Troy:

>in a list of the top 50 albums EVER that changed music

It would seem that that's the slant they put on it, but I think the actual title of the piece was 50 Albums That Changed Music, no more specific than that. I'm not disagreeing with how you're stating this, but I think they may have purposely left themselves some weasel room.


Dean:

>I still think Beck was going for a 70s soul singer sound.

Between the falsetto & the lyrical content, that's Prince all the way. As a matter of fact, for a guy like Beck who wears his influences on his sleeve as blatantly as he does, I think Debra might be the single most derivative tune he's ever come up with. But Pinrce could've easily penned those lyrics, but that wouldn't have been as likely, I don't believe, of most 70s soul singers.