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Beck Colors tour breakdown: “Think I’m In Love / I Feel Love”

whisperin’ hello through a smoke-ring smile

“Think I’m In Love” has been a regular in Beck’s setlists basically since it came out. The song has not changed too much, though some earlier tries were noisier, more rock, and over time Beck embraced the groovy disco side of the song a little more.  And I mean that even before he started tacking a brief cover of Donna Summer’s “I Feel Love” on to it. Still, “I Feel Love” has been part of the song now since summer 2013. I think there are occasional “short” versions of the song where they don’t tag with “I Feel Love,” but mostly, it fits right in. And even when I listen to The Information, I half-expect “I Feel Love” to show up, it has become so embedded. This year did not change all that, though the frequency of “Think” fell off a little for the second half of the tour. Overall, Beck played it at 31 of 59 main shows: this was frontloaded to 18 of the first 21 shows, and just 13 of the last 38.  For this, I listened to about half (15) of them. Colors tour lineup Beck - vocals, electric guitar (though in 2 of the videos I saw, he didn’t play any instrument) Jason Falkner - electric guitar, backing vocals Roger Joseph Manning Jr. - keyboards, synthesizer, backing vocals Dwayne Moore - bass, backing vocals Chris Coleman - drums Cecilia Della Peruti - bongos, backing vocals Alex Lilly - percussion, backing vocals Jake Sinclair - acoustic guitar, backing vocals

As said, the song has pretty much settled right in, and even with new bands or time passing, it does not change. It sounds much like the record, maybe a little fuller, grander, though they drop the fourth verse, jumping straight to the outro.  (The outro in turn morphs into “I Feel Love” usually for about a minute.) The fuller band here on the Colors tour does help the song: they can better duplicate all the little percussion and details of the song (for instance, Cecilia plays bongos). That said, Roger Joseph Manning Jr. also does a lot -- little piano keyboard runs during the intro, mimicking the strings throughout on synthesizer. And it’s hard for this song when the rhythm section is on lock: Chris Coleman and Dwayne Moore laying the steady groove for all the details to land on.  A few times, the band played a little longer intros to the song, usually to give Beck time to go get his guitar, or because Beck is chatting to the audience. Here is one of those from the show in Hamburg.

One time in Dallas, which I can’t quite figure out why, Beck started singing with the drums before the band jumped in, which does give this song a slightly different feel to start. I really liked starting the song this way, hearing the band sort of fall into shape behind him: 

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At long last, Cecilia Della Peruti - a.k.a. Gothic Tropic - shares her highly-anticipated debut album, 'Fast or Feast', which is everything we love about the Los Angeles-based artist. It is predictably unpredictable. The LP is out now via Old Flame Records. Read the review and hear songs by clicking on the homepage link in our profile. ... #newmusic #indiemusic #GothicTropic #CeciliaDellaPeruti #FastorFeast #newalbum #newrecord #indiepop #indiepoprock #newmusicalert #newmusicdiscovery #pressplay #takealisten