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Modern Guilt
: :Beck's new album Modern Guilt, produced with Brian 'Danger Mouse' Burton, will be released July 8, 2008. The new album contains 10 new songs, and with the exception of last year's Grammy-nominated, digital-only single 'Timebomb', Modern Guilt is the first new material Beck has written since the prolific stretch that produced 2005's platinum Guero and 2006's universally acclaimed The Information. Modern Guilt is a tightly assembled group of songs that range in lyrical tone from introspection and social commentary to off the cuff wordplay and ...
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Buffy the Vampire Slayer: The Score
:Album Description:Buffy fans rejoice! The Emmy-winning score to the cult hit show is now available! Buffy the Vampire Slayer: The Score features 29 tracks, including 'Massacre' (the Emmy-winning score from Season 2 episode 'Becoming'), 'Loneliness of Six' (from Season 3 episode 'Lover's Walk'), and 'Haunted' (from Season 4 episode 'Fear Itself'), all scored, mixed, and produced by longtime Buffy the Vampire Slayer (and Angel) composer Christophe Beck. A must-have for any serious Buffy fan!
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Les Miserables Original London Cast
: :This recording captures the 1985 London cast that transformed an obscure French musical based on Victor Hugo's gargantuan novel of pre-Revolutionary France into a worldwide phenomenon throughout the late-'80s and '90s and became one of the best examples of the era's trend of blockbuster musical spectacles. Yes, Alain Boublil and Claude-Michel Schoenberg's score tends to recycle its themes, but the beautiful melodies and stirring anthems rarely fail to captivate and touch its audience. Colm Wilkinson is the heroic Valjean, Patti LuPone is the tragic Fantine, ...
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Buffy the Vampire Slayer - Once More, with Feeling
: :While the idea of infusing a weekly TV series with a Broadway musical ethos isn't exactly a new one--think Randy Newman's ambitious Cop Rock--it became something of a turn-of the-century television mini-trend. But few have reached as far--or succeeded--like this November 2001 episode of Fox Network's Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Penned by series creator-producer Joss Whedon and performed by Sarah Michelle Gellar and cast, it's a loving, loopy musical pastiche that takes potshots at everything from Andrew Lloyd Webber to alt-rock. Paralleling the show's lovable ...
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Sea Change
: :Beck is bummed. Really bummed. And if song titles such as 'Lost Cause,' 'Lonesome Tears,' 'Already Dead,' and 'Nothing I Haven't Seen' don't make the point, his achingly sad lyrics and Sea Change's unerringly downcast sound do. While 1998's Mutations--arguably the singer-songwriter's masterwork and Sea Change's spiritual cousin--was filled with unflinching self-examination, moments of levity were found in songs like 'Tropicalia.' Not so on Sea Change. Beck's woozy, almost narcoleptic delivery seems to amplify the set's sense of ennui. But sad isn't necessarily bad, and ...
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Odelay
: essential recording:Beck brags here that he's 'got two turntables and a microphone.' He also has a sweeping aesthetic that sees no reason why musical allusions to hip-hop, the Beatles, James Brown, punk, Gram Parsons, cool jazz, and Dylan can't coexist in the same song. Throughout, he rap-sings with sincere irony--I bet he laughs at the sight of a jump-suited Elvis, then cries when the King starts to sing--and Odelay's rich collage of sound may very well prove a prediction of the future. If he ...
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Guero
:Album Description:Three years after the critically acclaimed and heartwrenching opus 'Sea Change,' THREE-TIME GRAMMY WINNER and FIVE-TIME MTV VIDEO MUSIC AWARD WINNER BECK returns with his most diverse, accomplished and compelling work to date: 'GUERO.' With the raucous first single 'E-Pro' triumphantly 'na-na-na'-ing Beck's return with a must-be-seen-to-be believed video by Shynola (Queens of the Stone Age, Radiohead), 'GUERO' both reunites Beck with classic co-conspirators the Dust Brothers and explores territories uncharted by even this most innovative artist of his generation. :Now that Beck has ...
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Mellow Gold
: essential recording:Far more than a novelty jester, Beck is a musical anarchist and bummed-out street prophet whose audience will squirm and thrill to the slacker delta blues of 'Whiskeyclone' and urban nightmares like 'Truckdrivin Neighbors Downstairs.' --Jeff Bateman
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The Information
:Album Description:Hailed as 'a deeply natural songwriter' (THE NEW YORKER) who 'defies expectations in his own way' (TIME) and 'Gen X's most famous absurdist' (BLENDER), BECK is the single most inventive and eclectic figure to emerge from the '90s alternative revolution. In an era obsessed with junk culture, Beck seamlessly blends pop, folk, hiphop, indie/underground and electronica with the end result being an authentically uncategorizeable musical style that nevertheless has sold millions of records and scored multiple Grammy awards. Three years in the making, THE ...
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Midnite Vultures
:Album Details:Special Very Limited CD Digipak. :When Beck mangles folk, hip-hop, country, blues, and lo-fi rock into a unique sonic species, he pays homage to his influences in a way that is utterly entertaining. Indeed, the alt-rock vagabond is responsible for some of the 1990s' most indispensable music. In his lesser moments, however, Beck's attempts at emulating his preceptors fall flat, creating only B-grade versions of the genuine articles. Midnite Vultures splits down the middle between the great Beck and the not-so-great Beck. About half ...
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