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intereact!Beck
Retail Price (not our price): $13.98
Release Date: 2005-03-29
Manufacturer: Geffen Records
Format: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Track List
Now here, for your listening pleasure, the tracks...
| Disc 1 |
Editorial Reviews (supplied by Amazon.com):
1) Amazon.com
Now that Beck has effectively exorcised his personal demons with 2002's hyperconfessional Sea Change, he can get back to the business of being a total fruit loop. We all know what that involves: videogame sound effects, random shouting in Spanish, and rhymes about popsicles and vegetable vans. And that's just the second track. Guero is like every Beck album condensed into one, a no-holds-barred collision of two-turntables and a microphone with the added bonus of guitars, bossa-nova beats, Jack White, lyrics about spaceships, and dumptrucks full of ideas all fighting to be heard above the ruckus. It's an exhausting and exhilarating listen with lots of peaks, such as the digitized power ballad "Broken Drum" and handclap-drenched folk freak-out "Farewell Ride," and more than enough to restore anyone's faith in Beck as one of the most chaotically inspired songwriters of our time. -- Aidin Vaziri2) Album Description
Three years after the critically acclaimed and heartwrenching opus "Sea Change," THREE-TIME GRAMMY WINNER and FIVE-TIME MTV VIDEO MUSIC AWARD WINNER BECK returns with his most diverse, accomplished and compelling work to date: "GUERO." With the raucous first single "E-Pro" triumphantly "na-na-na"-ing Beck's return with a must-be-seen-to-be believed video by Shynola (Queens of the Stone Age, Radiohead), "GUERO" both reunites Beck with classic co-conspirators the Dust Brothers and explores territories uncharted by even this most innovative artist of his generation.
Customer Reviews (supplied by Amazon.com):
Average Customer Rating: 4.5 out of 5
1) ebullient [Rating: 4 out of 5]
if you like beck you'll love this--yes, it's similar to previous work but it's really good. he oozes talent.2) Guero [Rating: 5 out of 5]
Wow. Just wow. I wanted to get into Beck, and Guero was it.If you're considering getting Guero, then get it. It's amazing.Every song is great, but I have to say Farewell Ride is my favorite. You may have heard Hell Yes, though.3) Chaotic and Cool [Rating: 4 out of 5]
I really like this CD. But then, I like Beck's chaos/repetetive sort of style. This is a really good CD if you're into Beck or music like his.4) Thursday night I think I'm pregnant again [Rating: 5 out of 5]
How he manages to come up with the slapstick lyrics and groove them so fluidly against nonstop funk mystifies me. It's catchy. I can't help but bop to it.5) Refreshing... [Rating: 4 out of 5]
Yeah, I bashed the ____ out of Beck before, and I'm not apoligizing either. The reason why this one is better than the other travesties is because it doesn't sound like a _______, sloppy mixed up pile of vomit or some of the most boring things you can do with an acoustic guitar. Guero hits the point, and dosen't add a bunch of weird nonsensical noises that don't go in together, other than to sound like he's so _______ creative. This cd sounds more like he's trying to make music, instead of some stupid audio collage.The lyrics aren't exactly different from the same bizzare poetry that Beck has always done for every other one of his albums (maybe not Sea Change; I haven't heard it yet, but it seems not so). The music is a lot different. It's actually fun, like the best songs on Odelay and "Loser", without the boring beats. It just seems that Beck did something else. I don't know. I just think it sounds like music and dosen't try to turn me off. I am also fond to know that my local library has all of the Beck catalog, well, two are owned by my father, this and Midnight Vultures. I can't sure if I like Beck or not as a whole.So don't e-mail with ALL of your _____, I can respect Beck for trying new stuff, though don't call it evolving. An evolving sound is adding on to your formula and making it more sophisticated. Beck just makes things different from the last.8/10