I remember when he went on the old Denton Show on Channel 7. He had to spin a barrel to see what song he was going to sing (all guest performers had to do it).

Beck was the only performer to ignore the song selection.

I think he gave the thumbs up and said "Fuck yeah" & denton looked uncomfortable

and instead of playing the barrel selection, he just ran around on the spot & rapped.

respect-a

fuck yeah! Beck when he was hyperactive.

Guero sounds like beck by numbers, he's vocally lost his magical spark.

I still love beck

and regret missing him on the 1st tour with JSBX. Fuck that would have been amaziing

I wanna marry this man.

i love beck, he's one of my all time favourite artists.
mutations doesn't get enough credit.
shame about his choice in religion.

I don't like to think that Scientology has broken him, but I think it has...

YES! I love Beck in all his previous glories and hope for more in the future.
3 cheers for the little golden wizard.

I'll stand up for "Guero" and "Sea Change". I love those albums.

I enjoy the variety that he delivers.

"Soy un perdidor - I'm a loser baby so why don't ya kill me?"

i like both those albums too, they aren't my favourites but i like them.

i find Another Foot In The Grave extremely diverting. it's well before Beck reached his mid-season form, but inspiring during a quiet Sunday spent in the lair.

'one foot in the grave' is my train travelling music at the moment. nice way to start the day.

beck can dance like a stylin' mother fucker. watching him last time i saw him had me squirming. i think he even dropped to the ground in a rad bent back-legged splits and then slid back up again. fuck yeah.

Painted Eyelids is a great song..

correction: One Foot In The Grave thanks sveltes, i've packed away all nearly all my CDs and was relying on my memory

we both posted about the same cd there peter at exactly the same time.

nice.

Late one afternoon, beck has a moment. It's dusk at a bucolic roadside rest stop, and he has just trotted back to the car to drop something off. But about 20 yards away, he silently, inexplicably goes off.

He breaks into a mad, Twyla Tharp shuck'n'jive right there on the grass. His head jerks left, then right- His arm flies out, his feet shuffle to the left. His left arm flails, he boogaloos off to the right. The mind scrambles for proper choreographic references. James Brown meets Cats? Alvin Ailey meets Devo?

Suddenly, the performance is over. Beck resumes his casual lope and walks on back-skinny legs in dusty blue jeans, eyes squinting in the setting sun. As for that wild moment of physical abandon, that spasm of caper and capriole, Beck is characteristically modest.

"Oh," he says, adjusting his clunky digital watch, "I was getting chased by a wasp."

and my block of dial-up time elapsed as well. hence my obscure musings above. i now return to DVD.

Some sweet rare B Sides.
http://www.yousendit.com/transfer.php?action=download&ufid=548D32234C7862D1

beck rare bsides to download

i can appreciate

so is he Jewish or a Scientologist?

Safran did some kind of "expose'" on this on music jamboree, if memory serves, but i have no idea what he actually concluded from it.

also, whats the appeal of Scientology to intelligent, talented people?

did Thurston's album as well

i heard she divorced Lleyton Hewitt. Because he's a loser, baby. I guess he's doing fine. They had a feel good time at one point. But by now it's just a lost cause. I pay no mind because it's nobody's fault but his own. I think he's in love.

Hahaha.
golf claps

read somewhere that he's been working with Dwight Yoakam on a few tracks for Dwight's new record. this can only turn out incredibly good!

WHAT?! Phwoar, awesomeness!

forgot, he also did Malkmus' last album

Also Jamie Lidell's album (some of it anyway) and the Scott Pilgrim soundtrack.

Timebomb is the best thing he has done in the last 10 years.

new beck and bat for lashes on some movie soundtrack http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PMFdsiN_VhQ

Angus said about 5 years ago:
I remember when he went on the old Denton Show on Channel 7. He had to spin a barrel to see what song he was going to sing (all guest performers had to do it).

here

that's fantastic.

Just posting to say that sea change may well be the best sounding record I own.. Well worth the extra dollars for the audiophile version. My sound system isn't even that great, it must be mind blowing on a top end system

Guess I'm doin fine might be one of the saddest songs ever. Instant melancholy.

that's fantastic.

isn't it? and his first television appearance according to Denton. not sure he really confirmed that though.

Beck did a cover of I Only Have Eyes For You

It is quite good.

New song by Beck out soon on Jack White's Third Man Records!
It starts off like some Hank Williams ditty, ramps it up a gear into the Alt Country zone and then goes completely off the deep end with a screaming RANT that sounds like The Legendary Stardust Cowboy! Check it out before they take it down from Soundcloud, since the YouTube version has already been removed (leave both NME and UNCUT red faced). ENJOY! ㋡
http://soundcloud.com/zonnora/beck-just-started-hating-some

From his Facebook:
BECK & McSWEENEY’S PRESENT
BECK HANSEN'S SONG READER COMING IN DECEMBER 2012

In the wake of Modern Guilt and The Information, Beck’s latest album comes in an almost-forgotten form—twenty songs existing only as individual pieces of sheet music, never before released or recorded. Complete with full-color, heyday-of- home-play-inspired art for each song and a lavishly produced hardcover carrying case (and, when necessary, ukelele notation), the Song Reader is an experiment in what an album can be at the end of 2012—an alternative that enlists the listener in the tone of every track, and that’s as visually absorbing as a dozen gatefold LPs put together.

The songs here are as unfailingly exciting as you’d expect from their author, but if you want to hear “Do We? We Do,” or “Don’t Act Like Your Heart Isn’t Hard,” bringing them to life depends on you.

BECK HANSEN'S SONG READER features original art from Marcel Dzama (who created the imagery for Beck’s acclaimed Guero), Leanne Shapton, Josh Cochran, Jessica Hische, and many more, as well as an introduction by Jody Rosen (Slate, The New York Times) and a foreword by Beck. The package measures 9.5” x 12.5” with 108 pages comprising 20 individual full-color song booklets—18 featuring original lyrics, and 2 instrumentals—with covers from more than a dozen different artists.

Readers’ (and select musicians’) renditions of the songs will be featured on the McSweeney’s website. Check back at http://www.mcsweeneys.net/pages/song-reader and http://www.beck.com/ for further information and updates as they are available.

Coffee table book?

I'd still like to hear Beck's covers.

that sure is kooky.

Getting into this bloke's versions, especially this one

Beck reimagines David Bowies 'Sound and Vision'

pretty interesting, a bit freaky in the headphones

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QnOmrDzRrGQ

There was an interesting review of Beck's Song Reader in a recent Uncut mag. I think it's a terrific idea, it reminds me of how Dylan made song demos in the 60's for other artists to record their versions. I think it's a shame though that Beck won't be releasing his own recorded versions of the Songbook songs.

Yet....