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Beck - Guero

So I'm revisiting this LP. I had forgotten how good it was.. very easy listening...

Anyone else?



  • pure poop

    • Oh LORD!!!

      JESUS!!!!

      CHRIST!!!

      It's not 'poop'.

      • i thought this album was rubbish once.

        it's really not.</detailed analysis>

        • yeah, well, when i first bought it I hated it.

          I put it down and said, 'Ewwwwwwww'.

          But have started relistening to a lot of old stuff that I 'put down to rest' and am actually enjoying it.

          Sea Change, of course, was fucking incredible.. but this is listenable on a Sunday whilst reading the newspapers, eating eggs on toast, and drinking filtered coffee... it's good.. it's evoking nice feelings and that IS GOOD.

  • Girl

    is a top track... Remix album also pretty good.

    Read the last '50 Worst Albums' in Q recently... Midnite Vultures was in there?! So wrong it's unbelievable...

    www.myspace.com/junoashes

    • Girl is great

      I'm listening to it VERY VERY VERY LOUDLY... nice bass... niiiiiiiiice.

      • i hate it

        maybe its something to do with it being played every day in a shop i worked in for 2 years. i just see everything he's done since sea change (which was amazing) as a crap stepback to his least interesting period (the yawnsome Odelay). give me another mutations or vultures any day.

        • :(

        • Guero is in 4th place...

          But that's still Champions League...

          • nope

            everything before odelay is better than anything post-sea change

    • Bear in mind that anything

      Q says is utter wank

  • It's good good good

    esp. worth it for Boards of Canada remix of Broken Drum

    • did they??

      I didn't know that!

      • Yep

        ...it's mint.

        • the version on the LP?

          I'm looking at sleeve notes now...

          • Bonus track

            is the BOC remix of Broken Drum

    • Guero

      Love it, Beck's best album.

      • I love Earthquake Weather

        I am so happy to have found this LP again... It's great moving rooms and finding stuff you forgot about..

        :D

      • not the best

        but the best post-odelay...

        classic stuff!!!

  • i hate beck

    • :(

      why? He's such a handsome young man, and a scientologist...

      • Black Tambourine is on now...

        I love the bass.. his use of bass is so distinct, innit...

        • thats jack white doing bass on that track

          i think

          • REALLY?

            Cool - nice bit of info there..

      • because his music

        self satisfied smug crap.

        • sorry, you are outnumbered in this thread!

          WHOO!

      • Best shows...

        were around Odelay and Midnite Vultures... Ehthangyow.

        • the midnite vultures show at Reading in 2000

          remains one of the best live shows i've ever seen..

        • id agree

          although i did see him do a cover of cry me a river when he did that acousric tour, which was ace

        • def

          the midnite vultures tour!

  • really enjoyable album

    not his best (imho) but girl and e-pro were great singles.

  • in the grand scheme of things this album is pretty good

    but compared to any of Beck's output before it, totally crap. This guy can do so much better!

    If you don't have it, you must get his folk album on Calvin Johnson's K Records called One Foot In The Grave. Brilliant.

    • no, I don't have the folk lp

      but thanks for the tip. I'll investigate.

      • Beck...

        ...................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................is shit.

        go on, cry yourselves to death muso hipsters. He is a pretentious wanker.

        • *abandon reply

        • where's the pretention?

          go on, pinpoint it for us.

          i'm not being an argumentative egit, i just want to know where all the pretense is.

          • yes, the muso hipsters want to know

            ...
            since when did scientology become pretentious?

  • I think i've listened to it once ever

    beck-by-numbers