{"id":161,"date":"2008-07-15T19:27:40","date_gmt":"2008-07-16T00:27:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.whiskeyclone.net\/papertiger\/2008\/07\/15\/listen-to-every-beck-album-done\/"},"modified":"2008-07-15T19:27:40","modified_gmt":"2008-07-16T00:27:40","slug":"listen-to-every-beck-album-done","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/whiskeyclone.net\/papertiger\/2008\/07\/15\/listen-to-every-beck-album-done\/","title":{"rendered":"Listen to every beck album: done"},"content":{"rendered":"

Yesterday I listened to all 12 Beck albums in a row, in order of release date. They are, for the uninitiated:<\/p>\n

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  1. Golden Feelings<\/li>\n
  2. A Western Harvest FIeld by Moonlight<\/li>\n
  3. Stereopathetic Soulmanure<\/li>\n
  4. Mellow Gold<\/li>\n
  5. One Foot in the Grave<\/li>\n
  6. Odelay<\/li>\n
  7. Mutations<\/li>\n
  8. Midnite Vultures<\/li>\n
  9. Sea Change<\/li>\n
  10. Guero<\/li>\n
  11. The Information<\/li>\n
  12. Modern Guilt<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    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:<\/p>\n

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    1. 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.<\/li>\n
    2. Midnite Vultures<\/em> is probably my favourite Beck album. It’s brilliant.<\/li>\n
    3. One Foot in the Grave<\/em> -> Odelay<\/em> is a crazy weird transition.<\/li>\n
    4. The worst Beck album tracks are ‘Round the Bend’ off Sea Change<\/em> and ‘Earthquake Weather’ off Guero<\/em>.<\/li>\n
    5. Doing this won’t make you as sick of Beck as you would expect.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

      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.<\/p>\n

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      Yesterday 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 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-161","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-beck"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/whiskeyclone.net\/papertiger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/whiskeyclone.net\/papertiger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/whiskeyclone.net\/papertiger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whiskeyclone.net\/papertiger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whiskeyclone.net\/papertiger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=161"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/whiskeyclone.net\/papertiger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/whiskeyclone.net\/papertiger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=161"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whiskeyclone.net\/papertiger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=161"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whiskeyclone.net\/papertiger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=161"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}