{"id":220,"date":"2006-10-26T09:01:15","date_gmt":"2006-10-26T09:01:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/wordpress\/?p=220"},"modified":"2025-04-05T09:43:16","modified_gmt":"2025-04-05T14:43:16","slug":"a_look_back_at_","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/archives\/2006\/10\/a_look_back_at_.html","title":{"rendered":"A Look Back at Beck."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The major albums. Approximate dates. Random thoughts.<\/p>\n<ul type=\"square\">\n<li><em>1994 <\/em><strong>Mellow Gold <\/strong>&#8211; never bought this album. Love &#8220;Loser&#8221;. Have no clue about the rest of it!<\/li>\n<li><em>1996 <\/em><strong>Odelay <\/strong>&#8211; Fun, Jazzy, Hyper, Goofy.<\/li>\n<li><em>1998 <\/em><strong>Mutations <\/strong>&#8211; Melancholy and melodic. Lovely lyrics.<\/li>\n<li><em>1999 <\/em><strong>Midnight Vultures <\/strong>&#8211; Sexsexsex. Techno.<\/li>\n<li><em>2002 <\/em><strong>Sea Change <\/strong>&#8211; Sad. Heartbreak. Orchestral. Thick.<\/li>\n<li><em>2005 <\/em><strong>Guero <\/strong>&#8211; My least favorite. Rock. Punk. About as &#8220;metal&#8221; as Beck gets.<\/li>\n<li><em>2006 <\/em><strong>The Information <\/strong>&#8211; Pop. Ramblin&#8217; Rhythms. Little bit of everything. Some Stones moments.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>When happy, I prefer Odelay and The Information or listening to &#8220;Loser&#8221; over and over again on repeat.<\/p>\n<p>When I wanna dance, I prefer Midnight Vultures mixed with Odelay, The Information, and maybe a little bit of Guero thrown in.<\/p>\n<p>When sensing possibility or just plain horny, I prefer Midnight Vultures.<\/p>\n<p>When sad, quiet, contemplative or lonely, I prefer Mutations and Sea Change.<\/p>\n<p>Y&#8217;all know which of those I most often am.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The major albums. Approximate dates. Random thoughts. 1994 Mellow Gold &#8211; never bought this album. Love &#8220;Loser&#8221;. Have no clue about the rest of it! 1996 Odelay &#8211; Fun, Jazzy, Hyper, Goofy. 1998 Mutations &#8211; Melancholy and melodic. Lovely lyrics. &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/archives\/2006\/10\/a_look_back_at_.html\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,6,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-220","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-album","category-listenin","category-tunes"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=220"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3735,"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220\/revisions\/3735"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=220"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=220"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=220"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}