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Modern Guilt | 
| Manufacturer: Interscope
Category: Digital Music Album
Buy New: $5.00
Rating:  96 reviews
Sales Rank: 20
Genre: dance-pop-music
Media: MP3 Download
Running Time: 0 Minutes
ASIN: B001BW1SZC
Publication Date: July 8, 2008
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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 Surprisingly Good November 25, 2008
Kevin P. Mccarthy (Florida)
I will be honest, this is the first Beck CD I have ever purchased. In the past I would here a track and say to myself, "wow that is so cool". It seemed like a post-modern mish mash, very unique---at first. In reality it was like Doritos...delicious at first, but not sustaining. I am glad there were all those previous recordings, playing with strange musicality (kind of ultra-white boy chic)and wacky lyricism because it leads to this release. Gamma Ray was the first track I heard, and I wanted to chalk it up to more junk food fare, but I could not. It was so infectious I had to have more. The rest of the CD is similarly brilliant, infectious, and actually of great substance. Modern Guilt is an appropriate title as I almost feel like I am selling out my indie-cool credentials in buying this (as if Beck were a poseur), but the cd reminds us that it is okay to have fun and still be arty.
 ... is a lazy album. November 24, 2008
John W. Dunner (Atco, NJ United States)
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
Modern Guilt is a lazy album - not lazy as in "laid-back," but lazy as in "did Beck spend any more time than the miserly 33-minute length of this disc on its songwriting, recording, mixing, production, and artwork?" Well . . . The songwriting structures are repetitious. The music faintly recalls a 60's style, but lacks the 60's convictions; this sounds like a lab exercise. The vocals are bland, bored, and buried beneath cliched soundbytes. The constantly distorted drums may have worked for Beck's "two-turntables-and-a-microphone" days, but now they just sound sloppy. Artwork? Two nondescript black-and-white photos of musicians' feet and an exit sign, and ten pages of punctuation-light lyrics crammed at the bottom of otherwise white sheets. Caveat emptor these empty archives. **
Look, it's a Beck CD, the 2008 one November 13, 2008
Michael A. Duvernois (Minneapolis, MN United States)
Gamma Ray is a song that I haven't been able to get out of my head. Yep, another Beck earworm. Anyway, this is a another solid Beck album. That means you have some of the best song hooks possible, a bunch of different musical influences, some songs which are great radio fodder, and some that are seemingly pointless. Beck, to me, hits about the same on each album. 1/3 great songs, 1/3 perfectly fine songs, 1/3 less brilliant songs. But he does that album after album, without fail. And even the least useful of the songs are novel and interesting at least once. He's a bleedin' genius.
Back to the Roots October 22, 2008
J. Bluhm (New York)
This album gets back to what is great about Beck. I was a bit sketptical after "the Information", but this is an amzing album that rivals any modern rock I have in my library. Great grab, and listen to "The Orphan", "Gamma Ray" and the titled track "Modern Guilt"... amazing.
Great Groovy Sound October 21, 2008
G. Locke (Los Angeles, CA USA)
This one is a winner. The flow of the album as a whole is entertaining. I purchased 4 cd's and this by far is the top out of them. Although I have enjoyed Beck in the past, this album has made me a believer.
A must have! It's getting dominant rotation in the car.
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