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BECK "Guero" Reviews
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AZRating: 7.4
Users rating: 9.0 |
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Release: 29 Mar 2005
Label: Columbia
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| E!Online |
Rating: 10.0 |
If Beck ever gets around to putting out a greatest-hits set, it will sound a lot like Guero.
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| BBC Music |
Rating: 8.5 |
This is an album covering a fair amount of ground, taking in breaks and funk at one end, through infectious pop and out to the kind of noise that's somewhere on the path to post-rock.
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| StylusMagazine |
Rating: 8.3 |
We thought we knew you, Beck. And then you showed up moaning over dark satin strings and crisp Godrich production.
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| RollingStone |
Rating: 8.0 |
On Guero, his eighth album, he returns to what he does best, hopping from genre to genre, hustling for scraps of beat and rhyme.
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| ShakingThrough |
Rating: 6.8 |
Guero is all over the map but the majority of its detours simply aren't worth the trip
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| PitchFork |
Rating: 6.6 |
Mr. Hansen has certainly attempted to follow the regimen recommended to him, and has done his best to recapture earlier moments of lucidity and unity, but in many ways the final result feels rote and calculated.
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| The Onion A.V. Club |
Rating: 6.0 |
It sounds like a shadow greatest-hits album, a collection of also-rans offering intriguing variations on past styles. It sounds okay, sometimes even better than okay, but it doesn't stir much passion, unlike even the most irony-entrenched Beck albums of the past.
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| DustedMagazine |
Rating: 5.0 |
If Beck has any desire to match the stark and compelling intensity of his lyrics with timbre, he'd better take a tip from Waits and strip the arrangements down to the bare essentials; maybe then his increasingly bleak but unified vision will be realized, instead of a blur
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Users comments
| David |
Rating: 6.0 |
Not bad! Listenable. |
| The Nobody |
Rating: 8.0 |
I do think this is a very calculated album and yet it is also quite compelling... a good disc for a beginner stepping out of the commercial wavelengths. |
| my last name sounds like beck |
Rating: 8.0 |
its beck... he is amazing |
| lou rinaldi |
Rating: 10.0 |
As good as anything the Beatles ever did. And this is from a Baby-Boomer. |
| Shaun |
Rating: 10.0 |
Epic! tryin' to get him, is like a caveman tryin'
to grasp atomic fusion. Why bother... just listen.
Somethings need not be bogged-down with meaning, OR understanding for that matter. Not'art' anyway. 911...? Yeah, help me understand that one ya(world
full of book thumpin' hypocrites)! Everyones got a book that,"They" say!, has "The Rules". Aahhhhh... geeeez... don't most of em' say pretty quick...
DONT KILL PEOPLE, DONT TOUCH THEIR SHIT,
AND DON'T LIE ABOUT KILLIN'EM AND TAKIN' THEIR SHIT!!!!!!!!!
Sorry bout' that guys. Little senseless rant. Beck, hats off dude. Love your output dude.
Peace
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