Beck Music

The past few weeks I have become obsessed with Beck music.  I have always been a fan since I was 13 and heard "Loser" on the radio.  Strangely that still seems to be their biggest hit.  The only other #1 they've had is E-pro and that seems to have been sold less, and comon everyone that's not a young child knows Beck - Loser, and how many do you think could even hum E-pro.  I have watched all of Becks major music videos these past weeks and I would say that his videos are the opposite of highly technological.  In Where It's At, he literally does not have 2 turntables only a microphone!  The Exception to this that I found is the 2005 "Girl" video which took some major Hollywood trick photography skills.  This has turned out to be one of my favorite music video's of all time and previously I only vaguely recognized the tune.  The 90's videos are not technological, though some are well choreographed, namely "The New Pollution", which is my second favorite Beck video.  It's absolutely brilliant how he conveys pretty much being a smart alec from my view.  The dancing and scenes are fantastic.  Which leads me to my favorite Beck album which is Odelay.  I used to listen to it in high school when the songs were released, then in late college I brought it back and I remember I especially liked Jack-Ass and Readymade, and now almost 8 years after that I still love every track on that album!  Currently the songs I've been listening to most from Odely are Minus, Sissyneck, and Lord only Knows.  The thing that fascinates me about Beck is that I doubt one of his songs has a plot or a literal meaning.  Every phrase is open to interpretation, yet I can and have associated parts of his songs to different things in my life.  That is the genius of Beck!  And truly is genius as his words and phrases play together so smoothly.  The Odely album is not futuristic or technological, but that isn't really Beck's angle anyway.