Modern Guilt

I'm pretty sure no one is reading this and it will fade away into the infinite cyberspace. So I will write in this every once in a while when I'm bored. It will be filled with rants and just plain non-sense. And in most cases the grammar, spelling and sentence structure will be awful because I'm not going to go back and edit it.

Recently I just bought Beck's new album Modern Guilt, it's the follow up to The Information. (Which by the way was amazing, buy it if you have the chance.) Coming into this album i was a little skeptical because the 'famed' producer Danger Mouse was going to be in charge of this one. He is the producer of such bands as the Gorillaz (Their first two albums are awesome), The Good, The Bad, and The Queen, and Gnarles Barkley (not so much). But recently he just produced the latest album from one of my favorite bands The Black Keys and ruined it!!!! If anyone reads this, you should def check out The Black Keys.

So coming into Modern Guilt, I was a bit scared because I happen to be a pretty big Beck fan and like i said, I'm skeptical of Danger Mouse's previous work. I listened to the album through and I was a little disappointed after the first listen. But since the drive to Queens is about 30 minutes with no traffic, I continued to listen to it and it's really starting to grow. After the first listen I thought there was about 3 or 4 songs I liked, now after road work being done, rubber necking, and women being aloud to drive - I've gotten more time to listen to it and tracks 1-6,8,9 all sound awesome. So, for an album that has only 10 tracks I'd say it's pretty successful. It's no Kid A by any means but Beck ,who usually I can't tell what he is talking about most of the time, has lyrics that actually stick together for a whole song. It's a short album, only 33 minutes and most songs are from 2-3 minutes. But hey, it worked for The Beatles so why not Beck Hansen? It's got a type of psychedelic 60's drug feel to it, but then again I love that type of music and if you like it also check out - The Black Angels, real psychedelic, tons of drone machines.

That's it for now. I have to continue to my Spanish homework. Tell me this isn't ridiculous, I can't receive my degree in ENGLISH because I haven't fulfilled my SPANISH requirements. So now I have to take one Spanish in the summer and another next semester. Unbelievable.