The Becktionary

sissyneck: (via ChromaBleed)

Thu, 10 Dec 2009 15:10:37 +0100

sissyneck:

(via ChromaBleed)

(via sissyneck)

Thu, 10 Dec 2009 13:03:31 +0100

(via sissyneck)

hamless: Record Club 3 - Autumn De Wilde

Wed, 09 Dec 2009 20:32:50 +0100

hamless:

Record Club 3 - Autumn De Wilde

Photo

Sun, 06 Dec 2009 02:40:10 +0100

Beck: I was trying to write in French through her, and I'm told that those are the lyrics that aren't very good on the record.

Sun, 06 Dec 2009 02:36:48 +0100

Beck: I was trying to write in French through her, and I'm told that those are the lyrics that aren't very good on the record.
Charlotte: I like them.
Beck: They sound great to me because its in French, and I know what they mean, and it has more resonance because its another language. Well to me they mean something but that's the way I write, its like montage writing. I mean, a lot of my lyrics in English are like that too. You put a word next to each other. Its an accretion of meaning. Meaning that you keep stacking things together an all together they mean something, you know. They're all snapshots from a story. I'm not going to tell you what the story is, but I'll show you the props and you make your own story. Its that kind of writing.

(via izelana)

Sat, 05 Dec 2009 16:31:38 +0100

(via izelana)

Beck - Nobody’s Fault But My Own I bought Mutations 7...

Sat, 05 Dec 2009 11:35:17 +0100

Beck - Nobody’s Fault But My Own

I bought Mutations 7 years ago. I just turned into a Beck nerd and enjoyed Odelay and Sea Change and Midnite Vultues. Listening to Mutations was different though (and it still is). I cannot really pinpoint it. I always see Beck sitting cross-legged in his basement, recording Nobody’s Fault But My Own, with rain knocking against his window and a cup of tea next to him. And I quote what Mr. Hansen says: “Well I went down to my basement. It was raining outside, and I wrote it.”

Nobody’s Fault But My Own was my first favorite song on the record. I had an oral exam once in my former university and we suddenly started talking about Beck. My (favorite) teacher said “Oh, yeah, I love this silver album…” I said “Mutations!” “Yeah,” she said, “particularly the second track!”. I have this bent toward Bottle of Blues or Sing it Again or Runners Dial Zero or Dead Melodies, but still. Nobody’s Fault But My Own is flawless.

Maybe I’ll start to write a column on Mutations.

Which one do you prefer?

Sat, 05 Dec 2009 01:23:45 +0100

alvareo:

I think I prefer the third one.

(via hamless) “More Hot Dog than Big Cheese” Also:...

Thu, 03 Dec 2009 14:47:57 +0100

(via hamless)

“More Hot Dog than Big Cheese”

Also: very ironic shirt. So 2010.

(via hamless)

Mon, 30 Nov 2009 12:47:09 +0100

(via hamless)

Saxx Laws - THE VIDEO! Here’s the audio post

Sat, 28 Nov 2009 12:09:00 +0100

Saxx Laws - THE VIDEO!

Here’s the audio post

(via hamless)

Tue, 24 Nov 2009 22:24:42 +0100

(via hamless)

Photo

Sun, 22 Nov 2009 19:22:46 +0100

Record Club plays Cripple Creek

Sun, 22 Nov 2009 19:21:24 +0100

Record Club plays Cripple Creek

(via hamless)

Sun, 22 Nov 2009 19:20:51 +0100

(via hamless)

via annahinks

Sun, 22 Nov 2009 13:20:13 +0100

via annahinks

feelgoodhits: Beck - Soul Suckin Jerk (Reject) Is it I got bent...

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 07:14:04 +0100

feelgoodhits:

Beck - Soul Suckin Jerk (Reject)

Is it

I got bent like a wet cigarette
and she’s comin after me with a butterfly net

Or 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 moon

One 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...

Wed, 18 Nov 2009 21:54:50 +0100

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

Wed, 18 Nov 2009 20:08:44 +0100

Charlotte Gainsbourg & Beck - Heaven Can Wait

Watch: Charlotte Gainsbourg Feat. Beck - "Heaven Can Wait"

Wed, 18 Nov 2009 19:34:34 +0100

twentyfourbit:

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.