Confessions of a Fanboy

As I was writing about the new Oasis record last night I realized that I haven’t written reviews of the new Coldplay or Beck records yet. In each case the reason is the same; I haven’t spent enough listening time to really know how I feel about them. Even though a review is [...]

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So I picked up the new Beck CD today, Modern Guilt. I’ve now doubled the Danger Mouse-produced projects in my CD collection. Just as I really like what he helped Black Keys do with Attack & Release, I’m pretty excited about what he and Beck have cooked up. I sketched a few [...]

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I bought the Beck deluxe edition of Odelay yesterday. Without re-reviewing an album that’s universally embraced as a classic, let me just say I had a lot of fun remembering why I like this record so much. To borrow from an old commercial: the question isn’t is this album good enough for [...]

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A lot of good stuff from yesterday, beginning with the most recent addition to the collection, Dave Matthews’ Live at Radio City. From there I did another tour through the ’90s and followed that up with a short classic rock kick.

Bartender | Matthews, Dave Band | Live At Radio City
When The World Ends | [...]

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Few artists have better walked the line between cool and uncool, hip and unhip than Beck. The “Loser” pose captured Gen-X slackers, and Beck built a career from there. He mixed dizzying electronic music with slacker rhymes and a lazy drawl, and that was just one of his musical personas. He may [...]

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A group of us have been discussing the great breakup albums of all time for a piece for The Mondo Project. I’ll link to it when it goes live so you can see all the choices. Mine was Sea Change by Beck, and that is what I’m listening to now.
Fabulous record. It [...]

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I’m going to compile a playlist, probably more than one, called “When It All Goes Wrong.” When I do, you can bet Mark Lanegan and Elliott Smith will make the list. So, yeah, I suppose you could translate their presence on the list to mean today was not the greatest day in the [...]

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I have cracked the code! JUMANJI!
My mind has been replaying a snippet of a song for a couple of weeks now and I could not place it. It has been like a broken record in my head and it has been driving me mad. Over and over, I would hear a melancholy voice sing, "Something [...]

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