Search - Beck :: Sea Change

This Might Hurt A Bit...

JuSt AnOtHeR oNiOnHeAd | Port Chester, NY | 01/27/2010

(5 out of 5 stars)

"Everybody hates this album... broken lyrics, broken people, too much introspection, overproduced---nope.

It's painful. And it's brilliant. I don't know how he wrote all of these very sad and painful, gut wrenching songs.

Easy to toss it off, but this is sorrow that we have all felt and BECK CONVEYS IT COMPLETELY AND WITHOUT MERCY.

This is merciless personal bloodletting. It absolutely brought me to tears. It's extreme and at times over produced.

But most of the time it's just digging directly into the part of my soul, the human soul that matters, the soul that's terrified of the next painful cut, the loss, the one perfect woman that walked away, the imperfect parents that are now children in my eyes--all stability and attachment wrenched away, say hello to personal desolation...



I tried to find Guthrie, Dylan, the great folk artists of the 1960's like Fred Neil (who I really love - wrote "Everybody's Talkin' at Me and "The Dolphins") Nope. This is original introspection and fear, written with some of the greatest acoustic guitar licks that push it forward into future standalone territory. It's goddamned genius. Listen to it - all of it. Draw your own conclusions. I doubt you'll hate it. You may sense an element of commercialism toward the end (which, BTW, fails) Why do I love this album. It's very simple...it dragged me through almost every emotion I am capable of feeling. And so few musical productions lately can elicit that kind of response--especially in a fairly jaded (near) 50 year old.



Just listen to it. No amount of page text can ever do it justice.



And, no, it's not the Holy Grail either!

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