I think trying to be offbeat is the most boring thing possible. Beck More Quotes by Beck More Quotes From Beck I'm sure the music is going to come out. I'm not sure if I'm going to put out 12"s or put the songs on my website. I just have to get them done. Beck music-is done song I'm always looking for older equipment and ways of recording, but you can't escape the fact that it's all going to be digitized and reduced. Beck equipment facts way I enjoy the collaboration. I always envied people in bands who got to have that interaction. Beck collaboration band people There are certain records that you love because the songs are great, but you don't go to them as an example of great production. Beck example song love-is Technology was something I avoided when I started out - I didn't even have electric guitars. Only played acoustic. Beck acoustics guitar technology I do think music sounds better when it's on tape and more simply recorded. Beck tape sound thinking As music becomes more computer-based, it's lost some emotional impact. Beck impact computer emotional When I pull out vinyl - which isn't that often anymore - it's undeniable that I get a different feeling. There's a different physiology happening between the sound waves and the body that doesn't happen with music playing off the computer. Beck different sound feelings It's hard to make music knowing that it's not going to be received by the listener in the way that it should be. Beck knowing should way You just want to go back to those 70s albums. Even a lot of the 90s indie records were still done on tape, and you hear the difference. Beck tape albums differences It's so easy to criticize your own time, and I see that as a problem, even for myself, as a listener. Beck criticize problem easy There's more well-known artists who aren't making as good songs as people who are just coming out of nowhere. That seems to be more typical in the last few years than ever. Beck artist song years For the records I've work on over the last 10 years, I get sent the really compressed version and the non-compressed version, and oftentimes you end up going with the more compressed one because it's what people's ears are attuned to. I think the bigger problem is saturation and people being desensitized. Beck people years thinking I try not to do email; I try to talk to people on the phone. Beck phones trying people With my own music, I try to get away from things that are familiar and things that would be easy for me to go to. Beck would-be easy trying Whatever you do has to be commercial and it can't be too distracting - it has to be background music, basically. Beck background-music backgrounds Whether you're aware of it or not, any kind of collage idea becomes a part of how you see the world once you incorporate media and internet and video games and all these things. Beck media games ideas It gets a little bit troublesome when you have something that's overcompressed that shouldn't be. Beck troublesome bits littles Back then, Pro Tools only had four or eight tracks, so we couldn't actually hear all the tracks. We could only hear eight at a time, so if a song had 25 or 30 tracks, we wouldn't be able to hear it until we went into the studio an put it all on tape. The process was a little bit backwards. Beck eight track song When I did "Top of the Pops" for the first time, Ace of Base was one of the other bands, and I have a memory of them on a small stage next to me in the TV studio. A memory of their performance is burned into my mind. Seared. Beck aces mind memories
