Tried listening to Beck today.......

[Grooverjr]

Beck is a bit like Weller for me: not that into most of it but a couple of albums are among my absolute favourites. Sea Change is a stunningly beautiful and introspective record and given when he made it shows he has only ever been interested in the music and not the money. Modern Guilt is also amazing start to finish. Chemtrails is on my list of 'things to play when I am a grown up bassist'. A brilliant bassline but just too much for me to remember and some fingering changes that just don't move how I would want to move. 

[spongebob]

Loved Odelay when it came out, Midnite Vultures too.

 

Since then, he’s not really grabbed me, tried a couple of more recent albums, but found them quite hard to like, just a bit bland, which he certainly wasn’t back in the 90s. 

 

Odelay came out at the right time - I was 22 in the Summer of ‘96, and that record will always sum up that period. Beck was really NME-coolness back then….but times move on, and he’s certainly a long way from that musically now. 

[super al]

5 hours ago, spongebob said:

Loved Odelay when it came out, Midnite Vultures too.

 

Since then, he’s not really grabbed me, tried a couple of more recent albums, but found them quite hard to like, just a bit bland, which he certainly wasn’t back in the 90s. 

 

Odelay came out at the right time - I was 22 in the Summer of ‘96, and that record will always sum up that period. Beck was really NME-coolness back then….but times move on, and he’s certainly a long way from that musically now. 

Yep, love Odelay. I think it was Q magazine who reviewed it and gave it 3/5... I thought "they didn't even listen to it!"

I think it's the Dust Brothers twiddling the faders, same as the sublime sample heavy sophomore album from the Beasties, Paul's Boutique which blew my mind.

Midnite Vultures tapped into the Funkadelic/Bootsy/Prince side of my brain so that was on in the car all the time...blimey, I miss getting excited about someone releasing an album ☹️

Seen Beck a couple times live and he never disappoints 

[Musicman666]

paladino on bass  ..rob allen. 

 

Edited April 26 by Musicman666

[Beedster]

 

[mike f]

Got absolutely obsessed with Midnite Vultures. I’d list it as one of my all time favourite LPs. I remember it getting slated in the music press which always left me bemused.

Such a remarkable talent.

Edited April 27 by mike f

[Beedster]

17 hours ago, Grooverjr said:

Chemtrails is on my list of 'things to play when I am a grown up bassist'. A brilliant bassline....

 

Yep, and sublime tone also, for me it's not often that a bassline evokes feeling in the way the bassline in Chemtrails does 👍

[Norris]

I love a bit of Beck. Such a variety of styles and moods. My favourite album (this week) is The Information - some great grooves.

 

I had the start of Minus as my ring tone for a while

 

 

[miles'tone]

My favourite is the Mutations album - the album between albums (odelay - MNV) that his record company let him release as not the official follow-up to Odelay because it wasn't commercial enough but he was writing so much stuff.

Here's some Diamond Boll**ks for your shell-like...

 

 

[miles'tone]

https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/beck-talks-mutations-going-solo-from-himself-248322/

[Beedster]

I love my current gig but man, I wanna do a Beck tribute act, I just love the basslines and the general madness of it all 👍