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Today's Song: Mixed Bizness by Beck

I was using lj-archive to check to see if I'd written about Rush's cover of Heart Full Of Soul the other day, and came across the entry from a couple of years ago where I talked about having just picked up that cd. On the same day I picked up Return to the Valley of the Go Go's, a new cd by the Presidents of the United States of America, the Rush cd, and the first Scissor Sisters cd. I compared the Scissor Sisters to Beck's Midnight Vultures. Now, although I did say that one of the Scissor Sisters songs sounds a great deal like one of the Beck songs, overall my point wasn't that they really sounded anything like each other, but that both were very heavily into retro dance music from the 70's (disco for the Scissor Sisters, funk for Beck). They don't really sound anything like each other, but in general terms it's the same kind of concept. I guess.

The real point though is that I did a disco/funk mix this Summer and somehow I completely forgot about the awesome Midnight Vultures, which is without a doubt the best funk cd anyone has produced in a good 10-20 years. At the very least it's the best funk cd ever made by a young skinny white boy.

I had to find Mixed Bizness and put it on my iPod immediately. As it turns out, I didn't even have this cd ripped to my music hard drive yet... but now I do. ^_^

I should warn you that these videos of his are exceedingly weird. But that's a part of funk too, of course, and that's also just Beck.

Beck - Mixed Bizness
Beck - Sexx Laws