Beck - Modern Guilt

10 tracks and half an hour album recorded with danger mouse, to be released sometime soon (supposedly june). being a beck fan and all, i'm rather looking forward to this!

he put 'chemtrails' on his myspace and website, or you can get low quality mp3 here > http://www.megaupload.com/?d=8O1IZQFJ

yeah nice :)

very nice, looking forward to this. So is Danger mouse producing it or will he be on a few tracks?

-or both perhaps

I gave up on Beck after Guero. What a waste.

EDITL: Nah wait... Sea Change sucked as well. Hmmm...

i am looking forward to this release, but i stopped getting rabidly excited by beck releases after midnite vultures.. that's the only beck album that i don't like at all.......... i didn't care for sea change, but it was a much better affair than mv because it had such emotion behind it. guero was pretty good, but a little disjointed. strangely enough, i really like the information (it's actually in my cd player right now). not every track, but it's the one that i like best after him kind of fumbling for so long. i am not a big fan of his post-odelay voice either. that voice really became a hard thing to get used to on sea change. i guess that's what happens when you actually take voice lessons (i assume that's what happened.)

i'd love another mellow gold, but of course that's not going to happen.

hehe yeah.

mellow gold > odelay > mutations > midnite vultures. were all really different albums. even seachange, while sounding similar to other stuff was a totally new album for him. guero and the information felt too similar, espicially for an artist like beck (though the dirty blues from guero was new, but the blues mixed by dust brothers just didnt do anything for me).

this album on the other hand, i'm really looking forward to. hope it delivers.

oh boy!

  ieafs said:

and yeah, guero had a real bluesy rocky feel to a lot of it... i guess it only seems kind of similar to previous stuff because of the more "genre" tracks like earthquake weather and hell yes or something. and it didn't help that the worst song was the single (e-pro)

why are these such awesome tracks to me?

  ieafs said:

i think that album is nearly perfect for what it is - 'hollywood freaks' being the only misstep. that makes the affectionate parodying start seem like smug irony or something. such a hooky/fun record. i only listen to it maybe twice a year, but i'm blown away anew each time.

why is it that sexx laws and hollywood freaks are the only tracks i like on midnite vultures?

beck became my hero when loser came out in 94.. i was in 7th grade.. i just couldn't get enough. mellow gold blew my mind, and to this day, it remains one of my all-time favorite albums. after it looked like he wouldn't follow mellow gold with another album (i didn't know about stereopathetic soulmanure or one foot in the grave until like 9th grade), i kind of dismissed him.. but then i heard where it's at and fell in love all over again. odelay is also one my all-time favorites, but it's not quite as good as mg in my opinion.

  FDR said:

very nice, looking forward to this. So is Danger mouse producing it or will he be on a few tracks?

 

-or both perhaps

danger mouse seems to be handling all the production on this album. i'm kind of tired of him.

this track fucking rules...stoked for this album!

i don't listen to scientologist propoganda.

I work in a very hyped shop in paris, I had him as a custumer, he's really just a big loser, really sounds and look like pussy... He's really talented and all, but come on, what a pussy... :angel:

  beNito said:

he's really just a big loser

so why don't you kill him?

ahh!!!! see what i did there!? hilarious!

  Squee said:

I gave up on Beck after Guero. What a waste.

 

EDITL: Nah wait... Sea Change sucked as well. Hmmm...

die

I'm one of the few people who loved Guero, it didn't do a whole lot of new stuff but every track was really solid I thought. This and Sea Change I thought were really consistently good albums. I must be the anti-Beck fan or something because I seem to love the albums most people hate and not really care about the albums most people love.

nah, good beck fans realize sea change is fucking awesome. and guero is perfectly solid.

Sea Change is amazing you idiots.

  Fred McGriff said:

nah, good beck fans realize sea change is fucking awesome. and guero is perfectly solid.

  Deepex said:

Sea Change is amazing you idiots.

thirded

I'll jump on that boat.

i am excited. i saw him live on the guero tour and it was a great show. go beck!

I'll check this out simply for the dm/beck collaboration

and

fuck the lot of you, Midnite Vultures is hotness

♥ Midnite Vultures+Mutations+Sea Change ♥

I also absolutely love the b-sides from Midnite Vultures, but almost all of the other ones are nice.

  Fred McGriff said:

... guero is perfectly solid.

yep. on that one he started working again with the dust brothers, since odelay; loove that album.

Not holding my breath for this, but I will probably buy it as I do with all beck albums. I liked MV, just got at the same time as Lp5 and just didnt give it the time I should have. Sea change meh.

  ieafs said:

it's a shame beck doesn't really 'do' bsides anymore... have you heard some of the ones from mutations thisket? the cold brains single - 4 bsides, all of them fantastic.

Definitely. :)

oh yeah. discovering his b-sides (and all his other many tracks here and there) was good fun. i agree about it being a shame. inside out was a good track, though the other exclusive songs for guero and information didn't really do much for me.