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I like it, but not as much as the original
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Tuesday, August 26th, 2008New mashup: Beck vs Young Joc
Thursday, August 21st, 2008Yr Party is Dying posted a new Beck vs. Young Joc mashup. Download it here.
This isn’t terribly exciting, but I came across it and thought some of y’all might be interested.
Listen to every beck album: done
Tuesday, July 15th, 2008Yesterday I listened to all 12 Beck albums in a row, in order of release date. They are, for the uninitiated:
- Golden Feelings
- A Western Harvest FIeld by Moonlight
- Stereopathetic Soulmanure
- Mellow Gold
- One Foot in the Grave
- Odelay
- Mutations
- Midnite Vultures
- Sea Change
- Guero
- The Information
- Modern Guilt
It was about 9.5 hours of music that took about 12.5 hours to listen to, including all my breaks. It was epic. A couple people asked me if doing this gave me any special insight into Beck’s music and career. The answer, I told them, is yes. Here are those insights:
- The first three albums form a pretty harsh block. It’s not bad exactly, but it’s hard to listen to. Word of warning: these albums may drive your girlfriend out of the apartment in anger.
- Midnite Vultures is probably my favourite Beck album. It’s brilliant.
- One Foot in the Grave -> Odelay is a crazy weird transition.
- The worst Beck album tracks are ‘Round the Bend’ off Sea Change and ‘Earthquake Weather’ off Guero.
- Doing this won’t make you as sick of Beck as you would expect.
That’s it! Nothing terribly profound, but it did alter how I perceive the albums and a bunch of the tracks. If you have the time, I definitely recommend it.
Modern Guilt and Deluxe Odelay Vinyl Pre-Order and Discount
Tuesday, June 17th, 2008From our mailbox to your eyes:
Hi,
Just wanted to let you know that Insound has pre-orders up for the new Beck album “Modern Guilt”
The CD can be pre-ordered here: http://www.insound.com/search/showrelease.jsp?from=22564&p=INS46525
The LP can be pre-ordered here: http://www.insound.com/search/showrelease.jsp?from=22564&p=INS46605
If you’d like you can post this coupon for your readers to recieve 10% off at checkout. Coupon Code: modernguilt10.
In addition to the new album there is also a pre-order for the deluxe 4xLP expanded verion of Beck’s classic Odelay.
4xLP: http://www.insound.com/search/showrelease.jsp?from=22564&p=INS46055
If you have any questions please feel free to contact me.
Andy French
Marketing Coordinator
INSOUND
new Beck album on XL in UK
Friday, May 9th, 2008newt (10:29:35): http://www.pitchforkmedia.com/article/news/50540-beck-signs-to-xl-recordings-in-the-uk
bebo (10:32:58): sounds dumb
bebo (10:33:05): i’m supposed to care?
newt (10:33:06): heh
newt (10:33:23): i think it’s interesting that he’s branching out to another label. i think his interscope contract is done
bebo (10:33:33): i don’t think it means that at all
bebo (10:33:45): he just needs a new distributor for the UK
newt (10:34:13): no i mean i think he had an agreement to do a certain number of albums with interscope, and i think that’s been completed. i’m not saying i think he’ll leave them
newt (10:34:26): but maybe he’s curious and now experimenting with dating other labels
bebo (10:37:53): but
bebo (10:38:06): was that not an agreement for distribution only?
bebo (10:38:14): and how do we know he’s almost donw with interscope?
bebo (10:38:19): where did you get that info
newt (10:38:52): i don’t know if it’s for distribution only, but xl is a label, right? not just a distribution company?
newt (10:39:15): and about the interscope thing, i kinda remember people talking after info came out, saying that was the last album he was committed to doing for them
newt (10:39:21): and if he wanted he could leave after that
newt (10:39:29): but i’d have to look it up, i don’t actually know for sure
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Danger Mouse to produce new Beck albim
Friday, March 7th, 2008According to HARP Magazine and confirmed by Brian Lebarton and JMJ, Danger Mouse will be producing Beck’s new album.
Brian @ stewoo:
Was waiting for you all to find out already!!! I was seriously beginning to doubt your detective work…
Some of us popped in at different times, don’t know exactly who. I was there for two fun filled days. Picture a supergroup album of Yanni, John Tesh, Michael Bolton, Kenny G, Phil Collins, David Hasselhof and Donny Osmond and you can kind of get an idea of what the record won’t sound like.
JMJ @ stewoo:
Boo-yah. There it is.
I think it’s gonna be a sick record. Danger is really enjoying working with B. And yes, my connection is that I was the musical director for Gnarls Barkley; I put that band together and played bass at The Roxy and Coachella, before I had to bail and start all the work for “The Information” tour. That’s when our boy Cedric from Remy Zero took over as bass player and occasional stormtrooper.
Sorry we were a bit late on this, still trying to sort some things out over here. Thanks to everyone who emailed.
commenter account issue
Thursday, February 28th, 2008due to an unfortunate technical issue, we have had to remove all the commenters’ accounts. all the comments are still there, but if you had an account and want it back, you’ll have to reregister. sorry for the inconvenience.
odeluxe extras list
Tuesday, January 29th, 2008some reports from various people about extra crap that comes with odelay deluxe:
- breathmint notes that there is a limited series of 5 (or maybe more) “mexican style calendars” that are being handed out if you buy your odeluxe at an indie record shop – while supplies last
- theonlyrodable says that odeluxe comes with 4 postcards if you buy it at best buy
any others?
no odeluxe in canada
Tuesday, January 29th, 2008i just went to a couple stores and can confirm that there is no deluxe edition of odelay in stores in canada. at least, not today.
at hmv i was able to find out that there are some supposedly coming in next tuesday feb. 5 (this is kind of up in the air, though – hmv’s release dates are often iffy with this kind of thing). however, at a price of $40, and keeping that delay in mind, it seems like these are probably just american copies that are being imported. that means most stores won’t get them, and most that do will only have a few copies.
so fuck you, canada!
UPDATE: thanks to magnolia, who points out in the comments that umusic.ca, universal’s canadian site, lists a feb. 5 release date for odelay deluxe. so i guess it’s not an import, it’s just coming out a week later here.
odelay deluxe liner notes
Thursday, January 24th, 2008according to this one (stupid) review, there will be some expanded liner notes in odeluxe:
Or you can try to enjoy the liner notes by Thurston Moore, or the fact that Dave Eggers uses the booklet to interview a bunch of teenagers about whether they know who Beck is (Hey! Guess what! Not really!)
could be good, but maybe not. we’ll see.