MrMagpie Posted June 18, 2009 Share Posted June 18, 2009 When most of us have extra spare time on our hands, we end up zoning out in front of "Daisy of Love" reruns or rereading Watchmen for the billionth time. Beck, on the other hand, challenges himself to record cover versions of entire albums as quickly as possible. Different strokes, I guess. Over the next month, Beck will be overhauling his website, and one of the features will be something called Record Club, in which Beck ropes in various musician friends to record an entire album in a day. For the purposes of scrappy immediacy, nobody will rehearse or arrange anything beforehand. After that day of furious recording, Beck will slowly let the record out into the world via his website (as well as the websites of the other musicians involved), uploading a new song once a week. He'll kick this party off with The Velvet Underground and Nico. That's an ambitious start! Will Beck attempt the Nico vocal parts himself? We'll find out! Future Record Clubs will involve friends-of-Beck like Devendra Banhart, MGMT, Jamie Lidell, and producer Nigel Godrich. Here's hoping they give 8Ball & MJG's In Our Lifetime a shot. Posted by Tom Breihan on June 17, 2009 at 5:50 p.m. Tags: Awesome, Beck, Cover, Devendra Banhart, Jamie Lidell, MGMT, Nigel Godrich http://pitchfork.com/news/35657-beck-enlists-devendra-mgmt-lidell-to-cover-albums-for-his-website/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
the_gloaming09 Posted June 18, 2009 Share Posted June 18, 2009 this is really cool! Can't wait to see how it turns out! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrMagpie Posted June 18, 2009 Author Share Posted June 18, 2009 Yeah same, interesting idea. I'm sure it will be fun. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
the_gloaming09 Posted June 18, 2009 Share Posted June 18, 2009 looks as though they started this via beck's website: http://beck.com/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Black Rose Posted July 5, 2009 Share Posted July 5, 2009 Sounds good :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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