I just turned on a 70's Child to Beck's "Sea Change" - did I do good?

[Taverner]

This guy, exactly 10 years my older (I was born in '70) is into Dylan, The Stones, Neil Young, CSNY - and from modern music (if you could call it that) REM, and he loved Nirvana's last album (Unplugged.)

So would I be making a good suggestion?

[tigereye]

1. yes, Beck is wonderful

[Taverner]

2. But would this be the album to turn on a child from the 70s?

Or should I have chosen Tropicalia instead?

[EOTE]

3. I would have gone with "Midnight Vultures" myself.

That's by far my favorite album of his. Hearing some of Beck's slower stuff can encourage me to self-mutilate.

[Taverner]

5. Sure, that album's great. But remember we are talking to a product of the 70s

Grew up watching both JFK and RFK, as well as Malcolm and MLK getting assassinated.

That will make sadder music a bit more palatable.

We 80's kids just get the disillusionment...

[EOTE]

7. The 70s also had its share of funk.

And that is one funky-ass album. Play him a bit of "Nicotine and Gravy". If he grooves to it, I think you'll know your answer.

[Taverner]

8. Perhaps - but knowing my friend, he preferred Neil Young and Nick Drake to Funkadelic

[EOTE]

9. Then Tropicalia or Sea Change are both good bets.

Though "Lost Cause", "Paper Tiger" and "Already Dead" were the only songs on Sea Change that really did anything for me. But I'd imagine a Nick Drake fan would eat up the whole album. I recognize that Nick Drake was an amazing artist, but he did some rather sullen stuff. Pink Moon is pretty much an ode to suicide. Sea Change seems like a good companion piece to Pink Moon. Some day when I'm not so much in need of being cheered up, I'll give Sea Change another try.

[tigereye]

4. hmm, I don't see why not

esp. his folkie stuff to start.


A lot of folks from the 70s (you mean born in the 70s?) seem to really like neo- folkie/neo-Dylan stuff, as well as the original stuff from the 70s like the Doors. (JMO based on folks i know)

[Taverner]

6. No - I mean 'coming of age' in the 70's

I consider myself an 80's child, being that I was born in 1970, and so I was 12 in 1982 - sp bands like The Police, REM, Echo and The Bunnymen had more effect on me than Neil Young.

[tigereye]

10. Well that would be me - I was a teenager in the 70s and early punk-days

I like Beck a lot - he transcends a lot of genre's = kind of a master of styles, and also very charismatic- kind of like Bowie in some ways.

[Taverner]

11. For me Beck is ALOT like Bowie

No two albums are the same, constant reinvention - and this constant striving to break new ground

[musette_sf]

12. Yes

"Sea Change" has a very late 60s-early 70s vibe about it.

sincerely,
Child Of The 60s