Bazooka wrote: 
Pleasantly so, but I still have the urge to give Beck a wedgie for faulting himself ad nauseam. 

That's the nicest Beck song I've heard 

I hear Velvet Underground here,

 Sasha2001 wrote: 
I know what you mean.  I think Tom Cruise is a great actor too.  One thing that perplexes me more than anything is this group and how they attract the smart, talented people they do. But all religions do that.  I am sure they really mean well.  As an atheist, if a religious person pressed me hard with the question "OK, fine, then where do we find meaning in life?" then I have no rebuttal - I am a bit of an "existentialist" that way. But it is incumbent on these artists to address the many serious allegations made against the church. 

 rdo wrote: 
For starters, he's a freaky Scientologist, which makes absolutely no sense to me because his lyrics are at once thoughtful and right on the money about so many things.

I don't really like Beck, but I am surprised to see I have rated a lot of his songs pretty high.  I'm not sure what is going on here...9

 Cynaera wrote: 

Yeah.....what Ann said......I'm gonna try to remember this. not easy today.....

 tpoling wrote: 
Yes, but there is inspiration in the clarity and honesty...not to mention integrity with taking FULL responsibility!

 Art_Carnage wrote: 

Yes, me too.  Scroll down.  Go rent Apocalypse Now now (rent it now, I mean).  If you have not seen it, you are in for the greatest experience of your life.

Strange, but I have never heard this one before! As most Beck, I love it! 8

Every time I hear this song's opening, I expect to hear Jim Morrison sing, "This is end..."

Good! I like this record. Eclectic.

The Beckster....

 maxgruv wrote: 
And then Aerosmith's "Nobody's Fault."  I forget which album it's from. I am a bad, bad audiophile

Please, Bill, segue from this into Led Zeppelin's "Nobody's Fault But Mine" — need to wake up now! ;)

Bumped this to 10.  Maybe it's just my mood today, but it felt right to me.  To those who ho-hum because this isn't NEW work:  Stop it. Quit looking eagerly for the next big thing and just enjoy what's in the now.  Life's short - don't wish it away for stuff in the future that may never happen. As the late Warren Zevon said, "Enjoy every sandwich." 

Simply bad singing.

12 years ago. Since then, nothing really remarkable - just wasted blues. Whose fault?

As I've said before about Beck on another track listing...maturity is a good thing. Sounds like he's mastered it. Yep.

This and Sea Change are 2 of my fave Beck discs. He's at his best when he's doing this down-tempo melancholy stuff, IMO. I hope his best work is yet to come.

Nice!

Glad that that's over with. It was boring me to death.

 Cynaera wrote: 

You've nailed it!! I agree!

Oh, man - what a good song!  I'm liking Beck more and more all the time. "Loser" used to drive me bug-f*ck, but it made me laugh at the same time (maybe that was what drove me bug-f*ck.)  I could listen to this song repeatedly, just for the slower pace and that lush, open-tuned guitar, the cello, the sitar...

This is an excellent piece...

... can be played by tuning guitar to CGCFAC - just like beck's 'round the bend.  i think both have a 'lazy river' sort of feel - but the river may be the ganges for one and the mississippi for the other...

tuning is like neil young's fav double dropped D but another step lower

I sometimes over-do-it by trying to listen to an entire Beck album all the way through and I 'beck out'.  Individual songs are just amazing. 
There is nothing he seems not able to do with quality. 

This song just resonates so strongly to my fragile, flawed, often wrong, and humbled self.