Beck loves to wrap himself up in restlessness and kooky behavior like a lapsed-church-goer will wrap themselves up in a thick blanket on a Sunday morning.  While the man is old-hat to generations old and new, he still remains cool beans to a huge mass of cult-like followers.  And to the followers of this man in the interesting hat that sits atop a mop of scraggly just-woke-up-hair, is satisfaction and entertainment always delivered.  Case in point is Beck’s latest project, one which has been progressing for quite some time now, but one that has successfully snowballed into such size, that it’s presence online amongst the music-loving community is difficult to ignore.

In the redesign of his official website, Beck and friends have concocted a truly admirable and ambitious project.  They dub it simply the “Record Club”.  It is designed to be an ongoing project in which Beck et al (an interesting mish-mash of “et al” to say the least; Nigel Godrich, Joey Waronker, Brian Lebarton, Bram Inscore, Yo, Giovanni Ribisi, Chris Holmes, and a female vocalist from Iceland by the name of Thorunn Magnusdottir) get together and in a single day, cover & record an entire album of classic stature, and then release a video recording of each song on track at a time – they have made their maiden voyage the Velvet Underground’s The Velvet Underground and Nico.  As of today, he’s released seven videos from his initial session.  Beware, the collection gets weird in parts, in that way only Beck can be weird: