![]() Guero (2005) [ larger cover art ] |
Looking for my place on assembly lines
Fake prizes rising out of the bomb holes
Skeleton boys hyped up on purple
Smoke rings blow from across the disco
Bank notes burn like broken equipment
Looking for shelter, readjust your position
Thought control, ghostwritten confessions
Two dimensions, dumb your head down
Duck, don't look now, company missiles
Power is raunchy, rent-a-cops are watching
Make your dreams out of paper mache
Cliched wasted hate taste-tested
Hell yes now I'm moving this way, I'm doing this thing
(Please enjoy)
Hell yes now I'm turning it on, I'm working my legs
Hell yes now I'm calling you out, I'm switching my plates
(Please enjoy)
Hell yes now I'm cleaning the floor, my beat is correct
Stretched to the limit, attention spans snap back
Retract, collapsin' the laugh tracks
Noise response, applause and handclaps
Floodgates open to the sound of the rainbow
Breakin' points on the verge of pointless
Fools anointed to the follower's fanfare
Look for the common, not superficial
Code red Cola War conformity crisis
Perfunctory idols rewriting their bibles
With magic markers running out of their ink
Lives in White Out, turn the lights out
Fax machine anthems, get your damned hands up
Hell yes now I'm moving this way, I'm doing this thing
(Please enjoy)
Hell yes. now I'm turning it on, I'm working my legs
Hell yes. now I'm calling you out, I'm switching my plates
(Please enjoy)
Hell yes. now I'm cleaning the floor, my beat is correct
Yes (Hai) Umisei(?)
Yeah, That's it. (repeated)
Umisei sumisei(?)
Yes.
I like your bass.
Yes.
Your beat is nice.
Yes.
Hell yes.
Hai.
Hell Yes.
Hell Yes. (gasp)
Hell Yes.
Yes.
Hai.
| ndfan75 (Texas) | Posted: Jul 29, 2006 - 05:25 maximinimalist wrote: ...should try to find his own style instead of trying to fit into one.
are you kidding me?! |
| Jennnn | Posted: Feb 20, 2006 - 13:12 5.9?!
Hell, 10! ![]() |
| ploafmaster (Richmond, VA) | Posted: Feb 20, 2006 - 13:10 This beat is nice. |
| maximinimalist (florida) | Posted: Feb 05, 2006 - 20:15 ...should try to find his own style instead of trying to fit into one. |
| Xeric (Twenty feet off the ground) | Posted: Feb 05, 2006 - 20:12 fuh2 wrote: Leave it to Beck to make rap actually cool and palatable. He did? Why doesn't Bill play that one? |
| laozilover (Left of Chicago & up) | Posted: Jan 07, 2006 - 14:57 "Peace and Joy"? "Hell Yes!" ![]() |
| The_Seeker (Adelaide, Australia) | Posted: Dec 21, 2005 - 03:04 Beck seems to be hit and miss with me. I do like this and Scarecrow (haven't heard the rest of the album) whereas I disliked most of Midnite Vultures. His earlier albums are the same - some I quite like, some I don't like at all. |
| dwhayslett (Raleigh, NC) | Posted: Dec 09, 2005 - 14:51 ad4tise wrote: ... If this is what RP is going to be playing from now on, I am gone!
Yup, this is gonna pretty much be it from now on. |
| SaintAwesome | Posted: Dec 09, 2005 - 14:49 Goofy but cool. Makes me want to get drunk and twirl a glow stick. |
| Bizzarefall (SoCal) | Posted: Dec 09, 2005 - 14:47 CaptTofu wrote: sounds like porn music.
Wow what porn are you watching? |
| rcurrier (San Juan Capistrano, CA) | Posted: Dec 06, 2005 - 13:27 "...you gotta admit that this cat is talented" OK, but this one falls into the cat's litterbox tootsie roll category. I did give it an extra point for its ability to get stuck in my head. |
| MojoJojo (Indianapolis, IN USA) | Posted: Dec 06, 2005 - 13:25 But it's hate-taste tested! How can you go wrong! Me likes the Beck-a-licious hipster goofus funkeeness. I like your bass, your beat is nice! Hell yes!
dogpound wrote: :puke: :puke: |
| fuh2 (I think I'm in the USA) | Posted: Dec 06, 2005 - 13:25 Leave it to Beck to make rap actually cool and palatable. |
| SigmaBetaTooth (Cubicle Farm in San Antonio, TX) | Posted: Dec 06, 2005 - 13:23 My 15 month old daughter rocks out everytime I play this album in the car. What can I say, the girl knows what she likes. |
| CaptTofu (Seattle, WA) | Posted: Dec 06, 2005 - 13:23 sounds like porn music. |
| PattonFever (wherever i go, there i am.) | Posted: Nov 27, 2005 - 20:04 hell yes. now i'm cleaning the floor; my beat is correct. |
| ad4tise (Destin, Florida) | Posted: Nov 13, 2005 - 04:31 Horrible, just horrible. The LAST thing I want to hear upon waking on Sunday morning. If this is what RP is going to be playing from now on, I am gone! |
| dogpound | Posted: Nov 10, 2005 - 08:15 :puke: :puke: |
| wade44 | Posted: Nov 10, 2005 - 08:15 HELL YES! |
| Benjamin1225 (Charlotte, NC) | Posted: Nov 10, 2005 - 08:14 awesome song....love this album/artist |
| rexi (far out) | Posted: Nov 07, 2005 - 06:32 woo hoo! |
| kazuma (Austin, TX) | Posted: Oct 29, 2005 - 14:35 I'm pretty sure this is what Spike Jones would have sounded like using today's technology. |
| Dahnyul | Posted: Oct 29, 2005 - 14:33 veegez wrote: Who else'll give me a Hell Yes on this one? Too many party pooper Hell No responses.
Hell Yes. I went out and bought this album. Glad I did. |
| veegez (Minnesoter) | Posted: Oct 26, 2005 - 18:14 Who else'll give me a Hell Yes on this one? Too many party pooper Hell No responses. |
| Leaf13 (Ontario, Canada) | Posted: Oct 26, 2005 - 17:54 This album took a few listens to get used to, but I now love it. |
| Jezza | Posted: Sep 30, 2005 - 05:53 Have to say I much prefer the Beck of "Sea Change" and "Mutations" to this style |
| theo (somewhere in NH) | Posted: Sep 15, 2005 - 12:01 Hell no! |
| deepwoodskev (Geneva, IL) | Posted: Sep 15, 2005 - 12:00 Is that the Chicken Dance song I hear? |
| LLMikeJ (midwest) | Posted: Sep 12, 2005 - 14:43 for those of you that didn't already know: "hi" means "yes" in japanese. |
| Death_to_Clear_Channel (Chicago) | Posted: Sep 12, 2005 - 14:38 I'll say it again: :puke: |
| AphidA (Alexandria, VA) | Posted: Sep 09, 2005 - 12:25 Faithful_Fool wrote: I wish I had his bank account!!
I wish I had his OT level. This dude is totally clear! "Look, ma! No body thetans!!" |
| Gish05 (Pittsburgh, PA) | Posted: Sep 09, 2005 - 12:20 Cliche wasted, hate taste tested. :D |
| Faithful_Fool (Streets of San Francisco) | Posted: Sep 09, 2005 - 12:16 TheLoneIguana wrote: Talented, maybe, but this song annoys the heck out of me.
I wish I had his bank account!! |
| ajman | Posted: Sep 09, 2005 - 12:13 "...you gotta admit that this cat is talented" at what? |
| AphidA (Alexandria, VA) | Posted: Sep 09, 2005 - 12:10 Impatiently awaiting 10/5/05 |
| TheLoneIguana (Central California) | Posted: Aug 31, 2005 - 15:11 Talented, maybe, but this song annoys the heck out of me. |
| foppy-knight (SF CA DUNGEON) | Posted: Aug 31, 2005 - 15:01 Still, my fiance doesn't like this Guy. Personally, I think he's a genius. Even if you don't dig his brand of music, you gotta admit that this cat is talented. |
| CinnamonGirl (Port Townsend, WA) | Posted: Aug 28, 2005 - 18:01 Strange how much I can enjoy "Guero" and then find this one so annoying |
| fuh2 (I think I'm in the USA) | Posted: Aug 28, 2005 - 18:01 Somebody told me the girl talking in this Christina Ricci who is Beck's sister-in-law. Rather than inducing nausea like most rap does, this induces pleasure. |
| Mugro (Lane Village, Massachusetts) | Posted: Aug 25, 2005 - 15:38 Trustocity wrote: Who isn't? Me. I'm worth every f'ing penny. |
| chillynne (Lawrence, KS) | Posted: Aug 16, 2005 - 22:41 fun, i guess. but i miss the pre-video game music soundalike days. |
| walk (S.F. Yay Area) | Posted: Aug 13, 2005 - 22:36 Do I like this song? Hell yes. Beck, Mozart. What is, Musical Geniuses from the 1700s to the 2000s, Alex. "I want to be an artist that transcends genres even as he redefines them!" - Bender. |
| silver_deuce (San Antonio, Texas) | Posted: Aug 13, 2005 - 21:52 Xeric wrote: Oh, for fuck's sake. The worst yet.
...don't hold back, just say what you mean. |
| Xeric (On a sea of dark green shag. . . .) | Posted: Aug 13, 2005 - 21:36 Oh, for fuck's sake. The worst yet. |
| ChardRemains (Pepperland) | Posted: Jul 15, 2005 - 06:55 Ah you brilliant foxy musical genius Beck Hansen.... I like your bass, your beat is nice. |
| TampaPurple (Tampa) | Posted: Jul 15, 2005 - 06:52 Trustocity wrote: Who isn't? Weird Al Yankovic |
| Trustocity (Boston, baby) | Posted: Jun 30, 2005 - 14:33 shevek wrote: Beck is overrated.
Who isn't? |
| Mugro (Lane Village, Massachusetts) | Posted: Jun 30, 2005 - 13:52 |
| shevek (Piscataway, NJ) | Posted: Jun 30, 2005 - 13:50 Beck is overrated. |
| Xenochronicity (Houston, Texas: 2014.88 miles from Radio Paradise) | Posted: Jun 27, 2005 - 12:08 Quayde wrote: Aaah, Beck. The first artist on RP to have two number 1's in my ratings. 'Sucko Barfo' isn't hyperbolic enough for this >>insert appropriate blasphemy here<< awful tripe. How do producers let this leave the studio? Do they all have tinnitus and wear ear muffs? I'd rather eat adipocere than listen to this. RP, you can do better. Much better.
Having spent a good portion of my adult life in a recording studio, I can honestly say, you just don't find stuff this good very often. Tinitus? Maybe, but I know that Beck is unique, innovative, and refreshingly better than all the crap I hear on commercial radio, and I'd go so far as to say deserves higher accolades than the majority of great RP artists! |

