Beck-Ola

Jeff Beck | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (March 26, 1991)
• Original Release Date: 1991
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Sony
• ASIN: B0000027KT
• Also Available in: Audio CD
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #106,422 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. All Shook Up

2. Spanish Boots

3. Girl from Mill Valley

4. Jailhouse Rock

5. Plynth (Water Down the Drain)

6. The Hangman's Knee

7. Rice Pudding

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Less eclectic than "Truth", more focused and raucous, November 30, 1999

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James McDonnell (NJ) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Beck-Ola (Audio CD)

A couple of things could have happened with respect to "Beck-ola". Either the friction in the band limited the album's pallette, so to speak, or else the band decided to focus on rock and heavy blues/R&B. Whatever the case, you will not need caffeine to be re-energized after hearing this CD. Beck's guitar work is remarkably subtle and understated, as we have come to expect, notwithstanding the relentless rhythm section which pounds and slashes behind him. Plynth and Rice Pudding are two stand outs (what happened to the end of Rice Pudding? The song literally falls off the table), Spanish Boots is great; Stewart/Wood/Beck showing some good lyrical humor as well as good songwriting. Wood's bass work on this song, and indeed on this entire album, is outstanding. It makes one think that the Stones hired him for the wrong job. Rod Stewart's vocal apprenticeship ends with this album. His signature vocal style has pretty much evolved at this point, and the rest is legend. 4 stars only because the album does not fully live up to the promise of its predecessor, but is still well worth the investment.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Jeff takes his place as one of the greatest guitarists ever!, March 9, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: Beck-Ola (Audio CD)

As a guitarist, I can say that Jeff Beck is one of the greats. The guitar playing on this album is amazing, and as always, Jeff is years ahead of his time.

4.0 out of 5 stars Beck-Ola, September 26, 2005

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Morton (Colorado) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Beck-Ola (Audio CD)

Bock-Ola is the second album by the legendary Jeff Beck Group. There were a couple lineups later in Jeff Becks carear but none of them were nearly as good as the original. On the bands first album Truth we were introduced to the legendary Rod Stewart and Ron Wood, both of which went on to be very sucessful. The bands first album was a land mark in rock and blues music. Beck-Ola wasnt as popular, and it wasnt as good either. For this album they brought on the Rolling Stones un-official keyboard player Nicky Hopkins, which gave the album a nice touch. Beck-Ola was the bands most experimental album and most diverse. Renging from covers of old Elvis Presly songs like 'All Shook Up' and 'Jailhouse Rock' which they pull off decently to a crazy off the wall jazzy fusion song called 'Plynth (Water Down The Drain)'

The album starts off with the bands cover of Elvis' 'All Shook Up' which they pull off decently but it is in no way in compareson to the original. Jeff Beck Plays excelent leads and a killer slide on this track though. Next we slide right into 'Spanish Boots' which is very bluesy and shows a fiery Jeff Beck playing a out of this world solo. Rod Stewart gives his best vocal performance on this song, well for this album anyways. Ron Woods bass playing is the most promanant on this track as well and its aparent that he knew what he was doing. 'Girl From Mill Valley' is a slow piano driven song, its really pretty but doesnt fit well on this album, but still good. Next the band rocks a distorted cover of 'Jailhouse Rock' which I do like because of the fantastic guitar work by Beck. Rod's vocals are distorted on this track and it sounds really cool, deffinetley a good cover but it doesnt hold a candle to the original. Next is that crazy jazzy/bluesy/sometimes rock track 'Plynth (Water Down The Drain)' I really like this song, it's my favorite on the album and its one of my all time favorite songs actually, because it shows many sides of Beck that we would see in years to come and it also contains some of his very best guitar work to date! 'Hangmans Knee' is a slower bluesy song wear Rod really shines, and it has one of the coolest guitar riffs ever created, truly a great song. The album then closes with the oddly titled 'Rice Pudding' and thought it may sound like a crazy song it really is, the percusion an ddrums are out of this world and Jeff Beck's guitar playng once again is the focal point of the song, this is the perfect track to close the album.

So while this may not be as good as Truth was it is still a very good solid album, this is deffinetley the most adventures of the two albums. I highly recomend picking up both albums Truth and Beck-Ola if you are a fan of Jeff Becks guitar playing. I also recomend picking the two albums up if you are a fan of Rod Stewart because he never sounded better.