I’ve been hearing a lot about this lately and it makes all kinds of sense because it is fucking brilliant.

Soul suckin’ Scientologist, Beck has come up with an idea akin to themed parties, secret societies, and book clubs—except his is more mind-blowing. His latest project, Record Club, is an off the cuff collection of covers, of complete albums, recorded in one day, with one track released each week, by a rotating list of talent (Nigel Godrich, Joey Waronker, Brian Lebarton, Bram Inscore, Yo, Giovanni Ribisi [brother of wife Marissa], Chris Holmes, and himself included), purely for kicks.

First order of business, the championship Velvet Underground & Nico.

Listen AND watch.

You can also read an in depth interview about the project on Pitchfork.

In the aforementioned interview, Beck makes casual mention of a proposed but unrealized edition of an Ace of Base record that would have featured MGMT, Devendra Banhart, and the guy from Wolfmother. The idea alone makes me want to projectile vomit out of hypothetical anticipation.

-Lya Edwards

3 Responses to “Beck’s Record Club”

1. hypotheek Says:
   August 13th, 2010 at 11:55 am

   Hypotheek informatie, hypotheek aanvragen of afsluiten? Hypotheekrentes bekijken. Hypotheek aanbieders vergelijken, hypotheek vormen, bijkomende kosten,
2. lenen Says:
   August 14th, 2010 at 6:24 pm

   Over de voor- en nadelen van het afsluiten van een lening zonder BKR-toetsing.
3. migraine Says:
   September 6th, 2010 at 5:24 pm

   Migraine is een bonzende hoofdpijn die meestal voorkomt aan één kant van de schedel. De pijn is heftig en houdt 4 tot 72 uur aan.

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