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Beck - Soul Suckin Jerk (Reject)
Is it
I got bent like a wet cigarette
and she’s comin after me with a butterfly netOr is it
rockin the town like a moldy crouton
Or maybe
runnin’ through the mini-mall in my underwear
Or
and I crawled out the window with my shadow on a spoon
dancin’ on the roof, shootin’ holes in the moonOne of those things is the best line in this song, in a song full of best lines.
Sometimes Beck writes like a spam mail copywriter on crack. Sometimes I like that.
beck.com: We have a new Beck song that we’ll be putting up later today called “Harry Partch.” Its a tribute to the composer and his desire to make the body and music unified into what he termed ‘Corporeality.’ The song employs Partch’s 43 tone scale, which expands conventional tonality into a broader variation of frequencies and resonances.
Charlotte Gainsbourg & Beck - Heaven Can Wait
Watch: Charlotte Gainsbourg Feat. Beck - "Heaven Can Wait"
Charlotte Gainsbourg and company sure know how to stir up some hype for her forthcoming album IRM, which is produced, co-written, and mixed by Beck. First, they dropped the title track for free (in exchange for an email address), then came a preview of the first single “Heaven Can Wait” via YouTube, and now the video premiere to the latter track, directed by the man behind Supergrass’s “Bad Blood” video, Keith Schofield.
Watch here or embedded below, as Beck and Gainsbourg provide the soundtrack to slow motion scenes of people buying guns, people breakdancing, a guy bathing in cereal, and a bunch of other dreamlike situations.
Actually, the cop tackling a man in a SpongeBob Squarepants Halloween costume is more like a nightmare to me, but if I can enjoy Dylan’s night terror of a “Must Be Santa” video, then this one works too, I suppose.
For all these people out there who cannot watch this video (i.e. me), this is a nice description. Let the mind-movies begin.
Girl - Beck
*want*
is he saying “sunshine” girl? or” cyanide “?
It’s the forever mysteryyyyyyy.
I have this. :) But look who’s talking… the Becktionary girl.
Record Club presents: Skip Spence’s Little Hands
Beck, Wilco, Feist, Jamie Lidell Team Up to Cover Skip Spence's Album Oar
via pitchfork:
Beck’s Record Club: Can it get any more awesome? Yes it can. And it just did.
As you know, Record Club works like this: Beck rounds up a revolving cast of guests to cover an entire album’s worth of songs in a day. The results are then posted in weekly installments on Beck’s website.
The latest entry in the series? Beck, Wilco, Feist, and Jamie Lidell teaming up to cover the 1969 cult fave Oar by onetime Moby Grape/Jefferson Airplane member turned acid casualty Skip Spence. The album’s leadoff track, “Little Hands”, is up on Beck’s site right now. (…)
