on where you are, any number of the three bonus tracks (“Inside Out,” “Oh Menina,” and “This Girl That I Know”). Each CD comes with a DVD full of homemade videos for each song. The CD also comes with one of four sticker sets, with which you can make your own cover. Enjoy! If you want to mail a picture of your covers to this site, I guess they’ll be displayed. It seems like “Cell Phone’s Dead” and “Nausea” are going to be singles, but to what extent, I’m not sure (“real” videos were made for both) (fingers crossed for b-sides).
The band is doing a short US tour this month, with the idea of a fuller tour a bit later on. Go see them, they’re an energetic, fun, and tight band. I saw them last week and had a blast.

Looking to the future.. there obviously isn’t much talk about that yet. Beck was asked in a recent podcast/interview about that, and it sounds like he’ll be working Information for a bit.

Comin’ at you 1000 beats per minute

Saturday, September 9th, 2006

Sorry for the lack of updates.  Not that there hasn’t been anything going on.. there sure has!  And we’ve been working on different things for the site too.
The way Beck has been leaking out The Information has been really interesting.  He’s been putting up one or two songs at a time as a stream on Beck.com, rotating new stuff in and out.  Also, since the album will come with a disc of lo-fi homemade videos for every song, these videos have been showing up one by one on Beck.com, YouTube, etc.

At the moment this is what’s come out:

1. Elevator Music [Beck put the video on beck.com]
2. Think I’m In Love [Beck put the video on Youtube]
3. Cell Phone’s Dead [Beck put the song on beck.com]
4. Strange Apparition [Beck put the video on beck.com]
5. Soldier Jane [we only have live versions of this]
6. Nausea [buy the single at iTunes]
7. New Round [we only have a short snippet from a video sampler]
8. Dark Star [Beck put the video on his myspace page]
9. We Dance Alone [this was put on beck.com]
10. No Complaints [only a short snippet, though there is a live version around]
11. 1000 BPM [Beck put the video on beck.com; and plays the studio track during his concerts]
12. Motorcade [both the track and the video were put on Beck.com]
13. The Information [only have live versions]
14. Movie Theme [only have the video snippet, but there are a couple of live versions]
15. Horrible Fanfare / Landslide / Exoskeleton [Beck has played Landslide live, but that’s all we know of this]

The album is still out on October 3… not long now!

Looks like there will be some promotional tour dates later this fall (only a few have been announced so far in California).

Also, sorry if any Paper Tiger comments got lost… we get lots of Spam comments and I may have missed approving some in mass deleting the Spam.  Sorry if that happened.

The Information Information

Saturday, August 12th, 2006

Tracklist:

1. Elevator Music

2. Think I’m In Love

3. Cell Phone’s Dead

4. Nausea

5. Soldier Jane

6. Strange Apparition

7. Dark Star

8. Movie Theme

9. We Dance Alone

10. No Complaints

11. 1000 BPM

12. Motorcade

13. The Information

14. New Round

15. Horrible Fanfare / Landslide / Exoskeleton

The Information

Tuesday, August 8th, 2006

Beck’s new album is to be called The Information. It is set to released on October 2.

We don’t have a full track list for the album yet, but this is what we know:

1. “Cell Phone’s Dead” – first single, video by Michel Gondry

2. “Think I’m In Love” – a lo-fi video directed by Beck and Nigel Godrich popped up on youtube and beck.com shortly

3. “Nausea” – Beck gave the song to some skateboarding documentary to use in their trailer, a real video is coming too

4. “The Information” – since this is the name of the album, I guess that increases the chance it will be on the album (though it’s certainly possible it won’t be)

5. “Movie Theme” – Beck said on stage in June this was “from the new album,” for what that’s worth

6. “Soldier Jane” – same as #5

Those are closest things we have to certain guesses so far, I think. All the other songs he’s played live which he could choose from to end up on the album are “1000 BPM,” “Elevator Music,” “Time Bomb,” and “Landslide.” He could also reach back to his 2005 songs like “One, Two,” “Remain In The Dark,” or “We Dance Alone.” Beck also mentioned “The Girl From RIP-anema” as being from the album, but he said it so long ago and we haven’t heard of it again.

UPDATE: I wrote some of that too soon.  MTV has an article which indicates that videos are about for “1000 BPM,” “Movie Theme,” “That Girl,” and “No Complaints” and one with an unknown title.  So I guess add those to the list above?

UPDATE 2: Ghost meant “This Girl”, not “That Girl”. Also Beck.com and Beck’s MySpace both now have the video for “We Dance Alone”, so I guess that’s on there too. Still haven’t found the ones mentioned in the MTV article, though…

Hardware Defective

Saturday, July 22nd, 2006

The first single from Beck’s new album (no name, nor release date known, yet) is called “Cell Phone’s Dead.”  A video was shot by Michel Gondry.  Bootleg collectors will know the song as “Knock Out” from some of the club shows in early 2005.  You can hear the song over at Beck.com now… enjoy!

My Heart Is With The Children

Friday, June 9th, 2006

So I happened to see an early screening of Nacho Libre last night.  As was reported a few months back, Beck was recording for the score of this movie.  The movie poster and IMDB, however, said the score was by Danny Elfman.  Turns out, both are right.  Elfman did much of the score.  But Beck did some too.  There was one piece in it that was Beck playing acoustic guitar, with harmonica.  Another had Beck sort of humming/”la la la”ing over some acoustic guitar.  And there was a new Beck song with lyrics in there as well!  I watched the credits, and it listed 6 or 7 new Beck titles; the only two I can remember are “10,000 Pesos” and “My Heart Is With The Children” (both titles relevant to the movie).  If anyone sees this, please let me know the other titles.  I do not yet know of any way these songs will be released.  (The movie was hilarious, btw.  Highly recommended if you enjoy Jack Black.)

I Love Those Videos..I Watch ‘Em All Day

Sunday, May 14th, 2006

Over on Becktabs, someone compiled a nice collection of links of all the Beck videos available on Youtube.

Thanks to Tropicalia for posting… and thanks to Mellow for most of the uploading!

Click here and enjoy