Though Beck says he was initially attracted to this project by the impressive quality of Depp’s songwriting, “Sad Mother Fuckin’ Parade” - an original track with vitriolic lyrics that have caused many to interpret it as an expression of Depp’s anger towards Heard - sounds more like a foul-mouthed industrial retread of “Loser” (the 1994 hit by the other Beck) than evidence of a promising tunesmith. But coming from an accused abuser, the original song’s intimations of S&M and domination feel stomach-turning. It’s an overhaul of the Velvet Underground’s “Venus in Furs,” on which Beck’s and Depp’s talents combine to put an interesting spin on the classic source material. Unfortunately, one of the album’s more successful musical moments is also potentially offensive.
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But Depp’s pro forma, double-tracked vocals provide scant additional justification for the project’s existence and in a few unfortunate cases (like when he attempts a soul croon on Smokey Robinson’s “Ooo Baby Baby”) you won’t be able to find the skip button fast enough. On the occasions when his slinky guitar takes center stage - like on melancholy instrumental renditions of the Pet Sound s tracks “Don’t Talk (Put Your Head on My Shoulder)” and “Caroline, No,” or the first half of Marvin Gaye’s “What’s Going On” - the results are predictably serviceable. Titled as a nod to the “fountain of youth” feeling that the project reportedly gave them, 18 contains 11 covers of songs by artists ranging from the Beach Boys and John Lennon to the Velvet Underground and Killing Joke, with two Depp-penned originals thrown in.
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18 is almost confrontationally tone deaf. But Depp’s decision to release a record like this now, just weeks after the verdict in the defamation case involving his ex-wife Amber Heard, is bizarre, and in some ways offensive, especially as the album leans into a kind of macho rock cliché that has long been freighted with notions of sexism. The legendary six-string genius and the actor got along when Beck guested on Rise, the 2019 album from Hollywood Vampires (a long-running supergroup co-founded by Depp with Alice Cooper and Aerosmith’s Joe Perry), that Depp and Beck decided to make an entire album together in 2020 as a pandemic time-killer. So it’s totally fitting that his first full-length release in six years should be a collaboration with … Johnny Depp? Jeff-Beck-Johnny-Depp-cr-Christie-Goodwin-1800 - Credit: Christie GoodwinĪs one of the most influential and innovative electric guitarists in rock history, Jeff Beck has recorded and toured with enough musical luminaries over the past six decades to fill the guest lists at multiple Rock & Roll Hall of Fame induction ceremonies.
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