Beck responds to Fiery Furnace's Radiohead dig

Well, this is becoming a saga now. Recently we didn't report that The Fiery Furnaces had called Radiohead "bogus" for writing a song about the death of the last surviving World War I veteran Harry Patch, because the whole thing was a bit dull. But, hey, now Beck's become involved, so let's fill you in.

In a slightly dissing post on the Furnaces' MySpace blog, the band's Matt Friedberger pretended that he thought the song was about experimental composer Harry Partch. His sister and bandmate Eleanor carried on the insults, saying in a subsequent blog: "Like most creative musicians, Matt Friedberger is not a fan of Radiohead and their various chartbusters", before adding: "Matt would have much preferred to insult Beck but he is too afraid of Scientologists".

Now Beck has apparently invited the Friedbergers' comments by posting a song entitled 'Harry Partch' on his website. According to the website, the rack is "a tribute to the composer and his desire to make the body and music unified into what he termed 'Corporeality'. The song employs Partch's 43 tone scale, which expands conventional tonality into a broader variation of frequencies and resonances".

Have a listen now at www.beck.com