please don't be glenn beck please don't be glenn beck please don't be glenn beck

:::clicks link:::

phew!

I was hoping that it was this Beck:

Awesome. Most people think that "music" is difficult. Especially popular music. My students are all between 9 and 14 years old... they can churn out good tunes with just two hours of practice and a little guidance.

"An album a day" was pretty-much expected in Austria and Germany in the 200 years between Bach and Wagner.

Know your chords and practice your scales. The rest is gravy.

--Mrs. Badcrumble

I'll point out that the headline should be "an album in a day", not "an album a day".

/subby

jake_lex: I'll point out that the headline should be "an album in a day", not "an album a day".

/subby

Parallel structures do not require prepositional linking conjectives ex post facto. Or something.

Beck is awesome. :D

As long as Beck is allowed to get out a good cry (or two) before he does anything performance-wise it's all good.

Megain: please don't be glenn beck please don't be glenn beck please don't be glenn beck

:::clicks link:::

phew!

That's what I was afraid of, too.

I love this

Will his broken friend be there?

Gunny Highway: Will his broken friend be there?



Probably more just his 'broke' friends...

there's a reason the great bands took a year or two
to put out a half decent LP

gimmick does not = greatness

mrEdude: gimmick does not = greatness

Yup, either its gonna be pretty cool or it will be a glorious trainwreck. Either way I'm there.

/I'm going with trainwreck. Bands like Phish and Dream Theatre that do entire albums in concert practice that shiat for months.

Terrified Asexual Forcemeat: jake_lex: I'll point out that the headline should be "an album in a day", not "an album a day".

/subby

Parallel structures do not require prepositional linking conjectives ex post facto. Or something.

No, it's an important distinction. They will record their version in a day, but they won't do one every day.

Beck ! Dj MOM GEANS! AND LORD ZENU! HELLLLSSSSS NO!

Please note: Beck & friends will re-record other artist's albums.

They will not be writing new material.

So whatever songs 9-yr-old students, Phish members, or "great bands" write in whatever length of time -- has no bearing on this discussion.

Beck n' pals aren't writing new material. They are covering old material.

So I'm not really too impressed by this. I'm sure they'll have fun, and I'm sure some of the songs will capture that fun, but I really don't have any interest in hearing masturbatory versions of classics like VU & Nico. The original will do.

ArturoBandini: Phish members, or "great bands" write in whatever length of time

No, after your post, I realized you read mine wrong. Both Phish and Dream Theatre cover entire albums in concert as a special event type thing. Phish have done the Beatles, The Talking Heads, and others. Dream Theatre has done Master of Puppets, Number of The Beast and as shiatload of others. Both bands have done Dark Side of the Moon in it's entirety live.

And they practice the shiat out of them. True, live is harder, you cant fark up and you do it all at once.
It will be easier to do a song a day, get it right and knowing Beck, using every editing trick on his PowerMac to get it right.

Which is why there is a possibility some of this stuff might be pretty cool.

I'm kind of enjoying the VU cover that's up on the site right now. Will be doing digital captures of these tracks as MP3s (for my own enjoyment of course.)

ozarkmatt: ArturoBandini: Phish members, or "great bands" write in whatever length of time

No, after your post, I realized you read mine wrong. Both Phish and Dream Theatre cover entire albums in concert as a special event type thing.


Ah, gotcha. My mistake.


ozarkmatt:And they practice the shiat out of them. True, live is harder, you cant fark up and you do it all at once.
It will be easier to do a song a day, get it right and knowing Beck, using every editing trick on his PowerMac to get it right.

Which is why there is a possibility some of this stuff might be pretty cool.


Well, except that Beck's doing an entire an entire album in a day, not just a song. And, according to the article, "nothing rehearsed or arranged ahead of time."

Which is why it sounds more masturbatory than celebratory.

Oh, and I'm assuming that they're recording/mixing everything in one day, and just spreading out the release of each track over several weeks, based on how this article is written.

I guess they might record in one day, then mix/tweak/etc each individual song weekly, but that seems like cheating...

"MGMT, Devendra Banhart, Jamie Lidell and Nigel Godrich have all been enlisted so far to take part in the club."

Allow me to be the first to say who, who, who and who?

ArturoBandini: I guess they might record in one day, then mix/tweak/etc each individual song weekly, but that seems like cheating...

Oh, well, then. I go back to my trainwreck prediction.

chickyraptor: Allow me to be the first to say who, who, who and who?

Actually, I sent the link to a friend of mine a few minutes back and he wrote beck, "I've heard of Beck and he sucks. Who the fark are those others?"

I have no answer, I refuse to google that stuff.

ArturoBandini:

Well, except that Beck's doing an entire an entire album in a day, not just a song.

And if time permits, he'll do an entire an entire an entire album in a day.

MGMT is some band the hipsters like. I believe Nigel Godrich has produced Radiohead. The others, no idea.

chickyraptor: ArturoBandini: Well, except that Beck's doing an entire an entire album in a day, not just a song.And if time permits, he'll do an entire an entire an entire album in a day.

Argh! Um, I mean, I didn't think the underline emphasized my point enough, so I was repeating for effect, like "an entire, an entire album." Yeah.

As for MGMT - I haven't decided where I stand on their music yet (currently bordering on "wouldn't buy, but could possibly tolerate") but I have to admit I kinda like their video for "Kids" - Link (new window) - well, not the part where they wrongly attribute the Nietzsche quote, and not so much the band's fancy dress, but the part where they freak out the little boy. That's kind of cool.

I like Beck and all, but he really needs to leave that album the f*ck alone.

Really.

Oh great, I always wondered what that album would sound like if it sucked.

ArturoBandini: chickyraptor: ArturoBandini: Well, except that Beck's doing an entire an entire album in a day, not just a song.And if time permits, he'll do an entire an entire an entire album in a day.

Argh! Um, I mean, I didn't think the underline emphasized my point enough, so I was repeating for effect, like "an entire, an entire album." Yeah.

As for MGMT - I haven't decided where I stand on their music yet (currently bordering on "wouldn't buy, but could possibly tolerate") but I have to admit I kinda like their video for "Kids" - Link (new window) - well, not the part where they wrongly attribute the Nietzsche quote, and not so much the band's fancy dress, but the part where they freak out the little boy. That's kind of cool.

I prefer the awesome mash up of kids and lady stardust:
A plus D - Stardust Kids (new window)

It's such a perfect combination; it works great because it doesn't feel as forced or gimmicky as 99% of other mash ups.

chickyraptor: MGMT, Devendra Banhart, Jamie Lidell and Nigel Godrich

if only there were some way to find out...

chickyraptor: Allow me to be the first to say who, who, who and who?

MGMT is an interesting band. Worth checking out, but nothing to write home about (IMO).

The thing I don't like about this is that some kids my age (high school) may look at this and stupidly assume that these are original Beck recordings (I love Beck, by the way). I also don't like this because kids my age (I have a vendetta against my generation, apparently) will be exposed to COVER versions of the recordings firstly, which, regardless of being good or bad, are still different than the original(s) and will bastardize the listeners' view of the song(s).

I am disappointed that they chose VU & Nico rather than their other option:

strangeguitar: I was hoping that it was this Beck:

I saw that Beck once - he opened for BB King. He was good, and he's better than Glen Beck (by several hundred light years), but this Beck guy is a few million light years behind Glen Beck - and now he's not only whoring himself out, but he's doing so by wrapping himself in the work of other artists. Not only am I unimpressed, but I'm about to throw up.

Come to think of it, why is it that some shiatty biker bar in Tennessee(?) can owe $15K for letting some cover band touch a Bob Seger tune, but this asshat Beck can make money off of Lou Reed? Shouldn't this Beck twit be paying for the privilege of playing Jeff Beck tunes?

Change the album to the 1984 release VU, add some rehearsal time, and use the Mutations band, and it would be the coolest thing ever.

But it will still be interesting to see what happens.

ecmoRandomNumbers Most people think that "music" is difficult. ......Know your chords and practice your scales. The rest is gravy.



You are 100% correct.
Copying other people's original ideas is actually quite easy.

Coming up with your own original ideas.......DIFFICULT.

craigdamage: ecmoRandomNumbers Most people think that "music" is difficult. ......Know your chords and practice your scales. The rest is gravy.



You are 100% correct.
Copying other people's original ideas is actually quite easy.

Coming up with your own original ideas that don't suck.......DIFFICULT.

ftfy
Ideas are the easy part.

rbabe1485 Ideas are the easy part


I'm not so sure about that 100%.
Any first year guitar student can be taught the riff to "Smoke on the Water" or pretty much any AC/DC song.

Tell a 30+ year guitar veteran he has a day to come up with an idea for a song that has a riff in it that is as good and full of timeless memorable hooks like "Smoke on the Water" or a classic AC/DC song.......



.....good luck.
IDEAS are "easy" as you say.
GOOD IDEAS are not as easy.

chickyraptor: "MGMT, Devendra Banhart, Jamie Lidell and Nigel Godrich have all been enlisted so far to take part in the club."Allow me to be the first to say who, who, who and who?

good motherfarkers, that's who.

check out Devendra Banharts "Cripple Crow". One of the best albums i've heard in a long time.

craigdamage: rbabe1485 Ideas are the easy part


I'm not so sure about that 100%.
Any first year guitar student can be taught the riff to "Smoke on the Water" or pretty much any AC/DC song.

Tell a 30+ year guitar veteran he has a day to come up with an idea for a song that has a riff in it that is as good and full of timeless memorable hooks like "Smoke on the Water" or a classic AC/DC song.......



.....good luck.
IDEAS are "easy" as you say.
GOOD IDEAS are not as easy.

Oh Craig context means everything.

rbabe1485: craigdamage: ecmoRandomNumbers Most people think that "music" is difficult. ......Know your chords and practice your scales. The rest is gravy.



You are 100% correct.
Copying other people's original ideas is actually quite easy.

Coming up with your own original ideas that don't suck.......DIFFICULT.

ftfy
Ideas are the easy part.

I added the the don't suck part.

there sure is a lot of biatching about Beck doing a cover of a full album (which is not new) as if he is the first one to ever do covers. Not to mention, it's not like he's some asshole who's using a cover to launch his career. (See: any late-90s band)

I'm looking forward to the rest of the series. Sunday Morning seems like a track you really can't do anything other than a straight cover of.

FeedTheCollapse: Beck doing a cover of a full album (which is not a new concept)


ftfm

Wow. I really was thinking this was Glenn Beck, and that we were seeing a new Charles Manson rise right in front of us.

This is considerably less WTF-Awesome.

if you thought this was going to be original, check out Record of the Week Club (new window), a Winnipeg-based revolving collective who met on a bunch of weeknights not really knowing what they were going to write and record and put together an album of it. John K Samson of The Weakerthans is a core member!

craigdamage: rbabe1485 Ideas are the easy part


I'm not so sure about that 100%.
Any first year guitar student can be taught the riff to "Smoke on the Water" or pretty much any AC/DC song.

Tell a 30+ year guitar veteran he has a day to come up with an idea for a song that has a riff in it that is as good and full of timeless memorable hooks like "Smoke on the Water" or a classic AC/DC song.......



.....good luck.
IDEAS are "easy" as you say.
GOOD IDEAS are not as easy.

How intriguing you cited AC/DC. They got a couple good ideas and have used them pretty much from there on out. Sort of kidding. Anyway, modern tools are pretty spiffy. The relationship between basic / home / amateur quality and quality of idea is still there, but easier access.

/mumbles away to play on Line6 Gearbox into Ableton

this is pussy. do it ICS style and record YOUR OWN music in one day sessions with no previous ideas or songs allowed and there will be something to talk about. maybe.

covering old material is even more boring
and pointless

I'm surprised by people's belief that everybody cares what they do every day

musically or otherwise

jesus, Fark has moved from Snarky to curmudgeonly lately...