A Beck Anomaly

The only Beck album curiously absent from my mp3 library– not counting Sea Change, which I never picked up– is well worth adding: The Information. I remember picking it up at a Fred Meyer as Amy and I were headed out of town to Hoodoo a few months back; I figured I had just left the disc in the car and never got the chance to add it to the MP3s of Alexandria.

And then I put the CD in today, and the true reason for its exclusion came writhing from the depths of robot hell. The act of simply inserting the disc freezes up iTunes, if it’s open. If it’s not open, and I try to drag the AIFFs to iTunes to import them, I get the same effect: an application permanently suspended in a loop of self-uncertainty.

Does my Powerbook have something against Beck? Did it read some erroneously scathing review on the wide wide web? You win this battle, robots! But not the war.

Add comment June 5th, 2007