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#22 - Guero (Beck)
This album might be the most recent (2005) to grace my top 25, but it's easily the "most funnest" album in my collection, too. Love the beats, the variations, the risks, the falsetto's. It's a Beach Boys dance album in a Brazilian time warp. And, believe it or not, it's the only Beck album I own (until The Information). Three years from now this might crack the top 15, or higher...
Top Tracks include Girl, Earthquake Weather, Emergency Exit, and Rental Car ('70's?), but the highlight has to be Scarecrow. Love the harmonica...
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Though Beck can often be a parady of himself, there's no denying that his eccentricities are endearing. There's a remix of "Hell Yes" called Ghettochip Malfunction that came out on a pre-release iTunes EP for Guero that is my fav from "this-era" Beck. You know it's a special song when it features a robot voice intoning "bee-aaachh."
BTW, have you ever heard "Satan Gave Me a Taco" off of Stereopathic Soul Manure? It has the distinction of being both a) the most ridiculous song ever and b) my favorite Beck song.
I love demonic tacos...and will check it out right now!
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