From its kaleidoscopic array of junk-culture musical styles to its assured, surrealistic wordplay, Beck's debut album, Mellow Gold, is a stunner. Throughout the record, Beck plays as if there are no divisions between musical genres, freely blending ock, ap, folk, psychedelia, and country. Although his inspired sense of humor occasionally plays like he's a smirking, irony-addled hipster, his music is never kitschy, and his wordplay is constantly inspired. Since Mellow Gold was pieced together from home-recorded tapes, it lacks a coherent production, functioning more as a stylistic sampler: there are the stoner raps of "Loser" and "Beercan," the urban folk of "Pay No Mind (Snoozer)," the mock-industrial onslaught of "Mutherfuker," the garagey "Fuckin' With My Head (Mountain Dew Rock)," the trancy acoustic "Blackhole," and the gently sardonic folk-rock of "Nitemare Hippy Girl." It's a dizzying demonstration of musical skills, yet it's all tied together by a simple yet clever sense of songcraft and a truly original lyrical viewpoint, one that's basic yet as colorful as free verse. By blending boundaries so thoroughly and intoxicatingly, Mellow Gold established a new vein of alternative rock, one that was fueled by ideas instead of attitude.
So I am rearranging and cleaning. Another scorcher party friday night here . I find Beck's Loser single. Oh boy... great shit. The unreleased shit is the bong! The second rack "Totally Confused" is a very poignant and stirring acoustic ballad. The third "Corvette Bummer is classic Beck Hop with lines like "I wanna walk around town with a can of whiskey" and "gonna dance like a rock" and my fave...
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ok i want everyone to know in e-worldi spent 5 years in prison for drugsfirst got on the internet in 2003i NEVER knew this would be a life stylemy parents were so kind as to let me move into their basement upon my release from prisonand i have never lefti do not want a roomate and life is comfyall your illusions of PIMP world are dead nowthis is why i shy away from any "meets" and such i am jus...
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No, this is not the 10 year anniversary of Mellow Gold, that would have been in 2004, but this is a documentary on the making of Mellow Gold that was released in 2004. I had never seen this before, and it’s pretty interesting.Now, I always imagined the recording of Mellow Gold involving Beck on a [...]
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_slow and eerie_so the story goes like this... this song was recorded a long time before mellow gold. it was back in 1992 around the same time beck first hooked up with carl stephenson and bong load records. tom and rob of bong load each separately discovered beck busking and they immediately set him up with stephenson. a few recording sessions later, they had "loser" and "steal my body home" i...
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WEEKEND VIDEO / A FAVORITE FROM 15 YEARS AGOBeck"Loser"Mellow GoldOriginal release date: March 1, 1994iTunesApril 8, 1994:Being a loser isn't what it used to be. Just ask Beck Hansen, Generation X's latest Pied Piper. On the strength of "Loser," his rap/folk/blues ode to disenfranchisement...
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So I am rearranging and cleaning. Another scorcher party friday night here . I find Beck's Loser single. Oh boy... great shit. The unreleased shit is the bong! The second rack "Totally Confused" is a very poignant and stirring acoustic ballad. The third "Corvette Bummer is classic Beck Hop with lines like "I wanna walk around town with a can of whiskey" and "gonna dance like a rock" and my fave...
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This post is insightful You just have to search between the pixels....
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Not sure if this topic went around already, but I'd like to bring it up...I remember when I was real young and Beck's "Loser" came out. I HATED IT. I thought it was the worst excuse for "music" ever to hit the airwaves. (Of course, at the time, Ace of Base and Hanson were in my 'boombox'...but we really don't have to go there...)Now when I hear "Loser", I couldn't imagine my life without it. It...
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