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The Notorious LOL
10-02-2006, 12:15 AM
more of the same old crap! He should seriously just retire and retain what he once had in the sense of "credibility" and "artistic integrity"
b i o n i c
10-02-2006, 12:22 AM
this album is significant for more than just the music
I guess Guero wasn't very well received, (at least here) but I liked it. If The Information is going to be similar to the last one, then I'll probably like this one too.
Poster Boy
10-02-2006, 01:51 AM
I'm still buying the shit out of it on Tuesday.
buddmonkey
10-02-2006, 07:41 AM
I loved Guero... I think he hust keeps on getting more interesting every album.... I will allso be buying it tomorrow.... I hope we get a remix album like lasttime....
b i o n i c
10-02-2006, 08:25 AM
i was referring to the visual, non 'cd' aspects of the release. i skimmed something interesting in WIRED about it. its the wave of the future, kids
YoungRemy
10-02-2006, 08:35 AM
its the wave of the future...
I still jerk off manually- The Dude
b i o n i c
10-02-2006, 08:40 AM
its all going electronic, aint nuttin we can do bout it
This one sounds like Guero with Sea Change production.
hpdrifter
10-02-2006, 12:28 PM
I know it aint the popular opinion around here but I liked Guero a lot.
Jitters
10-02-2006, 12:30 PM
This one sounds like Guero with Sea Change production.
So he's rapping over an acoustic guitar and an orchestra? :D
Deep_Sea_Rain
10-02-2006, 01:38 PM
I've liked what I've heard so far from the album...I'll be there tomorrow.
cosmo105
10-02-2006, 01:39 PM
can't say i'm too excited about it.
thegoodmrbrodie!
10-02-2006, 03:00 PM
i heard a nice song on the radio the other day. might have been a remix though. it was nice. really.
thegoodmrbrodie!
10-02-2006, 03:06 PM
'cellphone's dead' it was called. not a remix. just nice.
DroppinScience
10-02-2006, 03:39 PM
I'm still buying the shit out of it on Tuesday.
(y)
I've got it on right now. It's not a quick fix of musical entertainment like some of the tracks on guero (e-pro), you need to bear with it, the songs draw out but it's worth it. it's really consistent and still unlike anything i've heard him do.
i'd give it 4 out of 5.
Poster Boy
10-02-2006, 07:07 PM
Beck is just one of those artists for me that I'll always be behind. "Odelay" essentially shaped my taste in music seeing as how it was the first cd I went out and bought with my own money. I liked Guero, but it's at the bottom of my list. Midnite Vultures is his untoppable masterpiece in my opinion. I'll admit that his songwriting has become what I never thought Beck songwriting would become- predictable, but like I said, I'll buy Beck records til he stops making them.
skra75
10-02-2006, 07:40 PM
I know it aint the popular opinion around here but I liked Guero a lot.
yeah me too i listened to shit out of it. now i'm bored of it tho:(
The Notorious LOL
10-02-2006, 08:09 PM
Okay everyone can remove Becks balls from their hands now!
Everything he did after Odelay was trash. Mutations sucked, Midnite Vultures is trash, Guero is some "look at me trying to do Odelay again but Im old and live in a mansion" shit, and this album is more of the same bullshit. Notice I didnt include his faggy emo record about breakups because it doesnt even warrant a recognition as a real album.
The gangsta ass Beck stuff is One Foot In The Grave and Mellow Gold. Just listen to that repeatedly and realize that everything else he did post that sucks a huge cyst covered scrotum in comparison.
The Notorious LOL
10-02-2006, 08:12 PM
actually fuck that, Id rather listen to Golden Feelings than most of his new stuff and that crap is him recording shitty demos after huffing glue in an abandoned shack near the trainyard.
Beck is just one of those artists for me that I'll always be behind. "Odelay" essentially shaped my taste in music seeing as how it was the first cd I went out and bought with my own money. I'll admit that his songwriting has become what I never thought Beck songwriting would become- predictable, but like I said, I'll buy Beck records til he stops making them.
Word.
One of the odd things about this one is that he doesn't stick to the "nonsense" or "personal" themes with his lyrics, they seem to go back and forth. It's like he wanted to go back and make what Mutations was to Odelay, but didn't want to give up the more hip-hop influences he used with Guero.
Okay everyone can remove Becks balls from their hands now!
Everything he did after Odelay was trash. Mutations sucked, Midnite Vultures is trash, Guero is some "look at me trying to do Odelay again but Im old and live in a mansion" shit, and this album is more of the same bullshit. Notice I didnt include his faggy emo record about breakups because it doesnt even warrant a recognition as a real album.
The gangsta ass Beck stuff is One Foot In The Grave and Mellow Gold. Just listen to that repeatedly and realize that everything else he did post that sucks a huge cyst covered scrotum in comparison.
lol
The Notorious LOL
10-02-2006, 09:50 PM
its true yo. I will jock old Beck music to the high heavens until the day I die but dude became lame as fuck as he advanced his career.
Mr. Boomin'Granny
10-02-2006, 10:19 PM
put your clothes on motherfucker.
skra75
10-02-2006, 10:24 PM
hahhhahahahahah
Mr Films
10-03-2006, 03:14 AM
just heard "Think I'm in Love" on his myspace page. I'm fairly certain he played it live when I saw him back in June. Nice tune. Now I'm really totally buying the album.
The Notorious LOL
10-03-2006, 09:56 AM
put your clothes on motherfucker.
yeah Im a drunk, but you're a lousy low life who cant do nothin for himself
Deep_Sea_Rain
10-03-2006, 02:38 PM
The new album, upon my first few listens, isn't bad. Very eery, even for a Beck album...
Also, the DVD it comes with is great, some of the weirdest music videos I've ever seen...
My favorites so far are "No Complaints", "1000 BPM", "Dark Star" and "Nausea".
Stickers are very cool too... (y)
Mr Films
10-03-2006, 03:14 PM
this new album takes some getting used to.
RoryMC
10-03-2006, 05:06 PM
I read my girlfriend's (honest) Heat magazine earlier and they've given it 5 stars out of 5.
I know it won't be that good. Guero got pretty mediocre after repeated listens and from the song I've heard from his new album it's no different.
FunkyHiFi
10-03-2006, 05:16 PM
Got to check out this album today at a Wherehouse store. They let me check out the dvd on one of their portable players (the CD was playing over the store's P.A. system).
Though based on hearing only four tracks, the music seems pretty cool to me. :tu: I already like those songs better than what's on Guero. One track had what sounded like effects from a $50 Casio keyboard I used to own, & i mean that in a good way. :D
I watched three of the videos - trippy/artsy stuff! Lots of groovy 60s-ish psychedelic effects. But it looked like Beck let 80s videos & fashions influence them too. All in all, definitely fun to watch.
btw: both the CD and dvd were embossed with their respective titles. It gives the otherwise plain/colorless surface an interesting look I've never seen before (the letters end up having a sort of mirrored/glittery look). Though this being a Beck album I'm not suprised.
FunkyHiFi
10-03-2006, 05:18 PM
This post is here simply to change my post count # to 667 - me no likey the previous number. :o
Deep_Sea_Rain
10-03-2006, 09:51 PM
My (http://i11.photobucket.com/albums/a176/Bluemetroid/2-3.jpg) Information cover...
buddmonkey
10-04-2006, 09:35 AM
I actually really enjoyed listening to and watching this album... Last night I threw on my headphones, and popped it in the computer, and just sat back and enjoyed the ride.... The music is verry pshycadellic, as is the DVD... There is alot of shit going on in this album... A verry good follow up to Guero, in my opinion.....
Deep_Sea_Rain
10-04-2006, 03:00 PM
Notice I didnt include his faggy emo record about breakups because it doesnt even warrant a recognition as a real album.
Oh, you mean Sea Change? It's a wonderful album thats on more than people's top 10 list than just mine, thanks.
Stickers that came with mine. (http://img131.imageshack.us/img131/6039/stickersgv9.jpg)
Wow, so each set of stickers are different for each album. I didn't know that. No wonder Deep Sea Rain's stickers looked different than mine. I'll take pictures of my completed booklet, with most of the stickers on there. It looks quite bizarre. What's neat, is that there is a visual sticker to each song title, as shown on the stickers Beck posted.
As for the album itself, I haven't been listening to it much, but some of my favorites are Dark Star, Cellphone's Dead, Nausea, Soldier Jane, and Think I'm In Love. I have yet to check out that DVD with music videos to all the songs on The Information.
Mr Films
10-04-2006, 06:00 PM
my cover is my myspace profile image (http://www.myspace.com/misterfilms)
I seriously can't believe how awesome these stickers are. I really hope somewhere there's a compendium of all the stickers released.
Deep_Sea_Rain
10-04-2006, 07:06 PM
Nice arrangement, Films...
There are supposedly four different sticker sets. I don't think there is a way to tell externally which one you'll get...
Also here is the back (http://i11.photobucket.com/albums/a176/Bluemetroid/beck2.jpg) of my album (I don't think your supposed to put stickers on the paper back there, but I did anyway), the back (http://i11.photobucket.com/albums/a176/Bluemetroid/beck3.jpg) of the leaflet, and the left (http://i11.photobucket.com/albums/a176/Bluemetroid/beck5.jpg) and right (http://i11.photobucket.com/albums/a176/Bluemetroid/beck4.jpg) sides of inside the leaflet.
I overlapped stickers in some places to make stranger images...
kaiser soze
10-04-2006, 07:42 PM
contrary to what some think, this album does not suck a donkey dick pickled in guinea pig piss
great follow up to Guero, if not better by miles
My information stuck together.
Cover (http://img151.imageshack.us/img151/9712/smallcoverbf2.jpg)
Back (http://img225.imageshack.us/img225/1714/smallbackum1.jpg)
Inside (http://img100.imageshack.us/img100/3472/smallinsidecu7.jpg)
Opposite Cover (http://img225.imageshack.us/img225/3337/smalloppositecoverah4.jpg)
(incase you were interested)
Kid Presentable
10-05-2006, 12:28 AM
Who produced it? I might check it out.
Who produced it? I might check it out.
Nigel Godrich.
Mr Films
10-05-2006, 04:44 AM
this album is reeeeeally growing on me
when I first bought it I wasn't too sure but now I think it might be one of his best ever. it feels much more cohesive than Guero. these songs sound like they belong together.
Mr Films
10-05-2006, 04:56 AM
hey, check this out:
apparently, the packaging disqualifies the album from inclusion on the UK charts next week as they've deemed that it gives the album an "unfair advantage".
http://www.billboard.com/bbcom/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1003220433
afronaut
10-05-2006, 05:44 PM
this is like a billion times better than guero. i think you guys may have got cooler stickers than i did though:(
Deep_Sea_Rain
10-05-2006, 08:34 PM
this album is reeeeeally growing on me
Exactly...I don't feel the need to skip through tracks like most other albums...it's very cohesive and gives the experience of one long song...it's excellent.
No Complaints is one of his best songs yet.... (y)
Mr Films
10-05-2006, 08:49 PM
Elevator Music
Think I'm in Love
Strange Apparition
Soldier Jane
Motorcade
are the highlights
but the whole album is great
Auton
10-06-2006, 03:56 PM
dumbest shit ever.
Mr Films
10-06-2006, 06:13 PM
Notorious LOL and Auton don't like something.
I am shocked beyond belief.
The Notorious LOL
10-06-2006, 07:16 PM
Auton and myself rule.
FunkyHiFi
10-07-2006, 02:57 PM
According to a couple guys here (http://www.hometheaterforum.com/htf/showthread.php?p=2986251#post2986251), if the CD is bought at Target or Best Buy, you get access to a free download for a track called "This Girl That I Know" (though it does come with some form of DRM).
Deep_Sea_Rain
10-07-2006, 03:30 PM
Now I find out about the extra tracks....sheesh. If anyone finds them for download, please let me know.
Oh yeah, and with two albums so close together and the extensive touring, I hope Mr. Hansen doesn't decide to take a long break after this...
I snagged those tracks from a torrent and some random link...the becktabs hub said they had them, but no one would say who or where and I couldn't find them. I can post a link once I get back to school - I'm at home for break right now.
Torrent for for the two bonus tracks --> http://www.isohunt.com/download/14150132/beck
If you use DC++ this is a good beck hub --> http://www.becktabs.com/media.php
Deep_Sea_Rain
10-07-2006, 04:20 PM
I snagged those tracks from a torrent and some random link...the becktabs hub said they had them, but no one would say who or where and I couldn't find them. I can post a link once I get back to school - I'm at home for break right now.
Excellent (y)
FunkyHiFi
10-08-2006, 01:26 AM
Singles in the olden days. (http://www.speedlimit45rpm.com/) :D The local resale shop sells them for 25 to 50 cents each.
though there is new music (http://www.theweathermen.com/acatalog/Weezer_Hash_Pipe_45rpm_Vinyl.html) too...........
The Information Bonus Tracks (http://rapidshare.de/files/36303478/Beck_-The_Information_-_Bonus_Tracks.zip.html)
If you guys are still interested. Those are from a 320kbps rip, so they're legit and bigger than small files. About a 20MB download there - just click through the "free" and little password deal to download the zip file.
Deep_Sea_Rain
10-11-2006, 01:02 AM
The Information Bonus Tracks (http://rapidshare.de/files/36303478/Beck_-The_Information_-_Bonus_Tracks.zip.html)
If you guys are still interested. Those are from a 320kbps rip, so they're legit and bigger than small files. About a 20MB download there - just click through the "free" and little password deal to download the zip file.
(y)
Pinkulo
12-29-2006, 07:54 PM
Does any still have these 3 tracks and can post them ? Thanks!!:)
Deep_Sea_Rain
12-29-2006, 10:49 PM
Does any still have these 3 tracks and can post them ? Thanks!!:)
I can AIM or MSN them to you if your still looking for them.
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