Beck — Country Down
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Oh country down
Where I found my proving ground
All along the floodline
Wheels are turning around
The hills roll out like centuries
Pass by without a sound
Just a mile outside of town Down-river bound
Where the lemon-tea-sky fell down
A plot against your will
Is furrowed into your brow
Against your better judgment
It's all behind you now
Just a mile outside of town What's the use
Of being found?
You can lose yourself
In some good ground
In the weeds hiding
Down the river right next door
There's no frame around your picture
Just a view through my back door Time evermore
You just found what you're looking for
A tiger rose
Growing through your prison door
Reaching for sunlight
Can't see it anymore
Just a mile from my back door You could wake up on a lifeboat 'neath the sun
On a ladder up to the sky
You're standing on the lowest rung
Holding a lifeline
Using my best defense
Running in the undertow
I couldn't fight against Oh lay me down
Where we found my proving ground
All along the floodline
Waves are turning around
The hills roll out like centuries
Pass by without a sound
Just a mile outside of town
Where I found my proving ground
All along the floodline
Wheels are turning around
The hills roll out like centuries
Pass by without a sound
Just a mile outside of town Down-river bound
Where the lemon-tea-sky fell down
A plot against your will
Is furrowed into your brow
Against your better judgment
It's all behind you now
Just a mile outside of town What's the use
Of being found?
You can lose yourself
In some good ground
In the weeds hiding
Down the river right next door
There's no frame around your picture
Just a view through my back door Time evermore
You just found what you're looking for
A tiger rose
Growing through your prison door
Reaching for sunlight
Can't see it anymore
Just a mile from my back door You could wake up on a lifeboat 'neath the sun
On a ladder up to the sky
You're standing on the lowest rung
Holding a lifeline
Using my best defense
Running in the undertow
I couldn't fight against Oh lay me down
Where we found my proving ground
All along the floodline
Waves are turning around
The hills roll out like centuries
Pass by without a sound
Just a mile outside of town
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great track, great album. Award winning. Just great
tinypriest wrote:
Really true. Have tried to like Beck and always listen to him hoping to hear something original, since he is good musically; I guess he has that in his genes. But what I usually hear is who he sounds like -- someone from the 70s here, someone from the 90s there. It's not even that he borrows from musical styles, nothing wrong with that. It's that the songs themselves sound like other people's songs.
Try this experiment: listen to Mutations (1998) and Guero (2005) and tell me who he sounds like on those.
Really true. Have tried to like Beck and always listen to him hoping to hear something original, since he is good musically; I guess he has that in his genes. But what I usually hear is who he sounds like -- someone from the 70s here, someone from the 90s there. It's not even that he borrows from musical styles, nothing wrong with that. It's that the songs themselves sound like other people's songs.
Try this experiment: listen to Mutations (1998) and Guero (2005) and tell me who he sounds like on those.
This is the most incredible album...enough said.
ziggytrix wrote:
debobasu wrote:
This album sounds a bit derivative to me... This guy doesn't seem to know
what style he wants to call his own... and the lyrics seem to repeat themselves
a little more often than it should throughout the album if he intends for it to
go unnoticed... nice try at being deep beck...
You got a bit of flack for this, but in a way you are quite correct. Beck *is* derivative. Everything he does sounds like something that came before. Sometimes it's not even subtle. The stunning thing, to me at least, is the sheer breadth of his font of derivation. He pulls from fuckin everything!
Really true. Have tried to like Beck and always listen to him hoping to hear something original, since he is good musically; I guess he has that in his genes. But what I usually hear is who he sounds like -- someone from the 70s here, someone from the 90s there. It's not even that he borrows from musical styles, nothing wrong with that. It's that the songs themselves sound like other people's songs.
debobasu wrote:
This album sounds a bit derivative to me... This guy doesn't seem to know
what style he wants to call his own... and the lyrics seem to repeat themselves
a little more often than it should throughout the album if he intends for it to
go unnoticed... nice try at being deep beck...
You got a bit of flack for this, but in a way you are quite correct. Beck *is* derivative. Everything he does sounds like something that came before. Sometimes it's not even subtle. The stunning thing, to me at least, is the sheer breadth of his font of derivation. He pulls from fuckin everything!
Really true. Have tried to like Beck and always listen to him hoping to hear something original, since he is good musically; I guess he has that in his genes. But what I usually hear is who he sounds like -- someone from the 70s here, someone from the 90s there. It's not even that he borrows from musical styles, nothing wrong with that. It's that the songs themselves sound like other people's songs.
Laptopdog wrote:
And what's wrong with that?!
I was reading lyrics and looking at album art while the record was spinning and my friends were trading cards.
And what's wrong with that?!
I was reading lyrics and looking at album art while the record was spinning and my friends were trading cards.
ziggytrix wrote
I imagine when other kids were trading baseball cards and riding bikes, this guy was looking at the backs of records and begging his dad to get him more music.
And what's wrong with that?!
I imagine when other kids were trading baseball cards and riding bikes, this guy was looking at the backs of records and begging his dad to get him more music.
And what's wrong with that?!
debobasu wrote:
You got a bit of flack for this, but in a way you are quite correct. Beck *is* derivative. Everything he does sounds like something that came before. Sometimes it's not even subtle. The stunning thing, to me at least, is the sheer breadth of his font of derivation. He pulls from fuckin everything!
I imagine when other kids were trading baseball cards and riding bikes, this guy was looking at the backs of records and begging his dad to get him more music.
This album sounds a bit derivative to me... This guy doesn't seem to know what style he wants to call his own... and the lyrics seem to repeat themselves a little more often than it should throughout the album if he intends for it to go unnoticed... nice try at being deep beck...
You got a bit of flack for this, but in a way you are quite correct. Beck *is* derivative. Everything he does sounds like something that came before. Sometimes it's not even subtle. The stunning thing, to me at least, is the sheer breadth of his font of derivation. He pulls from fuckin everything!
I imagine when other kids were trading baseball cards and riding bikes, this guy was looking at the backs of records and begging his dad to get him more music.
Wish RP had a beck only channel
debobasu wrote:
Why would he want to limit himself like that?
... This guy doesn't seem to know what style he wants to call his own...
Why would he want to limit himself like that?
Kaisersosay wrote:
Sounds like a great time! That's the kind of vacation I love!
This was a great album , traveled through Vermont with this in the background. Such a great state, great music , mmmmm beer.
Sounds like a great time! That's the kind of vacation I love!
Happy Birthday, Beck! Love that you're always interesting, even if not always my taste. I think I own every album for that very reason.
debobasu wrote:
Someone here is not as deep as they think, but it's not Beck.
This album sounds a bit derivative to me... This guy doesn't seem to know what style he wants to call his own... and the lyrics seem to repeat themselves a little more often than it should throughout the album if he intends for it to go unnoticed... nice try at being deep beck...
Someone here is not as deep as they think, but it's not Beck.
surfrider4life wrote:
come to Wisconsin...
Beer Cheese ?
Beer Cheese ?
An amazingly Eclectic artist!
Kaisersosay wrote:
Beer Cheese ?
This was a great album , traveled through Vermont with this in the background. Such a great state, great music , mmmmm beer.
Beer Cheese ?
This was a great album , traveled through Vermont with this in the background. Such a great state, great music , mmmmm beer.
LaurieinTucson wrote:
I don't hear autotune
what makes you think so?
There's some multi-tracking and a lot of reverb on the vocals but I don't hear any auto-tune either.
I don't hear autotune
what makes you think so?
There's some multi-tracking and a lot of reverb on the vocals but I don't hear any auto-tune either.
Just snagged a ticket to see Beck at Red Rocks this fall! He's been on my list of musical acts I want to see live for a long time.
Ma, Répondez s'il vous plaît do I wait or do something ?
Thy incubation asks for translation.
and I don't care about gene mutation.
so am I a drifting?
Thy incubation asks for translation.
and I don't care about gene mutation.
so am I a drifting?
jbuhl wrote:
I don't hear autotune
what makes you think so?
Heavy auto tune but I like the album anyway
I don't hear autotune
what makes you think so?
Heavy auto tune but I like the album anyway
Nice..
A lovely album, it rewards with more listening. Wish I had even a poofteenth of his talent.
There's some real talent here. 
I like it when just about anybody adds a little twang to his music... even Beck.
ceicilbee wrote:
It is a splendid album! Definitely a desert island disc for me.
sounds like a very solid album
It is a splendid album! Definitely a desert island disc for me.
sounds like a very solid album
I like it....
Nice. Beck gets Country Down.
Heavy auto tune but I like the album anyway
I'm not a big Beck fan, but this autotune statement is complete bullshit.