Guero

Thought I might like it but was blah.

It was okay ...

Surprising amount of 90’s hip-hop influence, and some Latin, little country. Never really cared for his voice, but I respect this album.

Second try with Beck—went a tiny bit better than Odelay! Maybe we'll figure it out with Sea Change.

This is #day127 of my #1001albumsyoumusthearbeforeyoudie challenge, and... it just happens to be December 13th, Friday. I guess I just don't like Beck. The mix of blues, hip-hop, alternative rock, and whatever else doesn't do it for me. And the vocals... I feel like I'm hearing Bryan Adams gasping for air. There are still two more albums from him on this list, which begs the question: Why would anyone include 3 albums from this guy? You absolutely don't have to listen to Beck before you die. Giving this a 2 out of 5. Looking forward to #day128.

I def don’t get the beck hype. This is just not that interesting to me. Que ‘onda guero caught my attention a bit but the rest, idk man I just listened to it an hour ago and can’t really remember much.

I dunno, din't touch me. Maybe I should try once again. Very inconsistent style and energy of a CD for me.

Fairly interesting to listen to, purely due to it being experimental and a bit off the beaten path. But the uniqueness isn't enough for me to really enjoy it

Still can't get into Beck, though I could make it through this album unlike the other I've encountered on this list so far. 2/5

Doesn't blow my socks off. I respect what he's trying to do with lo-fi and spanning genres but I can't think of an occasion where I'd want to listen to this again. The first line of any Beck write up highlights that he's a native Angeleno. Maybe this music goes over well at Scientology listening parties.

I really enjoyed the first 3 songs. Felt like it fell off a cliff after that. Read Jack White played bass on a track.

And exactly why does this band belong on this list? I want to meet the editors. I feel like after album 100 they just compiled a list of random records. This is not bad but it's most definitely not good.

Did not finish. Seemed bland. Probably deserves another shake.

Not my kind of music; a lot of noises that generally do not harmonize with each other. Sounds a lot like Franz Ferdinand but in more bizarre and messy way.

Not gonna sugarcoat it, this is a bunch of nothing. There's already two very good Beck albums on the list, no point in having this one. It's way too safe and boring.

Just Boring, probably better on more listens.

Beck is a strange listen for me. I think he has some cool and unique music, but it's the kind of music I wouldn't have on a playlist to listen over and over again. I thought my listens were fine and there was nothing that made me ask wtf, but nothing that made want to say "Hey Mindy, check out this song". I did recognize E-Pro from radio plays and there something about Earthquake Weather that stood out from the rest of the album, but pretty much right down the middle for me. 2.5

Enough Beck already!!!!!

Always found beck to be pretty fucking corny. Like hip hop for rich white liberals who vote blue but lock their doors when driving through the hood.

Comes and goes without leaving much of an impression. Sounds a lot like the Beck I remember from the 90s: shaggy alt-rock guitars combined with hip hop beats, slacker vocals sliding between singing and rapping in his signature playful drowsy delivery, some cool production (sounds like Outkast sometimes) and lots of ideas including some fun riffs and lots of swirling sounds. But none of it really stands out, seems like mostly filler and doesn't advance much on the what he'd already accomplished on earlier albums. Not bad, but not essential listening. Favorites: Que' Onda Guero, Girl

Two memorable times in my adolescence an album came out that I hated so bad it cast a negative reflection backwards onto the artist for me for all time and I quit listening to them forever. One was ‘good news for people who love bad news’ and the other one was guero. Upon revisiting: was it worth all that negativity? Not really. Do I like it? No.

Yeah but it lacked coherence I felt different styles in the same album, no identity

It was ok. So difficult to say when it’s not your genre. But it felt like Muzak to me. Appreciated the slower songs more.

Something about Beck just bores me. I can't put my finger on it but it just feels kind of all over the place without leaving any lasting impact.

There are a handful of good songs but for most I’d feel like the song had gone on for ages, check how long it was, and see that it’d only been 2 or 3 minutes. Just bleh.

Go It Alone //

Perfectly listenable, but not something I will personally listen to.

Not a massive fan of Beck. Was hard to get through this album when you arent a fan. But not the worst album I have ever heard.

Album starts well enough. Then gets weird. Then gets annoying. This isn’t even the best Beck album, let alone a top 1000.

This is too experimental for my tastes. Go It Alone probably best track Scarecrow slaps tho, what a nice bass line

Outside of a few hit singles, I've never been all that interested in Beck. And with this record, the same feeling holds true. For me, a lot of his music feels like meandering alternative rock that just doesn't go anywhere. Personally, this record was just OK. Favorite track: Black Drum

Someone tell Ross Gellar to step away from the keyboard. I think there was potential from Broken Drum for a couple of songs. There are other Beck projects that I like but this isn’t one of them. *Random lazer effect*

2.5, väsähdin tähän loppua kohden.

Beck is cheesy as heck and this album is pretty boring after the first few songs

My second Beck album this week! Still not that into Beck, but still not sure why. This album sounded slightly more “mature”, but so what? What am I supposed to do with a slightly more mature piece of toast?

música de niño que va a la “prepa” en 2004 y se le caen los pantalones

I really enjoyed some tracks but the overall feeling of this being made for a wide audience didn’t escape me through the songs. Didn’t feel genuine

Gorillazra akar hasonlítani, meg még sok másra, de közben igazán egyikre se tud. Nem működik, baromi disszonáns, csapongó, fura, és nem jó értelemben.

I hate Beck. Also this album felt like it never ended, 3 minutes felt like 6 and 4 minutes felt like 8.

coworker music

Never listening to this album again. It wasn't unlistenable, but Jesus Christ was is boring. I couldn't tell when one song ended and another begun, it all sounded the same. Nearly an hour of repeating guitar chords and barely hearable harmonica. This shit is just plain as - I wanted it to end by the time I got to Farewell Ride. Very soulless and uninspired album. I can't believe I put up with this for an hour.

Good opening track, I have only heard a few Beck songs before and I wasn’t particularly keen on them but this is groovy. Track 2 feels kinda racist but is undeniably groovy. The production and sound mixing is pretty competent and this song is pretty fun. Track 3 is a bit repetitive, perfectly cromulent song but not my bag. Tracks 4, 5 and 6 made me realise I probably should have put this album on in the lounge room and had a coffee instead of listening to this on a stroll. The music here is fine I’m just having a tough time really meshing with it. Track 7 more of the same, good production value but realising that Beck maybe isn’t for me. Track 8 a welcome surprise, I enjoyed this song. Gave up on tracking and doing a song by song for this album. Beck sounds as bored performing this music as I was listening to it. I’m sure there’s an audience for this but it’s not me.

Guero is mostly held up by it's incredible opener E-Pro. If more songs sounded like E-Pro then this album would be way better, but it's not. E-Pro is energizing, instantly grabbing you with it's bombastic drums and devil-may-care vocal delivery on the verses. The rest of the album is standard Beck songs, which are somewhat tedious. I generally think Beck is overrated with occasional moments of brilliance.

I felt as apathetic listening as Beck did making this. music: hated. (⌐■_■)

Beck 📉📉📉 When this one was new, I listened to it a lot. Either it’s aged badly, or I have. Just something mechanical and lifeless about it, can’t quite put my finger on it.

For people who have one, I rather suspect that their favourite Beck album is inseparably entwined with their biographical highs. (Mine is Sea Change). This feels like Mellow Gold Redux. Not really for me.

Not quite my taste

Not mine

Guero is among my least favorite albums by Beck-- and I love Beck. But I specifically like the quality of Beck to evoke emotion. Guero is pretty skin deep, feels lighter and more self aggrandizing than many of his albums that I prefer. Songs like Earthquake Weather really rub me the wrong way. Beck here is like a person where you know from experience they have the capacity to be so kind and special but they choose to ruin it by being an a-hole, and fail to live up to their potential. Probably the only album I would 2 star by Beck.

I like a lot of his stuff. But not this one so much. He doesn’t feel committed to the sound du jour.

I like E-pro, it reminds me of montages in a movie where the main character works toward a project with newfound motivation. Girl also provides movie montage but this time of two people doing fun summer things together like at a fair or something, the guy realizing he’s falling in love with the girl at the end. Black Tambourine is kind of nice, but so far E-pro is the only song I actually like. I don’t think this album is for me. I don’t even want to finish it. They kinda remind me of Radiohead but I like Radiohead more. Finishing this album is a pain, but based on the beginning I have hopes for Scarecrow. I’m abandoning ship. I don’t see why this is an album I must listen to because I would rather not.

Couldn’t get into it.

2 Stars. (5/15)

I see no reason for the inclusion of this album. Beck does the same things he did ten years earlier but it doesn’t feel fresh anymore. This batch of detached musings over pretty ok break beats are on the wrong side of the millennium shift.

Meh

4/10 - The songs were all kind of weird. I did not enjoy most of the songs. The only one that was kind of enjoyable was girl. Worse than the other Beck album.

This is not a Beck album that I like.

I don’t get the Beck hype. It was alright but not worth of the book to be honest.

Who legitimately decides to put on a Beck album? This was very forgettable to me

Not my style

Earthquake weather IS a bop. As a whole it doesn’t excite me though.

This has some grooves but beyond two or three songs nothing sticks and it was actually tough to get through

Beck is an artist I've heard a lot about - so I was eager to jump into this album. I find that this album marinates in its eclecticism and borders parody at points, kind of like Ween, with these throwbacky melodic angles drawing from the worlds of hip-hop and alternative rock. The instrumentals are solid here, I especially love the rivetting layers on the jittery and bassy 'Hell Yes'. I also love the wall of crashing guitars driving the soothing melody on 'Broken Drum', easily my favorite song here. My biggest issue is Beck's one-note and lowkey vocals on many of these songs. While they complement the spacious trip-hop beats on some of these songs, they consequently bog them down. As a result, I'd be lying if I said I was engaged throughout the entirety of this album's relatively modest runtime. There's most certainly a notable charm present on this album - one that's undeniably cool, at times smokey, and very unique sounding. But by the end, I was left wishing it had something more punchy or memorable to offer. For my taste - I found this thing almost too laid-back.

Some instrumental bits I ended up liking, I have learned I don't like Beck though. We'll see if his next albums on this list change anything. Will I listen to again: 0%

I thought this was gonna be jaz but it was a plesant suprise That was rough Go it alone saved it 2

Bought three iPods and a cardigan from the GAP as a result of this boring ass record

Rock, Sprechgesang, 2005 -> 2

Yeah Guero is a bit dull really, isn't it? Throws in occasionally interesting hooks or beats that momentarily make you pay attention but otherwise it's just a bland piece of nothingness. Not even a very interesting singer either, 2.

Not for me, this. Girl probably the best of a pretty mediocre bunch, it's a bit too smooth and lacking in anything that makes it stand out. 2/5.

Nice beat :) On song 2 so far. Girl has a fun 8-bit intro. Missing is sort of a trippy song with the bells? Chimes? Less energy though. I found Black Tambourine to be laughably bad, and boring. Earthquake Weather begins very interestingly. In fact, I liked it so much, that was the first song from this album I added to my liked list. Interesting beat, sorta funky. Interesting lyrics. My favorite song on this album by far. Hell Yes is kind of reminiscent of his older stuff. I also really enjoy this song. I like slower songs, so when Broken Drum started I was excited to see where it went...it went nowhere basically. I liked the lyrics, but musically was boring to me. Scarecrow was fine and I added it because it did make my head bob. None of the last four songs were anything of note to me. Album started slow, got better in the middle, and ended slow. 4/10 I think.

Interesting instrumentation, cool vibes, annoying voice

Couldn’t see myself listening to this again and only barely enjoyed it. 2.5/5

I don't think I really like Beck. I just get nothing out of it. There's clearly some artistry here but I'll pass personally. Fav songs: - E-Pro - Girl

It's like they have made a big set of songs with no apparent conection between, don't match them. However, i really liked at least half of them.

Siempre que pensaba en la música de Beck pensaba en esa canción que canta el villano de The Lorax "Cuan malo puedo ser" y lo he comprobado

what's so special or interesting about Beck? this is the first album of his that I'm listening to and it's b-o-r-i-n-g. sounds like some mediocre middle-aged white dude who's convinced he's cool and has something profound to say but it's just not the case. couldn't fully finish a single song on this album besides the first one and broken drum. waste of space on the list

Didn’t we do Beck already? After Odelay is there anything to add for only 1000 albums? This is good. No question. But not a must listen. 2.5 marked down because it shouldn’t be here.

- Maybe I am just prickly today, but Beck was not doing it for me. I feel like this album is occasionally trying to have some weight and grit, but it all feels overproduced. - Beck is known for just incorporating random sounds, which sounds like something I would like, but it becomes predictable to the point that it grates on my nerves. - I do not outright hate any tracks here...but I do not necessarily like any of them either. I would probably be inclined to skip every one. - Like Beck, I grew up in a heavily Latino area. But "Que 'Onda Guero" just makes me cringe.

Fair

Fair

Like Odelay, this feels like it's everything and nothing at the same time. Dunno, not feeling it right now

forgettable

Wow! I did not like this! I grew up listening to a lot of 2000s alternative music and something about it just irks me nowadays. Maybe in 15 years, I'll be able to find this sort of music nostalgic, but too little time has passed for this album to sound anything but stale. A few tracks on here had moments that I found sonically interesting, but the lyrics gave me little to chew on. If I were to give this project any praise, it would be for the immense amount of genre-hopping that Beck does from track to track without losing his unique style. Aside from that, I got little from this listen.

Expected to like it more. Kind of inconsistent.

Perfectly forgettable. Who is a Beck fan? Is it fans of folk? rock? rap? I guess that's the point? I can appreciate the melding of genres but none are taken to any extreme interesting limits.

Kann man gut nebenbei hören. Den Sprechgsang finde ich OK. Insgesamt ist es eher langweilig.

A few catchy songs, overall Beck is always just kinda meh to me though. Especially when he's trying to make more serious ballad type songs lol. Anyway, it's like a 2.5 I guess.

Not Mutations.

This was my first time back after many, many months away from doing this! So I'm not quite in the groove yet with rating things. I'll call it a 2 or a 3. It wasn't super pleasant, but it was interesting.

I'm not the biggest fan of Beck. I've listened to this album before, but on previous listens it didn't do much for me. 'E-Pro' is a fun song and a good start to the album. There are multiple times throughout this album where a 'breakdown' occurs that really doesn't excite or interest me. There are more songs on here that I'm enjoying than I thought/remembered, but there are still some songs that I really don't like ('Missing', 'Earthquake Weather', 'Emergency Exit'). Probably won't be listening to this again. 2/5

Girls is a jam but Beck’s schtick gets old fast

M'n derde Beck album en ik ga weer als een kapotte langspeelplaat hetzelfde riedeltje opreutelen: Ik vind dat een beetje veel. Beck biedt wel kwaliteit (ik gaf daar één van z'n albums een 4 voor) maar het is toch ook wel saai (en daar gaf ik één van z'n albums een 2 voor). Ook dit album valt weer een beetje onder beide categorieën. Oerdegelijk, saai. De openingstrack is leuk, de tweede track is een soort karig rapnummer en daarna wordt het saai. Het is net geen hiphop, het is net geen triphop, het is allemaal net niet. Slaapverwekkende country invloeden. Ik zou een 3 kunnen geven, maar ik wil een 2 geven dus dat ga ik doen morgen. Saaiheid.

A bit dull. No stand out tracks. Ok as background music. Same as all the Beck stuff I’ve heard.

Good, not my thing

To say this album started off on the wrong foot with me given that it is Beck would be an accurate statement. To say that it was further condemned in my view by being only accessible through YouTube Music for me would be an even more accurate one. On the album: it's the best I've heard from Beck so far...still not great. His musical influence shifts from Radiohead to Gorillaz in this one. On YouTube Music: try creating a worse, more unusable platform than this. Ads after every single song. Buffering only during songs, never during the precious ads! Cannot do a single other thing on the phone while listening besides having the song on the screen. I'm done with it. There has to, HAS TO be a better alternative than this

I never understood the appeal of Beck. This album couldn't provide any answers. Oh well .... 2/5

It felt like there was too many in-jokes here. Ha, bloody ha. But not so funny when you're not in on it. I like the bleeps and the general electronic fiddling. It works best when the analogue comes crashing over the digital. He knows how to write a decent riff. But I wanted something a little extra more. There was no knockout punch. I get the impression that Beck recorded this album for himself, and not his audience. This is never a bad thing. But I don't share his personal musical direction.

: )

Guero indeed. Maybe this slapped at the time but it sounds like a cringey mess to me. I generally like albums to feel thematic rather than "a collection of songs" which is what this was to me.

Coming in fairly fresh to Beck. I have heard some of the overplayed hits and never was motivated to seek out more. Overall there are some banger funky beats but they are scattered among some mediocre stuff for me. Track Reactions (not comprehensive): 1. Immediate head bop. This is a nice one. 2. Funky and fun. 3. I could see this being popular it is just a bit generic/boring for me. 4-8. Not really a fan. 9. Back to a funky fun feel. 10. Keeping that good momentum going. 11. And we lost it... 12-13. Went out with a bit of a whimper.

Background music, some interesting bits but mostly boring

Beckin sävyssä on ärsyttävää setäironiaa, mutta kieltämättä se sopii sen musiikkiin. Tässä levyssä on ihan ideaa. Vähän kiusalliset räpit ja naislaulaja. Tosi 2000-luku. Ihan kivaa poppia paikoin.

Kaikki on tälle muusikolle niin vaivatonta, että hän tyytyy sävellyksissään letkeän lakoniseen tunnelmaan. Lisäksi hänen käsityksensä rockista on 90-luvun grunge. Ei minulle, mutta toinen piste siitä että yritin keskivertoa enemmän.

Only listened to part of it

Pretty meh and just not for me

Third album by Beck on this list. It was ok. I was not familiar with any of the songs. I do not think I need to listen to it again. I did not hate it, but it was pretty unremarkable.

only downloaded earthquake weather

Not enjoyed any of the songs - too much sand-dry percussions that I don't like. May be my mood was wrong or a daytime did not fit. May give it a try another day.

Sinceramente...

This felt like Odelay 2 in a bad way.

First song, the most popular one, was already not spectacular. The rest did not get better. 2/5

E pro and girl and alright but there wasn’t much else for me there.

Odio California.

idk i can’t put my finger on wtf Beck even is. It’s not bad it’s not good. It’s an interesting sound, but i don’t like it a lot.

The background rhythm & beats were way too repetitive. Couldn't concentrate on the lyrics & melody because I was distracted by the background.

Just not really my thing. E-pro though

Some interesting bits but in the end just to generic. Too Beck.

It's okay. The entire album feels like a bit too much though, like the noise was just there to be noise rather than with a purpose.

Hard to listen too.

Kind of dull and flat for my taste

E pro- Catchy riff, not sure if the lyrics were good as they kinda get drowned out 👍 Qué Onda Guero- comical observations, its fine, production feels a bit overdone at points Girl- pov ur a serial killer missing - fairly monotonous Black Tambourine- 👍 Earthquake weather- wish the vocals were a bit more emotive but i did like this track 👍 Hell Yes- we really have gone to just listing as our lyrics, I just find this quite annoying Broken Drum- I love heavy instrumentation matching the vocal line 👍 Scarecrow- seems like filler Go It Alone Farewell Ride - And yet this album keeps on going! (I do like this tho)👍 Other songsare more of the same 2/5

Lot of potential in the talent that seems wasted. The beats are largely dry and repetitive, and there's little to no inflection or energy in the singing

Quelques titres sympas ("E-Pro", "My girl"), sinon tout cela s'écoute avec un ennui poli. C'est plutôt bien fait, je vois bien qu'il ne pense pas à mal, mais ça reste globalement chiant, ou pire ("Hell yes"...). Et je n'avais jamais remarqué la ressemblance vocale avec eels. Maintenant c'est fait.

Eh

He has a definitive sound, which is good if you like it, but Loser is enough Beck for me

2/5 too calm

I cannot find something to hook on with Beck. I often get recommendations but I cannot relate.

Unremarkable

Not my style

2.75 stars

How did this mundane piece of work get selected?

Trash - first song is ok, quite like a kasabian song. 'Hell Yes' is what made me turn off, load of shite. the rest of the songs before this were just bland. your mans voice has no interesting quality to it. started listening to the second half, 'Broken Drum' is the only song id listen to for a second time Overall they are decently written songs with an uninteresting singer. Critics of the album seem to commend its uniqueness/weirdness. i dont hear that at all

Heard it before?: No Enjoy it? Not really Favourite song: didn’t have one

The man has Talent Oozing out of his Veins. A Mixture of Hip Hop, Funk, Soul, Blues & funk. Each song will have you Dancing and singing. A Great Album

Ok but not my thing

The first song was good but went down hill from there, really quite boring when kinda get into what they're going for. Listened to it through

It’s fine, I guess. My exposure to Beck is minimal. I know Loser, I listened to Debra a couple of times after Baby Driver came out. The biggest thing I know him from is the episode of Futurama he appeared in, which brings the number of Futurama references I’ve made in these reviews up to two. Much like the Dexy’s Midnight Runners album, a lot of the songs blend together to a worrying degree. It’s not an unpleasant blend, I really enjoyed Girl and Broken Drum, but a few times I was listening, zoned out for a second and came back to a something that I thought was just a different movement of one song, only to find it was a completely separate one when I looked up the track listing. I really dunno, I’m really not feeling this, as evidenced by the fact that I’m reviewing this two days late. I suspect Beck is the US equivalent of all of those middling UK Indie albums that keep popping up on this list. He was part of a movement that made sense in it’s time, but ended up not being the predominant trend in it’s genre and so leaves modern listeners a little confused as to the level of critical acclaim that it received. I want to like it more than I do, but I just can’t bring myself to care too much about this collection of mostly middling summery Beach Pop.

I did not enjoy this at all. Every song had me thinking "when will this song be over?" and at the end of every song, I was praying it would be the last one. At least it didn't completely offend my ears? But I would not listen again.

I really hoped I would like this more

Reviewing this a day later and I have no memory of listening to this except I know I did not like it

not terrible but wayyy too repetitive

2/10

interesting mix of songs

A lot of just wasn’t really my vibe, but there were some good songs (Girl, Go It Alone, Emergency Exit). Hell Yes sucked ass. I don’t really like the rapping parts on this album. I don’t know what else is on this list of albums, but I’ve got a hard time figuring out why this is a classic.

Gayero

The first song is easily the best one. The crunchy guitar riff of E-Pro is unforgettable and gets stuck in your head. Pure eargasm. The remaining songs are OK, nothing exceptional

E-PRO = meh, okay but nothing special, wouldn’t have had it as opening track. Reminds me of another song but idk what. QUE ONDA = reminds me a bit of the salmon dance song by chem bros. Catchy but again just boring vibe. GIRL = ahh I like this one. Happy wee tune, driving with windows down on a sunny Sunday or smth. MISSING = I don’t like the repetitive tune and beats etc. nothing is sticking out for me and neither is this. Voice reminds me of pearl jam a bit in this also. BLACK TAMBOURINE = sounds like he’s about to sleep while singing. V boring. Least there’s a tambourine in it. EARTHQUAKE WEATHER = My fave so far, most lively but still chill lmao. Whimsical ending. HELL YES = Rappy and female voice reminds me of a BMTH song. BROKEN DREAM = ohhh I like this one. Quite sad. Again pearl jam esque. Love the instrumental parts. Makes me feel like I’m walking in a daze out of it. SCARECROW = wee bit funky. Repetitive lyrics. GO IT ALONE = nah nah nah nah. FAREWELL RIDE = breaking bad theme tune who? Very cowboy western. Would be a good show song. RENTAL CAR = shame it’s getting better as the album draws to an end. EMERGENCY EXIT = I wish he used his lovely voice for better music. SEND A MESSAGE TO HER = should’ve been on album. CHAIN REACTION = like this one, good ending. Overall, rather boring, one or two good songs I would listen to again but most of it is just lost in the abyss. Rather forgettable. Probably would not listen again.

oof. i mean, i see where he's going, but it's absolutely not my way.

I think I don’t like beck lol

The album isn't even that bad, just very cringe. Every song uses some combination of jingle bells, claps, and that rusty-sounding guitar. It's too Californian.

Eh the singles are ok but overall not great

A decent listen. Low tier as far as beck albums goes for me

Started off strong but got kinda weird for me as it progressed.

I appreciate Beck has an artistic vision. It's just not one that does anything for me. Also, he should not rap. Ever.

Nice concept, not really for me. The music throws me off a bit, doesn't feel cohesive. But interesting

ok

2/5. It's not a bad album honestly, some bops, it's just not my type of music. A personal rating for this one. He just sounds bored which in turn makes me bored even though the songs are good.

I feel as if, were procedurally generated music to ever take hold, it would sound an awful lot like Guero by Beck. For a start, it's repetitive. I say this very neutrally, as repetition can go either way, but there's not a huge amount going on rhythmically. The formula seems to go - establish a groove, swathe it in Beck's weirdly soporific vocals and throw in the odd 'interesting' sound like a wonky guitar or a whimsical, eccentric harmonica, rinse and repeat. All this is done altogether competently and the overall effect is just very, very dull. However, the main reason I see this as a prime candidate for machine-generated music is a real lack of heart. Where's the emotional centre to all thus? Bloodless, glassy-eyed music that spoofs the true genius of creative endeavour. Those slide guitar breaks sure sound pretty though!

Man, this record sounds pretty darn good overall when played loudly in a car. Not as good as “Sea Change,” but pretty darn good. Too bad the songs are no bueno. Nothing ever seems to build to anything on any given song. It’s a collection of sounds that are never really given any direction to go other than to just be played and repeated. It also really dawned on me while listening to this just how much success Beck has had in spite (because?) of a very less than impressive singing voice. That’s nothing new, but dude has multiple Grammys and is still going strong-ish 30 years after his breakout. I’m trying to think of who else from the 90’s falls into that category and I’m drawing a blank. Must be the Scientology bump.

Meh borde inte vara på listan

It was ok, wouldn’t listen to it again.

Can't find Beck interesting

Ew.

Some nice slide guitar in some songs but its not a focus, lyrics not worth worrying about, kinda meh not sure what the hype is about

First listen Saved 5/13 Top track: E-Pro

Ikkje nåken stor beckhamfan heller

Not for me

A little uneven for me. Good then bad

Not sure if we need more than one Beck album on here, especially when every song sounds like it's about to become "Devil's Haircut."

Third Beck album I got on the 1001 list, and I still don't get it...

Vaguely aggressive and aggressively white.

2.25

Don't like his style of rapping/singing and I find his music in this album grates on me, apart from Broken Drum. I like some Beck stuff but this album isn't for me.

Nothing bad, but very forgettable.

A bit experimental for my taste

Nem sei se é o termo que faça sentido, mas me pareceu um disco de hip hop country. Alguns samples e batidas são interessantes.

Not a big fan.

Just not me

Wherein Beck tries his hand at appropriating more than a few different cultures with mixed results. Several songs have a certain catchiness about them, but the end product feels to scattershot and see-what-sticks to feel whole. Can’t decide whether it wants to be radio-friendly or experimentally artistic and lands firmly in the middle at Beck’s usual smarminess

nothing really stuck out I can kinda see how alt rock bands would get inspired by this 2.5

Meh.

Beck is an artist that reminds me of Coldplay in that I can’t put my finger on it, but I really don’t love it. Summer Girl is a good tune and the rest I didn’t enjoy vocally and the instrumentals are extremely repetitive.

A couple catchy tunes including E-Pro to kick things off, but this thing nosedives worse than the Winnipeg Jets season. From Black Tambourine on, just a very forgettable stretch. Highlight - E-Pro Lowlight - Hell Yes

Han är överskattad.

udmærket, moderne rock, eksperimenterende

I don’t what it is but I fucking hate Beck. I always have. Would give 0/5 if I could.

Me ha desconcertado un poco el pastiche que he tenido que escuchar. Esos juegos de spanglish en canciones como 'Que' onda guero' (¿¡pero qué clase de título es este para un tipo blanquito!?), junto a intentos de rapear bastante mediocres (lo de 'Hell yes' debería renombrarse por 'Hell no'), no me han gustado nada. La totalidad del disco no me ha gustado, no es para mi en absoluto, y hay otros trabajos de Beck que me parecen muchísimo mejores y más interesantes que este. Resumiendo: todos cometemos errores en la vida, incluido Beck.

Wasn’t very good, I was bored

Meh

E-Pro - 3/10 I cant lie this aint fo me

not my vibe at all

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I find everything he does incredibly boring

Listened to this along with Neil Young's After the Gold Rush. Interesting. NY can't sing. Not even close. But he can write songs. Beck can sing. A bit. But....

crap

Extremely boring and repetitive. Doesn't go anywhere. He really loves a two chord repetitive structure. Was excited to hear the beginnings of some bossa nova on Missing, but then it was quickly very obvious that it was just two boring chords throughout. 1/5

This project has helped me conclude that I hate Beck and any music trying this hard to sound cool. Guerro is trying to replay the Odelay success with Dust Brothers production, which leads to it sounded even more derivative, detached and easily dismissable. One of those that I had to resort to playing in the background at work as it would have made the car journey too boring and painful.

Very boring. Kept checking to see when each song was going to be over.

A réécouter, lent et change de style

buf

Don’t like it

No

Menudo zurullo!

Underneath this mess , is something kind of mediocre.

Horrible.

Like a lot of others it seems, I’m now sick and tired of Beck regularly popping up on this list like a bad smell. He’s a trier but doesn’t really deserve all the exposure he gets as this album adequately illustrates. 1/5 18/1/26

gonna be honest, i only listened to the first three songs in full. i just don't fuck with beck like this. skimmed the rest of the album, it's just not for me

scuffed

Väljer att skriva innan jag lyssnat idag. Beck var en favorit under andra halvan som sakta tynade bort ur mitt medvetande. MTV-knarkarlåten hade man såklart hört men det var framförallt med Odelay som jag fick upp ögonen för Beck. Även de närmast kommande albumen införskaffades men satte sig aldrig riktigt. Sen blev det inte mer Beck för min del. Har inte lyssnat på något han gjort på drygt 20 år. Så lite spännande ska det bli att åter stifta bekantskap med en som man upplevde som en av de mest hypade artisterna vid mitten av 90-talet. Lite märkligt är det dock att detta album kommer upp. Enligt http://www.1001albumsyoumusthearbeforeyoudie.net/index finns Odelay och Sea change från 2002 med, men inte Guero. I min bok från 2007 finns albumet med enligt registret men inte i själva boken. På angiven sida hittar vi istället The Good the bad and the Queen. Så där ja. Det var alltså inte svårare än så att förstå bristen på intresse för Beck efter millenieskiftet. Totalt menlöst. Möjligtvis med undantag för avslutningsspåret. Synd på en artistnamn trots allt gjorde en hel del bra i en annan tidsålder.

being super subjective here but i really couldn't stand this, every song was giving me a visceral feeling of wanting to just turn it off lol

Please make him stop.

i'm mad at how plain this alcum was. i didn't need to hear this before i die

this originally had something meaner but I felt bad about it. this feels like it should be for me but it super isn't. the only beck I recognize is the mongolian chop squad not adding to collection

can't get into this at all- beck not for me. sounds like all the worst parts of millennial pop and indie from 2003-2015

Didn’t finish it. I liked the fist song.

Not my favorite. Not a Beck fan but I gave it a try.

Kann nicht hören ist nicht verfügbar

It’s so fucking funny that it gave me Beck again. Que Ónda Guero not bad. I don’t get Beck. Sorry. The rest of this was worse than the last one. Boring ass bullshit, cowboy spurs clanking over droning sludge. Sorry.

Didn't like it, found it boring and monotonous.

note

see that little guy on the album with his hand over his face? yeah that's me listening to this album

? If you are going to give me Beck, put Jeff in front of it. Otherwise, no thanks.

Really not a fan of this production style Nothing inherently bad about it I just can’t get into it

boring

Very average.

Crap

People actually listen to music like this??

This is the first album on the list that I absolutely do not understand why it is here. There is little original about the music itself, they either sound like someone just got a drum machine and hit the pre-recorded beats or they are samples. Have sings with almost no inflection of emotion, which make the songs sound meaningless, even when some of the lyrics are poignan.

For a list of the greatest albums ever this isn’t very great

idk nothing much

Most of this album sounded like street noise.

Mumble-y. Maybe I'm just not an alt-rock fan? Didn't really like a single track. What justifies this as something I need to listen to before I die??

Rap again! Horribly. Though I do appreciate the Hispanic backing. 1/5

What a dull album! So 2000’s (the bad stuffs!). I feel I wasted my time…

Ugh, Beck. This album seemed more interesting than the others. Maybe interesting is not the word. In any case, it was less depressing, a bit faster. Some songs reminded me of Nickleback and I can’t stand them either.

Eto cho

E-Pro Girl

Fuck Beck.

first song sounds like a ford f150 commercial... that's the only thing i've gleaned from it in its 3:22 runtime. i like that the concept of this album came from beck getting bullied for being white. beck has like two types of songs from what i know about him: "where it's at" style rap rock and generic garage rock (i haven't listened to sea change though so i'm definitely limited in my perspective). okay this third song is just car seat headrest. people compare this record to gorillaz and they're right, thus far it's literally just been the first gorillaz record but worse. i don't think i've heard a song on this album i've actually enjoyed yet (as of "black tambourine"). okay "hell yes" is pretty enjoyable, but it made me realize that the enjoyability of a beck song essentially reliant on being quirky enough to get your attention. which is fine or whatever, but this album seems like a rehash of odelay and mellow gold, so i feel like all of the quirk has been squeezed from this trip-hop, sampledelia gimmick already. as of "go it alone," this album has officially become incredibly boring. also fuck jack white. i just genuinely wonder how someone is supposed to *want* to sit here and listen to this entire album when every fucking song is just a four on the floor dirge with a monotone vocals that sound about as bored with the song as i am. "rental car" is the second song on this entire album that didn't waste any of my time with pure distilled boredom in music form. because things happen in this song. things are happening and it's not just the same 30 seconds looped over and over again. this is how you make music, mr. beck. last song was such a huge waste of time i don't even want to type its name.

No.

Bland and boring rock

felt like unseasoned music, will never listen again lol.... standard mid 2000s music

:( <- me listening to this album

wow, that's some real shit again. an attempt to make music sound 'modern' and synthetic and that's exactly what the crap sounds like. why would you want to produce something like that, why would you listen to something like that, it just sounds like shit. can I say shit again? oh, I'll just say shit as often as I want. a few drum beats, a high and 1-2-3 shit, 1-2-3 shit, shit, shit. 2-3 shit, ... OK, now it's no longer fun

Never been a fan. Doesn't do anything for me. Sweet relief when my browser locked up half way through. Couldn't finish.

1/5

I don't like the instrumentation and it's too much rap for me. Not my style

Just boring as fuck

A funky group of skeletons dressed in purple busting it down sexual style are they goated with the sauce? This album made my thoughts go away (in a bad way) I don't want to listen to this again.

This just kept getting worse and worse - the album was just all over the place and there wasn’t enough talent to back up the range of style.

Heavy drum beat. Fits well within radio of the early aughts.

0/10

The guy facepalming on the left side of the cover is me when I saw this pop up. I warned you not to give me any more Beck, 1001 albums, I fucking warned you didn't I? Alternative album time. Go listen to Rossz csillag alatt született by Venetian Snares from the same year. A timeless masterpiece of drill and bass and breakcore. I award this album 1 knife to throats of the editors of this book, just try to give me one more Beck album, just fucking try it! 🔪

I'm very surprised this landed on a list of influential albums. The production is way too sparse to be of any influence in any genre, and the accompanying vocal melodies far too basic to make this album any good. Finishing it was a pain.

Too loud

Way too much beck on this list 1

No es mi estilo.. Beck me ha cansado de siempre y este disco no ha cambiado mi opinion..

Not a fan... Only Beck song I like is Loser

Not a fan

Não é pra mim

this is what happens in the mind of your uncle's single buddy who comes to family events bc he's got nowhere else to go but also he brings weed. i stand by go it alone but the rest is not for me. 1.5

Lol I hate Beck

Why is this considered a good album? This is shit. Knockoff Simon and Garfunkel.

Album avec un mélange de tout et de rien. Mélange des styles pour un album sans style

Meh

He's called Beck cause when you see one of his records you back away from it.

I DONT LIKE BECK

Chilling&wibing shit.... Oli mukava ja miellyttävä kuunnella heh.. eli yhtä tähteä..

Beck is another one of those "How do you not like Beck? He's the next big thing! He's the future!" God, I hope not. If he's the future, I want no part of it. Oh wait, he did this in 2005? Okay. Nobody's talking about this now. Never mind. I can continue not caring in the slightest. Indifferent to Beck since the 90s!

i didnt listen to the full album because i didn’t enjoy it from the beginning