Poop Man Bob Posted April 19, 2005 Share Posted April 19, 2005 While I enjoyed Sea Change, this album is much more 'Beck'-ish to me. It's fucking great. Feel free to nab it from me on slsk. Download it from yousendit.com Rolling Stone review: After the final out of the 2004 World Series, NBC played Beck's "The Golden Age" during the closing credits. It was a weird choice -- they obviously picked the song to celebrate the Red Sox victory, judging it by the title but ignoring the fact that it's a heinously depressing breakup ballad. Jesus, talk about a buzz-kill. But it was a perfect Beck moment, given the strange way he's spent his career foraging through American junk culture. On Guero, his eighth album, he returns to what he does best, hopping from genre to genre, hustling for scraps of beat and rhyme. He has reunited with the Dust Brothers, the producers behind his 1996 masterpiece, Odelay, for his liveliest and jumpiest music in years. Suggested ad slogan: The slack is back! Ever since Beck hit his peak with Odelay, he's stood firm in refusing to make a sequel, or even an album that sounded remotely like one. His MO has been to push one of his tricks all the way to album length. So he became a morose folkie on Mutations, a comedy-funk party yutz on Midnite Vultures and a broken-down love junkie on Sea Change. All these records had their good and bad moments, and all had their fervent admirers. But they erred too far on the side of consistency, and whoever wanted consistency from Beck? Guero is the first record since Odelay where Beck mixes up the medicine the way he did in his Nineties prime -- we get stun-gun rock guitar ("E-Pro"), cracked country blues ("Farewell Ride"), psychedelic bossa nova ("Missing"), goth atmospherics ("Scarecrow") and laid-back fire-hydrant-Seventies R&B ("Earthquake Weather"). Throughout Guero, Beck dips deeply into Latin rhythms, reveling in the street culture of the East L.A. neighborhood where he grew up. "Que Onda Guero" is a walk through the barrio, with traffic noises and overheard Spanglish voices over Latin guitars and hip-hop beats. Guero is slang for "white guy"; Beck's an outsider here. The song ends with some stranger saying, "Let's go to Captain Cork's -- they have the new Yanni cassette!" "Hell Yes" and "Black Tambourine" sound like they were knocked off in a session that began, "Hey, let's do some of those wacky, zany numbers we used to do," but they're still pretty great. Guero will get Beck accused of copying Odelay, but it has a completely different mood. Tune in "Missing" or "Earthquake Weather," and you can't miss the melancholy adult pang in the vocals. The closest he comes to a funny line on the album is "The sun burned a hole in my roof/I can't seem to fix it." Which isn't too close. Beck is thirty-four now and can't pretend to be the same wide-eyed, channel-surfing kid who buzzed with wiseass charisma on Mellow Gold, Odelay and Stereopathetic Soulmanure. On Guero, he sounds like an extremely bummed-out dude who made it to the future and discovered he hates it there. The lyrics are abstractly morbid -- lots of graves, lots of devils. Nearly every song has a dead body or two kicking around. At times, Guero feels as emotionally downbeat as Mutations or Sea Change. But there's a crucial difference: The rhythmic jolt makes the malaise more compelling and complex, with enough playful musical wit to hint at a next step. Beck isn't trying to replicate what he did ten years ago; instead, on Guero he finds a way to revitalize his musical imagination, without turning it into a joke. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fatalist Posted April 19, 2005 Share Posted April 19, 2005 yo, i just checked it out, i'm diggin it! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
graff goon Posted April 19, 2005 Share Posted April 19, 2005 good stuff great production dust brothers are to good. all in all check it out :love2: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest imported_El Mamerro Posted April 19, 2005 Share Posted April 19, 2005 The video for "E-Pro" is ridiculously awesome. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Devilush Posted April 19, 2005 Share Posted April 19, 2005 i love this album. i've been bumping it nonstop so far. favorite song...Qué Onda Guero. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nomadawhat Posted April 19, 2005 Share Posted April 19, 2005 Originally posted by Poop Man Bob@Apr 19 2005, 01:27 PM While I enjoyed Sea Change, this album is much more 'Beck'-ish to me. It's fucking great. Feel free to nab it from me on slsk. Quoted post anyway you can upload that to yousendit? you know i'm soulseekless these days. i'd really like to check this album out (for free). i've heard a couple tracks and I am diggin them. love the 8-bit (local cats) remix for some song that i forget the name of. not even sure if its on the released album or not. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Intangible Posted April 20, 2005 Share Posted April 20, 2005 its a great album. PMB whats your slsk info so i can get it from ya. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Weapon X Posted April 20, 2005 Share Posted April 20, 2005 I'll give this a listen sometime. I'm sure someone I know has bought it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dr.testical Posted April 20, 2005 Share Posted April 20, 2005 beck is another form of some stupid yuppie hollywood hipster cokehead fag who thinks he's cristopher fucking lowell, not in a gay way, whatever the fuck there trying to get at that way, but yo this dude fell off when he came out with that lame shit late 90's called doodle or some shit. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Poop Man Bob Posted April 20, 2005 Author Share Posted April 20, 2005 IF - my name is FineBottledWater. Come into the 12oz room: !###-12ozProphet-###! nomada - http://s49.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=10NO981...6D0IF65L8KF0T36 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
azert Posted April 20, 2005 Share Posted April 20, 2005 I can never see the 12 oz room. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Poop Man Bob Posted April 20, 2005 Author Share Posted April 20, 2005 Originally posted by azert@Apr 20 2005, 01:06 AM I can never see the 12 oz room. Quoted post Right click on the room list, select Refresh Room List, sort by name, then look. It'll be there. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Poop Man Bob Posted April 20, 2005 Author Share Posted April 20, 2005 And you can toggle it so you auto-join the room whenever you get on slsk. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Telo Posted April 20, 2005 Share Posted April 20, 2005 Wild. I was at the record shop debating whether to purchase this album without a first listen but if its as good as all you yokies say it is well then i just might have to break down. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kr430n5_666 Posted April 20, 2005 Share Posted April 20, 2005 ...............that cover artwork wins..:;;;;;;' Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CIPHER_one Posted April 20, 2005 Share Posted April 20, 2005 Originally posted by Kr430n5_666@Apr 20 2005, 01:39 AM ...............that cover artwork wins..:;;;;;;' Quoted post def. reminds me of marcel dzama Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
isor357 Posted April 20, 2005 Share Posted April 20, 2005 Originally posted by Telo@Apr 20 2005, 01:18 AM Wild. I was at the record shop debating whether to purchase this album without a first listen but if its as good as all you yokies say it is well then i just might have to break down. Quoted post Im kinda feeling his B..... Fresh Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nomadawhat Posted April 20, 2005 Share Posted April 20, 2005 Originally posted by Poop Man Bob@Apr 19 2005, 09:44 PM IF - my name is FineBottledWater. Come into the 12oz room: !###-12ozProphet-###! nomada - http://s49.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=10NO981...6D0IF65L8KF0T36 Quoted post gracias, mi amigo. dl'ing now. i really have to get a wireless card. i think i might be able to steal a signal from my neighbor. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
justaname Posted April 21, 2005 Share Posted April 21, 2005 thank you sir, pmb Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
saraday Posted April 21, 2005 Share Posted April 21, 2005 er, can you re-upload the album? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nomadawhat Posted April 21, 2005 Share Posted April 21, 2005 Here you go saraday.... beck _ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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