My great appreciation for Scott Pilgrim vs. the World has already been documented, but something I haven’t mentioned yet is how cool the thoroughly “meta” treatment of the fictitious bands in the flick was. You all know about that, right? How all of Sex Bob-omb’s songs were by Beck, the Clash at Demon Head’s were by Metric and Crash & the Boys were by Broken Social Scene? I couldn’t discern the resultant differences in fine detail, of course, but I could recognize how that all gave the bands real, distinct identities you could pick up on without any visual cues.
I bring all that up because four of unreleased Beck/Sex Bob-omb tracks - - ranging from demo tracks to fully-produced ditties - - have surfaced on Some Kind of Awesome. Harken thine ears to one of the tracks below…
Hipsterism’s brand of irony puts me in loops about when and whether something’s supposed to be good without qualification or good by virtue of being on some joke I'm missing. As such, I suppose I comprehended how Sex Bob-omb’s music was supposed to be intentionally bad, but didn’t quite understand how that broke down until hearing these now. The tracks definitely do sound like Beck trying to emulate the sound of an imaginary garage band who need a lot more practice.
