For me easily:

rolling said:

That's actually the one I don't have, need to pick that up.

I love Mellow Gold, despite Loser being so overplayed. His lyrics and music just felt weirder and scrappier, a great mix of folk, hip-hop and punk. I really love the Information too.

MendesCity said:

I would definitely recommend that you get it. To me its his most complete album every track is great. It is a very folk album though so if your more a fan of becks other styles I dont know if you would like it.

mines Sea Change

Cloudbuster said:

Mine too.

Odelay, then Sea Change...

Sea Change.

I think Midnight Vultures got the most play for me, probably followed by Mutations.
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novabrkr said:

Sea Change is kinda snoozy (if pretty) to me. He seems to have lost his sense of humor on that one, which is one of his greatest assets IMO.

Well I would probably sort of lose my sense of humour too if I would discover my partner in life for a decade cheating on me.

NDRU said:

This one and Guero.

Midnight Vultures and The Information.

hmm, I can't choose between Mutations, Sea Change and Odelay. I play Mutations the most.

sea change is my favorite album, but i wouldn't say my favorite songs are on that album, if that makes sense. of all his albums, i like listening to sea change from beginning to end the most. i don't think the parts are as great as the whole, though.

if there were a "what are your favorite beck songs" thread, there probably wouldn't be any from sea change.

Anxiety said:

It holds together pretty well. I find most Beck albums break down towards the end. Great songs, but somewhere they start to lose momentum. Sea Change keeps that vibe going really well, though I have to be in the mood for a very low key album

Sea Change

NDRU said:

i can't answer that. i love every album for different reasons.

i play Midnite Vultures and Guero the most.

Mutations and Guero.

All I own is Odelay and The Information, so of those two my fave is the former.

lots of mutation love on this thread. i never really gave that album a lot of thought. it's pleasant enough, but i remember at the time it came out, it felt like a "stopgap" album to me...just a modest collection of tropicalia-style ditties to hold us over until the next big noisy crazy "official" beck album. maybe i should go back and give it a bit more love. the few times i've let myself sit through the whole thing, i wasn't put off by it at all...

Anxiety said:

Bottle Of Blues.

"sea change" all the way. although i love midnite vultures, guero and mutations
all just about as much. it's just that sea change has a special overall vibe to
it and an honesty that makes it impossible to not chose it as my fav.

MendesCity said:

but that's the point of the album isn't it? that's like saying you don't
like the color blue because you don't like blue lol.

Cloudbuster said:

oh, and to make "sea change" even more sublime, add on the japanese
bonustrack "ship in a bottle".

i must have listened to "ship in a bottle" over 1,000 times and it's
still such a beautiful song.



ps: shut it cloudy

But then again, who knows how many hours I've spent in my life listening to "Mutations" as well. It's one of those records where I really don't even remember the track titles, but that I can sing all the way through.

Nobody has said "Modern Guilt" yet? "Stereopathetic Soulmanure" anyone?

IstenSzek said:

yeah, Ship in a Bottle should have been on the album.. its incredible

Anxiety said:

I think it looks forward to Sea Change, stylistically, but it's more upbeat. It may be something of a mish-mash, but I think he was in a creative state. Very nice album.