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Title: Beck: Guero
Post by: Alexandro on January 20, 2005, 05:58:59 PM
From www.beck.com:

:::::: 01.20.05: Guero Out March 29 ::::::
The new Beck studio album, titled Guero will finally drop March 29th 2005. Here is the tracklisting.
E-Pro
Que Onda Guero
Girl
Missing
Black Tambourine
Earthquake Weather
Hell Yes
Broken Drum
Scarecrow
Go It Alone
Farewell Ride
Rental Car
Emergency Exit

The first single, E-Pro, will arrive at radio stations next month.
Title: Beck: Guero
Post by: modage on January 20, 2005, 06:29:15 PM
this will probably be redirected to the other beck thread, but for anyone interested the album has already leaked...

BECK ALBUM TRACKS APPEAR ONLINE
NME.COM

Tracks from the much-delayed new BECK album have leaked onto the Internet.

The follow-up to 2002's 'Sea Change' was originally due for release in October, but has been put back, with sometime March 21 or 28now being mooted as the release date.

But 13 tracks have turned up online.

Track titles include 'Guero', 'Go It Alone', 'E-Pro', 'Brazilica' and 'Summer Girl'.

The new tracks, produced by The Dust Brothers, revert back the 'classic' Beck sound of 'Mellow Gold' and 'Odelay' after the largely acoustic 'Sea Change'.

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upon listening to it, it is very odelay/mellow gold-y, which is good news for anyone who wanted beck to go back to that.  but fairly disappointing for me because it really does seem to be like looking backwards instead of moving forwards.  beck is usually such a surprise but this feels sort of surprising only because hes actually repeating himself.  he never made the 'rock' album he talked about and although this album has a handful of good songs its nowhere near as good as odelay or his recent depressed/funked out work.  the first time i listened through it, i was literally thinking 'i hope this is somehow not the finished version'.  beck is awesome, but it'd be like if the beatles after abbey road made one last album that sounded like meet the beatles.  why?
Title: Beck: Guero
Post by: tpfkabi on February 03, 2005, 10:46:48 PM
i just listened to Que Ondo Guero.
it really does sound like a step back.
i know he has tons of back catalogue stuff.
maybe he just assembled it out of that.
Title: Beck: Guero
Post by: Pedro on February 03, 2005, 10:48:30 PM
yeah the title track is really dumb, but a lot of the other stuff is really really good.  so all in all, it's worth listening to.
Title: Beck: Guero
Post by: NEON MERCURY on February 04, 2005, 09:00:28 PM
that really sucks that beck is going odelay style.  that album now is kind of cheesy and feels fake or some other shit like that.  if he's going back to that style i think he should do it like mutations which is a mix between odelay and sea change IMO.  and midnight vultures is incredible.
Title: Beck: Guero
Post by: tpfkabi on February 04, 2005, 10:50:32 PM
i'm going to have to disagree with Odelay sounding cheesy. i don't think Derelict, Devil's Haircut, New Pollution, etc could ever be categorized that way. the thing with Que Undo Guero is that it's almost like Beck doing his own kind of Macarena song. not quite like that, but almost.

has anyone downloaded both the early leaked version and the actual final product? i don't really want to spoil the album, i just want to download the tracks that didn't make the final album, and/or tracks that have undergone major changes from early version to finished studio version.
Title: Beck: Guero
Post by: modage on February 04, 2005, 11:04:54 PM
i dont think there are two versions. the versions that leaked are the versions that beck finished a couple months ago and the  versions that will be on the album in a month.  i could be wrong, (i hope i'm wrong).  iTunes has a handful of the new songs in remix form for download and it did sound like the vocals were a different take on one of the snippets i heard but maybe i was just imagining.
Title: Beck: Guero
Post by: tpfkabi on February 04, 2005, 11:15:39 PM
the titles are the same or similiar except for Brazilica, Nazarene and Chain Reaction. that's why i was thinking there would be different tracks.
Title: Beck: Guero
Post by: modage on February 04, 2005, 11:26:28 PM
yeah i think the titles were provisional, other than that, the songs are done.  just like on midnite vultures 'broken train' was 'out of kontrol' till the last minute.  but maybe one or two of the tracks has been replaced, but i doubt it, but i hope so.

cover art:
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Title: Beck: Guero
Post by: tpfkabi on February 05, 2005, 12:09:59 AM
i just listened to Chain Reaction. i wouldn't be surprised if that was an older song that he dusted off and recorded. i think Brazilica is probably newer because it's melodically close to Sea Change.
Title: Beck: Guero
Post by: Squeo on February 05, 2005, 12:40:07 AM
Awesome Marcel Dzama cover art.
Title: Beck: Guero
Post by: 03 on February 05, 2005, 12:49:37 AM
i think that is the least interesting dzama painting i have seen from him; there is a ridiculous circle over it could be a contributant.
Title: Beck: Guero
Post by: Ghostboy on February 05, 2005, 01:40:07 AM
Maybe that circle will simply be a sticker on the jewel case - that's what it looks like, at least.

I used to like Odelay okay in high school, but I can't really listen to it anymore - not when I could be listening to Mutations instead (I sort of reserve Sea Change for special occasions). I like Midnight Vultures more, too - it's shallow, but brilliant. I hope Guero turns out to be another progression - I'll withhold judgement until I've actually heard any of it, which won't be until it gets released in stores. I'm hoping for the best.
Title: Beck: Guero
Post by: Stefen on February 05, 2005, 02:34:56 AM
Im a Sea Change/Mutations type Beck fan. Brazilica is fantastic and probably one of the best songs I have heard in a long time, but the rest of the album is predictable and boring. Maybe it will grow on me.
Title: Beck: Guero
Post by: cron on February 05, 2005, 11:55:39 AM
Mutations is my favorite Beck album,too  
Fun fact:  E-Pro didn't made it as a single here in Mexico, radio stations decided to air Que Onda Güero instead, and it's getting very very famous. that song is hilarious.
Title: Beck: Guero
Post by: Alexandro on February 09, 2005, 01:14:14 PM
Odelay is not cheesy...it´s the most fun surreal rock album of the 90's.

Midnight Vultures is not shallow. It's fun and easy to listen to, but it's also a study of celebrity, beauty and health culture in the end of the century, and how that is always related to sex by the media. Well, that's what I see there...

I'm glad to find out that Mutations has a lot of fans. Back in 98 no one seemed to like it, but it's a beautiful record.
Title: Beck: Guero
Post by: tpfkabi on February 09, 2005, 09:03:49 PM
if i could only have one Beck album, it would definitely be Mutations. i think it's probably in my top ten records.

i listened to Odelay a couple of days ago. i think it holds up quite well. i think it might be because they used samples of actual recordings/instruments instead of a lot of electronics. it has a 'classic' feel because they used 'classic' samples, etc.

how can Ramshackle not get to you?
how can you not groove with New Pollution?

if Beck was unknown and releaed Odelay next week i think it would be much talked about in today's music scene.
Title: Beck: Guero
Post by: modage on February 09, 2005, 11:24:20 PM
yes, that may be true but its unfortunate that the new cd sounds like an albums worth of odelay outtakes.
Title: Beck: Guero
Post by: life_boy on February 13, 2005, 01:07:17 PM
It has taken me a little time to get into every Beck album I've heard: Odelay, Mutations, I still haven't completely come around to One Foot in the Grave and Midnight Vultures yet; Sea Change was probably the easiest for me to like although it did take a little time with some tracks.  Mutations probably took me the longest to get into but it has also become my favorite Beck album since finally warming up to it.  I expect for Guero to take some time to enjoy like his others always have.
Title: Beck: Guero
Post by: tpfkabi on February 13, 2005, 02:19:51 PM
now they've added 7 tracks! to the album
http://pitchforkmedia.com/news/05-02/11.shtml#story3
Title: Beck: Guero
Post by: MacGuffin on March 10, 2005, 12:03:11 AM
The troubadour teams up with the Dust Brothers for a mature take on Odelay. Source: Rolling Stone

Guero - Due out March 29th

For the follow-up to 2002's melancholic Sea Change, Beck reunited with Odelay producers the Dust Brothers on a collection of guitar-heavy songs with party-friendly hip-hop beats. "There was a lot more freedom on this record," Beck says of Guero (Spanish slang for "white boy"). "I even attempted a couple fo rap things, which I didn't think I was gonna do." The first single, "E-Pro," is a ragged, foot-stomping rocker that uses the drum sample from the Beastie Boys' "So What'cha Want," and "Que Onda Guero" evokes an East L.A. neighborhood with mariachi horns and street noise. Jack White sits in on bass on the sparse, bluesy "Go It Alone," just one of a number of tracks Beck recorded with the White Stripes frontman - expect more collaborations from the pair in the future. But Guero isn't just Odelay redux. Uptempo tracks like "Girl" are tempered with somber, even morbid lyrics. "Some Beatles songs are pretty dark," says Beck. "Or Brian Wilson's. Some of the cheeriest songs have that undercurrent."
Title: Beck: Guero
Post by: MacGuffin on March 21, 2005, 11:55:02 AM
Beck the outsider checks in
A new album by the singer-songwriter works in the sounds of his old neighborhood. Source: Los Angeles Times

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Don't look now, but Beck is back on the street, and the street is back in Beck's music.

The singer had recorded "Qué Onda Guero," a new song that describes the colorfully chaotic MacArthur Park neighborhood where he spent part of his childhood. But there was something missing.

"The song felt kind of like it was in a vacuum," says Beck. "I was talking about all these things and I needed to bring a little bit of that world into the song. So I went down to my old street and just recorded things. I tried to find the vendedores, the women who sell things in their shopping carts, and the guy with the popsicle cart, the vegetable vans, the guys playing soccer, kids playing, all that stuff."

Sitting in a Melrose-area Cuban restaurant, Beck exudes a palpable affection for his old haunts and an excitement about the way he's brought it into his music.

Fans of the ever-shifting singer-songwriter are likely to share that enthusiasm when his new album, "Guero," comes out next week, especially those who drifted away as he followed his 1996 landmark, "Odelay," with a series of diverse, less immediately accessible records — the simple, Tropicalia-tinged "Mutations"; the high-concept funk workout "Midnite Vultures"; and the intimate, confessional "Sea Change."

Those three combined have not sold the 2 million-plus of "Odelay," whose rock/folk/hip-hop hybrids helped turn Beck from the quirky creator of the alternative radio hit "Loser" into the genre's baby-faced posterboy.

So "Guero," which comes out March 29 with a blast of fuzz guitar, playful rap tracks and dense, animated soundscapes from the "Odelay" production team the Dust Brothers, could easily be seen as a bid to reclaim his old popularity

"No," Beck objects with a laugh. "I would have made a skinny-pants record with chang-chang-chang-chang-chang guitars or something. I really tried to steer from stuff that I think of as trendy. Some of the songs to me are out-and-out 1991."

Anyway, he's not eager to relive his moment in the sun.

"I maybe had a couple of months where I'd walk in to get a sandwich and the guy behind the counter would go, 'Hey, Mr. Beck,' and that was very uncomfortable. I've always tried to focus on writing songs and making records and my singing and pushing things forward for myself, staying awake creatively, all those things. And all the other stuff is peripheral and completely out of my control.

"I don't really think of myself in the mainstream at all, but I know I'm not considered hip in that hipster world either, so I'm sort of in my own nether zone or something. Which maybe isn't a bad thing.... I don't like having to own up to any kind of scene or live up to some kind of regulations."

The new album's title reflects that image of the outsider.

"I think literally it means 'blondie,' but it's like 'white boy.' It's the kind of thing I got yelled at me growing up. And friends of mine. So it's kind of a funny L.A. thing that certain people can relate to."

Beck Hansen is 34 and sports a thin beard, but he still has the look of a wide-eyed adolescent as he picks at a salad on a recent evening. Married to actress and screenwriter Marissa Ribisi, he positively beams when he talks about their 8-month old son, Cosimo, and there's an air of serenity about him that might come in handy in a couple of days, when he heads to Europe with his new band.

There, he'll start the kind of touring cycle that in the past has gotten out of hand — he still regrets staying on the road for three years after "Odelay" came out instead of taking a break to record another album.

"He's in such a great place," says Mike Simpson, who formed the Dust Brothers production duo with partner John King. "With his new wife and the baby on the way and then having the baby midway through [the recording], it was a very happy, happy scene....

"I was so impressed at how Beck has really learned to balance all the demands on his time, both personally from his family and from the entertainment world at large.... He was amazingly focused and really driven to make a great record."

But if all is going so well, why does "Guero" have such an air of doom and disquietude alongside its upbeat larks? Eerie dissonances suggest grotesque shapes, and Beck's ominous, soulful singing and recurring images of death, ditches and bones give parts of the album a blasted, apocalyptic tone.

"I didn't want it to just be sort of a goof-fest or something," says Beck, who was determined to extend the emotional aspects of the downbeat "Sea Change" into the new album. "I think some of that questioning and some of that uncertainty was bound to ripple from that record."

But there were deeper sources, dating back to the days after Sept. 11.

"I think a lot of it probably echoes that time of uncertainty that myself and a lot of friends were going through.... Maybe we've all kind of progressed on and come to peace with certain things. But I think some of it's still there — there's the war, and about the second week that I started on the record and writing the songs, a friend killed himself, so that was kind of a shock wave through my whole circle of friends....

"So I don't know, there was just certain things in the air.... It's just kind of what was filtering in at the time."

Despite the time lag, Beck believes the album's essence remains timely.

"There are certain basic things that are just universal," he says. "If a song's an angry song, that's just part of life. A song of regret — these are things that are as common as the air, and they're things that you cycle through."
Title: Beck: Guero
Post by: tpfkabi on March 21, 2005, 06:21:21 PM
i like Beck a lot and think he's made a great string of 4 records (i haven't heard Mellow Gold other than Loser). from the sounds of the clips i've heard this sounds like a dud. on the other hand, i've heard some talk of it being dark and all i've heard are really sunny tracks. i'm anxious to see how it gets reviewed.
Title: Beck: Guero
Post by: modage on March 29, 2005, 10:47:01 PM
Quote from: bigideashas anyone downloaded both the early leaked version and the actual final product? i don't really want to spoil the album, i just want to download the tracks that didn't make the final album, and/or tracks that have undergone major changes from early version to finished studio version.
the finished album has a few small differences from the earlier leaked version.  most notable being the absense of the two songs Chain Reaction and Send A Message to Her (both found on the deluxe edition), in its place the actual songs Broken Drum and Farewell Ride.  other than that there are a few small differences in E-Pro, and a few other tracks but nothing major.  its strange because Send A Message To Her was probably my favorite song on the album and its only a b-side, except the earlier mix had a more sparsely vocaled chorus which i prefered.  the songs broken drum and farewell ride arent doing anything for me at first, drum sounds like a sea change era song with 'laser blip' percussion.  so i still have to give it more listens before weighing in with a final opinion.  but on first listen, i'd still have to say 'good.' by no means a bad album, but a disappointment from beck with some great songs on it.
Title: Beck: Guero
Post by: tpfkabi on March 29, 2005, 11:21:07 PM
i got the special edtion. it looks like the two that replaced where the only ones that were solo Beck. i'm actually pleasantly surprised. on the way back from Best Buy i was skeptical, but just an hour or so ago I played Nintendo and listened to it on headphones. it has already begun to grow on me. Que Ondo Guero and Hell Yes made me laugh. it reminded me of some of the Midnite Vultures b-sides.  there's just something about females talking on tracks with beats (remember Miami by Will Smith "bienvenido a Miami"). if Hell Yes doesn't at least get minor play at clubs or produce a decent single, Interscope's promotional team needs some help. i'm not familiar with the track names yet, so i'll talk more in depth later.

i really wonder if Beck didn't take unreleased songs from his prior 5 albums and rerecord them. the obvious biggest presence here is Odelay/Mellow Gold (the Dust Brothers presence and several tracks with slide guitar/harmonica/random people talking on songs), but then there are Sea Change strings and downcast lyrics on a couple of songs, a song or two that could fit on Mutations, and some Midnite Vultures era b-sides.
Title: Beck: Guero
Post by: modage on March 30, 2005, 09:10:53 AM
he said he wrote about 30 new songs when he got together with the Dust Bros again and it was like no time had passed.  but he also said he wanted to try to combine sea changes introspective darker lyrics with some of the sunnier sounding songs so there wouldnt be a separation.  if anything this album does sound like a combination of all the previous becks.
Title: Beck: Guero
Post by: tpfkabi on March 30, 2005, 08:56:43 PM
Earthquake Weather's chorus seems like new territory for Beck. never heard him sing quite like that. Missing (Brazilica) is also nice to drive around with the windows down.

the DVD has the E Pro video as sort of an Easter Egg. it reminds me of that 3-D Nintendo that flopped several years back. i doubt very seriously that video will get much play though. i read in Rolling Stone that Christini Ricci has a cameo in the video for Hell Yes, so i guess that's the next single.
Title: Beck: Guero
Post by: MacGuffin on April 03, 2005, 08:25:44 PM
Q&A: Beck
On his new album, life as a family man and the strange appeal of Yanni Source: Rolling Stone

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Beck has bounced back from the breakup that inspired Sea Change, his mellow masterpiece of 2002. He's happily married, with a nine-month-old son, Cosimo, and has been playing high-energy surprise gigs at L.A. clubs to gear up for a summer tour behind his new album, Guero. The disc was co-produced by the Dust Brothers (who also worked on Odelay!) and is packed with tracks on which Beck lets his freak flag fly: On "Que Onda Guero," he gives shout-outs to Tang's Donut shop, Michael Bolton and Yanni. Speaking from L.A., Beck pauses when a photo arrives from a recent tsunami benefit featuring himself with friends Eddie Vedder, Will Ferrell and Jack Black. "What a man moment," says Beck. "I remember I was playing 'Lost Cause' -- it was a very intimate moment -- and Will came out wearing a red leotard, doing interpretive dancing. I tried to be serious, but when he started humping my pump organ, I totally lost it."

What music did your parents play when you were a kid?

For some reason I have a memory of Camelot. I remember that playing, and crawling on the floor across the room to stare at the cover, which had the actors from the movie. My mother likes show tunes, musicals, that kind of thing. Also, I had a 45 of Snow White, where she sings, "I'm wishing... I'm wishing," y'know, when she's singing into the well. I was probably about three.

Why did you have that?

I had one of those toy record players -- it was greenish-yellow and white, early-Seventies style, and Snow White was probably one of the records it came with. There were other records, one about a bear and probably something about a train. Another record that was on constantly in my house was The Harder They Come. Those hot L.A. afternoons, all the doors and windows open... that played for years.

Did you play music for Cosimo when he was in the womb?

Yeah. I was in the studio the whole time, my wife would come visit, and he heard all the songs. And he hears whatever's on in the house. Like, when he was first born, we played a lot of quiet classical music. It helps him sleep. And a friend got him a baby Beatles CD, like, quieter versions of Beatles songs.

What was the first song you wrote?

I used to have a tape recorder, with one of those cheap RadioShack plastic microphones. I used a calculator that had little melodies -- like the bastard cousin of "Frere Jacques" -- when you hit the buttons. My brother was the drummer, he played pencils on a cassette-tape box, and I wrote a song called "Bells Are Ringing." We'd seen this Kraftwerk video with all these little instruments, so that's what we were aspiring to do.

Why is your stage name Beck, instead of Beck Hansen?

I didn't really think about it too much. I just started showing up at these open-mike nights at clubs, bars and coffee shops, wherever, and somebody would always ask me, "What's your name?" before I went on. I'd just say, "Beck." People had other nicknames for me.

Like what?

There were these kind of Fifties greaser guys that a friend of mine hung out with who called me Dutch Boy.

Around then, you were writing a lot of, say, jokey songs. What was the most absurd one?

They were all pretty goofy. There was a street fair, and a friend of mine named Steve had been drinking and eating too much street-fair food. He met a pretty girl, went on the carousel and threw up all over her. It was called "Steve Threw Up."

Did you incorporate funnel cakes?

That's the whole song! I just made up things he probably ate. Like falafels and pizza. It didn't work out once he added motion.

In '89 you rode a Greyhound bus from L.A. to New York. What did you listen to on the trip?

I think I had some old Blind Willie McTell and Son House and Yazoo cassettes on my Walkman. I remember I was in Texas and at one point all the civilians got off the bus, and all the convicts got on. It was a little hairy. Somebody had a big boombox playing Kenny G. I'm not kidding. This pretty rough character came up to me while I was listening to my Walkman and he was telling me to watch out, because when I fell asleep he was going to cut me [laughs].

You name-drop Yanni on "Que Onda Guero." What have you picked up from him, musically?

Really just more superficial things, like the mustache [laughs]. And the idea of music as an event, played at historic locations. Didn't he play the Taj Mahal?

Nice. What music was playing at your wedding reception?

It was a Russian band, I didn't catch the name of it. I don't know if they had a name, they were just working Russian musicians. We found them through my wife's seamstress. It seemed like a good idea.

What's your favorite TV theme song?

That's a good question.... Oh! The Wild, Wild World of Animals, one of those nature shows in the Seventies. It was pounding drums and a synthesizer over crazy footage of ferocious animals and teeming giraffes and elephants.

What music do you recommend for lovemaking?

Brazilian is always good. Any Joao Gilberto. Or some Mancini for the grandparents.

So you stick to Brazilian?

At that point, I'm not thinking about music.
Title: Beck: Guero
Post by: Pubrick on April 03, 2005, 08:43:27 PM
why do you suck now?

i need another break up.
Title: Re: Beck: Guero
Post by: modage on November 26, 2005, 10:54:00 PM
there are 4 new songs up at beck.com.  they're good.  it's like old beck is back from his guero mediocrity.  unfortunately they seem to be 'exclusive' to his site and theres no word on whether you'll be able to get them in any (iTunes/cd) form so for now, stream away...  www.beck.com
Title: Re: Beck: Guero
Post by: tpfkabi on November 27, 2005, 12:32:59 AM
Quote from: modage on November 26, 2005, 10:54:00 PM
there are 4 new songs up at beck.com.  they're good.  it's like old beck is back from his guero mediocrity.  unfortunately they seem to be 'exclusive' to his site and theres no word on whether you'll be able to get them in any (iTunes/cd) form so for now, stream away...  www.beck.com

i checked those out, too. they sounded great except for the repeating sound in the background of the webpage (maybe related to that rotating satellite dish). did you figure out how to turn that off?
Title: Re: Beck: Guero
Post by: Pubrick on November 27, 2005, 05:10:40 AM
Quote from: bigideas on November 27, 2005, 12:32:59 AM
Quote from: modage on November 26, 2005, 10:54:00 PM
there are 4 new songs up at beck.com.  they're good.  it's like old beck is back from his guero mediocrity.  unfortunately they seem to be 'exclusive' to his site and theres no word on whether you'll be able to get them in any (iTunes/cd) form so for now, stream away...  www.beck.com

i checked those out, too. they sounded great except for the repeating sound in the background of the webpage (maybe related to that rotating satellite dish). did you figure out how to turn that off?
i didn't hear any repeating sound except when actively clicking through the menus. in any event you can disable the site's sound effects by clicking this icon:
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on the left side of the main menu.

while there everyone should check out the Hell Yes video, wherein u will find crono's av.. and perhaps reconsider what it means to be human.
Title: Re: Beck: Guero
Post by: tpfkabi on November 27, 2005, 04:46:03 PM
this wasn't menu related, i just had the page up in the background so i could hear the music while i was surfing.
thanks though.
so Hell Yes was released as a single? i thought from the get go that had the potential to be a hit single/club smash.
"fax machine anthems, get your damn hands up!"
Title: Re: Beck: Guero
Post by: modage on December 01, 2005, 07:46:29 AM
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remix album leak: http://www.redlightglow.com/news/2005/11/30/beck-guerolito-advance/

Title: Re: Beck: Guero
Post by: tpfkabi on December 01, 2005, 09:36:55 PM
Quote from: modage on December 01, 2005, 07:46:29 AM
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remix album leak: http://www.redlightglow.com/news/2005/11/30/beck-guerolito-advance/



how is it? i'm not really big on remix stuff to begin with.
Title: Re: Beck: Guero
Post by: sickfins on December 02, 2005, 03:23:59 PM
it's fucked up

the original album on some terrible drug.  good if you like remixes i suppose
Title: Re: Beck: Guero
Post by: cron on December 02, 2005, 03:34:11 PM
Quote from: sickfins on December 02, 2005, 03:23:59 PM

the original album on some terrible drug.

hahahah
Title: Re: Beck: Guero
Post by: RegularKarate on December 03, 2005, 05:20:09 PM
The remix of Girl is great.
Title: Re: Beck: Guero
Post by: modage on December 03, 2005, 05:34:37 PM
Quote from: bigideas on December 01, 2005, 09:36:55 PM
how is it? i'm not really big on remix stuff to begin with.
me neither.  new trend is putting out A. greatest hits album, or B. remix album.  see: flooded marketplace.

as far as the beck album goes, Girl, Broken Drum, and the b-side Clap Hands were all on the deluxe Guero.  and the Hell Yes remix was available on the iTunes Gameboy Variations EP and E-Pro was also an iTunes single.  so that leaves 9 new remixes.  they range from pretty good to forgetable.  i am a huge beck fan but dont think i'll be buying this as i'm not sure (yet) if any of these tracks improve their Guero counterparts.  i'll give it a few more listens. 

i would drop $4 in a second for an EP of the new songs at www.beck.com  why don't they sell THOSE on iTunes?!
Title: Re: Beck: Guero
Post by: cron on December 03, 2005, 07:04:54 PM
i turned them  into mp3's. i can send them to you if you want to
Title: Re: Beck: Guero
Post by: modage on January 10, 2006, 02:34:16 PM
there are 2 new Nick Drake covers up at beck.com "Parasite" and "Which Will".  they're good.  it's like old beck is back from his guero mediocrity.  unfortunately they seem to be 'exclusive' to his site and theres no word on whether you'll be able to get them in any (iTunes/cd) form so for now, stream away...  www.beck.com
Title: Re: Beck: Guero
Post by: NEON MERCURY on January 11, 2006, 08:48:18 PM
Quote from: modage on January 10, 2006, 02:34:16 PM
there are 2 new songs up at beck.com "Parasite" and "Which Will".  they're good.  it's like old beck is back from his guero mediocrity.  unfortunately they seem to be 'exclusive' to his site and theres no word on whether you'll be able to get them in any (iTunes/cd) form so for now, stream away...  www.beck.com

mod, so i get an idea of your tastes rate these 5 albums from best to worse

vultures
sea change
odelay
mutations
mellow

edit: heres mine

sea change
mutations
vultures
mellow
odelay
Title: Re: Beck: Guero
Post by: modage on January 11, 2006, 09:09:35 PM
vultures
odelay
mutations
sea change
guero
mellow

mutations and sea change are about even.  and everything above guero is varying degrees of incredible love.  odelay is a little like a time capsule cause it is such a landmark but it's still great.
Title: Re: Beck: Guero
Post by: modage on February 28, 2006, 04:26:20 PM
From Rolling Stone..

From there we met up with Beck, and the Bard of the Barrio told us what's cracklin' in 2006.  He'll play some gigs with Radiohead this summer and celebrate the tenth b-day of Odelay with a deluxe reissue ("I'm trying to find the original 'Debra'", Beck says, "because it was originally recorded for Odelay").  He'll also finish up an album he started two years back with producer Nigel Godrich.  "We recorded everything in a week.", Beck says "And ever since we've been working on it a little bit at a time."  He describes it as the bridge between Sea Change and Guero, citing a tune called "The Girl From R.I.P.anema" that chronicles a disappionting trip to Brazil. And if that weren't enough, he's also scoring and writing tunes for director Jared Hess' follow-up to Napoleon Dynamite starring Jack Black.  "No filmmaker since Fellini has had such an eye for amazing characters," says Beck.  "So it's called Nacho Libre- it's about monks who secretly want to be wrestlers.  They have pointy white boots and tights under their robes." 
Title: Re: Beck: Guero
Post by: bonanzataz on March 01, 2006, 01:08:57 AM
Quote from: modage on January 11, 2006, 09:09:35 PM
vultures
odelay
mutations
sea change
guero
mellow

mutations and sea change are about even.  and everything above guero is varying degrees of incredible love.  odelay is a little like a time capsule cause it is such a landmark but it's still great.

in true messageboard form, all i'm gonna say is - you don't like mellow gold. you're a fucking douchebag.
Title: Re: Beck: Guero
Post by: Alexandro on April 26, 2006, 01:42:05 PM

I've never used xixax for something like this before...but I'm going to the beck show on grand prairie texas, june 21st, and i'm going by myself, since is not exactly a walk in the park to actually take the trip and my girl doesn't have a visa...and we're kind of poor...anyway I could go all alone but maybe someone around here will go or plan to go or maybe you know someone who will go to that show and it would be cool to have some company...

if you know you can tell me by email or something...

it would be nice.
alexandro