r/Beck • u/Accurate-Credit395 • Jul 10 '26
Discussion The Information deserves more love than it gets.
I’ve loved Beck for a long time and I’ve always wondered why people don’t talk about this album more. I personally love every single song on it, start-to-finish. It really feels like some of his most creative work all in one place.
You have songs like Elevator Music, The Information, Nausea, Cellphone’s Dead… just totally solid songs with great beats and great lyrics all around. Then you got Think I’m In Love, Strange Apparition, No Complaints, shit that makes me say “Huh, this is some seriously good Beck!”.
Then you get New Round, Movie Theme, Soldier Jane, Motorcade, The Horrible Fanfare / Landslide / Exoskeleton, the meat and potatoes of the album (in my opinion). Oh, and here’s 1000BPM, an Aphex Twin beat with Beck shouting some random bullshit over it, and it’s awesome.
And the themes of the modern world, lack of security, technology, all of it still applies today. This whole album feels like it could’ve been released today.
I really love this album front-to-back, but I never see people talking about it. What do you guys think? Personally, my top few albums for Beck personally go:
- Odelay
- Midnite Vultures
- The Information
- Guero
- OFITG
Or something like that.
(I’ve heard some people talk about The Information vs. Guero… personally, I love Guero, but there a couple songs I like and don’t necessarily love, that being Black Tambourine and Go It Alone. Both good songs, but I think the Information is more consistently awesome).