[dorio]

Submission courtesy of Mellon

Artist: Beck
Album: Sea Change



Year: 2002
price: $9 on itunes
Review by Mellon

Sea Change is one of Beck's Greatest albums in my opinion. With the solemn lyrics and alot of acoustics it really is heart wrenching. This album is all buisiness, none of the usual beck crazy hip-hop fast-paced disco funk. This is beck at his best. This album is a transformation of beck's music, produced by Nigel Goderich, who has produced for radiohead.


From Dave Donnelly in Hawaii: "The phrase sea change appears frequently in both books and newspapers, and the only definition I've been able to find for it is that it is a transformation. How did the phrase come about and why?"

[A] The phrase is a quotation from Shakespeare. It comes from Ariel?s wonderfully evocative song in The Tempest:

Full fathom five thy father lies:
Of his bones are coral made:
Those are pearls that were his eyes:
Nothing of him that doth fade
But doth suffer a sea-change
Into something rich and strange.

Shakespeare obviously meant that the transformation of the body of Ferdinand's father was made by the sea, but we have come to refer to a sea change as being a profound transformation caused by any agency. "

Track list:

The Golden Age
Paper Tiger
Guess I'm Doing Fine
Lonesome Tears
Lost Cause
End Of The Day
It's All In Your Mind
Round The Bend
Already Dead
Sunday Sun
Little One
Side Of The Road
Ship in the bottle (bonus track For Japan)


All in all this is a very must-have for any beck fan, and for 9 bucks is a steal.

[dorio]

Good songwriter...

But that was very short. Please try to elaborate next time. Give us more to read. If I didn't know Beck I wouldn't be convinced.

[benlooksgrave]

Very short but Sea Change contains my favourite track Lost Cause. Beck is immense.

[Velvet Shadows]

Good album.

This post has been edited by Velvet Shadows: 29 November 2006 - 11:19 AM

[seansdadj]

beck is amazing live