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...this case.Apparently, Sony invented four robots that can dance. They’re a foot high or so, look like the main character from the film “Short Circuit,” and can be programmed to do all manner of silly shakes. So, of course, Beck??s people hired all four of them to dance in front of a camera. They move slowly on a little stage while a bunch of people watch. It’s…not all that inspiring. Didn’t we invent robots to do more interesting things...
...Beercan” was one of the emblematic “slacker-raps” from Beck??s 1994 album, “Mellow Gold.” He played it early on in his thrilling set at the Bank of America Pavilion last Thursday, with microphone held high and confidence in his voice...
...show managed to be everything his March album, “Guero,” should have been: Where the album felt like a lazy rehash of Beck??s tried-and-true genre-hopping, the show was a post-post-post-post-modern regurgitation of a regurgitation of a million musical genres, spewed out with equal parts wild abandon and focused control. It was a post-Scientology, ultra-relaxed Beck doing an amazing impression of Beck. And he knew how to rock a body...
...show had its low points—almost all of Beck??s folksier, down-tempo songs like “The Golden Age” and “Lonesome Tears” put a damper on the general party vibe. But in each of those cases, he would do something odd and new—like singing a new melody line or having his band do a hoedown clap-stomp behind him—to remind us that this was still a process of experimentation and entertainment...
...sold out” because they aren’t “pushing” the “envelope” anymore? Or are such thoughts juvenile and elitist? I feel as though I can only answer these questions effectively by talking about my own struggle with Beck??s recent life decisions...