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Modern Guilt
Artist : Beck
List Price : $13.98 USD
Your Price : $9.99 USD
ProductGroup: Music
Release Date : 2008-07-08
Studio : Interscope Records
Label : Interscope Records
Avg. Customer Rating :  (96 reviews)
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Customer Reviews for Modern Guilt
Surprisingly Good
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I will be honest, this is the first Beck CD I have ever purchased. In the past I would here a track and say to myself, "wow that is so cool". It seemed like a post-modern mish mash, very unique---at first. In reality it was like Doritos...delicious at first, but not sustaining. I am glad there were all those previous recordings, playing with strange musicality (kind of ultra-white boy chic)and wacky lyricism because it leads to this release. Gamma Ray was the first track I heard, and I wanted to chalk it up to more junk food fare, but I could not. It was so infectious I had to have more. The rest of the CD is similarly brilliant, infectious, and actually of great substance. Modern Guilt is an appropriate title as I almost feel like I am selling out my indie-cool credentials in buying this (as if Beck were a poseur), but the cd reminds us that it is okay to have fun and still be arty.
Customer Reviews for Modern Guilt Cd
... is a lazy album.
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Modern Guilt is a lazy album - not lazy as in "laid-back," but lazy as in "did Beck spend any more time than the miserly 33-minute length of this disc on its songwriting, recording, mixing, production, and artwork?" Well . . . The songwriting structures are repetitious. The music faintly recalls a 60's style, but lacks the 60's convictions; this sounds like a lab exercise. The vocals are bland, bored, and buried beneath clichéd soundbytes. The constantly distorted drums may have worked for Beck's "two-turntables-and-a-microphone" days, but now they just sound sloppy. Artwork? Two nondescript black-and-white photos of musicians' feet and an exit sign, and ten pages of punctuation-light lyrics crammed at the bottom of otherwise white sheets. Caveat emptor these empty archives. **
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