I'm more critical of my songwriting than anybody, but I've worked really hard in the last five to 10 years to improve. I didn't take it all that seriously when I started. It was a little bit of a stigma to being a songwriter or a folkie back then. I did a lot of send-ups of sensitive singer-songwriter stuff when I was starting out, which limited my development as a songwriter in a way. I wasn't really fully given license to explore that until the mid-90s. I'm still working on it; I'm a little bit of a late bloomer.
BeckSometimes, reissues can be revelatory, or put the original record in a different light, but those are rare.
BeckTechnology was something I avoided when I started out - I didn't even have electric guitars. Only played acoustic.
BeckWith modern recording techniques, and living in the Pro Tools era, the process gets really drawn-out, and it can become painstaking.
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