Bonus Song Thursday - Beck "Cold Brains"

The Great Albums

Bill Lambusta

Albums, Music Commentary, Criticism, Billlambusta, Brianerickson, Music

4.3 • 749 Ratings

🗓️ 30 July 2015

⏱️ 21 minutes

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It's Bonus Song Thursday! We listen to Beck's "Cold Brains" off his 1998 follow up to Odeley, Mutations and discuss Beck's transformation as an artist, how the aging of a listener helps one appreciate the music of an artist over the years, the politics of labels and releases, and if in fact Van Morrison still perform's "Gloria!"

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0:00.0	La La La La La La La La La La La La La La La La La La La La La La La La La La La La La La La La La La La La La La La La La La La La La La La La La La La La La La La La La La La La La La La La La La La La La La La La La La La La La La La La La La La La Cold brains, unmoved, untouched, unglued, alone at last.
0:39.6	No thoughts thoughts no mind
0:41.2	to rot behind
0:44.4	a trail of disasters
0:47.8	if I know cause
0:53.3	Hello, welcome to the great albums podcast, I'm Bill. And I'm Brian. And today we have a returning
0:59.1	guest with us, Jill Herbers. Hi, Jill. Hey. Welcome back. Thank you for joining us again.
1:05.4	Sure. For back. Yep. Today is bonus song Thursday. Welcome to it. Where we take a track from the artist we talked about on Monday from a different album and just go into a single song a little bit in detail. And Jill was kind enough to join us for Beck's O'Dillet, which was a fantastic episode, if I may say so myself.
1:29.1	I really enjoyed it.
1:30.0	Yep.
1:30.6	So we're here again talking about Beck with his follow-up album to that Mutations.
1:36.5	Yeah.
1:37.2	Came out in 97, correct?
1:39.6	I believe so, yeah.
1:41.1	Yeah.
1:41.3	I have it here.
1:43.2	I think it's 97.
1:45.0	Copyright date? 98. Oh, 98. Oh, yeah. Yeah. I have it here. I think it's 97. Copyright date? 98.
1:46.0	Oh, 98.
1:47.0	I was mistaken.
1:48.0	Okay.
1:49.0	I apologize.
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