Beck's EVOL confirmed by Beck!
 

When this was first mentioned in the other thread, I was unsure if Thurston was just kidding. But now read this:

Beck covers Sonic Youth’s EVOL in its entirety

Saturday, February 28th, 2009
Last November, Beck and his band covered on stage, “Star Power.” This is a Sonic Youth song from their album EVOL. A few months later, it was announced that Beck was releasing a cover of “Green Light,” which is also from EVOL. That release was a single, the b-side being a Sonic Youth cover of “Pay No Mind” no less!
What does all this EVOLness mean? We learned today, thanks to our friends in Japan, that Beck has covered the whole album. He said this in an interview/article with a Japanese magazine. I’m told it will be part of some Sonic Youth box set. I know SY has been releasing Deluxe versions of their albums, so maybe EVOL Deluxe? Or maybe some greater box set project?
Regardless, this is super interesting and really a fun thing for Beck to have done!

He seems to have a habit of doing this. He's re-recorded the VU And Nico album in its entirety too.

sounds really interesting. plus box set-mania in its whole

Are you serious?? I'm a huuuuge and longtime Beck fan, but I had never heard of this... what do you know about it?

Man, VU&Nico is my least favorite VU album, and yet I love Beck.. so.. if this is anywhere released on a bootleg could you please link me haha

That sounds awesome!

VU&N is an amazing album!

This could be fucking awesome.

sure could!

somehow im not really happy about this.
evol should not be re-recorded by anyone.
its perfect as it is.

I think a re-recording/cover/however it's called does not diminish in any way the "value" of the original record.

Of course it's perfect. It's my favorite album of all time.

But I see nothing wrong with Beck re-imagining it in homage. I'm pretty sure it's his favorite album as well. And if the rest is anything ike his "Green Light," then it's going to be a really cool tribute.

this.

Exactly. It's not like Sonic Youth are rerecording it or anything. It won't take anything away from the original record.

I really loved the Green Light cover.

Yeah, "Green Light" was beautiful. I just feel like Beck is using EVOL to tap into something magic for himself. What I mean is, he was so inspired by SY when he was younger... and it's like he's playing the songs the way he heard them in his head when he was just a boy with an acoustic guitar (like when he recorded those early folk tapes like Banjo Story, Fresh Meat and Old Slabs, Western Harvest Field By Moonlight, One Foot In The Grave and Golden Feelings). It's like the sonic perfection of those 9 (or 10) songs has made him re-discover his own music.

When OFITG was re-released, some vinyl packs came with a Sunday Morning 7" of Beck covering the VU song with a band, one member of which was Nigel Godrich. Godrich later let slip that Beck had recorded the whole album..

Wow. Wow. I had no idea about this.

Sounds cool. I didn't know he did the same thing with VU&N? I wanna hear both though.

more hints about the boxset?

SHELFLIFE #21A: STICKERS

i'm guessing the deth one was choosen

I think those (or some of those) are part of the signed guitars packages...

Note to Hansen: don't fuck up "Star Power", buddy.

or the tazers coming out.

Yr right, the airplane one

Oh geez. I bet Beck would do a great job. I liked his cover of Green Light, so I'll need to hear the rest of this

I found this posted on a Beck forum and was gonna share it in the Non-Sonics part, but I figure this is as good a thread as anywhere to do it:

Beck - Sunday Morning (VU Cover)

I didn't hear about Beck covering the whole VU and Nico album but if that's true, I can't wait to hear it (and his version of EVOL as well :))

perhaps more than just that one, I have a feeling (I might be wrong...) that the stickers in that pic are just a sample of what you could get, like, there's a bigger "pool" of stickers, and you get a precise number, but with mixed subjects...does this make sense :D?
a bit off topic, though....

Oh sweet, thanks, I'd not actually heard this.

Also I wouldn't count on Beck releasing both of these cover albums anytime soon. The amount of fantastic unreleased shit that man sits on is ridiculous.

NO KIDDING! I was really upset that "Buried Alive" wasn't on the OFITG reissue. Have you heard that song, Danny? Amazing.

it sounds really interesting.

I probably have it, somewhere, in what way was it released? Is it on one of his cassettes?

None that I've found (and I have a lot of them). He played it on a few live bootlegs from around MELLOW GOLD though. Y'know when he'd do a lot of acoustic shows. IN FACT it might be on the "Opening For Sonic Youth" Bootleg now that I think of it.....? It was also sometimes called "Burning Alive."

Oh, I'm not a collector of live Beck boots. Or any live boots for that matter. I won't have heard this one then huh.

I'm not either. Anymore. But back in the days that I was, I was very into Beck boots. And that song has stayed with me. I don't even have it anymore, because I don't like bootlegs. But I've always wished he'd fucking release it because IT IS THAT GOOD.

Oh cool. The rhyming couplets remind me of another song that I can't put my finger on..

Will Beck himself be on the cover, recreating the Lung Leg pose? That would be very cool.

that's what I wanted to write in here!