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Universal acclaim- based on 176 Ratings
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Positive: 158 out of 176
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Mixed: 8 out of 176
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Negative: 10 out of 176
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May 20, 2022Beck's best work since Odelay. The lyrics and the whole atmosphere of the album is kind of a "Debbie Downer", but in a good way. might not be Beck's best work to date, but it's certainly his most mature and one if his best
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Jul 27, 2021The breakup really spurred the making of this album. The beauty, harmony, incredible voice cannot be compared with any other album. One of the best albums of the 2000s and one of Beck's best works.
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May 25, 2021A real life-changing experience of an album. Definitely Beck's magnum opus!
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Jan 30, 2020This master-piece just keeps getting better with time. Undoubtedly his best and most personal work, there isn't one weak song in this album. Heart wrenching, enchanting, the song writing and production (Beck & Nigel Godrich) are top notch.
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May 16, 2019Becks most emotion album and I’d say one of his best. Fantastic album from start to finish
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Nov 24, 2017Beck faz uma transição de um CD funk para um bem mais melancólico e pessoal. Porém, como sempre, ele não decepciona e consegue convencer com um sólido CD.
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Aug 25, 2016Becks' ode to heartbreak and melancholy a beautifully haunting and depressing mix. Beck's breakup depression was the world's gain. Top 5 breakup album ever.
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Dec 9, 2015
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Mar 13, 2012It took me the longest time to fully appreciate this album. This is Beck's most mature album to date. "The Golden Age" is a perfect opening track. All In All, might not be Beck's best work to date, but it's certainly his most mature and one if his best. A-
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Jan 22, 2012this album is too overrated
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Nov 8, 2011While I can understand while people may like this, I myself am not a fan of the quiet and introverted side of Beck. Sea Change just doesn't do anything for me. I miss the funky and energetic style of Midnite Vultures.
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Aug 11, 2011This is Beck's best work since Odelay. The lyrics and the whole atmosphere of the album is kind of a "Debbie Downer", but in a good way. This is the kind of album you listen to on a rainy day or when your heart get's ripped out. This album is on par with Elliot Smith's Either/Or and Nick Drake's Pink Moon
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Nov 28, 2010
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Oct 3, 2010This album rules, I would recommend Paper tiger and little one. Beck is so underated. I mean every song made my pants tight. aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa
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ColinG.Jul 17, 2008Pretty much the best. Standout tracks:"Golden Age", "Lonesome Tears"(a personal favorite), "Lost Cause"(the video is a trip), "Sunday Sun", and "Little One".
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BrunoJun 27, 2008I really loved this album, and its amazing to find that beck produces perfect music in such different ways.
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JakeJun 24, 2008Just a great album. Pick it up.
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GeoffH.Apr 5, 20089/10 average from 97 users says it all to me. This is one of the greatest albums ever recorded. Affecting, deep and wonderfully haunting, I wonder what some of the critics were thinking but then I'll never work music critics out. They're from a world so full of their own importance things like love affairs and break ups don't exist.
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BobRAug 10, 2007This one's a grower... it's great
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WesF.Jun 15, 2007Was not a huge fan of Beck until I heard this record on a long trip with my brother. Sea Change is simply one of my favorite albums of all time, and I still listen to it 5 years later.
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WillTFeb 24, 2007Great album. I was never a big Beck fan but this album won me over.
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LucPDec 22, 2006Touched my soul
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PaulFOct 8, 2006Easily the best album ever. Yes really, it's like that. If art's supreme purpose is to provoke and disarm, then this album is the epitome of art. Well composed, well produced and extremely sincere, emotional and personal. Thanks for sharing, Beck!
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AndyAug 20, 2006The best break-up album of the new millenium.
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scottJul 29, 2006The best album Beck has made up until now.
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AndyWOct 4, 2005Wow! This is such an emotional album. With so much effort put into the songs, it's hard to press stop on it. Personal favourites: "End of the Day", "Sunday Sun", "Little One", and "The Golden Age", and "Lonesome Tears". The only letdown I think to the album is "Round the Bend" Otherwise, Beck's best album yet.
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NickHAug 28, 2005It's a damn masterpiece. There aren't enough these days. Hats off to Beck, who seemingly can't make bad (let alone average) albums. This is his best album, out of a sea of great albums.
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TeejaAug 18, 2005A beautiful deeply moving album.
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roblJun 1, 2005beck's best, 2003's best, beautiful desendant of blood on the tracks
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TomCMar 23, 2005It's a stunning album that's really best appreciated on Santa Monica pier at sunset. Lonesome Tears is a stand-out track that I'll be listening to for years.
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JimmyMMar 9, 2005This is a darn god album and i would love it even if it was made by a fat irishman. so eat that.
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YuvalApr 17, 2003Superb album, completely connected both musically and spiritually.
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SamDec 31, 2002Beck hurts and portrays it with something we can all enjoy. Unlucky bastard makes us very lucky indeed.
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CartlandDec 30, 2002This is one of the very best albums I've heard. Hopefully he'll continue making such haunting melodies. I can only compare this to the Beatles' best work. Genius!
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JimPDec 28, 2002The more you listen to it, the more you like it. It's not an easy one. But in the end, it's his best album.
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bobdDec 6, 2002beck confounds and annoys the ordinary listener by being absolutely unconcerned with their expectations. "Sea Change" is sonically breathtaking (play it LOUD!), lyrically labyrinthine (one has to pay attention to parse the actual narratives here), and emotionally searing. Not for the average debased attention span.
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KristineNNov 6, 2002Fabulous production that's spare and raw when needed makes this album incredibly hard NOT to listen to - when I heard it was so mellow I thought I might be bored after a number of tunes, but the effect is the polar opposite: spellbinding.
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TravisCNov 1, 2002
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MKOct 25, 2002Yikes, where is Beck going with this garbage? He sings like a sick David Bowie, the lyrics are inane, and there's nothing interesting musically. Beck has changed from a trail-blazer into a generic corporate record-seller, whining his way up the charts. Play this album on low volume on a rainy day, or just return it where u bought it. good grief.
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christophernOct 8, 2002Not great, not terrible.
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MichaelEOct 7, 2002Not my favorite aspect of Beck's music, and certainly not his best record, but it's convincing and gets better the later at night you play it.
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AaronLOct 7, 2002It's like cracking open Beck's chest, grabbing his barely beating heart, and putting it to your ear for a listen. Beautifully done and fully unexpected. Makes you truly realize that Beck is one of our best musical treasures - and these days they are difficult to come by.
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TheresaSOct 6, 2002Saw him in concert before the CD even came out and I loved it! Such a personal album, and as he said it's been 7 years in the making. Well worth the wait. I have all his CDs and this one just blows my mind! It's been on repeat for 4 hours now!
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HenryAOct 4, 2002Sea change is a brilliant 'low' album. Forget springstein, young and etc's 9/11 spam offerings, get this instead. VVoice what were you thinking?
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JasonG.Sep 30, 2002Almost as good as nick drake
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ClarkH.Sep 30, 2002with a few more listens, this jewel may climb into my "10" category reserved only for a handful of albums. if you like nick drake, gram parsons, air or "blow you away" melancholy twang, you better drop what you are doing and buy it. beck needs to lose another girlfriend because he was inspired on this one.
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RatatouilleStrychnineSep 29, 2002This isn't the best Beck album but this is equally flawless as other albums he did. This album cements Beck's legacy as one of the greatest and most versatile artists in pop culture. "I Guess I'm Doing Fine", "Lost Cause", and "Already Dead" are my personal favorites. These songs are very. very sad and beautiful at the same time.
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ElizabethR.Sep 28, 2002A wave of trance music you want to listen to over and over again, but oddly unmawkish, considering the subject matter. A fully realised effort, integrating new (for him) directness in lyrics, and the lush but still restrained multi-track arrangements. Controlled emotionalism in a new form--beautifully constructed and intelligently executed.
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annak.Sep 27, 2002i really love beck, and this album makes me want to give him a big hug. its gutwrenchingly depressing, but he can pull it off so gracefully, almost lazy. its great, and the village voice can eat it, (although the lyrics are admittedly a bit pretentious)
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JoshT.Sep 27, 2002An immensely personal and heartwrenchingly sad record full of understated beauty; the year's best album.
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AGoijeSep 26, 2002Beck has once again proved that he is a genius.
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JohnL.Sep 25, 2002Excellent album. Lyrically and melodically his best work.
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LouisA.Sep 24, 2002one of beck's greatest. masterfully done, he pours his heart and depression into and comes through
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MikeA.Sep 23, 2002Pure brilliance, Beck has climbed to a new level, in my opinion Sea Change is the best album of the year to date...
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AndyJ.Sep 22, 2002Best Beck album yet... dont be suprised if "Sea Change" pulls an upset over Bruce Springsteen's new album at the next grammys...
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bobjSep 22, 2002pretty damn good
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thomaslSep 21, 2002this metascore is misrepresenative (i think thats a word) anywho....almost every review i've read has been 4 out of 5 or 5 out of 5 as in Rolling Stone's case..........this is a beautiful album.......up there for record of the year with Yankee Hotel Foxtrot
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BitBurnSep 20, 2002Very interesting this album. Musically it's a great record. Beck is still a very impressive and original songwriter.
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[Anonymous]Sep 19, 2002Beck has become whom he once taunted. Far too sombre and emotional.
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Awards & Rankings
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MojoSea Change aches too thoroughly to be mere career shift. It's the kind of album that at times seems too sad for the singer's own good. [Album of the Month, Oct 2002, p.90]
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One of his finest efforts to date.
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Many of these harrowing tunes, like "Lonesome Tears" and "Guess I'm Doing Fine" have the lonely blues feel of Beck's similar-sounding Mutations, and they definitely get better with repeated play.