One weekend he wanted to do the songs
and Nigel [Godrich] had work with him but he wanted
to work off, I think he was working off
an eight-track or something that he just
had at home. And he said, "Give me the
scenes, give me lots of artwork,
give me some rough guidelines of what
the song needs to be, and let me have a
go." So basically we printed out
large pieces of the artwork from the
books, we gave him all the storyboards for
the sequences on boards, I gave him a
list of how many songs I needed and over
a weekend... At the end of the weekend
Nigel called me and said, "Oh Beck's got
something for us," and it was like a CDR
with like 22 songs on it. And basically
the songs like done in a rough, maybe
it's on a four-track actually, they're
done in a rough form.
He gave us versions without the vocals
because the actors ended up singing on
top of... Replacing his vocals.
On the album you can get the Beck
versions too but we'd never got him to
re-record anything because they sounded
so raw and garage-y that it just seemed
right. And even the music that's in
the opening credits was very
difficult for the actors to mime along
with because there were lots of fluffs
on it, you know, they were so just kind of
jamming and improvising but it sounded
so real, it just sounded like we should
use that and not get him to do any
overdubs. And so what he did on his four
track that weekend is what's in the
movie.
