#42

I would absolutely pay £60 to see Beck do the setlist he did the other night. If I was in London of course.

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#43

Yeah so I’m in Glasgow and saw that set list and thought I’d definitely pay that for that, so I did! :grinning::grinning::grinning:
Not seen beck in years, well apart from Glastonbury last year but that doesn’t count.

#44

impulse trip is it ! enjoy.

#45

Absolutely ma man, cheers :+1:

#46

Big fan of Beck, but the song he played on Jools was dreadful. Also looked like he was semi-miming or didn’t know the words for half of it, backing singers carried most of the song.

#47

*new song.

#48

NME gave the new album 4 stars. Do they give everything 4 stars now? Albums, shampoo, shoes…

#49

Yeah, I actually quite like that song (even though it is the poppiest thing he has ever done by a good margin) but that version was not good.

Still, when they bust into Devil’s Haircut at the end it made me REALLY wish I was going to that gig tomorrow night.

#50

DH was great. New album must be bad though if he’s resorting to playing old songs on Jools!

#51

Far from it. Listened to it this morning, the new album’s a BELTER.

#52

Last nights gig was amazing, such a fucking excellent set list.
Been a long time since I’ve seen beck live (excluding last year at glasto) and I’ve fucking missed him.
He’s the fucking man!

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#53

Big resounding “meh” from me lads

#54

That’ll be an “8/10” then, amiright?:wink:

#55

I don’t know, are you?

#56

Not on this occasion. Good to see a low score. Shame it’s Beck!

#57

Ok…

#58

I’m not helping myself here am I?

#59

Haha, well you could explain what you meant I guess

#60

Sorry - I could be wrong, but there seems to have been a very long period in which a lot of albums pick up 8s. I like new music just as much as the old stuff, but even acknowledged ‘classics’ from 20 years ago were only picking up 7s and 8s at the time and I generally find stuff is over-rated these days. There’s a lot of good debate (7/10) on this in the 10/10 thread. It could be because I read DiS more than other sites, but I always get the impression that DiS reviewers can be a tad over generous, hence my baseless comment above. I’m sure you’re all more objective than that.

#61

from who, me personally or DiS/wider internet in general?

Can’t speak for anyone else but I tend to pick things I think I will like anyway, so there’s a decent chance I’m at least expecting a 7 or 8 out of 10 going in as a base score, and then see if they better, hit or miss that target. In general, because I tend to pick stuff I think I’ll like or am enthusiastic about trying, I tend to get good results, but not always. I’d wager most writers do this tbh.