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Jeff Beck

You Had It Coming  Hear it Now

RS: 3of 5 Stars Average User Rating: 4.5of 5 Stars

2001

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Sure, they've got lightning moves and thundering power, but guitar gods live by the same laws that govern lesser mortals: Only the most adaptable shall prevail. So now that old masters like Clapton and Santana are enjoying pop-propelled career rebirths, it's fair to ask, what about Jeff Beck? You Had It Coming, Beck's second solo album in two years, makes this the busiest stretch for the one-time Yardbird since his memorable mid-1970s run of Blow by Blow and Wired. Working in the comfortable techno-funk rock vein he's been tinkering with for the last few years, Beck is as agile and muscular a craftsman as he's ever been -- firing off ragged buckshot-blast chords on the rotgut-blues classic "Rollin' and Tumblin'" (aided by Imogen Heap's soulful vocal) and unwinding long, curvaceous notes that give the surprising raga-flavored "Nadia" exceptional charm. Beck remains enthralled, in a slightly anachronistic sort of way, by the multiple voices he can squeeze from the throat of his Stratocaster, delivering screams, wails and growls as he traverses this record. What's missing is the modern edge that would give Beck's fiery playing a better context. Too often, the techno-funk rhythm driving the action here sounds stiffly electronic, like a Chemical Brothers castoff from the Nineties. It's not that it's bad, it's just that Beck deserves so much more.

DAVID THIGPEN

(Posted: Jan 23, 2001)

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JFWilliam writes:

5of 5 Stars


Best instrumental rock album of all time, bar none ! Anyone who disagree or hints that Jeff Beck is an acquired taste, should indeed piss off and acquire taste…

"The music business is a cruel and shallow money trench, a long plastic hallway where thieves and pimps run free, and good men die like dogs... There’s also a negative side." - Hunter S. Thompson

Jul 20, 2007 19:19:58

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Ramzad writes:

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Jeff Beck is proof that white man has soul. He is dark, morbid, brilliant, passionate, quiet, resilient, loud, rambunctious, playful. His music is going to surpass a lot of the muck we have made of ourselves.

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