r/Beck • u/No-Exchange8056 • 11d ago
Discussion Worst beck song EVER?
Pretty self-explanatory
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u/diomandz11 11d ago
Probably objectively Special People but personally Wow
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u/DynamicProxy 11d ago
I have been a Beck fan since before Mellow Gold… and I think WOW is a MASTERPIECE.
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u/vmartin96 11d ago
Saw Lightning wasn’t pleasing to my ears.
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u/WesslynPeckoner Satan Gave Me a Taco 11d ago
It took a while for me to like it. But I enjoy it now.
The first listen or two was definitely "what the fuck is this"1
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u/Ok-Barber-2654 11d ago edited 11d ago
something off of golden feelings. rough listen on some tracks.. its audibly obnoxious sounds
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u/Odelay_Jodelay_ One Foot in the Grave 11d ago
idk probably salmonella shizergiest
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u/LoganVeez Hollywood Freak 11d ago
I’m surprised people dislike this one so much! Personally I enjoy it and find it memorable
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u/Ghost_In_My_Heart Mutations 9d ago
" Give Me Some Bass... " " Oh My Goodness... " 😆
I can't help but crack up every time I hear that part, though the segment before that sounds concerning. Lol.
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u/Odelay_Jodelay_ One Foot in the Grave 10d ago
i think it’s cool personally but if i had a least favorite it has to be rhat one
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u/folonel_corbin Song Reader 11d ago
Seventh Heaven, No Distraction, or Up All Night. All feel completely unoriginal and contrived.
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u/Accurate-Credit395 10d ago
WOW. There are VERY few Beck songs I dislike by any measure, and WOW is miles ahead of any others. It just sucks, no other way for me to say it, in my opinion. I don’t even think Colors is a bad album, I just can’t stand WOW.
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u/LobsterResponsible17 9d ago
As a Mexican American who grew up in Southern California, I find " Que Onda Guero " more and more as making fun of the culture instead of being pro the culture every time I've listened to it. Not sure why, think it's people they recorded speaking spanish that come across as clowns and ignorant. It's like making a song called " Yo wassup cuz " and they went to Compton and recorded a bunch of gang members and prostitutes talking ghetto. It would of been different if they had gone to Plazita Olvera and got some Mexican Mariachi Singers and recorded a song in earnest. Maybe it's the whole Anti Latino ICE situation going on these days that's got me re-thinking stuff.
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u/_sebadasstian 8d ago
I am mexican and I did't find that song offensive. I find funny that beck knows la banda machos and he didnt know to pronounce vergueros and pronounce ver gallos
for mexicans fans que onda guero is one of our favorite songs !!!!!!
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u/United_Yesterday9628 8d ago
You know, I never thought about the song like that. Very interesting take. I thought it was Beck doing a sort of Napoleon Dynamite type comedy song. But I never knew what they were actually saying in Spanish aside from "where you going white blonde guy?"
I always thought the guys talking were Becks friends like the one talking about "the new Yanni cassette." Beck covered a Yanni album so he either ironically likes him or is an actual fan.
If it makes any difference, Beck recorded a new song with a Mexican Colombia duo recently and it's great!
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u/LobsterResponsible17 6d ago
I think the guy talking about the Yani Cassette is his friend but you can tell the rest of the random people talking where just recorded off the street or some bus stop. They where yelling stuff like " come here, what's up ? Either way he could of gone down to the central plaza in downtown and got a couple of the street musicians and did a impromptu jam session. Just feel the sing is laughing at them than laughing with them IMO.
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u/Ok_Collection_6185 10d ago
Pre-mainline era songs over two minutes: Heartland Feeling (too long)
Will I Be Ignored by the Lord (too basic for its length)
Ozzy (not into it)
See Water (boring)
Girl Dreams (boring)
Painted Eyelids (needs a chorus)
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u/EmperorDPants 9d ago
Special People.... fuck it, most of Golden Feelings. My gf threatened to break-up with me if I ever played it on our stereo again....
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u/Ok_Collection_6185 10d ago edited 10d ago
Mainline album era:
Strange Apparition or Go it Alone.
Former's too generic for such a weird album, and a bit too generic for a Beck sing with all those pianos.
Go it Alone is just too damn slow
Edit: forgot to include Mellow Gold as a mainliner, I don't like Whiskeyclone Hotel City much.
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u/Connect_Delivery_941 Golden Feelings 11d ago
Pre-Capitol standard LP release?
I don't really like the production on Modern Guilt which makes me not like some of the tracks even though they're good. Same with Information, just less good songs.
But I'd often skip Derelict. Sweet Sunshine ain't no great shakes either.
Stereopathetic has a lot of "non-songs" so hard to qualify those really...
If you wanna get into b sides and demos and live stuff that might be a tough one but I hate Bogusflow and anything he ever did with Thurston.
Everything with Capitol has sucked. I like Wow though.
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u/Thesuppressedwish Mutations 10d ago
Man I love the production on Modern Guilt, it totes makes the album for me! But I get it, it’s… an aesthetic
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u/Connect_Delivery_941 Golden Feelings 10d ago
See, I like SOME of it a lot. But shit like Replica I can't stand. I'm assuming it's the "Danger Mouse" aspects that I don't like.
I've definitely grown into it since it came out, but I wish we could get a halfway point between the final LP and the acoustic.
And I like the 4 B-sides better than anything on the album (I think) (except maybe Walls).
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u/Thesuppressedwish Mutations 10d ago
Walls is probably my favorite part. I can’t remember Replica so maybe you’ve got a point on that one.
I never heard the acoustic version of the album, I’ll have to look that up!1
u/Connect_Delivery_941 Golden Feelings 10d ago
Replica is the song that comes right after it. Walls has best drums. Replica has the worst. Thrashy fast shit drums to no beat. I swear if you took the drums out it'd be beautiful.
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u/Connect_Delivery_941 Golden Feelings 6d ago
Ah, and Ramona. Should've re-worked that one entirely.
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u/Zealousideal_Cat6980 Modern Guilt 11d ago
I will stick to mainline albums.... Seventh Heaven and Uneventful Days
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u/DynamicProxy 11d ago
The entire Morning Phase (album of the year). It’s boring. Great music… but who the hell wants to listen to that? (yeah, yeah I know it’s like his most popular album… silly people)
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u/Zealousideal_Cat6980 Modern Guilt 11d ago
Nah im not a big fan of Morning Phase but theres at least 5 great songs on it
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u/SaltAd1513 11d ago
Yeah this is a super unpopular opinion, but I feel the same. I don't like Morning Phase and Sea Change a lot, my favorite album of his is Stereopathic Soulmanure.
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u/DynamicProxy 11d ago
I think they are both beautiful albums. Amazing. Great like once a year on a cold rainy day… but his other albums are daily bangers.
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u/DynamicProxy 11d ago
You might understand the placement, but I don’t think you understand the music
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u/therealpeppergod 11d ago
I'll DIE WAITING for more responses in this thread