@@Soul-ui3vf I had never heard of River Man, so I decided to give a listen. It's a beautiful song, and I hear some similarities in a general way, but I don't hear it as a copy.
I enjoy walking abandoned railroads and ghost towns , old bridges, tunnels, finding old relics while listening to this song. With all of today's insanity, songs like this help me keep on the quiet path of solitude and satisfaction.
Maybe if I could just reach far enough. Strain a bit harder. Squint and put my hand out, that I may be able to taste my childhood youth just for a moment once again. Looking in the distance I see children with their mother and father. I think that might be me. Mom? Dad? is that you? Take my hand, you have been so kind and loving. It is so good to see your ageless faces for this brief moment. Take my hand because I do not want to let go. Don't let go just yet, because I have not had enough time to tell you how much I love you both. Don't let go, Please don't ever go.
Yes, Ginger. Agreed. I remember where I was and how it affected me when I 1st played the whole album and subsequently kept playing it. It was 2003 in mid state and upstate New York on a business trip. It was profound.
@@roboneil408 Look him up on youtube , he's an American musician who has some incredible songs. Type his name into youtube and listen to the first thing that comes up.
People who think this is "unusual" for Beck, don't know him. He didn't start with Loser, as many had come to know him, thinking that was all there was to him. Listen to songs like Hollow Log, Gettin' Home, It's All in Your Mind (the original version, which is 10 years older than the one that appeared on Sea Change), The Way It Seems, Rowboat, Feel The Strain of Sorrow Never Ceasing... all written in his early 20s with the same melodic sensibility found here (and in most of Mutations, for the matter... forgotten about Nobody's Fault But My Own, We Live Again, Dead Melodies, Sing It Again?). This was the album he had wanted to make for a long time.
An assessement that is at the same time an ode to a very talented musician ! I felt exactly the same way when people started booing him at a festival here in Belgium... He had to play 'loser' before the public realized who was in front of them...by then (1994) i was already very kean to see him live. And it wasn't the first time i've seen people throw bottles at him. Actually for a long time he went unnoticed for the true talented and gifted person he realy is. I believe the album 'midnite vultures' is what created the right splash for him to get acknowledgement from people such as David Bowy and others. Saw him two times and bought all of his albums (about 10 ) untill i took on a jazz study and started taking more interest in that genre. Every single one of those cd's was epic and drenched in authenticity.
I think he's just making an observation on how cruel people are to each other. I saw someone else write once that it's Beck finally figuring out everything about the world and not being happy with the result.
I have to be in the mood to listen to it because it's so sad. But it's amazing! What a beautiful song. Honestly, the whole Sea Change album is so, so good. For the longest time, I couldn't listen to this song without tears falling down my cheeks. I can now, but if the mood hits, I still cry. Just too beautiful.
I love how he changes his sound in every album, it's what keeps him fresh and not boring or repetitive. Beck is an alternative Pink Floyd pretty much :D
MitchellJJonesVideo I agree, Mitchell -- The chords are almost identical, and the swell of the strings is deeply similar too. I'm not positive it was a direct rip-off, but as a minimum it was profoundly inspired by Drake. Beck plays Drake during some of his sets so we know he is familiar.
Linda Hermer I'd say in no way did he rip off Drake, but he seems to have taken inspiration. It doesn't seem like a stretch to say that most modern folk/alternative folk artists have been influenced by the short lived greatness that was Nick Drake.
MitchellJJonesVideo I agree,, but I still think the songs are much more similar than Pharrell Williams' and Robin Thicke's "Blurred Lines" and Marvin Gaye's "Got to GIve It Up" despite the jury award in the latter case!
This is the only song in this world and mine that soothes and calms my chaotic atmosphere in my mind and life like nothing else.Its my blind spot.My eye of the storm.It makes me feel like my soul has left my body from overwhelming pain and is looking at this world and mine from way up high.And I see things clearer afterwards.Thank you so much Beck You always have a special place in my heart and soul❤️🤗
You can thank (or could, he's dead now) artist Jeremy Blake for that. It's much like his other work, which is amazing, some of which you can find on TH-cam.
You're just jamming on the feeling of incredible sadness and hollowness. Two very consuming emotions. Nothing wrong with jamming on an emotion. Emotion is our visceral response to things we encounter.
I'm new to the man - all I knew before was Loser. This has something of that big skies/lonely road that I love about Fugitive Motel, River Man, Midnight Cowboy and Wichitah Lineman. Thanks I'll chase up those recommendations
Not as often as you but very frequently. Sea Change is my favorite album of all time. And this song in particular really soothes my mind. There's nothing like listening to it while walking on my school campus or listening to this song on repeat as I fall asleep. Every song on the album invokes various feelings from me. If you've never heard the bonus track Ship in a Bottle then I strongly suggest you do, such a bittersweet song, a shame it didn't end up on the album.
This is my favorite Beck song. There is something utterly sublime about it, simultaneously ethereal and tragic. It's distressingly beautiful.
He us not of this world. But made for dissemination. I thank God for such created beings.
Its like a Copy from Nick Drake “River Man”
@@Soul-ui3vf I had never heard of River Man, so I decided to give a listen. It's a beautiful song, and I hear some similarities in a general way, but I don't hear it as a copy.
My favorite Beck album. No artist has ever made a more heartfelt and genuine album than this 2002 masterpiece.
@@belleepoque4597 It's almost the same song hahaha but I love both!
one of the most hauntingly beautiful songs ever
Where did the past 19 years go?
I enjoy walking abandoned railroads and ghost towns , old bridges, tunnels, finding old relics while listening to this song. With all of today's insanity, songs like this help me keep on the quiet path of solitude and satisfaction.
This song reminds of the time Beck broke up with his girlfriend and wrote an entire album about it.
IeI he did for this aIbum
Don't worry, I still hear this album as if it was released yesterday. The best album of all time for me.
It was/is stunning. So well done....but such a departure from pre-sea change Beck.
Certainly his best album.
Sea Change is truly one of his very best albums. Beck is the gift to the music world that never stops giving !
Maybe if I could just reach far enough. Strain a bit harder. Squint and put my hand out, that I may be able to taste my childhood youth just for a moment once again. Looking in the distance I see children with their mother and father. I think that might be me. Mom? Dad? is that you? Take my hand, you have been so kind and loving. It is so good to see your ageless faces for this brief moment. Take my hand because I do not want to let go. Don't let go just yet, because I have not had enough time to tell you how much I love you both. Don't let go, Please don't ever go.
Lost both my parents and my cousin and uncle immediately after I had my heart broken. I appreciate your comment. 🤍
I came to say something about Nick Drake and Riverman but I knew in my heart it had already been said.
What a wonderful album this is ❤️
Yes, Ginger. Agreed. I remember where I was and how it affected me when I 1st played the whole album and subsequently kept playing it. It was 2003 in mid state and upstate New York on a business trip. It was profound.
@@roboneil4082003 was around the time of Elliot Smiths passing too.
@@grungepants Hi Desperadow....but who is Elliot Smith?
@@roboneil408 Look him up on youtube , he's an American musician who has some incredible songs. Type his name into youtube and listen to the first thing that comes up.
Extreme Nick Drake vibes.
One of those rare songs that is both incredibly erie and soothing at the same time.
People who think this is "unusual" for Beck, don't know him. He didn't start with Loser, as many had come to know him, thinking that was all there was to him. Listen to songs like Hollow Log, Gettin' Home, It's All in Your Mind (the original version, which is 10 years older than the one that appeared on Sea Change), The Way It Seems, Rowboat, Feel The Strain of Sorrow Never Ceasing... all written in his early 20s with the same melodic sensibility found here (and in most of Mutations, for the matter... forgotten about Nobody's Fault But My Own, We Live Again, Dead Melodies, Sing It Again?). This was the album he had wanted to make for a long time.
An assessement that is at the same time an ode to a very talented musician ! I felt exactly the same way when people started booing him at a festival here in Belgium... He had to play 'loser' before the public realized who was in front of them...by then (1994) i was already very kean to see him live. And it wasn't the first time i've seen people throw bottles at him. Actually for a long time he went unnoticed for the true talented and gifted person he realy is. I believe the album 'midnite vultures' is what created the right splash for him to get acknowledgement from people such as David Bowy and others. Saw him two times and bought all of his albums (about 10 ) untill i took on a jazz study and started taking more interest in that genre. Every single one of those cd's was epic and drenched in authenticity.
@@alainvosselman9960 Dang. That kind of gives "Bottles and cans, just clap your hands, just clap your hands" a new meaning for me.
@@lucianlandry8332 LOL, good one !
One Ft in the Grave👌
I think he's just making an observation on how cruel people are to each other. I saw someone else write once that it's Beck finally figuring out everything about the world and not being happy with the result.
Sea Change IS a break-up album.
Such a song of depth and soul...this man is truly an artist
Thanks for stealing my HAL icon, now I have to change it..
Words cannot capture how beautiful this song is.
Very emotional album. Some of the songs are very melancholy. Beck is the definition of a recording "artist"!
Other worldly... chills.
Holy beck
This song breaks an already broken heart
Otherwordly sublime.
I have to be in the mood to listen to it because it's so sad. But it's amazing! What a beautiful song. Honestly, the whole Sea Change album is so, so good. For the longest time, I couldn't listen to this song without tears falling down my cheeks. I can now, but if the mood hits, I still cry. Just too beautiful.
I love how he changes his sound in every album, it's what keeps him fresh and not boring or repetitive. Beck is an alternative Pink Floyd pretty much :D
this song...no all of this album is sublime
This is such a brilliant song from one of the greatest albums in the last decade. Always speechless when I hear this song....
I've been a beck fan since sea change was released. that is one of the best albums of all time. I was only 8 or 9 when it came out.
Never had heard of this guy. Always complaining about no good music then suddenly I find this brilliant beautiful artist. An oasis in a desert
Play Nick Drake's "Riverman" just before playing this song.
It's like Beck picked up where he left off.
MitchellJJonesVideo Holy shit, I was just wondering why those strings sound so familiar. Yeah his voice also sounds like Nick's here.
MitchellJJonesVideo I agree, Mitchell -- The chords are almost identical, and the swell of the strings is deeply similar too. I'm not positive it was a direct rip-off, but as a minimum it was profoundly inspired by Drake. Beck plays Drake during some of his sets so we know he is familiar.
Linda Hermer I also meant to point out that it's in the same key. This, combined with all the other similarities, is a problem.
Linda Hermer I'd say in no way did he rip off Drake, but he seems to have taken inspiration. It doesn't seem like a stretch to say that most modern folk/alternative folk artists have been influenced by the short lived greatness that was Nick Drake.
MitchellJJonesVideo I agree,, but I still think the songs are much more similar than Pharrell Williams' and Robin Thicke's "Blurred Lines" and Marvin Gaye's "Got to GIve It Up" despite the jury award in the latter case!
Play something like "Mixed Bizness" and then play this. Tell me this man is not the greatest and most versatile songwriter of the last three decades.
the most beautiful relaxing music💙💙💙💙💙💙
One of the most incredible and mysterious songs with a beatiful background written ever....
It's just recently that hit me how Beck is pure genius... where was he all my life? Or where was I??? o.O
Yes! Agreed. Same for me.
Channelling Nick Drake here
Riverman
The perfect song for a perfect sunset
Excellent Album and song. This is what happens when an artist creates an album instead of a product being created by a label.
RIP Jeremy Blake.
Scott Walker!!
and Scott Walker too. A proud tradition
This is my favorite
My 3 am song :( beautiful
My 3am song too, Joseph from 10 years ago.
Just.... Amazing! Music in its purest way.
This is the only song in this world and mine that soothes and calms my chaotic atmosphere in my mind and life like nothing else.Its my blind spot.My eye of the storm.It makes me feel like my soul has left my body from overwhelming pain and is looking at this world and mine from way up high.And I see things clearer afterwards.Thank you so much Beck You always have a special place in my heart and soul❤️🤗
Proof that Beck can basically make the video equivalent of a slideshow and still have it be amazing.
You can thank (or could, he's dead now) artist Jeremy Blake for that. It's much like his other work, which is amazing, some of which you can find on TH-cam.
After sea change I have and still have massive respect for beck. What an artist!
I love Jeremy Blake's work. Great video and song.
A terrible shame Blake passed so young...
I blame scientology.
mmmm, river man?...... Nick Drake?....... someone??
that's exactly what i thought when i heard this song.
Yep my thoughts too
Definitely Nick Drake influenced. Similar use of open tuning.
Me!
Godrich's engineering has made it more surreal imo, great reference btw!
Tot el disc és preciós, emotiu, senzill, oníric...una obra d'art.
this calms me
These images look like images I see that bleed together as I'm falling asleep before I enter dream Land😴🌛💫✨🌌💫✨🌑
RIP Jeremy Blake ❤
I guess I just haven't experienced enough trauma in my life to really appreciate the perfection of this song.
It's not trauma.. it's just beautiful . Looking forward.
Le chef d'oeuvre d'un génie en état de grâce ! Une merveille.
Perfectly put, Phillippe. The 'state of grace' is itinerant even in the best of artists and people.
Beck's best album....by far.
One of my favorites. Hope you see this 10 years later!
A beautiful song on an amazing album
You're just jamming on the feeling of incredible sadness and hollowness. Two very consuming emotions. Nothing wrong with jamming on an emotion. Emotion is our visceral response to things we encounter.
I love how this song crys
C dorian to C mixolydian; one of the most beautiful chord progressions i've heard!
Such a shame beautiful music doesn't isn't more viewed and appreciated.
R I P Jeremy Blake
yep it really does, i had to put nick drake on to check the similarities, now im listening to nick drake, thanks beck
This song and especially the video is real art! 💙
The solemn depth of gravity in this song. Each step forward is a step toward the grave.
one of my faves!
Scroll through the whole video. It’s satisfying!
È sorprendente. Non credevo che Beck fosse in grado di tirar fuori un capolavoro come Sea change. Bravo 👏👏👏
love
Epico
estupendos arreglos!
Wonderful - and so much better than all those MTV style chopped up videos
Anyone who loves this song should check out Nick Drake, especially River Man.
th-cam.com/video/DThxYHnaM6w/w-d-xo.html
I always love "low tempo" songs!
💙OUTSTANDING, BRAVO!!🍄
It absolutely does! I was thinking about that song immediately.
Gorgeous work by Beck, nevertheless.
His finest hour.
Heard of this song on CSI Miami...really nice music
Don't know what made me think of this artist or song but I love it!
I like this song....
every time I listen to this freakin' awesome tune I feel cold and want to curl up in a corner by my lonesome and weep.
This makes me cry and I don’t know why
the artist is Jeremy Blake. Search Theresa Duncan as well, sad story, creatives
oh my god it totally does...wow!
He actually has a lot of songs like that; volcano, nobodies fault but my own, asshole, dark star, lonesome tears, chemtrails, replica etc.
I'm new to the man - all I knew before was Loser. This has something of that big skies/lonely road that I love about Fugitive Motel, River Man, Midnight Cowboy and Wichitah Lineman. Thanks I'll chase up those recommendations
No problem dude! Beck is the man!
Steve Law Listen to Odelay. It will blow your socks off. I'm reviewing it on Sunday for a Beck review weekend I'm doing.
Thanks. I will - I've been playing Sea Change to death and not quite ready to move on yet...
Steve Law Odelay is the exact opposite of Sea Change, but they're both spectacular.
need to ear this song every day
Defo becks trippiest video
this turns my usual hot yoga routine into a slow-motion swim in warm waves of sound...
Best song Nick Drake never wrote.
Nick Drake
Is a very special theme of Beck...
I want more beck/radiohead goodness please
Grande disco!! Essa música lembra Nick Drake !!!
This reminds me of CSI Miami
I feel like Im in the momment of these songs thats how good he Is
Fav vrsn if this is live w/ Wayne Coyne twirling a red search light ..Beck w/ Lips tour
Gonna see the river man... gonna tell him all I can...
❤
Such a excellent Music ;0)) Just Zen !"!
I know everyone hears Nick Drake in this, but try Carly Simon's Love's still growing and see what you think
me breakup find another break up and break up again. Beck breaks up - writes an entire aIbum in 1 week.
3:10 - favorite frame
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Riverman by Nick Drake. Very similar. Dope track anyway.
only the good die young , . . .
It somehow reminds me of Nick Drake.
Not as often as you but very frequently. Sea Change is my favorite album of all time. And this song in particular really soothes my mind. There's nothing like listening to it while walking on my school campus or listening to this song on repeat as I fall asleep. Every song on the album invokes various feelings from me. If you've never heard the bonus track Ship in a Bottle then I strongly suggest you do, such a bittersweet song, a shame it didn't end up on the album.
The song reminds me of the late Nick Drake.