{"id":62,"date":"2007-03-29T12:07:56","date_gmt":"2007-03-29T17:07:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.whiskeyclone.net\/papertiger\/?p=62"},"modified":"2007-03-29T12:07:56","modified_gmt":"2007-03-29T17:07:56","slug":"happy-birthday-guero-your-popsicle-is-melting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/whiskeyclone.net\/papertiger\/2007\/03\/29\/happy-birthday-guero-your-popsicle-is-melting\/","title":{"rendered":"Happy Birthday, Guero. Your Popsicle Is Melting."},"content":{"rendered":"

So somebody posted over on Stewoo<\/a> that today is Guero<\/em>‘s second birthday.\u00c2\u00a0 It is no big secret that Guero<\/em> is not my favoritest of Beck’s albums.\u00c2\u00a0 I think it suffers from Beck trying too hard to sound like Beck, which is crazy because he does not have a set “sound.”\u00c2\u00a0 He’s always changing, and that’s how we like it.\u00c2\u00a0 Also, in spite of the number of cool blues songs on the album, there is, in my opinion, a lack of emotion and the level of work that are normally associated with Beck’s music.<\/p>\n

But while I think these things are true, I do enjoy a number of the songs individually, and even more so, live.\u00c2\u00a0 (“Broken Drum,” “Scarecrow,” and “Emergency Exit” are my favorites.)\u00c2\u00a0 Because of that, I am not sure how Guero<\/em> will figure in historical terms of Beck’s oeuvre.\u00c2\u00a0 It is a popular album, for sure.\u00c2\u00a0“E-Pro” was a surprisingly big hit, and in the end, Guero<\/em> probably served its purpose of bringing Beck back into the spotlight a bit (esp. after the style of Sea Change<\/em>).\u00c2\u00a0 Some of Guero<\/em>‘s songs will probably be played live for a long time.<\/p>\n

But what is it as an album?\u00c2\u00a0 Did the album have the impact of Odelay<\/em>?\u00c2\u00a0 The charm of Mellow Gold<\/em>?\u00c2\u00a0 The brazenness of Vultures<\/em>?\u00c2\u00a0 The craft of The Information<\/em>?\u00c2\u00a0 Not at all.\u00c2\u00a0 What does it have?\u00c2\u00a0 I’m not sure, to be honest, even two years later…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

So somebody posted over on Stewoo that today is Guero‘s second birthday.\u00c2\u00a0 It is no big secret that Guero is not my favoritest of Beck’s albums.\u00c2\u00a0 I think it suffers from Beck trying too hard to sound like Beck, which is crazy because he does not have a set “sound.”\u00c2\u00a0 He’s always changing, and that’s […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,44],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-62","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-beck","category-guero"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/whiskeyclone.net\/papertiger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62","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\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whiskeyclone.net\/papertiger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=62"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/whiskeyclone.net\/papertiger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/whiskeyclone.net\/papertiger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=62"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whiskeyclone.net\/papertiger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=62"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whiskeyclone.net\/papertiger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=62"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}