Sea Change

I really love it.

Um, so we confirmed it definitely is like sea change 2.0. Um, so I think morning phase, which is the other one in between the two, um, which is sort of seen as the happier, less depressing version of sea change, um, That sort of scene is a trilogy I've seen in some of the kind of write-ups.

I sort of see Sea Change and Ride Lonesome as sort of two pieces.

His voice has aged so well.

I just can't be more of a fanboy of this album.

And it's one of those albums where it's a full listen.

There are good songs in it.

And similar to Sea Change, there's a little bit of variance in sort of...

Please.

This record, his 15th record, it's got the same musicians on it as Mutations and Sea Change.

Mm-hmm.

Mutations? Morning Phase.

I know definitely Sea Change.

Yeah.

I'm pretty sure it's Morning Phase.

The fact that I've popped up means I am wrong.

Getting back a little bit to the characters, too, one interesting thing that you do with one set of characters is Teresa Duncan and Jeremy Blake, who people confide in the book, but they were creatively involved with Beck.

Jeremy did the Sea Change cover, and Teresa had a movie she was working on that Beck would have been the star of.

And so you start the book with them, and then you have some things, I think they're called interludes, right? Interludes,

little interludes, where I sort of remind the reader about where Tracy, Teresa...

And he put out another one.

He just put out a new one, yes, Ride Lonesome, which is being billed as sort of the third in a trilogy, beginning with 2002's Sea Change and continuing into 2014's Morning Phase.

It's very interesting in that I think that that stage of his career, which really begins in 2002 with Sea Change, but takes a while for him to really get as his focus, um, that, that form of Beck is a form that a lot of people has, have as kind of their first love encounter with that music that he makes, uh, with music that he makes period.

Which is always interesting to me, because I'll meet...

I'm, I'm a millennial.

I'm right sma- I was born in '85, so I'm right smack dab in the middle of the millennial generation.

I was a huge Beck fan, uh, like circa the end of the century, and I know millennials who were barely aware of Beck, or sorta knew about Beck, but Morning Phase and now Ride Lonesome, those are things they really dig, and then they went backwards and listened to Sea Change.

It's so interesting.

You know, pop superstar and questionable Scientologist.

What happened to the relationship he talked about in the hit album Sea Change?

Spoiler alert, he's a Scientologist.

[laughs]

This is an excerpt about a relationship he had with a woman named-

Lee Limon

... who was often speculated to be the reason for his album Sea Change-

Mm-hmm

Yeah, I really think so.

And also, I mean, I wanted on some level to have a little corrective to the sea change narrative because the sea change narrative is a huge part of the Beck mythos

and

it was something nobody had really successfully poked at.

And I wanted there to be another side to that story because every breakup has two sides.

And I

can't get into any details about the sourcing that are not in the book, but I managed to find a lot of the story of Lili Moan, the woman that Beck broke up with in 2000, leading to the songs that became Sea Change.

And that album has had such meaning for so many people.

Thank you for your service.

um beck has a new album it's beautiful um and if you've been paying attention beck has been every kind of 10 years or so will drop um just this beautiful album and um this is kind of i think he's calling it the end of a trilogy or the latest in a series it's um you know he'll do kind of a fun funky record or like a experimental record or whatever but then I think when Sea Change came along, Mutations was kind of an example as well.

And then, what was it, Morning? What was that one? That was one I didn't really catch on to.

But anyway, there's like a bunch of these Beck albums that are just beautiful records.

The new one is really, really great.

But I thought I'd just go back to Sea Change because it's an old favourite that really sank in.

So I'm going to play The Golden Age from Beck and then we hear from Dummy.

And then, Harry, I mean, if you've got anything you want to play, we might as well.