thegipples/indie rock

From the page: "Beck's starting the project off with his version of the Velvet Underground's The Velvet Underground and Nico, and today he posted the first song from the project, perennial mixtape staple "Sunday Morning""

From the page: "in the script, Maximus is granted eternal life by the Roman gods, so he spends most of the film trying to reunite with his son, who has joined an army of early Christians. There are a lot of epic fight scenes (duh). But the best part is the finale, which is apparently a montage of Maximus showing up during battles throughout modern history, including World War II and Vietnam. The script ends with Maximus in the Pentagon."

From the page: "SM: Not really. I don't even remember. I don't think so. Every song has a different genesis, or feeling. Usually the lyrics, I don't really know what it's all about, I just kinda do it. I mean, there's a combination of, like you're saying, that kind of lyrics about commitment or vaguely relationship lyrics mixed with jokey 90s Beck-style non-sequiturs and stuff. Like the song "Stereo", to me that's like, kind of hip-hop in that slacker way. There's some slackerisms mixed in with that stuff, but it wasn't really conscious, I guess. When things would get more typical rock'n'roll that was my fallback to go to those kind of lyrics instead of the alternatives."

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From the page: "I said it must be weird to be in a band with good musicians [all laugh]. But then I sort of thought twice about it and I felt bad about it, so I had to explain myself. People who are more studied musicians... we were talking about the Grateful Dead, and it'd be weird to be in a band where there's four or five guys writing songs and you can be like, "Okay, this one starts in G and goes to a bridge in whatever..." and everyone knows what you're talking about. We're sort of the opposite end of the spectrum."