Re: Beck - Morning Phase (February!)
Posted: Mon February 17, 2014 7:16 pm
Lets not get carried away...Wendy Carlos's Twin wrote:Amazing...way better than Sea Change IMO.
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Beck - Morning Phase (February!)
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Re: Beck - Morning Phase (February!)
Posted: Mon February 17, 2014 7:21 pm
Fuck you! I'm totally serious.verb_to_trust wrote:Lets not get carried away...Wendy Carlos's Twin wrote:Amazing...way better than Sea Change IMO.
Re: Beck - Morning Phase (February!)
Posted: Mon February 17, 2014 7:47 pm
I like it a lot.
Re: Beck - Morning Phase (February!)
Posted: Mon February 17, 2014 7:51 pm
Wendy Carlos's Twin wrote:Fuck you! I'm totally serious.verb_to_trust wrote:Lets not get carried away...Wendy Carlos's Twin wrote:Amazing...way better than Sea Change IMO.
Re: Beck - Morning Phase (February!)
Posted: Mon February 17, 2014 10:12 pm
Also, The Whole Love is a fantastic album worthy of Wilco's legacy.verb_to_trust wrote:Wendy Carlos's Twin wrote:Fuck you! I'm totally serious.verb_to_trust wrote:Lets not get carried away...Wendy Carlos's Twin wrote:Amazing...way better than Sea Change IMO.
Re: Beck - Morning Phase (February!)
Posted: Mon February 17, 2014 11:35 pm
i agree but im not a big fan of sea change
Re: Beck - Morning Phase (February!)
Posted: Mon February 17, 2014 11:59 pm
It only has two songs, Pete! TWO! (Art of Almost and One Sunday Morning)cutuphalfdead wrote:Also, The Whole Love is a fantastic album worthy of Wilco's legacy.verb_to_trust wrote:Wendy Carlos's Twin wrote:Fuck you! I'm totally serious.verb_to_trust wrote:Lets not get carried away...Wendy Carlos's Twin wrote:Amazing...way better than Sea Change IMO.
Re: Beck - Morning Phase (February!)
Posted: Tue February 18, 2014 1:13 am
This is the leakiest leak in all leakage.
It's been out there probably before he even recorded it. That leaky.
Blood great record though
It's been out there probably before he even recorded it. That leaky.
Blood great record though
Re: Beck - Morning Phase (February!)
Posted: Tue February 18, 2014 1:30 am
the only beck albums that are listenable the whole way through are modern guilt and guero in my opinion
Re: Beck - Morning Phase (February!)
Posted: Tue February 18, 2014 1:40 am
To omit Mutations is a crying shame.
Re: Beck - Morning Phase (February!)
Posted: Tue February 18, 2014 2:22 am
I streamed this on NPR this morning. Add me to the "love it" list.
Re: Beck - Morning Phase (February!)
Posted: Tue February 18, 2014 3:20 pm
Add "Mutations" to that list and I agree.Dev wrote:the only beck albums that are listenable the whole way through are modern guilt and guero in my opinion
Re: Beck - Morning Phase (February!)
Posted: Tue February 18, 2014 3:22 pm
I will be doing this today.Kevin Davis wrote:I streamed this on NPR this morning. Add me to the "love it" list.
Re: Beck - Morning Phase (February!)
Posted: Tue February 18, 2014 3:35 pm
did it.EJ wrote:I will be doing this today.Kevin Davis wrote:I streamed this on NPR this morning. Add me to the "love it" list.
loved it.
Re: Beck - Morning Phase (February!)
Posted: Wed February 19, 2014 1:49 am
Re: Beck - Morning Phase (February!)
Posted: Wed February 19, 2014 2:48 am
I really like this album. It's very enjoyable, very pretty, very relaxing stuff. But I've probably listened to it 10 or 20 times now and have yet to take from it much beyond that. Not a bad thing, but it's interesting.
Steven Hyden pretty much nailed it in his review, I think: http://grantland.com/features/beck-phases-out/
Steven Hyden pretty much nailed it in his review, I think: http://grantland.com/features/beck-phases-out/
On Benji’s closing track, “Ben’s My Friend,” Kozelek tells a story about buying $350 lampshades while in the midst of a quasi nervous breakdown. The song delves deep into neuroses stemming from Kozelek’s professional jealousies and artistic inadequacies. It draws you into personal territory that people generally try to avoid in their own hearts. (Also: It’s really funny.) Beck, meanwhile, just shows you some really nice lampshades.
Re: Beck - Morning Phase (February!)
Posted: Wed February 19, 2014 3:16 am
I think that both songwriters have different voices in terms of their lyrics. Neither one is objectively better than the other.
Re: Beck - Morning Phase (February!)
Posted: Wed February 19, 2014 3:30 am
Oh, definitely. I just liked that analogy. As much as I enjoy listening to this album, I feel like it's ultimately kind of shallow.
Re: Beck - Morning Phase (February!)
Posted: Wed February 19, 2014 3:36 am
I am normally a big fan of Hyden's writing but that "which Beck is the real Beck?" business is beneath him, as if an artist who sometimes makes quirky, upbeat records and sometimes makes confessional, downtempo records is somehow being "fake" when indulging in one or the other. He's a Neil Young fan; he should know better.
Re: Beck - Morning Phase (February!)
Posted: Wed February 19, 2014 3:38 am
As usual, I don't agree with something someone wrote on Grantland at all, but they sure sound good writing it.
That's a very interesting review, although I think his whole notion of 'who is the real Beck' is kind of an oversimplification of him as a musician. I also think Morning Phase, as a whole, sounds far more optimistic than Sea Change. Morning is a great example; it does sound like Golden Age, but trades that song's melancholy for something that, to me, sounds far more comforting and hopeful.
.......and Kevin Davis beat me to the punch. Agreed with that notion entirely, and Young was pretty much the person I had in mind as a forebear to Beck's work. Surely by now no one thinks that Young must at his heart choose between vulnerable folkie and eardrum-damaging rocker.
That's a very interesting review, although I think his whole notion of 'who is the real Beck' is kind of an oversimplification of him as a musician. I also think Morning Phase, as a whole, sounds far more optimistic than Sea Change. Morning is a great example; it does sound like Golden Age, but trades that song's melancholy for something that, to me, sounds far more comforting and hopeful.
.......and Kevin Davis beat me to the punch. Agreed with that notion entirely, and Young was pretty much the person I had in mind as a forebear to Beck's work. Surely by now no one thinks that Young must at his heart choose between vulnerable folkie and eardrum-damaging rocker.