Next Up! Beck!

So, the next book I'm gonna be journeying into is a biography of eclectic musician and artist Beck Hansen, better known as just Beck. If you don't listen to Beck, go do it now. Hell, I'll even give you a link. http://grooveshark.com/#!/album/Odelay/111102
Now that you're listening to glorious Beck for context, I'll give a short explanation of Beck as a musician. He mashes up every genre you could thinik of, from hip hop to jazz to country and folk, and puts them in songs. And even though those genres may seem to be things that don't go together, it works out quite well. As to what I know about his life, I know he grew up in a really diverse environment in LA, where he was exposed to lots of different cultures and types of music, leading to a fairly eclectic musician.

I've been a pretty big Beck fan since about 2008, when I heard some songs from his (then) new album Modern Guilt on the radio, and decided to buy it. However, I happened to get on the Beck train as soon as it stopped, because he didn't release an album for 6 years after Modern Guilt. This lack of new Beck forced me to go back into his catalogue, and I just ended up liking him more and more, with each new album I listened to. After a solid 6 years of listening to Beck's old stuff, he finally released a new album on february 25th, so I'm reading a biography of him to commemorate the event. What's interesting is that this biography was written in 1999, so it gets a picture of Beck before he was fully developed as a musician, it gives a more candid view of him in the middle of his development. I look forward to reading it!