Track Listing

Disc 1:

1. E-Pro
2. Que' Onda Guero
3. Girl
4. Missing
5. Black Tambourine
6. Earthquake Weather
7. Hell Yes
8. Broken Drum
9. Scarecrow
10. Go It Alone
11. Farewell Ride
12. Rental Car
13. Emergency Exit
14. Send A Message To Her
15. Chain Reaction
16. Clap Hands
17. Girl
18. Broken Drum
19. Still Missing
20. Fax Machine Anthem

Disc 2:

1. E-Pro (DVD Audio Version)
2. Que' Onda Guero (DVD Audio Version)
3. Girl (DVD Audio Version)
4. Missing (DVD Audio Version)
5. Black Tambourine (DVD Audio Version)
6. Earthquake Weather (DVD Audio Version)
7. Hell Yes (DVD Audio Version)
8. Broken Drum (DVD Audio Version)
9. Scarecrow (DVD Audio Version)
10. Go It Alone (DVD Audio Version)
11. Farewell Ride (DVD Audio Version)
12. Rental Car (DVD Audio Version)
13. Emergency Exit (DVD Audio Version)
14. E-Pro (Video)
15. Black Tambourine (Video)

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #183048 in Music
• Released on: 2005-03-28
• Number of discs: 2

Album Description
Beck's brand new album, Guero, is a remarkable addition to an already prestigious career. Guero is being heralded as one of Beck's finest albums and it sees a return to collaboration with producers The Dust Brothers (who last worked with Beck on Odelay). It includes the first single, "E-Pro". The special-edition version comes with an exclusive bonus DVD.

CD Description
Beck's sixth major-label album is a stunning return to the anything-goes format of 1996's ODELAY. Standing in sharp contrast to its predecessor--the quiet, somber SEA CHANGE--2005's GUERO is the sound of the Los Angeles singer/songwriter cutting loose and getting back to the slacker funk that won him legions of fans in the 1990s.
"E-Pro" kicks off the festivities with a heavy guitar riff and a Beastie Boys-sampled beat, while "Que Onda Guero" revels in a sunny Latin vibe,with Beck rapping (surprisingly well) in Spanish. However, this outing also offers up MUTATIONS-worthy melodic pop, particularly on "Girl", a brilliantly catchy tune carried alongby acoustic guitar, handclaps, and lush vocal harmonies. Beck's reunion with sound sculptors Mike Simpson and John King(the Dust Brothers) breathes plenty of life into these tracks, including the heavily percussive "Black Tambourine" and the '70s-inspired "Earthquake Weather". Jack White (of the famously bass-less White Stripes) lends a bluesy bass line to"Go It Alone", while many of Beck's longtime musicians (guitarist Smokey Hormel, bassist Justin Meldal-Johnsen) turn upthroughout the record. An album that features Beck energetically jumping back into his renowned cut-and-paste aesthetic, GUERO is sure to please longtime fans, and may win over young listeners who thought that he was primarily a sad-sack folkie.

Customer Reviews

DVD-Audio outstanding
The DVD-Audio mix is superb, with loads of discrete elements going off all around you - Girls (track 3) blew me away with the intro, the electro effects were so clean, and even the sampled sections were clear with no noticable noise (perhaps a slight bit of hiss on E-Pro, but nothing that made that track anything other than brilliant.

The extra songs on the normal CD are a mixed bag really - the Dizzee Rascal remix was at best disappointing, the Royksopp remix was ok, the Boards of Canada remix is excellent. Of the extra Beck songs only Chain Reaction stood up to the rest of the album, the others are ok but not to the same level.

The quality of the box (a hardback book that's DVD sized with the CD and DVD at the back) is worth the extra money over the normal CD, if you have a DVD-Audio compatible player you should never have let buying the CD only version cross your mind :)

First Impressions CD only
After the rather slow, thoughtful and mildly depressing
Sea Change, Beck is ready to show some funk again. The tempo
is toe-tapping (thanks to the Dust Brothers) and the ever-shifting sounds and samples of earlier albums are back on show.

The effect is perhaps more controlled than on Mellow Gold or Odelay, but individual songs seem to stand out better. There might even be some political commentary - from the album title to such lyrics as "the scarecrow's only scarin himself".

This is an album that will repay a lot of listening, but even at this stage I'd say it's my equal favourite Beck album with Mellow Gold.