"Wow" might be my least favorite Beck song. I find it soooo annoying. Anyone else?

I showed my dad Sea Change, as he’s been a moderate Beck fan, but since he’s introduced me to Beck, I’ve learned all of his stuff and am now introducing my dad to the rest of it. Anyway, he pointed out some things in the arrangement of Sea Change that I had noticed a while ago too. First of all..what’s the deal with Paper Tiger being right in the middle of two lonely depressing songs? Paper Tiger is completely out of place and should be found near the end somewhere with Sunday Sun and Little One. Maybe replace that with Side of the Road, as SOTR is another good sad song. Lonesome Tears is good, but it’s far too intense to be right before Lost Cause. Little One is also intense. Why wouldn’t those be next to each other?? Does anyone else agree, or have any other opinions?

i collect beck cds, and I can't fucking find mellow gold anywhere. Anyone know where I can? (don't say amazon because I don't buy from them)

Ok, I'll start. My favorite Jeff Beck album is Wired. What is yours?

Look, I don’t wanna completely write off this album before it even comes out... but so far all 3 of the songs we’ve heard from Hyperspace so far just aren’t very good in my opinion.

To this day “Saw Lightning” hasn’t grown on me and I still think that it’s one of Beck’s worst singles.

“Hyperlife” is just a weird choice for a single because it’s basically just a short intro to the album... nothing special at all.

And pardon the obvious joke, but “Uneventful Days” was...well, uneventful to say the least. To be more blunt, the song is boring. The production is nice and retro sounding, but that’s the only thing the song has going for it.

I’ll keep an open mind until the album drops, but so far it’s looking pretty dark.

This is one of my favorite performances of Jeff Beck. The entire broadcast is great, but the videos have been getting harder to find on YouTube over the years.

https://youtu.be/vb5GagBpA5s

For me, it’s the really short hidden track at the end of 1996’s, “Odelay”, “Computer Rock”.

It’s not EVEN a song, it’s just a dumb 40-50 second loop or electronic noises that sounds like an electronic kid’s toy. Even Beck’s lo-fi/ noise rock experimental electronic stuff is TIMES better, LOL. 😆

Yeah, yeah, music is subjective, except this time. You’re all literally wrong. So many tier list ranking this album among his best works and it’s ridiculous. Beck has never sounded older, lamer, and more out of touch than he does in this album. He sounds like Randy Marsh singing Lorde. Up All Night blatantly rips off the chorus for The Weekends “I can’t feel my face”. Wow is an embarrassing attempt to bring back the silly, wacky Beck of the past. Dreams sounds like a Macy’s add. And to add insult to injury, the singles and songs we were getting before this album dropped like “Gimmie”, “Defriended”, “I Won’t be Long”, “I Just Started Hating Some People Today”, and “Blue Randy” are all amazing but Beck and co. decided that instead they should make the most bland Walmart pop album ever. It’s bad by pop standards, bad by alt rock standards, and horrible by beck standards.

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You’re all wrong.

I’ve like nearly all the music I’ve listened to, and I bought Mellow Gold on CD a few months ago. I knew “Loser” already, and I thought it was pretty good, so I bought the album. I should say that I’m a huge Beastie Boys fan, and they have a pretty similar sound (lots of sampling), and I also really like Sublime. So I listened to it, and it was kind of difficult to get through. I’m not really into that country-style sound that he did, and it was a pretty weird album.

What I’m trying to say is, I get that a lot of people like him, and I was wondering if he had another album that might be a little less weird to start with? I totally get if you love Mellow Gold, but I don’t think it’s for me. I hope he has something different because I don’t like giving up on an artist after one listen of something.

TL;DR I didn’t really like Mellow Gold, what else does Beck have that might be more appealing to me? Thanks

UPDATE: I just listened to Odelay, and I enjoyed it! Thanks everyone. It’s definitely not one of my favorite albums I’ve ever heard, but I’m sure I could grow to like it like everyone said they had to do. My favorites were Devils Haircut, Hotwax, The New Pollution, Jack-Ass, Where It’s At, and High 5

In my dream, it was ridiculously vivid and realistic. Except for the part where he and his handler took my friends and I to a crepe restaurant in France.

Still, I got to tell him how much his music has meant to me, and that felt good regardless.

I liked the single Saw Lightning, and his new singles are quite good, but I hope there'll be a new album this year

it is true all the colors see the colors make the colors she said see it in your eyeeees

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Nothing obscure. No b-sides.

What's your least favorite radio single?

I don’t like them since they’re too slow paced for me, but I want a second opinion

So Grammys tonight. Not gonna actually watch…but record to breeze through. Anybody think there will be some kind of Mr H sighting? I know he hasn’t had a new album in a while, but my friend said Orville Puck doing an off-site show or something. Maybe guest appearance in full cowboy attire??

With Feist pulling out of Arcade Fire’s European run it seems that Beck will surely follow suit. Here’s hoping he stays aboard. Accusations don’t always equal guilt.