Mellow Gold - Beck

This is my favourite Beck album. It sounds like it's been put together randomly from samples and song-segments. The lyrics are equally messy, really bringing out the old Beck, before the professionalism that Odelay! made obvious. Although a lot of the 'tunes' would have most people on the floor clutching at their ears, the subversive lyrics and samples make this album totally listenable to by anyone who finds them amusing enough. Buy it! unless: You are in any way normal. You don't like the idea of all the Squirrels living in one place. Loser, Beercan and Nitemare Hippy Girl are for normal people as well, so if you like ...

1. Loser 2. Pay no mind (snoozer) 3. Fuckin' with my head (mountain dew rock) 4. Whiskeyclone Hotel City 1997 5. Soul suckin jerk 6. Truckdrivin neighbours downstairs (yellow sweat) 7. Sweet sunshine 8. Beercan 9. Steal my body home 10. Nitemare hippy girl 11. Mutherfuker 12. Blackhole Look at those tracks, you may only have heard Loser, which is a superb track (im a loser baby, so why dont you kill me) yeah remember that one, but this is a early album for old Beck and is one of his best, if not the best, make sure that you listen to Sweetsunshine, and beercan, cos they are great tracks, this album is superb, what ya ...

Beck Hansen may well come to regret the day he wrote the "I'm a loser baby, so why don't you kill me" line. He has the standard card-carrying hippy background: son of a bluegrass player; lived with preacher grandfather in Kansas; hitched around Europe and lived with his sculptor uncle before embarking upon music in New York — all, allegedly, before he was 16. That bit of history said, what Beck's past doesn't suggest is Mellow Gold. Loser, probably the first Top 20 single to feature the line "Dog food skulls with the beefcake pantyhose", is a fair starting point. Beck samples all possible musical themes — folk, ...