Beck - Sea Change
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Free Music Notes for Sea Change
Free Music Review: Drowning in the Sea of Love
Hit: 4 Stars
In his ongoing effort to prove his eclecticism, Beck dove headfirst into heartbroken drone for "Sea Change." Gone are the gimmickry productions (well, maybe the breakdown at the end of "Sunday Sun" counts) and the overly wry sarcasm of previous efforts. This has been well noted as a "break-up album," yet if you'd never heard Odelay or Mellow Gold before this, you'd swear you'd just stumbled across a devotee of Nick Drake or The Blue Nile's Hats. "Sea Change" is straight out of that intimate heartbroken school of lush, atmospheric depression.
Granted, someone expecting the hipster anthems like "Loser" are going to be seriously disappointed. But if you have followed Beck long enough to pick up on the undercurrents of personality in his best work, or thought that Johnny Cash covering Beck's "Rowboat" on Unchained was a natural fit, then the mainly acoustic and downbeat nature of "Sea Change" will seem like just another one of Beck's many changing moods. There are two great songs here, the lushly orchestrated "Paper Tiger" and the evocative "Lost Cause."
In fact, "Lost Cause" is just one of many titles that should clue you in to Beck's mindset when creating "Sea Change." Dig on these: "Lonesome Tears," "End of The Day" and "Already Dead." That last one rates with the darkest songs Beck's ever recorded, and I'd include Guero's "Farewell Ride" in that subset. Thing is, all his other albums were jumbles of styles, collisions often occurring inside one song. Not so on "Sea Change." Beck forces his focus here, and indirectly makes you do so along with him. It's a bleak ride indeed, but if you take "Sea Change" as a whole. it's every bit the equal of his best albums.
Free Music Review: Musical Direction Changes
Hit: 5 Stars
I have always thought of Beck to be a playful artist full of twisting, hooking rhythms and generally silly lyrics. I was shocked to discover that Beck has a songwriter's soul on par with the greatest. I would be even more shocked to learn that he came up with these nuggets in a short span of time, because some artists would take lifetimes to write such beautiful fare. The first six tracks put you into a bright hopeful haze. They are not dirges but more songs of love lost yet love on the horizon. Lyrically, I find this offering to be the best he has ever created. I would put this album at the top of his career, for the first vinyl it is perfect to my ears.Free Music Review: Mental pain put to good use.
Hit: 5 Stars
This album only shows how this guy can be inspired by anything. Written while seperated form his longtime girlfriend (they got back together and married later by the way), Beck was able to put the situation to very good use. The songs scream out for attention and flow together in a way that anyone can appreciate. If you are used to Loser, Where It's At and E-Pro, you may be surprised that Beck is not always the "happy go lucky" kinda guy you imagined. This album shows that he does have his dark momments which happens to be one of the great momments in Beck's history. Free Music Review: Me: Truth or Dare? M*s*lf: Dare! I: I Dare You To Leave Me Alone With The Disappearance of Myself.
Hit: 5 Stars
May I console you with the serenity of such serendipitously surfacing, sad simplicity? Tracks one through twelve of this album have delved deeply in discreetly capturing me completely. "Lonesome Tears" being my favorite track (number four amongst the sulky selections of this CD's song succession) ascribed concretely helps to highlight the additional baggage, even about my own unfolding inner savage; where in bitter contradiction it exists, although always displayed to be better dismissed (through such literary sumptuousness as this) oh-so-sweetly.
Remaining as an emotionally pressed violin to my spiritually fleshed heart's unconditionally chartered eccentricity of a chin, Beck's "Sea Change" strikes the strings with striking introspection unbounded; as the bow about all that we refuse to ever sound breathes and bends for only the furtherance of upwardly falling notes to be founded faithfully in the now of assimilative ascension conscientiously again. This CD is definitely worth the purchase! Select Secrets and Psychological Soliloquies: The Therapy Sessions: Volume One of the Poetic Short-Shorts Series
Free Music Review: Wonderful Album Influenced by Experiences
Hit: 5 Stars
In February of 2002, musicians gathered at the Wiltern Theater for a benefit concert to support artists' rights. There were a number of great artists among the performers, one was Beck, another was Pearl Jam's Eddie Vedder.
There are reviews available on the net which describe how brilliant and surprising the night was. No one expected what occurred. The concert is "available" although it is an audience recording. It doesn't matter though, it's still brilliant.
It is important to know this was Vedder's first solo concert. Some of these songs have never been heard outside this show and one two weeks later at All Tomorrow's Party. They vanished, never to be played again. I recommend the hunt. The All Tomorrow's Party recording is worthwhile if you enjoy Vedder solo. Music for the Motion Picture Into the Wild He played additional songs at that show which have also since vanished.
Beck's Sea Change was born in part from the Wiltern concert and it's effect upon him. The music speaks for itself. The influence is palpable. This is Beck's greatest album and it's genesis was in a profound musical experience.
Sea Change is stunning. It is a stunning album, gorgeous and emotive and it's fabulous to listen to it in its artistic context - genius, influence by genius.