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Guero | 
 enlarge | Artist: Beck
Label: Geffen Records
Category: Music
List Price: $13.98
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Avg. Customer Rating:  264 reviews
Sales Rank: 1885
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 4.6 x 0.5
MPN: 000348102
UPC: 602498639238
EAN: 0602498639238
ASIN: B0007SL1LW
Release Date: March 29, 2005
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| Tracks:
| • | E-Pro | | • | Qu Onda Guero | | • | Girl | | • | Missing | | • | Black Tambourine | | • | Earthquake Weather | | • | Hell Yes | | • | Broken Drum | | • | Scarecrow | | • | Go It Alone | | • | Farewell Ride | | • | Rental Car | | • | Emergency Exit |
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Now that Beck has effectively exorcised his personal demons with 2002's hyperconfessional Sea Change, he can get back to the business of being a total fruit loop. We all know what that involves: videogame sound effects, random shouting in Spanish, and rhymes about popsicles and vegetable vans. And that's just the second track. Guero is like every Beck album condensed into one, a no-holds-barred collision of two-turntables and a microphone with the added bonus of guitars, bossa-nova beats, Jack White, lyrics about spaceships, and dumptrucks full of ideas all fighting to be heard above the ruckus. It's an exhausting and exhilarating listen with lots of peaks, such as the digitized power ballad "Broken Drum" and handclap-drenched folk freak-out "Farewell Ride," and more than enough to restore anyone's faith in Beck as one of the most chaotically inspired songwriters of our time. -- Aidin Vaziri
Album Description
Three years after the critically acclaimed and heartwrenching opus "Sea Change," THREE-TIME GRAMMY WINNER and FIVE-TIME MTV VIDEO MUSIC AWARD WINNER BECK returns with his most diverse, accomplished and compelling work to date: "GUERO." With the raucous first single "E-Pro" triumphantly "na-na-na"-ing Beck's return with a must-be-seen-to-be believed video by Shynola (Queens of the Stone Age, Radiohead), "GUERO" both reunites Beck with classic co-conspirators the Dust Brothers and explores territories uncharted by even this most innovative artist of his generation.
Album Description
Japanese only SHM-CD (Super High Material CD - playable on all CD players) pressing includes three bonus tracks. Universal. 2008.
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 guero January 8, 2009
I'm a really big fan of Beck, and I find he never fails to create a new feeling for every album he does. People compare Guero to Odelay all the time, and I'm not really sure why. The two are very different albums. I will agree with this album beeing the most beck-like album though. It's a good mixture of all his albums from mellow gold to sea change all the while being new.
E-Pro:
Probably one of Beck's most well known songs by now. The song is built around a amazing guitar riff that can be addicting. It switches between the riff and low-key verses, and because of that it creates a real dark atmosphere. I like it. The one I don't like is the chorus. "na,na,na,na,na" certainly is not my favorite of Beck's lyrics.
Que Onda Guero:
This song is kind of boring. It could have been a fine b-side, but it's not a very good second track. He had the right idea for this song though. It's kind of like a slow sleepy "High 5" (from Odelay) if that makes any sense.
Girl:
Acoustic guitars, 8-bit video game intro, haunting backing vocals, and lyrics that could either be about breaking a girl's heart or actually killing a girl. In my opinion, this is the best track on Guero. It's up-beat, but it's dark. Oh, and to this day people are trying to figure out what beck sings in between "my" and "girl." The lyrics in the booklet put "my...Girl." Oh, that Beck.
Missing:
Kind of tropical. Slow. It's not a very interesting song, in my opinion, but it's not bad. The irony of this is I feel like there's something missing.
Black Tambourine:
Another song that's not very interesting but not bad. I like the guitar in it though.
Earthquake Weather:
This song has been around since Midnite Vultures and it's a real good one. It does capture that earthquake weather pretty well. It's kind of slow but exciting. One of the best songs on this album.
Hell Yes:
A modern rap song with swampy blues harmonica? Hell yes. I like the robot sounding vocals in this too. It's a real smooth song.
Broken Drum:
Another highlight of this album. A sad song, almost sounds like Sea Change, but it's not too much of a downer. The mood of this song is just amazing. The quiet piano with Beck's vocals over it, the slide guitar, and the simple drum beat are all perfect.
Scarecrow:
A blues song with a sing-along chorus. There's cool effects that sound like crows throughout the song too. Beck playing a harmonica is always a good thing.
Go it Alone:
You'd expect that Beck and Jack White would make a more exciting song than this. I don't think Jack had anything to do with the song other than the bass, but still... it's not the best song on the album. Another song with a "na-na-na-na" chorus. Jack White does play a good bass though.
Farewell Ride:
Another blues song with slide guitar that pulls you right in. The backing vocals on some parts remind me of "whiskeyclone" off Mellow Gold. It's a great song, but it's real different from the rest of the album so it might throw you off on first listen.
Rental Car:
A heavily distorted guitar riff starts the song off, but the verses have a more poppy sound. Not to say this song is a poppy song, because it's not. The best part of this song is easily when the music stopes and it switches to a woman singing "lalalalala." In that sense it's like earlier Beck recordings. Kind of Diamond Bollocks - like. But not entirely.
Emergency Exit:
Another blues song, but with electronic sounds. Considering I always feel like skipping this song, it's probably not the best way to end the album, but it's alright. I'm probably beeing too harsh on this album.... It's a good song. It has an unexpected happy-sounding part somwhere towards the end.
And thus ends Guero. I was really expecting bonus noise at the end, like Mellow Gold, Odelay, Mutations, and Midnite Vultures, but there was none. Maybe that's the surprise this time. I suggest getting a copy that has "Send a Message To Her" and "Chain Reaction" because those are two solid songs that I'm surprised he didn't want on all the releases. Chain Reaction really does sound like the combination of Odelay and Guero, it's great.
So all in all, the highlights of this album are E-Pro, Girl, Earthquake Weather, Hell Yes, and Broken Drum. The rest are good, not great. Enough of a reason to buy a copy, in my opinion.
classic November 2, 2008
I was not a huge fan of Midnight Vultures -- I don't seem to ever feel like playing it -- but almost everything else Beck has done has been genius, and this overlooked album is no exception. It amazes me how something this original and this good didn't get more attention. When I first got it I played it all the time, then I put it away for a few weeks and then had to start playing it all the time again. As the months/years go by, it's earning a place among the albums that will never grow old for me -- Abbey Road, SuperUnknown, Exile on Main Street, The Bends. Classics of all kinds...like Guero.
Pure Joy To Listen To September 22, 2008
I've been a Beck fan since Mellow Gold came out. And I'm probably one of the few Beck fans that thinks Mellow Gold was not one of his better albums (aside from maybe 5 songs on it.) I loved Odelay (who didn't?) and I dug a lot of his work on Mutations and The Information...but in my opinion this is his most complete album out of them all. Odelay is close but even it had a little filler injected in it. I bought this CD in 05' right after it was released (2nd day in fact) and I still love it now as much as I did the first time I heard it. It still gets regular play in my CD player and hasn't grown old on me at all. It starts off great with E-Pro and just keeps going like a runaway train. And while the lyrics still fail to make sense at times (Beck has always been good at that), it doesn't take away from the album, the music, or his amazing voice which I have always enjoyed. I consider Beck to be the Dylan of the new generation...except his voice sounds a lot better and he doesn't write songs as good as Dylan (nobody else does either, there's only one Dylan.) I highly recommend this album to anyone, just buy it as soon as you can, it's a joy to listen to.
Favorite songs include:
E-Pro
Scarecrow
Farewell Ride
Earthquake Weather
Go It Alone
& Emergency Exit
Moving on July 10, 2008
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
Beck takes it up a notch with another collection of mostly great songs with the Dust Brothers in full support. As always the fans are divided. Many love this cd and others dismiss it. Beck is not going to stay stuck in a genre and create the same kind of musical experience. You have to be willing to go on his trip with him. Lots of terrific music here.
Hippy, Happy, Soulful May 4, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Beck for over a decade has made great, interesting alternative/rock albums. Guero is his sixth release and while you hear his maturity throughout it still has Beck's signature imagination. It has happy, hippy, soulful rock tunes that you'd expect from Beck. He has always been folk at times to pop to electronic to funk & disco to country and rap you would always get a wide range of styles in his music. So Guero isn't as outrageous as his previous release, but I think it's due to him just growing up and maturing. You can't be so juvenile forever can you?
The album opens with "E-Pro" a catchy and groovin' song with it's electronic vibe and Beck's patented rap/sing vocal style. It also contains "Girl", which has sloppy keyboards and breaks into a upper-paced folky sorta pop rock tune that you can dance to. "Rental Car" is one of my faves on Guero with it's upbeat/hip hop style with Beck's goofiness mixed in of course. Beck is an extremely talented and creative artist with the imagination to the sky so any music he puts out I always enjoy.
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