Beck shockingly confirms that the pop-bricolage libretto to Odelay was mostly random-function funny-talk. No word on the relative heartfelt-ness of his Mellow Gold-era lyrics, but you should probably snip “to have and to beefcake pantyhose” from your wedding vows just to be sure. [Guardian]
February 7th, 2008 // 18 Comments
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I think One Foot In the Grave was some downright sincere stuff.
what’s next? bob pollard admits that there IS no goldheart mountaintop queen directory?
@westartedthis: Then what have I been using to prop up the table my laptop is currently sitting on?
@mike a: I’m more of a “Goin’ back to Houston/Do the hot dog dance” man myself.
Excessive spins of Odelay!, Remain In Light and Wowee Zowee have damaged my ability to find any meaning in song lyrics.
@queensissy: SP Spotted!! SP Spotted!!!!!1
Queensissy’s comment was full of entheta. She needs some FDSing I feel so enturbulated.
Queensissy’s comment was full of Entheta. She needs some FDSing. I feel so enturbulated.
It took seven comments to get to a Scientology reference? You people are slipping.
@My Friend Edward: It’s interesting you bring that up because all three of those records have nonsensical but MEMORABLE lyrics. I could sing along to Wowee Zowee a day after I bought it. Same with Odelay. And those lyrics don’t mean much of anything. After a while I began to ascribe my own meanings to the songs, so they did mean something. The overemphasis of lyrics among the rock critic establishment fascinates me. I’ll stop here, but I think about this a lot, particularly as someone who has promoted instrumental bands and seem them lumped together and slagged as somehow less than serious.
It’s all about “Mouthwash jukebox gasoline.”
“Jackass” is distinctly non-nonsensical, and gorgeously so.
I’ve gotta agree with Lucas here. Anyway, I don’t remember the critics being this hard on Lennon – or even Stipe – when they were being free-associative. My theory is that a certain strain of critic has always viewed Beck as a lucky charlatan, and this would seem to prove it. (Never mind that the lucky charlatan’s 14 years into his career.)
Don’t believe him – gotta be the Scientology talking. I’ll bet my porcelain platypus on it.
@Lucas Jensen: Absolutely. Those records helped me move beyond the point in my life (let’s call it “high school”) when my listening preferences were dictated by big, important, meaning-served-on-a-platter lyrics. Lines like “Getting off the candelabra/We call her Barbara/Breeding like larva/” killed the literalist and the over-analyst in me, and now I hold them in high regard.
And here I’d always thought that “Temperature’s dropping at the rotten oasis” was a subtle commentary on “Hotel California”.
I still love the line “community service and I’m still the mack.”
fuck scientology
@defStef: Word.