18
Jeff Beck and Johnny Depp
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It's called 18 because the creative process fueling their 2022 duet album made Jeff Beck and Johnny Depp feel young again. Of course, they could feel like their younger selves because they're spending the great majority of their time playing oldies but goodies, digging out warhorses by the Beach Boys, Smokey Robinson, Marvin Gaye, the Everly Brothers, the Velvet Underground, and John Lennon to form the bulk of their 13-track album. Such a description suggests 18 might sound like pro forma karaoke, but check another one of the couple's covers: "The Death and Resurrection Show," a George W. Bush-era tune by industrial icons Killing Joke. It certainly seems unlikely that British Invasion blues stalwart Beck pushed for its inclusion, so that can be chalked up to Depp, as can the general dour tenor of the album. Allegedly, the recording of 18 helped the pair to blow off some pandemic-related tension -- naturally, the Lennon song they chose to cover is "Isolation" -- but instead of feeling like an outpouring of joyous connection, it's a bunch of griping. Depp contributes to the sour tone by murmuring his way through the neo-industrial "Sad Motherfuckin' Parade" and attempting to conjure the ghost of David Bowie on "This Is a Song for Miss Hedy Lamarr" in a fashion that winds up sounding like latter-day Pink Floyd. Much of 18 sounds a bit like Floyd after Roger Waters left, where there are wide-open vistas that allow the guitar solos to shine. Beck often sounds liquid and lyrical, a counter to the stumbling glower of Depp, who seems to be stuck in a growl even when he shoots for a falsetto on Robinson's "Ooo Baby Baby." Tonally, Beck and Depp don't quite mesh -- Beck's guitar wants to soar, Depp stays earthbound -- and instead of generating something rife with tension or an outright failure, the results are just leaden and dull.
© Stephen Thomas Erlewine /TiVo
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Davy Spillane, Composer - Jeff Beck, Lead Guitar, MainArtist - Vanessa Freebairn-Smith, Cello - Johnny Depp, Bass, MainArtist - Robert Adam Stevenson, String Arranger, Keyboards, Engineer & Mixer, Programming, CoProducer
© 2022 Deuce Music, Ltd., under exclusive license to Rhino Entertainment Company, a Warner Music Group Company. ℗ 2022 Deuce Music, Ltd., under exclusive license to Rhino Entertainment Company, a Warner Music Group Company.
Andy Gill, Composer - Jeremy Coleman, Composer - Kevin Walker, Composer - Jeff Beck, Lead Guitar, MainArtist - Vinnie Colaiuta, Drums - Martin Glover, Composer - Ben Thomas, AdditionalEngineer - Johnny Depp, Vocals, Rhythm Guitar, Bass, MainArtist - Robert Edward Bradley, Backing Vocals, Rhythm Guitar, Engineer & Mixer, Bass, Programming, CoProducer - Robert Adam Stevenson, AdditionalEngineer
© 2022 Deuce Music, Ltd., under exclusive license to Rhino Entertainment Company, a Warner Music Group Company. ℗ 2022 Deuce Music, Ltd., under exclusive license to Rhino Entertainment Company, a Warner Music Group Company.
Jason Rebello, Piano - Jeff Beck, Lead Guitar, Bass, MainArtist - Vinnie Colaiuta, Drums - Dennis Wilson, Composer - Ben Thomas, Keyboards, Programming, AdditionalEngineer, CoProducer - Johnny Depp, Vocals, MainArtist - Robert Adam Stevenson, Keyboards, Programming - K.L. Wilson, Composer
© 2022 Deuce Music, Ltd., under exclusive license to Rhino Entertainment Company, a Warner Music Group Company. ℗ 2022 Deuce Music, Ltd., under exclusive license to Rhino Entertainment Company, a Warner Music Group Company.
Jeff Beck, Writer, Lead Guitar, MainArtist - Vinnie Colaiuta, Drums - Ben Findlay, Engineer, Programming - Johnny Depp, Keyboards, Vocals, Writer, Rhythm Guitar, Bass, Programming, MainArtist - Robert Adam Stevenson, AdditionalEngineer
© 2022 Deuce Music, Ltd., under exclusive license to Rhino Entertainment Company, a Warner Music Group Company. ℗ 2022 Deuce Music, Ltd., under exclusive license to Rhino Entertainment Company, a Warner Music Group Company.
Tony Asher, Composer - Brian Wilson, Composer, Arranger - Jeff Beck, Acoustic Guitar, Lead Guitar, MainArtist - Ben Findlay, Engineer, Programming - Alan Branch, Engineer - Ben Thomas, AdditionalEngineer - James Pearson, Keyboards - Johnny Depp, MainArtist - Olivia Safe, Vocals - Robert Adam Stevenson, Engineer & Mixer
© 2022 Deuce Music, Ltd., under exclusive license to Rhino Entertainment Company, a Warner Music Group Company. ℗ 2022 Deuce Music, Ltd., under exclusive license to Rhino Entertainment Company, a Warner Music Group Company.
Tommy Henriksen, Composer, String Arranger, Engineer, Keyboards, Backing Vocals, Programming, CoProducer - Jeff Beck, Lead Guitar, MainArtist - Ben Findlay, AdditionalEngineer - Johnny Depp, Composer, Drums, Acoustic Guitar, Vocals, Rhythm Guitar, Bass, MainArtist - Robert Adam Stevenson, Mixer, AdditionalEngineer
© 2022 Deuce Music, Ltd., under exclusive license to Rhino Entertainment Company, a Warner Music Group Company. ℗ 2022 Deuce Music, Ltd., under exclusive license to Rhino Entertainment Company, a Warner Music Group Company.
Brian Wilson, Writer - Jeff Beck, Lead Guitar, MainArtist - Alan Branch, Engineer - James Pearson, Keyboards - Johnny Depp, MainArtist - T Asher, Writer - Rhonda Smith, Bass - Robert Adam Stevenson, Engineer & Mixer
© 2022 Deuce Music, Ltd., under exclusive license to Rhino Entertainment Company, a Warner Music Group Company. ℗ 2022 Deuce Music, Ltd., under exclusive license to Rhino Entertainment Company, a Warner Music Group Company.
Warren Moore, Writer - WILLIAM ROBINSON, Writer - Jeff Beck, Drums, Lead Guitar, Rhythm Guitar, Bass, MainArtist - Ben Findlay, AdditionalEngineer - Johnny Depp, Backing Vocals, Lead Vocals, MainArtist - Robert Edward Bradley, Bass - Robert Adam Stevenson, Engineer & Mixer
© 2022 Deuce Music, Ltd., under exclusive license to Rhino Entertainment Company, a Warner Music Group Company. ℗ 2022 Deuce Music, Ltd., under exclusive license to Rhino Entertainment Company, a Warner Music Group Company.
AL CLEVELAND, Composer, Lyricist, Writer - Renaldo Benson, Composer, Lyricist, Writer - Marvin Gaye, Composer, Lyricist, Writer - Jeff Beck, Lead Guitar, Rhythm Guitar, MainArtist - Vinnie Colaiuta, Drums - Pino Palladino, Bass - Johnny Depp, Percussion, Vocals, MainArtist - Robert Adam Stevenson, String Arranger, Keyboards, Engineer & Mixer, Programming, CoProducer
© 2022 Deuce Music, Ltd., under exclusive license to Rhino Entertainment Company, a Warner Music Group Company. ℗ 2022 Deuce Music, Ltd., under exclusive license to Rhino Entertainment Company, a Warner Music Group Company.
Lou Reed, Composer - Jeff Beck, Lead Guitar, MainArtist - Johnny Depp, Drums, Acoustic Guitar, Vocals, Rhythm Guitar, Bass, MainArtist - Robert Edward Bradley, Engineer, Rhythm Guitar, Bass, Programming, CoProducer - Robert Adam Stevenson, Engineer & Mixer
© 2022 Deuce Music, Ltd., under exclusive license to Rhino Entertainment Company, a Warner Music Group Company. ℗ 2022 Deuce Music, Ltd., under exclusive license to Rhino Entertainment Company, a Warner Music Group Company.
Manny Curtis, Writer - Jeff Beck, Lead Guitar, MainArtist - Gilbert Becaud, Writer - PIERRE DELANOE, Writer - Vinnie Colaiuta, Drums - Ben Thomas, AdditionalEngineer, CoProducer - Johnny Depp, Vocals, Bass, Baritone Guitar, MainArtist - Robert Adam Stevenson, String Arranger, Keyboards, Piano, Engineer & Mixer, CoProducer
© 2022 Deuce Music, Ltd., under exclusive license to Rhino Entertainment Company, a Warner Music Group Company. ℗ 2022 Deuce Music, Ltd., under exclusive license to Rhino Entertainment Company, a Warner Music Group Company.
Jeff Beck, Lead Guitar, MainArtist - Vinnie Colaiuta, Drums - Janis Ian, Composer - Johnny Depp, Acoustic Guitar, Vocals, Bass, MainArtist - Fiona Cruickshank, AdditionalEngineer - Robert Adam Stevenson, String Arranger, Keyboards, Piano, Engineer & Mixer, Programming, CoProducer
© 2022 Deuce Music, Ltd., under exclusive license to Rhino Entertainment Company, a Warner Music Group Company. ℗ 2022 Deuce Music, Ltd., under exclusive license to Rhino Entertainment Company, a Warner Music Group Company.
John Lennon, Writer - Jeff Beck, Lead Guitar, Rhythm Guitar, MainArtist - Vinnie Colaiuta, Drums - Johnny Depp, Vocals, Rhythm Guitar, MainArtist - Rhonda Smith, Bass - Robert Adam Stevenson, Engineer & Mixer, CoProducer
© 2022 Deuce Music, Ltd., under exclusive license to Rhino Entertainment Company, a Warner Music Group Company. ℗ 2020 Deuce Music, Ltd., under exclusive license to Rhino Entertainment Company.
Album Description
It's called 18 because the creative process fueling their 2022 duet album made Jeff Beck and Johnny Depp feel young again. Of course, they could feel like their younger selves because they're spending the great majority of their time playing oldies but goodies, digging out warhorses by the Beach Boys, Smokey Robinson, Marvin Gaye, the Everly Brothers, the Velvet Underground, and John Lennon to form the bulk of their 13-track album. Such a description suggests 18 might sound like pro forma karaoke, but check another one of the couple's covers: "The Death and Resurrection Show," a George W. Bush-era tune by industrial icons Killing Joke. It certainly seems unlikely that British Invasion blues stalwart Beck pushed for its inclusion, so that can be chalked up to Depp, as can the general dour tenor of the album. Allegedly, the recording of 18 helped the pair to blow off some pandemic-related tension -- naturally, the Lennon song they chose to cover is "Isolation" -- but instead of feeling like an outpouring of joyous connection, it's a bunch of griping. Depp contributes to the sour tone by murmuring his way through the neo-industrial "Sad Motherfuckin' Parade" and attempting to conjure the ghost of David Bowie on "This Is a Song for Miss Hedy Lamarr" in a fashion that winds up sounding like latter-day Pink Floyd. Much of 18 sounds a bit like Floyd after Roger Waters left, where there are wide-open vistas that allow the guitar solos to shine. Beck often sounds liquid and lyrical, a counter to the stumbling glower of Depp, who seems to be stuck in a growl even when he shoots for a falsetto on Robinson's "Ooo Baby Baby." Tonally, Beck and Depp don't quite mesh -- Beck's guitar wants to soar, Depp stays earthbound -- and instead of generating something rife with tension or an outright failure, the results are just leaden and dull.
© Stephen Thomas Erlewine /TiVo
About the album
- 1 disc(s) - 13 track(s)
- Total length: 00:55:10
- Main artists: Jeff Beck Johnny Depp
- Composer: Various Composers
- Label: Rhino
- Genre: Pop/Rock Rock
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24-Bit 44.1 kHz - Stereo
© 2022 Deuce Music, Ltd., under exclusive license to Rhino Entertainment Company, a Warner Music Group Company. ℗ 2022 Deuce Music, Ltd., under exclusive license to Rhino Entertainment Company, a Warner Music Group Company.
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