Is Beck's music overrated?

OP = Thom Yorke

I like "Loser" and "Mixed Bizness" but that's all.

Not really R1 I hate Radiohead.

Sea Change is an actual masterpiece.

Who?

His heavily-styled Leigh Limon period represents peak-90s to me.

He was overhyped and often underdelivered. His eclectic influences didn't really synthesize into what one hoped they would, and instead, sounded like a hodgepodge. Along with the Scientology stuff, it was kind of a turn-off.

I think that is a fair assessment OP, I hated Loser because my partner listened to it over and over and over. "Arent you just an angsty troubled teen."

His dick certainly isn't. Does he have to check it as excess baggage?

Idk, but I love his music. I don't skip one track from Mutations.

Morning Phase helped me through a terrible time in my life.

Where can we see it for ourselves, r8?

I still like this one. There are a few tracks from this album/CD that I like, although I don't think it did that well commercially.

Never got into Beck’s music for some reason. I think partially because people always went on and on about how GREAT he was. He was so overhyped.

No, not overrated. He has some gorgeous songs.

I like a lot of his music.

Some of it is more of a pastiche/imitation along the lines of Mark Ronson, but he's also put out some really great work.

Despite being a pastiche, Midnite Vultures was great. Sea Change is a classic and Morning Phase is a worthy follow up in the same vein.

I also really liked Colors, though I thought it was Beck's version of the Washed Out/Jack Antonoff (sp?) sound. But the songs were really good.

I wouldn't say he's on my A list of favorites but he's a very solid B.

PS He did a few great songs for Marianne Faithfull almost 20 (!) years ago. This one.....

And this one, a cover of one of his songs.

I like this song.

Beck's music was always "time and a place " music for me. I only ever liked it while doing long drives in the country at night.

Yes, he was overrated.

Some good songs, but no classics

My favorite song is "Asshole" from that "One Foot in the Grave" EP he did with Calvin Johnson from K Records. Even typing out that sentence makes with cringe with the full-force music snobbery of that era (you had to be there to appreciate how nasty, gross and arrogant it was--and totally dominated by nerdy white guys who found their "alpha" zone in the indie-rock scenes of the day).

But it is a good song, and a haunting one.

"Beercan" qualifies as a classic for me.

He has the balls to play with his style and change it over time- which I respect. Agree as noted above- Mutations is a masterwork

Is it a paean to his penis, r20?

At the risk of sounding like one of the indie snobs R19's talking about, I don't think he ever improved on his first records, One Foot in the Grave and Mellow Gold. Odelay and Mutations were good too, but the hipster Prince imitations on Midnite Vultures made me cringe. After that I mostly lost interest.

Who the fuck cares about a dumb cunt who supports anti gay bullshit like he does and his cult SCI-OOOOOOO !!!!!!

HE'S IN A ANTI GAY CULT, ASSHOLES!!!!!!

His live versions of Where it's At has more of an up tempo than on the album..it rocked. Other than that, he was kind of boring

I was given a vinyl copy of The Information, and immediately loved this one. It's weird to try to describe this, but I'll try: if John Lennon had survived into the 2000's, he might have come up with this ambient, percussion forward, dreamy acid trip like thing. It really is like a science fiction version of some old Beatles track.

Oh, Beck says he isn't a Scientologist, R24. His father is, however.

Yes.

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Yes. He thinks it's very cute to be a funky little white boy stealing black music.

I'm unclear about Beck's connection to Scientology also. He publicly distanced himself from it (in 2019), but his ex-wife and the mother of his kids, Marissa Ribisi, appears to be a lifer. I wonder if he's allowed to see his offspring anymore.

Must be since I don’t even know a single song by him, her or them.

which is more a comment about your ignorance than Becks music

I only remember ever hearing 1 Beck song, yet immediately recognized him in Echo In The Canyon.

Beck?

Which one? Jeff Back? Or Beck Hansen?

R4 Has aged like wine, too. I played it the other day and it sounded as if it could have been released just yesterday. Fresh and not dated at all.

I absolutely love One Foot In The Grave and Sea Change.

So for those two albums alone he's not overrated.

His folk-inspired songs are just fantastic. Here's one from Mellow Gold I still listen to.