Comments | couchdute: Midnite Vultures

couchdute

Midnite Vultures

Nov 13, 2008 22:00

I've been discussing Beck with Jenna a lot. To be fair, I discuss music a lot. I discuss Beck a whole fucking lot. And I eventually discuss everything with Jenna. But recently we were talking about seeing him live, and how I feel like I've already missed the opportunity to see Beck in a situation befitting my love for him ( Read more... )

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impartialted November 14 2008, 16:44:37 UTC

or maybe he's just getting old and got most of his ideas out..that happens when you get creative. look at dylan...
perhaps he feels he finally defined the genera that he wants to be in and can simply stick to that vein.
perhaps his lifestyle and becuse of that change his music changed to something you simply don't enjoy as much.

impartialted November 14 2008, 16:45:46 UTC

and i didn't even read that whole dylan part before i said whta i said...just the first 3 paragraphs

couchdute November 15 2008, 02:43:43 UTC

i mean, i realize all of this. i also think i might be subliminally judging his beliefs in Scientology. I may have felt different about him from then on, come to think of it.

He at some point turned on parts of his back catalog, saying there were tracks from Midnite Vultures that he would never play again live and what-not.

i definitely think he's out of ideas. everything he's done since Sea Change has been derivative of his older ideas. i'm just lamenting that i lost my ideal chances to see the guy.

of course, upon further viewing i saw some later era performances that i thought were pretty crucial.

impartialted November 15 2008, 04:05:33 UTC

and the beastie boys dont play a lot of their songs live anymore either...do you think less of them because they found religion?

couchdute November 15 2008, 04:34:07 UTC

they've since gotten over it. what videos i've seen of them they say fuck and shit and all that fun stuff.

they've gotten over their super-serious phase, and i think that it's a matter of time before Beck does the same.

tho, i will say that i have not heard their latest record. and To The 5...while nice, wasn't as dynamic as a their older stuff.

this conversation reminds me a lot of the one in Trainspotting where they were going on about how you've only got it while you're younger.

impartialted November 18 2008, 13:30:03 UTC

eh. just eh.
I think it has to do with the energy factor.