You Had It Coming - Jeff Beck

I absolutely love this album! I was fortunate enough to catch Jeff Beck live very soon after this album was completed and was able to check out how good ihe was live. His ability to transform and develop his style over the years has been Beck's main skill. From flower-pop 60's beat groups , through to single handedly inventing 'heavy metal', to jazz-funk and fusion and now this, a guitar version of The Prodigy. OK, so the songs don't have a lot to say, but the actual sounds that Beck is able to create with his guitar, and how well he is able to intertwine drum-loops, vocals and effects is quite amazing. Take 'Dirty Mind' and 'Rollin' and Tumblin', down to ...  Read the complete review

Commonly known as the least famous guitarist from the Yardbirds, Jeff Beck's consistent capacity for reinvention has led to an enjoyably turbulent career that has perhaps reached its all-time low with his most recent industrial rock direction. 'You Had It Coming' was (I believe) the second album to follow this style, and really is quite poor, drowning Beck's guitars in an excremental sea of techno beats and sampled vocals that distract from his apparent virtuosity, not as openly on display here as in his other works. At only thirty-five minutes this isn't the most generous of recordings, but it was still too long for me, as comparatively short songs like the ...  Read the complete review