re: Any Beck fans?

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There's no way you're serious about whether or not I'm being serious

Have elleshoe do a Beck vs Jack White challenge. Do it

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No thanks, I'm not a fan of wasting my time

Beck is solid artist, one of the best of the 90's (The Dust Brothers production helped him lift off)

To me he is most underrated as a lyricist, songwriter (Sea Changes), and, yes, rapper.

He has some of the wackiest lyrics of all time, for sure, and makes them catchy:

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All my days I had moldy bread
Robot brains and the flying airplanes
Hollowed out and filled with dust
Rocking like a hurricane under the rug
Bored to the core on a sunken boat
A worn out candle and a plastic coat
A ziploc bag, a pelican bone
A perfect, stupid, cardboard reject
Overfed, electric comatose
Riding in the air, invisible socks
A broken blanket, flaming sawdust
Waking up in the shadow of a piece of dirt

Gonna fly like a dog, gonna leap right out the wall
Gonna walk around this town with a can of whiskey
Gonna run like a bird, gonna roll out in the dirt
Gonna run around this town with a phone machine

Yellow cat laying flat on the road
Molten lead shooting out the ground
Tinfoil witch burning under the bridge
Flap your wings and leap out the window
Put a glass eye in the eyes of God
Nuke the kids,
Polaroid cupcake
Take it to the limit, new wave biscuit
Camouflage gimmick, wimp out like never before

Gonna jump like a flag, gonna burn like a pig
Gonna flap around and pass out on the kitchen floor
Gonna crawl like a rock, gonna dance like a worm
Gonna take my shoes right off and smell my socks

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I can listen to some Beck, though Jack White is a far superior artist.

I like Jack White but he sucks compared to Beck imo.Not nearly as good of a songwriter.

I can see your argument about Beck's songwriting capabilities. However JW is a far superior musician.

Fair enough. I am less of a singer-songwriter kind of guy and enjoy incredible musicianship. I largely see vocals as merely another instrument with the meaning of the lyrics themselves as having secondary importance. Yet I realize I am in the minority with this view.

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He's the best artist of the last 20 years imo.I think that he's so good that sometimes people overlook him.

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I like him. I've only listened to maybe 3 of his albums, though. He's got a ton of material.

Deborah is high up on my all time lists