Thursday, June 18
Beck Debuts Record Club With the Velvet Underground's "Sunday Morning"

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And it sounds pretty amazing

Photo by Beck/Drew Brown, front page photo by Autumn de Wilde

Yesterday, we told you about Beck's new Record Club project, wherein Beck and friends will pick an album, spend one day recording a cover of the entire thing, and then post it on the internet, one song at a time.

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". You can hear it now, complete with intentionally grainy footage of the studio session, on Beck's website.


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He is also supposed to be redoing Sonic Youth - EVOL.

This is pretty cool. Do they allow you to download the tracks?

Fuckin' aye man, that sounds great. Can't wait to hear the rest of the album, and EVOL as well.

Don't really like it, but I like it enough to check out some of the rest when it comes out.

very cool. respectful yet still adds something new. cant wait to hear "heroin"

Great idea, though I'd prefer to hear Beck do VU's third album - it's folky feel is more his style. Then again, Beck can pretty much do any musical sub-genre successfully.

Love it.Can't wait to hear more.

I don't really like Beck but I love The Velvet Underground. I enjoyed what I heard and I'd like to hear more.

hmm i balked at this thread when i read the title. Sunday Morning was alright, I'd like to hear the rest at least once.

About 13 years ago at Spaceland, I saw him participate in a live remake of Rush's "2112" with a band called Lutefisk. It was hilarious!