Bored With Beck/Beck Is Back

Not gonna lie, for a while there, I was rather bored with Beck. When Sea Change came out, I was like "all right, new Beck, rock on" and all that jazz ... then I listened to it and I flat out didn't much like it. He's a damn good musician, but Sea Change didn't catch my interest, so I kinda forgot about him for a while.

Then Guero came out and there was a big hub-bub about that, so I borrowed it from a friend, and couldn't hear was all the hype was about. I really didn't much like it. It was Boring. So when The Information came out, I borrow it from the first person I knew who had it, and didn't listen to it until about last week.

Freeking ... Amazing. Beck, in my mind, is back. If you haven't heard it, get it. In the mean time, here is a set from early-late last year on the best damn radio station (KCRW) on the best damn show on the radio (Morning Becomes Eclectic) where he performs songs from The Information:

Band: Beck
Date: 2006-10-04
Venue: KCRW Morning Becomes Eclectic


Motorcade
Cell Phone's Dead
No Complaints
Movie Theme
We Dance Alone
Nausea
Dark Star
Strange Apparition
Think I'm In Love

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I Like Cars, More Than Telephones...

"...your voice in my ear, makes me feel so alone." - The Arcade Fire "Cars and Telephones"

Download it: Cars and Telephones

truthfully, I don't even know if that song is technically by the Arcade Fire, because it's a demo that Win wrote a few years (maybe only 1 thou) before the band formed. It is, however, one of my favorite songs ... period.

I love love love the Arcade Fire. In fact, they are one of the reasons I purchased a drum set and started a band. They fill this part of me that I didn't even know needed filling, and I don't think that, after that, there is much more I can say about them, other than the facts. I think my buddy over at Karma Spares No One summed it up nicely though, so I will just get to the music.

Like JJ said, Neon Bible is looking to be quite the sophomore album, and Intervention, the first released song, is a song that, I hope, proves that to be right. Thing is that it didn't just pop up recently. They performed it in a live set on KCRW's Morning Becomes Eclectic almost 2 years ago along with my absolute favorite song by them, a cover of "Born on a Train." Here is that amazing set:

Band: The Arcade Fire
Date: 2005-01-17
Venue: KCRW's Morning Becomes Eclectic

Intro
Wake Up
Neighborhood #4 (7 Kettles)
Vampire / Forest Fire
Interview
Intervention
Born On A Train (Magnetic Fields Cover)
In The Backseat
Outro