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Beck - The Information Audio CD

A fair review of the Beck "The Information" Audio CD. Please note that the below review is the views of the authors, and authors only. You can get a complete list of all Beck reviews here, or go back to the Beck tabs.

Beck Band: Beck
Title: The Information
Rating:
Release Date: 2006-10-03
Media: Audio CD

Tracks: 1: Elevator Music 2: Think I'm in Love 3: Cellphone's Dead 4: Strange Apparition 5: Soldier Jane 6: Nausea 7: New Round 8: Dark Star 9: We Dance Alone 10: No Complaints 11: 1000BPM 12: Motorcade 13: Information 14: Movie Theme 15: Horrible Fanfare/Landslide/Exoskeleton 16: Bonus Material [DVD][*]

Poor Job on this Vinyl Boxset!!
The pressing quality is awful, with multiple discs having to be sent back for replacement. I know 2 people that have this $200+ Boxset and are miserable with it. The company that pressed them is very hard to deal with and it took months to get replacements. In one instance the replacement had to be sent back because it had the same problem as its predecessor. In another instance when the replacement came it wasnt an LP at all but a booklet for a Sigur Ross LP?! The mastering is very good, much better than on the original CD, but the constant skips and noisy vinyl make it hard to enjoy. Shame on the company who produced this set! .


greatness!
The DVD that came with it now, its uh. great CD, many of the songs here take awhile to grown on you like Soldier Jane (not my fav at first) but this is the genius of beck, that guys is such a chameleon. . not anything great but its amusing to say the least, the guys went to thrift /costume store and made a bunch of crazy homemade videos that are just "out there".
Love the music tho!.


Spacey integrals
It all runs very smoothly from one song to the next and they're as usual pretty remarkable songs. This is probably Beck's most cohesive effort stylistically and in tone. Many people dislike this cd because it doesn't fit their expectations and others embrace it for the very same reason. It is a departure and it's own individual world. Beck does lots of rapping as well as singing. The quality of Beck's work is extremely consistent but many fans are not in step with him and that's ok. Some love Sea Change but fail to see Mutations as a continuation of that work. Many disliked Guero which has several of Beck's best songs. The Beatles' Magical Mystery Tour bombed but had many of their most memorable songs. Patti Smith's Radio Ethiopia bombed but it's one of her best and strongest efforts. How many people know David Bowie's Black Tie White Noise, another fantastic work that so few know? I recognize this as a terrific cd from an uncompromising artist who has mastered so many elements of our diverse musical culture as Picasso and James Joyce did in their in their respective fields in their time. .


Better Than Before
" Oh where was I? Oh yeah, Beck. I love Beck and not just because on a good day people have told me I look like him, which is better than being compared to John Denver which is what the guy who works at the corner cigarette stand tells me all the time while informing each time that it isn't my song he's playing, as in he isn't playing John Denver which he doesn't have to inform me of since I know there's never been a thumpity thump gay mix of "Thank God I'm A Country Boy.

I have a great respect for this man, who has been deemed a musical rock genius by many many in the press and I have to agree. Each release has the man mixing and mashing new and exciting sounds while somehow being able to not make it into an electroclash mess. However, the last two albums didn't blow me over - Sea Change was a little too depressing, slow and dare I say boring, while Geuro, just didn't lift out of the speakers like I had hoped it would, but now the man is back with a collection of songs he's been working on for three years - The Information is as good as you've probably heard.

Opening with "Elevator Music" an electric piece of classic Beck before moving to one of my favs "Think I'm In Love" which sounds new, yet calmly familiar and most importantly catchy.

In fact, the whole album is very infectious and I love that in an album. "Soldier Jane" and "Nausea" are two other brilliant pieces of Beckisms, and the whole thing though containing 15 songs seems to go by before you even know it.

All you can really do is go back and play it again. And I do.

Incidentally, in what I think is an awesome sales pitch, the album doesn't have any artwork instead you get four pages of graph like paper and a book of stickers to decorate it as you see fit. I haven't done it yet, as I was thinking I should save the stickers for future generations but since the whole thing is already opened I may just up and do it. .


This album is not worth the money.
I suppose if you are a beck junkie than this is a must have but seriously,

this album is just another dissapointment from beck along with sea change.


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